哈尔滨师大附中 东北师大附中 辽宁省实验中学
2024 年高三第四次联合模拟考试
英语试卷
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第一部分 听力(共两节，满分30分)
第一节(共5 小题；每小题1.5分，满分7.5分)
听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项。听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。
例:How much is the shirt
A. 19.15. B. 9.18. C. 9.15.
答案是C。
1. What does the girl think of the exam
A. It was difficult. B. It was easy. C. It was in a hurry.
2. Which house does the woman like better
A. The bigger one. B. The white one. C. The brick one.
3. What did the man get for his son
A. Clothes. B. Tennis shoes. C. Some records.
4. Who will the girl be with on Friday evening
A. The man. B. Amanda. C. Mary.
5. Where probably are the speakers
A. At a country hotel. B. At a harvest festival. C. At a wine factory.
第二节(共15 小题;每小题1.5 分,满分22.5分)
听下面5段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项。听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5 秒钟；听完后，各小题将给出5 秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。
听下面一段材料，回答第6、7题。
6. What car does the man have
A. A Honda. B. A Hyundai. C. A BMW.
7. What do we know about the man's car
A. It is new. B. It looks good. C. It is washed twice a year.
听下面一段材料，回答第8、9题。
8. How long have the speakers been waiting
A.5 minutes. B.10 minutes. C.15 minutes.
9. What is the speakers' last adventure
A. They got some free drinks.
B. They called a wrong waiter.
C. They got seats next to the kitchen.
听下面一段材料，回答第10 至13题。
10. What is a cool logo usually on
A. A polo shirt. B. A cool T-shirt. C. Casual cargo pants.
11. What do girls wear at dance clubs
A. Short shirts and jeans.
B. Short shirts and cargo pants.
C. Cargo pants and high heels.
12. What jewelry does the woman always wear
A. A ring. B. A necklace. C. Earrings.
13. How does the woman feel about the clubs
A. She likes them. B. She thinks them noisy. C. She thinks them troublesome.
听下面一段材料，回答第14 至17题。
14. What do we know about the man
A. He is an experienced police officer.
B. He has been a police officer for 13 years.
C. He has been doing patrol work these years.
15. What does the man think of being a police officer
A. It is interesting. B. It is dangerous. C. It is stressful.
16. What assignment is the man mainly talking about
A. Patrol. B. Detective work. C. Supervising investigations.
17. What is the probable relationship between the speakers
A. Colleagues. B. Hostess and guest. C. Hostess and audience.
听下面一段材料，回答第18至20题。
18. What is the talk mainly about
A. House decorating skills. B. House selecting secrets. C. Home improvements plans.
19. Why probably does the speaker prefer some new fixtures
A. The old ones don't match the carpet.
B. The old ones are broken.
C The old ones are somewhat dark.
20. What is the last job
A. Building a deck. B. Changing the roof. C. Designing a yard.
第二部分 阅读理解(共两节，满分50分)
第一节(共15 小题;每小题2.5分, 满分37.5分)
阅读下列短文，从每题所给A、B、C、D 四个选项中选出最佳选项。
A
Medical Examination Instructions
These medical instructions are being issued as your immigration (移民) application has reached the stage where medical examination results are required.
When, who and how to complete your Immigration Medical Examination
You are required to have the medical examination within 30 days of the date of this letter; your medical examination must be performed by a doctor from the IRCC list of Panel Physicians; book an appointment with a Panel Physician in your area as soon as possible.
Once your medical examination has been completed, the Panel Physician will submit medical results to IRCC for assessment. To obtain a copy of your Immigration Medical Examination, please ask the Panel Physician at the time of your appointment.
Paying for your Immigration Medical Examination
Any costs related to the medical examination are your responsibility and are payable to the Panel Physician at the time of examination. This payment is for the Panel Physician's services and cannot be returned even if your immigration application is refused or the validity period (有效期) of your immigration medical examination ends.
Note: If you are qualified for coverage under the Interim Federal Health Program, the costs related to your immigration medical examination may be covered by the IFHP. Please confirm with the Panel Physician in your area that they are registered with the IFHP.
What must I bring to my appointment
★ The attached Medical Report form
★Identification, including your passport if one is available (Proof of identity must include at least one government-issued document with photograph and signature, such as a passport.)
★Eye glasses or contact lenses (隐形眼镜), if worn
★Four recent photographs
★For individuals qualified for Migration Medical Examination coverage under the Interim Federal Health Program, please bring one of the following documents:
●Refugee Protection Claimant Document
●The Interim Federal Health Certificate
●Acknowledgement of Claim and Notice to Return for Interview
If available, you may be offered vaccinations (接种疫苗) by the Panel Physician.
1. After your medical examination, _________.
A. the previous health reports ought to be consulted
B. you will submit the results to IRCC for assessment
C. the Panel Physician will present the results to IRCC
D. you will surely obtain a copy of examination results by the physician
2. If your immigration application is refused, which statement is right about the costs
A. The IFHP will cover them. B. They cannot be returned.
C. The Panel Physician will pay in cash. D. They will be returned if you apply.
3. Which of the following must be brought to the appointment
A. Proof of identity. B. The Federal Health Certificate.
C. The application form. D. Medical examination instructions.
【答案】1. C 2. B 3. A
【解析】
【导语】这是一篇应用文。文章主要说明了移民申请中的体格检查的一些要求和注意事项。
【1题详解】
细节理解题。根据第三段“Once your medical examination has been completed, the Panel Physician will submit medical results to IRCC for assessment.(一旦你的体检完成，体检小组医生将把体检结果提交给IRCC进行评估)”可知，体检后，体检小组医师将向IRCC提交体检结果。故选C。
【2题详解】
细节理解题。根据第四段“This payment is for the Panel Physician's services and cannot be returned even if your immigration application is refused or the validity period (有效期) of your immigration medical examination ends.(这笔费用是专家组医生服务的费用，即使您的移民申请被拒绝或您的移民体检有效期结束，这笔费用也不能退还)”可知，如果你的移民申请被拒绝，无法退费。B选项“无法退费”正确。故选B。
【3题详解】
细节理解题。根据What must I bring to my appointment 部分中“★Identification, including your passport if one is available (Proof of identity must include at least one government-issued document with photograph and signature, such as a passport.)(身份证明，包括护照（身份证明必须包括至少一份政府签发的有照片和签名的文件，如护照）)”可知，身份证明必须带去赴约。故选A。
B
Wall Street bankers, investors and economists have for months argued over whether a US recession (衰退) is coming. But for some Americans, the unforgiving economic pain typical during recession has already set in.
Al Brown and his wife faced a tough call in May when reviewing their weekly budget: what’s a higher priority, more food or dish soap Based in Concord, North Carolina, Brown was the main breadwinner for his wife and their two children. Then in April, he was let go from his job as a global director of business development at software company Cascade. He’s since quit his gym membership and sold various items around his home, including a computer and yard furniture. His 13-year-old son quit the basketball team.
Brown, 37, now spends his days searching the internet for jobs or reaching out to potential connections. After filing over 600 applications, only a handful have produced interviews. That’s a far cry from the labor-market strength described in government figures.
Investors and economists have been expecting a recession since last year as the Fed raised interest rates to control inflation (通货膨胀). That caused companies to focus on profitability over growth, which meant cutting spending and reducing their workforces.
“I think it’s unlikely that I will get another good paying job with great benefits like the one I had,” McCollum, who lives in Cleveland, Ohio, said. More Americans are likely to encounter similar cases, some experts predict.
“As we go through this year, and into next year, there is still going to be this focus on trying to reduce costs, and it is going to result in more unemployment,” said Thomas Simons, a senior economist at Jefferies. “The impact of layoffs, currently concentrated among white-collar workers, will last throughout the economy through a ‘big pullback in overall spending’,” Simons said. “Consumer spending accounts for about two-thirds of economic output, so if more Americans are forced to cut back because they were laid off, that might throw the US economy into a recession.”
