2024届浙江高考英语（阅读理解）模拟试题分项汇编（原卷版+解析版）

2024届浙江高考英语（阅读理解）模拟试题分项汇编
Summer may well be the favourite season of classical music lovers, with numerous festivals spanning all genres and composers taking place worldwide. And what’s better than enjoying a live performance of your favourite piece Enjoying it in the great outdoors, of course!
Verbier Festival, Switzerland
Nestled in the breathtaking Swiss Alps at 1500 metres altitude is a picturesque little village called Verbier. Its magical two-week celebration festival has become known for attracting the biggest soloists in the world, and this year, marking its 30th anniversary, is no exception with its all-star cast: Chinese pianist Yuja Wang, the young superstar cellist Sheku-Kanneh Mason and many others.
July 14 — July 30,
Granada International Festival, Spain
Since 1952, the International Festival of Music and Dance of Granada has taken up residence in Alhambra Palace and its gardens during the months of June and July, to showcase classical music, opera ballet, Spanish dance and flamenco. The outdoor Generalife Theatre presents the visual spectaculars of the Spanish National Ballet, Hamburg Ballet and Spain’s National Dance Company. Legendary singer-songwriter Bob Dylan will also draw crowds to the breathtaking Generalife.
June 21 — July 19, grandafestival.org
Edinburgh International Festival, Scotland
With the Edinburgh International Festival around every corner, there’s a wonderful atmosphere on the historic streets of Edinburgh in August. Historic squares become circles as people gather to watch miraculous performers. This year, it welcomes violinist Nicola Benedetti as festival director with a fresh programme that invites international guests including the Alvin Ailey from American Dance Theatre, and South Korea’s KBS Symphony Orchestra in their first ever UK performance.
August 4 — August 27, eif.co.uk
Grand Tet on Music Festival, USA
Located at the base of the Tet on mountain range in Wyoming and within easy reach of Yellowstone National Park, the Grand Teton Music Festival offers unrivalled access to the natural world as well as eight weeks of music. The programme will open with a cycle of Beethoven piano concertos with local pianist Garrick Ohlsson and close with concert performances of Puccini’s La bohème.
July 3 — August 27, gtmf.org
21．Which festival is suitable for ballet enthusiasts
A．Verbier Festival. B．Grand Teton Music Festival.
C．Granada International Festival. D．Edinburgh International Festival.
22．What do these four festivals have in common
A．They are all held in mountains.
B．They are all over three weeks long.
C．They all offer outdoor venues to enjoy music.
D．They all invite famous musicians from home and abroad.
23．Where is the text most probably taken from
A．A music magazine. B．A travel brochure.
C．A commercial advertisement. D．An art guidebook.
【答案】21．C 22．C 23．A
【解析】这是一篇应用文。文章介绍了四个在不同国家举行的夏季音乐节。
21．细节理解题。根据“Granada International Festival, Spain”部分中的“The outdoor Generalife Theatre presents the visual spectaculars of the Spanish National Ballet, Hamburg Ballet and Spain’s National Dance Company.(户外的Generalife剧院呈现了西班牙国家芭蕾舞团、汉堡芭蕾舞团和西班牙国家舞蹈公司的视觉壮观表演。)”可知，Granada International Festival适合芭蕾爱好者。故选C项。
22．细节理解题。根据“Verbier Festival, Switzerland”部分中的“Enjoying it in the great outdoors, of course!（当然，在户外欣赏它！）”、Granada International Festival, Spain部分中的“The outdoor Generalife Theatre（户外的Generalife剧院）”、Edinburgh International Festival, Scotland部分中的“Historic squares become circles as people gather to watch miraculous performers.（当人们聚集在一起观看奇迹般的表演者时，历史悠久的广场变成了圆形。）”以及Grand Teton Music Festival, USA部分中的“the natural world as well as eight weeks of music（自然世界以及八周的音乐）”可知，这四个音乐节的共同点是它们都提供了户外场所来享受音乐。故选C项。
23．推理判断题。根据第一段“Summer may well be the favourite season of classical music lovers, with numerous festivals spanning all genres and composers taking place worldwide. And what’s better than enjoying a live performance of your favourite piece Enjoying it in the great outdoors, of course!（夏季很可能是古典音乐爱好者最喜欢的季节，世界各地都有各种流派和作曲家的节日。还有什么比欣赏你最喜欢的作品的现场表演更好呢？当然是在户外享受它了！）”以及下文对四个音乐节的介绍可知，介绍不同国家夏季音乐节的文章，它提供了关于音乐节的时间、地点、特色表演者和节目的信息。这些信息通常在音乐杂志中找到，音乐杂志会涵盖音乐节、表演和其他音乐相关活动的信息。因此，这篇文章最有可能来自音乐杂志。故选A项。
My wife always wanted a Vizsla, so when we got the house, the garden and everything sorted, we did some research and found a lovely breeder (饲养员) based in Scotland. He was in charge of everything, so a few months go by and the next thing I know, we’ve got a puppy!
I’ve grown up with animals all my life, and I’m so glad I have. I love the fact that I was never afraid of any animals. Although you do obviously have to be careful when introducing children to a dog they don’t know, because you don’t know how it’s going to behave, it always saddens me when I see children scared when they walk past Pedro. I think it’s great for kids to learn how to look after an animal.
And obviously for us, as a family, it’s brilliant because we take Pedro for so many walks. It’s a bit of a family bonding experience getting out in the fresh air; taking Pedro for a walk multiple times a day is just really lovely. Meanwhile, the most rewarding, I think, is just seeing how amazing he is with the kids. He is so calm, so protective, so loving, and we are his world.
I think the most challenging aspects with Pedro were when he was a puppy (小狗). He was pretty hard work. He was never aggressive, but he was quite bitey as puppies are, constantly pulling out your clothes and putting holes in them, which is very annoying. He chewed the furniture-my sofas are barely standing up; their wooden legs are almost in pieces.
Obviously, the dog training in the house was quite stressful and his jumping at strangers in the park and running off was always quite scary.
As a new puppy owner, you’re overloaded with advice from social media, magazines, other dog owners and friends, so finding a source of information you trust is so important and can be a real turning point. I know what it’s like to be bombarded with conflicting information, so I would have really welcomed Royal Canin’s “One in a Billion” platform as a new puppy owner. It’s a one-stop shop for new dog owners: a single source of credible information that is so helpful in navigating the early stages of your puppy’s life.
24．What do we know about the author
A．He is inexperienced in raising pets.
B．He is unsupportive of his wife’s desire.
C．He feels it a pity that children shy away from pets.
D．He thinks one should be cautious about raising pets.
25．How does the author think of Pedro
A．Dangerous but loyal. B．Playful and gentle.
C．Adorable but troublesome. D．Annoying and fierce.
26．What can we infer according to paragraph 4
A．Dogs are man’s best friends.
B．It is worthless to have a dog.
C．Puppies are unfriendly to humans.
D．It is challenging to train a puppy.
27．What is the purpose of the last paragraph
A．To recommend a reliable platform.
B．To share a fun experience.
C．To offer evidence for an argument.
D．To advertise a practical product.
【答案】24．C 25．C 26．D 27．A
【解析】这是一篇记叙文。作者妻子心仪已久的Vizsla犬Pedro加入家庭的生活，带来欢乐也伴随着幼犬期的挑战。它与孩子间的温馨互动、户外共行加固了家庭纽带。作者认为专业宠物养护平台对新手主人至关重要。
24．细节理解题。由文章第二段中“Although you do obviously have to be careful when introducing children to a dog they don’t know, because you don’t know how it’s going to behave, it always saddens me when I see children scared when they walk past Pedro. I think it’s great for kids to learn how to look after an animal. (虽然当你把孩子介绍给他们不认识的狗时，显然必须小心，因为你不知道它会怎么表现，但当我看到孩子们走过佩德罗时害怕的时候，我总是很难过。我认为让孩子们学习如何照顾动物是很好的。)”可知，作者对于孩子们因不了解而害怕宠物感到遗憾。故选C。
25．推理判断题。由文章第三段中“Meanwhile, the most rewarding, I think, is just seeing how amazing he is with the kids. He is so calm, so protective, so loving, and we are his world. (与此同时，我认为最有意义的是，看到他和孩子们相处得有多好。他很冷静，很有保护欲，很有爱心，我们就是他的世界。)”和第四段中“He was never aggressive, but he was quite
bitey as puppies are, constantly pulling out your clothes and putting holes in them, which is very annoying. He chewed the furniture-my sofas are barely standing up; their wooden legs are almost in pieces. Obviously, the dog training in the house was quite stressful and his jumping at strangers in the park and running off was always quite scary. (他从来没有攻击性，但他像小狗一样爱咬，经常把你的衣服扯出来，在上面咬出洞，这很烦人。他咬家具——我的沙发几乎立不住；木腿几乎都碎了。显然，在家里训练狗的压力很大，在公园里它对着陌生人跳来跳去然后跑开，总是让人很害怕。)”可知，作者认为Pedro可爱但麻烦。故选C。
26．推理判断题。由文章第四段“I think the most challenging aspects with Pedro were when he was a puppy (小狗). He was pretty hard work. He was never aggressive, but he was quite bitey as puppies are, constantly pulling out your clothes and putting holes in them, which is very annoying. He chewed the furniture-my sofas are barely standing up; their wooden legs are almost in pieces. Obviously, the dog training in the house was quite stressful and his jumping at strangers in the park and running off was always quite scary. (他从来没有攻击性，但他像小狗一样爱咬，经常把你的衣服扯出来，在上面咬出洞，这很烦人。他咬家具——我的沙发几乎立不住；木腿几乎都碎了。显然，在家里训练狗的压力很大，在公园里它对着陌生人跳来跳去然后跑开，总是让人很害怕。)”可知，第四段详细描述了佩德罗作为小狗时的各种捣蛋行为，如咬衣服、啃家具等，以及训练过程中的压力，如它乱跑，这都表明训练小狗是一项挑战。故选D。
27．推理判断题。由文章最后一段“As a new puppy owner, you’re overloaded with advice from social media, magazines, other dog owners and friends, so finding a source of information you trust is so important and can be a real turning point. I know what it’s like to be bombarded with conflicting information, so I would have really welcomed Royal Canin’s “One in a Billion” platform as a new puppy owner. It’s a one-stop shop for new dog owners: a single source of credible information that is so helpful in navigating the early stages of your puppy’s life. (作为一只小狗的新主人，你从社交媒体、杂志、其他狗主人和朋友那里得到的建议太多了，所以找到一个你信任的信息来源是如此重要，这可能是一个真正的转折点。我知道被相互矛盾的信息轰炸是什么感觉，所以作为一个新的小狗主人，我真的很欢迎Royal Canin的“One in a Billion”平台。这是为新狗主人提供的一站式服务：一个可靠信息的单一来源，对你的小狗的早期生活非常有帮助。)”可知，最后一段提到了Royal Canin的“One in a Billion”，强调这是一个一站式服务，为新狗主人提供了可信的信息来源，帮助他们度过养小狗的早期阶段，这显然是在推荐一个平台给读者。故选A。
If you’ve scrolled through your Facebook feed recently, you may have noticed something surprising: lots and lots of short videos.
What makes this “Reels” feature strange is that it is hugely addictive, which I know quite well from my own personal experience. Last Friday, I took a break and hit on one short clip of someone making dinner and, well, the next time I looked up it was 20 minutes later and the blank document on my computer monitor was confirming to me that my work was still not done.
However, as silly as it seems, Reels-is actually super important, and is at the centre of a major battle between the world’s largest tech firms. The format (格式) was first pioneered by TikTok-the Chinese-owned video app that has taken the world by storm since it launched in 2016. Today, TikTok has around 23 million UK users every month-including basically every person you know under the age of 25. And that fact has made Facebook and its parent company, Meta, very nervous indeed. As TikTok has continued to boom, Facebook has actually fallen in popularity among “Gen Z”. The reason Tik Tok has proven such a powerful challenger to Facebook’s social media dominance is almost entirely down to these sorts of short-form videos.
The format is almost perfectly optimised to be as addictive as possible: Tik Tok’s app shows you a short-form video, and if you don’t like it, you can simply swipe it away and another one will start playing instantly. And because it is portrait, not landscape, videos look “right” when viewed on your phone. What’s also smart is that TikTok’s algorithm (算法) picks videos for you based on what you actually watch, and not what you say you want.
Facebook isn’t the only app trying to do what TikTok does so well. Instagram, which is owned by Facebook’s parent company Meta, has integrated Reels even more aggressively into its app. And even Google is nervous, launching its own TikTok-style video section of YouTube(which it owns)a couple of years ago. As things stand, though TikTok currently maintains a healthy lead in the category, both YouTube and Facebook have deep pockets-so expect to see even more Reels and Shorts popping up in your feed as this intense battle continues to rage. You won’t be able to take your eyes off them.
28．Why did the author mention his own experience in paragraph 2
A．To illustrate the feature of short videos.
B．To stress the importance of short videos.
C．To prove his preference to short videos.
D．To introduce the functions of short videos.
29．What do we know about TikTok according to the passage
A．It has shown the trend of the fall in popularity among “Gen Z”.
B．It is perceived as a potential threat to Facebook’s social media dominance.
C．Its number of registered UK users has reached 23 million since it launched in 2016.
D．It underestimates the essential role of short videos in competition with large tech firms.
30．What makes the short videos on TikTok App so popular
A．The beautiful visual effects.
B．The high video quality.
C．The random recommendation.
D．The quick switch between videos.
31．What is the message conveyed in the last paragraph
A．The short videos have a profound impact on our daily life.
B．TikTok seems to be losing its advantage over short videos in the short run.
C．YouTube and Facebook may encounter financial difficulties in developing Shorts.
D．A growing number of tech firms have engaged in fierce competition for the short video market.
