辽宁省大连市滨城高中联盟2023-2024学年高二下学期期中考试英语试卷(含解析)
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辽宁省大连市滨城高中联盟2023-2024学年高二下学期期中考试英语试卷
学校：___________姓名：___________班级：___________考号：___________
一、阅读理解
Peru is a country on the Pacific coast of South America with three main areas: narrow, dry, flat land running along the coast, the Andes Mountains, and the Amazon rainforest.
Amazon Rainforest Tour
A short flight from Cusco takes you from the Andes into the Amazon rainforest. From there, you’ll spend one day travelling by boat to your accommodation in the middle of the forest. You can then spend three days exploring the rainforest with a local guide and enjoying the plants and animals unique to the rainforest.
Machu Picchu Tour
This four-day walking tour will take you on amazing paths through the Andes Mountains on the way to the city of Machu Picchu. After reaching your destination, you will have a day to explore and be amazed by this ancient city. Especially amazing is the Incas’ dry stone method of building. Inca builders cut stones to exact sizes so that nothing was needed to hold walls together other than the perfect fit of the stones.
Cusco Tour
Spend four days enjoying the unique Spanish and local Indian culture high in the Andes at Cusco, the capital of the Inca Empire from the 13th until the 16th century. Stay in a local hotel, visit the museums, admire the architecture, enjoy the excellent local food, and go shopping at the local markets.
Lake Titicaca Tour
Enjoy the beautiful countryside as you spend a day driving along the new highway connecting Cusco to Lake Titicaca. There, a boat will take you to stay with a local Uros family on an island for three days. Both the island and the Uros homes are made of water plants from the lake.
So come and experience what Peru has to offer: everything from the ancient Inca culture and centuries—old Spanish villages to deep rainforests, high mountains, and a beautiful coastline.
1．What is special about the Machu Picchu Tour
A. People can explore the rainforest with a local guide.
B. People can stay with a local Uros family on an island.
C. People can enjoy the plants and animals unique to the forest.
D. People can know about the Incas’ dry stone method of building.
2．Which tour would you recommend to people who enjoy local Indian culture
A. Amazon Rainforest Tour. B. Machu Picchu Tour.
C. Cusco Tour. D. Lake Titicaca Tour.
3．Where can you most probably read the passage
A. On a science website. B. In a travel brochure.
C. In an environmental report. D. In a biology magazine.
Following a design shown on her cell phone, Ruan Xiyue, 35, quickly sketched a manned spacecraft on a gourd (葫芦), completing the first step of gourd sculpture, an intangible (非物质) cultural her it age of northwest China’s Gansu Province.
Coming from a family engaged in gourd sculpture for almost 90 years in Lanzhou, Ruan is not satisfied with just perfecting her technique. Instead, the fourth-generation inheritor (继承人) aims to bring traditional craftsmanship closer to young people through marketing and sharing.
Dating back over 1, 600 years, gourd sculpture was first developed as a decoration on people’s portable wine pots made of gourds. The pronunciation of “gourd” in Chinese, which resembles that of “luck and fortune”, partly explains its lasting popularity.
For Ruan, the fragrance of gourds is the smell of home. Upon graduating from college, she started learning gourd sculpture from her mother, sitting for hours every day practicing calligraphy and painting, which she views as the essential training to become a qualified sculptor. Later, Ruan developed innovative products such as gourd mirrors and gourd necklaces to tap the market potential, believing they can help the craft reach more people.
Her family opened a gourd sculpting studio in 2010, displaying their works as well as a history of the art. Ruan likes talking with visitors to the studio, and their interactions inspired her to launch a curriculum for people to experience the craft in 2016. According to Ruan, around 800 people attend the courses every year. Among them are students eager to learn something new, and young parents who bring their kids along to enjoy some lovely family time. “Many participants told me that our courses enable them to know more about the history of Lanzhou, and help make the city’s memories last longer,” said Ruan.
Under Ruan’s influence, her mother is now live streaming on social media everyday sharing her stories of gourd sculpture with viewers across the country. “Sharing is inheriting,” said Ruan. “When we share our skills and knowledge with more people, the traditional culture will naturally be spread on a wider scale,” said Ruan.
4．What do we know about Ruan
A. She is a designer of manned spacecraft on a gourd.
B. She took up gourd sculpture under the influence of her family.
C. She first sculpted on a portable wine pot made of a gourd.
D. She is good at teaching young people the craftsmanship.
5．Which words can be used to describe the curriculum
A. Inspiring and touching. B. New and memorable.
C. Popular and enjoyable. D. Lovely and practical.
6．Which statement is the author likely to agree with
A. Spreading the gourd sculpture is to share the stories.
B. Stories of gourd sculpture a reviewed across the world
C. Live streaming on social media is the best way to share.
D. Traditional culture will be spread wider through sharing.
7．What can be the best title of the text
A. Ruan Xiyue: an Inheritor of an Intangible Cultural Heritage.
B. Gourd Sculpture: a Traditional Craft Popular with the Chinese.
C. Social Media: a Useful Tool to Share Gourd Sculpture.
D. Cultural Courses: an Approach to Learning Something New.
Teachers worried about students turning in essays written by a popular artificial intelligence chatbot now have a new tool of their own.
Edward Tian, a computer science major at Princeton University, has built an App called GPTZero to detect whether a text is written by Chat GPT, which is a popular chatbot that has caused fears over its possibility for immoral uses in American academic circles. His motivation to create the computer program was to fight what he sees as an increase in AI plagiarism (剽窃). Since the release of ChatGPT in 2022, there have been reports of students using the language model to pass off AI-written assignments as their own. Many teachers have reached out to him after he released GPTZero, telling him about the positive results they’ve seen from testing it.
To determine whether an essay is written by a computer program, GPTZero uses two indicators: “confusion” and “burstiness (突发性)”. The first indicator measures the complexity of text; if GPTZero is confused by the text, then it has a high complexity and it’s more likely to be human-written. However, if the text is more familiar to GPTZero—because it’s been trained on such data—then it will have low complexity and therefore is more likely to be AI-generated. Besides, the second indicator compares the variations of sentences. Humans tend to write with greater burstiness, for example, with some longer or complex sentences alongside shorter ones. AI sentences tend to be more uniform.
In a demonstration video, Tian compared the App’s analysis of a story in The New Yorker and a Linked In post written by ChatGPT. It successfully distinguished writing between human and AI. However, GPTZero isn’t foolproof, as some users have reported when putting it to the test. He said he’s still working to improve the model’s accuracy.
Tian is not opposed to the use of AI tools like ChatGPT. GPTZero is “not meant to be a tool to stop these technologies from being used,” he said. “But with any new technologies, we need to be able to adopt it responsibly and we need to have protections.”
8．What have some students done since ChatGPT was released
A. They have built language models from ChatGPT.
B. They have copied AI-written text from ChatGPT
C. They have accessed their assignments through ChatGPT.
D. They have passed their writing exams through ChatGPT.
9．What can be inferred about the two indicators of GPTZero
A. The more uniform the text is, the more likely it is to be AI-generated.
B. The less complex the text is, the more likely it is to be human-written.
C. GPTZero sometimes confuses human-written texts with AI-generated texts.
D. GPTZero is more familiar with human-written texts than with AI-generated texts.
10．What does the underlined word “foolproof” mean in the fourth paragraph
A. User-friendly. B. Time-efficient.
C. Perfectly legal. D. Completely reliable.
11．What maybe Tian’s attitude to the use of AI tools
A. Favorable. B. Disapproving. C. Objective. D. Ambiguous.
Kenya is home to Africa’s predators (捕食者), particularly lions, which frequently hunt farmers’ livestock (牲畜). To protect their animals, farmers often use poisons. While these have been successful in protecting farmers’ livestock, their use has resulted in a sharp decline in the lion population, which stands at just 2,500 now.
At the age of nine, Turere was asked to care for his father’s cattle beside Nairobi National Park, one of Kenya’s most famous wilderness areas, where people frequently experienced conflicts with lions. Turere couldn’t bear to see lions harmed by humans when lions hunted cows, because he loved these creatures deeply. Determined to find a solution benefiting both local farmers and wildlife, Turere started experimenting. But no way worked at first. The only thing that worked later was when he wandered around the livestock pen with a torch in hand. The sight of him walking around at night with a light made the animals runaway.
This inspired Turere to develop the Lion Lights system, a series of flashing LED lights strategically placed on the cattle fences to scare away predators. “The lights flash irregularly to trick lions into thinking that someone is walking around with a flashlight. Thanks to it, we went from losing three cows a week to none,” says Turere. This innovative solar-powered light system—which can also run on wind power—costs just $20.5 per unit, making it affordable and eco-friendly.
Turere’s invention is not only protecting the livelihoods of local communities, it, is also changing the viewpoints of local communities on wild life. “Since the introduction of the Lion Lights system, there have been no predator-related incidents. As a result, local people no longer view wildlife as the enemy,” he notes. “This is great news for these wonderful animals as it means that local communities are more open to wildlife conservation.”
12．What is the problem with farmers using poisons in Kenya
A. It threatens the lion’s survival.
B. It often harms their livestock.
C. It arouses the public’s opposition.
D. It damages the local environment.
13．Why did Turere perform the experiments
A. To take good care of his father’s cattle.
B. To stop farmers from hunting lions.
C. To protect the livestock from being killed.
D. To find ways for farmers and lions to coexist.
14．What do we know about the Lion Lights System
A. It can keep domestic animals from running away.
B. It works with all the lights on all the time.
C. It’s inexpensive and environmentally friendly.
D. Only three cows have been lost since it was used.
15．What does the author want to show in the last paragraph
A. Exploring the world is a must for children.
B. Local communities have been preserving the wildlife.
C. Protecting the livestock of local communities is the top priority.
D. Turere’s invention contributed to wildlife conservation.
二、七选五
16． Speed reading is a skill that allows people to process information quickly with skimming techniques. ①______ Here’re some efficient speed reading techniques.
Talk to yourself less and avoid sounding out each word. ②______ This may help readers remember concepts but can also be a major barrier to speed. Keep in mind that you don’t need to read every single word to understand the sentence’s overall meaning.
Cover words you’ve already read with a card. When you’re reading, your eyes can move back to earlier words. These are typically short habitual movements that don’t improve understanding or speed. Use a card to cover words right after you’ve read them. ③______
Move your eyes less as you read. While reading, your eyes: move, stopping on some words and skipping others. However, you can only comprehend what you’re reading when your eyes stop moving. Learning to move your eyes less can help you read faster. So try staring at one line at a time without gliding your eyes over the words.
④______ Track your progress by timing yourself daily, or each time you do a speed reading exercise. Not only does trying to beat your best speed motivate you, but it can also give you a goal to work towards.