4. What are some Americans currently going through
A. They can’t afford necessities of life. B. They’ve lost interest in high-end gyms.
C. They are badly treated by their bosses. D. They have difficulty making ends meet.
5. What does the author want to demonstrate through Brown’s job hunting
A. One should try various ways to find a job.
B. American labor market is not that friendly to job-seekers.
C. Few companies are interested in middle-aged job-hunters.
D. The government provides accurate figures of the job market.
6. How do companies deal with the economic struggles
A. By employing more workers. B. By changing interest rates.
C. By giving priority to profits. D. By cutting employees’ allowances.
7. Which statement will Thomas Simons probably agree with
A. Laid-off workers tend to go into debt.
B. Lower consumption may worsen the current situation.
C. Americans will spend more to increase economic output.
D. Companies are to blame for the unemployment of white-collar workers.
【答案】4. D 5. B 6. C 7. B
【解析】
【导语】这是一篇说明文。文章主要说明了美国正在经历经济衰退，以布朗一家为例说明了其影响。
【4题详解】
细节理解题。根据第一段“Wall Street bankers, investors and economists have for months argued over whether a US recession (衰退) is coming. But for some Americans, the unforgiving economic pain typical during recession has already set in.(数月来，华尔街银行家、投资者和经济学家一直在争论美国是否即将陷入衰退。但对一些美国人来说，经济衰退期间典型的无情的经济痛苦已经开始了)”以及后文布朗家生活日渐拮据的例子表明，一些美国人目前正在经历入不敷出。故选D。
【5题详解】
推理判断题。根据第三段“Brown, 37, now spends his days searching the internet for jobs or reaching out to potential connections. After filing over 600 applications, only a handful have produced interviews. That’s a far cry from the labor-market strength described in government figures.(37岁的布朗现在每天都在网上搜索工作，或者联系潜在的人脉。在提交了600多份申请后，只有少数获得了面试机会。这与政府数据所描述的劳动力市场强劲程度相去甚远)”可知，作者想通过布朗的求职来证明美国劳动力市场对求职者并不那么友好。故选B。
【6题详解】
细节理解题。根据第四段“That caused companies to focus on profitability over growth, which meant cutting spending and reducing their workforces.(这导致企业更关注盈利能力，而不是增长，这意味着削减支出和裁员)”可知，企业优先考虑利润来应对经济困境。故选C。
【7题详解】
细节理解题。根据最后一段““As we go through this year, and into next year, there is still going to be this focus on trying to reduce costs, and it is going to result in more unemployment,” said Thomas Simons, a senior economist at Jefferies.(杰富瑞高级经济学家托马斯 西蒙斯表示：“随着今年和明年的过去，人们仍将把重点放在试图降低成本上，这将导致更多的失业。”)”可知，托马斯·西蒙斯可能会同意较低的消费可能会使目前的情况恶化。故选B。
C
What’s your first memory Whatever it is, you’re bound to treasure it. But can we actually trust them Nothing about memory is simple. Memory is malleable. What we remember is not necessarily what happened. A memory is not a recording. It’s more like a dramatic reconstruction and one that we can keep changing without realizing it.
For any experience to be remembered, it has to be encoded (编码). This encoding is not any kind of direct translation, though. It’s a rich and complex process that creates associations and meanings. We might be remembering something very similar, but slightly changed and colored by our own sets of associations.
Psychologist Elizabeth Loftus produced groundbreaking research on eyewitness testimony (证据). Her work showed that memories can easily be influenced, even after they’ve been created. For example, if two eyewitnesses talk with each other, their memories of events often change, absorbing what they’ve heard from the other one——but they won’t realize this has happened. Similarly, witnesses who are shown an image of an innocent person, can sometimes stick it onto their memory of the actual event—a process known as unconscious transference (无意识的转移). It is estimated that around 70% of wrongful convictions (定罪), later overturned by DNA evidence, are due to mistaken eyewitness testimony.
In some cases, memories can even be deliberately created and implanted. The Lost in the Mall experiment took a test group of subjects and talked to them in depth about key childhood memories while also adding an invented one—the experience of having been lost in a shopping center. It was found that between a quarter and a third of subjects not only accepted this new memory as genuine but enriched it with specific details.
Most of us have certain key memories of being a very young child. But research suggests that they’re highly unlikely to be actual memories due to the way memory is stored in the baby brain. Your precious first memory may well not be a real memory, and we’re all perhaps living in our imaginations more than we realize.
8. What does the underlined word “malleable” in paragraph 1 mean
A. Trustworthy. B. False. C. Easily changed. D. Deeply impressive.
9. Which will influence the memory of eyewitnesses
A. Powerful DNA evidence. B. Pictures stuck in their memory.
C. Reduced accuracy of convictions. D. Exchanged information between them.
10. What can we learn about “The Lost in the Mall” experiment
A. It was designed to investigate mistaken eyewitness testimony.
B. Its subjects could recall specific details of a shopping center.
C. Its subjects made believe that they had been lost in a shopping center.
D. It demonstrated that invented experiences could be fixed in one’s memory.
11. What can be a suitable title for the text
A. The Unreliable Nature of Memory. B. Revised Eyewitness Testimony.
C. Reflection on Sweet Childhood. D. An Exploration of Truth and Fiction.
【答案】8. C 9. D 10. D 11. A
【解析】
【导语】这是一篇说明文。文章主要说明了记忆是可塑的，容易改变，并通过介绍一些研究和实验论证了这一点。
【8题详解】
词句猜测题。根据划线词后文“What we remember is not necessarily what happened. A memory is not a recording. It’s more like a dramatic reconstruction and one that we can keep changing without realizing it.(我们记得的不一定是发生了什么。记忆不是记录。它更像是一种戏剧性的重建，我们可以在没有意识到的情况下不断改变)”可知，记忆不是记录，更像是一种戏剧性的重建，即记忆容易改变，故划线词意思是“容易改变”。故选C。
【9题详解】
细节理解题。根据第三段“Her work showed that memories can easily be influenced, even after they’ve been created. For example, if two eyewitnesses talk with each other, their memories of events often change, absorbing what they’ve heard from the other one——but they won’t realize this has happened.(她的研究表明，记忆很容易受到影响，即使是在记忆被创造出来之后。例如，如果两个目击者互相交谈，他们对事件的记忆经常会发生变化，吸收他们从另一个人那里听到的东西——但他们不会意识到这已经发生了)”可知，交换信息会影响目击者的记忆。故选D。
【10题详解】
细节理解题。根据倒数第二段“The Lost in the Mall experiment took a test group of subjects and talked to them in depth about key childhood memories while also adding an invented one—the experience of having been lost in a shopping center. It was found that between a quarter and a third of subjects not only accepted this new memory as genuine but enriched it with specific details.(“迷失商场”实验选取了一组测试对象，并与他们深入探讨了关键的童年记忆，同时还添加了一个虚构的记忆——在购物中心迷路的经历。结果发现，四分之一到三分之一的受试者不仅相信这段新记忆是真实的，而且用具体的细节丰富了它)”可知，“迷失商场”实验证明了创造出的经历可以固定在一个人的记忆中。故选D。
【11题详解】
主旨大意题。根据最后一段“But research suggests that they’re highly unlikely to be actual memories due to the way memory is stored in the baby brain. Your precious first memory may well not be a real memory, and we’re all perhaps living in our imaginations more than we realize.(但研究表明，由于记忆在婴儿大脑中的存储方式，它们极不可能是真正的记忆。你珍贵的第一次记忆很可能不是真实的记忆，我们都可能生活在想象中，而不是我们意识到的)”结合文章主要说明了记忆是可塑的，容易改变，并通过介绍一些研究和实验论证了这一点。可知，A选项“记忆的不可靠性”最符合文章标题。故选A。
D
It took an ill screech owl (鸣角鸮) to teach a scientist the value of up-close-and-personal study.
In his Harvad talk, Carl Safina, an ecologist and author of Alfie and Me: What Owls Know, What Humans Believe, recalled that the chick was found dying in his backyard. Safina took it in and planned to nurse it back to health and then perform release. But the owlet's flight feathers didn't grow properly. Safina delayed the release. Over those extended months, Safina got to know Alfie in ways that moved and changed him.
