北京八一学校2024-2025学年高一10月月考英语（PDF版，无答案）

2024北京八一学校高一 10月月考
英 语
(考试 时间： 90分 钟 试 卷满分 ： 100 分 ) 2024.10
第一部分： 知识运用 (共两节， 30分 )
第一节 完 形填空 (共 10小题； 每 小题 1.5分 ， 共 15分 )
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意， 从 每题所给的A、 B、 C、 D四个选项中， 选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上
将该项涂黑。
Last year I decided to do some voluntary work. I began to research on the Internet and discovered Volunteer
USA.Three months later, I 1 myself on a plane to Phoenix, Arizona.I was 2 at the thought ofliving with loads
of new people for three months. However, within fifteen minutes of arriving, my worries had gone. Everyone was so
friendly and like-minded that it was very easy to feel at home.
I was sent to the Coronado National Forest fo r my first 8-day 3 We had to carry everything we needed and
walk three mile s to where we worked. It may no t seem like a 4 way, but in 35°C heat and with a heavy pack,my
legs were on fire.
My job was to 5a stairway out ofrock. This6 climbing up and down the side of a mountain inhabited (栖
息) by mountain lions,although I should say they were only heard, never seen.
Three days later, a beautifu l stairway came into being. The 7 of knowing that my work will be on that
mountainside for years to come is massive.
But on the last night we were caught i n a thunderstorm.I wok e up at midnight to find a swimming poo l i n my
tent. The temperature was close to 8 I had to spend the rest of the night trembling in the only dry part of my tent.
Needless to say, I suffered a lot. But I know whatever I have to face in my life. I was there and I 9 I think I
am much 10 for having taken part in the project.
1.A.imagined B. found C. enjoyed D. introduced
2. A.annoyed B. surprised C.nervous D.excited
3. A. project B. tour C.campaign D. course
4.A. nice B. safe C.long D. quick
5.A. build B.test C. clean D. guard
6.A. helped B. meant C.allowed D. ended
7.A. satisfaction B.ambition C.expectation D. intention
8.A.boiling B.average C. normal D.freezing
9.A. recovered B. resisted C.escaped D. survived
10.A.smarter B. stronger C. happier D. busier
第二节 语法练习 (共 10小题； 每 小题1.5分， 共 15分)
Part 1 请 写出下列句子的句子基本类型以及划线部分的句子成分。
Sentence 1: In recent years, researchers from diverse fields have agreed that short-termism is now a significant
problem in our society.
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Sentence 2: What is also very different is that students in the same class can have different class schedules.
11. Sentence 1 的句子基本类型______________
12. Sentence 1 中划线部分的句子成分_______________
13. Sentence 2 的句子基本类型______________
14. Sentence 2 中划线部分的句子成分_______________
Part 2 阅读下列短文，请根据短文内容填空，在给出提示词的空白处用括号内所给词的正确形式填空。
Last year, Zhang Tian graduated from university and 15_______(get) a teacher's certificate. Inspired by his
teachers, he 16_________(apply) to be a volunteer teacher in a village school. Although the school didn’t live up to
his hopes and life there was challenging than he 17__________(think), he found ways to deal with challenges. He
not only introduced subjects like music, art and PE to help students, but also organized the first-ever school concert.
Now students’ school lives are 18_________(attract) and the school is full of laughter and music. Meanwhile, he
brought many changes to the village. He contacted charity 19___________(organize) about rebuilding the school and
helped the villagers sell local products online. Although he had only intended to stay for one year, he now
20____________(feel) ready to stay for another year.
第二部分：阅读理解（共 50 分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的 A、B、C、D 四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
（共 25 小题；每小题 2 分，共 50 分）
A
Welcoming New Lifestyles
Hygge has been popular in the UK for over a year. It means to create a
relaxed and comfortable mood. It can be felt by relaxing activities like chatting
with friends. Besides, hygge is also about learning to be happy with simple things.
This really resonated (共鸣) with me. I feel stressed at home because my small
flat is packed with much stuff. I decide to throw the things that don’t hold
memories. Doing this would help me feel hygge.