【答案】28．A 29．B 30．D 31．D
【解析】这是一篇说明文。科技巨头争抢短视频市场，Facebook、Instagram的Reels与Google旗下YouTube的短片功能，紧跟TikTok模式，激烈竞争，力求抓住用户注意力。
28．推理判断题。由文章第二段“What makes this “Reels” feature strange is that it is hugely addictive, which I know quite well from my own personal experience. Last Friday, I took a break and hit on one short clip of someone making dinner and, well, the next time I looked up it was 20 minutes later and the blank document on my computer monitor was confirming to me that my work was still not done. (这个“卷轴”功能的奇怪之处在于它非常容易上瘾，我从自己的个人经历中非常了
解这一点。上周五，我休息了一下，突然看到一个人在做晚饭的短片，20分钟后，我再次抬头看时，电脑显示器上的空白文件向我证实，我的工作还没有完成。)”可知，作者在第二段中提到自己的经历，描述了他在Facebook的Reels功能上观看短视频时，不知不觉就过去了20分钟，这表明了短视频极易吸引人的特点。通过这个亲身经历，作者旨在阐述短视频能够极度吸引用户并长时间保持其注意力的特性，说明短视频的特点。故选A。
29．推理判断题。由文章第三段中“Today, TikTok has around 23 million UK users every month-including basically every person you know under the age of 25. And that fact has made Facebook and its parent company, Meta, very nervous indeed. As TikTok has continued to boom, Facebook has actually fallen in popularity among “Gen Z”. The reason TikTok has proven such a powerful challenger to Facebook’s social media dominance is almost entirely down to these sorts of short-form videos. (如今，抖音每月约有2300万英国用户，基本上包括你认识的所有25岁以下的人。这一事实让Facebook及其母公司Meta非常紧张。随着TikTok的持续繁荣，Facebook在“Z世代”中的受欢迎程度实际上有所下降。Tik Tok之所以能成为Facebook社交媒体霸主地位的强大挑战者，几乎完全归功于这类短视频。)”可知，TikTok被视为对Facebook社交媒体主导地位的潜在威胁。故选B。
30．细节理解题。由文章第四中段 “The format is almost perfectly optimised to be as addictive as possible: TikTok’s app shows you a short-form video, and if you don’t like it, you can simply swipe it away and another one will start playing instantly. (这种格式几乎是完美的优化，尽可能让人上瘾：Tik Tok的应用程序会显示一段短视频，如果你不喜欢，你可以简单地把它移开，另一个视频就会立即开始播放。)”可知，TikTok用户如果不喜欢当前视频，只需滑动即可立即开始播放下一个视频。这种快速切换机制让用户能持续不断地浏览新内容，增强了其吸引力。故选D。
31．推理判断题。由文章最后一段中“Facebook isn’t the only app trying to do what TikTok does so well. Instagram, which is owned by Facebook’s parent company Meta, has integrated Reels even more aggressively into its app. And even Google is nervous, launching its own TikTok-style video section of YouTube (which it owns) a couple of years ago. As things stand, though TikTok currently maintains a healthy lead in the category, both YouTube and Facebook have deep pockets-so expect to see even more Reels and Shorts popping up in your feed as this intense battle continues to rage. You won’t be able to take your eyes off them. (Facebook并不是唯一一个试图做TikTok擅长的事情的应用程序。Facebook母公司Meta旗下的Instagram更积极地将Reels整合到自己的应用程序中。就连Google也感到紧张，几年前在YouTube （它拥有的YouTube）上推出了自己的tiktok风格的视频部分。就目前的情况来看，尽管TikTok目前在这一类别中保持着健康的领先地位，但YouTube和Facebook都有雄厚的财力——所以随着这场激烈的战斗继续进行，预计你会看到更多的Reels和Shorts出现在你的信息流中。你的视线将无法从它们身上移开。)”可知，越来越多的科技公司在短视频市场上展开了激烈的竞争。故选D。
If your partner gets down on one knee to propose, or you get a call with the job offer, your reaction might be to shout it from the rooftops. But new research suggests that keeping good news a secret before telling someone else could make people feel more energized.
“Decades of research on secrecy suggest it is bad for our well-being. However, this work has only examined keeping secrets that have negative effects for our lives. Is secrecy inherently bad for our well-being or do the negative effects of secrecy tend to originate from keeping negative secrets ” asked lead researcher of the latest research Michael Slepian, PhD, a professor of business at Columbia University.
In the experiment, some participants were asked to reflect on the good news they kept secret, while others reflected on good news that was not secret, and then rated how energized the news made them feel and whether they intended to
share the news with someone else. The researchers found that the participants who reflected on their positive secrets reported feeling more energized than the participants who thought about their good news that was not secret.
The research nuances our understanding of the science of secrets. Negative secrets tend to deplete us and have also been linked to anxiety and depression. Positive secrets, however, seem to have an energizing effect and make people alive. One factor could be that people often have different motivations for keeping good news to themselves. Those with positive secrets were much more likely to keep quiet for internal reasons, not because they felt any outside pressures.
“People sometimes go to great lengths to plan revealing a positive secret to make it all the more exciting. This kind of surprise can be intensely enjoyable, but surprise is the most fleeting of our emotions, ” Slepian said. “Having extra time days, weeks or even longer-to imagine the joyful surprise on another person’s face allows us more time with this exciting moment, even if only in our own minds.”
32．What did Michael Slepian think of the previous research on secrecy
A．One-sided. B．Pointless. C．Convincing. D．Pioneering.
33．In the experiment, some participants were more energized because ______.
A．they were optimistic and cheerful.
B．they were free from secrets.
C．they had undisclosed positive secrets.
D．they had shared good news with others.
34．What does the underlined word “deplete” in paragraph 4 mean
A．Spoil. B．Exhaust. C．Confuse. D．Panic.
35．According to the last paragraph, what did Slepian suggest readers do
A．Never reveal a secret casually.
B．Let your imagination run wild.
C．Be creative when surprising others.
D．Delay sharing a positive secret.
【答案】32．A 33．C 34．B 35．D
【解析】这是一篇说明文。主要介绍了哥伦比亚大学的教授Michael Slepian关于保密的研究，他发现在告诉别人之前把好消息保密可以使人们感到更有活力。
32．细节理解题。根据文章第二段“Decades of research on secrecy suggest it is bad for our well-being. However, this work has only examined keeping secrets that have negative effects for our lives. Is secrecy inherently bad for our well-being or do the negative effects of secrecy tend to originate from keeping negative secrets ”（几十年来对保密的研究表明，保密对我们的健康有害。然而，这项工作只研究了保守对我们的生活有负面影响的秘密。保密是天生对我们的幸福有害，还是保密的负面影响往往源于保守负面秘密？）可知，Michael Slepian认为以前的研究只关注了保守负面秘密的影响，很片面，忽视了保守积极秘密的影响，故选A。
33．细节理解题。根据文章第三段“The researchers found that the participants who reflected on their positive secrets reported feeling more energized than the participants who thought about their good news that was not secret.”（研究人员发现，反思他们积极秘密的参与者比思考他们不是秘密的好消息的参与者感到更有活力。）可知，一些参与者因为
他们有未公开的积极秘密而感到更有活力，故选C。
34．词句猜测题。根据文章第四段“Negative secrets tend to deplete us and have also been linked to anxiety and depression.”（消极的秘密往往会deplete，也与焦虑和抑郁症有关。）可推知，负面的秘密有不利影响，往往会耗尽我们。故deplete在此处意为“耗尽”，故选B。
35．推理判断题。根据文章最后一段“People sometimes go to great lengths to plan revealing a positive secret to make it all the more exciting. This kind of surprise can be intensely enjoyable, but surprise is the most fleeting of our emotions”（人们有时会不遗余力地计划透露一个积极的秘密，让它变得更加令人兴奋。这种惊喜可能非常令人愉快，但惊喜是我们情绪中最短暂的。）和“Having extra time days, weeks or even longer-to imagine the joyful surprise on another person’s face allows us more time with this exciting moment, even if only in our own minds.”（有额外的时间——几天，几周甚至更长的时间——想象别人脸上的喜悦惊喜，让我们有更多的时间享受这个激动人心的时刻，即使只是在我们自己的脑海中。）可推知，告诉别人之前把好消息保密可以使人们感到更兴奋，Slepian建议读者延迟分享积极的秘密，故选D。
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Explore the science behind these amazing landscapes
Retracing Charles Darwin’s travels across North Wales
13 May 2024|6 days
Uncover the best of Wales as you explore the dramatic Welsh landscapes of Eryri (Snowdonia) National Park and examine the region geology and how it has been transformed by volcanic and glacial activity over the years.Discover the story of Charles Darwin’s 1831 and 1842 tours of Wales,and retrace his travels on this small group journey to Shrewsbury and Snowdonia.
The Rockies and the Badlands:Geology and dinosaurs in Canada
17 June 2024|7 days
Explore the majestic Rocky Mountains west of Calgary and the otherworldly Badlands to the cast,witness the stunning scenery and geology of southerm Alberta.This tour includes two visits to UNESCO World Heritage sites,where you will see first-hand the rugged peaks and glacial features of the Banff portion of Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks and the bone-riddled badlands of Dinosaur Provincial Park.
Short break:Dinosaurs and Hoodoos:Alberta
23 July 2024|3 days
Visit one of the world’s premier dinosaur museums,sail all the way around a World Heritage site with outstanding dinosaur fossils and explore the multi-hued canyons and wind-sculpted hoodoos (石林)of the Alberta Badlands.Throughout this tour you will be accompanied by palaeontologist (古生物学家)Jon Noad,who will share the stories of the rocks,including tales about past oceans,swamps,rivers and deserts,the rise and fall of the dinosaurs and,more recently,ice sheets that covered Alberta and carved out spectacular landscapes.
21．Which of the following might appeal to dinosaur enthusiast most
A．The Eryri National Park. B．The Welsh Glaciers.
C．The Rocky Mountains. D．The Alberta Badlands.
22．What do all the three tours involve
A．Scientific facts. B．Tales about the past.
C．Special companions. D．Visits to World Heritage sites.
23．Where is the passage probably taken from
A．A research paper. B．A science fiction.
C．A tourism report. D．A travel brochure.
【答案】21．D 22．A 23．D
【解析】这是一篇应用文，文章介绍了三个关于神奇地质景观的旅行。
21．细节理解题。根据最后一段中“Visit one of the world’s premier dinosaur museums,sail all the way around a World Heritage site with outstanding dinosaur fossils and explore the multi-hued canyons and wind-sculpted hoodoos (石林) of the Alberta Badlands.(参观世界上首屈一指的恐龙博物馆之一，在拥有杰出恐龙化石的世界遗产遗址周围航行，探索阿尔伯塔荒原的多彩峡谷和风雕石林)”可知，阿尔伯塔荒原可能最吸引恐龙爱好者，故选D。
22．细节理解题。根据文章标题“Explore the science behind these amazing landscapes(探索这些神奇景观背后的科学)”并结合第一段中“Uncover the best of Wales as you explore the dramatic Welsh landscapes of Eryri (Snowdonia) National Park and examine the region geology and how it has been transformed by volcanic and glacial activity over the years.(当您探索厄里（斯诺登尼亚）国家公园引人注目的威尔士景观时，揭开威尔士最好的一面，并研究该地区的地质情况，以及多年来火山和冰川活动如何改变了它)”、第二段中“Explore the majestic Rocky Mountains west of Calgary and the otherworldly Badlands to the cast, witness the stunning scenery and geology of southerm Alberta.(探索卡尔加里西部雄伟的落基山脉和超凡脱俗的荒地，见证阿尔伯塔省南部令人惊叹的风景和地质)”和最后一段中“Throughout this tour you will be accompanied by palaeontologist (古生物学家)Jon Noad,who will share the stories of the rocks,including tales about past oceans,swamps,rivers and deserts,the rise and fall of the dinosaurs and,more recently,ice sheets that covered Alberta and carved out spectacular landscapes.(在整个旅程中，古生物学家Jon Noad将与您分享岩石的故事，包括过去的海洋，沼泽，河流和沙漠，恐龙的兴衰，以及最近覆盖阿尔伯塔省并雕刻出壮观景观的冰盖的故事。)”结合文章标题“Explore the science behind these amazing landscapes(探索这些神奇景观背后的科学)”可知，文章介绍了一些有关神奇景观的旅行，探索这些神奇景观背后的科学，故三个旅行的共同点是它们都涉及科学事实，故选A。
23．推理判断题。根据全文内容，结合文章标题“Explore the science behind these amazing landscapes(探索这些神奇景观背后的科学)”可知，文章介绍了三个关于神奇地质景观的旅行，应是出自一本旅游手册，故选D。
US Army veteran (退伍老兵) Mazyck remembers when doctors told her she would never walk again. She’d been paralyzed from the waist down after a serious accident while parachuting in 2003.The doctors never said anything about floating, though. In 2021,she got to do just that.
Mazyck was one of 12 participants in a Zero G flight, organized by the group AstroAccess. This type of flight recreates the weightlessness that astronauts experience without going all the way to space. Flying over the Pacific Ocean off Southern California, the modified 747 jet airplane made 15 steep dives and climbs, allowing the flyers multiple periods of weightlessness.
The experience left Mazyck feeling joyful. “The flight was something that I would have never in my wildest dreams thought I would’ve experienced,” she says, “especially the floating, the weightlessness.”
Traditionally, strict physical requirements have prevented disabled people from becoming astronauts. AstroAccess is working to make space accessible to all. “Space removes the barriers between people; now is the time to remove the barriers
to space itself,” says Mazyck, “It is sending a message to people who have historically been excluded from STEM that not only is there room for you in space, there is a need for you.”
During the flight, she says, the participants did experiments and made observations. They took note of things that people without certain disabilities might not realize are issues. For example, people who couldn’t grip with their legs needed another way to hold themselves still while weightless. The group also experimented with signaling lights for the deaf and with ways of using braille (盲文) for the blind.
These types of issues are easy enough to address. Now is the time to make space accessible — before space tourism or space settlements become commonplace. “I am so proud and elated about what’s happening here,” Mazyck adds. “We are paving the way for the future.”
24．What do we know about AstroAccess
A．It redesigns jet airplanes. B．It offers weightlessness experience.
C．It provides physical treatment. D．It trains the disabled to be astronauts.
25．What is required in the flights for the participants
A．Astronaut experience. B．Steep dives and climbs.
C．Weightlessness periods. D．Trials and observations.
26．Which of the following words can best describe Mazyck
A．Generous and determined. B．Caring and persistent.
C．Courageous and optimistic. D．Ambitious and innovative.