“An owl found me and then I was watching ‘an owl’,” he said. “It was no longer an owl after a while, it was ‘she’ because she had a history with me. This little owl, who was with me much longer than I thought she would be, became an individual to me by that history and all those interactions.”
The bond with Alfie strengthened to the point that, when she was finally released, she created a territory with Safina's home at its center. Safina was able to spend hours each day observing her in the woods as she learned to take care of herself in the wild, met two mates, and raised chicks of her own.
When he heard Alfie calling, Safina said, he'd call back and she'd land nearby. Their closeness allowed him to learn more things about screech owls. Field guides, for example, describe two known calls but he identified six, some of which you have to be quite close to hear. The relationship also opened a window for Safina onto personality differences between Alfie and her mates.
When pointed out that his approach to Alfie—including the act of naming her—ran counter to widespread scientific practice, Safina said he wasn't concerned about violating (违反) convention, particularly if something interesting like individual personality differences among owls could be learned.
The experience caused Safina to think more deeply about humankind's relationship with nature and the kind of personal connection he was able to feel with a wild individual. “What I learned from Alfie is that all sentient (有情感的) beings seek a feeling of well-being and freedom of movement,” Safina said. “That's a guide to what's right and what's wrong to me.”
12. What do we know about Alfie
A. She developed a close bond with Safina.
B. She was a fictional character in Safina's book.
C. She intentionally landed in Safina's backyard.
D. She was dying because of the broken flight feathers.
13. What happened after Safina released Alfie
A. Alfie chose to stay with Safina at his home.
B. They maintained a continous communication.
C. Alfie met mates and raised chicks by herself.
D. Safina kept his distance from her to prevent attachment.
14. What did Safina achieve in his study
A. Recording six different calls of the screech owl.
B. Identifying different types of owls by their calls.
C. Learning how to release owls back into the wild.
D. Understanding personality differences among owls.
15. How did Safina's experience with Alfie impact him
A. He became more focused on exploring nature.
B. He initiated his commitment to wildlife conservation.
C. He developed a deep appreciation for the welfare of living creatures.
D. He decided to guide readers to distinguish between right and wrong.
【答案】12. A 13. B 14. D 15. C
【解析】
【导语】本文是一篇记叙文，主要讲述了生态学家Carl Safina与一只名叫Alfie的鸣角鸮的故事，以及这段经历对他的影响。
【12题详解】
细节理解题。根据文章第二段“Over those extended months, Safina got to know Alfie in ways that moved and changed him.”（在那些漫长的月份里，萨菲纳以一种感动并改变他的方式了解了阿尔菲。）根据第三段“This little owl, who was with me much longer than I thought she would be, became an individual to me by that history and all those interactions.”（这只小猫头鹰，它和我在一起的时间比我想象的要长得多，通过那段历史和所有这些互动，它成为了我的一部分）可知，Safina与Alfie建立了紧密的联系。故选A。
【13题详解】
细节理解题。根据文章第五段“When he heard Alfie calling, Safina said, he'd call back and she'd land nearby.”（当他听到阿尔菲的叫声时，萨菲纳说，他会回应，她就会降落在附近。）可知，他们保持了持续的交流，故选B。
【14题详解】
细节理解题。根据文章第五段“The relationship also opened a window for Safina onto personality differences between Alfie and her mates.”（这种关系也为萨菲纳打开了一个窗口，让他看到阿尔菲和她的伴侣之间的性格差异。）可知，Safina理解了猫头鹰之间的性格差异，故选D
【15题详解】
推理判断题。根据文章最后一段“What I learned from Alfie is that all sentient beings seek a feeling of well-being and freedom of movement,” Safina said. “That's a guide to what's right and what's wrong to me.”（我从阿尔菲那里学到的是，所有有情感的生物都寻求幸福感和自由的移动，”萨菲纳说。“这对我来说是判断对错的指南。”）可知，Safina对生物的幸福产生了深深的欣赏，故选C。
第二节 (共5 小题;每小题2.5 分, 满分12.5分)
阅读下面短文，从短文后的选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
Who can imagine life today without an Automated Teller Machine (ATM) They are available in considerable numbers throughout the world.
The first ATM was the brainchild of an enterprising Turkish-American inventor Luther George Simjian. When the idea of an automated banking machine struck him, he registered 20 patents before any bank agreed to give it a trial run. It is easy to assume that the inventor of such a popular machine was laughing all the way to the bank. ____16____ Within six months of its operation in New York in 1939, the device was removed due to lack of customer acceptance.
It was not until 1967, nearly 30 years later, that Barclays Bank, in a careful launch, rolled out a self-service machine in London, England, which proved successful. ____17____ The first cash machine relied on customers’ use of prepaid tokens (代币) to get envelopes with a fixed amount of cash inside.
____18____ The banks’ principle was seemingly customer service. But it would be foolish to minimize the many advantages that cash machines provided to the banks themselves. By the late 1970s, the highest fixed cost for the average large bank was its branches. The greatest variable cost and loss to profits were its staff. Bank accounts swiftly recognized that self-service operations could reduce bank branch staff cost by70 percent.
Experts quickly determined that public acceptance of ATMs counted on convenience, simplicity, speed, security and trust. ____19____ For maximum efficiency, ATMs had to be located near public transport or in a shopping mall, not at a branch. The busier and more crowded the location, obviously, the better. Now, roughly 75 percent of all cash provided by banks to their customers comes from cash machines. ____20____.
Public acceptance of deposits (存款) by machine was significantly slower than customers’ usage of ATMs for withdrawals. In general, it seems that customers sometimes still prefer and trust an over-the-counter transaction (交易) for deposits.
A. Location, in particular, was a key factor.
B. His cash machine, however, didn’t prove durable.
C. The device was relatively primitive, at least by today’s standards.
D. However, cash machines posed some interesting, unanswered questions.
E. An interesting factor was the issue of bio-statistics for customer identification.
F. Devices originally dismissed by the public are now recognized as essential institutions.
G. Soon afterwards, many other banks became admittedly champions of the cash machine.
【答案】16. B 17. C 18. G 19. A 20. F
【解析】
【导语】本文是一篇说明文，介绍了自动取款机(ATM)的发展历程和其在现代生活中的重要性。
【16题详解】
根据上文“It is easy to assume that the inventor of such a popular machine was laughing all the way to the bank.(人们很容易认为，这样一台受欢迎机器的发明者一定赚得盆满钵满)”和下文“Within six months of its operation in New York in 1939, the device was removed due to lack of customer acceptance.(1939年，该设备在纽约运行了六个月后，由于缺乏客户接受，该设备被拆除)”可知，上下文有转折关系，B项“His cash machine, however, didn’t prove durable.(然而，他的取款机并没有经受住时间的考验)”承上启下，说明设想和现实有差距，引出下文第一台取款机的真实命运，上下文语意连贯。故选B项。
【17题详解】
下文“The first cash machine relied on customers’ use of prepaid tokens (代币) to get envelopes with a fixed amount of cash inside.(第一台自动取款机依靠顾客使用预付代币来获得装有固定数量现金的信封)”介绍了第一台自动取款机的工作原理：用预付代币来换取现金信封，是对C项“The device was relatively primitive, at least by today’s standards.(这个装置相对来说比较原始，至少以今天的标准来看是这样)”的说明，说明第一台自动取款机比较原始的工作原理，上下文语意连贯。故选C项。
【18题详解】
下文“The banks’ principle was seemingly customer service. But it would be foolish to minimize the many advantages that cash machines provided to the banks themselves. By the late 1970s, the highest fixed cost for the average large bank was its branches. The greatest variable cost and loss to profits were its staff. Bank accounts swiftly recognized that self-service operations could reduce bank branch staff cost by70 percent.(银行的原则似乎是客户服务。但是，低估自动取款机给银行自身带来的诸多好处是愚蠢的。到20世纪70年代末，大型银行的平均固定成本最高的是其分支机构。最大的可变成本和利润损失是它的员工。银行账户很快意识到，自助服务可以将银行分行的员工成本降低70%)”说明了自动取款机给银行带来的诸多好处，解释了G项“Soon afterwards, many other banks became admittedly champions of the cash machine.(不久之后，许多其他银行成为公认的自动提款机的拥护者)”中描述的这一现象，许多银行为了获益开始使用自动提款机，上下文语意连贯。故选G项。
【19题详解】
下文“For maximum efficiency, ATMs had to be located near public transport or in a shopping mall, not at a branch. The busier and more crowded the location, obviously, the better.(为了最大限度地提高效率，自动取款机必须设在公共交通附近或购物中心，而不是在分行。显然，地点越繁忙、越拥挤越好)”指出自动取款机需要设在公共交通附近或购物中心，是对A项“Location, in particular, was a key factor.(尤其是地理位置，是一个关键因素)”的举例说明，说明地理位置的重要作用。故选A项。
【20题详解】
上文“Now, roughly 75 percent of all cash provided by banks to their customers comes from cash machines.(现在，银行提供给客户的现金中，大约75%来自自动取款机)”谈及自动取款机的普及和广泛使用，F项“Devices originally dismissed by the public are now recognized as essential institutions.(最初被公众忽视的设备现在被认为是不可或缺的设施)”承接上文，总结自动取款机命运的变化，上下文语意连贯。故选F项。
第三部分 语言运用(共两节，满分30分)
第一节(共15 小题；每小题1分，满分15 分)
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C 和 D 四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
My friendship with the students in a primary school in Uganda started on a shaky ground. The ____21____ of not being understood was hidden within, for they spoke a language different from that of mine and mine too fell on ____22____ ears.