Last year, lagom, a Swedish word meaning “just the right amount”, became
popular. Lagom is about seeking a balance of work and life. It’s also about living
more sustainably (可持续地) by saving more energy, creating less waste and
recycling more. Next year, I won’t have to replace things so often. Plus, I keep
thinking about recycling and hoping to save as much money as possible. So, I can
get on board with lagom.
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Coming from Japan, wabi sabi is about finding beauty in imperfection. Wabi
refers to the failings in the production process, which makes an object special.
Sabi describes the beauty that comes with age. The tradition of wabi sabi can offer
a new way to view our homes. I am a perfectionist and I keep my home tidy. But
now, my girls put their toys everywhere. So, I have to see the mess and accept the
imperfections.
In the Japanese concept, ikigai means “a reason for being”, which can bring
satisfaction and meaning to life. Many people believe ikigai can be found at what
you are good at and what you love doing. For me, it is blogging. This year I can
do more writing tasks that interest me. And if I notice the things that bring me no
joy, I can stay away from them in the future. Hopefully, this will help me to lead
a more meaningful life.
21. If a person wants to enjoy a simple but happy life, which lifestyle is suitable
A. Ikigai. B. Lagom. C. Wabi sabi. D. Hygge.
22 To live a lifestyle of wabi sabi, one has to ______.
A. achieve a balance between work and life
B. find beauty in his or her imperfect life
C. be happy and find out the meaning of life
D. throw away the useless and live a simple life
23. This passage is most likely to be read in a ______.
A. research report B. travel blog C. product advertisement D. popular magazine
B Surfer Dudes to the Rescue!
About 50 feet from shore of the Northern California’s Trinidad State Beach, two brothers were fighting for
their lives. They had been swept out to sea in a rip current (激流), their mouths barely able to stay above the water.
Thick fog made it difficult for beachgoers to see the guys, but the screams were unmistakable. And every second
counted. The brothers, ages 15 and 20, were wearing shorts and T-shirts, unsuitable for a November day, let alone
the freezing water. Keven Harder, a supervising ranger (巡查员), told the North Coast Journal in nearby Eureka
that swimming in such a temperature “takes the fight right out of you.”
Luckily, four surfers in wet suits were nearby. Narayan Weibel, Spenser Stratton, and Adrian York, all 16,
along with Taj Ortiz-Beck, 15, were on their surfboards riding up and down the coast on five-foot waves when they
heard the cries. They turned and saw two bobbing heads and four struggling arms. “We looked at each other and
knew these guys were about to drown,” Weibel told the Washington Post.
Weibel, Stratton, and Ortiz-Beck paddled toward the distressed swimmers while York headed to shore to warn
someone to call 911. He then dived back in to help his friends.
As the surfers drew close, the brothers were still fighting hard for their lives. “It was pretty stressful, but there
wasn’t any time to think about it, and that helped me keep my cool,” Ortiz-Beck says.
Ortiz-Beck pulled up alongside the younger brother. Grabbing him under his arms, he raised him up onto his
board. Stratton and Weibel, meanwhile, hurried to help the older brother. He was large, 250 to 300 pounds, and he
was panicked.
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“I told them, ‘Calm down—we got you!’” says Weibel. “They thought they were going to die.”
York arrived in time to help get the older brother atop the second board. The surfers then paddled several
minutes through choppy water to the medical help waiting onshore. The brothers were scared but fine.
“When we get a call like this one, it’s usually too late by the time we get there,” says Dillon Cleavenger, a first
responder. “I can’t say enough about what these boys did. They were willing and prepared to risk their lives.”
24. What can we know from the first paragraph
A. Beachgoers happened to meet the two brothers.
B. The supervising ranger warned them not to swim then.
C. Two brothers were almost drowned in the sea.
D. Surfers barely wore T-shirts and shorts in such weather.
25. What were the four boys doing when they heard the screams
A. Surfing on high waves. B. Swimming in a rip current.
C. Struggling with their arms to shore. D. Practising diving in the sea.
26. In the rescue, __________.
A. Andrian York dived back to call the police
B. Narayan Weibel tried to calm down the brothers
C. Keven Harder played the most important role
D. Ortiz-Beck saved the larger and panicked brother
27. Which of the following words can best describe the four surfers
A. Brave and determined. B. Hardworking and friendly.
C. Devoted and talented. D. Kind and humorous.
C
As you craft your resolutions for 2025, consider adding one to experience more flow. Psychologist Mihaly
Csikszentmihalyi has called flow as “the secret to happiness”. Flow is a state of positive experience that each of us
can incorporate into our everyday lives, one characterized by great joy that makes a life worth living.
