2024-2025学年辽宁省高二上学期9月考试英语试卷（含答案）
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2024-2025学年辽宁省七校高二上学期期初考试英语试卷
考试时间：120 分钟 满分：150 分
第二部分 阅读理解(共两节，满分 50 分)
第一节 (共 15 小题，每小题 2.5 分，满分 37.5 分)
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项中，选出最佳选项
A
Volunteer by supporting a local animal rescue center in Costa Rica!
If you like animals and are also interested in preserving the environment, you will be perfect for this program. You will be helping out in and supporting a local animal shelter. Not only does this shelter take in homeless animals, but also wild animals which are in bad condition.
In addition to the caretaking of the animals, volunteers help us welcome visitors at the entrance and answer any questions that visitors may have about the shelter or its animals. As volunteers spend more days in the shelter, knowledge about wildlife management will grow.
Requirements
＊You need to be at least 15 years old on the program start date at the high school level or above.
＊Speaking English is a basic requirement.
＊No restrictions on nationality. Helping hands both in Costa Rica and beyond are welcome.
＊Your helping hand will be required from 09:00 to 15:00 on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday.
Program fees
＊Booking payments (15%): The booking payment is simply to reserve your volunteer placement. Payment is made by PayPal. You can also pay using a credit card.
＊Final payments (85%): Your final payment will be agreed with Volunteer Now Costa Rica during the application process.
21. What can a volunteer do in the rescue center
A. Communicate with visitors. B. Get trained to place animals.
C. Give lectures about animals. D. Search for homeless animals.
22 Who can volunteer in the program
A. A French-speaking adult. B. A primary schoolchild.
C. A college student from America. D. A local person free on Fridays.
23. How much should a volunteer pay at least to make a reservation
A. $52.5. B. $105. C. $297.5. D. $350.
B
Growing up in Kenya, Lesein Mutunkei, together with his family, always celebrated significant occasions by planting trees, which motivated him to protect the environment. It’s what the now 18-year-old soccer player treasures, especially since Kenya has an ongoing problem with deforestation.
Mutunkei follows in the footsteps of the late Kenyan Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai who founded the Green Belt Movement in 1977. This initiative has resulted in the planting of over 51 million trees to date.
In 2018, Lesein decided to start a movement of his own. He started by planting one tree for every goal he scored during a football match. He called it Trees4Goals, and it has grown so much that he now plants 11 trees, one for each member of his team, every time he scores. Through this, he wants to inspire young people, specifically his fellow athletes, to follow in his footsteps, take nature conservation seriously, and promise to plant trees every time they score. As a result, some of them have adapted this practice for their sports. “Seeing that they’re taking that responsibility because of the project I started, for me, that is the biggest achievement,” he said.
The initiative has caught the attention of English football club Arsenal and Kenya’s Ministry of Environment and Forestry, which he now works with regularly and gets advice from.
Like Green Belt Movement, Trees4Goals, which has planted 5,500 trees so far, has made it. While Lesein has received some recognition for his initiative, he sets his sights on making it a worldwide phenomenon. “Football is a universal game, and climate change is a universal problem,” he explains. “It has the power to unite, educate and inspire my generation to create a safer and greener future.” This is why he wants to work with the world’s biggest football federation FIFA.
As for what others can do to fight deforestation or other environmental concerns, the teenager says it’s important to just get involved in some way, no matter how small.
24. What made Lesein get interested in environmental protection
A. The influence of his family.
B. Wangari Maathai’s huge assistances.
C. The demand of the football team.
D. His fellow athletes’ encouragement.
25. Why did Lesein found Trees4Goals
A. To gain Kenya’s support.
B. To set an example for others.
C. To catch Arsenal’s attention.
D. To show his achievements.
26 What is Lesein’s hope for the future of Trees4Goals
A. Promoting football’s development.
B. Going global with the help of FIFA.
C. Beating climate change completely.
D. Getting beyond Green Belt Movement.
27. What can we learn from Lesein’s story
A. Fame is a great thirst of the young.
B A youth is to be regarded with respect.
C. Positive thinking and action result in success.
D. Success means getting personal desires satisfied.
C
Digging out potato tubers (茎块) is one of the greatest rewards gardens have to offer. Children in particular are surprised at seeing these tubers that almost magically become chips, mash (泥) or baked potatoes.
Happily, potatoes are very easy to grow. Seed tubers are placed in good garden soil, ideally with some compost (堆肥) for every square meter, in a sunny spot, about 10cm deep at 30cm intervals in rows 60-70cm apart.
Seed tubers are offered as earliest and second earliest and maincrop. The second earliest and maincrops can be stored for winter use but earliest are usually consumed in summer.
Seasoned potato growers buy early seed potatoes in February and place them in a cool, reasonably light place and let them sprout (发芽). It takes six weeks for small sprouts to form.
Early potatoes are typically planted from middle March in the South, but are likely to emerge before the first season finishes in May. The shoots are frost-sensitive requiring protection on cod nights with either earth or newspapers.
Second early and maincrop potatoes are planted in middle April—the frost risk will be low, but not absent, by the time they emerge. As the stems (茎) grow, soil should be drawn around them until the leaves meet in the row in early summer. At this stage, the potato field is a series of ridges (脊，垄). The tubers form in the ridge, protected from light that turns them green. Covering with black plastic or a thick layer of compost is also accessible instead of ridging, but plastic is not sustainable and slugs (鼻涕虫) can multiply in compost.
Once the flowers are fully open, it is time to dig plants when the tubers are the size of a hen’s egg. They grow rapidly but gradually lose their juicy new potato flavour, so harvest freely.
28. What’s the writing purpose of paragraph 1
A. To describe a magic process.
B. To recall a childhood memory.
C. To raise a potato-related topic.
D. To introduce a gardening award.
29. What can we learn about seed tubers
A. The closer the intervals are, the faster they will grow.
B. The warmer the weather is, the better they will grow.
C. The earlier they are planted, the healthier they will grow.
D. The deeper they are planted, the stronger they will grow.
30. What helps potatoes grow in the long term
A. Frost. B. Plastic. C. Ridges. D. Slugs.
31. What’s the text mainly about
A. How to cook potatoes. B. How to grow potatoes.
C. How to harvest potatoes. D. How to preserve potatoes.
D
Social media can lead to mental exhaustion (疲惫). And when mentally exhausted, you are more likely to be influenced by a high number of likes on posts — even to the point of clicking on ads for products you don't need or want.
As a professor of advertising, I have studied social media behaviors for years. In late 2022, my colleague Eric Haley and I conducted three online studies on Americans aged 18 — 65 to test how people under various mental loads respond to ads differently.
The control group in each study were given no introductory task — we just had them look at an ad. A second group had to memorize a nine-digit number and then look at the ad. The third group looked through the Internet for 30 seconds and then looked at the ad. Participants randomly saw an ad with a few hundred likes or tens of thousands of likes. After viewing the ad, each participant rated how willing they would be to buy the product, and how much mental effort it took to think about the information.
The group that used the Internet first were the most likely to want to buy the featured product when there were lots of likes or comments, and they also reported using the most mental effort to assess the ad. Researchers refer to this mentally exhausted state as “cognitive (认知的) overload”. Using social media puts them in this state because they are constantly evaluating different types of texts, photos and video posts from so many different people. In the span of several seconds, they can see a text from their husband or wife, a photo from a co-worker, a video from a celebrity and an emoji from their brother. All of this evaluating leaves them feeling frazzled.
Imagine asking your roommate if they want to go get pizza. Under normal conditions, the roommate might consider several factors such as cost, hunger, timing or their schedule. Now imagine asking your roommate the same question while they are on the phone with a sick relative. They no longer have the mental energy to logically consider whether pizza for dinner is a good idea.
By understanding how social media influences them, consumers can be more thoughtful in regulating their use—and hopefully not buy yet another water bottle they don’t need.
32. Why did the author conduct three online studies on Americans aged 18-65
A. To investigate their online habits.
B. To test their reactions to advertisements.
C. To research what kind of advertising is effective.
D. To discover why people suffer great mental stress.
33. What docs paragraph 3 mainly tell us about the study
A. Its purpose. B. Its process. C. Its finding. D. Its significance.
34. What does the underlined word “frazzled” in paragraph 4 mean
A. Interested. B. Depressed. C. Annoyed. D. Tired.
35. Why does the author mention “your roommate” in paragraph 5
A. To further explain cognitive overload.
B. To stress the importance of. relationships.
C. To strongly call on people to eat healthily.
D. To remind people not to rely on mobile phones.
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填入空白处的最佳选项，其中有两项为多余选项
How long does it take to become an elite (精英) in your field ___36___ That’s what John Hayes, a cognitive psychology professor at Carnegie Mellon University, wanted to know.