I greeted them with a broad smile, and they replied with ice cold ____23____ when I spoke further. A ____24____ echoed (回响) in my mind: you must live through it to get to them. So I gave it another try. I spoke ____25____ English with hand gestures and a bit of dancing. If all failed, the smile would ____26____. Soon we picked up and then the ___27___ of the learners came into play. At the mention of a name, reddish cheeks and shaking voices were the response I got. I decided to ____28____ a desk with a team each day during group work to get closer. After school, I ____29____ them home.
____30____, we became friends. They were even aware of my favorite fruit, avocado (牛油果). If I didn’t get one on my desk, it would ____31____ me wherever I was. My slippers were ____32____. One night I left them out as no one could steal a pair of slippers in that state. The next morning, I was ready to drag my slippers on as usual and I was surprised they had been ____33____. Wow!
The little things we do for each other bring us great joy and ____34____. We don’t have a proper spoken language, but we are fluent in the language of ____35____.
21. A. anger B. fear C. desire D. belief
22. A. sharp B. all C. long D. deaf
23. A. silence B. blame C. comment D. agreement
24. A. puzzle B. doubt C. reminder D. relief
25. A. official B. simple C. academic D. unusual
26. A. turn out B. break off C. die away D. take over
27. A. laziness B. shyness C. loneliness D. calmness
28 A. share B. clear C. search D. exchange
29. A. prevented B. forced C. accompanied D. allowed
30. A. Suddenly B. Gradually C. Accidentally D. Obviously
31. A. miss B. leave C. refuse D. find
32. A. worn out B. put out C. made out D. carried out
33. A. packed B. cleaned C. abandoned D. repaired
34. A. freedom B. chance C. warmth D. challenge
35. A. friendship B. admiration C. sympathy D. confidence
【答案】21. B 22. D 23. A 24. C 25. B 26. D 27. B 28. A 29. C 30. B 31. D 32. A 33. D 34. C 35. A
【解析】
【导语】这是一篇记叙文。主要讲述了作者和乌干达一所小学学生们的友谊开始时并不稳固。不被理解的恐惧隐藏在内心，因为他们说的语言和作者说的不同，而作者的语言也没人听。但是，随着时间的发展，他们最终在友谊的语言上交流很流利。
【21题详解】
考查名词词义辨析。句意：不被理解的恐惧隐藏在内心，因为他们说的语言和我说的不同，我的语言也被置若罔闻。A. anger愤怒；B. fear恐惧；C. desire愿望；D. belief信仰。根据下文“for they spoke a language different from”可知，因为他们说的语言和作者说的不同，双方都听不懂对方的话，作者把不被理解的恐惧隐藏在内心。故选B项。
【22题详解】
考查形容词词义辨析。句意同上题。A. sharp锋利的；B. all全部的；C. long长的；D. deaf聋的。根据上文“for they spoke a language different from that of mine”可知，双方都听不懂对方的话，deaf ears表“置若罔闻”，符合句意。故选D项。
【23题详解】
考查名词词义辨析。句意：我用灿烂的微笑迎接他们，当我继续说话时，他们以冰冷的沉默回应我。A. silence沉默；B. blame责备；C. comment评论；D. agreement赞同。根据上文“The 1 of not being understood was hidden within(不被理解的恐惧隐藏在内心)”和“ice cold”可推知，此处为当作者继续说话时，孩子们无法理解，所以以冰冷的沉默回应。故选A项。
【24题详解】
考查名词词义辨析。句意：一个提醒在我脑海中回响：你必须经历它才能到达他们的内心。A. puzzle令人费解的事；B. doubt怀疑；C. reminder提醒物；D. relief救济，宽慰。根据下文“you must live through it to get to them”可知，这里指一个想法一直提醒着作者。故选C项。
【25题详解】
考查形容词词义辨析。句意：我说简单的英语，用手势和一点舞蹈。A. official官方的；B. simple简单的；C. academic学术的；D. unusual不寻常的。根据上文“So I gave it another try (所以我又试了一次)”可推知，此处表示作者说简单的英语来让孩子们理解。故选B项。
【26题详解】
考查动词短语辨析。句意：如果一切都失败了，微笑会取代一切。A. turn out结果是；B. break off中断；C. die away逐渐消失；D. take over接管，取代 。根据上文“If all failed”可推知，此处表示如果一切都失败了，微笑会取代一切，因为微笑没有国界，是最好的肢体语言。故选D项。
【27题详解】
考查名词词义辨析。句意：很快我们就学会了，然后学习者的害羞就发挥了作用。A. laziness懒惰；B. shyness害羞；C. loneliness孤独；D. calmness镇静。根据下文“At the mention of a name, reddish cheeks and shaking voices were the response I got (一提到名字，我得到的反应就是脸颊泛红，声音颤抖)”可知，这里指学习者的害羞。故选B项。
【28题详解】
考查动词词义辨析。句意：我决定在小组工作期间每天和一个团队共用一张桌子，以便更接近他们。A. share共享；B. clear清除，清理；C. search搜寻；D. exchange交换。根据下文“to get closer”可知，此处为作者决定和一个团队分享一张桌子从而更接近他们。故选A项。
【29题详解】
考查动词词义辨析。句意：放学后，我陪伴他们回家。A. prevented阻止；B. forced逼迫；C. accompanied陪伴；D. allowed允许。根据上文“I decided to 8 a desk with a team each day during group work to get closer. ”可知，作者为了能够接近学生们，除了和学生们共用一张桌子，放学后还要陪学生回家。故选C项。
【30题详解】
考查副词词义辨析。句意：渐渐地，我们成了朋友。A. Suddenly突然；B. Gradually渐渐地；C. Accidentally偶然地；D. Obviously明显地。根据上文“I decided to 8 a desk with a team each day during group work to get closer. ”可推知，此处为是作者“破冰”行动后的结果：渐渐地，他们成了朋友。故选B项。
【31题详解】
考查动词词义辨析。句意：如果我桌上没有牛油果，不管我在哪里，他们都会找到我给我送牛油果。A. miss错过，想念；B. leave离开，留下；C. refuse拒绝；D. find找到。根据上文“If I didn’t get one on my desk”以及语境可知，这里指学生们一定要找到作者，把牛油果送给作者。故选D项。
【32题详解】
考查动词短语辨析。句意：我拖鞋已经破旧了。A. worn out穿破；B. put out扑灭；C. made out辨认出，看出，理解；D. carried out实施。根据下文“One night I left them out as no one could steal a pair of slippers in that state.(一天晚上，我把它们放在一边，因为没有人会偷一双那样状况的拖鞋)”可知，这里指作者的拖鞋是穿破了。故选A项。
【33题详解】
考查动词词义辨析。句意：第二天早上，我准备像往常一样穿上拖鞋，但令我惊讶的是，它们已经修补好了。A. packed包装；B. cleaned清洁；C. abandoned抛弃；D. repaired修理。根据上文“My slippers were 12 . One night I left them out as no one could steal a pair of slippers in that state.(我的拖鞋已经破旧了。一天晚上，我把它们放在一边，因为没有人会偷一双那样状况的拖鞋)”以及此处的惊讶可推知，这里指拖鞋已经修补好了。故选D项。
【34题详解】
考查名词词义辨析。句意：我们为彼此做的小事给我们带来了巨大的快乐和温暖。A. freedom自由；B. chance机会；C. warmth温暖；D. challenge挑战。根据上文“After school, I 9 them home.”以及上下文可知，全文作者开始陪伴孩子们回家，孩子们给作者送牛油果以及修补拖鞋等这些小事可知这都是温暖人心的善举，warmth表“温暖”，符合语境。故选C项。
【35题详解】
考查名词词义辨析。句意：我们没有合适的口语交流，但我们在友谊的语言上很流利。A. friendship友谊；B. admiration钦佩；C. sympathy同情；D. confidence自信心。根据上文“bring us great joy and 14 ”可知，此处表示虽然没有合适的说话语言，但在友谊的语言上的交流是很流利的。故选A项。
第二节(共10 小题;每小题1.5分,满分15 分)
阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
Scientists have discovered the remains of ____36____ appears to be an ancient sheep-drawn chariot (战车) near the famous Terracotta Army in the western tomb of Emperor Qin Shi Huang. The main structure of the chariot has likely rotted (腐烂) away after ____37____ (spend) more than 2,000 years in the ground but researchers did find a row of six sheep skeletons (骨架) wearing attachments used for pulling a chariot, so they ____38____ (infer) this was a sheep-drawn chariot.
