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2024-2025学年江西省南昌市江西科技学院附属中学高三上学期开学英语试卷
卷面分数：150分；考试时间：120分钟
第一部分 听力（共两节，满分30分）
第一节听下面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。
1. Where are the speakers
A. In a library. B. In a store. C. In a bank.
2. What is the weather like now
A. Sunny. B. Cloudy. C. Rainy.
3 How did the speakers come to Seattle
A. By plane. B. By car. C. By train.
4. What went on at Cooper’s last night
A. A movie show. B. A birthday party. C. A sales promotion.
5. What does the man probably want to do
A. Do some exercise. B. Get an extra key. C. Order room service.
第二节
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。
听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。
6. What does the man want to do before noon
A. Post a letter. B. Make a card. C. Write an email.
7. Whose birthday is it
A. Richard’s. B. Sarah’s. C. Vera’s.
听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。
8. Where is Jim now
A. In a taxi. B. On a bus. C. In his office.
9. What is the woman’s suggestion
A. Going to the city center.
B. Taking a short cut home.
C. Meeting Jim in the park.
听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。
10. What position does the man apply for
A. A salesperson. B. An engineer. C. An accountant.
11. Which aspect of the company appeals to the man
A. The company culture.
B. The free accommodations.
C. The competitive pay.
12. What is difficult for the man to deal with
A. Interpersonal relationships.
B. Quality-quantity balance.
C. Unplanned happenings.
听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。
13. What is the woman doing
A. She’s interpreting a painting.
B. She’s chairing a meeting.
C. She’s hosting a program.
14. How did Kuhn get the name “Happy”
A. From an oil painting. B. From a city in Mexico. C. From his initials in Spanish.
15. Who discovered Kuhn’s artistic talent
A. His childhood friend. B. His father. C. A woman artist.
16. What makes Kuhn’s art special
A. His focus on life of the aged.
B. His unique use of bright colors.
C. His expression of childlike innocence.
听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。
17. What did Gallo receive yesterday
A. A call from her sister.
B. A bottle from her aunt.
C. A letter from a stranger.
18. Where did the fisherman find the bottle
A. On Monhegan Island. B. At Cumberland. C. In Spain.
19 How old was Gallo when she threw out the bottle
A. Eight. B. Eleven. C. Fourteen.
20. Where is the bottle now
A. In the ocean. B. At Gallo’s home. C. With the fisherman.
第二部分阅读理解（共两节，满分50分）
第一节（共15小题；每小题2.5分，满分37.5分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
A
Forest Park Easy Hike in Queens
EVENT DESCRIPTION:
Walk out into the great outdoors, just outside Manhattan! Forest Park is filled with natural treasures and is a perfect getaway for locals and visitors alike. Can you believe this park has been around for over a century Take the chance to bring family and four-legged friends, and expect to see a friendly doggie here and there. During the hike, you will explore different trails (all well-paved) and stop at a few key spots to learn more about the 3rd largest park in Queens.
Get Tickets Here: https: //events/forest-park-easy-hike-in-queens-7
Cost: $20 general members
Date: May 7, 2023, Sunday
How it works:
We’ll meet at 3 p.m. at Wallenberg Square right outside of Forest Park in Queens.
Be prepared to walk as we explore multiple paths throughout the park!
Public transit is available! You can take the EF to Union Turnpike or the LIRR to Kew Gardens and walk 15 minutes over to Wallenberg Square.
The hike will start and end at Wallenberg Square.
What to bring: Water, hiking boots or sneakers
Difficulty Level: Easy
What if it rains Refunds will be given if the event is canceled due to rain.
Can I come alone Yes, most guests do! It’s a great way to meet new people.
Dress Code: Be comfortable and casual. Dress for the weather. You will be outside for 90 minutes.
Ages: 20+. Most of our events attract 20’s-40’s although some events can be adjusted to younger or older (50’s) depending on the event.
Questions Email Dave Cervini at dave@ or call 212.873.2256, M-F 10 a. m. to 4 p.m..
Nonrefundable unless canceled.
1. What can we learn about Forest Park Easy Hike
A. It is a dog-friendly event. B. It requires non-stop walking.
C. It is held in the city center. D. It takes place on unpaved paths.
2. What is the age requirement for the event
A. Older than ten. B. Older than twenty.
C. Older than thirty. D. Older than forty.
3 What should you do if you want to go hiking
A. Form a group. B. Carry an umbrella.
C. Prepay the ticket. D. Wear formal clothes.
B
My mom spent years as a stay-at-home mom so that my brothers and I could focus on our education. However, I could tell from her curiosity of and attitudes toward working women that she envied their financial freedom and the self-esteem that must come with it. When I asked her about working again, she would tell me to focus on achieving my dream. I knew she had once dreamed for herself.
For years, I watched het effortlessly light up conversations with both strangers and family. Her empathy and ability to reach the heart could make anyone laugh, even when the story itself did not apply to them at all. “Mom, have you ever thought about being a stand-up comedian ” “It is too late for me, son,” she responded, laughing at the idea. I could not bear to watch her struggle between ambition and doubt.
Her birthday was coming up. Although I had already bought her a present, I knew what I actually wanted to give her. I placed little notes of encouragement inside the present. I asked my family and her friends to do the same. Eventually I had collected 146 notes, and each with the same sentiment: “You are humorous, full of life, and ready to take on the stage.”
On the day of her birthday, my mom unwrapped my present. She was not surprised as she had hinted at it for long. But then she saw those little notes. She started to weep with her hands full of notes. She could not believe the support was real.
Within two months, my mom gave her first performance in a New York comedy club. I have read the notes countless times with my mom. They are framed and line the walls of her new office space that she rented with the profits she made from working as a professional comedian. For many parents, their children’s careers are their greatest accomplishment, but for me my mom’s is mine.
4. What was the attitude of the author’s mother to working women
A. She was curious about their income. B. She admired what work brought them.
C. She felt indifferent to working women. D. She appreciated their ambitions in finance.
5. According to the author, what makes his mother a good comedian
A. Her effort in making friends. B. Her talent to bring people joy.
C. Her curiosity about working women. D. Her desire for financial independence.
6. How did his mother feel when reading the notes on her birthday
A. Amazed and hesitant. B. Sad and disappointed.
C. Moved and encouraged. D. Delighted and proud.
7. What is the author’s greatest accomplishment
A. Supporting Mom’s dream. B. Achieving his own dream.
C. Securing financial freedom. D. Becoming a successful comedian.
C
For Caribbean box jellyfish (水母), learning is literally a no-brainer.
In a new experiment, these animals learned to spot and avoid obstacles (障碍物) despite having no central brain, researchers report in Current Biology. This is the first evidence that jellyfish can make mental connections between events and change their behavior accordingly. “Maybe learning doesn’t need a very complex nervous system, but rather, learning is an essential part of nerve cells,” says Jan Bielecki, a neuroethologist at Kiel University in Germany. If so, the new finding could help trace how learning evolved in animals.
Bielecki and his colleagues wondered if Caribbean box jellyfish could learn that low-contrast objects, which might at first seem distant, were actually close by. The team put 12 jellyfish into a round tank surrounded by low-contrast, gray and white stripes. A camera filmed the animals’ behavior for about seven minutes.
At first, the jellyfish seemed to interpret the gray stripes as distant roots and swam into the tank wall. But those collisions (碰撞) seemed to lead the jellyfish to treat the gray stripes more like close roots in dirty water, and the animals started avoiding them. The jellies’ average distance from the tank wall increased from about 2.5 centimeters in the first couple of minutes to about 3.6 centimeters in the final couple of minutes. Their average collisions into the wall dropped from 1.8 per minute to 0.78 per minute.
“I found that really amazing,” says Nagayasu Nakanishi, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, who has studied jellyfish nervous systems but was not involved in the new work. “I never thought jellyfish could really learn.”
Neurobiologist Bj rn Brembs views the results more cautiously, noting the small number of jellyfish tested and the variability in their performance. “I want this to be true, as it would be very cool,” says Brembs. Experiments with more jellyfish could convince him that the animals really do learn.
8. What can we know about the jellyfish in paragraph 2
A. They can avoid obstacles with a central brain.
B. They can change their behaviour after evolution.
C. They may have learning abilities with nerve cells.
D. They may develop a very complex nervous system.
9. What change in behavior did the jellyfish show in the experiment
A. They completely ignored the gray stripes.
B. They gradually started avoiding the gray stripes.
C. They could avoid collisions if given enough time.
D. They increased their collisions with the tank wall.
10. What conclusion can be drawn from the experiment
A. Jellyfish preferred the gray stripes over other things.
B. Jellyfish were unable to learn from their environment.
C. Jellyfish relied on the distant objects to change their behavior.
D. Jellyfish showed a learning process and adjusted their behavior.
11. What does Brembs imply in the last paragraph
A. He believes more testing is needed to confirm the results.
B. He is excited by the potential implications of the findings.
C. He dismisses the findings as irrelevant to jellyfish behavior.
D. He is doubtful due to the consistent performance of the jellyfish.
D
For centuries, two of the most interesting questions about Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa” were “Who ” and “When ” A discovery made at Heidelberg University in 2005 answered both. A note confirmed the account of da Vinci’s first biographer, Giorgio Vasari: that the sitter was a merchant’s wife, Lisa Gherardini. The note also helped date the masterpicce to between 1503 and 1506.
A third conundrum— “Where ”— is still in dispute. But on June 3rd a French engineer, Pascal Cotte, declared that he and a collaborator had identified the landscape in the background of the painting. During a presentation, Mr Cotte contended that the artist was more plausibly depicting a part of his native Tuscany. Da Vinci represented the area not as it was, but as, in an unrealized scheme, he intended it to be.
Mr Cotte, who was asked by the Louvre to create a digital image of the painting, is the inventor of the multispectral camera: a device that can detect not only the drawing below the surface of an oil painting but also intermediate layers of work. It was among these, under what appears to be a pointed rock, that he found a preparatory sketch (草图) showing that da Vinci intended it to represent a castellated tower.