For decades, Hayes has been investigating the role of effort, practice and knowledge in top performers. ___37___ The research focused on people like Mozart and Picasso-to determine how long it took them to become world-class at their craft.
Let’s talk about what Hayes has discovered about world-class-performers. And more importantly, let’s discuss how you can use these insights to achieve your goals and become your best.
___38___ He analyzed thousands of musical pieces produced from 1685 to 1900. The central question that drove his work was, “How long after one becomes interested in music is it that one becomes world-class ” Eventually, Hayes developed a list of 500 pieces of “masterworks” in the field, which were created by a total of 76 composers.
text, Hayes mapped out the timeline of each composers career. ___39___ What he discovered was that virtually every single “masterwork” was written after the tenth year of the composer’s career. Not a single person produced incredible work without putting in a decade of practice first. Even a genius like Mozart had to work for at least ten years before he produced something that became popular. ___40___
In follow-up studies, Hayes found similar patterns among famous painters and popular poets. These findings have been further confirmed by research from professors like K. Anders Ericsson, who produced research that revealed that you needed to put in “10, 000 hours” to become an elite or expert in your field.
A. It takes time to achieve your goals.
B. And what do people like doing in their spare time
C. He has studied the most talented creators in history.
D. Hayes started his research by examining successful composers
E. Professor Hayes began to refer to this period as the “ten years of silence”.
F. And what do the successful people do differently than the rest of us
G. And then he calculated how long they had been working before they created their popular works.
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)
阅读下面短文，从各题所给的 A.B.C 和 D 四个选项中，选出可以填入空白 处的最佳选项
Glen Edwards became a hero when he rescued a construction worker trapped on top of a 160-meter-high building.
As a crane (吊车) ____41____ working on a construction site, Edwards ____42____ found himself in a life-saving mission when a fire broke out. He recalled how he ____43____ the trapped worker from his crane’s cabin (驾驶舱), and how he came up with the idea of saving the man by lowering a cage to him to let him ____44____ .
However, his attempt to ____45____ the cage before the man was by no meansan easy job, as the wind would throw his crane off balance. Besides, the smoke and flames also added to the difficulty. ____46____ the great challenges, Edwards refused to give up and fought to ____47____ control. Luckily, someone on the ground offered ____48____ on where to land the cage through a radio. Edwards ____49____ the crane’s movements, inch by inch, until the cage hanged (盘旋) just inches from the edge of the ____50____ . With determination, Edwards successfully landed the cage.
Eventually, Edwards watched the cage ____51____ the man away from the horrible fire below and lowering him to safety. The crowd ____52____ a big round of applause, a tribute (致敬) to the courage and skill ____53____ by Edwards. He knew that his quick thinking and strong ____54____ had made all the difference between life and death in the face of disaster.
A GoFundMe page has now been set up to raise money for him—with organizers ____55____ people to “buy Glen a beer” for his life-saving efforts.
41. A. engineer B. operator C. cleaner D. salesman
42. A. regularly B. unfortunately C. intentionally D. unexpectedly
43. A. helped B. spotted C. realized D. guided
44. A. escape B. hide C. walk D. slide
45. A. clean B. cover C. position D. open
46. A. Despite B. Without C. For D. From
47. A. switch B. maintain C. lose D. give
48. A. instructions B. problems C. explanations D. courses
49. A. quickened B. described C. adjusted D. repeated
50. A. door B. garden C. crane D. roof
51. A. persuading B. lifting C. warning D. dragging
52. A. went on B. put on C. asked for D. broke into
53. A. displayed B. admitted C. exchanged D. required
54. A. preference B. response C. emotion D. determination
55. A. choosing B. ordering C. encouraging D. Teaching
第二节(共 10 小题;每小题 1.5 分，满分 15 分)
阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
Dragon Head-raising Day is celebrated on the second day of the second Chinese lunar month ____56____(show) respect for the dragon and pray for good weather for farming and big harvest, ____57____ is considered as the start of spring and farming. Dragon Head-raising Day has relation with spring and farming. After the cold winter, spring comes and animals are ____58____ (wake) , but because of the winter, the weather is dry and farming lacks water. To this climate phenomenon, there is a folk saying that ____59____ will rain when the dragon raise its head.
On that day, there ____60____(be) lots of conventional celebration activities. First, in the early morning, every family would light a lantern and go to a river or a well to fetch water and back home, then light ____61____(candle) , burn incense (香) sticks and offer a sacrifice. Second, people would go to a temple ____62____ honour of the dragon. Third, it is to have a haircut, which ____63____ (view) as a sign of good luck. A saying tells that having a haircut on this day, you would be energetic in the whole year. ____64____ (final) , there is a thing about eating: eating long and thin noodles _____65_____(call) Longxumian (Dragon Beard Noodles) which has a symbolic meaning-a long life expectancy.
第四部分 写作(共两节，满分 40 分) 第一节(满分 15 分)
66. 假定你是李华，你校英语协会正在筹备中外学生篮球联谊赛(basketball friendship match)，现需要一名具有一定篮球知识的双语裁判员(bilingual referee)。请你给负责人写一封邮件申请做裁判，内容包括：
1.写信目的；
2.个人优势。
注意：
1.写作词数应为80左右；
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Dear Sir or Madam,
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Yours sincerely,
Li Hua
第二节(满分 25 分)
67. 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。
In a very cold January, a puppy wandered around Mr. Lacey’s house, where he lived with his wife Mamie and their daughter Doris. Icicles (冰锥) hung three feet or more from the roofs of houses and snow swallowed up cars.
The puppy had been abandoned, and it made its way down the road toward the Laceys’ small house, with its ears down and trembling from shyness and cold. Doris, whose school had been called off because of the snow, was clearing the steps when she spotted the puppy on the road.
“Come on, little dog!” she called it over. The puppy shyly wagged its tail when Doris approached. As soon as Doris put the dog down in the kitchen, her mom, Mrs. Lacey, asked where the dog came from. Mr. Lacey, who was cleaning his fingernails with his pocketknife at the table, said, “I don’t know where it came from, but I know for sure where it’s going.” Doris hugged the puppy hard against her. She said nothing.
Because of the snowy weather, Mr. Lacey couldn’t take the puppy to the shelter right away. So, it stayed in the basement, and Doris fed it leftovers, even though her mom didn’t want to waste food. Doris thought the puppy was around six months old and would be quite noisy sometimes. Surprisingly, the puppy behaved well, didn’t cry or make trouble in the basement, and only followed Doris upstairs when she invited it. Doris often found it on the basement steps listening to the kitchen talk and smelling the food. She felt the puppy wanted company.
Even after a week, Doris didn’t name the dog, knowing her parents wouldn’t let her keep it. Her father made so little money that any pets were out of the question. Desperate to keep the dog, Doris tried to convince her parents by praising the dog’s good behavior and expressing her love for it, but her parents didn’t give a definite answer.
Despite her efforts, Doris secretly wished the bad weather would never go away, fearing the puppy’s unavoidable trip to the shelter. However, nine days after the dog had arrived, the sun was shining.
注意：
1. 续写词数应为150个左右；
2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
Doris knew it was time to say goodbye to the dog and felt rather worried.
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Doris put her hand to her mouth and couldn’t believe what she had heard.
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答案版
考试时间：120 分钟 满分：150 分
第二部分 阅读理解(共两节，满分 50 分)
第一节 (共 15 小题，每小题 2.5 分，满分 37.5 分)
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项中，选出最佳选项
A
Volunteer by supporting a local animal rescue center in Costa Rica!
If you like animals and are also interested in preserving the environment, you will be perfect for this program. You will be helping out in and supporting a local animal shelter. Not only does this shelter take in homeless animals, but also wild animals which are in bad condition.
In addition to the caretaking of the animals, volunteers help us welcome visitors at the entrance and answer any questions that visitors may have about the shelter or its animals. As volunteers spend more days in the shelter, knowledge about wildlife management will grow.
Requirements
＊You need to be at least 15 years old on the program start date at the high school level or above.
＊Speaking English is a basic requirement.
＊No restrictions on nationality. Helping hands both in Costa Rica and beyond are welcome.