Horse-drawn chariots were common in ancient China, but a sheep-drawn chariot is ____39____ extremely rare find. The founder of the Western Jin Dynasty, Emperor Wu, or Sima Yan, who ruled from 266 to 290CE, is said ____40____ (ride) in a sheep-drawn carriage around his palace complex every night and would sleep wherever the sheep stopped. Researchers hope laboratory ____41____ (analyze) on the western tomb’s burial chamber, which is currently underway, will help them determine who was buried there.
In addition to the six-sheep chariot, scientists unearthed a four-wheeled ____42____ (wood) chariot, probably drawn by horses, ____43____ (equip) with a fancy umbrella. It is the oldest of ____44____ (it) type ever found. They also found a wealth of iron tools and weapons, providing new insight ____45____ the period when iron tools first began to appear.
【答案】36. what
37. spending
38. inferred
39. an 40. to have ridden
41. analysis
42. wooden 43. equipped
44. its 45. into
【解析】
【导语】本文是一篇新闻报道。文章主要报道了科学家在中国秦始皇帝陵的西部墓葬附近发现了疑似古代羊拉战车的遗骸。
【36题详解】
考查宾语从句。句意：科学家们在秦始皇帝陵西侧的著名兵马俑附近，发现了似乎是古代羊拉战车的遗骸。空处应填连接词what引导宾语从句，表示“什么”，在从句中作介词of的宾语，从句主语为the remains of what。故填what。
【37题详解】
考查非谓语。句意：战车的主要结构在地下埋藏了超过2000年后可能已经腐烂殆尽，但研究人员确实发现了一排六具羊的骨架，这些羊骨架上穿戴有用于牵引战车的附件，因此他们推断这是一辆羊拉动的战车。after为介词，其后应接动名词形式。故填spending。
【38题详解】
考查时态。句意：同上。描述过去发生的动作，应用一般过去时。故填inferred。
【39题详解】
考查冠词。句意：马车在古代中国很常见，但羊拉战车是一个极其罕见的发现。find在此处为可数名词，意为“发现物”，空处泛指一个，应用不定冠词，extremely以元音音素开头，应用不定冠词an。故填an。
【40题详解】
考查非谓语。句意：据说，西晋的开国皇帝武帝 (司马炎)，在公元266年至290年统治期间，每晚都会乘坐羊拉的马车在他的宫殿建筑群巡游，并且羊停在哪里，他就在哪里睡觉。sb. be said to do sth.“据说某人……”为固定句式，动作ride发生在is said 之前，应用不定式的完成式。故填to have ridden。
【41题详解】
考查名词。句意：研究人员希望实验室对西墓葬室正在进行的分析将帮助他们确定那里埋葬的是谁。空处应填名词analysis“分析”在宾语从句中作主语，为不可数名词。故填analysis。
【42题详解】
考查形容词。句意：除了六羊战车外，科学家们还出土了一辆四轮木制战车，可能是由马拉的，并配备了一把精美的伞。空处应填形容词wooden“木制的”修饰名词chariot。故填wooden。
【43题详解】
考查非谓语。句意：同上。空处在句中作非谓语，动词equip与逻辑主语chariot之间为被动关系，且动作已完成，应用过去分词形式作后置定语。故填equipped。
【44题详解】
考查代词。句意：这是迄今为止发现的同类中最古老的。空处应填形容词性物主代词its，修饰名词type。故填its。
【45题详解】
考查介词。句意：他们还发现了一批铁制工具和武器，为铁制工具首次出现的时期提供了新的见解。insight into“对……的见解”为固定搭配。故填into。
第四部分 写作(共两节，满分40分)
第一节(满分15 分)
46. 假定你是安徽省黄山国家自然保护区的负责人，为了更好地对迎客松进行日常保护，拟招聘一名迎客松守护员。请你撰写一则招聘广告发布在 China Daily上，内容包括：
1.工作职责；
2.聘用条件；
3.工作待遇。
注意：
1.词数80 左右;
2.请按如下格式做答(标题和结尾已为你写好，不计入总词数)。
Guardian of Welcoming-Guest Pine Wanted
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Please contact Miss Wang before 30 July. Inquiries are encouraged but visits declined.
Mount Huangshan Nature Reserve
【答案】范文
Guardian of Welcoming-Guest Pine Wanted
Intending to better guarantee the daily growth of the Welcoming-Guest Pine, Mount Huangshan Nature Reserve of Anhui Province needs to employ a guardian.
The fundamental responsibility for the job is to make sure that nothing harms the tree. Additionally, applicants are expected to check the pine tree more than 3 times a day and take notes recording your observations. Preference will be given to those who are careful, diligent and responsible. What’s more, anyone with previous experience is highly welcome.
We can provide you with accommodation, meals and a free medical check. Salary is negotiable.
Please contact Miss Wang before 30 July. Inquiries are encouraged but visits declined.
Mount Huangshan Nature Reserve
【解析】
【导语】本篇书面表达属于应用文。要求考生撰写一则招聘迎客松守护员的广告发布在China Daily上。
【详解】1.词汇积累
确保：make sure→ensure
此外：additionally/what’s more→besides
基本的：fundamental→basic
检查：check→examine
2.句式拓展
简单句变复合句
原句：Intending to better guarantee the daily growth of the Welcoming-Guest Pine, Mount Huangshan Nature Reserve of Anhui Province needs to employ a guardian.
拓展句：Mount Huangshan Nature Reserve of Anhui Province needs to employ a guardian, who need to better guarantee the daily growth of the Welcoming-Guest Pine.
【点睛】[高分句型1] Preference will be given to those who are careful, diligent and responsible. (运用了who引导定语从句)
[高分句型2] The fundamental responsibility for the job is to make sure that nothing harms the tree. (运用了that引导宾语从句)
第二节(满分25 分)
47. 读后续写
Crab Lessons
My son Geordi was a rather spirited boy. Very little held his attention for long. He spent most of his spare time thinking up new ways to scare me half to death. Like the time he decided to “surf” on a tiny plastic table that was meant to hold a few drinks rather than a six-year-old boy. Geordi had just begun learning about the ocean in school and was surprisingly fascinated by it. We lived in Delaware, so any discussion about the ocean usually included horseshoe crabs, which crowded our coasts to mate in the late spring.