The landscape of the “Mona Lisa” also includes a huge overhanging precipice (悬崖). That is similar to one that da Vinci included in a sketch of a fortress contested (争夺) by Pisa and Florence in a war. The fortress with the nearby precipice—and a tower—all overlook the river Arno as it snakes from Florence to Pisa. All three also feature in drawings made by da Vinci to illustrate a plan about which, says Mr Cotte, he became “obsessive”.
This involved diverting (改道) the Arno to cut off Pisa’s water supply and give Florence an outlet to the Mediterranean. In the early 1500s, with the two city-states at war, the idea was under active consideration. Mr Cotte argues that a channel at the right of the “Mona Lisa” is too wide to be a road, and is instead the dried-up bed of the Amo as da Vinci imagined it once his plan had been adopted.
It never was. But if Mr Cotte’s theory is right, it might just explain why Gherardini, a Florentine, wears such a contented, if inscrutable, smile.
12. What was painted in the “Mona Lisa” according to Mr Cotte
A. A part of da Vinci’s hometown as it was.
B. An overhanging precipice and a fortress.
C. A pointed rock and a castellated tower.
D. The dried-up bed of a river.
13. Who does “he” refer to in paragraph 4
A. Pascal Cotte B. Leonardo da Vinci
C. Giorgio Vasari D. Lisa Gherardini
14. Why did Mona Lisa smile based on Cotte’s theory
A. Because da Vinci’s idea was taken seriously.
B. Because da Vinci’s plan was adopted.
C. Because Pisa’s water supply was cut off.
D. Because Florence had a good chance to win the war.
15. What’s the best title of the text
A. Where did Mona Lisa smile
B. When was the “Mona Lisa” painted
C. Who was the sitter of the “Mona Lisa”
D. Why did Mona Lisa put on a smile
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。
We love our pets. In fact, for most people they are more than me re pets and become more like family members. It is likely then that their owners, at some point, are going to want photographs of their furry friends. However, pet photography presents its own special problems. ____16____ If you’re thinking of trying pet photography, here are a few pointers to get you started.
Find out about your subject’s personality and habits. Where does it nod off if the sun is out What is its favourite toy ____17____ It’s also worth spending a little time getting to know the animal yourself. Cats, dogs, horses, they all have personality, and you need to ensure they are comfortable being around you, and you around them.
____18____ If the pet is comfortable with you, and if it isn’t too nervous, fill the frame with the pet’s face. Get the eyes nice and sharp. Just like humans, this is a natural point of focus, although focusing on the nose or mouth of a dog or cat can also make for an interesting image in its own right.
See the world from pets’ perspective. If you photograph a pet while you’re standing up, all you’re going to see is the top of their head and their backs, not what you want for a portrait. Get down to their eye level. Try pre-focusing your camera and just holding it at ground level so you can look up at the pet. ____19____.
Bring a flash with the owner’s permission. While greeting or playing with a new pet, fire a couple of test flashes away from them to see their reaction. In daylight particularly, they never seem to mind the flash at all. ____20____.
A. Think about getting in close to your subject.
B. It’s worth a try just for a new angle on things.
C. Animals can be unpredictable, lazy, aggressive and excitable.
D. A good photograph focuses on the subject and not the background.
E. If they do mind, then stick with natural light and use a white reflector.
F. The more you shoot, the greater your chances of hitting that perfect shot!
G. Take time to chat with the owner and observe your subject to gain some insight.
第三部分语言知识运用（共两节，满分30分）
第一节（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）
阅读面短文，从每题所给的A，B，C，D四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
Juleus Ghunta is a published children’s author and award-winning poet. But when young, he could ____21____ read.
He grew up with his three sisters in rural Western Jamaica, raised by their single mother. Life was tough, and proper schooling was out of the question due to ____22____ resources.
When Ghunta finally went to school, he couldn’t ____23____ on reading. Not only had he been kept home from school as a child, but he had not been ____24____ to books.
By sixth grade, he could spell his name, but still couldn’t make out words or read with ____25____. He struggled in school with a deep sense of ____26____ and worthlessness.
At age 12, a young teacher-in-training ____27____ a special reading program for ____28____ students. Ghunta was the first to join. That teacher, whose name he does not ____29____ now, became Ghunta’s unsung hero — the person who changed his life.
The teacher was incredibly kind to him. Under her guidance, Ghunta’s reading skills saw marked improvement, and his sense of inadequacy began to ____30____.
“She had left me with the gift of literacy,” he said. “And a deeper ____31____ of my talent.”
After Ghunta’s experience with the teacher, his life course ____32____. He graduated with academic ____33____ and is now the author of two children’s books, including “Rohan Bullkin and the Shadows.”
Years later, Ghunta returned to his old school and asked the principal and teachers if they knew her ____34____, but none did. Carrying this memory, however, he still hopes to find and thank her for seeing his ____35____ and being a source of light and hope in his life.
21. A. merely B. barely C. totally D. simply
22. A. abundant B. public C. limited D. financial
23. A. give up B. fall behind C. miss out D. catch up
24 A. exposed B. drawn C. adapted D. devoted
25. A. reference B. hesitation C. caution D. understanding
26. A. awe B. loss C. guilt D. wonder
27. A. started B. submitted C. downloaded D. forwarded
28. A. disappointing B. struggling C. advanced D. qualified
29. A. type B. spell C. distinguish D. recall
30. A. disappear B. peak C. form D. spread
31. A. appreciation B. waste C. memory D. source
32. A. risked B. approached C. shifted D. determined
33. A. skills B. honors C. courses D. efforts
34. A. occupation. B. identity C. age D. name
35. A. drawback B. reflection C. potential D. ambition
第二节（共15小题；每小题1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。
When BBC’s Planet Earth came out in 2006, the documentary series ____36____(praise) for its thrilling footage of wildlife from around the world. Hosted by famed naturalist David Attenborough, this project aims to showcase the beauty and ____37____(diverse) of the natural world; and, by doing so, it has urged the public ____38____(take) care of our planet. Fast forward 17 years, Planet Earth III has made it to the airwaves (电视无线电波).
A few weeks ago, BBC shared a trailer (预告片) of Planet Earth III, ____39____ whales swim across the ocean and wolves walk on a ____40____(freeze) body of water. And while there are some anxiety- filled encounters, the video does point out who the real threat is. Seals are trapped by fishing nets, and primates ____41____(caution) cross a road where cars are zooming by.
Critics point out while the footage is breathtaking, there’s a layer of heartbreak to it. Some of the species ____42____(have) some positive developments over the last few years. But ____43____show also presents how other creatures have had to adapt not only to climate changes, but also to the direct effects humans have had ____44____ their habitats. ____45____(echo) Attenborough’s urgent appeal from 2022, Planet Earth III presents the hardships these creatures face and also reminds the audience why they’re worth fighting for.
第四部分 写作（共两节，满分40分）
第一节 应用文（满分15分）
46. 假定你是学生李华，你校将举办一次有关农业劳动课重要性的英语演讲比赛，你将代表班级参赛，请你以“On the importance of hands-on agricultural labor course”为主题写一篇演讲稿，内容包括：1. 同学们对此课程的看法；2. 学习农业劳动课的意义。
注意：1. 词数80左右；
2. 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Ladies and gentlemen,
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第二节 读后续写（满分25分）
47. 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。
Brad Howard, a Texas father, had enough of his son’s disruptive (扰乱性的) behavior in physics class. Despite multiple warnings and complaints from the teacher about his son’s excessive (过多的) talking, the situation didn’t improve.
So, Brad decided to take matters into his own hands and gave his son, Bradley, a final warning. Brad made a bold promise to his son, saying, “Hey, if we get another call, I’m going to show up in school and sit beside you in class. ”
The 17-year-old Bradley probably thought his dad was just bluffing (唬人) and continued his chatty (爱闲聊的) ways. But when Brad received another email from the teacher, he knew he had to follow through with his threat.
On the morning of the important day, Brad’s wife woke him up and said, “Brad, it’s time for you to go to school. ” It struck him what he had said. He just couldn’t but a bit regret, “Oh, no, what have I done ”
Despite his unwillingness, Brad was determined to keep his word and headed to his son’s high school.
The sight of Brad sitting next to Bradley in class was a source of amusement for Bradley’s friends, who found the situation ridiculous. Bradley, on the other hand, was less than thrilled.
He couldn’t believe that his dad had actually gone through with his threat, The embarrassment of having his own father sitting beside him in class was enough to make him regret his behavior. As the class started, Bradley could feel all eyes on him and his dad. He could sense the judgment and the whispers from his classmates.
“Hey, Bradley, it looks like your dad is really serious about this, ” one of his friends whispered across the hallway, trying to hold back a laugh.
“Yeah, this is so embarrassing, ” Bradley whispered, his cheeks turning a deep shade of red.
注意：
1. 续写词数应为150左右;
2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
But as the class progressed, something unexpected happened.
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After school Bradley hesitantly approached his dad with newfound appreciation.