＊Your helping hand will be required from 09:00 to 15:00 on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday.
Program fees
＊Booking payments (15%): The booking payment is simply to reserve your volunteer placement. Payment is made by PayPal. You can also pay using a credit card.
＊Final payments (85%): Your final payment will be agreed with Volunteer Now Costa Rica during the application process.
21. What can a volunteer do in the rescue center
A. Communicate with visitors. B. Get trained to place animals.
C. Give lectures about animals. D. Search for homeless animals.
22. Who can volunteer in the program
A. A French-speaking adult. B. A primary schoolchild.
C. A college student from America. D. A local person free on Fridays.
23. How much should a volunteer pay at least to make a reservation
A. $52.5. B. $105. C. $297.5. D. $350.
【答案】21. A 22. C 23. A
B
Growing up in Kenya, Lesein Mutunkei, together with his family, always celebrated significant occasions by planting trees, which motivated him to protect the environment. It’s what the now 18-year-old soccer player treasures, especially since Kenya has an ongoing problem with deforestation.
Mutunkei follows in the footsteps of the late Kenyan Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai who founded the Green Belt Movement in 1977. This initiative has resulted in the planting of over 51 million trees to date.
In 2018, Lesein decided to start a movement of his own. He started by planting one tree for every goal he scored during a football match. He called it Trees4Goals, and it has grown so much that he now plants 11 trees, one for each member of his team, every time he scores. Through this, he wants to inspire young people, specifically his fellow athletes, to follow in his footsteps, take nature conservation seriously, and promise to plant trees every time they score. As a result, some of them have adapted this practice for their sports. “Seeing that they’re taking that responsibility because of the project I started, for me, that is the biggest achievement,” he said.
The initiative has caught the attention of English football club Arsenal and Kenya’s Ministry of Environment and Forestry, which he now works with regularly and gets advice from.
Like Green Belt Movement, Trees4Goals, which has planted 5,500 trees so far, has made it. While Lesein has received some recognition for his initiative, he sets his sights on making it a worldwide phenomenon. “Football is a universal game, and climate change is a universal problem,” he explains. “It has the power to unite, educate and inspire my generation to create a safer and greener future.” This is why he wants to work with the world’s biggest football federation FIFA.
As for what others can do to fight deforestation or other environmental concerns, the teenager says it’s important to just get involved in some way, no matter how small.
24. What made Lesein get interested in environmental protection
A. The influence of his family.
B. Wangari Maathai’s huge assistances.
C. The demand of the football team.
D. His fellow athletes’ encouragement.
25. Why did Lesein found Trees4Goals
A. To gain Kenya’s support.
B. To set an example for others.
C. To catch Arsenal’s attention.
D. To show his achievements.
26. What is Lesein’s hope for the future of Trees4Goals
A. Promoting football’s development.
B. Going global with the help of FIFA.
C. Beating climate change completely.
D. Getting beyond Green Belt Movement.
27. What can we learn from Lesein’s story
A. Fame is a great thirst of the young.
B. A youth is to be regarded with respect.
C. Positive thinking and action result in success.
D. Success means getting personal desires satisfied.
【答案】24. A 25. B 26. B 27. C
C
Digging out potato tubers (茎块) is one of the greatest rewards gardens have to offer. Children in particular are surprised at seeing these tubers that almost magically become chips, mash (泥) or baked potatoes.
Happily, potatoes are very easy to grow. Seed tubers are placed in good garden soil, ideally with some compost (堆肥) for every square meter, in a sunny spot, about 10cm deep at 30cm intervals in rows 60-70cm apart.
Seed tubers are offered as earliest and second earliest and maincrop. The second earliest and maincrops can be stored for winter use but earliest are usually consumed in summer.
Seasoned potato growers buy early seed potatoes in February and place them in a cool, reasonably light place and let them sprout (发芽). It takes six weeks for small sprouts to form.
Early potatoes are typically planted from middle March in the South, but are likely to emerge before the first season finishes in May. The shoots are frost-sensitive requiring protection on cod nights with either earth or newspapers.
Second early and maincrop potatoes are planted in middle April—the frost risk will be low, but not absent, by the time they emerge. As the stems (茎) grow, soil should be drawn around them until the leaves meet in the row in early summer. At this stage, the potato field is a series of ridges (脊，垄). The tubers form in the ridge, protected from light that turns them green. Covering with black plastic or a thick layer of compost is also accessible instead of ridging, but plastic is not sustainable and slugs (鼻涕虫) can multiply in compost.
Once the flowers are fully open, it is time to dig plants when the tubers are the size of a hen’s egg. They grow rapidly but gradually lose their juicy new potato flavour, so harvest freely.
28. What’s the writing purpose of paragraph 1
A. To describe a magic process.
B. To recall a childhood memory.
C. To raise a potato-related topic.
D. To introduce a gardening award.
29. What can we learn about seed tubers
A. The closer the intervals are, the faster they will grow.
B. The warmer the weather is, the better they will grow.
C. The earlier they are planted, the healthier they will grow.
D. The deeper they are planted, the stronger they will grow.
30. What helps potatoes grow in the long term
A. Frost. B. Plastic. C. Ridges. D. Slugs.
31 What’s the text mainly about
A. How to cook potatoes. B. How to grow potatoes.
C. How to harvest potatoes. D. How to preserve potatoes.
【答案】28. C 29. B 30. C 31. B
D
Social media can lead to mental exhaustion (疲惫). And when mentally exhausted, you are more likely to be influenced by a high number of likes on posts — even to the point of clicking on ads for products you don't need or want.
As a professor of advertising, I have studied social media behaviors for years. In late 2022, my colleague Eric Haley and I conducted three online studies on Americans aged 18 — 65 to test how people under various mental loads respond to ads differently.
The control group in each study were given no introductory task — we just had them look at an ad. A second group had to memorize a nine-digit number and then look at the ad. The third group looked through the Internet for 30 seconds and then looked at the ad. Participants randomly saw an ad with a few hundred likes or tens of thousands of likes. After viewing the ad, each participant rated how willing they would be to buy the product, and how much mental effort it took to think about the information.
The group that used the Internet first were the most likely to want to buy the featured product when there were lots of likes or comments, and they also reported using the most mental effort to assess the ad. Researchers refer to this mentally exhausted state as “cognitive (认知的) overload”. Using social media puts them in this state because they are constantly evaluating different types of texts, photos and video posts from so many different people. In the span of several seconds, they can see a text from their husband or wife, a photo from a co-worker, a video from a celebrity and an emoji from their brother. All of this evaluating leaves them feeling frazzled.
Imagine asking your roommate if they want to go get pizza. Under normal conditions, the roommate might consider several factors such as cost, hunger, timing or their schedule. Now imagine asking your roommate the same question while they are on the phone with a sick relative. They no longer have the mental energy to logically consider whether pizza for dinner is a good idea.
By understanding how social media influences them, consumers can be more thoughtful in regulating their use—and hopefully not buy yet another water bottle they don’t need.
32. Why did the author conduct three online studies on Americans aged 18-65
A. To investigate their online habits.
B To test their reactions to advertisements.
C. To research what kind of advertising is effective.
D. To discover why people suffer great mental stress.
33. What docs paragraph 3 mainly tell us about the study
A. Its purpose. B. Its process. C. Its finding. D. Its significance.
34. What does the underlined word “frazzled” in paragraph 4 mean
A. Interested. B. Depressed. C. Annoyed. D. Tired.
35. Why does the author mention “your roommate” in paragraph 5
A. To further explain cognitive overload.
B. To stress the importance of. relationships.
C. To strongly call on people to eat healthily.
D. To remind people not to rely on mobile phones.
【答案】32. B 33. B 34. D 35. 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填入空白处的最佳选项，其中有两项为多余选项
How long does it take to become an elite (精英) in your field ___36___ That’s what John Hayes, a cognitive psychology professor at Carnegie Mellon University, wanted to know.
For decades, Hayes has been investigating the role of effort, practice and knowledge in top performers. ___37___ The research focused on people like Mozart and Picasso-to determine how long it took them to become world-class at their craft.
Let’s talk about what Hayes has discovered about world-class-performers. And more importantly, let’s discuss how you can use these insights to achieve your goals and become your best.