27．Which of the following can be the best title of the passage
A．Paving the Way for the Future B．Disabled Americans Make It to Space
C．Making Space a Place for Everyone D．US Veterans Experience Zero G Flight
【答案】24．B 25．D 26．C 27．C
【解析】这是一篇说明文。文章主要说明了AstroAccess组织参与者进行失重体验，腰部瘫痪的Mazyck就是其中一名参与者。AstroAccess正在努力使所有人都能进入太空。
24．细节理解题。根据第二段“Mazyck was one of 12 participants in a Zero G flight, organized by the group AstroAccess. This type of flight recreates the weightlessness that astronauts experience without going all the way to space.(Mazyck是由AstroAccess组织的零重力飞行的12名参与者之一。这种类型的飞行重现了在没有进入太空的情况下宇航员所经历的失重状态。)”可知，AstroAccess提供失重体验。故选B。
25．细节理解题。根据倒数第二段“During the flight, she says, the participants did experiments and made observations.(她说，在飞行过程中，参与者做了实验和观察)”可知，参与者的飞行要求是试验和观察。故选D。
26．推理判断题。根据第三段““The flight was something that I would have never in my wildest dreams thought I would’ve experienced,” she says, “especially the floating, the weightlessness.”(她说：“这次飞行是我做梦也想不到自己会经历的事情，尤其是漂浮和失重的感觉。”)”以及倒数第三段““Space removes the barriers between people; now is the time to remove the barriers to space itself,” says Mazyck, “It is sending a message to people who have historically been excluded from STEM that not only is there room for you in space, there is a need for you.”(“太空消除了人与人之间的障碍；现在是时候消除太空本身的障碍了，”Mazyck说，“这向那些历史上被排除在STEM之外的人发出了一个信息，那就是太
空不仅有你的空间，还有你的需求。”)”可推知，Mazyck勇敢乐观。故选C。
27．主旨大意题。根据最后一段“Now is the time to make space accessible — before space tourism or space settlements become commonplace. “I am so proud and elated about what’s happening here,” Mazyck adds. “We are paving the way for the future.”(在太空旅游或太空定居变得司空见惯之前，现在是时候让太空变得触手可及了。“我为这里发生的一切感到骄傲和高兴，”马齐克补充道。“我们正在为未来铺平道路。”)”结合文章主要说明了AstroAccess组织参与者进行失重体验，腰部瘫痪的Mazyck就是其中一名参与者。AstroAccess正在努力使所有人都能进入太空。可知，C选项“让太空成为每个人的地方”最适合作为文章标题。故选C。
Three years ago, Juan Carlos Sesma had a realization. Global warming and climate change seemed to be a mounting problem, with scientific records indicating rising temperatures and sea levels across the world. At the same time forest fires, logging, and aggressive human expansion meant the supply of trees which helped to regulate and remove greenhouse gases from our atmosphere was dwindling .
He decided the best way to tackle a problem this large was to combine two of the most powerful forces emerging in technology: big data and robotics. Sesma founded a new company called CO2 Revolution, whose plan was to use drones(无人机) to better understand where new trees should be planted and to automate the process of planting so that much larger areas of forest could be repopulated. The company designed a special smart seed that helped to deliver just the right amount of protection and nutrition to the young saplings. The overall goal was to considerably lower the time and cost of large-scale re-forestation.
CO2 Revolution isn’t alone. In the UK, a startup called Biocarbon Engineering ran a trial earlier this year where it used drones to help replant Mangrove trees in Myanmar. It has also deployed(部署) its technology in Australia, South Africa, and Morocco. “In a lot of places, people will either have a map taken by aeroplane, or just use Google Earth satellite imagery.
They’ll draw things out freehand and manually plant, either by hand or tractor,” said CEO Susan Graham in a recent interview.
The challenge for all these startups is to find ways to create a profitable, or at least sustainable, business model. For Sesma and the team at CO2 Revolution, recent regulatory action has highlighted one potential pathway. “We offer a solution that allows clients to carry out massive plantings, increasing forest mass and thus compensating for their carbon footprint.” Amid growing calls for carbon sequestration, this kind of effort might prove not just noble, but financially sensible for large corporations.
28．What drove Sesma to set up CO2 Revolution
A．Big data and robotics. B．Forest fires and human expansion.
C．Global Warming and climate change. D．Powerful forces emerging in technology.
29．What does the underlined word “dwindling” probably mean in paragraph 1
A．Declining. B．Changing. C．Recovering. D．Expanding.
30．What can we infer from the passage
A．Drones are populated in larger areas of forests.
B．CO2 Revolution calls for a profitable drone model.
C．Biocarbon Engineering sets up worldwide technology centers.
D．Smart seeds are designed to improve the accuracy of planting.
31．What does the author think of startups like CO2 Revolution
A．Conventional. B．Valueless. C．Beneficial. D．Impractical.
【答案】28．C 29．A 30．D 31．C
【解析】本文是一篇新闻报道，主要讲述了Juan Carlos Sesma创立了名为“二氧化碳革命”的公司，计划用无人机植树造林，保护环境。
28．细节理解题。根据第一段中的“Three years ago, Juan Carlos Sesma had a realization. Global warming and climate change seemed to be a mounting problem, with scientific records indicating rising temperatures and sea levels across the world.(三年前，Juan Carlos Sesma意识到了这一点。全球变暖和气候变化似乎是一个日益严重的问题，科学记录表明世界各地的气温和海平面都在上升。)”和第二段中的“He decided the best way to tackle a problem this large was to combine two of the most powerful forces emerging in technology: big data and robotics. Sesma founded a new company called CO2 Revolution, whose plan was to use drones(无人机) to better understand where new trees should be planted and to automate the process of planting so that much larger areas of forest could be repopulated.(他决定，解决这么大问题的最佳方法是将技术中出现的两种最强大的力量结合起来：大数据和机器人。Sesma创立了一家名为‘二氧化碳革命’的新公司，该公司的计划是使用无人机更好地了解新树木应该种植在哪里，并自动化种植过程，以便重造更大面积的森林。)”可知，驱使Sesma创立“二氧化碳革命”公司的因素是全球变暖和气候变化这个日益严重的问题。故选C。
29．词义猜测题。根据画线词所在句中的“forest fires, logging, and aggressive human expansion”可知，森林火灾、伐木和人类的侵略性扩张这些事情会导致树木减少。由此可推测出，dwindling意为“减少”，与declining“减少”同义。故选A。
30．推理判断题。根据第二段中的“The company designed a special smart seed that helped to deliver just the right amount of protection and nutrition to the young saplings. The overall goal was to considerably lower the time and cost of large-scale re-forestation.(该公司设计了一种特殊的智能种子，有助于为幼树提供恰到好处的保护和营养。总体目标是大大降低大规模重新造林的时间和成本。)”可知，智能种子能够为幼树提供恰到好处的保护和营养，从而大大降低大规模重新造林的时间和成本，由此可推测，智能种子能够提高植树的精确度。故选D。
31．推理判断题。根据最后一段中的“Amid growing calls for carbon sequestration, this kind of effort might prove not just noble, but financially sensible for large corporations.(在越来越多的碳封存呼声中，这种努力可能不仅高尚，而且对大公司来说在财务上是明智的。)”可知，作者认为“二氧化碳革命”这样的公司所作出的努力不仅高尚，而且对大公司来说也很有经济价值，由此可推测出，作者认为这类初创公司非常有益。故选C。
Babies as young as 4 months old who are born into a bilingual (双语的) environment show distinct and potentially advantageous brain patterns for speech processing. Our early-life experiences can have lifelong effects on our behavior. The brain is most sensitive to its environment during the first year of life, which is thought to be a critical period for language development.
Previous studies have looked into the brain mechanisms that underlie (构成……的基础) speech processing in babies who hear just one language. To better understand this in bilingual-exposed infants, Borja Blanco at the University of Cambridge and his colleagues compared how 31 babies who only heard Spanish and 26 babies who heard Spanish and Basque, all aged 4 months, responded to Spanish recordings of The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery.
The team used an imaging technique called functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) to measure changes in brain
activities. In the Spanish-only babies, the recordings caused activation in areas which play a role in speech processing. In the bilingual-exposed babies, the recordings similarly evoked these responses, but they were larger and wider. These infants also had activation in equivalent areas of their brains’ right hemispheres ( 脑半球 ). When the recordings were then played backwards as a control arm of the experiment, the infants exposed to just Spanish had larger responses to the backwards speech, while those to Spanish and Basque had similar brain patterns as before. This may be because the bilingual infants take longer to register their primary language, in this case Spanish, as hearing both this and Basque reduces their overall exposure to either language.
If this is the case, it could help them be sensitive to linguistic differences and enable them to learn to distinguish between languages at a younger age. The researchers note that a bilingual environment stimulates changes in the brain mechanisms underlying speech processing in young infants, adding weight to the idea that the neural basis of learning two or more languages is established very early in life.
32．Why was the study conducted
A．To reveal the impact of bilingual exposure. B．To confirm the pattern of brain mechanism.
C．To conclude the factors for speech processing D．To explore the potentials for language development.
33．What is paragraph 3 mainly about
A．Theory basis. B．Study methods.
C．Research findings D．Technical assistance,
34．What can we learn from the research
A．Bilingual-exposed babies are more sensitive.
B．Bilingual-exposed babies are more linguistically critical.
C．Bilingual-exposure reduces babies’ linguistic competence.
D．Bilingual-exposure reduces babies’ overall language exposure.
35．Which of the following statements might the researchers agree with
A．Immigrants speak better languages.
B．Mixed race families own more linguistic potential.
C．Exchange students show greater learning capability.
D．Overseas workers have higher language proficiency.
【答案】32．A 33．C 34．B 35．B
【解析】这是一篇说明文。研究表明，双语环境会刺激婴儿大脑语言处理机制的变化，这进一步证实了学习两种或两种以上语言的神经基础在生命早期就已经建立起来的观点。文章对这项研究进行了介绍。
32．细节理解题。根据第二段“Previous studies have looked into the brain mechanisms that underlie (构成……的基础) speech processing in babies who hear just one language. To better understand this in bilingual-exposed infants, Borja Blanco at the University of Cambridge and his colleagues compared how 31 babies who only heard Spanish and 26 babies who heard Spanish and Basque, all aged 4 months, responded to Spanish recordings of The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery. (之前的研究已经研究了只听一种语言的婴儿的语言处理背后的大脑机制。为了更好地了解双语环境下的婴儿的情况，剑桥大学的博尔哈·布兰科和他的同事们比较了31名只听西班牙语的婴儿和26名听西班牙语和巴
斯克语的婴儿，他们都是4个月大，对安托万·德·圣埃克苏佩里的西班牙语版《小王子》的反应。)”可知，这项研究是为了揭示双语接触的影响。故选A。
33．主旨大意题。根据第三段第二句到最后一句“In the Spanish-only babies, the recordings caused activation in areas which play a role in speech processing. In the bilingual-exposed babies, the recordings similarly evoked these responses, but they were larger and wider. These infants also had activation in equivalent areas of their brains’ right hemispheres (脑半球). When the recordings were then played backwards as a control arm of the experiment, the infants exposed to just Spanish had larger responses to the backwards speech, while those to Spanish and Basque had similar brain patterns as before. This may be because the bilingual infants take longer to register their primary language, in this case Spanish, as hearing both this and Basque reduces their overall exposure to either language. (在只会说西班牙语的婴儿中，这些录音激活了在语言处理中起作用的区域。在接触双语的婴儿中，录音同样引起了这些反应，但它们更大更宽。这些婴儿大脑右半球的相应区域也被激活。当把录音倒放作为实验的对照组时，只听西班牙语的婴儿对倒放的语言有更大的反应，而那些听西班牙语和巴斯克语的婴儿的大脑模式与之前相似。这可能是因为双语婴儿需要更长的时间来注册他们的主要语言，在这个例子中是西班牙语，因为同时听到西班牙语和巴斯克语会减少他们对这两种语言的总体接触。)”可知，第三段主要是介绍这项研究的发现。故选C。
34．细节理解题。根据最后一段第一句“If this is the case, it could help them be sensitive to linguistic differences and enable them to learn to distinguish between languages at a younger age. (如果是这样的话，它可以帮助他们对语言差异敏感，使他们能够在更年轻的时候学会区分语言。)”可知，双语环境下的婴儿对语言差异更敏感。故选B。
35．推理判断题。根据最后一段第二句“The researchers note that a bilingual environment stimulates changes in the brain mechanisms underlying speech processing in young infants, adding weight to the idea that the neural basis of learning two or more languages is established very early in life. (研究人员指出，双语环境会刺激婴儿大脑语言处理机制的变化，这进一步证实了学习两种或两种以上语言的神经基础在生命早期就已经建立起来的观点。)”可知，研究人员可能会认同混血家庭拥有更多的语言潜力的观点。故选B。
阅读理解（2024届浙江省9 1联盟高三下学期3月模拟预测）
Bruce Museum
Consistently voted the “Best Museum” by area media, the Bruce Museum in Greenwich is an educational institution which, through its varied exhibitions and collections in the arts and sciences, provides programs for diverse audiences.
Bruce Beginnings
Tuesdays, 11:00 to 11:45 am
Bruce Beginnings programs are designed for children from 2.5-5 years of age and their adult caregivers, who will explore the museum’s collections and exhibitions through picture books and hands-on activities. Space for these programs is limited; participants must see the Visitor Service desk upon arrival to the museum.
Science Solvers or Art Adventure
Select Sundays, 1:00 to 3:00 pm
Drop-in monthly programs are designed for children over the age of 4 and their families to explore simple science and art concepts while taking part in kid-friendly experiments, projects, or crafts inspired by the museum’s exhibitions and collections.
Family Studio Workshops
Select Sundays, 1:00 to 2:30 pm
A program for children over the age of 4 with their families. Participants will create a work of art inspired by the museum’s collections and exhibitions! This program is $7 per person for members and $15 for non-members, plus the cost of Museum admission.
Afternoons at the Bruce
Select school vacation days, 2:00 to 4:30 pm
Spend the afternoon off from school discovering, learning and creating! Workshops are designed for gradesK-5 and explore the museum’s collections and exhibitions. Members $15, and $25 for non-members. Snacks included! Advanced registration is required at brucemuseum.org/site/events.