Set obtainable goals to improve your speed reading. Aim to work on n yours pee reading daily by completing speed reading exercises. 200 to 250 words per minute is the expected reading speed for someone 12 or older. ⑤______ At 450 words per minute, you’re reading as fast as a college student skimming for the main points. It typically takes 2 to 4 weeks to double your reading speed, so be patient with yourself and keep trying.
A. Point to the words you’re reading on the page.
B. So, how do you learn and master this amazing skill
C. Time your reading speed so you can track your progress.
D. Some readers sound out every word they read in their heads.
E. This way, you can train yourself not to look back at previous sentences.
F. 300 words per minute is the reading speed of the average college student.
G. Reading can seem like such a chore, especially because it can take so long.
三、完形填空（15空）
Many years ago, I was living in Cali, Colombia. My younger sister decided to visit me for a holiday. However, on the day I was supposed to go to meet her at the airport, I somehow 1 time and realized that I was leaving my home much later than I had wanted to. And to make matters worse, when I went outside, the rain was 2 from the sky and I couldn’t get a taxi to take me to the airport. I 3 jumping onboard a public bus to Palmira, where the airport was. Except it wasn’t exactly going to be 4 the airport.
The driver said that he would 5 me off at a crossroads which was located six kilometers away from the airport. I had no 6 but to travel with the bus. The 7 took ages, however. When the bus did eventually reach the 8 mentioned crossroads, the stop appeared to be in the middle of 9 . The driver pointed in a given 10 and told me that the airport was down that way. By this time, I had burst into 11 . My sister would be arriving in twelve minutes, and there was no way I was going to be able to 12 in time. Beside myself with 13 , I begged the driver to drive the six kilometers down to the airport to drop me off. He stood up and asked the other 14 to take a vote. 15 , they all agreed. Thanks ECN to them, I arrived on time.
17．A. lost track of B. kept up with C. ran out of D. got tired of
18．A. fading B. shaking C. sweeping D. pouring
19．A. ended up B. put up C. stuck to D. objected to
20．A. departing from B. parting at C. heading for D. waiting at
21．A. see B. drop C. set D. keep
22．A. praise B. ambition C. alternative D. respect
23．A. outing B. journey C. waiting D. operation
24．A. presently B. preciously C. precisely D. previously
25．A. nowhere B. somewhere C. nothing D. something
26．A. preference B. reference C. location D. direction
27．A. chaos B. tears C. exhaustion D. loneliness
28．A. come round B. breakout C. get along D. make it
29．A. confusion B. promise C. worry D. prejudice
30．A. visitors B. passengers C. conductors D. inspectors
31．A. Fortunately B. Potentially C. Suddenly D. Apparently
四、短文填空
32． For many, the most eye-catching movie this spring must be YOLO (《热辣滚烫》), which earned over 3.3 billion yuan at the box office within 17 days of its release. Directed by Jia Ling, YOLO ①_____ (tell) the story of a desperate woman who finds herself and learns to love life through boxing. Jia had several identities before becoming a director, including crosstalk performer, variety show guest and actress. It was in 2019 for her film Hi,Mom that she tried directing for the first time. She believes that her lack ②_____ professional study in directing is her weakness and strength, ③_____ (give) her more freedom in filmmaking. The popular film earned her the title of the highest-grossing (票房最高的) female director in the world before 2023
Before shooting YOLO, Jia was often regarded as ④_____ overweight comedian who always spoke sarcastically (讽刺地) of herself ⑤_____ (amuse) the audience. For the movie, Jia lost 50 kg and looked totally different. Some Internet users said her voice became even ⑥_____ (gentle), and they call this “rebirth” for Jia. In Jia’s eyes, the change in identity and ⑦_____ (appear) is her way of staying true to herself. “⑧_____ I’m doing now is just following my heart without looking for changes ⑨_____ (deliberate). Film is now the best medium to express myself, so I’m now dedicated to it,” Jia told Xinhua. Jia noted that the movie is not a story about boxing or losing weight, ⑩_____ a story about empowerment and self-discovery—a message that resonate (共鸣) deeply with audience of all ages.
五、书面表达
33． 假设你是李华,过去一年中,你在外教Kevin的课堂上收获颇多。但Kevin为了更进一步提升课堂质量,特向大家征求改进建议。请你撰写一封英文建议信给他,内容包括：
1.介绍收获并表达感谢；
2.提出建议并给出理由。
注意：
1.词数80左右；
2.开头和结尾已给出,不计入总词数。
Dear Kevin,
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Yours,
Li Hua
六、读后续写
34． 阅读下面材料,根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段,使之构成一篇完整的短文。
The boys at the back of the school bus were restless. Stevie did his best to ignore the others. “Settled own!” Mr Taylor said. “We’ll be there soon. Wait till you see the climbing walls. You’ll be very happy.” Stevie hadn’t liked this “Boys Rulz” club from the start. They were troublemakers. Mom had made him join because she was worried that he didn’t seem to be fitting in. It was n this fault, thought Stevie, school was boring. None of the teachers trusted him, and no special boy’s group was to change that.
All the boys stared up in wonder at the huge climbing walls. Stevie looked down at his thin arms and wondered how he could climb up that. Mr Taylor and a man called Rick helped the boys get into their harnesses (保护带) and showed them how to climb up. “Now find a partner and get them to check all your straps (带子) and everything,” said Mr Taylor. The boys quickly paired off, leaving Stevie standing there alone. “Cool, you’re with me,” said Rick, holding up his hand for a high-five. Stevie high-five d him back weakly. Stevie was on a tiny wall which the others had called the “baby wall”. He gritted his teeth (咬紧牙关), his face pressed against the rough surface and reached for the next, hold. “Done!” he called down from the top. “Now let go of the rock and walk down as I showed you,” said Rick. “It’s perfectly safe.” Stevie did as instructed, and Rick started to let him down slowly. “Well done,” said Rick when Stevie got to the bottom.
Then someone pointed out that Mr Taylor hadn’t done any climbing himself. “I plan to, ”said Mr Taylor. “ But I’ll need a partner, someone I can really trust. ” The boys volunteered actively, but Mr Taylor pretended he hadn’t heard. He looked around the group. “How about you, Stevie ” he said at last. “Fancy being my belayer ” A be layer is somebody who controls how you come down, the one that stops you from falling.
要求：
1.续写词数应为150个左右；
2.请按如下格式作答。
Stevie looked up, greatly surprised.
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“Ready to let me down ” Mr Taylor called down to Stevie.
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参考答案
1．答案： D
解析：细节理解题。根据Machu Picchu Tour中“Especially amazing is the Incas’ dry stone method of building. (尤其令人惊叹的是印加人的干石建造法)”可知,马丘比丘之旅的独特之处在于人们可以知道印加人的干石建造方法。故选D项。
2．答案： C
解析：细节理解题。根据Cusco Tour部分中“Spend four days enjoying the unique Spanish and local Indian culture high in the Andes at Cusco, the capital of the Inca Empire from the 13th until the 16th century.(在安第斯山脉高处的库斯科,花四天时间欣赏独特的西班牙和当地的印度文化,库斯科是13世纪至16世纪印加帝国的首都)”可知,你会向喜欢印度当地文化的人推荐Cusco Tour。故选C。
3．答案： B
解析：推理判断题。根据第一段“Peru is a country on the Pacific coast of South America with three main areas: narrow, dry, flat land running along the coast, the Andes Mountains, and the Amazon rainforest.(秘鲁是南美洲太平洋沿岸的一个国家,主要有三个地区：狭窄、干燥、平坦的海岸、安第斯山脉和亚马逊雨林)”可知,本文是一篇关于去秘鲁旅行包价旅游的广告宣传,因此你最可能在旅行手册上读到这篇文章。故选B项。
4．答案： B
解析：细节理解题。根据第二段“Coming from a family engaged in gourd sculpture for almost 90 years in Lanzhou, Ruan is not satisfied with just perfecting her technique.(Ruan来自兰州一个从事葫芦雕刻近90年的家庭,她不满足于仅仅完善自己的技术。)”和倒数第三段“For Ruan, the fragrance of gourds is the smell of home. Upon graduating from college, she started learning gourd sculpture from her mother, sitting for hours every day practicing calligraphy and painting, which she views as the essential training to become a qualified sculptor.(对Ruan来说,葫芦的香味就是家的味道。大学毕业后,她开始跟随母亲学习葫芦雕塑,每天静坐数小时练习书法和绘画,她认为这是成为一名合格雕塑家的必要训练。)”可知,Ruan在家庭的影响下,开始学雕刻葫芦。故选B。