___38___ He analyzed thousands of musical pieces produced from 1685 to 1900. The central question that drove his work was, “How long after one becomes interested in music is it that one becomes world-class ” Eventually, Hayes developed a list of 500 pieces of “masterworks” in the field, which were created by a total of 76 composers.
text, Hayes mapped out the timeline of each composers career. ___39___ What he discovered was that virtually every single “masterwork” was written after the tenth year of the composer’s career. Not a single person produced incredible work without putting in a decade of practice first. Even a genius like Mozart had to work for at least ten years before he produced something that became popular. ___40___
In follow-up studies, Hayes found similar patterns among famous painters and popular poets. These findings have been further confirmed by research from professors like K. Anders Ericsson, who produced research that revealed that you needed to put in “10, 000 hours” to become an elite or expert in your field.
A. It takes time to achieve your goals.
B. And what do people like doing in their spare time
C. He has studied the most talented creators in history.
D. Hayes started his research by examining successful composers
E. Professor Hayes began to refer to this period as the “ten years of silence”.
F. And what do the successful people do differently than the rest of us
G. And then he calculated how long they had been working before they created their popular works.
【答案】36. F 37. C 38. D 39. G 40. 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)
阅读下面短文，从各题所给的 A.B.C 和 D 四个选项中，选出可以填入空白 处的最佳选项
Glen Edwards became a hero when he rescued a construction worker trapped on top of a 160-meter-high building.
As a crane (吊车) ____41____ working on a construction site, Edwards ____42____ found himself in a life-saving mission when a fire broke out. He recalled how he ____43____ the trapped worker from his crane’s cabin (驾驶舱), and how he came up with the idea of saving the man by lowering a cage to him to let him ____44____ .
However his attempt to ____45____ the cage before the man was by no meansan easy job, as the wind would throw his crane off balance. Besides, the smoke and flames also added to the difficulty. ____46____ the great challenges, Edwards refused to give up and fought to ____47____ control. Luckily, someone on the ground offered ____48____ on where to land the cage through a radio. Edwards ____49____ the crane’s movements, inch by inch, until the cage hanged (盘旋) just inches from the edge of the ____50____ . With determination, Edwards successfully landed the cage.
Eventually, Edwards watched the cage ____51____ the man away from the horrible fire below and lowering him to safety. The crowd ____52____ a big round of applause, a tribute (致敬) to the courage and skill ____53____ by Edwards. He knew that his quick thinking and strong ____54____ had made all the difference between life and death in the face of disaster.
A GoFundMe page has now been set up to raise money for him—with organizers ____55____ people to “buy Glen a beer” for his life-saving efforts.
41. A. engineer B. operator C. cleaner D. salesman
42. A. regularly B. unfortunately C. intentionally D. unexpectedly
43. A. helped B. spotted C. realized D. guided
44. A. escape B. hide C. walk D. slide
45. A. clean B. cover C. position D. open
46. A. Despite B. Without C. For D. From
47. A. switch B. maintain C. lose D. give
48. A. instructions B. problems C. explanations D. courses
49. A. quickened B. described C. adjusted D. repeated
50. A. door B. garden C. crane D. roof
51. A. persuading B. lifting C. warning D. dragging
52. A. went on B. put on C. asked for D. broke into
53. A. displayed B. admitted C. exchanged D. required
54. A. preference B. response C. emotion D. determination
55. A. choosing B. ordering C. encouraging D. Teaching
【答案】41. B 42. D 43. B 44. A 45. C 46. A 47. B 48. A 49. C 50. D 51. B 52. D 53. A 54. D 55. C
第二节(共 10 小题;每小题 1.5 分，满分 15 分)
阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
Dragon Head-raising Day is celebrated on the second day of the second Chinese lunar month ____56____(show) respect for the dragon and pray for good weather for farming and big harvest, ____57____ is considered as the start of spring and farming. Dragon Head-raising Day has relation with spring and farming. After the cold winter, spring comes and animals are ____58____ (wake) , but because of the winter, the weather is dry and farming lacks water. To this climate phenomenon, there is a folk saying that ____59____ will rain when the dragon raise its head.
On that day, there ____60____(be) lots of conventional celebration activities. First, in the early morning, every family would light a lantern and go to a river or a well to fetch water and back home, then light ____61____(candle) , burn incense (香) sticks and offer a sacrifice. Second, people would go to a temple ____62____ honour of the dragon. Third, it is to have a haircut, which ____63____ (view) as a sign of good luck. A saying tells that having a haircut on this day, you would be energetic in the whole year. ____64____ (final) , there is a thing about eating: eating long and thin noodles _____65_____(call) Longxumian (Dragon Beard Noodles) which has a symbolic meaning-a long life expectancy.
【答案】56. to show
57. which 58. awake
59. it 60. are
61. candles
62. in 63. is viewed
64. Finally
65. called
第四部分 写作(共两节，满分 40 分) 第一节(满分 15 分)
66. 假定你是李华，你校英语协会正在筹备中外学生篮球联谊赛(basketball friendship match)，现需要一名具有一定篮球知识的双语裁判员(bilingual referee)。请你给负责人写一封邮件申请做裁判，内容包括：
1.写信目的；
2.个人优势。
注意：
1.写作词数应为80左右；
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Dear Sir or Madam,
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Yours sincerely,
Li Hua
【答案】Dear Sir or Madam,
Hearing that you are looking for a bilingual referee of this basketball friendship match, I am writing to apply for the position. I think I am qualified for this position for the following reasons.
Firstly, I have been a volunteer in our school sports meetings and am very familiar with the responsibilities of a sports referee. Besides, I am good at English and Chinese and have mastered a lot of English rules and regulations about basketball. Lastly, I can solve the conflicts between the two sides well. I will ensure that the match is fair.
I am looking forward to hearing from you soon.
Yours sincerely,
Li Hua
第二节(满分 25 分)
67. 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。
In a very cold January, a puppy wandered around Mr. Lacey’s house, where he lived with his wife Mamie and their daughter Doris. Icicles (冰锥) hung three feet or more from the roofs of houses and snow swallowed up cars.
The puppy had been abandoned, and it made its way down the road toward the Laceys’ small house, with its ears down and trembling from shyness and cold. Doris, whose school had been called off because of the snow, was clearing the steps when she spotted the puppy on the road.
“Come on, little dog!” she called it over. The puppy shyly wagged its tail when Doris approached. As soon as Doris put the dog down in the kitchen, her mom, Mrs. Lacey, asked where the dog came from. Mr. Lacey, who was cleaning his fingernails with his pocketknife at the table, said, “I don’t know where it came from, but I know for sure where it’s going.” Doris hugged the puppy hard against her. She said nothing.
Because of the snowy weather, Mr. Lacey couldn’t take the puppy to the shelter right away. So, it stayed in the basement, and Doris fed it leftovers, even though her mom didn’t want to waste food. Doris thought the puppy was around six months old and would be quite noisy sometimes. Surprisingly, the puppy behaved well, didn’t cry or make trouble in the basement, and only followed Doris upstairs when she invited it. Doris often found it on the basement steps listening to the kitchen talk and smelling the food. She felt the puppy wanted company.
Even after a week, Doris didn’t name the dog, knowing her parents wouldn’t let her keep it. Her father made so little money that any pets were out of the question. Desperate to keep the dog, Doris tried to convince her parents by praising the dog’s good behavior and expressing her love for it, but her parents didn’t give a definite answer.
Despite her efforts, Doris secretly wished the bad weather would never go away, fearing the puppy’s unavoidable trip to the shelter. However, nine days after the dog had arrived, the sun was shining.
注意：
1. 续写词数应为150个左右；
2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
Doris knew it was time to say goodbye to the dog and felt rather worried.
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Doris put her hand to her mouth and couldn’t believe what she had heard.
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
【答案】One possible version:
Doris knew it was time to say goodbye to the dog and felt rather worried. She was sitting alone in the living room, hugging a pillow and rocking back and forth on the edge of a chair. She was trying not to cry but she was not strong enough. Her face was wet and red, her eyes full of sadness. Just as Doris was at her lowest, her parents appeared from the doorway. With a smile on Mrs. Lacey’s face, she said, “Honey, Papa and I have agreed to keep the puppy as a part of our family.”
Doris put her hand to her mouth and couldn’t believe what she had heard. She looked at her parents surprisedly. “Doris, you were right. He has brought so much happiness to us,” Mr. Lacey continued, “and I drove by the local animal shelter yesterday. The conditions there are quite poor. We can’t leave him there.” Doris smiled with tears of happiness in her eyes and threw her arms around her parents. She knew they not only embraced the puppy into their family but also gave him a chance at a much happier life.