1．What is special about the programs lasting less than an hour
A．Providing hands-on activities. B．Taking place at weekends.
C．Limiting the number of participants. D．Targeting kids of different age groups.
2．What do the second and the third programs have in common
A．They cost nothing. B．They include art appreciation.
C．They are designed for kids only. D．They are hosted on school holidays.
3．Which of the following requires early registration
A．Bruce Beginnings. B．Afternoons at the Bruce.
C．Family Studio Workshops. D．Science Solvers or Art Adventure.
【答案】1．C 2．D 3．B
【解析】这是一篇应用文。文章介绍了布鲁斯博物馆的几项活动的相关信息。
1．细节理解题。根据Bruce Beginnings中“Tuesdays, 11:00 to 11:45 am (周二上午11:00至11:45)”和“Space for these programs is limited (这些项目的空间有限)”可知，持续时间不到一小时的Bruce Beginnings的特别之处在于该活动会限制参与者人数。故选C项。
2．细节理解题。根据Science Solvers or Art Adventure中“Select Sundays, 1:00 to 3:00 pm (选择周日下午1:00至3:00)”和Family Studio Workshops中“Select Sundays, 1:00 to 2:30 pm (选择周日，下午1:00至2:30)”可知，第二个和第三个活动的共同之处在于它们在学校放假时开展。故选D项。
3．细节理解题。根据Afternoons at the Bruce中“Advanced registration is required at brucemuseum.org/site/events. (需要在brucemuseum.org/site/events上提前注册。)”可知，Afternoons at the Bruce活动参加者需要提前注册。故选B项。
In 1975, a San Diego homemaker named Marjorie Rice came across a column in Scientific American about tiling (瓷砖). There is a problem which has interested mathematicians since ancient Greek times. After Rice’s chance encounter with tiling, family members often saw her in the kitchen constantly drawing shapes. “I thought she was just drawing casually (随意),” her daughter Kathy said. But Rice who took only one year of math in high school, was actually discovering never-before-seen patterns.
Born in Florida, she loved learning and particularly her brief exposure to math, but tight budget and social culture prevented her family from even considering that she might attend college. “For Rice, math was a pleasure,” her son David once said.
Rice gave one of her sons a subscription to Scientific American partly because she could read it carefully while the children were at school. When she read Gardner’s column about tiling as she later recalled in an interview: “I thought it must be wonderful that someone could discover these beautiful patterns which no one had seen before.” She also wrote in an essay, “My interest was engaged by the subject and I wanted to understand every detail of it. Lacking a mathematical background, I developed my own symbol system and in a few months discovered a new type.”
Astonished and delighted, she sent her work to Gardner, who sent it to Doris, a tiling expert at Moravian College. Doris confirmed that Rice’s finding was correct.
Later, Rice declined to lecture on her discoveries, citing shyness, but at Doris’s invitation, she attended a university mathematics meeting, where she was introduced to the audience. Rice still said nothing of her achievements to her children, but they eventually found out as the awards mounted.
4．Why did Rice often draw shapes in the kitchen
A．To become a mathematician. B．To explore the secret of tiling.
C．To fill her leisure time. D．To show her passion for drawing.
5．What can we learn about Rice from Paragraphs 2 and 3
A．She longed to start a column. B．She was rejected from a college.
C．She was good at designing patterns. D．She succeeded in developing a system.
6．What is the text mainly about
A．The magic of math. B．The efforts of Rice.
C．The humility of Rice. D．The patterns of tiling.
7．What can we learn from the Rice’s experience
A．Nothing is impossible to a willing mind. B．Actions speak louder than words.
C．Every cloud has a silver lining. D．Practice makes perfect.
【答案】4．B 5．D 6．B 7．A
【解析】这是一篇记叙文。文章讲述了，1975年，圣地亚哥一位名叫马乔里·赖斯（Marjorie Rice ）的家庭主妇在《科学美国人》杂志上偶然看到一篇关于瓷砖的专栏文章，因为想探索瓷砖的秘密，Rice经常在厨房里画形状，虽缺乏数学背景（高中只学了一年数学），但她凭借自己对数学的热情潜心研究，开发了自己的符号系统，坚持不懈，发现了以前从未见过的图案。
4．推理判断题。由第一段中“After Rice’s chance encounter with tiling, family members often saw her in the kitchen constantly drawing shapes. (Rice偶然接触瓷砖后，家人经常看到她在厨房里不停地画形状)”和第三段中“She also wrote in an essay, “My interest was engaged by the subject and I wanted to understand every detail of it. (她还在一篇文章中写道，“我对这个主题很感兴趣，我想了解它的每一个细节)”可知，Rice对瓷砖这个主题很感兴趣，想了解它的每一个细节，可得出因为想探索瓷砖的秘密，所以Rice经常在厨房里画形状。故选B项。
5．细节理解题。由第三段中“Lacking a mathematical background, I developed my own symbol system and
in a few months discovered a new type. (由于缺乏数学背景，我开发了自己的符号系统，并在几个月内发现了一种新的类型)”可知，Rice成功地开发了一个系统。故选D项。
6．主旨大意题。通读全文可知，1975年，圣地亚哥一位名叫马乔里·赖斯（Marjorie Rice ）的家庭主妇在《科学美国人》杂志上偶然看到一篇关于瓷砖的专栏文章，因为想探索瓷砖的秘密，Rice经常在厨房里画形状，虽缺乏数学背景（高中只学了一年数学），但她凭借自己对数学的热情潜心研究，开发了自己的符号系统，坚持不懈，发现了以前从未见过的图案，B项“赖斯的努力”符合文意。故选B项。
7．推理判断题。通读全文可知，1975年，圣地亚哥一位名叫马乔里·赖斯（Marjorie Rice ）的家庭主妇在《科学美国人》杂志上偶然看到一篇关于瓷砖的专栏文章，因为想探索瓷砖的秘密，Rice经常在厨房里画形状，虽缺乏数学背景（高中只学了一年数学），但她凭借自己对数学的热情潜心研究，开发了自己的符号系统，坚持不懈，发现了以前从未见过的图案，文章告诉我们“世上无难事，只怕有心人（Nothing is impossible to a willing mind.）”。故选A项。
Researchers have long known that the brain links kinds of new facts, related or not, when they are learned about the same time. For the first time, scientists have recorded routes in the brain of that kind of contextual memory, the frequent change of thoughts and emotions that surrounds every piece of newly learned information.
The recordings, taken from the brains of people awaiting surgery for epilepsy (癫痫), suggest that new memories of even abstract facts are encoded (编码) in a brain-cell order that also contains information about what else was happening during and just before the memory was formed.
In the new study, doctors from the University of Pennsylvania and Vanderbilt University took recordings from a small piece of metal implanted in the brains of 69 people with severe epilepsy. The implants allow doctors to pinpoint the location of the flash floods of brain activity that cause epileptic happening. The patients performed a simple memory task. They watched a series of nouns appear on a computer screen, and after a brief disturbance recalled as many of the words as they could, in any order. Repeated trials, with different lists of words, showed a predictable effect: The participants tended to remember the words in groups, beginning with one and recalling those that were just before or after.
This pattern, which scientists call the contiguity effect, is similar to what often happens in the card game concentration, in which players try to identify pairs in a row of cards lying face-down. Pairs overturned close are often remembered together. The way the process works, the researchers say, is something like reconstructing a night’s activities after a hangover: remembering a fact (a broken table) recalls a scene (dancing), which in turn brings to mind more facts, like the other people who were there.
Sure enough, the people in the study whose neural (神经) updating signals were strongest showed the most striking pattern of remembering words in groups. “When you activate one memory, you are reactivating a little bit of what was happening around the time the memory was formed, and this process is what gives you that feeling of time travel,” said Dr Michael J. Kahana.
8．What does “contextual memory” refer to according to the text
A．Memories about the past facts.
B．Unrelated facts linked together.
C．Ideas and feelings around new facts.
D．New facts encoded into brain alone.
9．What is the purpose of studying patients with epilepsy
A．To track the brain activity of contextual memory.
B．To find the brain activity causing epilepsy.
C．To show the formation of memory.
D．To test the new cure for epilepsy.
10．What do the underlined words “contiguity” mean in paragraph 4
A．Implication. B．Similarity. C．Contrast. D．Neighborhood.
11．What is paragraph 5 mainly about
A．The feature of the research method. B．The category of the research subjects.
C．A brief summary of the research process. D．A further explanation of the research results.
【答案】8．C 9．A 10．D 11．D
【解析】这是一篇说明文。文章介绍了通过对69名严重癫痫患者的研究表明，出现那种上下文记忆在大脑中的路径是因为邻接效应，具体讲述了研究过程。
8．词句猜测题。由第一段中“For the first time, scientists have recorded routes in the brain of that kind of contextual memory, the frequent change of thoughts and emotions that surrounds every piece of newly learned information. (科学家们首次记录了这种上下文记忆在大脑中的路径，即围绕每一条新学习信息的思想和情绪的频繁变化)”可知，“contextual memory”指的是围绕新事实的想法和感受。故选C项。
9．推理判断题。由第一段中“For the first time, scientists have recorded routes in the brain of that kind of contextual memory, the frequent change of thoughts and emotions that surrounds every piece of newly learned information. (科学家们首次记录了这种上下文记忆在大脑中的路径，即围绕每一条新学习信息的思想和情绪的频繁变化)”，第二段“The recordings, taken from the brains of people awaiting surgery for epilepsy (癫痫), suggest that new memories of even abstract facts are encoded (编码) in a brain-cell order that also contains information about what else was happening during and just before the memory was formed. (这些记录取自等待癫痫手术的人的大脑，表明即使是抽象事实的新记忆也以脑细胞顺序编码，其中还包含关于记忆形成期间和之前发生的其他事情的信息)”和第三段中“The patients performed a simple memory task. They watched a series of nouns appear on a computer screen, and after a brief disturbance recalled as many of the words as they could, in any order. (患者进行了一项简单的记忆任务。他们看着一系列名词出现在电脑屏幕上，在短暂的干扰后，他们以任何顺序回忆起尽可能多的单词)”可知，研究癫痫患者，让其进行一项简单的记忆任务（干扰后，以任何顺序回忆起尽可能多的单词），是为了记录了这种上下文记忆在大脑中的路径，换句话说是为了追踪上下文记忆的大脑活动。故选A项。
10．词句猜测题。由第三段中“The participants tended to remember the words in groups, beginning with one and recalling those that were just before or after. (参与者倾向于分组记住单词，从一个单词开始，并回忆之前或之后的单词)”可知，在记忆时被实验者会回忆一个单词之前或之后的单词，即回忆临近的单词；再结合第四段中“This pattern, which
scientists call the contiguity effect, is similar to what often happens in the card game concentration, in which players try to identify pairs in a row of cards lying face-down. Pairs overturned close are often remembered together. (这种模式，科学家称之为contiguity效应，类似于纸牌游戏集中时经常发生的情况，即玩家试图识别脸朝下的一排纸牌中的成对纸牌。翻得很近的一对纸牌经常被铭记在一起)”讲翻得很近的一对纸牌经常被铭记在一起，这也是表明离得近容易被记住，划线词意为“与某处临近的地方（Neighborhood）”，可得出科学家称之为“邻接效应”。故选D项。
11．主旨大意题。由第五段“Sure enough, the people in the study whose neural (神经) updating signals were strongest showed the most striking pattern of remembering words in groups. “When you activate one memory, you are reactivating a little bit of what was happening around the time the memory was formed, and this process is what gives you that feeling of time travel,” said Dr Michael J. Kahana. (果不其然，研究中神经更新信号最强的人在群体中表现出最显著的单词记忆模式。Michael J. Kahana博士说：“当你激活一个记忆时，你就重新激活了记忆形成)”可知，第五段主要是对研究结果的进一步解释。故选D项。
Nowadays, the world is slowly becoming a high-tech society and we are now surrounded by technology. Facebook and Twitter are innovative tools; text messaging is still a somewhat existing phenomenon and even e-mail is only a flashing spot on the screen when compared with our long history of snail mail. Now we adopt these tools to the point of essentialness, and only rarely consider how we are more fundamentally affected by them.
Social media, texting and e-mail all make it much easier to communicate, gather and pass information, but they also present some dangers. By removing any real human engagement, they enable us to develop our abnormal self-love without the risk of disapproval or criticism. To use a theatrical metaphor (隐喻), these new forms of communication provide a stage on which we can each create our own characters, hidden behind a fourth wall of tweets, status updates and texts. This unreal state of unconcern can become addictive as we separate ourselves a safe distance from the cruelty of our fleshly lives, where we are imperfect, powerless and insignificant. In essence, we have been provided not only the means to be more free, but also to become new, to create and project a more perfect self to the world. As we become more reliant on these tools, they become more a part of our daily routine, and so we become more restricted in this fantasy.
So it is that we live in a cold era, where names and faces represent two different levels of closeness, where working relationships occur only through the magic of email and where love can start or end by text message. An environment such as this reduces interpersonal relationships to mere digital exchanges.
Would a celebrity have been so daring to do something dishonorable if he had had to do it in person Doubtful. It seems he might have been lost in a fantasy world that ultimately convinced himself into believing the digital self could obey different rules and regulations, as if he could continually push the limits of what’s acceptable without facing the consequences of “real life.”
12．What can we know about new communication tools
A．Destroying our life totally. B．Posing more dangers than good.
C．Helping us to hide our faults. D．Replacing traditional letters.
13．What is the potential threat caused by the novel communication tools
A．Sheltering us from virtual life. B．Removing face-to-face interaction.
C．Leading to false mental perception. D．Making us rely more on hi-tech media.
14．What can be inferred from the last two paragraphs
A．Technologies have changed our relationships.
B．The digital world is a recipe for pushing limits.
C．Love can be better conveyed by text message.
D．The digital self need not take responsibility.