5．答案： C
解析：推理判断题。根据倒数第二段“Ruan likes talking with visitors to the studio, and their interactions inspired her to launch a curriculum for people to experience the craft in 2016. According to Ruan, around 800 people attend the courses every year. Among them are students eager to learn something new, and young parents who bring their kids along to enjoy some lovely family time.(Ruan喜欢与参观者交谈,他们的互动激发了她在2016年推出一门课程,让人们体验手工艺。据Ruan说,每年大约有800人参加这些课程。其中有渴望学习新知识的学生,也有带着孩子一起享受美好家庭时光的年轻父母。)”可知,这个课程是受欢迎,且令人愉快的,可用popular和enjoyable描述这个课程。故选C。
6．答案： D
解析：推理判断题。根据最后一段“Sharing is inheriting,” said Ruan. “When we share our skills and knowledge with more people, the traditional culture will naturally be spread on a wider scale,” said Ruan.(“分享就是继承,”Ruan说。“当我们与更多人分享我们的技能和知识时,传统文化自然会在更广泛的范围内传播,”Ruan说。)可知,作者同意的说法是传统文化通过分享得到更广泛的传播。故选D。
7．答案： A
解析：主旨大意题。通读全文,尤其是第一段“Following a design shown on her cell phone, Ruan Xiyue, 35, quickly sketched a manned spacecraft on a gourd (葫芦), completing the first step of gourd sculpture, an intangible (非物质) cultural her it age of northwest China’s Gansu Province.(根据手机上的设计,35岁的Ruan Xiyue迅速在葫芦上画出了载人飞船,完成了葫芦雕塑的第一步。葫芦雕塑是中国西北部甘肃省的一项非物质文化遗产。)”和第二段“Coming from a family engaged in gourd sculpture for almost 90 years in Lanzhou, Ruan is not satisfied with just perfecting her technique. Instead, the fourth-generation inheritor (继承人) aims to bring traditional craftsmanship closer to young people through marketing and sharing.(Ruan来自兰州一个从事葫芦雕刻近90年的家庭,她不满足于仅仅完善自己的技术。相反,这位第四代传承人的目标是通过营销和分享,让传统手工艺更贴近年轻人。)”可知,本文主要讲的是Ruan Xiyue,一位35岁的葫芦雕刻艺术家,她来自一个有着近90年葫芦雕刻传统的家庭,并致力于将这一传统手工艺推广给年轻人。Ruan Xiyue不仅继承了家族的葫芦雕刻技术,还通过创新和营销策略,如开发新产品和开设体验课程,让更多人了解和接触这门手艺,因此最好的标题是A选项“Ruan Xiyue: an Inheritor of an Intangible Cultural Heritage.(Ruan Xiyue：非物质文化遗产传承人。)”,故选A。
8．答案： B
解析：细节理解题。根据第二段中“Since the release of ChatGPT in 2022, there have been reports of students using the language model to pass off AI-written assignments as their own. (自2022年ChatGPT发布以来,有报道称学生使用该语言模型将人工智能编写的作业冒充自己的作业)”可知,自从ChatGPT发布以来,一些学生的作业抄袭了语言模型ChatGPT人工智能编写的文本。故选B。
9．答案： A
解析：推理判断题。根据第三段“To determine whether an essay is written by a computer program, GPTZero uses two indicators: “confusion” and “burstiness (突发性)”. The first indicator measures the complexity of text; if GPTZero is confused by the text, then it has a high complexity and it’s more likely to be human-written. However, if the text is more familiar to GPTZero—because it’s been trained on such data—then it will have low complexity and therefore is more likely to be AI-generated. Besides, the second indicator compares the variations of sentences. Humans tend to write with greater burstiness, for example, with some longer or complex sentences alongside shorter ones. AI sentences tend to be more uniform.(为了确定一篇文章是否由计算机程序编写,GPTZero使用了两个指标：“困惑度”和“突发性”。第一个指标衡量文本的复杂性；如果GPTZero对文本感到困惑,那么它具有很高的复杂性,并且更有可能是人类编写的。然而,如果文本对GPTZero来说更熟悉—因为它是在这样的数据上训练的—那么它的复杂性就会降低,因此更有可能是人工智能生成的。此外,第二个指标比较句子的变化。例如,人类倾向于用更突然的方式写作,一些较长的或复杂的句子与较短的句子并列。人工智能的句子往往更加统一)”可知,GPTZero使用了“困惑度”和“突发性”来确定一篇文章是否由计算机程序编写,困惑度越低就更有可能是人工智能生成的；人类更倾向于用更突然的方式写作。由此推知,文本越统一,就越有可能是人工智能生成的。故选A。
10．答案： D
解析：词句猜测题。根据划线词上句“In a demonstration video, Tian compared the App’s analysis of a story in The New Yorker and a Linked In post written by ChatGPT. It successfully distinguished writing between human and AI. (在一段演示视频中,田将该应用对《纽约客》一篇报道的分析与ChatGPT撰写的一篇Linked In文章进行了比较。它成功地区分了人类和人工智能的写作)”可知,在演示视频中GPTZero成功区分出了人类和人工智能的写作；结合划线词所在句首的转折词“However”以及下文“He said he’s still working to improve the model’s accuracy.(他说他仍在努力提高模型的准确性)”可知,GPTZero模型的准确性仍在努力提高,即GPTZero辨别文本是否为人工智能所写并不是完全可靠的、万无一失的；由此可知,“However, GPTZero isn’t foolproof, as some users have reported when putting it to the test. (然而,GPTZero并不是foolproof,正如一些用户在测试时所报告的那样)”中的foolproof意思为“完全可靠的”,与Completely reliable意思一致。故选D。
11．答案： C
解析：推理判断题。根据最后一段“Tian is not opposed to the use of AI tools like ChatGPT. GPTZero is “not meant to be a tool to stop these technologies from being used,” he said. “But with any new technologies, we need to be able to adopt it responsibly and we need to have protections.”(Tian并不反对使用ChatGPT等人工智能工具。GPTZero‘并不是要成为阻止这些技术被使用工具,’他说。‘但对于任何新技术,我们都需要能够负责任地采用它,我们需要有保护措施。’)”可知,Tian并不反对使用ChatGPT等人工智能工具,他认为应该负责任地采用人工智能工具。由此推知,Tian对人工智能使用的态度很客观的。故选C。
12．答案： A
解析：细节理解题。根据第一段的“To protect their animals, farmers often use poisons. While these have been successful in protecting farmers’ livestock, their use has resulted in a sharp decline in the lion population, which stands at just 2,500 now. (为了保护他们的动物,农民经常使用毒药。虽然这些措施成功地保护了农民的牲畜,但它们的使用导致了狮子数量的急剧下降,目前狮子数量仅为2500头)”可知,使用毒药的问题威胁到了狮子的生存。故选A。
13．答案： D
解析：细节理解题。根据第二段的“Turere couldn’t bear to see lions harmed by humans when lions hunted cows, because he loved these creatures deeply. Determined to find a solution benefiting both local farmers and wildlife, Turere started experimenting. (Turere不忍心看到狮子在猎杀奶牛时受到人类的伤害,因为他深深地爱着这些动物。Turere决心找到一个既有利于当地农民又有利于野生动物的解决方案,于是重新开始了试验)”可知,他做实验是为了寻找农民和狮子和平共处的方法。故选D。
14．答案： C
解析：细节理解题。根据第三段的“This innovative solar-powered light system—which can also run on wind power—costs just $20.5 per unit, making it affordable and eco-friendly. (这种创新的太阳能照明系统也可以使用风能,每台仅需20.5美元,价格实惠,环保)”可知,狮子灯系统的特点是价格便宜且环保。故选C。
15．答案： D
解析：推理判断题。根据最后一段的“Turere’s invention is not only protecting the livelihoods of local communities, it, is also changing the viewpoints of local communities on wild life. “Since the introduction of the Lion Lights system, there have been no predator-related incidents. As a result, local people no longer view wildlife as the enemy,” he notes. “This is great news for these wonderful animals as it means that local communities are more open to wildlife conservation.” (Turere的发明不仅保护了当地社区的生计,还改变了当地社区对野生生物的看法。“自从狮子灯系统引入以来,没有发生过与捕食者有关的事件。因此,当地人不再将野生动物视为敌人。这对这些神奇的动物来说是个好消息,因为这意味着当地社区对野生动物保护更加开放。”)”可推知,本段主要是为了介绍Turere的发明对于野生动物保护的贡献。故选D。
16．答案：BDECF
解析：①上文“Speed reading is a skill that allows people to process information quickly with skimming techniques.(速读是一种让人们通过略读技巧快速处理信息的技能)”解释什么是速读：一种让人们通过略读技巧快速处理信息的技能；结合下文“Here’re some efficient speed reading techniques.(这里是一些有效的速读技巧)”可知,设空处为过渡句,起到承上启下的作用,与速读技能的学习有关；B选项“So, how do you learn and master this amazing skill (所以,你如何学习并掌握这个令人惊叹的技能呢 )”符合语境,选项中的“this amazing skill”指代上文中的“a skill that allows people to process information quickly with skimming techniques”,下文则承接B选项这个问句,引出文章主题：介绍有效的速读技巧。故选B。
②根据上文(本段主旨句)“Talk to yourself less and avoid sounding out each word.(少和自己说话,并避免发出每个单词的声音)”以及下文“This may help readers remember concepts but can also be a major barrier to speed.(这可能会有助于读者记住概念但是也会是速读的一个主要障碍)”可知,该空应为一种把每个单词都读出来有关的做法；D选项“Some readers sound out every word they read in their heads.(有些读者把读到的每一个字都在脑子里念出来)”符合语境,选项中的“sound out every word”与上文中的“sounding out each word”相照应。故选D。
③该段主题句“Cover words you’ve already read with a card.(用卡片遮住你已经读过的单词)”以及上文“Use a card to cover words right after you’ve read them.(用卡片遮住你已经读过的单词)”建议用卡片把读过的词盖住；E选项“This way, you can train yourself not to look back at previous sentences.(这样,你可以训练自己不回头看以前的句子)”承接上文,阐述用卡片把读过的单词盖住的益处,符合语境；“This way”指代上句建议的做法,“look back at previous sentences”与本段中的“your eyes can move back to earlier words”相对应。故选E。
④该空是段落的主题句；根据下文“Track your progress by timing yourself daily, or each time you do a speed reading exercise. Not only does trying to beat your best speed motivate you, but it can also give you a goal to work towards.(通过每天计时或每次做快速阅读练习来记录你的进步。努力超越你的最佳速度不仅能激励你,还能给你一个努力的目标)”可知,本段建议通过每天或每次做速读时计时来记录自己的进步；C选项“Time your reading speed so you can track your progress.(对你的阅读速度计时,这样你就可以跟踪你的进步)”能够概括本段主旨,适合作为主题句。故选C。
⑤由上文“200 to 250 words per minute is the expected reading speed for someone 12 or older.(每分钟200到250个单词是12岁或以上的人的预期阅读速度。)”以及下文“At 450 words per minute, you’re reading as fast as a college student skimming for the main points.(以每分钟450字的速度,你的阅读速度和大学生阅读要点一样快)”可推知,设空处与上文构成递进关系,阐述的阅读速度介于上下文之间；F选项“300 words per minute is the reading speed of the average college student.(每分钟300次是大学生平均的阅读速度)”符合语境。故选F。
17．答案： A