考试时间：120 分钟 满分：150 分
第二部分 阅读理解(共两节，满分 50 分)
第一节 (共 15 小题，每小题 2.5 分，满分 37.5 分)
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项中，选出最佳选项
A
Volunteer by supporting a local animal rescue center in Costa Rica!
If you like animals and are also interested in preserving the environment, you will be perfect for this program. You will be helping out in and supporting a local animal shelter. Not only does this shelter take in homeless animals, but also wild animals which are in bad condition.
In addition to the caretaking of the animals, volunteers help us welcome visitors at the entrance and answer any questions that visitors may have about the shelter or its animals. As volunteers spend more days in the shelter, knowledge about wildlife management will grow.
Requirements
＊You need to be at least 15 years old on the program start date at the high school level or above.
＊Speaking English is a basic requirement.
＊No restrictions on nationality. Helping hands both in Costa Rica and beyond are welcome.
＊Your helping hand will be required from 09:00 to 15:00 on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday.
Program fees
＊Booking payments (15%): The booking payment is simply to reserve your volunteer placement. Payment is made by PayPal. You can also pay using a credit card.
＊Final payments (85%): Your final payment will be agreed with Volunteer Now Costa Rica during the application process.
21. What can a volunteer do in the rescue center
A. Communicate with visitors. B. Get trained to place animals.
C. Give lectures about animals. D. Search for homeless animals.
22 Who can volunteer in the program
A. A French-speaking adult. B. A primary schoolchild.
C. A college student from America. D. A local person free on Fridays.
23. How much should a volunteer pay at least to make a reservation
A. $52.5. B. $105. C. $297.5. D. $350.
B
Growing up in Kenya, Lesein Mutunkei, together with his family, always celebrated significant occasions by planting trees, which motivated him to protect the environment. It’s what the now 18-year-old soccer player treasures, especially since Kenya has an ongoing problem with deforestation.
Mutunkei follows in the footsteps of the late Kenyan Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai who founded the Green Belt Movement in 1977. This initiative has resulted in the planting of over 51 million trees to date.
In 2018, Lesein decided to start a movement of his own. He started by planting one tree for every goal he scored during a football match. He called it Trees4Goals, and it has grown so much that he now plants 11 trees, one for each member of his team, every time he scores. Through this, he wants to inspire young people, specifically his fellow athletes, to follow in his footsteps, take nature conservation seriously, and promise to plant trees every time they score. As a result, some of them have adapted this practice for their sports. “Seeing that they’re taking that responsibility because of the project I started, for me, that is the biggest achievement,” he said.
The initiative has caught the attention of English football club Arsenal and Kenya’s Ministry of Environment and Forestry, which he now works with regularly and gets advice from.
Like Green Belt Movement, Trees4Goals, which has planted 5,500 trees so far, has made it. While Lesein has received some recognition for his initiative, he sets his sights on making it a worldwide phenomenon. “Football is a universal game, and climate change is a universal problem,” he explains. “It has the power to unite, educate and inspire my generation to create a safer and greener future.” This is why he wants to work with the world’s biggest football federation FIFA.
As for what others can do to fight deforestation or other environmental concerns, the teenager says it’s important to just get involved in some way, no matter how small.
24. What made Lesein get interested in environmental protection
A. The influence of his family.
B. Wangari Maathai’s huge assistances.
C. The demand of the football team.
D. His fellow athletes’ encouragement.
25. Why did Lesein found Trees4Goals
A. To gain Kenya’s support.
B. To set an example for others.
C. To catch Arsenal’s attention.
D. To show his achievements.
26 What is Lesein’s hope for the future of Trees4Goals
A. Promoting football’s development.
B. Going global with the help of FIFA.
C. Beating climate change completely.
D. Getting beyond Green Belt Movement.
27. What can we learn from Lesein’s story
A. Fame is a great thirst of the young.
B A youth is to be regarded with respect.
C. Positive thinking and action result in success.
D. Success means getting personal desires satisfied.
C
Digging out potato tubers (茎块) is one of the greatest rewards gardens have to offer. Children in particular are surprised at seeing these tubers that almost magically become chips, mash (泥) or baked potatoes.
Happily, potatoes are very easy to grow. Seed tubers are placed in good garden soil, ideally with some compost (堆肥) for every square meter, in a sunny spot, about 10cm deep at 30cm intervals in rows 60-70cm apart.
Seed tubers are offered as earliest and second earliest and maincrop. The second earliest and maincrops can be stored for winter use but earliest are usually consumed in summer.
Seasoned potato growers buy early seed potatoes in February and place them in a cool, reasonably light place and let them sprout (发芽). It takes six weeks for small sprouts to form.
Early potatoes are typically planted from middle March in the South, but are likely to emerge before the first season finishes in May. The shoots are frost-sensitive requiring protection on cod nights with either earth or newspapers.
Second early and maincrop potatoes are planted in middle April—the frost risk will be low, but not absent, by the time they emerge. As the stems (茎) grow, soil should be drawn around them until the leaves meet in the row in early summer. At this stage, the potato field is a series of ridges (脊，垄). The tubers form in the ridge, protected from light that turns them green. Covering with black plastic or a thick layer of compost is also accessible instead of ridging, but plastic is not sustainable and slugs (鼻涕虫) can multiply in compost.
Once the flowers are fully open, it is time to dig plants when the tubers are the size of a hen’s egg. They grow rapidly but gradually lose their juicy new potato flavour, so harvest freely.
28. What’s the writing purpose of paragraph 1
A. To describe a magic process.
B. To recall a childhood memory.
C. To raise a potato-related topic.
D. To introduce a gardening award.
29. What can we learn about seed tubers
A. The closer the intervals are, the faster they will grow.
B. The warmer the weather is, the better they will grow.
C. The earlier they are planted, the healthier they will grow.
D. The deeper they are planted, the stronger they will grow.
30. What helps potatoes grow in the long term
A. Frost. B. Plastic. C. Ridges. D. Slugs.
31. What’s the text mainly about
A. How to cook potatoes. B. How to grow potatoes.
C. How to harvest potatoes. D. How to preserve potatoes.
D
Social media can lead to mental exhaustion (疲惫). And when mentally exhausted, you are more likely to be influenced by a high number of likes on posts — even to the point of clicking on ads for products you don't need or want.
As a professor of advertising, I have studied social media behaviors for years. In late 2022, my colleague Eric Haley and I conducted three online studies on Americans aged 18 — 65 to test how people under various mental loads respond to ads differently.
The control group in each study were given no introductory task — we just had them look at an ad. A second group had to memorize a nine-digit number and then look at the ad. The third group looked through the Internet for 30 seconds and then looked at the ad. Participants randomly saw an ad with a few hundred likes or tens of thousands of likes. After viewing the ad, each participant rated how willing they would be to buy the product, and how much mental effort it took to think about the information.
The group that used the Internet first were the most likely to want to buy the featured product when there were lots of likes or comments, and they also reported using the most mental effort to assess the ad. Researchers refer to this mentally exhausted state as “cognitive (认知的) overload”. Using social media puts them in this state because they are constantly evaluating different types of texts, photos and video posts from so many different people. In the span of several seconds, they can see a text from their husband or wife, a photo from a co-worker, a video from a celebrity and an emoji from their brother. All of this evaluating leaves them feeling frazzled.
Imagine asking your roommate if they want to go get pizza. Under normal conditions, the roommate might consider several factors such as cost, hunger, timing or their schedule. Now imagine asking your roommate the same question while they are on the phone with a sick relative. They no longer have the mental energy to logically consider whether pizza for dinner is a good idea.
By understanding how social media influences them, consumers can be more thoughtful in regulating their use—and hopefully not buy yet another water bottle they don’t need.
32. Why did the author conduct three online studies on Americans aged 18-65
A. To investigate their online habits.
B. To test their reactions to advertisements.
C. To research what kind of advertising is effective.
D. To discover why people suffer great mental stress.
33. What docs paragraph 3 mainly tell us about the study
A. Its purpose. B. Its process. C. Its finding. D. Its significance.
34. What does the underlined word “frazzled” in paragraph 4 mean
A. Interested. B. Depressed. C. Annoyed. D. Tired.
35. Why does the author mention “your roommate” in paragraph 5
A. To further explain cognitive overload.
B. To stress the importance of. relationships.
C. To strongly call on people to eat healthily.
D. To remind people not to rely on mobile phones.
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填入空白处的最佳选项，其中有两项为多余选项
How long does it take to become an elite (精英) in your field ___36___ That’s what John Hayes, a cognitive psychology professor at Carnegie Mellon University, wanted to know.