15．Which of the following is a suitable title for the text
A．Addiction to the Virtual World B．Cost of Falling into Digital Life
C．Interpersonal Skills on the Net D．The Future of Social Media
【答案】12．C 13．C 14．A 15．B
【解析】本文是议论文。文章主要介绍了陷入数字生活的代价。
12．推理判断题。根据第二段“To use a theatrical metaphor(隐喻), these new forms of communication provide a stage on which we can each create our own characters, hidden behind a fourth wall of tweets, status updates and texts. This unreal state of unconcern can become addictive as we separate ourselves a safe distance from the cruelty of our fleshly lives, where we are imperfect, powerless and insignificant. In essence, we have been provided not only the means to be more free, but also to become new, to create and project a more perfect self to the world. (用戏剧化的比喻来说，这些新的交流形式提供了一个舞台，我们每个人都可以在这个舞台上创造自己的角色，隐藏在推特、状态更新和文本的第四堵墙后面。当我们与残酷的肉体生活保持安全距离时，这种不真实的漠不关心状态会让人上瘾，在肉体生活中，我们是不完美、无能为力和微不足道的。从本质上讲，我们不仅获得了更自由的手段，而且获得了变新的手段，创造并向世界投射出更完美的自我。)”可知，新的交流工具让人们隐藏自己的不完美。故选C。
13．推理判断题。根据第二段“By removing any real human engagement, they enable us to develop our abnormal self-love without the risk of disapproval or criticism. (通过消除任何真实的人际交往，它们使我们能够发展我们不正常的自爱，而不会有不赞成或批评的风险。)”可知，新的交流工具让人们产生了错误的心理感知。故选C。
14．推理判断题。根据第三段“So it is that we live in a cold era, where names and faces represent two different levels of closeness, where working relationships occur only through the magic of email and where love can start or end by text message. An environment such as this reduces interpersonal relationships to mere digital exchanges. (此，我们生活在一个冷漠的时代，名字和面孔代表着两种不同程度的亲密，工作关系只能通过电子邮件的魔力来建立，爱情可以通过短信开始或结束。在这样的环境下，人与人之间的关系就变成了单纯的数字交流。)”可知，科技改变了我们人与人之间的社会关系。故选A。
15．主旨大意题。根据第一段“Nowadays, the world is slowly becoming a high-tech society and we are now surrounded by technology. Facebook and Twitter are innovative tools; text messaging is still a somewhat existing phenomenon and even e-mail is only a flashing spot on the screen when compared with our long history of snail mail. Now we adopt these tools to the point of essentialness, and only rarely consider how we are more fundamentally affected by them. (如今，世界正在慢慢成为一个高科技社会，我们现在被科技所包围。Facebook和Twitter是创新工具；短信仍然是一种存在的现象，与我们悠久的蜗牛邮件历史相比，即使是电子邮件也只是屏幕上的一个亮点。现在，我们采用这些工具到了本质的地步，很少考虑我们如何从根本上受到它们的影响。)”根据第二段“By removing any real human engagement, they enable us to develop our abnormal self-love without the risk of disapproval or criticism. (通过消除任何真实的人际交往，它们使
我们能够发展我们不正常的自爱，而不会有不赞成或批评的风险。)和第三段“So it is that we live in a cold era, where names and faces represent two different levels of closeness, where working relationships occur only through the magic of email and where love can start or end by text message. An environment such as this reduces interpersonal relationships to mere digital exchanges. (此，我们生活在一个冷漠的时代，名字和面孔代表着两种不同程度的亲密，工作关系只能通过电子邮件的魔力来建立，爱情可以通过短信开始或结束。在这样的环境下，人与人之间的关系就变成了单纯的数字交流。)”可知，这篇文章主要介绍陷入数字生活的代价。故选B。
阅读理解（2024届浙江省嘉兴市高三下学期4月二模）
A One-woman Cinderella Show Is Coming to Fairfield
A one-woman show that reimagines the classic fairytale Cinderella is coming to the Fairfield Community Arts Center. The Children’s Theatre of Cincinnati will present Cinderella Wore Cowboy Boots for one night only on Jan.26. The traveling show is for children ages 4 and up and promises “knee-slapping” comedic moments and heartwarming life lessons.
“I love children's theatre,” says Rosvic Siason, who plays Cinderella. “Kids are our future and we introduce them to these stories. We all have situations at one point in our life that look like this conversation. It just kind of helps you develop your brain and learn how to think as a developing person. It’s really important to expose kids to theatre and well-rounded actors they can talk to for guidance.”
These one-man, one-woman shows have so much beauty because it is very raw. People actually follow along much easier than you think. It’s easy to share a feeling. They will be expected to interact, deliver lines and repeat after Cinderella throughout the production. Cinderella Wore Cowboy Boots will deliver a funny, meaningful twist on the classic fairytale that encourages audiences to expand their imagination.
“Using imagination helps kids to think of things in more ways than one,” Siason says. “It opens them up and makes them think, ‘Hey, this is one way this could work.’ Or, ‘I could try this way,’ and then see what happens.”
Visit fairfield-city. org for tickets and more information.
1．What is Cinderella Wore Cowboy Boots
A．A book. B．A theatre. C．A per2024届浙江高考英语（阅读理解）模拟试题分项汇编
Summer may well be the favourite season of classical music lovers, with numerous festivals spanning all genres and composers taking place worldwide. And what’s better than enjoying a live performance of your favourite piece Enjoying it in the great outdoors, of course!
Verbier Festival, Switzerland
Nestled in the breathtaking Swiss Alps at 1500 metres altitude is a picturesque little village called Verbier. Its magical two-week celebration festival has become known for attracting the biggest soloists in the world, and this year, marking its 30th anniversary, is no exception with its all-star cast: Chinese pianist Yuja Wang, the young superstar cellist Sheku-Kanneh Mason and many others.
July 14 — July 30,
Granada International Festival, Spain
Since 1952, the International Festival of Music and Dance of Granada has taken up residence in Alhambra Palace and its gardens during the months of June and July, to showcase classical music, opera ballet, Spanish dance and flamenco. The outdoor Generalife Theatre presents the visual spectaculars of the Spanish National Ballet, Hamburg Ballet and Spain’s National Dance Company. Legendary singer-songwriter Bob Dylan will also draw crowds to the breathtaking Generalife.
June 21 — July 19, grandafestival.org
Edinburgh International Festival, Scotland
With the Edinburgh International Festival around every corner, there’s a wonderful atmosphere on the historic streets of Edinburgh in August. Historic squares become circles as people gather to watch miraculous performers. This year, it welcomes violinist Nicola Benedetti as festival director with a fresh programme that invites international guests including the Alvin Ailey from American Dance Theatre, and South Korea’s KBS Symphony Orchestra in their first ever UK performance.
August 4 — August 27, eif.co.uk
Grand Tet on Music Festival, USA
Located at the base of the Tet on mountain range in Wyoming and within easy reach of Yellowstone National Park, the Grand Teton Music Festival offers unrivalled access to the natural world as well as eight weeks of music. The programme will open with a cycle of Beethoven piano concertos with local pianist Garrick Ohlsson and close with concert performances of Puccini’s La bohème.
July 3 — August 27, gtmf.org
21．Which festival is suitable for ballet enthusiasts
A．Verbier Festival. B．Grand Teton Music Festival.
C．Granada International Festival. D．Edinburgh International Festival.
22．What do these four festivals have in common
A．They are all held in mountains.
B．They are all over three weeks long.
C．They all offer outdoor venues to enjoy music.
D．They all invite famous musicians from home and abroad.
23．Where is the text most probably taken from
A．A music magazine. B．A travel brochure.
C．A commercial advertisement. D．An art guidebook.
My wife always wanted a Vizsla, so when we got the house, the garden and everything sorted, we did some research and found a lovely breeder (饲养员) based in Scotland. He was in charge of everything, so a few months go by and the next thing I know, we’ve got a puppy!
I’ve grown up with animals all my life, and I’m so glad I have. I love the fact that I was never afraid of any animals. Although you do obviously have to be careful when introducing children to a dog they don’t know, because you don’t know how it’s going to behave, it always saddens me when I see children scared when they walk past Pedro. I think it’s great for kids to learn how to look after an animal.
And obviously for us, as a family, it’s brilliant because we take Pedro for so many walks. It’s a bit of a family bonding experience getting out in the fresh air; taking Pedro for a walk multiple times a day is just really lovely. Meanwhile, the most rewarding, I think, is just seeing how amazing he is with the kids. He is so calm, so protective, so loving, and we are his world.
I think the most challenging aspects with Pedro were when he was a puppy (小狗). He was pretty hard work. He was never aggressive, but he was quite bitey as puppies are, constantly pulling out your clothes and putting holes in them, which is very annoying. He chewed the furniture-my sofas are barely standing up; their wooden legs are almost in pieces. Obviously, the dog training in the house was quite stressful and his jumping at strangers in the park and running off was always quite scary.
As a new puppy owner, you’re overloaded with advice from social media, magazines, other dog owners and friends, so finding a source of information you trust is so important and can be a real turning point. I know what it’s like to be bombarded with conflicting information, so I would have really welcomed Royal Canin’s “One in a Billion” platform as a new puppy owner. It’s a one-stop shop for new dog owners: a single source of credible information that is so helpful in navigating the early stages of your puppy’s life.
24．What do we know about the author
A．He is inexperienced in raising pets.
B．He is unsupportive of his wife’s desire.
C．He feels it a pity that children shy away from pets.
D．He thinks one should be cautious about raising pets.
25．How does the author think of Pedro
A．Dangerous but loyal. B．Playful and gentle.
C．Adorable but troublesome. D．Annoying and fierce.
26．What can we infer according to paragraph 4
A．Dogs are man’s best friends.
B．It is worthless to have a dog.
C．Puppies are unfriendly to humans.
D．It is challenging to train a puppy.
27．What is the purpose of the last paragraph
A．To recommend a reliable platform.
B．To share a fun experience.
C．To offer evidence for an argument.
D．To advertise a practical product.
If you’ve scrolled through your Facebook feed recently, you may have noticed something surprising: lots and lots of short videos.
What makes this “Reels” feature strange is that it is hugely addictive, which I know quite well from my own personal experience. Last Friday, I took a break and hit on one short clip of someone making dinner and, well, the next time I looked up it was 20 minutes later and the blank document on my computer monitor was confirming to me that my work was still not done.
However, as silly as it seems, Reels-is actually super important, and is at the centre of a major battle between the world’s largest tech firms. The format (格式) was first pioneered by TikTok-the Chinese-owned video app that has taken the world by storm since it launched in 2016. Today, TikTok has around 23 million UK users every month-including basically every person you know under the age of 25. And that fact has made Facebook and its parent company, Meta, very nervous indeed. As TikTok has continued to boom, Facebook has actually fallen in popularity among “Gen Z”. The reason Tik Tok has proven such a powerful challenger to Facebook’s social media dominance is almost entirely down to these sorts of short-form videos.
The format is almost perfectly optimised to be as addictive as possible: Tik Tok’s app shows you a short-form video, and if you don’t like it, you can simply swipe it away and another one will start playing instantly. And because it is portrait, not landscape, videos look “right” when viewed on your phone. What’s also smart is that TikTok’s algorithm (算法) picks videos for you based on what you actually watch, and not what you say you want.
Facebook isn’t the only app trying to do what TikTok does so well. Instagram, which is owned by Facebook’s parent company Meta, has integrated Reels even more aggressively into its app. And even Google is nervous, launching its own TikTok-style video section of YouTube(which it owns)a couple of years ago. As things stand, though TikTok currently maintains a healthy lead in the category, both YouTube and Facebook have deep pockets-so expect to see even more Reels and Shorts popping up in your feed as this intense battle continues to rage. You won’t be able to take your eyes off them.
28．Why did the author mention his own experience in paragraph 2
A．To illustrate the feature of short videos.
B．To stress the importance of short videos.
C．To prove his preference to short videos.
D．To introduce the functions of short videos.
29．What do we know about TikTok according to the passage
A．It has shown the trend of the fall in popularity among “Gen Z”.
B．It is perceived as a potential threat to Facebook’s social media dominance.
C．Its number of registered UK users has reached 23 million since it launched in 2016.
D．It underestimates the essential role of short videos in competition with large tech firms.
30．What makes the short videos on TikTok App so popular
A．The beautiful visual effects.
B．The high video quality.
C．The random recommendation.
D．The quick switch between videos.
31．What is the message conveyed in the last paragraph
A．The short videos have a profound impact on our daily life.
B．TikTok seems to be losing its advantage over short videos in the short run.
C．YouTube and Facebook may encounter financial difficulties in developing Shorts.
D．A growing number of tech firms have engaged in fierce competition for the short video market.
If your partner gets down on one knee to propose, or you get a call with the job offer, your reaction might be to shout it from the rooftops. But new research suggests that keeping good news a secret before telling someone else could make people feel more energized.
“Decades of research on secrecy suggest it is bad for our well-being. However, this work has only examined keeping secrets that have negative effects for our lives. Is secrecy inherently bad for our well-being or do the negative effects of secrecy tend to originate from keeping negative secrets ” asked lead researcher of the latest research Michael Slepian, PhD, a professor of business at Columbia University.
In the experiment, some participants were asked to reflect on the good news they kept secret, while others reflected on good news that was not secret, and then rated how energized the news made them feel and whether they intended to share the news with someone else. The researchers found that the participants who reflected on their positive secrets reported feeling more energized than the participants who thought about their good news that was not secret.
The research nuances our understanding of the science of secrets. Negative secrets tend to deplete us and have also been linked to anxiety and depression. Positive secrets, however, seem to have an energizing effect and make people alive. One factor could be that people often have different motivations for keeping good news to themselves. Those with positive secrets were much more likely to keep quiet for internal reasons, not because they felt any outside pressures.
“People sometimes go to great lengths to plan revealing a positive secret to make it all the more exciting. This kind of surprise can be intensely enjoyable, but surprise is the most fleeting of our emotions, ” Slepian said. “Having extra time days, weeks or even longer-to imagine the joyful surprise on another person’s face allows us more time with this exciting moment, even if only in our own minds.”
32．What did Michael Slepian think of the previous research on secrecy
A．One-sided. B．Pointless. C．Convincing. D．Pioneering.
33．In the experiment, some participants were more energized because ______.
A．they were optimistic and cheerful.
B．they were free from secrets.
C．they had undisclosed positive secrets.
D．they had shared good news with others.
34．What does the underlined word “deplete” in paragraph 4 mean
A．Spoil. B．Exhaust. C．Confuse. D．Panic.
35．According to the last paragraph, what did Slepian suggest readers do
A．Never reveal a secret casually.