解析：考查动词短语辨析。句意：然而,在我应该去机场接她的那天,我不知怎么忘了时间,意识到我离开家的时间比我想的要晚得多。A. lost track of 失去联系；B. kept up with跟得上；C. ran out of用完；D. got tired of对……厌烦。根据空前“However, on the day I was supposed to go to meet her at the airport, I somehow”以及“time and realized that I was leaving my home much later than I had wanted to.”可知作者接妹妹的时间比预想的要晚的多,所以可以推测作者应该是忘记了时间,lose track of time“失去时间的概念”。故选A项。
18．答案： D
解析：考查动词词义辨析。句意：更糟糕的是,当我走到外面时,雨从天上倾盆而下,我找不到出租车送我去机场。A. fading褪色；枯萎；B. shaking摇动；挥动；C. sweeping清扫；D. pouring倾倒。根据空前“And to make matters worse, when I went outside, the rain was” 可知此处指的作者接妹妹时不仅晚点了而且还下起了倾盆大雨,这让情况更糟。故选D项。
19．答案： A
解析：考查动词短语辨析。句意：最后我跳上了一辆开往帕尔米拉的公共汽车,机场就在那里。A. ended up结束；B. put up张贴；C. stuck to坚持；D. objected to反对。根据jumping onboard a public bus to Palmira,可知此处指的是我最终上了一辆公共汽车,end up doing...“最终做了某事”,符合语境。故选A项。
20．答案： C
解析：考查动词短语辨析。句意：只不过它并不是要去机场。A. departing from离开；B. parting at临别；C. heading for前往；D. waiting at等待。根据空前“Except it wasn’t exactly going to be”以及“the airport.”可知这辆公交车并不开往机场,head for“朝……前进”。故选C项。
21．答案： B
解析：考查动词词义辨析。句意：司机说他会让我在离机场六公里的十字路口下车。A. see看见；B. drop落下；掉下；中途卸客；C. set放；设置；D. keep保持；继续。drop sb off“让某人下车”,固定搭配。故选B项。
22．答案： C
解析：考查名词词义辨析。句意：我别无选择,只能乘公共汽车。A. praise表扬；B. ambition追求；理想；C. alternative可供选择的事物；D. respect尊重；尊敬。根据上文“The driver said that he would 6 me off at a crossroads which was located six kilometers away from the airport.”以及空后“but to travel with the bus.”可知公交车并不开往机场,所以作者只能再次换乘公交,have no alternative but to do...“别无选择只能做某事”,故选C项。
23．答案： B
解析：考查名词词义辨析。句意：然而,这段旅程花了很长时间。A. outing远足；B. journey行程；旅行；C. waiting等待；D. operation手术；运行。根据上文“a crossroads which was located six kilometers away from the airport.”可知从十字路口到机场是一段长达六公里的路程,journey(行程；旅程)符合语境,故选B项。
24．答案： D
解析：考查副词词义辨析。句意：当公交车最终到达前面提到的十字路口时,这个站似乎是在一个偏僻的地方。A. presently目前；B. preciously昂贵地；C. precisely精确地；D. previously先前地；以前地。根据上文“a crossroads which was located six kilometers away from the airport.”可知此处指的是上文提到的距离机场六公里的路口,所以previously(先前地；以前地)符合语境。故选D项。
25．答案： A
解析：考查副词和代词词义辨析。句意：当公交车最终到达前面提到的十字路口时,这个站似乎是在一个偏僻的地方。A. nowhere无处；B. somewhere某处；C. nothing 没有什么；D. something某物；某事。根据后文“The driver pointed in a given 10 and told me that the airport was down that way.”可知公交车并没有到达机场,而是来到了一个距离机场还有一段距离的地方,所以可以推测应该是一个偏僻的不为人知的地方。故选A项。
26．答案： D
解析：考查名词词义辨析。句意：司机指了指方向,告诉我机场在那边。A. preference喜欢；喜爱；B. reference喜欢；喜爱；C. location位置；D. direction方向。根据空后“and told me that the airport was down that way.”可知此处指的是司机告诉作者机场在他指的那个方向。故选D项。
27．答案： B
解析：考查名词词义辨析。句意：这时,我突然哭了起来。A. chaos混乱；B. tears泪水；C. exhaustion疲惫不堪；D. loneliness孤独。根据后文“My sister would be arriving in twelve minutes, and there was no way I was going to be able to 12 in time.”可知妹妹很快就要到了,可是自己却不能及时赶到,所以作者一定因为不能及时赶到而着急伤心,burst into tears“突然大哭”,固定搭配。故选B项。
28．答案： D
解析：考查动词短语辨析。句意：我妹妹再过12分钟就要到了,我不可能及时赶到了。A. come round苏醒；B. break out爆发；C. get along相处；进展；D. make it成功做到；及时到达。根据空前“My sister would be arriving in twelve minutes, and there was no way I was going to be able to”以及“in time.”可知此处表示作者不能及时赶到机场,make it“及时到达；成功做到”,固定搭配。故选D项。
29．答案： C
解析：考查名词词义辨析。句意：我担心得发狂,央求司机开六公里的车把我送到机场。A. confusion困惑；混淆；B. promise诺言；C. worry担忧；焦虑；D. prejudice歧视。根据上文“My sister would be arriving in twelve minutes, and there was no way I was going to be able to 12 in time.”可知因为不能及时赶到机场,作者非常担心,故选C项。
30．答案： B
解析：考查名词词义辨析。句意：他站起来,请其他乘客投票。A. visitors游客；B. passengers乘客；C. conductors指挥；售票员；D. inspectors检查员。根据空后“to take a vote. 15 , they all agreed.”可知当作者提出让司机开车把她送到机场时,司机选择了让其他乘客投票决定。故选B项。
31．答案： A
解析：考查副词词义辨析。句意：幸运地是,他们都同意了。A. Fortunately幸运地；B. Potentially潜在地；C. Suddenly突然地；D. Apparently明显地。根据空前“they all agreed.”可知当其他乘客都同意司机开车把作者送到机场时作者感到非常幸运。故选A项。
32．答案：tells；of；giving；an；to amuse；gentler；appearance；What；deliberately；but
解析：①考查时态和主谓一致。句意：由贾玲导演的《热辣滚烫》讲述了一个绝望的女人通过拳击找到自我并学会热爱 生活的故事。描述事物的一般情况,应用一般现在时态,主语为YOLO,表示单数意义,谓语用第三人称单数形式。故填 tells。
②考查介词。句意：她认为自己在导演方面的专业学习缺失既是弱点也是优势,这给了她在电影制作上更多的自由。lack作为名词时,常和介词of连用,lack of“缺乏……”。故填of。
③考查非谓语。句意：她认为自己在导演方面的专业学习缺失既是弱点也是优势,这给了她在电影制作上更多的自由。空处用现在分词作结果状语,表示一种自然而然的结果。故填giving。
④考查冠词。句意：在拍摄《热辣滚烫》之前,贾常常被认为是一个超重的喜剧演员,她总是用自嘲来逗观众开心。 空处泛指一个,应用不定冠词,overweight是以元音音素开头,故填不定冠词an。故填an。
⑤考查非谓语。句意：在拍摄《热辣滚烫》之前,贾常常被认为是一个超重的喜剧演员,她总是用自嘲来逗观众开心。空处用动词不定式在句中作目的状语。故填to amuse。
⑥考查形容词比较级。句意：一些网友说,她的声音变得更温柔了,他们称这是贾的“重生”。空前有even修饰,故用形容词比较级形式作表语。故填gentler。
⑦考查名词。句意：在贾看来,身份和外表的改变是她保持真实自我的方式。and连接identity和空处作介词in的宾语,故空处应填名词appearance“外表”。故填appearance。
⑧考查主语从句。句意：我现在所做的只是跟随自己的心,并没有刻意去寻求改变。空处引导主语从句,在从句中作宾语,表示“……的事情”,应用关系代词what引导,位于句首首字母大写。故填What。
⑨考查副词。句意：我现在所做的只是跟随自己的心,并没有刻意去寻求改变。空处应用副词deliberately“故意地”修饰动词looking。故填deliberately。
⑩考查连词。句意：贾指出,这部电影不是一个关于拳击或减肥的故事,而是一个关于赋权和自我发现的故事,这一信息能在所有年龄段的观众中产生深刻的共鸣。not...but...“不是……而是……”为固定搭配,在句中连接并列结构。故填but。
33．答案：
Dear Kevin,
I am so grateful to have such a dedicated teacher as you. With your careful guidance last year, I made rapid progress in English. The relaxing atmosphere in your class encouraged me to freely voice my opinion, greatly enhancing my fluency in speaking. As for further improving your class, my suggestions are as follows.
Initially, I hope there will be more interactions with you in class because discussions really benefit us much. Moreover, it is thoughtful of you to speak slowly for our sake, but the faster speed at which you talk with your native speakers may better sharpen our listening skills.
I sincerely hope these suggestions will be useful to you. Looking forward to your wonderful lessons next semester.
Yours,
Li Hua
解析：
1.词汇积累
激励：encourage→inspire
最初：initially→originally/first of all
另外,此外：moreover→what’s more/in addition
建议：suggestion→advice/tip
2.句式拓展
简单句变复合句
原句：The relaxing atmosphere in your class encouraged me to freely voice my opinion, greatly enhancing my fluency in speaking.
拓展句：The relaxing atmosphere in your class encouraged me to freely voice my opinion, which was greatly enhancing my fluency in speaking.
点睛：
【高分句型1】Initially, I hope there will be more interactions with you in class because discussions really benefit us much. (运用了省略that的宾语从句和because引导的原因状语从句)
【高分句型2】Moreover, it is thoughtful of you to speak slowly for our sake, but the faster speed at which you talk with your native speakers may better sharpen our listening skills. (运用了介词+which引导的限制性定语从句)
34．答案： Stevie looked up, greatly surprised. He thought he’d been invisible. “I’m not so sure,” he smiled weakly. But Mr Taylor came up to him, patted him on the arm firmly and, before he could refuse, said “Let’s do it.” The boys gathered around. Then Stevie and Mr Taylor checked each other’s straps—the way they had been taught. With everything ready, Mr Taylor began to make his way up. Watching carefully as the teacher climbed, Stevie could feel his heart pounding fast and his palms sweating. Finally, Mr Taylor reached the top, and the whole place burst into cheering.
“Ready to let me down ” Mr Taylor called down to Stevie. Stevie took a deep breath and reviewed what Rick had taught them about how to use the belaying device. At last, he looked up and said loudly, “OK!” Then the teacher let go of the wall and began to walk down. Stevie let the rope slip through his hands bit-by-bit cautiously and watched the teacher’s movement closely. He was so nervous that he could even hear his heart beating fast. Luckily, things went smoothly! Hearing the teacher say “You’re really trustworthy!”, Stevie smiled with relaxation and great joy.
解析：
1.段落续写
①由第一段首句“斯蒂维抬起头来,非常惊讶。”可知,本段可描写泰勒先生开始攀登,斯蒂维紧张而专注地监护,最终,泰勒先生成功登顶,赢得了全场的欢呼。
②由第二段首句“准备好让我下去了吗？”泰勒先生对史蒂维喊道。可知, 本段可描写斯蒂维成功地承担起保护者角色,运用所学技能帮助泰勒先生安全降落。泰勒先生的赞扬了他,让他在自信心与责任感上有所成长。
2.续写线索：惊讶—密切关注—成功登顶—全场欢呼—准备降落—承担保护者的角色—安全降落—自信心与责任感上得到成长
3.词汇激活
行为类
①微弱地微笑：smile weakly/offer a faint smile
②用力拍他的胳膊：pat him on the arm firmly/give him a strong pat on the arm
③深呼吸：take a deep breath/inhale deeply
情绪类
①紧张的：nervous/tense
②快乐：joy/delight
点睛：
【高分句型1】Watching carefully as the teacher climbed, Stevie could feel his heart pounding fast and his palms sweating.(运用了as引导的时间状语从句)
【高分句型2】He was so nervous that he could even hear his heart beating fast.(运用了so…that…引导的结果状语从句)
学校：___________姓名：___________班级：___________考号：___________
一、阅读理解
Peru is a country on the Pacific coast of South America with three main areas: narrow, dry, flat land running along the coast, the Andes Mountains, and the Amazon rainforest.