As part of the lesson, Geordi’s teacher brought horseshoe crab shells (壳) to school for the children to touch and examine. Hearing that horseshoe crabs had been around for over 300 million years, even before the dinosaurs, Geordi thought that was officially the coolest thing he had ever heard. He could not stop talking about it for days, and I decided it was time for us to take a drive to the Delaware Bay.
As we stepped out from the car, strong wind nearly blew my poor forty-five-pound child to the ground. Being a six-year-old mischievous (调皮的) boy, Geordi saw this as an opportunity to showcase his amazing talents, which included falling down, getting up, falling down and, yes, getting up again. This, of course, was always complete with giggles (咯咯笑). The drama came to a sudden stop as Geordi spied the dozens of army-truck-looking creatures in the sand. The next sound effect was “Wow!” as his body froze and his eyes widened with wonder.
Geordi ran around excitedly, not knowing which one to check out first. He settled on a horseshoe crab that was on its back, legs waving wildly in the air, desperate for water. “Mom, look at this one!” he screamed. “He’s cool!” I pointed out the different body parts of the crab for him, and he listened quietly and absorbed the information. He said, “I really liked him. I think I will name him Spike because he had all those really cool, spiky (尖的) things on his back.” Then I picked up the crab, turned it over to its proper position and placed it at the edge of the water.
注意：
1.续写词数应为150 左右;
2.请按如下格式作答。
Geordi asked what I was doing
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Geordi spotted many more horseshoe crabs on their backs.
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【答案】范文
Geordi asked what I was doing. I explained to him that if the crab got stuck on its back and could not get back to the water soon, it would die. Horseshoe crabs, I told him, are very important in many ways. Their eggs are a great food source for birds, and their shells and blood have special medical properties that can help many people. Besides, it didn’t seem right to let a species that had survived so long just dry up in the sun. Geordi listened intently, his eyes sparkling with concern. He then bent down and cautiously touched Spike’s shell with his finger, murmuring, “Go home, Spike.” We watched the horseshoe crab slowly make his way back into the ocean.
Geordi spotted many more horseshoe crabs on their backs. He decided that we should help them all. Without fear or hesitation, he began picking up stuck horseshoe crabs and turning them over, and helped me carry them to the water. He was extra careful and gentle, worried that he may hurt one. His sincere concern for the horseshoe crabs touched my heart. When the job was done and it was time to leave, Geordi asked, “Do you think we will ever see Spike again ” “Maybe,” I said, “but now that we have helped him, we know he will be okay even if we don’t see him again.”
【解析】
【导语】本文以人物为线索展开，讲述了作者和儿子乔迪去海边观察马蹄蟹，作者教导了儿子关于马蹄蟹的知识以后，儿子决定帮助海滩上被困的马蹄蟹，作者也被儿子的行动感动。
【详解】1.段落续写：
①由第一段首句内容“乔迪问我在做什么”可知，第一段可描写作者教导了儿子关于马蹄蟹的知识。
②由第二段首句内容“乔迪在他们的背上发现了更多的马蹄蟹”可知，第二段可描写儿子采取行动帮助马蹄蟹以及作者的感悟。
2.续写线索：好奇询问——作者解释——儿子认真倾听——帮助马蹄蟹——作者被触动——作者感悟
3.词汇激活
行为类
①完成：do/finish/accomplish
②看到：see/spot/notice
③伤害：hurt /injure
情绪类
①小心：cautiously/carefully
②真诚：sincere/heartfelt
【点睛】[高分句型1] He decided that we should help them all. (运用了that引导宾语从句)
[高分句型2] “Maybe,” I said, “but now that we have helped him, we know he will be okay even if we don’t see him again.”(运用了even if引导宾语从句和now that引导原因状语从句)哈尔滨师大附中 东北师大附中 辽宁省实验中学
2024 年高三第四次联合模拟考试
英语试卷
注意事项：
1.答卷前，考生务必将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在答题卡上。
2.答选择题时，选出每小题答案后，用铅笔把答题卡对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案标号。答非选择题时，将答案写在答题卡上。写在本试卷上无效。
3.考试结束后，将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。
第一部分 听力(共两节，满分30分)
第一节(共5 小题；每小题1.5分，满分7.5分)
听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项。听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。
例:How much is the shirt
A. 19.15. B. 9.18. C. 9.15.
答案是C。
1. What does the girl think of the exam
A. It was difficult. B. It was easy. C. It was in a hurry.
2. Which house does the woman like better
A. The bigger one. B. The white one. C. The brick one.
3. What did the man get for his son
A. Clothes. B. Tennis shoes. C. Some records.
4. Who will the girl be with on Friday evening
A. The man. B. Amanda. C. Mary.
5. Where probably are the speakers
A. At a country hotel. B. At a harvest festival. C. At a wine factory.
第二节(共15 小题;每小题1.5 分,满分22.5分)
听下面5段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项。听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5 秒钟；听完后，各小题将给出5 秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。
听下面一段材料，回答第6、7题。
6. What car does the man have
A A Honda. B. A Hyundai. C. A BMW.
7. What do we know about the man's car
A. It is new. B. It looks good. C. It is washed twice a year.
听下面一段材料，回答第8、9题。
8. How long have the speakers been waiting
A.5 minutes. B.10 minutes. C.15 minutes.
9. What is the speakers' last adventure
A. They got some free drinks.
B. They called a wrong waiter.
C. They got seats next to the kitchen.
听下面一段材料，回答第10 至13题。
10. What is a cool logo usually on
A. A polo shirt. B. A cool T-shirt. C. Casual cargo pants.
11. What do girls wear at dance clubs
A. Short shirts and jeans.
B. Short shirts and cargo pants.
C. Cargo pants and high heels.
12. What jewelry does the woman always wear
A A ring. B. A necklace. C. Earrings.
13. How does the woman feel about the clubs
A. She likes them. B. She thinks them noisy. C. She thinks them troublesome.
听下面一段材料，回答第14 至17题。
14. What do we know about the man
A. He is an experienced police officer.
B. He has been a police officer for 13 years.
C. He has been doing patrol work these years.
15. What does the man think of being a police officer
A. It is interesting. B. It is dangerous. C. It is stressful.
16. What assignment is the man mainly talking about
A. Patrol. B. Detective work. C. Supervising investigations.
17. What is the probable relationship between the speakers
A. Colleagues. B. Hostess and guest. C. Hostess and audience.
听下面一段材料，回答第18至20题。
18. What is the talk mainly about
A. House decorating skills. B. House selecting secrets. C. Home improvements plans.
19. Why probably does the speaker prefer some new fixtures
A. The old ones don't match the carpet.
B. The old ones are broken.
C. The old ones are somewhat dark.
20. What is the last job
A. Building a deck. B. Changing the roof. C. Designing a yard.
第二部分 阅读理解(共两节，满分50分)
第一节(共15 小题;每小题2.5分, 满分37.5分)
阅读下列短文，从每题所给A、B、C、D 四个选项中选出最佳选项。
A
Medical Examination Instructions
These medical instructions are being issued as your immigration (移民) application has reached the stage where medical examination results are required.
When, who and how to complete your Immigration Medical Examination
You are required to have the medical examination within 30 days of the date of this letter; your medical examination must be performed by a doctor from the IRCC list of Panel Physicians; book an appointment with a Panel Physician in your area as soon as possible.
Once your medical examination has been completed, the Panel Physician will submit medical results to IRCC for assessment. To obtain a copy of your Immigration Medical Examination, please ask the Panel Physician at the time of your appointment.
Paying for your Immigration Medical Examination
Any costs related to the medical examination are your responsibility and are payable to the Panel Physician at the time of examination. This payment is for the Panel Physician's services and cannot be returned even if your immigration application is refused or the validity period (有效期) of your immigration medical examination ends.
Note: If you are qualified for coverage under the Interim Federal Health Program, the costs related to your immigration medical examination may be covered by the IFHP. Please confirm with the Panel Physician in your area that they are registered with the IFHP.
What must I bring to my appointment
★ The attached Medical Report form
★Identification, including your passport if one is available (Proof of identity must include at least one government-issued document with photograph and signature, such as a passport.)