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江科附中2024—2025学年第一学期
高三年级8月学校摸底考英语试卷
答案版
卷面分数：150分；考试时间：120分钟
第一部分 听力（共两节，满分30分）
第一节听下面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。
1. Where are the speakers
A. In a library. B. In a store. C. In a bank.
2. What is the weather like now
A. Sunny. B. Cloudy. C. Rainy.
3. How did the speakers come to Seattle
A. By plane. B. By car. C. By train.
4. What went on at Cooper’s last night
A. A movie show. B. A birthday party. C. A sales promotion.
5. What does the man probably want to do
A. Do some exercise. B. Get an extra key. C. Order room service.
第二节
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。
听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。
6. What does the man want to do before noon
A. Post a letter. B. Make a card. C. Write an email.
7. Whose birthday is it
A. Richard’s. B. Sarah’s. C. Vera’s.
听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。
8. Where is Jim now
A. In a taxi. B. On a bus. C. In his office.
9. What is the woman’s suggestion
A. Going to the city center.
B. Taking a short cut home.
C. Meeting Jim in the park.
听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。
10. What position does the man apply for
A. A salesperson. B. An engineer. C. An accountant.
11. Which aspect of the company appeals to the man
A. The company culture.
B. The free accommodations.
C. The competitive pay.
12. What is difficult for the man to deal with
A. Interpersonal relationships.
B. Quality-quantity balance.
C. Unplanned happenings.
听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。
13. What is the woman doing
A. She’s interpreting a painting.
B. She’s chairing a meeting.
C. She’s hosting a program.
14. How did Kuhn get the name “Happy”
A. From an oil painting. B. From a city in Mexico. C. From his initials in Spanish.
15. Who discovered Kuhn’s artistic talent
A. His childhood friend. B. His father. C. A woman artist.
16. What makes Kuhn’s art special
A. His focus on life of the aged.
B. His unique use of bright colors.
C. His expression of childlike innocence.
听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。
17. What did Gallo receive yesterday
A. A call from her sister.
B. A bottle from her aunt.
C. A letter from a stranger.
18. Where did the fisherman find the bottle
A. On Monhegan Island. B. At Cumberland. C. In Spain.
19. How old was Gallo when she threw out the bottle
A. Eight. B. Eleven. C. Fourteen.
20. Where is the bottle now
A. In the ocean. B. At Gallo’s home. C. With the fisherman.
听力答案 略
第二部分阅读理解（共两节，满分50分）
第一节（共15小题；每小题2.5分，满分37.5分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
A
Forest Park Easy Hike in Queens
EVENT DESCRIPTION:
Walk out into the great outdoors, just outside Manhattan! Forest Park is filled with natural treasures and is a perfect getaway for locals and visitors alike. Can you believe this park has been around for over a century Take the chance to bring family and four-legged friends, and expect to see a friendly doggie here and there. During the hike, you will explore different trails (all well-paved) and stop at a few key spots to learn more about the 3rd largest park in Queens.
Get Tickets Here: https: //events/forest-park-easy-hike-in-queens-7
Cost: $20 general members
Date: May 7, 2023, Sunday
How it works:
We’ll meet at 3 p.m. at Wallenberg Square right outside of Forest Park in Queens.
Be prepared to walk as we explore multiple paths throughout the park!
Public transit is available! You can take the EF to Union Turnpike or the LIRR to Kew Gardens and walk 15 minutes over to Wallenberg Square.
The hike will start and end at Wallenberg Square.
What to bring: Water, hiking boots or sneakers
Difficulty Level: Easy
What if it rains Refunds will be given if the event is canceled due to rain.
Can I come alone Yes, most guests do! It’s a great way to meet new people.
Dress Code: Be comfortable and casual. Dress for the weather. You will be outside for 90 minutes.
Ages: 20+. Most of our events attract 20’s-40’s although some events can be adjusted to younger or older (50’s) depending on the event.
Questions Email Dave Cervini at dave@ or call 212.873.2256, M-F 10 a. m. to 4 p.m..
Nonrefundable unless canceled.
1. What can we learn about Forest Park Easy Hike
A. It is a dog-friendly event. B. It requires non-stop walking.
C. It is held in the city center. D. It takes place on unpaved paths.
2. What is the age requirement for the event
A. Older than ten. B. Older than twenty.
C. Older than thirty. D. Older than forty.
3. What should you do if you want to go hiking
A. Form a group. B. Carry an umbrella.
C. Prepay the ticket. D. Wear formal clothes.
【答案】1. A 2. B 3. C
B
My mom spent years as a stay-at-home mom so that my brothers and I could focus on our education. However, I could tell from her curiosity of and attitudes toward working women that she envied their financial freedom and the self-esteem that must come with it. When I asked her about working again, she would tell me to focus on achieving my dream. I knew she had once dreamed for herself.
For years, I watched het effortlessly light up conversations with both strangers and family. Her empathy and ability to reach the heart could make anyone laugh, even when the story itself did not apply to them at all. “Mom, have you ever thought about being a stand-up comedian ” “It is too late for me, son,” she responded, laughing at the idea. I could not bear to watch her struggle between ambition and doubt.
Her birthday was coming up. Although I had already bought her a present, I knew what I actually wanted to give her. I placed little notes of encouragement inside the present. I asked my family and her friends to do the same. Eventually I had collected 146 notes, and each with the same sentiment: “You are humorous, full of life, and ready to take on the stage.”
On the day of her birthday, my mom unwrapped my present. She was not surprised as she had hinted at it for long. But then she saw those little notes. She started to weep with her hands full of notes. She could not believe the support was real.
Within two months, my mom gave her first performance in a New York comedy club. I have read the notes countless times with my mom. They are framed and line the walls of her new office space that she rented with the profits she made from working as a professional comedian. For many parents, their children’s careers are their greatest accomplishment, but for me my mom’s is mine.
4. What was the attitude of the author’s mother to working women
A. She was curious about their income. B. She admired what work brought them.
C. She felt indifferent to working women. D. She appreciated their ambitions in finance.
5. According to the author, what makes his mother a good comedian
A. Her effort in making friends. B. Her talent to bring people joy.
C. Her curiosity about working women. D. Her desire for financial independence.
6. How did his mother feel when reading the notes on her birthday
A. Amazed and hesitant. B. Sad and disappointed.
C. Moved and encouraged. D. Delighted and proud.
7. What is the author’s greatest accomplishment
A. Supporting Mom’s dream. B. Achieving his own dream.
C. Securing financial freedom. D. Becoming a successful comedian.
【答案】4. B 5. B 6. C 7. A
C
For Caribbean box jellyfish (水母), learning is literally a no-brainer.
In a new experiment these animals learned to spot and avoid obstacles (障碍物) despite having no central brain, researchers report in Current Biology. This is the first evidence that jellyfish can make mental connections between events and change their behavior accordingly. “Maybe learning doesn’t need a very complex nervous system, but rather, learning is an essential part of nerve cells,” says Jan Bielecki, a neuroethologist at Kiel University in Germany. If so, the new finding could help trace how learning evolved in animals.
Bielecki and his colleagues wondered if Caribbean box jellyfish could learn that low-contrast objects which might at first seem distant, were actually close by. The team put 12 jellyfish into a round tank surrounded by low-contrast, gray and white stripes. A camera filmed the animals’ behavior for about seven minutes.
At first, the jellyfish seemed to interpret the gray stripes as distant roots and swam into the tank wall. But those collisions (碰撞) seemed to lead the jellyfish to treat the gray stripes more like close roots in dirty water, and the animals started avoiding them. The jellies’ average distance from the tank wall increased from about 2.5 centimeters in the first couple of minutes to about 3.6 centimeters in the final couple of minutes. Their average collisions into the wall dropped from 1.8 per minute to 0.78 per minute.
“I found that really amazing,” says Nagayasu Nakanishi, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, who has studied jellyfish nervous systems but was not involved in the new work. “I never thought jellyfish could really learn.”
Neurobiologist Bj rn Brembs views the results more cautiously, noting the small number of jellyfish tested and the variability in their performance. “I want this to be true, as it would be very cool,” says Brembs. Experiments with more jellyfish could convince him that the animals really do learn.
8. What can we know about the jellyfish in paragraph 2
A. They can avoid obstacles with a central brain.
B. They can change their behaviour after evolution.
C. They may have learning abilities with nerve cells.
D. They may develop a very complex nervous system.
9. What change in behavior did the jellyfish show in the experiment
A. They completely ignored the gray stripes.
B. They gradually started avoiding the gray stripes.
C. They could avoid collisions if given enough time.
D. They increased their collisions with the tank wall.
10. What conclusion can be drawn from the experiment
A. Jellyfish preferred the gray stripes over other things.
B. Jellyfish were unable to learn from their environment.
C. Jellyfish relied on the distant objects to change their behavior.
D. Jellyfish showed a learning process and adjusted their behavior.
11. What does Brembs imply in the last paragraph
A. He believes more testing is needed to confirm the results.
B. He is excited by the potential implications of the findings.
C. He dismisses the findings as irrelevant to jellyfish behavior.
D. He is doubtful due to the consistent performance of the jellyfish.
【答案】8. C 9. B 10. D 11. A
D
For centuries, two of the most interesting questions about Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa” were “Who ” and “When ” A discovery made at Heidelberg University in 2005 answered both. A note confirmed the account of da Vinci’s first biographer, Giorgio Vasari: that the sitter was a merchant’s wife, Lisa Gherardini. The note also helped date the masterpicce to between 1503 and 1506.
A third conundrum— “Where ”— is still in dispute. But on June 3rd a French engineer, Pascal Cotte, declared that he and a collaborator had identified the landscape in the background of the painting. During a presentation, Mr Cotte contended that the artist was more plausibly depicting a part of his native Tuscany. Da Vinci represented the area not as it was, but as, in an unrealized scheme, he intended it to be.
Mr Cotte, who was asked by the Louvre to create a digital image of the painting, is the inventor of the multispectral camera: a device that can detect not only the drawing below the surface of an oil painting but also intermediate layers of work. It was among these, under what appears to be a pointed rock, that he found a preparatory sketch (草图) showing that da Vinci intended it to represent a castellated tower.
The landscape of the “Mona Lisa” also includes a huge overhanging precipice (悬崖). That is similar to one that da Vinci included in a sketch of a fortress contested (争夺) by Pisa and Florence in a war. The fortress with the nearby precipice—and a tower—all overlook the river Arno as it snakes from Florence to Pisa. All three also feature in drawings made by da Vinci to illustrate a plan about which, says Mr Cotte, he became “obsessive”.
This involved diverting (改道) the Arno to cut off Pisa’s water supply and give Florence an outlet to the Mediterranean. In the early 1500s, with the two city-states at war, the idea was under active consideration. Mr Cotte argues that a channel at the right of the “Mona Lisa” is too wide to be a road, and is instead the dried-up bed of the Amo as da Vinci imagined it once his plan had been adopted.