Amazon Rainforest Tour
A short flight from Cusco takes you from the Andes into the Amazon rainforest. From there, you’ll spend one day travelling by boat to your accommodation in the middle of the forest. You can then spend three days exploring the rainforest with a local guide and enjoying the plants and animals unique to the rainforest.
Machu Picchu Tour
This four-day walking tour will take you on amazing paths through the Andes Mountains on the way to the city of Machu Picchu. After reaching your destination, you will have a day to explore and be amazed by this ancient city. Especially amazing is the Incas’ dry stone method of building. Inca builders cut stones to exact sizes so that nothing was needed to hold walls together other than the perfect fit of the stones.
Cusco Tour
Spend four days enjoying the unique Spanish and local Indian culture high in the Andes at Cusco, the capital of the Inca Empire from the 13th until the 16th century. Stay in a local hotel, visit the museums, admire the architecture, enjoy the excellent local food, and go shopping at the local markets.
Lake Titicaca Tour
Enjoy the beautiful countryside as you spend a day driving along the new highway connecting Cusco to Lake Titicaca. There, a boat will take you to stay with a local Uros family on an island for three days. Both the island and the Uros homes are made of water plants from the lake.
So come and experience what Peru has to offer: everything from the ancient Inca culture and centuries—old Spanish villages to deep rainforests, high mountains, and a beautiful coastline.
1．What is special about the Machu Picchu Tour
A. People can explore the rainforest with a local guide.
B. People can stay with a local Uros family on an island.
C. People can enjoy the plants and animals unique to the forest.
D. People can know about the Incas’ dry stone method of building.
2．Which tour would you recommend to people who enjoy local Indian culture
A. Amazon Rainforest Tour. B. Machu Picchu Tour.
C. Cusco Tour. D. Lake Titicaca Tour.
3．Where can you most probably read the passage
A. On a science website. B. In a travel brochure.
C. In an environmental report. D. In a biology magazine.
Following a design shown on her cell phone, Ruan Xiyue, 35, quickly sketched a manned spacecraft on a gourd (葫芦), completing the first step of gourd sculpture, an intangible (非物质) cultural her it age of northwest China’s Gansu Province.
Coming from a family engaged in gourd sculpture for almost 90 years in Lanzhou, Ruan is not satisfied with just perfecting her technique. Instead, the fourth-generation inheritor (继承人) aims to bring traditional craftsmanship closer to young people through marketing and sharing.
Dating back over 1, 600 years, gourd sculpture was first developed as a decoration on people’s portable wine pots made of gourds. The pronunciation of “gourd” in Chinese, which resembles that of “luck and fortune”, partly explains its lasting popularity.
For Ruan, the fragrance of gourds is the smell of home. Upon graduating from college, she started learning gourd sculpture from her mother, sitting for hours every day practicing calligraphy and painting, which she views as the essential training to become a qualified sculptor. Later, Ruan developed innovative products such as gourd mirrors and gourd necklaces to tap the market potential, believing they can help the craft reach more people.
Her family opened a gourd sculpting studio in 2010, displaying their works as well as a history of the art. Ruan likes talking with visitors to the studio, and their interactions inspired her to launch a curriculum for people to experience the craft in 2016. According to Ruan, around 800 people attend the courses every year. Among them are students eager to learn something new, and young parents who bring their kids along to enjoy some lovely family time. “Many participants told me that our courses enable them to know more about the history of Lanzhou, and help make the city’s memories last longer,” said Ruan.
Under Ruan’s influence, her mother is now live streaming on social media everyday sharing her stories of gourd sculpture with viewers across the country. “Sharing is inheriting,” said Ruan. “When we share our skills and knowledge with more people, the traditional culture will naturally be spread on a wider scale,” said Ruan.
4．What do we know about Ruan
A. She is a designer of manned spacecraft on a gourd.
B. She took up gourd sculpture under the influence of her family.
C. She first sculpted on a portable wine pot made of a gourd.
D. She is good at teaching young people the craftsmanship.
5．Which words can be used to describe the curriculum
A. Inspiring and touching. B. New and memorable.
C. Popular and enjoyable. D. Lovely and practical.
6．Which statement is the author likely to agree with
A. Spreading the gourd sculpture is to share the stories.
B. Stories of gourd sculpture a reviewed across the world
C. Live streaming on social media is the best way to share.
D. Traditional culture will be spread wider through sharing.
7．What can be the best title of the text
A. Ruan Xiyue: an Inheritor of an Intangible Cultural Heritage.
B. Gourd Sculpture: a Traditional Craft Popular with the Chinese.
C. Social Media: a Useful Tool to Share Gourd Sculpture.
D. Cultural Courses: an Approach to Learning Something New.
Teachers worried about students turning in essays written by a popular artificial intelligence chatbot now have a new tool of their own.
Edward Tian, a computer science major at Princeton University, has built an App called GPTZero to detect whether a text is written by Chat GPT, which is a popular chatbot that has caused fears over its possibility for immoral uses in American academic circles. His motivation to create the computer program was to fight what he sees as an increase in AI plagiarism (剽窃). Since the release of ChatGPT in 2022, there have been reports of students using the language model to pass off AI-written assignments as their own. Many teachers have reached out to him after he released GPTZero, telling him about the positive results they’ve seen from testing it.
To determine whether an essay is written by a computer program, GPTZero uses two indicators: “confusion” and “burstiness (突发性)”. The first indicator measures the complexity of text; if GPTZero is confused by the text, then it has a high complexity and it’s more likely to be human-written. However, if the text is more familiar to GPTZero—because it’s been trained on such data—then it will have low complexity and therefore is more likely to be AI-generated. Besides, the second indicator compares the variations of sentences. Humans tend to write with greater burstiness, for example, with some longer or complex sentences alongside shorter ones. AI sentences tend to be more uniform.
In a demonstration video, Tian compared the App’s analysis of a story in The New Yorker and a Linked In post written by ChatGPT. It successfully distinguished writing between human and AI. However, GPTZero isn’t foolproof, as some users have reported when putting it to the test. He said he’s still working to improve the model’s accuracy.
Tian is not opposed to the use of AI tools like ChatGPT. GPTZero is “not meant to be a tool to stop these technologies from being used,” he said. “But with any new technologies, we need to be able to adopt it responsibly and we need to have protections.”
8．What have some students done since ChatGPT was released
A. They have built language models from ChatGPT.
B. They have copied AI-written text from ChatGPT
C. They have accessed their assignments through ChatGPT.
D. They have passed their writing exams through ChatGPT.
9．What can be inferred about the two indicators of GPTZero
A. The more uniform the text is, the more likely it is to be AI-generated.
B. The less complex the text is, the more likely it is to be human-written.
C. GPTZero sometimes confuses human-written texts with AI-generated texts.
D. GPTZero is more familiar with human-written texts than with AI-generated texts.
10．What does the underlined word “foolproof” mean in the fourth paragraph
A. User-friendly. B. Time-efficient.
C. Perfectly legal. D. Completely reliable.
11．What maybe Tian’s attitude to the use of AI tools
A. Favorable. B. Disapproving. C. Objective. D. Ambiguous.
Kenya is home to Africa’s predators (捕食者), particularly lions, which frequently hunt farmers’ livestock (牲畜). To protect their animals, farmers often use poisons. While these have been successful in protecting farmers’ livestock, their use has resulted in a sharp decline in the lion population, which stands at just 2,500 now.
At the age of nine, Turere was asked to care for his father’s cattle beside Nairobi National Park, one of Kenya’s most famous wilderness areas, where people frequently experienced conflicts with lions. Turere couldn’t bear to see lions harmed by humans when lions hunted cows, because he loved these creatures deeply. Determined to find a solution benefiting both local farmers and wildlife, Turere started experimenting. But no way worked at first. The only thing that worked later was when he wandered around the livestock pen with a torch in hand. The sight of him walking around at night with a light made the animals runaway.
This inspired Turere to develop the Lion Lights system, a series of flashing LED lights strategically placed on the cattle fences to scare away predators. “The lights flash irregularly to trick lions into thinking that someone is walking around with a flashlight. Thanks to it, we went from losing three cows a week to none,” says Turere. This innovative solar-powered light system—which can also run on wind power—costs just $20.5 per unit, making it affordable and eco-friendly.
Turere’s invention is not only protecting the livelihoods of local communities, it, is also changing the viewpoints of local communities on wild life. “Since the introduction of the Lion Lights system, there have been no predator-related incidents. As a result, local people no longer view wildlife as the enemy,” he notes. “This is great news for these wonderful animals as it means that local communities are more open to wildlife conservation.”
12．What is the problem with farmers using poisons in Kenya
A. It threatens the lion’s survival.
B. It often harms their livestock.
C. It arouses the public’s opposition.
D. It damages the local environment.
13．Why did Turere perform the experiments
A. To take good care of his father’s cattle.
B. To stop farmers from hunting lions.
C. To protect the livestock from being killed.
D. To find ways for farmers and lions to coexist.
14．What do we know about the Lion Lights System
A. It can keep domestic animals from running away.
B. It works with all the lights on all the time.
C. It’s inexpensive and environmentally friendly.
D. Only three cows have been lost since it was used.
15．What does the author want to show in the last paragraph
A. Exploring the world is a must for children.
B. Local communities have been preserving the wildlife.
C. Protecting the livestock of local communities is the top priority.
D. Turere’s invention contributed to wildlife conservation.
二、七选五
16． Speed reading is a skill that allows people to process information quickly with skimming techniques. ①______ Here’re some efficient speed reading techniques.
Talk to yourself less and avoid sounding out each word. ②______ This may help readers remember concepts but can also be a major barrier to speed. Keep in mind that you don’t need to read every single word to understand the sentence’s overall meaning.
Cover words you’ve already read with a card. When you’re reading, your eyes can move back to earlier words. These are typically short habitual movements that don’t improve understanding or speed. Use a card to cover words right after you’ve read them. ③______
Move your eyes less as you read. While reading, your eyes: move, stopping on some words and skipping others. However, you can only comprehend what you’re reading when your eyes stop moving. Learning to move your eyes less can help you read faster. So try staring at one line at a time without gliding your eyes over the words.
④______ Track your progress by timing yourself daily, or each time you do a speed reading exercise. Not only does trying to beat your best speed motivate you, but it can also give you a goal to work towards.