★Eye glasses or contact lenses (隐形眼镜), if worn
★Four recent photographs
★For individuals qualified for Migration Medical Examination coverage under the Interim Federal Health Program, please bring one of the following documents:
●Refugee Protection Claimant Document
●The Interim Federal Health Certificate
●Acknowledgement of Claim and Notice to Return for Interview
If available, you may be offered vaccinations (接种疫苗) by the Panel Physician.
1. After your medical examination, _________.
A. the previous health reports ought to be consulted
B. you will submit the results to IRCC for assessment
C. the Panel Physician will present the results to IRCC
D. you will surely obtain a copy of examination results by the physician
2. If your immigration application is refused, which statement is right about the costs
A. The IFHP will cover them. B. They cannot be returned.
C. The Panel Physician will pay in cash. D. They will be returned if you apply.
3. Which of the following must be brought to the appointment
A. Proof of identity. B. The Federal Health Certificate.
C. The application form. D. Medical examination instructions.
B
Wall Street bankers, investors and economists have for months argued over whether a US recession (衰退) is coming. But for some Americans, the unforgiving economic pain typical during recession has already set in.
Al Brown and his wife faced a tough call in May when reviewing their weekly budget: what’s a higher priority, more food or dish soap Based in Concord, North Carolina, Brown was the main breadwinner for his wife and their two children. Then in April, he was let go from his job as a global director of business development at software company Cascade. He’s since quit his gym membership and sold various items around his home, including a computer and yard furniture. His 13-year-old son quit the basketball team.
Brown, 37, now spends his days searching the internet for jobs or reaching out to potential connections. After filing over 600 applications, only a handful have produced interviews. That’s a far cry from the labor-market strength described in government figures.
Investors and economists have been expecting a recession since last year as the Fed raised interest rates to control inflation (通货膨胀). That caused companies to focus on profitability over growth, which meant cutting spending and reducing their workforces.
“I think it’s unlikely that I will get another good paying job with great benefits like the one I had,” McCollum, who lives in Cleveland, Ohio, said. More Americans are likely to encounter similar cases, some experts predict.
“As we go through this year, and into next year, there is still going to be this focus on trying to reduce costs, and it is going to result in more unemployment,” said Thomas Simons, a senior economist at Jefferies. “The impact of layoffs, currently concentrated among white-collar workers, will last throughout the economy through a ‘big pullback in overall spending’,” Simons said. “Consumer spending accounts for about two-thirds of economic output, so if more Americans are forced to cut back because they were laid off, that might throw the US economy into a recession.”
4. What are some Americans currently going through
A. They can’t afford necessities of life. B. They’ve lost interest in high-end gyms.
C. They are badly treated by their bosses. D. They have difficulty making ends meet.
5. What does the author want to demonstrate through Brown’s job hunting
A. One should try various ways to find a job.
B. American labor market is not that friendly to job-seekers.
C. Few companies are interested in middle-aged job-hunters.
D. The government provides accurate figures of the job market.
6. How do companies deal with the economic struggles
A. By employing more workers. B. By changing interest rates.
C. By giving priority to profits. D. By cutting employees’ allowances.
7. Which statement will Thomas Simons probably agree with
A. Laid-off workers tend to go into debt.
B. Lower consumption may worsen the current situation.
C. Americans will spend more to increase economic output.
D. Companies are to blame for the unemployment of white-collar workers.
C
What’s your first memory Whatever it is, you’re bound to treasure it. But can we actually trust them Nothing about memory is simple. Memory is malleable. What we remember is not necessarily what happened. A memory is not a recording. It’s more like a dramatic reconstruction and one that we can keep changing without realizing it.
For any experience to be remembered, it has to be encoded (编码). This encoding is not any kind of direct translation, though. It’s a rich and complex process that creates associations and meanings. We might be remembering something very similar, but slightly changed and colored by our own sets of associations.
Psychologist Elizabeth Loftus produced groundbreaking research on eyewitness testimony (证据). Her work showed that memories can easily be influenced, even after they’ve been created. For example, if two eyewitnesses talk with each other, their memories of events often change, absorbing what they’ve heard from the other one——but they won’t realize this has happened. Similarly, witnesses who are shown an image of an innocent person, can sometimes stick it onto their memory of the actual event—a process known as unconscious transference (无意识的转移). It is estimated that around 70% of wrongful convictions (定罪), later overturned by DNA evidence, are due to mistaken eyewitness testimony.
In some cases, memories can even be deliberately created and implanted. The Lost in the Mall experiment took a test group of subjects and talked to them in depth about key childhood memories while also adding an invented one—the experience of having been lost in a shopping center. It was found that between a quarter and a third of subjects not only accepted this new memory as genuine but enriched it with specific details.
Most of us have certain key memories of being a very young child. But research suggests that they’re highly unlikely to be actual memories due to the way memory is stored in the baby brain. Your precious first memory may well not be a real memory, and we’re all perhaps living in our imaginations more than we realize.
8. What does the underlined word “malleable” in paragraph 1 mean
A. Trustworthy. B. False. C. Easily changed. D. Deeply impressive.
9. Which will influence the memory of eyewitnesses
A. Powerful DNA evidence. B. Pictures stuck in their memory.
C. Reduced accuracy of convictions. D. Exchanged information between them.
10. What can we learn about “The Lost in the Mall” experiment
A. It was designed to investigate mistaken eyewitness testimony.
B. Its subjects could recall specific details of a shopping center.
C. Its subjects made believe that they had been lost in a shopping center.
D. It demonstrated that invented experiences could be fixed in one’s memory.
11. What can be a suitable title for the text
A. The Unreliable Nature of Memory. B. Revised Eyewitness Testimony.
C. Reflection on Sweet Childhood. D. An Exploration of Truth and Fiction.
D
It took an ill screech owl (鸣角鸮) to teach a scientist the value of up-close-and-personal study.
In his Harvad talk, Carl Safina, an ecologist and author of Alfie and Me: What Owls Know, What Humans Believe, recalled that the chick was found dying in his backyard. Safina took it in and planned to nurse it back to health and then perform release. But the owlet's flight feathers didn't grow properly. Safina delayed the release. Over those extended months, Safina got to know Alfie in ways that moved and changed him.
“An owl found me and then I was watching ‘an owl’,” he said. “It was no longer an owl after a while, it was ‘she’ because she had a history with me. This little owl, who was with me much longer than I thought she would be, became an individual to me by that history and all those interactions.”
The bond with Alfie strengthened to the point that, when she was finally released, she created a territory with Safina's home at its center. Safina was able to spend hours each day observing her in the woods as she learned to take care of herself in the wild, met two mates, and raised chicks of her own.
When he heard Alfie calling, Safina said, he'd call back and she'd land nearby. Their closeness allowed him to learn more things about screech owls. Field guides, for example, describe two known calls but he identified six, some of which you have to be quite close to hear. The relationship also opened a window for Safina onto personality differences between Alfie and her mates.
When pointed out that his approach to Alfie—including the act of naming her—ran counter to widespread scientific practice, Safina said he wasn't concerned about violating (违反) convention, particularly if something interesting like individual personality differences among owls could be learned.
The experience caused Safina to think more deeply about humankind's relationship with nature and the kind of personal connection he was able to feel with a wild individual. “What I learned from Alfie is that all sentient (有情感的) beings seek a feeling of well-being and freedom of movement,” Safina said. “That's a guide to what's right and what's wrong to me.”
12. What do we know about Alfie
A. She developed a close bond with Safina.
B. She was a fictional character in Safina's book.
C. She intentionally landed in Safina's backyard.
D. She was dying because of the broken flight feathers.
13. What happened after Safina released Alfie
A. Alfie chose to stay with Safina at his home.
B. They maintained a continous communication.
C. Alfie met mates and raised chicks by herself.
D. Safina kept his distance from her to prevent attachment.
14. What did Safina achieve in his study
A. Recording six different calls of the screech owl.
B. Identifying different types of owls by their calls.
C. Learning how to release owls back into the wild.
D. Understanding personality differences among owls.
15. How did Safina's experience with Alfie impact him
A. He became more focused on exploring nature.
B He initiated his commitment to wildlife conservation.