It never was. But if Mr Cotte’s theory is right, it might just explain why Gherardini, a Florentine, wears such a contented, if inscrutable, smile.
12. What was painted in the “Mona Lisa” according to Mr Cotte
A. A part of da Vinci’s hometown as it was.
B. An overhanging precipice and a fortress.
C. A pointed rock and a castellated tower.
D. The dried-up bed of a river.
13 Who does “he” refer to in paragraph 4
A. Pascal Cotte B. Leonardo da Vinci
C. Giorgio Vasari D. Lisa Gherardini
14. Why did Mona Lisa smile based on Cotte’s theory
A. Because da Vinci’s idea was taken seriously.
B. Because da Vinci’s plan was adopted.
C. Because Pisa’s water supply was cut off.
D. Because Florence had a good chance to win the war.
15. What’s the best title of the text
A. Where did Mona Lisa smile
B. When was the “Mona Lisa” painted
C. Who was the sitter of the “Mona Lisa”
D. Why did Mona Lisa put on a smile
【答案】12. D 13. B 14. D 15. A
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。
We love our pets. In fact, for most people they are more than me re pets and become more like family members. It is likely then that their owners, at some point, are going to want photographs of their furry friends. However, pet photography presents its own special problems. ____16____ If you’re thinking of trying pet photography, here are a few pointers to get you started.
Find out about your subject’s personality and habits. Where does it nod off if the sun is out What is its favourite toy ____17____ It’s also worth spending a little time getting to know the animal yourself. Cats, dogs, horses, they all have personality, and you need to ensure they are comfortable being around you, and you around them.
____18____ If the pet is comfortable with you, and if it isn’t too nervous, fill the frame with the pet’s face. Get the eyes nice and sharp. Just like humans, this is a natural point of focus, although focusing on the nose or mouth of a dog or cat can also make for an interesting image in its own right.
See the world from pets’ perspective. If you photograph a pet while you’re standing up, all you’re going to see is the top of their head and their backs, not what you want for a portrait. Get down to their eye level. Try pre-focusing your camera and just holding it at ground level so you can look up at the pet. ____19____.
Bring a flash with the owner’s permission. While greeting or playing with a new pet, fire a couple of test flashes away from them to see their reaction. In daylight particularly, they never seem to mind the flash at all. ____20____.
A. Think about getting in close to your subject.
B. It’s worth a try just for a new angle on things.
C. Animals can be unpredictable, lazy, aggressive and excitable.
D. A good photograph focuses on the subject and not the background.
E. If they do mind, then stick with natural light and use a white reflector.
F. The more you shoot, the greater your chances of hitting that perfect shot!
G. Take time to chat with the owner and observe your subject to gain some insight.
【答案】16 C 17. G 18. A 19. B 20. E
第三部分语言知识运用（共两节，满分30分）
第一节（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）
阅读面短文，从每题所给的A，B，C，D四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
Juleus Ghunta is a published children’s author and award-winning poet. But when young, he could ____21____ read.
He grew up with his three sisters in rural Western Jamaica, raised by their single mother. Life was tough, and proper schooling was out of the question due to ____22____ resources.
When Ghunta finally went to school, he couldn’t ____23____ on reading. Not only had he been kept home from school as a child, but he had not been ____24____ to books.
By sixth grade, he could spell his name, but still couldn’t make out words or read with ____25____. He struggled in school with a deep sense of ____26____ and worthlessness.
At age 12, a young teacher-in-training ____27____ a special reading program for ____28____ students. Ghunta was the first to join. That teacher, whose name he does not ____29____ now, became Ghunta’s unsung hero — the person who changed his life.
The teacher was incredibly kind to him. Under her guidance, Ghunta’s reading skills saw marked improvement, and his sense of inadequacy began to ____30____.
“She had left me with the gift of literacy,” he said. “And a deeper ____31____ of my talent.”
After Ghunta’s experience with the teacher, his life course ____32____. He graduated with academic ____33____ and is now the author of two children’s books, including “Rohan Bullkin and the Shadows.”
Years later, Ghunta returned to his old school and asked the principal and teachers if they knew her ____34____, but none did. Carrying this memory, however, he still hopes to find and thank her for seeing his ____35____ and being a source of light and hope in his life.
21. A. merely B. barely C. totally D. simply
22. A. abundant B. public C. limited D. financial
23. A. give up B. fall behind C. miss out D. catch up
24. A. exposed B. drawn C. adapted D. devoted
25. A. reference B. hesitation C. caution D. understanding
26. A. awe B. loss C. guilt D. wonder
27. A. started B. submitted C. downloaded D. forwarded
28. A. disappointing B. struggling C. advanced D. qualified
29. A. type B. spell C. distinguish D. recall
30. A. disappear B. peak C. form D. spread
31. A. appreciation B. waste C. memory D. source
32. A. risked B. approached C. shifted D. determined
33. A. skills B. honors C. courses D. efforts
34 A. occupation. B. identity C. age D. name
35. A. drawback B. reflection C. potential D. ambition
【答案】21. B 22. C 23. D 24. A 25. D 26. B 27. A 28. B 29. D 30. A 31. A 32. C 33. B 34. D 35. C
第二节（共15小题；每小题1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。
When BBC’s Planet Earth came out in 2006, the documentary series ____36____(praise) for its thrilling footage of wildlife from around the world. Hosted by famed naturalist David Attenborough, this project aims to showcase the beauty and ____37____(diverse) of the natural world; and, by doing so, it has urged the public ____38____(take) care of our planet. Fast forward 17 years, Planet Earth III has made it to the airwaves (电视无线电波).
A few weeks ago, BBC shared a trailer (预告片) of Planet Earth III, ____39____ whales swim across the ocean and wolves walk on a ____40____(freeze) body of water. And while there are some anxiety- filled encounters, the video does point out who the real threat is. Seals are trapped by fishing nets, and primates ____41____(caution) cross a road where cars are zooming by.
Critics point out while the footage is breathtaking, there’s a layer of heartbreak to it. Some of the species ____42____(have) some positive developments over the last few years. But ____43____show also presents how other creatures have had to adapt not only to climate changes, but also to the direct effects humans have had ____44____ their habitats. ____45____(echo) Attenborough’s urgent appeal from 2022, Planet Earth III presents the hardships these creatures face and also reminds the audience why they’re worth fighting for.
【答案】36. was praised
37. diversity
38. to take##should take##take
39. where 40. frozen
41. cautiously
42. have had
43. the 44. on##upon
45. Echoing
第四部分 写作（共两节，满分40分）
第一节 应用文（满分15分）
46. 假定你是学生李华，你校将举办一次有关农业劳动课重要性的英语演讲比赛，你将代表班级参赛，请你以“On the importance of hands-on agricultural labor course”为主题写一篇演讲稿，内容包括：1. 同学们对此课程的看法；2. 学习农业劳动课的意义。
注意：1. 词数80左右；
2. 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Ladies and gentlemen,
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
【答案】Ladies and gentlemen,
I am honored to stand here to deliver a speech. Today my theme is about “On the importance of hands-on agricultural labor course”.
First and foremost, some students believe that there are many benefits to attend hands-on agricultural courses, which can make them know more about agriculture and experience the hardships of farmers’ labor. What’s more, the hands-on agricultural course will certainly improve students’ awareness of cherishing food.
Not only can learning agricultural courses offer an alternative to busy school life, but also it allows students to gain direct labor experience and gradually establish a correct value of agricultural labor.
Thank you for your listening.
第二节 读后续写（满分25分）
47. 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。
Brad Howard, a Texas father, had enough of his son’s disruptive (扰乱性的) behavior in physics class. Despite multiple warnings and complaints from the teacher about his son’s excessive (过多的) talking, the situation didn’t improve.
So, Brad decided to take matters into his own hands and gave his son, Bradley, a final warning. Brad made a bold promise to his son, saying, “Hey, if we get another call, I’m going to show up in school and sit beside you in class. ”
The 17-year-old Bradley probably thought his dad was just bluffing (唬人) and continued his chatty (爱闲聊的) ways. But when Brad received another email from the teacher, he knew he had to follow through with his threat.
On the morning of the important day, Brad’s wife woke him up and said, “Brad, it’s time for you to go to school. ” It struck him what he had said. He just couldn’t but a bit regret, “Oh, no, what have I done ”
Despite his unwillingness, Brad was determined to keep his word and headed to his son’s high school.
The sight of Brad sitting next to Bradley in class was a source of amusement for Bradley’s friends, who found the situation ridiculous. Bradley, on the other hand, was less than thrilled.
He couldn’t believe that his dad had actually gone through with his threat, The embarrassment of having his own father sitting beside him in class was enough to make him regret his behavior. As the class started, Bradley could feel all eyes on him and his dad. He could sense the judgment and the whispers from his classmates.
“Hey, Bradley, it looks like your dad is really serious about this, ” one of his friends whispered across the hallway, trying to hold back a laugh.
“Yeah, this is so embarrassing, ” Bradley whispered, his cheeks turning a deep shade of red.
注意：
1. 续写词数应为150左右;
2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
But as the class progressed, something unexpected happened.
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
After school, Bradley hesitantly approached his dad with newfound appreciation.
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
【答案】范文
But as the class progressed, something unexpected happened. Brad didn’t just sit there quietly, he actively participated in the lesson. He listened intently, raised his hand to answer questions, and even asked questions himself. Bradley couldn’t help but notice the surprised looks on his teacher’s face and the nods of approval. As the day went on, it became clear to Bradlley that his dad’s intention was not to embarrass him but to teach him a valuable lesson.
After school, Bradley hesitantly approached his dad with newfound appreciation. “Thanks, Dad, ” he said quietly. “I didn’t realize you were trying to teach me something important. I know the importance of taking education seriously and respecting my teachers. I realize my attitude is not only affecting my own learning but also disrupting the learning environment for others. ” Bradley’s dad put a hand on his shoulder and smiled. “I love you, son. Sometimes we need to learn things in a hard way, but I’m always here for you.”