Set obtainable goals to improve your speed reading. Aim to work on n yours pee reading daily by completing speed reading exercises. 200 to 250 words per minute is the expected reading speed for someone 12 or older. ⑤______ At 450 words per minute, you’re reading as fast as a college student skimming for the main points. It typically takes 2 to 4 weeks to double your reading speed, so be patient with yourself and keep trying.
A. Point to the words you’re reading on the page.
B. So, how do you learn and master this amazing skill
C. Time your reading speed so you can track your progress.
D. Some readers sound out every word they read in their heads.
E. This way, you can train yourself not to look back at previous sentences.
F. 300 words per minute is the reading speed of the average college student.
G. Reading can seem like such a chore, especially because it can take so long.
三、完形填空（15空）
Many years ago, I was living in Cali, Colombia. My younger sister decided to visit me for a holiday. However, on the day I was supposed to go to meet her at the airport, I somehow 1 time and realized that I was leaving my home much later than I had wanted to. And to make matters worse, when I went outside, the rain was 2 from the sky and I couldn’t get a taxi to take me to the airport. I 3 jumping onboard a public bus to Palmira, where the airport was. Except it wasn’t exactly going to be 4 the airport.
The driver said that he would 5 me off at a crossroads which was located six kilometers away from the airport. I had no 6 but to travel with the bus. The 7 took ages, however. When the bus did eventually reach the 8 mentioned crossroads, the stop appeared to be in the middle of 9 . The driver pointed in a given 10 and told me that the airport was down that way. By this time, I had burst into 11 . My sister would be arriving in twelve minutes, and there was no way I was going to be able to 12 in time. Beside myself with 13 , I begged the driver to drive the six kilometers down to the airport to drop me off. He stood up and asked the other 14 to take a vote. 15 , they all agreed. Thanks ECN to them, I arrived on time.
17．A. lost track of B. kept up with C. ran out of D. got tired of
18．A. fading B. shaking C. sweeping D. pouring
19．A. ended up B. put up C. stuck to D. objected to
20．A. departing from B. parting at C. heading for D. waiting at
21．A. see B. drop C. set D. keep
22．A. praise B. ambition C. alternative D. respect
23．A. outing B. journey C. waiting D. operation
24．A. presently B. preciously C. precisely D. previously
25．A. nowhere B. somewhere C. nothing D. something
26．A. preference B. reference C. location D. direction
27．A. chaos B. tears C. exhaustion D. loneliness
28．A. come round B. breakout C. get along D. make it
29．A. confusion B. promise C. worry D. prejudice
30．A. visitors B. passengers C. conductors D. inspectors
31．A. Fortunately B. Potentially C. Suddenly D. Apparently
四、短文填空
32． For many, the most eye-catching movie this spring must be YOLO (《热辣滚烫》), which earned over 3.3 billion yuan at the box office within 17 days of its release. Directed by Jia Ling, YOLO ①_____ (tell) the story of a desperate woman who finds herself and learns to love life through boxing. Jia had several identities before becoming a director, including crosstalk performer, variety show guest and actress. It was in 2019 for her film Hi,Mom that she tried directing for the first time. She believes that her lack ②_____ professional study in directing is her weakness and strength, ③_____ (give) her more freedom in filmmaking. The popular film earned her the title of the highest-grossing (票房最高的) female director in the world before 2023
Before shooting YOLO, Jia was often regarded as ④_____ overweight comedian who always spoke sarcastically (讽刺地) of herself ⑤_____ (amuse) the audience. For the movie, Jia lost 50 kg and looked totally different. Some Internet users said her voice became even ⑥_____ (gentle), and they call this “rebirth” for Jia. In Jia’s eyes, the change in identity and ⑦_____ (appear) is her way of staying true to herself. “⑧_____ I’m doing now is just following my heart without looking for changes ⑨_____ (deliberate). Film is now the best medium to express myself, so I’m now dedicated to it,” Jia told Xinhua. Jia noted that the movie is not a story about boxing or losing weight, ⑩_____ a story about empowerment and self-discovery—a message that resonate (共鸣) deeply with audience of all ages.
五、书面表达
33． 假设你是李华,过去一年中,你在外教Kevin的课堂上收获颇多。但Kevin为了更进一步提升课堂质量,特向大家征求改进建议。请你撰写一封英文建议信给他,内容包括：
1.介绍收获并表达感谢；
2.提出建议并给出理由。
注意：
1.词数80左右；
2.开头和结尾已给出,不计入总词数。
Dear Kevin,
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Yours,
Li Hua
六、读后续写
34． 阅读下面材料,根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段,使之构成一篇完整的短文。
The boys at the back of the school bus were restless. Stevie did his best to ignore the others. “Settled own!” Mr Taylor said. “We’ll be there soon. Wait till you see the climbing walls. You’ll be very happy.” Stevie hadn’t liked this “Boys Rulz” club from the start. They were troublemakers. Mom had made him join because she was worried that he didn’t seem to be fitting in. It was n this fault, thought Stevie, school was boring. None of the teachers trusted him, and no special boy’s group was to change that.
All the boys stared up in wonder at the huge climbing walls. Stevie looked down at his thin arms and wondered how he could climb up that. Mr Taylor and a man called Rick helped the boys get into their harnesses (保护带) and showed them how to climb up. “Now find a partner and get them to check all your straps (带子) and everything,” said Mr Taylor. The boys quickly paired off, leaving Stevie standing there alone. “Cool, you’re with me,” said Rick, holding up his hand for a high-five. Stevie high-five d him back weakly. Stevie was on a tiny wall which the others had called the “baby wall”. He gritted his teeth (咬紧牙关), his face pressed against the rough surface and reached for the next, hold. “Done!” he called down from the top. “Now let go of the rock and walk down as I showed you,” said Rick. “It’s perfectly safe.” Stevie did as instructed, and Rick started to let him down slowly. “Well done,” said Rick when Stevie got to the bottom.
Then someone pointed out that Mr Taylor hadn’t done any climbing himself. “I plan to, ”said Mr Taylor. “ But I’ll need a partner, someone I can really trust. ” The boys volunteered actively, but Mr Taylor pretended he hadn’t heard. He looked around the group. “How about you, Stevie ” he said at last. “Fancy being my belayer ” A be layer is somebody who controls how you come down, the one that stops you from falling.
要求：
1.续写词数应为150个左右；
2.请按如下格式作答。
Stevie looked up, greatly surprised.
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“Ready to let me down ” Mr Taylor called down to Stevie.
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参考答案
1．答案： D
解析：细节理解题。根据Machu Picchu Tour中“Especially amazing is the Incas’ dry stone method of building. (尤其令人惊叹的是印加人的干石建造法)”可知,马丘比丘之旅的独特之处在于人们可以知道印加人的干石建造方法。故选D项。
2．答案： C
解析：细节理解题。根据Cusco Tour部分中“Spend four days enjoying the unique Spanish and local Indian culture high in the Andes at Cusco, the capital of the Inca Empire from the 13th until the 16th century.(在安第斯山脉高处的库斯科,花四天时间欣赏独特的西班牙和当地的印度文化,库斯科是13世纪至16世纪印加帝国的首都)”可知,你会向喜欢印度当地文化的人推荐Cusco Tour。故选C。
3．答案： B
解析：推理判断题。根据第一段“Peru is a country on the Pacific coast of South America with three main areas: narrow, dry, flat land running along the coast, the Andes Mountains, and the Amazon rainforest.(秘鲁是南美洲太平洋沿岸的一个国家,主要有三个地区：狭窄、干燥、平坦的海岸、安第斯山脉和亚马逊雨林)”可知,本文是一篇关于去秘鲁旅行包价旅游的广告宣传,因此你最可能在旅行手册上读到这篇文章。故选B项。
4．答案： B
解析：细节理解题。根据第二段“Coming from a family engaged in gourd sculpture for almost 90 years in Lanzhou, Ruan is not satisfied with just perfecting her technique.(Ruan来自兰州一个从事葫芦雕刻近90年的家庭,她不满足于仅仅完善自己的技术。)”和倒数第三段“For Ruan, the fragrance of gourds is the smell of home. Upon graduating from college, she started learning gourd sculpture from her mother, sitting for hours every day practicing calligraphy and painting, which she views as the essential training to become a qualified sculptor.(对Ruan来说,葫芦的香味就是家的味道。大学毕业后,她开始跟随母亲学习葫芦雕塑,每天静坐数小时练习书法和绘画,她认为这是成为一名合格雕塑家的必要训练。)”可知,Ruan在家庭的影响下,开始学雕刻葫芦。故选B。