For decades, Hayes has been investigating the role of effort, practice and knowledge in top performers. ___37___ The research focused on people like Mozart and Picasso-to determine how long it took them to become world-class at their craft.
Let’s talk about what Hayes has discovered about world-class-performers. And more importantly, let’s discuss how you can use these insights to achieve your goals and become your best.
___38___ He analyzed thousands of musical pieces produced from 1685 to 1900. The central question that drove his work was, “How long after one becomes interested in music is it that one becomes world-class ” Eventually, Hayes developed a list of 500 pieces of “masterworks” in the field, which were created by a total of 76 composers.
text, Hayes mapped out the timeline of each composers career. ___39___ What he discovered was that virtually every single “masterwork” was written after the tenth year of the composer’s career. Not a single person produced incredible work without putting in a decade of practice first. Even a genius like Mozart had to work for at least ten years before he produced something that became popular. ___40___
In follow-up studies, Hayes found similar patterns among famous painters and popular poets. These findings have been further confirmed by research from professors like K. Anders Ericsson, who produced research that revealed that you needed to put in “10, 000 hours” to become an elite or expert in your field.
A. It takes time to achieve your goals.
B. And what do people like doing in their spare time
C. He has studied the most talented creators in history.
D. Hayes started his research by examining successful composers
E. Professor Hayes began to refer to this period as the “ten years of silence”.
F. And what do the successful people do differently than the rest of us
G. And then he calculated how long they had been working before they created their popular works.
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)
阅读下面短文，从各题所给的 A.B.C 和 D 四个选项中，选出可以填入空白 处的最佳选项
Glen Edwards became a hero when he rescued a construction worker trapped on top of a 160-meter-high building.
As a crane (吊车) ____41____ working on a construction site, Edwards ____42____ found himself in a life-saving mission when a fire broke out. He recalled how he ____43____ the trapped worker from his crane’s cabin (驾驶舱), and how he came up with the idea of saving the man by lowering a cage to him to let him ____44____ .
However, his attempt to ____45____ the cage before the man was by no meansan easy job, as the wind would throw his crane off balance. Besides, the smoke and flames also added to the difficulty. ____46____ the great challenges, Edwards refused to give up and fought to ____47____ control. Luckily, someone on the ground offered ____48____ on where to land the cage through a radio. Edwards ____49____ the crane’s movements, inch by inch, until the cage hanged (盘旋) just inches from the edge of the ____50____ . With determination, Edwards successfully landed the cage.
Eventually, Edwards watched the cage ____51____ the man away from the horrible fire below and lowering him to safety. The crowd ____52____ a big round of applause, a tribute (致敬) to the courage and skill ____53____ by Edwards. He knew that his quick thinking and strong ____54____ had made all the difference between life and death in the face of disaster.
A GoFundMe page has now been set up to raise money for him—with organizers ____55____ people to “buy Glen a beer” for his life-saving efforts.
41. A. engineer B. operator C. cleaner D. salesman
42. A. regularly B. unfortunately C. intentionally D. unexpectedly
43. A. helped B. spotted C. realized D. guided
44. A. escape B. hide C. walk D. slide
45. A. clean B. cover C. position D. open
46. A. Despite B. Without C. For D. From
47. A. switch B. maintain C. lose D. give
48. A. instructions B. problems C. explanations D. courses
49. A. quickened B. described C. adjusted D. repeated
50. A. door B. garden C. crane D. roof
51. A. persuading B. lifting C. warning D. dragging
52. A. went on B. put on C. asked for D. broke into
53. A. displayed B. admitted C. exchanged D. required
54. A. preference B. response C. emotion D. determination
55. A. choosing B. ordering C. encouraging D. Teaching
第二节(共 10 小题;每小题 1.5 分，满分 15 分)
阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
Dragon Head-raising Day is celebrated on the second day of the second Chinese lunar month ____56____(show) respect for the dragon and pray for good weather for farming and big harvest, ____57____ is considered as the start of spring and farming. Dragon Head-raising Day has relation with spring and farming. After the cold winter, spring comes and animals are ____58____ (wake) , but because of the winter, the weather is dry and farming lacks water. To this climate phenomenon, there is a folk saying that ____59____ will rain when the dragon raise its head.
On that day, there ____60____(be) lots of conventional celebration activities. First, in the early morning, every family would light a lantern and go to a river or a well to fetch water and back home, then light ____61____(candle) , burn incense (香) sticks and offer a sacrifice. Second, people would go to a temple ____62____ honour of the dragon. Third, it is to have a haircut, which ____63____ (view) as a sign of good luck. A saying tells that having a haircut on this day, you would be energetic in the whole year. ____64____ (final) , there is a thing about eating: eating long and thin noodles _____65_____(call) Longxumian (Dragon Beard Noodles) which has a symbolic meaning-a long life expectancy.
第四部分 写作(共两节，满分 40 分) 第一节(满分 15 分)
66. 假定你是李华，你校英语协会正在筹备中外学生篮球联谊赛(basketball friendship match)，现需要一名具有一定篮球知识的双语裁判员(bilingual referee)。请你给负责人写一封邮件申请做裁判，内容包括：
1.写信目的；
2.个人优势。
注意：
1.写作词数应为80左右；
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Dear Sir or Madam,
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Yours sincerely,
Li Hua
第二节(满分 25 分)
67. 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。
In a very cold January, a puppy wandered around Mr. Lacey’s house, where he lived with his wife Mamie and their daughter Doris. Icicles (冰锥) hung three feet or more from the roofs of houses and snow swallowed up cars.
The puppy had been abandoned, and it made its way down the road toward the Laceys’ small house, with its ears down and trembling from shyness and cold. Doris, whose school had been called off because of the snow, was clearing the steps when she spotted the puppy on the road.
“Come on, little dog!” she called it over. The puppy shyly wagged its tail when Doris approached. As soon as Doris put the dog down in the kitchen, her mom, Mrs. Lacey, asked where the dog came from. Mr. Lacey, who was cleaning his fingernails with his pocketknife at the table, said, “I don’t know where it came from, but I know for sure where it’s going.” Doris hugged the puppy hard against her. She said nothing.
Because of the snowy weather, Mr. Lacey couldn’t take the puppy to the shelter right away. So, it stayed in the basement, and Doris fed it leftovers, even though her mom didn’t want to waste food. Doris thought the puppy was around six months old and would be quite noisy sometimes. Surprisingly, the puppy behaved well, didn’t cry or make trouble in the basement, and only followed Doris upstairs when she invited it. Doris often found it on the basement steps listening to the kitchen talk and smelling the food. She felt the puppy wanted company.
Even after a week, Doris didn’t name the dog, knowing her parents wouldn’t let her keep it. Her father made so little money that any pets were out of the question. Desperate to keep the dog, Doris tried to convince her parents by praising the dog’s good behavior and expressing her love for it, but her parents didn’t give a definite answer.
Despite her efforts, Doris secretly wished the bad weather would never go away, fearing the puppy’s unavoidable trip to the shelter. However, nine days after the dog had arrived, the sun was shining.
注意：
1. 续写词数应为150个左右；
2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
Doris knew it was time to say goodbye to the dog and felt rather worried.
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Doris put her hand to her mouth and couldn’t believe what she had heard.
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考试时间：120 分钟 满分：150 分
第二部分 阅读理解(共两节，满分 50 分)
第一节 (共 15 小题，每小题 2.5 分，满分 37.5 分)
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项中，选出最佳选项
A
Volunteer by supporting a local animal rescue center in Costa Rica!
If you like animals and are also interested in preserving the environment, you will be perfect for this program. You will be helping out in and supporting a local animal shelter. Not only does this shelter take in homeless animals, but also wild animals which are in bad condition.
In addition to the caretaking of the animals, volunteers help us welcome visitors at the entrance and answer any questions that visitors may have about the shelter or its animals. As volunteers spend more days in the shelter, knowledge about wildlife management will grow.
Requirements
＊You need to be at least 15 years old on the program start date at the high school level or above.
＊Speaking English is a basic requirement.
＊No restrictions on nationality. Helping hands both in Costa Rica and beyond are welcome.
＊Your helping hand will be required from 09:00 to 15:00 on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday.