When people feel flow, they are in a state of intense concentration. Their thoughts are focused on an experience
rather than on themselves. They lose a sense of time and feel as if their actions and awareness become one. Flow
occurs when both the task's challenge and skill level are high. People will not feel flow when they are doing the
dishes. Csfkszentmihalyi’s research in the 1970s focused on people doing tasks they enjoyed. He studied swimmers,
music composers, dancers, mountain climbers and other athletes. He found out that so long as that task's challenge is
high, and so are your skills, you should be able to achieve flow.
Why is flow “the secret to happiness” For one thing, the experience can help people pursue their long-term goals.
Research shows that taking a break to feel flow can enhance one’s self-control, goal pursuit and well-being. A recent
study also shows that flow helps people stay resilient （有适应力的） in the face of difficulty. Part of this is because
flow can help refocus thoughts away from something stressful to something enjoyable. In fact, studies have shown
that experiencing flow can help guard against depression and burnout.
What is going on in the brain during flow Studies show that the experience is associated with increasing
activation in brain structures related to feeling reward. This may be one reason why flow feels so enjoyable and why
people are so focused on tasks that make them feel flow. Research also shows that flow is associated with dampened
activity in brain structures related to self-focus and negative thoughts. This may help explain why feeling flow can
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help distract people from worry. However, the above-mentioned studies were correlational, not causal. Further study
of this connection is vital.
28. According to the passage, flow is most likely to occur when someone is_______.
A. attending a concert of his favorite singer
B. playing chess against a tough opponent
C. doing daily chores for his family members
D. sharing his traveling experience with friends
29. Flow is called “the secret to happiness” partly because it can help________.
A. break long-term goals into shorter ones
B. turn demanding tasks into easier ones
C. remind people to take necessary breaks
D. distract people from negative thoughts
30. What does the underlined word “dampened” in Paragraph 4 most probably mean
A. Planned. B. Imbalanced. C. Reduced. D. Activated.
31. Which would be the best title for the passage
A. How can “flow” be achieved in everyday life
B. When does the state of “flow” occur
C. Why does experiencing “flow” feel so good
D. What happens in our brain during “flow”
D
I get that parents worry about screen time. But speaking as a researcher studying the effects of screen-based
experiences, screens can be a great tool for reading. Digital books give children unique opportunities to learn and
improve skills through literacy apps. To that end, I am one of many researchers in this field who believe that digital
reading should not be considered screen time in the traditional sense.
With the large number of educational technological products that lack research and good design, the million-
dollar question is: What makes a digital story good for children’s learning Over the past 20 years, researchers have
identified specific design features and reading situations that make some digital books more educational than others.
First, it's crucial that digital books offer high-quality personalized reading experiences. With books that have Al-
based text generators and a more open-ended design, children become multimedia creators, co-writers and co-
illustrators of their own story universe. Second, digital books can significantly enhance the parent—child reading
experience. The questions embedded （嵌入的）in digital books should model and expand what the parent might
ask, and through this modeling, enhance the quality of parents’ talk around the book.
But as much as I support digital reading, the commercial turn in the development of ed tech worries me,
particularly in relation to profit-driven design and misuse of children’s data. Like some social media, subscription
libraries turn kids’ attention into a commodity （商品）through automatic book recommendations. These books are
often tied to advertising clicks and exhibit low literary quality in their stories. Furthermore, there’s often no content
oversight, allowing anyone to become a publisher, which can lead to the creation of biased or data-gathering materials
targeting children. Generative AI has expanded content creation possibilities but also raised concerns about quality.
In this regard, digital books, like all ed tech, need strict quality checks and improved collaboration between
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researchers and developers.