5．答案： C
解析：推理判断题。根据倒数第二段“Ruan likes talking with visitors to the studio, and their interactions inspired her to launch a curriculum for people to experience the craft in 2016. According to Ruan, around 800 people attend the courses every year. Among them are students eager to learn something new, and young parents who bring their kids along to enjoy some lovely family time.(Ruan喜欢与参观者交谈,他们的互动激发了她在2016年推出一门课程,让人们体验手工艺。据Ruan说,每年大约有800人参加这些课程。其中有渴望学习新知识的学生,也有带着孩子一起享受美好家庭时光的年轻父母。)”可知,这个课程是受欢迎,且令人愉快的,可用popular和enjoyable描述这个课程。故选C。
6．答案： D
解析：推理判断题。根据最后一段“Sharing is inheriting,” said Ruan. “When we share our skills and knowledge with more people, the traditional culture will naturally be spread on a wider scale,” said Ruan.(“分享就是继承,”Ruan说。“当我们与更多人分享我们的技能和知识时,传统文化自然会在更广泛的范围内传播,”Ruan说。)可知,作者同意的说法是传统文化通过分享得到更广泛的传播。故选D。
7．答案： A
解析：主旨大意题。通读全文,尤其是第一段“Following a design shown on her cell phone, Ruan Xiyue, 35, quickly sketched a manned spacecraft on a gourd (葫芦), completing the first step of gourd sculpture, an intangible (非物质) cultural her it age of northwest China’s Gansu Province.(根据手机上的设计,35岁的Ruan Xiyue迅速在葫芦上画出了载人飞船,完成了葫芦雕塑的第一步。葫芦雕塑是中国西北部甘肃省的一项非物质文化遗产。)”和第二段“Coming from a family engaged in gourd sculpture for almost 90 years in Lanzhou, Ruan is not satisfied with just perfecting her technique. Instead, the fourth-generation inheritor (继承人) aims to bring traditional craftsmanship closer to young people through marketing and sharing.(Ruan来自兰州一个从事葫芦雕刻近90年的家庭,她不满足于仅仅完善自己的技术。相反,这位第四代传承人的目标是通过营销和分享,让传统手工艺更贴近年轻人。)”可知,本文主要讲的是Ruan Xiyue,一位35岁的葫芦雕刻艺术家,她来自一个有着近90年葫芦雕刻传统的家庭,并致力于将这一传统手工艺推广给年轻人。Ruan Xiyue不仅继承了家族的葫芦雕刻技术,还通过创新和营销策略,如开发新产品和开设体验课程,让更多人了解和接触这门手艺,因此最好的标题是A选项“Ruan Xiyue: an Inheritor of an Intangible Cultural Heritage.(Ruan Xiyue：非物质文化遗产传承人。)”,故选A。
8．答案： B
解析：细节理解题。根据第二段中“Since the release of ChatGPT in 2022, there have been reports of students using the language model to pass off AI-written assignments as their own. (自2022年ChatGPT发布以来,有报道称学生使用该语言模型将人工智能编写的作业冒充自己的作业)”可知,自从ChatGPT发布以来,一些学生的作业抄袭了语言模型ChatGPT人工智能编写的文本。故选B。
9．答案： A
解析：推理判断题。根据第三段“To determine whether an essay is written by a computer program, GPTZero uses two indicators: “confusion” and “burstiness (突发性)”. The first indicator measures the complexity of text; if GPTZero is confused by the text, then it has a high complexity and it’s more likely to be human-written. However, if the text is more familiar to GPTZero—because it’s been trained on such data—then it will have low complexity and therefore is more likely to be AI-generated. Besides, the second indicator compares the variations of sentences. Humans tend to write with greater burstiness, for example, with some longer or complex sentences alongside shorter ones. AI sentences tend to be more uniform.(为了确定一篇文章是否由计算机程序编写,GPTZero使用了两个指标：“困惑度”和“突发性”。第一个指标衡量文本的复杂性；如果GPTZero对文本感到困惑,那么它具有很高的复杂性,并且更有可能是人类编写的。然而,如果文本对GPTZero来说更熟悉—因为它是在这样的数据上训练的—那么它的复杂性就会降低,因此更有可能是人工智能生成的。此外,第二个指标比较句子的变化。例如,人类倾向于用更突然的方式写作,一些较长的或复杂的句子与较短的句子并列。人工智能的句子往往更加统一)”可知,GPTZero使用了“困惑度”和“突发性”来确定一篇文章是否由计算机程序编写,困惑度越低就更有可能是人工智能生成的；人类更倾向于用更突然的方式写作。由此推知,文本越统一,就越有可能是人工智能生成的。故选A。
10．答案： D
解析：词句猜测题。根据划线词上句“In a demonstration video, Tian compared the App’s analysis of a story in The New Yorker and a Linked In post written by ChatGPT. It successfully distinguished writing between human and AI. (在一段演示视频中,田将该应用对《纽约客》一篇报道的分析与ChatGPT撰写的一篇Linked In文章进行了比较。它成功地区分了人类和人工智能的写作)”可知,在演示视频中GPTZero成功区分出了人类和人工智能的写作；结合划线词所在句首的转折词“However”以及下文“He said he’s still working to improve the model’s accuracy.(他说他仍在努力提高模型的准确性)”可知,GPTZero模型的准确性仍在努力提高,即GPTZero辨别文本是否为人工智能所写并不是完全可靠的、万无一失的；由此可知,“However, GPTZero isn’t foolproof, as some users have reported when putting it to the test. (然而,GPTZero并不是foolproof,正如一些用户在测试时所报告的那样)”中的foolproof意思为“完全可靠的”,与Completely reliable意思一致。故选D。
11．答案： C
解析：推理判断题。根据最后一段“Tian is not opposed to the use of AI tools like ChatGPT. GPTZero is “not meant to be a tool to stop these technologies from being used,” he said. “But with any new technologies, we need to be able to adopt it responsibly and we need to have protections.”(Tian并不反对使用ChatGPT等人工智能工具。GPTZero‘并不是要成为阻止这些技术被使用工具,’他说。‘但对于任何新技术,我们都需要能够负责任地采用它,我们需要有保护措施。’)”可知,Tian并不反对使用ChatGPT等人工智能工具,他认为应该负责任地采用人工智能工具。由此推知,Tian对人工智能使用的态度很客观的。故选C。
12．答案： A
解析：细节理解题。根据第一段的“To protect their animals, farmers often use poisons. While these have been successful in protecting farmers’ livestock, their use has resulted in a sharp decline in the lion population, which stands at just 2,500 now. (为了保护他们的动物,农民经常使用毒药。虽然这些措施成功地保护了农民的牲畜,但它们的使用导致了狮子数量的急剧下降,目前狮子数量仅为2500头)”可知,使用毒药的问题威胁到了狮子的生存。故选A。
13．答案： D
解析：细节理解题。根据第二段的“Turere couldn’t bear to see lions harmed by humans when lions hunted cows, because he loved these creatures deeply. Determined to find a solution benefiting both local farmers and wildlife, Turere started experimenting. (Turere不忍心看到狮子在猎杀奶牛时受到人类的伤害,因为他深深地爱着这些动物。Turere决心找到一个既有利于当地农民又有利于野生动物的解决方案,于是重新开始了试验)”可知,他做实验是为了寻找农民和狮子和平共处的方法。故选D。
14．答案： C
解析：细节理解题。根据第三段的“This innovative solar-powered light system—which can also run on wind power—costs just $20.5 per unit, making it affordable and eco-friendly. (这种创新的太阳能照明系统也可以使用风能,每台仅需20.5美元,价格实惠,环保)”可知,狮子灯系统的特点是价格便宜且环保。故选C。
15．答案： D
解析：推理判断题。根据最后一段的“Turere’s invention is not only protecting the livelihoods of local communities, it, is also changing the viewpoints of local communities on wild life. “Since the introduction of the Lion Lights system, there have been no predator-related incidents. As a result, local people no longer view wildlife as the enemy,” he notes. “This is great news for these wonderful animals as it means that local communities are more open to wildlife conservation.” (Turere的发明不仅保护了当地社区的生计,还改变了当地社区对野生生物的看法。“自从狮子灯系统引入以来,没有发生过与捕食者有关的事件。因此,当地人不再将野生动物视为敌人。这对这些神奇的动物来说是个好消息,因为这意味着当地社区对野生动物保护更加开放。”)”可推知,本段主要是为了介绍Turere的发明对于野生动物保护的贡献。故选D。
16．答案：BDECF
解析：①上文“Speed reading is a skill that allows people to process information quickly with skimming techniques.(速读是一种让人们通过略读技巧快速处理信息的技能)”解释什么是速读：一种让人们通过略读技巧快速处理信息的技能；结合下文“Here’re some efficient speed reading techniques.(这里是一些有效的速读技巧)”可知,设空处为过渡句,起到承上启下的作用,与速读技能的学习有关；B选项“So, how do you learn and master this amazing skill (所以,你如何学习并掌握这个令人惊叹的技能呢 )”符合语境,选项中的“this amazing skill”指代上文中的“a skill that allows people to process information quickly with skimming techniques”,下文则承接B选项这个问句,引出文章主题：介绍有效的速读技巧。故选B。
②根据上文(本段主旨句)“Talk to yourself less and avoid sounding out each word.(少和自己说话,并避免发出每个单词的声音)”以及下文“This may help readers remember concepts but can also be a major barrier to speed.(这可能会有助于读者记住概念但是也会是速读的一个主要障碍)”可知,该空应为一种把每个单词都读出来有关的做法；D选项“Some readers sound out every word they read in their heads.(有些读者把读到的每一个字都在脑子里念出来)”符合语境,选项中的“sound out every word”与上文中的“sounding out each word”相照应。故选D。
③该段主题句“Cover words you’ve already read with a card.(用卡片遮住你已经读过的单词)”以及上文“Use a card to cover words right after you’ve read them.(用卡片遮住你已经读过的单词)”建议用卡片把读过的词盖住；E选项“This way, you can train yourself not to look back at previous sentences.(这样,你可以训练自己不回头看以前的句子)”承接上文,阐述用卡片把读过的单词盖住的益处,符合语境；“This way”指代上句建议的做法,“look back at previous sentences”与本段中的“your eyes can move back to earlier words”相对应。故选E。
④该空是段落的主题句；根据下文“Track your progress by timing yourself daily, or each time you do a speed reading exercise. Not only does trying to beat your best speed motivate you, but it can also give you a goal to work towards.(通过每天计时或每次做快速阅读练习来记录你的进步。努力超越你的最佳速度不仅能激励你,还能给你一个努力的目标)”可知,本段建议通过每天或每次做速读时计时来记录自己的进步；C选项“Time your reading speed so you can track your progress.(对你的阅读速度计时,这样你就可以跟踪你的进步)”能够概括本段主旨,适合作为主题句。故选C。
⑤由上文“200 to 250 words per minute is the expected reading speed for someone 12 or older.(每分钟200到250个单词是12岁或以上的人的预期阅读速度。)”以及下文“At 450 words per minute, you’re reading as fast as a college student skimming for the main points.(以每分钟450字的速度,你的阅读速度和大学生阅读要点一样快)”可推知,设空处与上文构成递进关系,阐述的阅读速度介于上下文之间；F选项“300 words per minute is the reading speed of the average college student.(每分钟300次是大学生平均的阅读速度)”符合语境。故选F。