Program fees
＊Booking payments (15%): The booking payment is simply to reserve your volunteer placement. Payment is made by PayPal. You can also pay using a credit card.
＊Final payments (85%): Your final payment will be agreed with Volunteer Now Costa Rica during the application process.
21. What can a volunteer do in the rescue center
A. Communicate with visitors. B. Get trained to place animals.
C. Give lectures about animals. D. Search for homeless animals.
22. Who can volunteer in the program
A. A French-speaking adult. B. A primary schoolchild.
C. A college student from America. D. A local person free on Fridays.
23. How much should a volunteer pay at least to make a reservation
A. $52.5. B. $105. C. $297.5. D. $350.
【答案】21. A 22. C 23. A
B
Growing up in Kenya, Lesein Mutunkei, together with his family, always celebrated significant occasions by planting trees, which motivated him to protect the environment. It’s what the now 18-year-old soccer player treasures, especially since Kenya has an ongoing problem with deforestation.
Mutunkei follows in the footsteps of the late Kenyan Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai who founded the Green Belt Movement in 1977. This initiative has resulted in the planting of over 51 million trees to date.
In 2018, Lesein decided to start a movement of his own. He started by planting one tree for every goal he scored during a football match. He called it Trees4Goals, and it has grown so much that he now plants 11 trees, one for each member of his team, every time he scores. Through this, he wants to inspire young people, specifically his fellow athletes, to follow in his footsteps, take nature conservation seriously, and promise to plant trees every time they score. As a result, some of them have adapted this practice for their sports. “Seeing that they’re taking that responsibility because of the project I started, for me, that is the biggest achievement,” he said.
The initiative has caught the attention of English football club Arsenal and Kenya’s Ministry of Environment and Forestry, which he now works with regularly and gets advice from.
Like Green Belt Movement, Trees4Goals, which has planted 5,500 trees so far, has made it. While Lesein has received some recognition for his initiative, he sets his sights on making it a worldwide phenomenon. “Football is a universal game, and climate change is a universal problem,” he explains. “It has the power to unite, educate and inspire my generation to create a safer and greener future.” This is why he wants to work with the world’s biggest football federation FIFA.
As for what others can do to fight deforestation or other environmental concerns, the teenager says it’s important to just get involved in some way, no matter how small.
24. What made Lesein get interested in environmental protection
A. The influence of his family.
B. Wangari Maathai’s huge assistances.
C. The demand of the football team.
D. His fellow athletes’ encouragement.
25. Why did Lesein found Trees4Goals
A. To gain Kenya’s support.
B. To set an example for others.
C. To catch Arsenal’s attention.
D. To show his achievements.
26. What is Lesein’s hope for the future of Trees4Goals
A. Promoting football’s development.
B. Going global with the help of FIFA.
C. Beating climate change completely.
D. Getting beyond Green Belt Movement.
27. What can we learn from Lesein’s story
A. Fame is a great thirst of the young.
B. A youth is to be regarded with respect.
C. Positive thinking and action result in success.
D. Success means getting personal desires satisfied.
【答案】24. A 25. B 26. B 27. C
C
Digging out potato tubers (茎块) is one of the greatest rewards gardens have to offer. Children in particular are surprised at seeing these tubers that almost magically become chips, mash (泥) or baked potatoes.
Happily, potatoes are very easy to grow. Seed tubers are placed in good garden soil, ideally with some compost (堆肥) for every square meter, in a sunny spot, about 10cm deep at 30cm intervals in rows 60-70cm apart.
Seed tubers are offered as earliest and second earliest and maincrop. The second earliest and maincrops can be stored for winter use but earliest are usually consumed in summer.
Seasoned potato growers buy early seed potatoes in February and place them in a cool, reasonably light place and let them sprout (发芽). It takes six weeks for small sprouts to form.
Early potatoes are typically planted from middle March in the South, but are likely to emerge before the first season finishes in May. The shoots are frost-sensitive requiring protection on cod nights with either earth or newspapers.
Second early and maincrop potatoes are planted in middle April—the frost risk will be low, but not absent, by the time they emerge. As the stems (茎) grow, soil should be drawn around them until the leaves meet in the row in early summer. At this stage, the potato field is a series of ridges (脊，垄). The tubers form in the ridge, protected from light that turns them green. Covering with black plastic or a thick layer of compost is also accessible instead of ridging, but plastic is not sustainable and slugs (鼻涕虫) can multiply in compost.
Once the flowers are fully open, it is time to dig plants when the tubers are the size of a hen’s egg. They grow rapidly but gradually lose their juicy new potato flavour, so harvest freely.
28. What’s the writing purpose of paragraph 1
A. To describe a magic process.
B. To recall a childhood memory.
C. To raise a potato-related topic.
D. To introduce a gardening award.
29. What can we learn about seed tubers
A. The closer the intervals are, the faster they will grow.
B. The warmer the weather is, the better they will grow.
C. The earlier they are planted, the healthier they will grow.
D. The deeper they are planted, the stronger they will grow.
30. What helps potatoes grow in the long term
A. Frost. B. Plastic. C. Ridges. D. Slugs.
31 What’s the text mainly about
A. How to cook potatoes. B. How to grow potatoes.
C. How to harvest potatoes. D. How to preserve potatoes.
【答案】28. C 29. B 30. C 31. B
D
Social media can lead to mental exhaustion (疲惫). And when mentally exhausted, you are more likely to be influenced by a high number of likes on posts — even to the point of clicking on ads for products you don't need or want.
As a professor of advertising, I have studied social media behaviors for years. In late 2022, my colleague Eric Haley and I conducted three online studies on Americans aged 18 — 65 to test how people under various mental loads respond to ads differently.
The control group in each study were given no introductory task — we just had them look at an ad. A second group had to memorize a nine-digit number and then look at the ad. The third group looked through the Internet for 30 seconds and then looked at the ad. Participants randomly saw an ad with a few hundred likes or tens of thousands of likes. After viewing the ad, each participant rated how willing they would be to buy the product, and how much mental effort it took to think about the information.
The group that used the Internet first were the most likely to want to buy the featured product when there were lots of likes or comments, and they also reported using the most mental effort to assess the ad. Researchers refer to this mentally exhausted state as “cognitive (认知的) overload”. Using social media puts them in this state because they are constantly evaluating different types of texts, photos and video posts from so many different people. In the span of several seconds, they can see a text from their husband or wife, a photo from a co-worker, a video from a celebrity and an emoji from their brother. All of this evaluating leaves them feeling frazzled.
Imagine asking your roommate if they want to go get pizza. Under normal conditions, the roommate might consider several factors such as cost, hunger, timing or their schedule. Now imagine asking your roommate the same question while they are on the phone with a sick relative. They no longer have the mental energy to logically consider whether pizza for dinner is a good idea.
By understanding how social media influences them, consumers can be more thoughtful in regulating their use—and hopefully not buy yet another water bottle they don’t need.
32. Why did the author conduct three online studies on Americans aged 18-65
A. To investigate their online habits.
B To test their reactions to advertisements.
C. To research what kind of advertising is effective.
D. To discover why people suffer great mental stress.
33. What docs paragraph 3 mainly tell us about the study
A. Its purpose. B. Its process. C. Its finding. D. Its significance.
34. What does the underlined word “frazzled” in paragraph 4 mean
A. Interested. B. Depressed. C. Annoyed. D. Tired.
35. Why does the author mention “your roommate” in paragraph 5
A. To further explain cognitive overload.
B. To stress the importance of. relationships.
C. To strongly call on people to eat healthily.
D. To remind people not to rely on mobile phones.
【答案】32. B 33. B 34. D 35. 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填入空白处的最佳选项，其中有两项为多余选项
How long does it take to become an elite (精英) in your field ___36___ That’s what John Hayes, a cognitive psychology professor at Carnegie Mellon University, wanted to know.
For decades, Hayes has been investigating the role of effort, practice and knowledge in top performers. ___37___ The research focused on people like Mozart and Picasso-to determine how long it took them to become world-class at their craft.
Let’s talk about what Hayes has discovered about world-class-performers. And more importantly, let’s discuss how you can use these insights to achieve your goals and become your best.