卷面分数：150分；考试时间：120分钟
第一部分 听力（共两节，满分30分）
第一节听下面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。
1. Where are the speakers
A. In a library. B. In a store. C. In a bank.
2. What is the weather like now
A. Sunny. B. Cloudy. C. Rainy.
3 How did the speakers come to Seattle
A. By plane. B. By car. C. By train.
4. What went on at Cooper’s last night
A. A movie show. B. A birthday party. C. A sales promotion.
5. What does the man probably want to do
A. Do some exercise. B. Get an extra key. C. Order room service.
第二节
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。
听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。
6. What does the man want to do before noon
A. Post a letter. B. Make a card. C. Write an email.
7. Whose birthday is it
A. Richard’s. B. Sarah’s. C. Vera’s.
听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。
8. Where is Jim now
A. In a taxi. B. On a bus. C. In his office.
9. What is the woman’s suggestion
A. Going to the city center.
B. Taking a short cut home.
C. Meeting Jim in the park.
听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。
10. What position does the man apply for
A. A salesperson. B. An engineer. C. An accountant.
11. Which aspect of the company appeals to the man
A. The company culture.
B. The free accommodations.
C. The competitive pay.
12. What is difficult for the man to deal with
A. Interpersonal relationships.
B. Quality-quantity balance.
C. Unplanned happenings.
听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。
13. What is the woman doing
A. She’s interpreting a painting.
B. She’s chairing a meeting.
C. She’s hosting a program.
14. How did Kuhn get the name “Happy”
A. From an oil painting. B. From a city in Mexico. C. From his initials in Spanish.
15. Who discovered Kuhn’s artistic talent
A. His childhood friend. B. His father. C. A woman artist.
16. What makes Kuhn’s art special
A. His focus on life of the aged.
B. His unique use of bright colors.
C. His expression of childlike innocence.
听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。
17. What did Gallo receive yesterday
A. A call from her sister.
B. A bottle from her aunt.
C. A letter from a stranger.
18. Where did the fisherman find the bottle
A. On Monhegan Island. B. At Cumberland. C. In Spain.
19 How old was Gallo when she threw out the bottle
A. Eight. B. Eleven. C. Fourteen.
20. Where is the bottle now
A. In the ocean. B. At Gallo’s home. C. With the fisherman.
第二部分阅读理解（共两节，满分50分）
第一节（共15小题；每小题2.5分，满分37.5分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
A
Forest Park Easy Hike in Queens
EVENT DESCRIPTION:
Walk out into the great outdoors, just outside Manhattan! Forest Park is filled with natural treasures and is a perfect getaway for locals and visitors alike. Can you believe this park has been around for over a century Take the chance to bring family and four-legged friends, and expect to see a friendly doggie here and there. During the hike, you will explore different trails (all well-paved) and stop at a few key spots to learn more about the 3rd largest park in Queens.
Get Tickets Here: https: //events/forest-park-easy-hike-in-queens-7
Cost: $20 general members
Date: May 7, 2023, Sunday
How it works:
We’ll meet at 3 p.m. at Wallenberg Square right outside of Forest Park in Queens.
Be prepared to walk as we explore multiple paths throughout the park!
Public transit is available! You can take the EF to Union Turnpike or the LIRR to Kew Gardens and walk 15 minutes over to Wallenberg Square.
The hike will start and end at Wallenberg Square.
What to bring: Water, hiking boots or sneakers
Difficulty Level: Easy
What if it rains Refunds will be given if the event is canceled due to rain.
Can I come alone Yes, most guests do! It’s a great way to meet new people.
Dress Code: Be comfortable and casual. Dress for the weather. You will be outside for 90 minutes.
Ages: 20+. Most of our events attract 20’s-40’s although some events can be adjusted to younger or older (50’s) depending on the event.
Questions Email Dave Cervini at dave@ or call 212.873.2256, M-F 10 a. m. to 4 p.m..
Nonrefundable unless canceled.
1. What can we learn about Forest Park Easy Hike
A. It is a dog-friendly event. B. It requires non-stop walking.
C. It is held in the city center. D. It takes place on unpaved paths.
2. What is the age requirement for the event
A. Older than ten. B. Older than twenty.
C. Older than thirty. D. Older than forty.
3 What should you do if you want to go hiking
A. Form a group. B. Carry an umbrella.
C. Prepay the ticket. D. Wear formal clothes.
B
My mom spent years as a stay-at-home mom so that my brothers and I could focus on our education. However, I could tell from her curiosity of and attitudes toward working women that she envied their financial freedom and the self-esteem that must come with it. When I asked her about working again, she would tell me to focus on achieving my dream. I knew she had once dreamed for herself.
For years, I watched het effortlessly light up conversations with both strangers and family. Her empathy and ability to reach the heart could make anyone laugh, even when the story itself did not apply to them at all. “Mom, have you ever thought about being a stand-up comedian ” “It is too late for me, son,” she responded, laughing at the idea. I could not bear to watch her struggle between ambition and doubt.
Her birthday was coming up. Although I had already bought her a present, I knew what I actually wanted to give her. I placed little notes of encouragement inside the present. I asked my family and her friends to do the same. Eventually I had collected 146 notes, and each with the same sentiment: “You are humorous, full of life, and ready to take on the stage.”
On the day of her birthday, my mom unwrapped my present. She was not surprised as she had hinted at it for long. But then she saw those little notes. She started to weep with her hands full of notes. She could not believe the support was real.
Within two months, my mom gave her first performance in a New York comedy club. I have read the notes countless times with my mom. They are framed and line the walls of her new office space that she rented with the profits she made from working as a professional comedian. For many parents, their children’s careers are their greatest accomplishment, but for me my mom’s is mine.
4. What was the attitude of the author’s mother to working women
A. She was curious about their income. B. She admired what work brought them.
C. She felt indifferent to working women. D. She appreciated their ambitions in finance.
5. According to the author, what makes his mother a good comedian
A. Her effort in making friends. B. Her talent to bring people joy.
C. Her curiosity about working women. D. Her desire for financial independence.
6. How did his mother feel when reading the notes on her birthday
A. Amazed and hesitant. B. Sad and disappointed.
C. Moved and encouraged. D. Delighted and proud.
7. What is the author’s greatest accomplishment
A. Supporting Mom’s dream. B. Achieving his own dream.
C. Securing financial freedom. D. Becoming a successful comedian.
C
For Caribbean box jellyfish (水母), learning is literally a no-brainer.
In a new experiment, these animals learned to spot and avoid obstacles (障碍物) despite having no central brain, researchers report in Current Biology. This is the first evidence that jellyfish can make mental connections between events and change their behavior accordingly. “Maybe learning doesn’t need a very complex nervous system, but rather, learning is an essential part of nerve cells,” says Jan Bielecki, a neuroethologist at Kiel University in Germany. If so, the new finding could help trace how learning evolved in animals.
Bielecki and his colleagues wondered if Caribbean box jellyfish could learn that low-contrast objects, which might at first seem distant, were actually close by. The team put 12 jellyfish into a round tank surrounded by low-contrast, gray and white stripes. A camera filmed the animals’ behavior for about seven minutes.
At first, the jellyfish seemed to interpret the gray stripes as distant roots and swam into the tank wall. But those collisions (碰撞) seemed to lead the jellyfish to treat the gray stripes more like close roots in dirty water, and the animals started avoiding them. The jellies’ average distance from the tank wall increased from about 2.5 centimeters in the first couple of minutes to about 3.6 centimeters in the final couple of minutes. Their average collisions into the wall dropped from 1.8 per minute to 0.78 per minute.
“I found that really amazing,” says Nagayasu Nakanishi, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, who has studied jellyfish nervous systems but was not involved in the new work. “I never thought jellyfish could really learn.”
Neurobiologist Bj rn Brembs views the results more cautiously, noting the small number of jellyfish tested and the variability in their performance. “I want this to be true, as it would be very cool,” says Brembs. Experiments with more jellyfish could convince him that the animals really do learn.
8. What can we know about the jellyfish in paragraph 2
A. They can avoid obstacles with a central brain.
B. They can change their behaviour after evolution.
C. They may have learning abilities with nerve cells.
D. They may develop a very complex nervous system.
9. What change in behavior did the jellyfish show in the experiment
A. They completely ignored the gray stripes.
B. They gradually started avoiding the gray stripes.
C. They could avoid collisions if given enough time.
D. They increased their collisions with the tank wall.
10. What conclusion can be drawn from the experiment
A. Jellyfish preferred the gray stripes over other things.
B. Jellyfish were unable to learn from their environment.
C. Jellyfish relied on the distant objects to change their behavior.
D. Jellyfish showed a learning process and adjusted their behavior.
11. What does Brembs imply in the last paragraph
A. He believes more testing is needed to confirm the results.
B. He is excited by the potential implications of the findings.
C. He dismisses the findings as irrelevant to jellyfish behavior.
D. He is doubtful due to the consistent performance of the jellyfish.
D
For centuries, two of the most interesting questions about Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa” were “Who ” and “When ” A discovery made at Heidelberg University in 2005 answered both. A note confirmed the account of da Vinci’s first biographer, Giorgio Vasari: that the sitter was a merchant’s wife, Lisa Gherardini. The note also helped date the masterpicce to between 1503 and 1506.
A third conundrum— “Where ”— is still in dispute. But on June 3rd a French engineer, Pascal Cotte, declared that he and a collaborator had identified the landscape in the background of the painting. During a presentation, Mr Cotte contended that the artist was more plausibly depicting a part of his native Tuscany. Da Vinci represented the area not as it was, but as, in an unrealized scheme, he intended it to be.
Mr Cotte, who was asked by the Louvre to create a digital image of the painting, is the inventor of the multispectral camera: a device that can detect not only the drawing below the surface of an oil painting but also intermediate layers of work. It was among these, under what appears to be a pointed rock, that he found a preparatory sketch (草图) showing that da Vinci intended it to represent a castellated tower.