17．答案： A
解析：考查动词短语辨析。句意：然而,在我应该去机场接她的那天,我不知怎么忘了时间,意识到我离开家的时间比我想的要晚得多。A. lost track of 失去联系；B. kept up with跟得上；C. ran out of用完；D. got tired of对……厌烦。根据空前“However, on the day I was supposed to go to meet her at the airport, I somehow”以及“time and realized that I was leaving my home much later than I had wanted to.”可知作者接妹妹的时间比预想的要晚的多,所以可以推测作者应该是忘记了时间,lose track of time“失去时间的概念”。故选A项。
18．答案： D
解析：考查动词词义辨析。句意：更糟糕的是,当我走到外面时,雨从天上倾盆而下,我找不到出租车送我去机场。A. fading褪色；枯萎；B. shaking摇动；挥动；C. sweeping清扫；D. pouring倾倒。根据空前“And to make matters worse, when I went outside, the rain was” 可知此处指的作者接妹妹时不仅晚点了而且还下起了倾盆大雨,这让情况更糟。故选D项。
19．答案： A
解析：考查动词短语辨析。句意：最后我跳上了一辆开往帕尔米拉的公共汽车,机场就在那里。A. ended up结束；B. put up张贴；C. stuck to坚持；D. objected to反对。根据jumping onboard a public bus to Palmira,可知此处指的是我最终上了一辆公共汽车,end up doing...“最终做了某事”,符合语境。故选A项。
20．答案： C
解析：考查动词短语辨析。句意：只不过它并不是要去机场。A. departing from离开；B. parting at临别；C. heading for前往；D. waiting at等待。根据空前“Except it wasn’t exactly going to be”以及“the airport.”可知这辆公交车并不开往机场,head for“朝……前进”。故选C项。
21．答案： B
解析：考查动词词义辨析。句意：司机说他会让我在离机场六公里的十字路口下车。A. see看见；B. drop落下；掉下；中途卸客；C. set放；设置；D. keep保持；继续。drop sb off“让某人下车”,固定搭配。故选B项。
22．答案： C
解析：考查名词词义辨析。句意：我别无选择,只能乘公共汽车。A. praise表扬；B. ambition追求；理想；C. alternative可供选择的事物；D. respect尊重；尊敬。根据上文“The driver said that he would 6 me off at a crossroads which was located six kilometers away from the airport.”以及空后“but to travel with the bus.”可知公交车并不开往机场,所以作者只能再次换乘公交,have no alternative but to do...“别无选择只能做某事”,故选C项。
23．答案： B
解析：考查名词词义辨析。句意：然而,这段旅程花了很长时间。A. outing远足；B. journey行程；旅行；C. waiting等待；D. operation手术；运行。根据上文“a crossroads which was located six kilometers away from the airport.”可知从十字路口到机场是一段长达六公里的路程,journey(行程；旅程)符合语境,故选B项。
24．答案： D
解析：考查副词词义辨析。句意：当公交车最终到达前面提到的十字路口时,这个站似乎是在一个偏僻的地方。A. presently目前；B. preciously昂贵地；C. precisely精确地；D. previously先前地；以前地。根据上文“a crossroads which was located six kilometers away from the airport.”可知此处指的是上文提到的距离机场六公里的路口,所以previously(先前地；以前地)符合语境。故选D项。
25．答案： A
解析：考查副词和代词词义辨析。句意：当公交车最终到达前面提到的十字路口时,这个站似乎是在一个偏僻的地方。A. nowhere无处；B. somewhere某处；C. nothing 没有什么；D. something某物；某事。根据后文“The driver pointed in a given 10 and told me that the airport was down that way.”可知公交车并没有到达机场,而是来到了一个距离机场还有一段距离的地方,所以可以推测应该是一个偏僻的不为人知的地方。故选A项。
26．答案： D
解析：考查名词词义辨析。句意：司机指了指方向,告诉我机场在那边。A. preference喜欢；喜爱；B. reference喜欢；喜爱；C. location位置；D. direction方向。根据空后“and told me that the airport was down that way.”可知此处指的是司机告诉作者机场在他指的那个方向。故选D项。
27．答案： B
解析：考查名词词义辨析。句意：这时,我突然哭了起来。A. chaos混乱；B. tears泪水；C. exhaustion疲惫不堪；D. loneliness孤独。根据后文“My sister would be arriving in twelve minutes, and there was no way I was going to be able to 12 in time.”可知妹妹很快就要到了,可是自己却不能及时赶到,所以作者一定因为不能及时赶到而着急伤心,burst into tears“突然大哭”,固定搭配。故选B项。
28．答案： D
解析：考查动词短语辨析。句意：我妹妹再过12分钟就要到了,我不可能及时赶到了。A. come round苏醒；B. break out爆发；C. get along相处；进展；D. make it成功做到；及时到达。根据空前“My sister would be arriving in twelve minutes, and there was no way I was going to be able to”以及“in time.”可知此处表示作者不能及时赶到机场,make it“及时到达；成功做到”,固定搭配。故选D项。
29．答案： C
解析：考查名词词义辨析。句意：我担心得发狂,央求司机开六公里的车把我送到机场。A. confusion困惑；混淆；B. promise诺言；C. worry担忧；焦虑；D. prejudice歧视。根据上文“My sister would be arriving in twelve minutes, and there was no way I was going to be able to 12 in time.”可知因为不能及时赶到机场,作者非常担心,故选C项。
30．答案： B
解析：考查名词词义辨析。句意：他站起来,请其他乘客投票。A. visitors游客；B. passengers乘客；C. conductors指挥；售票员；D. inspectors检查员。根据空后“to take a vote. 15 , they all agreed.”可知当作者提出让司机开车把她送到机场时,司机选择了让其他乘客投票决定。故选B项。
31．答案： A
解析：考查副词词义辨析。句意：幸运地是,他们都同意了。A. Fortunately幸运地；B. Potentially潜在地；C. Suddenly突然地；D. Apparently明显地。根据空前“they all agreed.”可知当其他乘客都同意司机开车把作者送到机场时作者感到非常幸运。故选A项。
32．答案：tells；of；giving；an；to amuse；gentler；appearance；What；deliberately；but
解析：①考查时态和主谓一致。句意：由贾玲导演的《热辣滚烫》讲述了一个绝望的女人通过拳击找到自我并学会热爱 生活的故事。描述事物的一般情况,应用一般现在时态,主语为YOLO,表示单数意义,谓语用第三人称单数形式。故填 tells。
②考查介词。句意：她认为自己在导演方面的专业学习缺失既是弱点也是优势,这给了她在电影制作上更多的自由。lack作为名词时,常和介词of连用,lack of“缺乏……”。故填of。
③考查非谓语。句意：她认为自己在导演方面的专业学习缺失既是弱点也是优势,这给了她在电影制作上更多的自由。空处用现在分词作结果状语,表示一种自然而然的结果。故填giving。
④考查冠词。句意：在拍摄《热辣滚烫》之前,贾常常被认为是一个超重的喜剧演员,她总是用自嘲来逗观众开心。 空处泛指一个,应用不定冠词,overweight是以元音音素开头,故填不定冠词an。故填an。
⑤考查非谓语。句意：在拍摄《热辣滚烫》之前,贾常常被认为是一个超重的喜剧演员,她总是用自嘲来逗观众开心。空处用动词不定式在句中作目的状语。故填to amuse。
⑥考查形容词比较级。句意：一些网友说,她的声音变得更温柔了,他们称这是贾的“重生”。空前有even修饰,故用形容词比较级形式作表语。故填gentler。
⑦考查名词。句意：在贾看来,身份和外表的改变是她保持真实自我的方式。and连接identity和空处作介词in的宾语,故空处应填名词appearance“外表”。故填appearance。
⑧考查主语从句。句意：我现在所做的只是跟随自己的心,并没有刻意去寻求改变。空处引导主语从句,在从句中作宾语,表示“……的事情”,应用关系代词what引导,位于句首首字母大写。故填What。
⑨考查副词。句意：我现在所做的只是跟随自己的心,并没有刻意去寻求改变。空处应用副词deliberately“故意地”修饰动词looking。故填deliberately。
⑩考查连词。句意：贾指出,这部电影不是一个关于拳击或减肥的故事,而是一个关于赋权和自我发现的故事,这一信息能在所有年龄段的观众中产生深刻的共鸣。not...but...“不是……而是……”为固定搭配,在句中连接并列结构。故填but。
33．答案：
Dear Kevin,
I am so grateful to have such a dedicated teacher as you. With your careful guidance last year, I made rapid progress in English. The relaxing atmosphere in your class encouraged me to freely voice my opinion, greatly enhancing my fluency in speaking. As for further improving your class, my suggestions are as follows.
Initially, I hope there will be more interactions with you in class because discussions really benefit us much. Moreover, it is thoughtful of you to speak slowly for our sake, but the faster speed at which you talk with your native speakers may better sharpen our listening skills.
I sincerely hope these suggestions will be useful to you. Looking forward to your wonderful lessons next semester.
Yours,
Li Hua
解析：
1.词汇积累
激励：encourage→inspire
最初：initially→originally/first of all
另外,此外：moreover→what’s more/in addition
建议：suggestion→advice/tip
2.句式拓展
简单句变复合句
原句：The relaxing atmosphere in your class encouraged me to freely voice my opinion, greatly enhancing my fluency in speaking.
拓展句：The relaxing atmosphere in your class encouraged me to freely voice my opinion, which was greatly enhancing my fluency in speaking.
点睛：
【高分句型1】Initially, I hope there will be more interactions with you in class because discussions really benefit us much. (运用了省略that的宾语从句和because引导的原因状语从句)
【高分句型2】Moreover, it is thoughtful of you to speak slowly for our sake, but the faster speed at which you talk with your native speakers may better sharpen our listening skills. (运用了介词+which引导的限制性定语从句)
34．答案： Stevie looked up, greatly surprised. He thought he’d been invisible. “I’m not so sure,” he smiled weakly. But Mr Taylor came up to him, patted him on the arm firmly and, before he could refuse, said “Let’s do it.” The boys gathered around. Then Stevie and Mr Taylor checked each other’s straps—the way they had been taught. With everything ready, Mr Taylor began to make his way up. Watching carefully as the teacher climbed, Stevie could feel his heart pounding fast and his palms sweating. Finally, Mr Taylor reached the top, and the whole place burst into cheering.
“Ready to let me down ” Mr Taylor called down to Stevie. Stevie took a deep breath and reviewed what Rick had taught them about how to use the belaying device. At last, he looked up and said loudly, “OK!” Then the teacher let go of the wall and began to walk down. Stevie let the rope slip through his hands bit-by-bit cautiously and watched the teacher’s movement closely. He was so nervous that he could even hear his heart beating fast. Luckily, things went smoothly! Hearing the teacher say “You’re really trustworthy!”, Stevie smiled with relaxation and great joy.
解析：
1.段落续写
①由第一段首句“斯蒂维抬起头来,非常惊讶。”可知,本段可描写泰勒先生开始攀登,斯蒂维紧张而专注地监护,最终,泰勒先生成功登顶,赢得了全场的欢呼。
②由第二段首句“准备好让我下去了吗？”泰勒先生对史蒂维喊道。可知, 本段可描写斯蒂维成功地承担起保护者角色,运用所学技能帮助泰勒先生安全降落。泰勒先生的赞扬了他,让他在自信心与责任感上有所成长。
2.续写线索：惊讶—密切关注—成功登顶—全场欢呼—准备降落—承担保护者的角色—安全降落—自信心与责任感上得到成长
3.词汇激活
行为类
①微弱地微笑：smile weakly/offer a faint smile
②用力拍他的胳膊：pat him on the arm firmly/give him a strong pat on the arm
③深呼吸：take a deep breath/inhale deeply
情绪类
①紧张的：nervous/tense
②快乐：joy/delight
点睛：
【高分句型1】Watching carefully as the teacher climbed, Stevie could feel his heart pounding fast and his palms sweating.(运用了as引导的时间状语从句)
【高分句型2】He was so nervous that he could even hear his heart beating fast.(运用了so…that…引导的结果状语从句)
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