___38___ He analyzed thousands of musical pieces produced from 1685 to 1900. The central question that drove his work was, “How long after one becomes interested in music is it that one becomes world-class ” Eventually, Hayes developed a list of 500 pieces of “masterworks” in the field, which were created by a total of 76 composers.
text, Hayes mapped out the timeline of each composers career. ___39___ What he discovered was that virtually every single “masterwork” was written after the tenth year of the composer’s career. Not a single person produced incredible work without putting in a decade of practice first. Even a genius like Mozart had to work for at least ten years before he produced something that became popular. ___40___
In follow-up studies, Hayes found similar patterns among famous painters and popular poets. These findings have been further confirmed by research from professors like K. Anders Ericsson, who produced research that revealed that you needed to put in “10, 000 hours” to become an elite or expert in your field.
A. It takes time to achieve your goals.
B. And what do people like doing in their spare time
C. He has studied the most talented creators in history.
D. Hayes started his research by examining successful composers
E. Professor Hayes began to refer to this period as the “ten years of silence”.
F. And what do the successful people do differently than the rest of us
G. And then he calculated how long they had been working before they created their popular works.
【答案】36. F 37. C 38. D 39. G 40. 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)
阅读下面短文，从各题所给的 A.B.C 和 D 四个选项中，选出可以填入空白 处的最佳选项
Glen Edwards became a hero when he rescued a construction worker trapped on top of a 160-meter-high building.
As a crane (吊车) ____41____ working on a construction site, Edwards ____42____ found himself in a life-saving mission when a fire broke out. He recalled how he ____43____ the trapped worker from his crane’s cabin (驾驶舱), and how he came up with the idea of saving the man by lowering a cage to him to let him ____44____ .
However his attempt to ____45____ the cage before the man was by no meansan easy job, as the wind would throw his crane off balance. Besides, the smoke and flames also added to the difficulty. ____46____ the great challenges, Edwards refused to give up and fought to ____47____ control. Luckily, someone on the ground offered ____48____ on where to land the cage through a radio. Edwards ____49____ the crane’s movements, inch by inch, until the cage hanged (盘旋) just inches from the edge of the ____50____ . With determination, Edwards successfully landed the cage.
Eventually, Edwards watched the cage ____51____ the man away from the horrible fire below and lowering him to safety. The crowd ____52____ a big round of applause, a tribute (致敬) to the courage and skill ____53____ by Edwards. He knew that his quick thinking and strong ____54____ had made all the difference between life and death in the face of disaster.
A GoFundMe page has now been set up to raise money for him—with organizers ____55____ people to “buy Glen a beer” for his life-saving efforts.
41. A. engineer B. operator C. cleaner D. salesman
42. A. regularly B. unfortunately C. intentionally D. unexpectedly
43. A. helped B. spotted C. realized D. guided
44. A. escape B. hide C. walk D. slide
45. A. clean B. cover C. position D. open
46. A. Despite B. Without C. For D. From
47. A. switch B. maintain C. lose D. give
48. A. instructions B. problems C. explanations D. courses
49. A. quickened B. described C. adjusted D. repeated
50. A. door B. garden C. crane D. roof
51. A. persuading B. lifting C. warning D. dragging
52. A. went on B. put on C. asked for D. broke into
53. A. displayed B. admitted C. exchanged D. required
54. A. preference B. response C. emotion D. determination
55. A. choosing B. ordering C. encouraging D. Teaching
【答案】41. B 42. D 43. B 44. A 45. C 46. A 47. B 48. A 49. C 50. D 51. B 52. D 53. A 54. D 55. C
第二节(共 10 小题;每小题 1.5 分，满分 15 分)
阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
Dragon Head-raising Day is celebrated on the second day of the second Chinese lunar month ____56____(show) respect for the dragon and pray for good weather for farming and big harvest, ____57____ is considered as the start of spring and farming. Dragon Head-raising Day has relation with spring and farming. After the cold winter, spring comes and animals are ____58____ (wake) , but because of the winter, the weather is dry and farming lacks water. To this climate phenomenon, there is a folk saying that ____59____ will rain when the dragon raise its head.
On that day, there ____60____(be) lots of conventional celebration activities. First, in the early morning, every family would light a lantern and go to a river or a well to fetch water and back home, then light ____61____(candle) , burn incense (香) sticks and offer a sacrifice. Second, people would go to a temple ____62____ honour of the dragon. Third, it is to have a haircut, which ____63____ (view) as a sign of good luck. A saying tells that having a haircut on this day, you would be energetic in the whole year. ____64____ (final) , there is a thing about eating: eating long and thin noodles _____65_____(call) Longxumian (Dragon Beard Noodles) which has a symbolic meaning-a long life expectancy.
【答案】56. to show
57. which 58. awake
59. it 60. are
61. candles
62. in 63. is viewed
64. Finally
65. called
第四部分 写作(共两节，满分 40 分) 第一节(满分 15 分)
66. 假定你是李华，你校英语协会正在筹备中外学生篮球联谊赛(basketball friendship match)，现需要一名具有一定篮球知识的双语裁判员(bilingual referee)。请你给负责人写一封邮件申请做裁判，内容包括：
1.写信目的；
2.个人优势。
注意：
1.写作词数应为80左右；
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Dear Sir or Madam,
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Yours sincerely,
Li Hua
【答案】Dear Sir or Madam,
Hearing that you are looking for a bilingual referee of this basketball friendship match, I am writing to apply for the position. I think I am qualified for this position for the following reasons.
Firstly, I have been a volunteer in our school sports meetings and am very familiar with the responsibilities of a sports referee. Besides, I am good at English and Chinese and have mastered a lot of English rules and regulations about basketball. Lastly, I can solve the conflicts between the two sides well. I will ensure that the match is fair.
I am looking forward to hearing from you soon.
Yours sincerely,
Li Hua
第二节(满分 25 分)
67. 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。
In a very cold January, a puppy wandered around Mr. Lacey’s house, where he lived with his wife Mamie and their daughter Doris. Icicles (冰锥) hung three feet or more from the roofs of houses and snow swallowed up cars.
The puppy had been abandoned, and it made its way down the road toward the Laceys’ small house, with its ears down and trembling from shyness and cold. Doris, whose school had been called off because of the snow, was clearing the steps when she spotted the puppy on the road.
“Come on, little dog!” she called it over. The puppy shyly wagged its tail when Doris approached. As soon as Doris put the dog down in the kitchen, her mom, Mrs. Lacey, asked where the dog came from. Mr. Lacey, who was cleaning his fingernails with his pocketknife at the table, said, “I don’t know where it came from, but I know for sure where it’s going.” Doris hugged the puppy hard against her. She said nothing.
Because of the snowy weather, Mr. Lacey couldn’t take the puppy to the shelter right away. So, it stayed in the basement, and Doris fed it leftovers, even though her mom didn’t want to waste food. Doris thought the puppy was around six months old and would be quite noisy sometimes. Surprisingly, the puppy behaved well, didn’t cry or make trouble in the basement, and only followed Doris upstairs when she invited it. Doris often found it on the basement steps listening to the kitchen talk and smelling the food. She felt the puppy wanted company.
Even after a week, Doris didn’t name the dog, knowing her parents wouldn’t let her keep it. Her father made so little money that any pets were out of the question. Desperate to keep the dog, Doris tried to convince her parents by praising the dog’s good behavior and expressing her love for it, but her parents didn’t give a definite answer.
Despite her efforts, Doris secretly wished the bad weather would never go away, fearing the puppy’s unavoidable trip to the shelter. However, nine days after the dog had arrived, the sun was shining.
注意：
1. 续写词数应为150个左右；
2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
Doris knew it was time to say goodbye to the dog and felt rather worried.
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Doris put her hand to her mouth and couldn’t believe what she had heard.
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【答案】One possible version:
Doris knew it was time to say goodbye to the dog and felt rather worried. She was sitting alone in the living room, hugging a pillow and rocking back and forth on the edge of a chair. She was trying not to cry but she was not strong enough. Her face was wet and red, her eyes full of sadness. Just as Doris was at her lowest, her parents appeared from the doorway. With a smile on Mrs. Lacey’s face, she said, “Honey, Papa and I have agreed to keep the puppy as a part of our family.”
Doris put her hand to her mouth and couldn’t believe what she had heard. She looked at her parents surprisedly. “Doris, you were right. He has brought so much happiness to us,” Mr. Lacey continued, “and I drove by the local animal shelter yesterday. The conditions there are quite poor. We can’t leave him there.” Doris smiled with tears of happiness in her eyes and threw her arms around her parents. She knew they not only embraced the puppy into their family but also gave him a chance at a much happier life.
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