The landscape of the “Mona Lisa” also includes a huge overhanging precipice (悬崖). That is similar to one that da Vinci included in a sketch of a fortress contested (争夺) by Pisa and Florence in a war. The fortress with the nearby precipice—and a tower—all overlook the river Arno as it snakes from Florence to Pisa. All three also feature in drawings made by da Vinci to illustrate a plan about which, says Mr Cotte, he became “obsessive”.
This involved diverting (改道) the Arno to cut off Pisa’s water supply and give Florence an outlet to the Mediterranean. In the early 1500s, with the two city-states at war, the idea was under active consideration. Mr Cotte argues that a channel at the right of the “Mona Lisa” is too wide to be a road, and is instead the dried-up bed of the Amo as da Vinci imagined it once his plan had been adopted.
It never was. But if Mr Cotte’s theory is right, it might just explain why Gherardini, a Florentine, wears such a contented, if inscrutable, smile.
12. What was painted in the “Mona Lisa” according to Mr Cotte
A. A part of da Vinci’s hometown as it was.
B. An overhanging precipice and a fortress.
C. A pointed rock and a castellated tower.
D. The dried-up bed of a river.
13. Who does “he” refer to in paragraph 4
A. Pascal Cotte B. Leonardo da Vinci
C. Giorgio Vasari D. Lisa Gherardini
14. Why did Mona Lisa smile based on Cotte’s theory
A. Because da Vinci’s idea was taken seriously.
B. Because da Vinci’s plan was adopted.
C. Because Pisa’s water supply was cut off.
D. Because Florence had a good chance to win the war.
15. What’s the best title of the text
A. Where did Mona Lisa smile
B. When was the “Mona Lisa” painted
C. Who was the sitter of the “Mona Lisa”
D. Why did Mona Lisa put on a smile
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。
We love our pets. In fact, for most people they are more than me re pets and become more like family members. It is likely then that their owners, at some point, are going to want photographs of their furry friends. However, pet photography presents its own special problems. ____16____ If you’re thinking of trying pet photography, here are a few pointers to get you started.
Find out about your subject’s personality and habits. Where does it nod off if the sun is out What is its favourite toy ____17____ It’s also worth spending a little time getting to know the animal yourself. Cats, dogs, horses, they all have personality, and you need to ensure they are comfortable being around you, and you around them.
____18____ If the pet is comfortable with you, and if it isn’t too nervous, fill the frame with the pet’s face. Get the eyes nice and sharp. Just like humans, this is a natural point of focus, although focusing on the nose or mouth of a dog or cat can also make for an interesting image in its own right.
See the world from pets’ perspective. If you photograph a pet while you’re standing up, all you’re going to see is the top of their head and their backs, not what you want for a portrait. Get down to their eye level. Try pre-focusing your camera and just holding it at ground level so you can look up at the pet. ____19____.
Bring a flash with the owner’s permission. While greeting or playing with a new pet, fire a couple of test flashes away from them to see their reaction. In daylight particularly, they never seem to mind the flash at all. ____20____.
A. Think about getting in close to your subject.
B. It’s worth a try just for a new angle on things.
C. Animals can be unpredictable, lazy, aggressive and excitable.
D. A good photograph focuses on the subject and not the background.
E. If they do mind, then stick with natural light and use a white reflector.
F. The more you shoot, the greater your chances of hitting that perfect shot!
G. Take time to chat with the owner and observe your subject to gain some insight.
第三部分语言知识运用（共两节，满分30分）
第一节（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）
阅读面短文，从每题所给的A，B，C，D四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
Juleus Ghunta is a published children’s author and award-winning poet. But when young, he could ____21____ read.
He grew up with his three sisters in rural Western Jamaica, raised by their single mother. Life was tough, and proper schooling was out of the question due to ____22____ resources.
When Ghunta finally went to school, he couldn’t ____23____ on reading. Not only had he been kept home from school as a child, but he had not been ____24____ to books.
By sixth grade, he could spell his name, but still couldn’t make out words or read with ____25____. He struggled in school with a deep sense of ____26____ and worthlessness.
At age 12, a young teacher-in-training ____27____ a special reading program for ____28____ students. Ghunta was the first to join. That teacher, whose name he does not ____29____ now, became Ghunta’s unsung hero — the person who changed his life.
The teacher was incredibly kind to him. Under her guidance, Ghunta’s reading skills saw marked improvement, and his sense of inadequacy began to ____30____.
“She had left me with the gift of literacy,” he said. “And a deeper ____31____ of my talent.”
After Ghunta’s experience with the teacher, his life course ____32____. He graduated with academic ____33____ and is now the author of two children’s books, including “Rohan Bullkin and the Shadows.”
Years later, Ghunta returned to his old school and asked the principal and teachers if they knew her ____34____, but none did. Carrying this memory, however, he still hopes to find and thank her for seeing his ____35____ and being a source of light and hope in his life.
21. A. merely B. barely C. totally D. simply
22. A. abundant B. public C. limited D. financial
23. A. give up B. fall behind C. miss out D. catch up
24 A. exposed B. drawn C. adapted D. devoted
25. A. reference B. hesitation C. caution D. understanding
26. A. awe B. loss C. guilt D. wonder
27. A. started B. submitted C. downloaded D. forwarded
28. A. disappointing B. struggling C. advanced D. qualified
29. A. type B. spell C. distinguish D. recall
30. A. disappear B. peak C. form D. spread
31. A. appreciation B. waste C. memory D. source
32. A. risked B. approached C. shifted D. determined
33. A. skills B. honors C. courses D. efforts
34. A. occupation. B. identity C. age D. name
35. A. drawback B. reflection C. potential D. ambition
第二节（共15小题；每小题1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。
When BBC’s Planet Earth came out in 2006, the documentary series ____36____(praise) for its thrilling footage of wildlife from around the world. Hosted by famed naturalist David Attenborough, this project aims to showcase the beauty and ____37____(diverse) of the natural world; and, by doing so, it has urged the public ____38____(take) care of our planet. Fast forward 17 years, Planet Earth III has made it to the airwaves (电视无线电波).
A few weeks ago, BBC shared a trailer (预告片) of Planet Earth III, ____39____ whales swim across the ocean and wolves walk on a ____40____(freeze) body of water. And while there are some anxiety- filled encounters, the video does point out who the real threat is. Seals are trapped by fishing nets, and primates ____41____(caution) cross a road where cars are zooming by.
Critics point out while the footage is breathtaking, there’s a layer of heartbreak to it. Some of the species ____42____(have) some positive developments over the last few years. But ____43____show also presents how other creatures have had to adapt not only to climate changes, but also to the direct effects humans have had ____44____ their habitats. ____45____(echo) Attenborough’s urgent appeal from 2022, Planet Earth III presents the hardships these creatures face and also reminds the audience why they’re worth fighting for.
第四部分 写作（共两节，满分40分）
第一节 应用文（满分15分）
46. 假定你是学生李华，你校将举办一次有关农业劳动课重要性的英语演讲比赛，你将代表班级参赛，请你以“On the importance of hands-on agricultural labor course”为主题写一篇演讲稿，内容包括：1. 同学们对此课程的看法；2. 学习农业劳动课的意义。
注意：1. 词数80左右；
2. 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Ladies and gentlemen,
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第二节 读后续写（满分25分）
47. 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。
Brad Howard, a Texas father, had enough of his son’s disruptive (扰乱性的) behavior in physics class. Despite multiple warnings and complaints from the teacher about his son’s excessive (过多的) talking, the situation didn’t improve.
So, Brad decided to take matters into his own hands and gave his son, Bradley, a final warning. Brad made a bold promise to his son, saying, “Hey, if we get another call, I’m going to show up in school and sit beside you in class. ”
The 17-year-old Bradley probably thought his dad was just bluffing (唬人) and continued his chatty (爱闲聊的) ways. But when Brad received another email from the teacher, he knew he had to follow through with his threat.
On the morning of the important day, Brad’s wife woke him up and said, “Brad, it’s time for you to go to school. ” It struck him what he had said. He just couldn’t but a bit regret, “Oh, no, what have I done ”
Despite his unwillingness, Brad was determined to keep his word and headed to his son’s high school.
The sight of Brad sitting next to Bradley in class was a source of amusement for Bradley’s friends, who found the situation ridiculous. Bradley, on the other hand, was less than thrilled.
He couldn’t believe that his dad had actually gone through with his threat, The embarrassment of having his own father sitting beside him in class was enough to make him regret his behavior. As the class started, Bradley could feel all eyes on him and his dad. He could sense the judgment and the whispers from his classmates.
“Hey, Bradley, it looks like your dad is really serious about this, ” one of his friends whispered across the hallway, trying to hold back a laugh.
“Yeah, this is so embarrassing, ” Bradley whispered, his cheeks turning a deep shade of red.
注意：
1. 续写词数应为150左右;
2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
But as the class progressed, something unexpected happened.
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After school Bradley hesitantly approached his dad with newfound appreciation.