Anyway, the digital reading format has opened an exciting new research frontier. This includes using real-time
data that teachers and other professionals can use to individualize how children learn to read. AI can be a good partner
in supporting adults’ choice of texts, prompts and reading activities for children, provided it is trained with diverse
data and valid reading models. As researchers’ calls for evidence—based children's ed tech are being heard by
governments and funders, I hope the past two decades of e-book research can deliver the advantages of digital books
to all children. Like it or not, I hope you'll see that, at least for reading, screens can be an amazing tool to teach your
child to read.
32. What is the author’s attitude towards counting digital reading as screen time
A. Disapproving. B. Neutral. C. Supportive D. Cautious.
33. According to the passage, digital books contribute to ________________.
A. personalized design features B. more open-ended questions
C. quality parent-child interaction D. changes in kids’ reading habits
34. What are the major threats to digital reading
A. Profit-driven design and data misuse. B. The great number of advertisements.
C. The strict checks on the content. D. Low literary quality but high prices.
35. What is the purpose of the passage
A. To introduce some advances in ed tech.
B. To highlight the risks of screen time.
C. To present the benefits of reading online.
D. To offer another view on digital reading.
E
Last year scientists reported using a neural implant（神经植入物）in a man’s brain to restore his ability to
communicate. The man has been partially paralyzed and unable to produce comprehensible speech since suffering a
severe stroke. It is the latest advance in the exploding field of brain-computer interfaces（接口），or BCIs， which
allow computers to read information out of a living brain.
Brain-computer interfaces are possible because of two facts. The first is that your brain contains hundreds of
tiny maps. Each represents specific features of your physical feelings and intended actions. And crucially, the basic
set of brain maps and their locations within the brain are very similar across individuals.
Thanks to their specialized functions and universal locations, brain maps are ideal entry points for BCI
technologies. Picking up signals from a brain map is only the first step in making a useful BCI. Although the location
of a brain map is the same across individuals, the details-what patterns of activity within the map mean-differ from
person to person. In a sense, the unique features of your specific brain maps serve as a kind of encryption（加密），
safeguarding your specific thoughts and feelings from would-be spies.
That brings us to the second fact that makes BCIs possible. Thanks to advances in machine learning, scientists
have developed programs that can learn to recognize key patterns in a vast sea of numbers. They train these programs
to decode（解码） brain signals by feeding them tons of examples. Researchers developing BCIs often create such
examples by instructing an individual to think specific thoughts at specific times, creating a neural curriculum for the
program to learn from.
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While the universal features and locations of brain maps make them obvious entrances for BCIs, the unique
features of your brain maps tend to protect them from spying eyes. In cases where BCIs have successfully read
specific thoughts or intentions from a brain, it has been with the permission of the individual whose brain was being
read. But there are surreptitious ways to train decoders on your brain without your knowledge. This can happen if
your neural data falls into the hands of companies with detailed information about your activities.
Like all technologies, brain-computer interfaces are not necessarily good or bad. Yet while harvesting the
benefits of BCIs, we need to ensure that we have the means to protect ourselves from corporations with every motive
to take advantage of this technology for their financial gain.
36. What can we learn about brain maps
A. They can process encrypted signals.
B. They carry unique messages.
D. Their locations reveal human thinking patterns.
C. Their functions vary from person to person.
37. What can we infer from the passage
A. Machine learning enables BCIs to read mind.
B. BCIs could help recover from brain injuries.
C. BCIs can boost brain signals dramatically.
D. The decoding of brain may be affected by BCIs.
38. What does the underlined word “surreptitious” in Paragraph 5 probably mean
A. Secure. B. Secret. C. Standard. D. Stable.
39. What does the passage mainly talk about
A. The future trend of BCIs.
B. The potential risks of BCIs.
C. The working principle of BCIs.
D. The general applications of BCIs.
F
Mark Twain has been called the inventor of the American novel. And he surely deserves additional praise: the
man who popularized the clever literary attack on racism (种族主义).