B．Let your imagination run wild.
C．Be creative when surprising others.
D．Delay sharing a positive secret.
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Explore the science behind these amazing landscapes
Retracing Charles Darwin’s travels across North Wales
13 May 2024|6 days
Uncover the best of Wales as you explore the dramatic Welsh landscapes of Eryri (Snowdonia) National Park and examine the region geology and how it has been transformed by volcanic and glacial activity over the years.Discover the story of Charles Darwin’s 1831 and 1842 tours of Wales,and retrace his travels on this small group journey to Shrewsbury and Snowdonia.
The Rockies and the Badlands:Geology and dinosaurs in Canada
17 June 2024|7 days
Explore the majestic Rocky Mountains west of Calgary and the otherworldly Badlands to the cast,witness the stunning scenery and geology of southerm Alberta.This tour includes two visits to UNESCO World Heritage sites,where you will see first-hand the rugged peaks and glacial features of the Banff portion of Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks and the bone-riddled badlands of Dinosaur Provincial Park.
Short break:Dinosaurs and Hoodoos:Alberta
23 July 2024|3 days
Visit one of the world’s premier dinosaur museums,sail all the way around a World Heritage site with outstanding dinosaur fossils and explore the multi-hued canyons and wind-sculpted hoodoos (石林)of the Alberta Badlands.Throughout this tour you will be accompanied by palaeontologist (古生物学家)Jon Noad,who will share the stories of the rocks,including tales about past oceans,swamps,rivers and deserts,the rise and fall of the dinosaurs and,more recently,ice sheets that covered Alberta and carved out spectacular landscapes.
21．Which of the following might appeal to dinosaur enthusiast most
A．The Eryri National Park. B．The Welsh Glaciers.
C．The Rocky Mountains. D．The Alberta Badlands.
22．What do all the three tours involve
A．Scientific facts. B．Tales about the past.
C．Special companions. D．Visits to World Heritage sites.
23．Where is the passage probably taken from
A．A research paper. B．A science fiction.
C．A tourism report. D．A travel brochure.
US Army veteran (退伍老兵) Mazyck remembers when doctors told her she would never walk again. She’d been
paralyzed from the waist down after a serious accident while parachuting in 2003.The doctors never said anything about floating, though. In 2021,she got to do just that.
Mazyck was one of 12 participants in a Zero G flight, organized by the group AstroAccess. This type of flight recreates the weightlessness that astronauts experience without going all the way to space. Flying over the Pacific Ocean off Southern California, the modified 747 jet airplane made 15 steep dives and climbs, allowing the flyers multiple periods of weightlessness.
The experience left Mazyck feeling joyful. “The flight was something that I would have never in my wildest dreams thought I would’ve experienced,” she says, “especially the floating, the weightlessness.”
Traditionally, strict physical requirements have prevented disabled people from becoming astronauts. AstroAccess is working to make space accessible to all. “Space removes the barriers between people; now is the time to remove the barriers to space itself,” says Mazyck, “It is sending a message to people who have historically been excluded from STEM that not only is there room for you in space, there is a need for you.”
During the flight, she says, the participants did experiments and made observations. They took note of things that people without certain disabilities might not realize are issues. For example, people who couldn’t grip with their legs needed another way to hold themselves still while weightless. The group also experimented with signaling lights for the deaf and with ways of using braille (盲文) for the blind.
These types of issues are easy enough to address. Now is the time to make space accessible — before space tourism or space settlements become commonplace. “I am so proud and elated about what’s happening here,” Mazyck adds. “We are paving the way for the future.”
24．What do we know about AstroAccess
A．It redesigns jet airplanes. B．It offers weightlessness experience.
C．It provides physical treatment. D．It trains the disabled to be astronauts.
25．What is required in the flights for the participants
A．Astronaut experience. B．Steep dives and climbs.
C．Weightlessness periods. D．Trials and observations.
26．Which of the following words can best describe Mazyck
A．Generous and determined. B．Caring and persistent.
C．Courageous and optimistic. D．Ambitious and innovative.
27．Which of the following can be the best title of the passage
A．Paving the Way for the Future B．Disabled Americans Make It to Space
C．Making Space a Place for Everyone D．US Veterans Experience Zero G Flight
Three years ago, Juan Carlos Sesma had a realization. Global warming and climate change seemed to be a mounting problem, with scientific records indicating rising temperatures and sea levels across the world. At the same time forest fires, logging, and aggressive human expansion meant the supply of trees which helped to regulate and remove greenhouse gases from our atmosphere was dwindling .
He decided the best way to tackle a problem this large was to combine two of the most powerful forces emerging in technology: big data and robotics. Sesma founded a new company called CO2 Revolution, whose plan was to use drones(无
人机) to better understand where new trees should be planted and to automate the process of planting so that much larger areas of forest could be repopulated. The company designed a special smart seed that helped to deliver just the right amount of protection and nutrition to the young saplings. The overall goal was to considerably lower the time and cost of large-scale re-forestation.
CO2 Revolution isn’t alone. In the UK, a startup called Biocarbon Engineering ran a trial earlier this year where it used drones to help replant Mangrove trees in Myanmar. It has also deployed(部署) its technology in Australia, South Africa, and Morocco. “In a lot of places, people will either have a map taken by aeroplane, or just use Google Earth satellite imagery.
They’ll draw things out freehand and manually plant, either by hand or tractor,” said CEO Susan Graham in a recent interview.
The challenge for all these startups is to find ways to create a profitable, or at least sustainable, business model. For Sesma and the team at CO2 Revolution, recent regulatory action has highlighted one potential pathway. “We offer a solution that allows clients to carry out massive plantings, increasing forest mass and thus compensating for their carbon footprint.” Amid growing calls for carbon sequestration, this kind of effort might prove not just noble, but financially sensible for large corporations.
28．What drove Sesma to set up CO2 Revolution
A．Big data and robotics. B．Forest fires and human expansion.
C．Global Warming and climate change. D．Powerful forces emerging in technology.
29．What does the underlined word “dwindling” probably mean in paragraph 1
A．Declining. B．Changing. C．Recovering. D．Expanding.
30．What can we infer from the passage
A．Drones are populated in larger areas of forests.
B．CO2 Revolution calls for a profitable drone model.
C．Biocarbon Engineering sets up worldwide technology centers.
D．Smart seeds are designed to improve the accuracy of planting.
31．What does the author think of startups like CO2 Revolution
A．Conventional. B．Valueless. C．Beneficial. D．Impractical.
Babies as young as 4 months old who are born into a bilingual (双语的) environment show distinct and potentially advantageous brain patterns for speech processing. Our early-life experiences can have lifelong effects on our behavior. The brain is most sensitive to its environment during the first year of life, which is thought to be a critical period for language development.
Previous studies have looked into the brain mechanisms that underlie (构成……的基础) speech processing in babies who hear just one language. To better understand this in bilingual-exposed infants, Borja Blanco at the University of Cambridge and his colleagues compared how 31 babies who only heard Spanish and 26 babies who heard Spanish and Basque, all aged 4 months, responded to Spanish recordings of The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery.
The team used an imaging technique called functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) to measure changes in brain activities. In the Spanish-only babies, the recordings caused activation in areas which play a role in speech processing. In the bilingual-exposed babies, the recordings similarly evoked these responses, but they were larger and wider. These infants
also had activation in equivalent areas of their brains’ right hemispheres ( 脑半球 ). When the recordings were then played backwards as a control arm of the experiment, the infants exposed to just Spanish had larger responses to the backwards speech, while those to Spanish and Basque had similar brain patterns as before. This may be because the bilingual infants take longer to register their primary language, in this case Spanish, as hearing both this and Basque reduces their overall exposure to either language.
If this is the case, it could help them be sensitive to linguistic differences and enable them to learn to distinguish between languages at a younger age. The researchers note that a bilingual environment stimulates changes in the brain mechanisms underlying speech processing in young infants, adding weight to the idea that the neural basis of learning two or more languages is established very early in life.
32．Why was the study conducted
A．To reveal the impact of bilingual exposure. B．To confirm the pattern of brain mechanism.
C．To conclude the factors for speech processing D．To explore the potentials for language development.
33．What is paragraph 3 mainly about
A．Theory basis. B．Study methods.
C．Research findings D．Technical assistance,
34．What can we learn from the research
A．Bilingual-exposed babies are more sensitive.
B．Bilingual-exposed babies are more linguistically critical.
C．Bilingual-exposure reduces babies’ linguistic competence.
D．Bilingual-exposure reduces babies’ overall language exposure.
35．Which of the following statements might the researchers agree with
A．Immigrants speak better languages.
B．Mixed race families own more linguistic potential.
C．Exchange students show greater learning capability.
D．Overseas workers have higher language proficiency.
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Bruce Museum
Consistently voted the “Best Museum” by area media, the Bruce Museum in Greenwich is an educational institution which, through its varied exhibitions and collections in the arts and sciences, provides programs for diverse audiences.
Bruce Beginnings
Tuesdays, 11:00 to 11:45 am
Bruce Beginnings programs are designed for children from 2.5-5 years of age and their adult caregivers, who will explore the museum’s collections and exhibitions through picture books and hands-on activities. Space for these programs is limited; participants must see the Visitor Service desk upon arrival to the museum.
Science Solvers or Art Adventure
Select Sundays, 1:00 to 3:00 pm
Drop-in monthly programs are designed for children over the age of 4 and their families to explore simple science
and art concepts while taking part in kid-friendly experiments, projects, or crafts inspired by the museum’s exhibitions and collections.
Family Studio Workshops
Select Sundays, 1:00 to 2:30 pm
A program for children over the age of 4 with their families. Participants will create a work of art inspired by the museum’s collections and exhibitions! This program is $7 per person for members and $15 for non-members, plus the cost of Museum admission.
Afternoons at the Bruce
Select school vacation days, 2:00 to 4:30 pm
Spend the afternoon off from school discovering, learning and creating! Workshops are designed for gradesK-5 and explore the museum’s collections and exhibitions. Members $15, and $25 for non-members. Snacks included! Advanced registration is required at brucemuseum.org/site/events.
1．What is special about the programs lasting less than an hour
A．Providing hands-on activities. B．Taking place at weekends.
C．Limiting the number of participants. D．Targeting kids of different age groups.
2．What do the second and the third programs have in common
A．They cost nothing. B．They include art appreciation.
C．They are designed for kids only. D．They are hosted on school holidays.
3．Which of the following requires early registration
A．Bruce Beginnings. B．Afternoons at the Bruce.
C．Family Studio Workshops. D．Science Solvers or Art Adventure.
In 1975, a San Diego homemaker named Marjorie Rice came across a column in Scientific American about tiling (瓷砖). There is a problem which has interested mathematicians since ancient Greek times. After Rice’s chance encounter with tiling, family members often saw her in the kitchen constantly drawing shapes. “I thought she was just drawing casually (随意),” her daughter Kathy said. But Rice who took only one year of math in high school, was actually discovering never-before-seen patterns.
Born in Florida, she loved learning and particularly her brief exposure to math, but tight budget and social culture prevented her family from even considering that she might attend college. “For Rice, math was a pleasure,” her son David once said.
Rice gave one of her sons a subscription to Scientific American partly because she could read it carefully while the children were at school. When she read Gardner’s column about tiling as she later recalled in an interview: “I thought it must be wonderful that someone could discover these beautiful patterns which no one had seen before.” She also wrote in an essay, “My interest was engaged by the subject and I wanted to understand every detail of it. Lacking a mathematical background, I developed my own symbol system and in a few months discovered a new type.”
Astonished and delighted, she sent her work to Gardner, who sent it to Doris, a tiling expert at Moravian College. Doris confirmed that Rice’s finding was correct.
Later, Rice declined to lecture on her discoveries, citing shyness, but at Doris’s invitation, she attended a university
mathematics meeting, where she was introduced to the audience. Rice still said nothing of her achievements to her children, but they eventually found out as the awards mounted.
4．Why did Rice often draw shapes in the kitchen
A．To become a mathematician. B．To explore the secret of tiling.
C．To fill her leisure time. D．To show her passion for drawing.
5．What can we learn about Rice from Paragraphs 2 and 3
A．She longed to start a column. B．She was rejected from a college.
C．She was good at designing patterns. D．She succeeded in developing a system.
6．What is the text mainly about
A．The magic of math. B．The efforts of Rice.
C．The humility of Rice. D．The patterns of tiling.
7．What can we learn from the Rice’s experience
A．Nothing is impossible to a willing mind. B．Actions speak louder than words.
C．Every cloud has a silver lining. D．Practice makes perfect.
Researchers have long known that the brain links kinds of new facts, related or not, when they are learned about the same time. For the first time, scientists have recorded routes in the brain of that kind of contextual memory, the frequent change of thoughts and emotions that surrounds every piece of newly learned information.
The recordings, taken from the brains of people awaiting surgery for epilepsy (癫痫), suggest that new memories of even abstract facts are encoded (编码) in a brain-cell order that also contains information about what else was happening during and just before the memory was formed.
In the new study, doctors from the University of Pennsylvania and Vanderbilt University took recordings from a small piece of metal implanted in the brains of 69 people with severe epilepsy. The implants allow doctors to pinpoint the location of the flash floods of brain activity that cause epileptic happening. The patients performed a simple memory task. They watched a series of nouns appear on a computer screen, and after a brief disturbance recalled as many of the words as they could, in any order. Repeated trials, with different lists of words, showed a predictable effect: The participants tended to remember the words in groups, beginning with one and recalling those that were just before or after.
This pattern, which scientists call the contiguity effect, is similar to what often happens in the card game concentration, in which players try to identify pairs in a row of cards lying face-down. Pairs overturned close are often remembered together. The way the process works, the researchers say, is something like reconstructing a night’s activities after a hangover: remembering a fact (a broken table) recalls a scene (dancing), which in turn brings to mind more facts, like the other people who were there.
Sure enough, the people in the study whose neural (神经) updating signals were strongest showed the most striking pattern of remembering words in groups. “When you activate one memory, you are reactivating a little bit of what was happening around the time the memory was formed, and this process is what gives you that feeling of time travel,” said Dr Michael J. Kahana.
8．What does “contextual memory” refer to according to the text
A．Memories about the past facts.
B．Unrelated facts linked together.