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江科附中2024—2025学年第一学期
高三年级8月学校摸底考英语试卷
答案版
卷面分数：150分；考试时间：120分钟
第一部分 听力（共两节，满分30分）
第一节听下面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。
1. Where are the speakers
A. In a library. B. In a store. C. In a bank.
2. What is the weather like now
A. Sunny. B. Cloudy. C. Rainy.
3. How did the speakers come to Seattle
A. By plane. B. By car. C. By train.
4. What went on at Cooper’s last night
A. A movie show. B. A birthday party. C. A sales promotion.
5. What does the man probably want to do
A. Do some exercise. B. Get an extra key. C. Order room service.
第二节
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。
听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。
6. What does the man want to do before noon
A. Post a letter. B. Make a card. C. Write an email.
7. Whose birthday is it
A. Richard’s. B. Sarah’s. C. Vera’s.
听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。
8. Where is Jim now
A. In a taxi. B. On a bus. C. In his office.
9. What is the woman’s suggestion
A. Going to the city center.
B. Taking a short cut home.
C. Meeting Jim in the park.
听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。
10. What position does the man apply for
A. A salesperson. B. An engineer. C. An accountant.
11. Which aspect of the company appeals to the man
A. The company culture.
B. The free accommodations.
C. The competitive pay.
12. What is difficult for the man to deal with
A. Interpersonal relationships.
B. Quality-quantity balance.
C. Unplanned happenings.
听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。
13. What is the woman doing
A. She’s interpreting a painting.
B. She’s chairing a meeting.
C. She’s hosting a program.
14. How did Kuhn get the name “Happy”
A. From an oil painting. B. From a city in Mexico. C. From his initials in Spanish.
15. Who discovered Kuhn’s artistic talent
A. His childhood friend. B. His father. C. A woman artist.
16. What makes Kuhn’s art special
A. His focus on life of the aged.
B. His unique use of bright colors.
C. His expression of childlike innocence.
听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。
17. What did Gallo receive yesterday
A. A call from her sister.
B. A bottle from her aunt.
C. A letter from a stranger.
18. Where did the fisherman find the bottle
A. On Monhegan Island. B. At Cumberland. C. In Spain.
19. How old was Gallo when she threw out the bottle
A. Eight. B. Eleven. C. Fourteen.
20. Where is the bottle now
A. In the ocean. B. At Gallo’s home. C. With the fisherman.
听力答案 略
第二部分阅读理解（共两节，满分50分）
第一节（共15小题；每小题2.5分，满分37.5分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
A
Forest Park Easy Hike in Queens
EVENT DESCRIPTION:
Walk out into the great outdoors, just outside Manhattan! Forest Park is filled with natural treasures and is a perfect getaway for locals and visitors alike. Can you believe this park has been around for over a century Take the chance to bring family and four-legged friends, and expect to see a friendly doggie here and there. During the hike, you will explore different trails (all well-paved) and stop at a few key spots to learn more about the 3rd largest park in Queens.
Get Tickets Here: https: //events/forest-park-easy-hike-in-queens-7
Cost: $20 general members
Date: May 7, 2023, Sunday
How it works:
We’ll meet at 3 p.m. at Wallenberg Square right outside of Forest Park in Queens.
Be prepared to walk as we explore multiple paths throughout the park!
Public transit is available! You can take the EF to Union Turnpike or the LIRR to Kew Gardens and walk 15 minutes over to Wallenberg Square.
The hike will start and end at Wallenberg Square.
What to bring: Water, hiking boots or sneakers
Difficulty Level: Easy
What if it rains Refunds will be given if the event is canceled due to rain.
Can I come alone Yes, most guests do! It’s a great way to meet new people.
Dress Code: Be comfortable and casual. Dress for the weather. You will be outside for 90 minutes.
Ages: 20+. Most of our events attract 20’s-40’s although some events can be adjusted to younger or older (50’s) depending on the event.
Questions Email Dave Cervini at dave@ or call 212.873.2256, M-F 10 a. m. to 4 p.m..
Nonrefundable unless canceled.
1. What can we learn about Forest Park Easy Hike
A. It is a dog-friendly event. B. It requires non-stop walking.
C. It is held in the city center. D. It takes place on unpaved paths.
2. What is the age requirement for the event
A. Older than ten. B. Older than twenty.
C. Older than thirty. D. Older than forty.
3. What should you do if you want to go hiking
A. Form a group. B. Carry an umbrella.
C. Prepay the ticket. D. Wear formal clothes.
【答案】1. A 2. B 3. C
B
My mom spent years as a stay-at-home mom so that my brothers and I could focus on our education. However, I could tell from her curiosity of and attitudes toward working women that she envied their financial freedom and the self-esteem that must come with it. When I asked her about working again, she would tell me to focus on achieving my dream. I knew she had once dreamed for herself.
For years, I watched het effortlessly light up conversations with both strangers and family. Her empathy and ability to reach the heart could make anyone laugh, even when the story itself did not apply to them at all. “Mom, have you ever thought about being a stand-up comedian ” “It is too late for me, son,” she responded, laughing at the idea. I could not bear to watch her struggle between ambition and doubt.
Her birthday was coming up. Although I had already bought her a present, I knew what I actually wanted to give her. I placed little notes of encouragement inside the present. I asked my family and her friends to do the same. Eventually I had collected 146 notes, and each with the same sentiment: “You are humorous, full of life, and ready to take on the stage.”
On the day of her birthday, my mom unwrapped my present. She was not surprised as she had hinted at it for long. But then she saw those little notes. She started to weep with her hands full of notes. She could not believe the support was real.
Within two months, my mom gave her first performance in a New York comedy club. I have read the notes countless times with my mom. They are framed and line the walls of her new office space that she rented with the profits she made from working as a professional comedian. For many parents, their children’s careers are their greatest accomplishment, but for me my mom’s is mine.
4. What was the attitude of the author’s mother to working women
A. She was curious about their income. B. She admired what work brought them.
C. She felt indifferent to working women. D. She appreciated their ambitions in finance.
5. According to the author, what makes his mother a good comedian
A. Her effort in making friends. B. Her talent to bring people joy.
C. Her curiosity about working women. D. Her desire for financial independence.
6. How did his mother feel when reading the notes on her birthday
A. Amazed and hesitant. B. Sad and disappointed.
C. Moved and encouraged. D. Delighted and proud.
7. What is the author’s greatest accomplishment
A. Supporting Mom’s dream. B. Achieving his own dream.
C. Securing financial freedom. D. Becoming a successful comedian.
【答案】4. B 5. B 6. C 7. A
C
For Caribbean box jellyfish (水母), learning is literally a no-brainer.
In a new experiment these animals learned to spot and avoid obstacles (障碍物) despite having no central brain, researchers report in Current Biology. This is the first evidence that jellyfish can make mental connections between events and change their behavior accordingly. “Maybe learning doesn’t need a very complex nervous system, but rather, learning is an essential part of nerve cells,” says Jan Bielecki, a neuroethologist at Kiel University in Germany. If so, the new finding could help trace how learning evolved in animals.
Bielecki and his colleagues wondered if Caribbean box jellyfish could learn that low-contrast objects which might at first seem distant, were actually close by. The team put 12 jellyfish into a round tank surrounded by low-contrast, gray and white stripes. A camera filmed the animals’ behavior for about seven minutes.
At first, the jellyfish seemed to interpret the gray stripes as distant roots and swam into the tank wall. But those collisions (碰撞) seemed to lead the jellyfish to treat the gray stripes more like close roots in dirty water, and the animals started avoiding them. The jellies’ average distance from the tank wall increased from about 2.5 centimeters in the first couple of minutes to about 3.6 centimeters in the final couple of minutes. Their average collisions into the wall dropped from 1.8 per minute to 0.78 per minute.
“I found that really amazing,” says Nagayasu Nakanishi, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, who has studied jellyfish nervous systems but was not involved in the new work. “I never thought jellyfish could really learn.”
Neurobiologist Bj rn Brembs views the results more cautiously, noting the small number of jellyfish tested and the variability in their performance. “I want this to be true, as it would be very cool,” says Brembs. Experiments with more jellyfish could convince him that the animals really do learn.
8. What can we know about the jellyfish in paragraph 2
A. They can avoid obstacles with a central brain.
B. They can change their behaviour after evolution.
C. They may have learning abilities with nerve cells.
D. They may develop a very complex nervous system.
9. What change in behavior did the jellyfish show in the experiment
A. They completely ignored the gray stripes.
B. They gradually started avoiding the gray stripes.
C. They could avoid collisions if given enough time.
D. They increased their collisions with the tank wall.
10. What conclusion can be drawn from the experiment
A. Jellyfish preferred the gray stripes over other things.
B. Jellyfish were unable to learn from their environment.
C. Jellyfish relied on the distant objects to change their behavior.
D. Jellyfish showed a learning process and adjusted their behavior.
11. What does Brembs imply in the last paragraph
A. He believes more testing is needed to confirm the results.
B. He is excited by the potential implications of the findings.
C. He dismisses the findings as irrelevant to jellyfish behavior.
D. He is doubtful due to the consistent performance of the jellyfish.
【答案】8. C 9. B 10. D 11. A
D
For centuries, two of the most interesting questions about Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa” were “Who ” and “When ” A discovery made at Heidelberg University in 2005 answered both. A note confirmed the account of da Vinci’s first biographer, Giorgio Vasari: that the sitter was a merchant’s wife, Lisa Gherardini. The note also helped date the masterpicce to between 1503 and 1506.
A third conundrum— “Where ”— is still in dispute. But on June 3rd a French engineer, Pascal Cotte, declared that he and a collaborator had identified the landscape in the background of the painting. During a presentation, Mr Cotte contended that the artist was more plausibly depicting a part of his native Tuscany. Da Vinci represented the area not as it was, but as, in an unrealized scheme, he intended it to be.
Mr Cotte, who was asked by the Louvre to create a digital image of the painting, is the inventor of the multispectral camera: a device that can detect not only the drawing below the surface of an oil painting but also intermediate layers of work. It was among these, under what appears to be a pointed rock, that he found a preparatory sketch (草图) showing that da Vinci intended it to represent a castellated tower.
The landscape of the “Mona Lisa” also includes a huge overhanging precipice (悬崖). That is similar to one that da Vinci included in a sketch of a fortress contested (争夺) by Pisa and Florence in a war. The fortress with the nearby precipice—and a tower—all overlook the river Arno as it snakes from Florence to Pisa. All three also feature in drawings made by da Vinci to illustrate a plan about which, says Mr Cotte, he became “obsessive”.
This involved diverting (改道) the Arno to cut off Pisa’s water supply and give Florence an outlet to the Mediterranean. In the early 1500s, with the two city-states at war, the idea was under active consideration. Mr Cotte argues that a channel at the right of the “Mona Lisa” is too wide to be a road, and is instead the dried-up bed of the Amo as da Vinci imagined it once his plan had been adopted.