C. He developed a deep appreciation for the welfare of living creatures.
D. He decided to guide readers to distinguish between right and wrong.
第二节 (共5 小题;每小题2.5 分, 满分12.5分)
阅读下面短文，从短文后的选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
Who can imagine life today without an Automated Teller Machine (ATM) They are available in considerable numbers throughout the world.
The first ATM was the brainchild of an enterprising Turkish-American inventor Luther George Simjian. When the idea of an automated banking machine struck him, he registered 20 patents before any bank agreed to give it a trial run. It is easy to assume that the inventor of such a popular machine was laughing all the way to the bank. ____16____ Within six months of its operation in New York in 1939, the device was removed due to lack of customer acceptance.
It was not until 1967, nearly 30 years later, that Barclays Bank, in a careful launch, rolled out a self-service machine in London, England, which proved successful. ____17____ The first cash machine relied on customers’ use of prepaid tokens (代币) to get envelopes with a fixed amount of cash inside.
____18____ The banks’ principle was seemingly customer service. But it would be foolish to minimize the many advantages that cash machines provided to the banks themselves. By the late 1970s, the highest fixed cost for the average large bank was its branches. The greatest variable cost and loss to profits were its staff. Bank accounts swiftly recognized that self-service operations could reduce bank branch staff cost by70 percent.
Experts quickly determined that public acceptance of ATMs counted on convenience, simplicity, speed, security and trust. ____19____ For maximum efficiency, ATMs had to be located near public transport or in a shopping mall, not at a branch. The busier and more crowded the location, obviously, the better. Now, roughly 75 percent of all cash provided by banks to their customers comes from cash machines. ____20____.
Public acceptance of deposits (存款) by machine was significantly slower than customers’ usage of ATMs for withdrawals. In general, it seems that customers sometimes still prefer and trust an over-the-counter transaction (交易) for deposits.
A. Location, in particular, was a key factor.
B. His cash machine, however, didn’t prove durable.
C. The device was relatively primitive, at least by today’s standards.
D. However, cash machines posed some interesting, unanswered questions.
E. An interesting factor was the issue of bio-statistics for customer identification.
F. Devices originally dismissed by the public are now recognized as essential institutions.
G. Soon afterwards many other banks became admittedly champions of the cash machine.
第三部分 语言运用(共两节，满分30分)
第一节(共15 小题；每小题1分，满分15 分)
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C 和 D 四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
My friendship with the students in a primary school in Uganda started on a shaky ground. The ____21____ of not being understood was hidden within, for they spoke a language different from that of mine and mine too fell on ____22____ ears.
I greeted them with a broad smile, and they replied with ice cold ____23____ when I spoke further. A ____24____ echoed (回响) in my mind: you must live through it to get to them. So I gave it another try. I spoke ____25____ English with hand gestures and a bit of dancing. If all failed, the smile would ____26____. Soon we picked up and then the ___27___ of the learners came into play. At the mention of a name, reddish cheeks and shaking voices were the response I got. I decided to ____28____ a desk with a team each day during group work to get closer. After school, I ____29____ them home.
____30____, we became friends. They were even aware of my favorite fruit, avocado (牛油果). If I didn’t get one on my desk, it would ____31____ me wherever I was. My slippers were ____32____. One night I left them out as no one could steal a pair of slippers in that state. The next morning, I was ready to drag my slippers on as usual and I was surprised they had been ____33____. Wow!
The little things we do for each other bring us great joy and ____34____. We don’t have a proper spoken language, but we are fluent in the language of ____35____.
21. A. anger B. fear C. desire D. belief
22. A. sharp B. all C. long D. deaf
23. A. silence B. blame C. comment D. agreement
24. A. puzzle B. doubt C. reminder D. relief
25. A. official B. simple C. academic D. unusual
26. A. turn out B. break off C. die away D. take over
27. A. laziness B. shyness C. loneliness D. calmness
28. A. share B. clear C. search D. exchange
29. A. prevented B. forced C. accompanied D. allowed
30. A. Suddenly B. Gradually C. Accidentally D. Obviously
31. A. miss B. leave C. refuse D. find
32. A. worn out B. put out C. made out D. carried out
33. A. packed B. cleaned C. abandoned D. repaired
34. A. freedom B. chance C. warmth D. challenge
35. A. friendship B. admiration C. sympathy D. confidence
第二节(共10 小题;每小题1.5分,满分15 分)
阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
Scientists have discovered the remains of ____36____ appears to be an ancient sheep-drawn chariot (战车) near the famous Terracotta Army in the western tomb of Emperor Qin Shi Huang. The main structure of the chariot has likely rotted (腐烂) away after ____37____ (spend) more than 2,000 years in the ground but researchers did find a row of six sheep skeletons (骨架) wearing attachments used for pulling a chariot, so they ____38____ (infer) this was a sheep-drawn chariot.
Horse-drawn chariots were common in ancient China, but a sheep-drawn chariot is ____39____ extremely rare find. The founder of the Western Jin Dynasty, Emperor Wu, or Sima Yan, who ruled from 266 to 290CE, is said ____40____ (ride) in a sheep-drawn carriage around his palace complex every night and would sleep wherever the sheep stopped. Researchers hope laboratory ____41____ (analyze) on the western tomb’s burial chamber, which is currently underway, will help them determine who was buried there.
In addition to the six-sheep chariot, scientists unearthed a four-wheeled ____42____ (wood) chariot, probably drawn by horses, ____43____ (equip) with a fancy umbrella. It is the oldest of ____44____ (it) type ever found. They also found a wealth of iron tools and weapons, providing new insight ____45____ the period when iron tools first began to appear.
第四部分 写作(共两节，满分40分)
第一节(满分15 分)
46. 假定你是安徽省黄山国家自然保护区的负责人，为了更好地对迎客松进行日常保护，拟招聘一名迎客松守护员。请你撰写一则招聘广告发布在 China Daily上，内容包括：
1工作职责；
2.聘用条件；
3.工作待遇。
注意：
1.词数80 左右;
2.请按如下格式做答(标题和结尾已为你写好，不计入总词数)。
Guardian of Welcoming-Guest Pine Wanted
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Please contact Miss Wang before 30 July. Inquiries are encouraged but visits declined.
Mount Huangshan Nature Reserve
第二节(满分25 分)
47. 读后续写
Crab Lessons
My son Geordi was a rather spirited boy. Very little held his attention for long. He spent most of his spare time thinking up new ways to scare me half to death. Like the time he decided to “surf” on a tiny plastic table that was meant to hold a few drinks rather than a six-year-old boy. Geordi had just begun learning about the ocean in school and was surprisingly fascinated by it. We lived in Delaware, so any discussion about the ocean usually included horseshoe crabs, which crowded our coasts to mate in the late spring.
As part of the lesson, Geordi’s teacher brought horseshoe crab shells (壳) to school for the children to touch and examine. Hearing that horseshoe crabs had been around for over 300 million years, even before the dinosaurs, Geordi thought that was officially the coolest thing he had ever heard. He could not stop talking about it for days, and I decided it was time for us to take a drive to the Delaware Bay.
As we stepped out from the car, strong wind nearly blew my poor forty-five-pound child to the ground. Being a six-year-old mischievous (调皮的) boy, Geordi saw this as an opportunity to showcase his amazing talents, which included falling down, getting up, falling down and, yes, getting up again. This, of course, was always complete with giggles (咯咯笑). The drama came to a sudden stop as Geordi spied the dozens of army-truck-looking creatures in the sand. The next sound effect was “Wow!” as his body froze and his eyes widened with wonder.
Geordi ran around excitedly, not knowing which one to check out first. He settled on a horseshoe crab that was on its back, legs waving wildly in the air, desperate for water. “Mom, look at this one!” he screamed. “He’s cool!” I pointed out the different body parts of the crab for him, and he listened quietly and absorbed the information. He said, “I really liked him. I think I will name him Spike because he had all those really cool, spiky (尖的) things on his back.” Then I picked up the crab, turned it over to its proper position and placed it at the edge of the water.
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Geordi asked what I was doing.
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Geordi spotted many more horseshoe crabs on their backs.
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