C．Ideas and feelings around new facts.
D．New facts encoded into brain alone.
9．What is the purpose of studying patients with epilepsy
A．To track the brain activity of contextual memory.
B．To find the brain activity causing epilepsy.
C．To show the formation of memory.
D．To test the new cure for epilepsy.
10．What do the underlined words “contiguity” mean in paragraph 4
A．Implication. B．Similarity. C．Contrast. D．Neighborhood.
11．What is paragraph 5 mainly about
A．The feature of the research method. B．The category of the research subjects.
C．A brief summary of the research process. D．A further explanation of the research results.
Nowadays, the world is slowly becoming a high-tech society and we are now surrounded by technology. Facebook and Twitter are innovative tools; text messaging is still a somewhat existing phenomenon and even e-mail is only a flashing spot on the screen when compared with our long history of snail mail. Now we adopt these tools to the point of essentialness, and only rarely consider how we are more fundamentally affected by them.
Social media, texting and e-mail all make it much easier to communicate, gather and pass information, but they also present some dangers. By removing any real human engagement, they enable us to develop our abnormal self-love without the risk of disapproval or criticism. To use a theatrical metaphor (隐喻), these new forms of communication provide a stage on which we can each create our own characters, hidden behind a fourth wall of tweets, status updates and texts. This unreal state of unconcern can become addictive as we separate ourselves a safe distance from the cruelty of our fleshly lives, where we are imperfect, powerless and insignificant. In essence, we have been provided not only the means to be more free, but also to become new, to create and project a more perfect self to the world. As we become more reliant on these tools, they become more a part of our daily routine, and so we become more restricted in this fantasy.
So it is that we live in a cold era, where names and faces represent two different levels of closeness, where working relationships occur only through the magic of email and where love can start or end by text message. An environment such as this reduces interpersonal relationships to mere digital exchanges.
Would a celebrity have been so daring to do something dishonorable if he had had to do it in person Doubtful. It seems he might have been lost in a fantasy world that ultimately convinced himself into believing the digital self could obey different rules and regulations, as if he could continually push the limits of what’s acceptable without facing the consequences of “real life.”
12．What can we know about new communication tools
A．Destroying our life totally. B．Posing more dangers than good.
C．Helping us to hide our faults. D．Replacing traditional letters.
13．What is the potential threat caused by the novel communication tools
A．Sheltering us from virtual life. B．Removing face-to-face interaction.
C．Leading to false mental perception. D．Making us rely more on hi-tech media.
14．What can be inferred from the last two paragraphs
A．Technologies have changed our relationships.
B．The digital world is a recipe for pushing limits.
C．Love can be better conveyed by text message.
D．The digital self need not take responsibility.
15．Which of the following is a suitable title for the text
A．Addiction to the Virtual World B．Cost of Falling into Digital Life
C．Interpersonal Skills on the Net D．The Future of Social Media
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A One-woman Cinderella Show Is Coming to Fairfield
A one-woman show that reimagines the classic fairytale Cinderella is coming to the Fairfield Community Arts Center. The Children’s Theatre of Cincinnati will present Cinderella Wore Cowboy Boots for one night only on Jan.26. The traveling show is for children ages 4 and up and promises “knee-slapping” comedic moments and heartwarming life lessons.
“I love children's theatre,” says Rosvic Siason, who plays Cinderella. “Kids are our future and we introduce them to these stories. We all have situations at one point in our life that look like this conversation. It just kind of helps you develop your brain and learn how to think as a developing person. It’s really important to expose kids to theatre and well-rounded actors they can talk to for guidance.”
These one-man, one-woman shows have so much beauty because it is very raw. People actually follow along much easier than you think. It’s easy to share a feeling. They will be expected to interact, deliver lines and repeat after Cinderella throughout the production. Cinderella Wore Cowboy Boots will deliver a funny, meaningful twist on the classic fairytale that encourages audiences to expand their imagination.
“Using imagination helps kids to think of things in more ways than one,” Siason says. “It opens them up and makes them think, ‘Hey, this is one way this could work.’ Or, ‘I could try this way,’ and then see what happens.”
Visit fairfield-city. org for tickets and more information.
1．What is Cinderella Wore Cowboy Boots
A．A book. B．A theatre. C．A performance. D．A lesson.
2．Siason thinks stories in children’s theatre can _________.
A．offer temporary amusement B．help deal with life’s challenges
C．allow individuals to avoid reality D．provide opportunities to make friends
3．What might Siason encourage children to do
A．Stick to the rules. B．Dare to dream big.
C．Always follow the crowd. D．Think outside the box.
I have always been proud of my handwriting, a skill I was taught in grade school. The teacher was teaching us the Palmer Penmanship Method, drilling into us the importance of forming big flowing lines when we wrote g’s and s’s as well as beautiful f’s that in my mind were like fairy tale princesses wearing fancy hats while extending their right foot. We were strictly prohibited from using block letters on our homework, as they lack the beauty.
Now it becomes apparent that young people no longer learn cursive(草书). They type everything, mostly on their phones. Beautiful handwriting is a thing of the past. This has become a source of great sadness among traditionalists.
But recently something happened that shook my faith in cursive. To my complete disbelief, not one but two of my close friends complained about the handwriting on my postcards. They were grateful for the beautiful postcards I regularly sent, but they said they honestly couldn't read a thing I had written. One friend went so far as to ask if I could use block letters next time so that she could understand what I was writing.
Initially, I was angry. I had made the effort to cover an entire postcard with what I viewed as not just handwriting but calligraphy. But then I showed an English friend a postcard I'd just written, and he said that the only thing that was readily understandable was the letters “U. S. A．” The rest of it, he politely suggested, looked like “chicken scrawl”.
Looking at the postcard dispassionately, I unwillingly admit that he has a point. All the m’s and n’s run together, and the l’s look like l’s. The a’s are indistinguishable from the q’s. So, from now on, I'm taking their advice and using block letters to communicate.
In fact, I just now sent an old friend a postcard. But this time, I simply wrote—in big block letters:
DEAR ALICE:
HI.
JOE.
I hope she gets the message.
4．What do we know about the Palmer Penmanship Method
A．It is characterized by big flowing lines. B．It is rarely appreciated by traditionalists.
C．It was not allowed in students'homework. D．It is viewed as a trend in handwriting styles.
5．What weakened the writer’s belief in cursive
A．The popularity of block letters in recent times.
B．The younger generation’s disinterest in cursive.
C．His friends’ failure to comprehend his postcards.
D．His English friend's suggestion on postcard design.
6．Why did the writer switch to block letters for communication
A．To deliver his message clearly. B．To improve his handwriting skills.
C．To win praise from his friends. D．To show his passion for calligraphy.
7．What is the text mainly about
A．The wide use of cursive. B．The sad decline of cursive.
C．The value of preserving cursive. D．The technique of writing in cursive.
Meat cultivated (培植) from cells—with no need to raise and kill animals—is now a reality. The process of cultivating meat uses the basic elements needed to build muscle and fat and enables the same biological process that happens inside an animal. Cultivated meat is identical to conventional meat at the cellular level. But can it be made cheaply enough to replace animal agriculture
More than 150 startups are pursuing an ambitious goal: meat that doesn’t require raising and killing animals and that is affordable and tastes and feels like the meat we eat now. They are part of a young industry aiming to use cell biology to
reduce the environmental impact of the world’s ever-increasing demand for meat and change global protein production the way electric cars are shaking up the auto industry.
“We are addicted to meat as a species. It’s part of our culture,” said Believer founder Yaakov Nahmias. But “we thought about quantity rather than the environment, rather than sustainability.”
Although there are dozens of companies making this meat, none have yet reached commercial-level production in terms of scale or cost. From cell line development to bio-processor design, there are a number of scientific challenges to meet before cultivated meat is widely available at the market. Government policy is another challenge. Only Singapore and the U. S. allow sales of cultivated meat.
And while many people who have tried it say they like it, others find the idea distasteful. A recent survey from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found that half of U. S. adults would be unlikely to try it. When they were asked why, about half said they didn’t think it would be safe. Even Nahmias’10-year-old son Oren said he would only eat traditional meat. “I feel bad” for the animals, he said, “but they are yummy!”
“Until this meat costs and tastes the same as traditional meat, it will remain a specialized product,” said Bruce Friedrich, president of the Good Food Institute.
8．Why does the writer ask a question in the first paragraph
A．To indicate an opinion. B．To present a worry.
C．To make an assumption. D．To start a discussion.
9．What does the cultivated meat industry aim to do
A．Study cell biology. B．Provide sustainable protein.
C．End world hunger. D．Help the traditional food industry.
10．What can we infer about cultivated meat
A．It is unripe for mass production. B．It is as popular as traditional meat.
C．It is safer than traditional meat. D．It is competitive in price and quantity.
11．What is Bruce Friedrich’s attitude to the future of cultivated meat
A．Enthusiastic. B．Dismissive. C．Unclear. D．Reserved.
It’s commonly acknowledged that our lives are ruled by algorithms (算法), but have we really collectively understood how they have transformed our culture and personality
In Filterworld: How algorithms flattened culture, Kyle Chayka argues convincingly that the rise of algorithm-driven feeds, used everywhere online from Instagram to Spotify, has led to a more uniform culture. Our tastes and desires increasingly don’t belong to us, but to algorithms that are designed to keep people engaged at all costs. If the collection of our tastes truly shapes our entire personality, then this loss is more psychologically damaging than it first appears. Aimlessly scrolling (滚屏) through Netflix or TikTok may seem harmless, but over days, months or years, we lose touch with what we like and enjoy.
Taste-making algorithms are inescapable. Chayka shows this by working through all corners of life: what we wear(TikTok), where we eat(Google Maps), music we listen to(Spotify), even who we date or marry(Tinder). This universe of algorithm-driven decisions has society-wide implications: “It extends to influence our physical spaces, our cities, and the routes we move through…flattening them in turn.” No one gets out of the Filterworld untouched.
If you’re lucky enough not to need any sort of algorithm-based system for your work, then you have the option to step back from algorithms for a while. But if your friend suggests a film recommended on X/Twitter or you feel the need to buy those shoes suddenly everyone has started wearing after social media advertisements, what are you to do It all feels fruitless.
This Filterworld may be inescapable, but there is hope. You can start by engaging more with the media you do choose to consume. This could mean reading up about a film you watched or paying artists you like directly. Even the thoughtful act of recommending an album (专辑) to a friend is more rewarding than a random TikTok feed. As Chayka says, resistance to algorithms “requires an act of willpower, a choice to move through the world in a different way.”
12．What is Kyle Chayka’s opinion on algorithms
A．They improve our tastes. B．They make our culture more alike.
C．They help to identify our personality. D．They contribute to psychological problems.
13．What does the underlined part in paragraph 3 refer to
A．The society with advanced technology. B．The world without social media platforms.
C．The network of algorithm-driven decisions. D．The community free from algorithmic influence.
14．Which of the following is a way to resist the impact of algorithms
A．Limiting the use of social media platforms. B．Making choices based on friends’ suggestions.
C．Getting more involved with the selected media. D．Disconnecting from social media advertisements.
15．What is the best title for the text
A．Algorithms: Cultural Takeover B．The Secret of Algorithms
C．Social Media: Cultural Messenger D．The Rise of Digital Platforms
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ABCmouse
ABCmouse is one of the most well-known learn to read apps for children. With its expert-made curriculum, the program offers endless hours of content for children aged 2 to 8. The interactive app offers thousands of activities to help develop this essential skill, with lessons that expose students to math, arts, and science at age-appropriate levels too. The cost after free trial is around $15 per month. Families who purchase a full year’s subscription can get about 70% off the price.
Homer
Homer provides a personalized learning path for children aged 2 to 8. Children will learn reading, math, creative thinking, and problem-solving skills in a fun and engaging way. Instead of a one-size-fits-most approach, Homer customizes learning plans and allows students to take the lead in deciding what they want to work on. The price point is in line with similar apps at about $5 per month after a free trial, or roughly $60 for a full year or $100 for lifetime access.
Hooked on Phonics
Hooked on Phonics is an exceptional tool for homeschoolers, with a wide range of lessons, games, and fun activities. It is one of the most popular brands for teaching kids to read, and its integrated system makes it an ideal option for homeschooling students. Children are introduced to each new concept through a series of fun activities, videos, and even songs. The system is a little bit pricier than other apps, at about $16 per month after a trial month for roughly $1.
FarFaria
FarFaria invites children to join in on a magic al adventure that includes island hopping and the choice between reading the story or having it narrated completely with fun, magical animation. While the free membership offers one story a day, paid subscribers unlock access to unlimited adventures at roughly $8 per month. Readers can either read the books themselves or take advantage of the “read to me” option to have stories read aloud by professional narrators.
21．For an annual subscription to ABCmouse, how much does a family need to pay
A．$54. B．$105. C．$126. D．$180.
22．Which app best suits children who are taught at home
A．ABCmouse. B．Homer.
C．Hooked on Phonics. D．FarFaria.
23．Which section of newspaper is this text probably taken from
A．Finance. B．Science. C．Culture. D．Education.
When Param Jaggi was five years old, he had a passion to take things apart to see what was inside. He started with toys and even broke a computer, which made his parents not too pleased. As he got older, he shifted from breaking things to building things, which greatly comforted his parents. In middle school. he started working on projects in his kitchen laboratory, and his first project was making biofuels.
Although Jaggi’s parents initially thought his experiments were just. a boyhood fancy, he remained determined to make a difference to the environment. Eventually, his parents came around and started supporting his dreams. Jaggi’s interest continued as he grew up, but he focused more on solving real problems, especially those related to the environment.
At 17, Jaggi went beyond his school projects and. co-founded Ecoviate, a company that uses technology to solve everyday energy and environmental problems. He planned to transform people’s idea that going green is expensive, by making available a series of affordable products that are easy to use. Through Ecoviate, he designed products that could contribute to a greener future. One of his notable inventions was the “CO2ube”, a device that could be attached to vehicle tailpipes to reduce carbon emissions, and it’s available to many people at low prices. He also created a smartwatch that changed body heat into energy, which can be used to power up the watch as well as mobile phones.