It never was. But if Mr Cotte’s theory is right, it might just explain why Gherardini, a Florentine, wears such a contented, if inscrutable, smile.
12. What was painted in the “Mona Lisa” according to Mr Cotte
A. A part of da Vinci’s hometown as it was.
B. An overhanging precipice and a fortress.
C. A pointed rock and a castellated tower.
D. The dried-up bed of a river.
13 Who does “he” refer to in paragraph 4
A. Pascal Cotte B. Leonardo da Vinci
C. Giorgio Vasari D. Lisa Gherardini
14. Why did Mona Lisa smile based on Cotte’s theory
A. Because da Vinci’s idea was taken seriously.
B. Because da Vinci’s plan was adopted.
C. Because Pisa’s water supply was cut off.
D. Because Florence had a good chance to win the war.
15. What’s the best title of the text
A. Where did Mona Lisa smile
B. When was the “Mona Lisa” painted
C. Who was the sitter of the “Mona Lisa”
D. Why did Mona Lisa put on a smile
【答案】12. D 13. B 14. D 15. A
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。
We love our pets. In fact, for most people they are more than me re pets and become more like family members. It is likely then that their owners, at some point, are going to want photographs of their furry friends. However, pet photography presents its own special problems. ____16____ If you’re thinking of trying pet photography, here are a few pointers to get you started.
Find out about your subject’s personality and habits. Where does it nod off if the sun is out What is its favourite toy ____17____ It’s also worth spending a little time getting to know the animal yourself. Cats, dogs, horses, they all have personality, and you need to ensure they are comfortable being around you, and you around them.
____18____ If the pet is comfortable with you, and if it isn’t too nervous, fill the frame with the pet’s face. Get the eyes nice and sharp. Just like humans, this is a natural point of focus, although focusing on the nose or mouth of a dog or cat can also make for an interesting image in its own right.
See the world from pets’ perspective. If you photograph a pet while you’re standing up, all you’re going to see is the top of their head and their backs, not what you want for a portrait. Get down to their eye level. Try pre-focusing your camera and just holding it at ground level so you can look up at the pet. ____19____.
Bring a flash with the owner’s permission. While greeting or playing with a new pet, fire a couple of test flashes away from them to see their reaction. In daylight particularly, they never seem to mind the flash at all. ____20____.
A. Think about getting in close to your subject.
B. It’s worth a try just for a new angle on things.
C. Animals can be unpredictable, lazy, aggressive and excitable.
D. A good photograph focuses on the subject and not the background.
E. If they do mind, then stick with natural light and use a white reflector.
F. The more you shoot, the greater your chances of hitting that perfect shot!
G. Take time to chat with the owner and observe your subject to gain some insight.
【答案】16 C 17. G 18. A 19. B 20. E
第三部分语言知识运用（共两节，满分30分）
第一节（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）
阅读面短文，从每题所给的A，B，C，D四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
Juleus Ghunta is a published children’s author and award-winning poet. But when young, he could ____21____ read.
He grew up with his three sisters in rural Western Jamaica, raised by their single mother. Life was tough, and proper schooling was out of the question due to ____22____ resources.
When Ghunta finally went to school, he couldn’t ____23____ on reading. Not only had he been kept home from school as a child, but he had not been ____24____ to books.
By sixth grade, he could spell his name, but still couldn’t make out words or read with ____25____. He struggled in school with a deep sense of ____26____ and worthlessness.
At age 12, a young teacher-in-training ____27____ a special reading program for ____28____ students. Ghunta was the first to join. That teacher, whose name he does not ____29____ now, became Ghunta’s unsung hero — the person who changed his life.
The teacher was incredibly kind to him. Under her guidance, Ghunta’s reading skills saw marked improvement, and his sense of inadequacy began to ____30____.
“She had left me with the gift of literacy,” he said. “And a deeper ____31____ of my talent.”
After Ghunta’s experience with the teacher, his life course ____32____. He graduated with academic ____33____ and is now the author of two children’s books, including “Rohan Bullkin and the Shadows.”
Years later, Ghunta returned to his old school and asked the principal and teachers if they knew her ____34____, but none did. Carrying this memory, however, he still hopes to find and thank her for seeing his ____35____ and being a source of light and hope in his life.
21. A. merely B. barely C. totally D. simply
22. A. abundant B. public C. limited D. financial
23. A. give up B. fall behind C. miss out D. catch up
24. A. exposed B. drawn C. adapted D. devoted
25. A. reference B. hesitation C. caution D. understanding
26. A. awe B. loss C. guilt D. wonder
27. A. started B. submitted C. downloaded D. forwarded
28. A. disappointing B. struggling C. advanced D. qualified
29. A. type B. spell C. distinguish D. recall
30. A. disappear B. peak C. form D. spread
31. A. appreciation B. waste C. memory D. source
32. A. risked B. approached C. shifted D. determined
33. A. skills B. honors C. courses D. efforts
34 A. occupation. B. identity C. age D. name
35. A. drawback B. reflection C. potential D. ambition
【答案】21. B 22. C 23. D 24. A 25. D 26. B 27. A 28. B 29. D 30. A 31. A 32. C 33. B 34. D 35. C
第二节（共15小题；每小题1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。
When BBC’s Planet Earth came out in 2006, the documentary series ____36____(praise) for its thrilling footage of wildlife from around the world. Hosted by famed naturalist David Attenborough, this project aims to showcase the beauty and ____37____(diverse) of the natural world; and, by doing so, it has urged the public ____38____(take) care of our planet. Fast forward 17 years, Planet Earth III has made it to the airwaves (电视无线电波).
A few weeks ago, BBC shared a trailer (预告片) of Planet Earth III, ____39____ whales swim across the ocean and wolves walk on a ____40____(freeze) body of water. And while there are some anxiety- filled encounters, the video does point out who the real threat is. Seals are trapped by fishing nets, and primates ____41____(caution) cross a road where cars are zooming by.
Critics point out while the footage is breathtaking, there’s a layer of heartbreak to it. Some of the species ____42____(have) some positive developments over the last few years. But ____43____show also presents how other creatures have had to adapt not only to climate changes, but also to the direct effects humans have had ____44____ their habitats. ____45____(echo) Attenborough’s urgent appeal from 2022, Planet Earth III presents the hardships these creatures face and also reminds the audience why they’re worth fighting for.
【答案】36. was praised
37. diversity
38. to take##should take##take
39. where 40. frozen
41. cautiously
42. have had
43. the 44. on##upon
45. Echoing
第四部分 写作（共两节，满分40分）
第一节 应用文（满分15分）
46. 假定你是学生李华，你校将举办一次有关农业劳动课重要性的英语演讲比赛，你将代表班级参赛，请你以“On the importance of hands-on agricultural labor course”为主题写一篇演讲稿，内容包括：1. 同学们对此课程的看法；2. 学习农业劳动课的意义。
注意：1. 词数80左右；
2. 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Ladies and gentlemen,
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【答案】Ladies and gentlemen,
I am honored to stand here to deliver a speech. Today my theme is about “On the importance of hands-on agricultural labor course”.
First and foremost, some students believe that there are many benefits to attend hands-on agricultural courses, which can make them know more about agriculture and experience the hardships of farmers’ labor. What’s more, the hands-on agricultural course will certainly improve students’ awareness of cherishing food.
Not only can learning agricultural courses offer an alternative to busy school life, but also it allows students to gain direct labor experience and gradually establish a correct value of agricultural labor.
Thank you for your listening.
第二节 读后续写（满分25分）
47. 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。
Brad Howard, a Texas father, had enough of his son’s disruptive (扰乱性的) behavior in physics class. Despite multiple warnings and complaints from the teacher about his son’s excessive (过多的) talking, the situation didn’t improve.
So, Brad decided to take matters into his own hands and gave his son, Bradley, a final warning. Brad made a bold promise to his son, saying, “Hey, if we get another call, I’m going to show up in school and sit beside you in class. ”
The 17-year-old Bradley probably thought his dad was just bluffing (唬人) and continued his chatty (爱闲聊的) ways. But when Brad received another email from the teacher, he knew he had to follow through with his threat.
On the morning of the important day, Brad’s wife woke him up and said, “Brad, it’s time for you to go to school. ” It struck him what he had said. He just couldn’t but a bit regret, “Oh, no, what have I done ”
Despite his unwillingness, Brad was determined to keep his word and headed to his son’s high school.
The sight of Brad sitting next to Bradley in class was a source of amusement for Bradley’s friends, who found the situation ridiculous. Bradley, on the other hand, was less than thrilled.
He couldn’t believe that his dad had actually gone through with his threat, The embarrassment of having his own father sitting beside him in class was enough to make him regret his behavior. As the class started, Bradley could feel all eyes on him and his dad. He could sense the judgment and the whispers from his classmates.
“Hey, Bradley, it looks like your dad is really serious about this, ” one of his friends whispered across the hallway, trying to hold back a laugh.
“Yeah, this is so embarrassing, ” Bradley whispered, his cheeks turning a deep shade of red.
注意：
1. 续写词数应为150左右;
2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
But as the class progressed, something unexpected happened.
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After school, Bradley hesitantly approached his dad with newfound appreciation.
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【答案】范文
But as the class progressed, something unexpected happened. Brad didn’t just sit there quietly, he actively participated in the lesson. He listened intently, raised his hand to answer questions, and even asked questions himself. Bradley couldn’t help but notice the surprised looks on his teacher’s face and the nods of approval. As the day went on, it became clear to Bradlley that his dad’s intention was not to embarrass him but to teach him a valuable lesson.
After school, Bradley hesitantly approached his dad with newfound appreciation. “Thanks, Dad, ” he said quietly. “I didn’t realize you were trying to teach me something important. I know the importance of taking education seriously and respecting my teachers. I realize my attitude is not only affecting my own learning but also disrupting the learning environment for others. ” Bradley’s dad put a hand on his shoulder and smiled. “I love you, son. Sometimes we need to learn things in a hard way, but I’m always here for you.”
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