Young Jaggi, now a third-grade college student studying engineering and economics, has become a famous eco-innovator and his company is developing promisingly. However, Jaggi’s vision to save the environment goes beyond creating products. He plans to launch an online platform through Ecoviate, which will encourage young students interested in science and technology to get actively involved in innovation and invention. Students can submit a science project online, and talk about the help that they need to make the project a reality.
24．What can we learn about Jaggi
A．He was curious by nature. B．He dreamed to be an engineer.
C．He always annoyed his parents. D．He was addicted to playing toys.
25．Which of the following can best replace the underlined part “came around” in Paragraph 2
A．Won out. B．Changed their minds.
C．Walked around. D．Paid a visit.
26．What drove Jaggi to develop affordable and user-friendly products
A．His love for greener devices. B．His pursuit of academic career.
C．His desire to make a difference. D．His hope to boost green industry.
27．Why does Jaggie plan to launch an online platform
A．To promote smart products. B．To empower young inventors.
C．To provide eco-themed courses. D．To offer environmentalists funds.
People have come to understand the enormous impacts-beneficial as well as harmful- plastics have on human lives and the environment. As polymer (聚合物) scientists committed to inventing sustainable solutions for real-world problems, we set out to tackle the issue of plastic waste by rethinking the way polymers are designed so we could make plastics with recyclability built right in.
Everyday items including milk jug, grocery bags, and takeout containers are made from a class of polymers called polyolefins. These plastics are really durable (耐用的) because the chemical bonds in those polymers are extremely stable. In a world set up for disposable (一次性的) items, durability is no longer a design feature but rather a design drawback. Imagine if half the plastics used today were recyclable through twice as many processes as they are now. Also conventional recycling requires careful sorting of all the collected materials, which can be challenging with so many different plastics. For example, separating paper from metal doesn’t require complex technology, but sorting a container from a milk jug of a different polyolefin is difficult to do without the occasional mistake.
In a study published in Science in October 2023, we described a series of polymers with only two building blocks-one soft polymer and one hard polymer-that behave like polyolefins but could be chemically recycled. Connecting two different polymers multiple times until they form a single, long molecule (分子) creates what’s called a multiblock polymer. By changing how much of each polymer type goes into the multiblock polymer, our team produced a wide range of materials with properties that covered all polyolefin types.
Using the same strategy but by adding hydrogen, we could disconnect the polymers back into their building blocks and easily separate them to use again. When we made new polymers out of these recycled plastics, they performed just as well as the original materials even after several rounds of chemical recycling. So we were able to create materials with similar properties of the plastics the world relies on. We believe this work is a step toward more sustainable plastics.
28．What is paragraph 2 mainly about concerning plastics
A．Their multiple uses. B．Their chemical properties.
C．Their recycling challenges. D．Their classification criteria.
29．A key factor of producing diverse multiblock polymers is ______.
A．mixing building blocks with long molecules
B．integrating chemicals into the two polymers
C．combining two different multiblock polymers
D．adjusting the percentage of the two polymers
30．Which is a feature of multiblock polymers
A．They are made from sustainable materials.
B．They can be recycled by adding hydrogen.
C．Their reliability outperforms traditional plastics.
D．Their properties change with rounds of recycling.
31．Which of the following might be the best title
A．Designing for Recycling B．Classifying Plastic Waste
C．Replace Plastics with Polymers D．Technology Creates the Future
A lot of manufactured glass today made from sand and sodium carbonate (碳酸钠) can be reused or melted down and recycled into new items, but it doesn’t break down in the environment and will sit in landfills for thousands of years. A team of Chinese scientists aimed to deal with this environmental concern by developing an eco-conscious alternative.
In a study published recently in the journal Science Advances, a team at the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Process Engineering describe how they engineered biodegradable glass made from amino acids (氨基酸). That glass would have a smaller impact on the environment and can break down in a few weeks or in several months.
In a test, glass beads (珠) made out of amino acids were placed under the skin of mice, and the breakdown of the beads and the skin healing process were observed for 30 days. A diagram from the study shows how the mice’s bodies broke down the beads. In that month, the glass implant degraded beneath the skin, the wound site healed, and fur grew back. “Throughout the experimental period, no mice exhibited any pain-related behavior that may have been caused by the glass implantation, and none of them experienced obvious weight loss,” the researchers wrote in their paper.
Although amino acids do degrade over time in the environment, this biodegradable glass is not as durable as traditional glass, because amino acids can break down quickly in heat. In order to overcome this hurdle, the researchers chemically modified the amino acids using the heating-cooling procedure applied in glass manufacturing. This is when materials for the glass are heated to become soft and then rapidly cooled so as to make the glass tougher.
“It’s important to point out that this biodegradable glass is currently in the lab stage, and far from large-scale commercialization,” emphasized Yan Xuehai, a professor involved in the study, in a press release.
32．What is an advantage of the new glass
A．It can be recycled at a low cost. B．It is produced without pollution.
C．It takes less time to. break down. D．It has a wide range of applications.
33．Why did researchers implant glass beads inside mice
A．To assess whether the glass is biologically harmless.
B．To investigate why amino acids are medically useful.
C．To explore how long it takes for the glass to degrade.
D．To observe if the glass can be melt down in mice’s stomach.
34．What does the underlined word “hurdle” in paragraph 4 refer to
A．The instability of amino acids.
B．The difficulty of selecting materials for the glass.
C．Environmental problems caused by traditional glass.
D．The challenge of improving the heating-cooling procedure.
35．What is the attitude of Yan Xuehai towards the new glass’s launch on the market
A．Optimistic. B．Critical. C．Indifferent. D．Uncertain.
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Italy in the spring is like something out of a magical storybook. Whether you’re looking for a relaxing Italian holiday with the one you love or a feast of water fun, Italy in spring offers something for everyone.
LAKE GARDA
Situated in northern Italy, Lake Garda offers some of the most incredible scenery in Italy. Surrounded by amazing peaks and historic castles, your spring in Italy is sure to be packed with adventure. On the shores of Lake Garda, family-friendly fun and excitement await. The largest lake in Italy is full to the brim with exciting activities, in and out of the water.
WHERE TO STAY: HOTEL CAESIUS THERMAE or GARDA SPA RESORT Hotel Caesius Thermae or Garda Spa Resort is a four-star hotel on the southern shore of Lake Garda.
TUSCANY COAST
Holidays to the Tuscany Coast take you on a tranquil Italian getaway filled with golden sandy bays, romantic sunsets, and charming restaurants. If you’re after sunbathing bliss, the Tuscan Coastline offers kilometres of gentle sand for you to enjoy a day of exploring the crystal waters with water sports or simply wallowing in the waves.
WHERE TO STAY: GRAND HOTEL ROYAL Located on the coast of the Tyrrhenian Sea, Grand Hotel Royal offers four-star luxury on the beach.
TAORMINA
Step into one of Sicily’s most beautiful towns, rich in Greek Mythology. Perched on top of Monte Tauro on the foothills of the mammoth Mount Etna, Taormina is an ancient town that allows you to step back in time and discover the well-preserved history. The coastal setting is also the best place for a romantic sunset cruise or water sports adventure.
WHERE TO STAY: HOTEL VILLA BELVEDERE Situated on the east coast of Sicily in Taormina, Hotel Villa Belvedere welcomes guests in traditional Italian style.
21．Which hotel are you to stay for a visit to an ancient town
A．Grand Hotel Royal. B．Hotel Villa Belvedere.
C．Hotel Caesius Thermae. D．Garda Spa Resort.
22．What do the three destinations have in common
A．They all serve as water sports destinations. B．They all lie on tops of mountains.
C．They are all getaways for honeymoons. D．They all offer family activities.
23．The text can be _________.
A．a travel journal B．an encyclopedia
C．a tour brochure D．a self-driving guide
The following is part of an interview between Professor Bernard Feringa (a Nobel Price winner) and a CNN reporter.
Q: You often say that universities should be playgrounds. How can we make sure that this is a case
A: I’m a strong believer in challenging students at all levels — to think, to discover and to go beyond the current knowledge. The universities have a special role here, because academic training and science should go beyond the current horizon. I think that we shouldn’t forget that we shouldn’t train our students for today or tomorrow; we should train them for 10 to 20 years from now. Because then they will be the innovators in our society, and they will be the persons that make
a difference. Train our students for future means that they have to be able to surpass the border of our current knowledge. This is what I mean with playground. I mean that you have sufficient space to think, to discover and to be free to make mistakes, but in particular to make the next steps, be creative and not limited by what should be done. A lot of things happen by accident and suddenly you get a major breakthrough or new insight. Schools should encourage students to ask questions and be creative.
Q: What is it that you like so much about teaching
A: I really enjoy the transfer of the beauty of knowledge: insights, questions, things that we don’t know, or the limitations of what we know. I never get tired of my job. I think that you share with your students the opportunity to transfer some knowledge, but also get a lot of things back by asking questions and discussing. Across all fields, from natural sciences to humanities, you have knowledge and insights built upon generations and decades. At the universities we have to transfer a lot of knowledge and teach students the basic skills and techniques. But it’s also our duty to go beyond that — to ask them questions about what we don’t know and what improvements we can make for the future. Doing surgery in the hospital now might be taken over by robots in the future. How are we going to deal with that Or will we be able to make fuel for airplanes These are challenging and tough questions but to share those with the students is really nice. Most of all, I think the beauty of knowledge and the excitement of insights and discoveries is fantastic.
24．What does the professor agree to
A．Students are bound to surpass their present teachers.
B．Students are expected to be different future citizens.
C．Students are supposed to have more academic training.
D．Students should definitely be encouraged to be challenged.
25．What does “plavground” mean to Bernard Feringa
A．An area for physical activities. B．An area for extra-curricular experiments.
C．An area for bold exploration. D．An area for academic improvements.
26．Which saying can best describe the reason for the professor’s devotion to teaching
A．He who teaches learns. B．Work makes a workman.
C．Never too old to learn. D．Truth never fears investigation.
27．How can you describe Professor Bernard Feringa
A．Respectable and reliable. B．Innovative and devoted.
C．Generous and sharp-minded. D．Independent and professional.
The message is drummed into us from childhood: forgive people who’ve wronged you, because it’s the right thing to do. Forgiveness is a virtue, we’re told—the only way for us to truly move on and heal, freed from the baggage of bearing ill will.
However, I’m not buying it. Forgiving someone can indeed be a beautiful thing, but it’s not always what’s best for us. In fact, if someone has hurt you deeply and the relationship isn’t healthy, trying to “fix” things can do more harm than good.
Most of us would probably agree that forgiving a wrongdoer means letting go of negative feelings—like anger and resentment—towards them, as if nothing happened. Actually this isn’t helpful. It pressures us to minimize our feelings and revise our boundaries—to say “it’s OK” when for us, it isn’t. While it’s not a good idea to focus on negative thoughts,
recognizing and processing all of that pain is an important part of the healing journey. And when someone doesn’t make us feel seen or safe, forgiving them can actually reduce our self-esteem.
A 2010 research paper published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology found that folks who forgave partners that didn’t make them feel valued had less respect for themselves. Letting minor offences that happen now and again slide can be great for any relationship, but repeatedly forgiving bad behavior can encourage that person to keep hurting you.
At least, that’s what 2011 research by psychology professor James McNulty argues. He found that when a partner was more likely to forgive those acts, the aggressor was more likely to keep committing them. McNulty suggests that this is because facing the consequences of their actions is what motivates people to change their ways, and being offered a clean slate can be a kind of pass to avoid making changes. So forgiving frequent and major offences, like verbal or physical abuse, can do more harm than good.
For me, this speaks to the core tension in the idea. Instead of looking to forgiveness like a magic medicine, we can focus on recognizing what happened and coming to terms with it, however that looks for us and without any sense of obligation towards our offender.
28．What does the author think about the message in paragraph 1
A．It’s reasonable. B．It’s debatable.
C．It’s convincing. D．It’s unquestionable.
29．How does the author develop the text
A．By making comparisons. B．By giving statistics.
C．By quoting researchers’ views. D．By sharing his own experiences.
30．What does the underlined words “a clean slate” in paragraph 5 probably mean
A．A repeated offence. B．A magic medicine.
C．A terrible consequence. D．A complete forgiveness.
31．Which can be the best title of the text
A．Forgiving is always a virtue. B．Forgiving can change everything.
C．Forgiving others sometimes depends. D．Forgiving others always seems impossible.
The maker of ChatGPT recently announced its next move into generative artificial intelligence. San Francisco-based OpenAI’s new text-to-video generator, called Sora, is a tool that instantly makes short videos based on written commands, called prompts.
Sora is not the first of its kind. Google, Meta and Runway ML are among the other companies to have developed similar technology. But the high quality of videos displayed by OpenAI — some released after CEO Sam Altman asked social media users to send in ideas for written prompts-surprised observers.
A photographer from New Hampshire posted one suggestion, or prompt, on X. The prompt gave details about a kind of food to be cooked, gnocchi (意大利团子), as well as the setting — an old Italian country kitchen. The prompt said: “An instructional cooking session for homemade gnocchi, hosted by a grandmother — a social media influencer, set in a rustic (土气的) Tuscan country kitchen.” Altman answered a short time later with a realistic video that showed what the prompt described.
The tool is not yet publicly available. OpenAI has given limited information about how it was built. The company also has not stated what imagery and video sources were used to train Sora. At the same time, the video results led to fears about the possible ethical and societal effects.
The New York Times and some writers have taken legal actions against OpenAI for its use of copyrighted works of writing to train ChatGPT. And OpenAI pays a fee to The Associated Press, the source of this report, to license its text news archive (档案) . OpenAI said in a blog post that it is communicating with artists, policymakers and others before releasing the new tool to the public.
The company added that it is working with “red teamers” — people who try to find problems and give helpful suggestions — to develop Sora. “We are working with red teamers-express in areas like misinformation, hateful content, and bias — who will be adversarially testing the model,” the company said. “We’re also building tools to help detect misleading content such as a detection classifier that can tell when a video was generated by Sora.”
32．What makes Sora impressive
A．Its extraordinary video quality. B．Its ethical and societal influence.
C．Its artificial intelligence history. D．Its written commands and prompts.
33．What can we infer from the text
A．Some disagreements over Sora have arisen.
B．Sora is the first text-to-video generator in history.
C．OpenAI CEO Altman wrote a prompt as an example.
D