I say clever because anti-slavery fiction had been the important part of the literature in the years before the Civil
War. H. B. Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin is only the most famous example. These early stories dealt directly with
slavery. With minor exceptions, Twain planted his attacks on slavery and prejudice (偏见) into tales that were on the
surface about something else entirely. He drew his readers into the argument by drawing them into the story.
Again and again, in the postwar years, Twain seemed forced to deal with the challenge of race. Consider the
most controversial, at least today, of Twain’s novels, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Only a few books have been
kicked off the shelves as often as Huckleberry Finn, Twain’s most widely read tale. Once upon a time, people hated
the book because it struck them as rude. Twain himself wrote that those who banned the book considered the novel
“trash and suitable only for the slums (贫民窟).” More recently the book has been attacked because of the character
Jim, the escaped slave, and many occurrences of the word nigger. (The term Nigger Jim, for which the novel is often
severely criticized, never appears in it.)
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But the attacks were and are silly—and miss the point. The novel is strongly anti-slavery. Jim’s search through
the slave states for the family from whom he has been forcibly parted is heroic. As J. Chadwick has pointed out, the
character of Jim was a first in American fiction—a recognition that the slave had two personalities, “the voice of
survival within a white slave culture and the voice of the individual: Jim, the father and the man.”
There is much more. Twain’s mystery novel Pudd’nhead Wilson stood as a challenge to the racial beliefs of even
many of the liberals of his day. Written at a time when the accepted wisdom held Negroes to be inferior (低等的) to
whites, especially in intelligence, Twain’s tale centered in part around two babies switched at birth. A slave gave birth
to her master’s baby and, for fear that the child should be sold South, switched him for the master’s baby by his wife.
The slave’s light-skinned child was taken to be white and grew up with both the attitudes and the education of the
slave-holding class. The master’s wife’s baby was taken for black and grew up with the attitudes and intonations of
the slave.
The point was difficult to miss: nurture (养育), not nature, was the key to social status. The features of the black
man that provided the stuff of prejudice—manner of speech, for example—were, to Twain, indicative of nothing
other than the conditioning that slavery forced on its victims.
Twain’s racial tone was not perfect. One is left uneasy, for example, by the lengthy passage in his autobiography
(自传) about how much he loved what were called “nigger shows” in his youth—mostly with white men performing
in black-face—and his delight in getting his mother to laugh at them. Yet there is no reason to think Twain saw the
shows as representing reality. His frequent attacks on slavery and prejudice suggest his keen awareness that they did
not.
Was Twain a racist Asking the question in the 21st century is as wise as asking the same of Lincoln. If we read
the words and attitudes of the past through the “wisdom” of the considered moral judgments of the present, we will
find nothing but error. Lincoln, who believed the black man the inferior of the white, fought and won a war to free
him. And Twain, raised in a slave state, briefly a soldier, and inventor of Jim, may have done more to anger the nation
over racial injustice and awaken its collective conscience than any other novelist in the past century.
40. How do Twain’s novels on slavery differ from Stowe’s
A. Twain’s themes seemed to agree with plots.
B. Twain’s attack on racism was much less open.
C. Twain was openly concerned with racism.
D. Twain was more willing to deal with racism.
41. Recent criticism of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn arose partly from its .
A. target readers at the bottom B. anti-slavery attitude
C. rather impolite language D. frequent use of “nigger”
42. What best proves Twain’s anti-slavery stand according to the author
A. The slave’s voice was first heard in American novels.
B. Jim’s search for his family was described in detail.
C. Jim grew up into a man and a father in the white culture.
D. Twain suspected that the slaves were less intelligent.
43. The story of two babies switched mainly indicates that .
A. blacks’ social position was shaped by how they were brought up
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B .slaves were forced to give up their babies to their masters
C. slaves’ babies could pick up slave-holders’ way of speaking
D. blacks were born with certain features of prejudice
44. What does the underlined word “they” in Paragraph 7 refer to
A. The attacks. B. Slavery and prejudice C. White men. D. The shows.
45. Why does the author compare Twain to Lincoln in the passage
A. To highlight their similar personal backgrounds.
B. To show that both had imperfect views on race by today's standards.
C. To illustrate how both were praised for their contributions to literature.
D. To demonstrate that both had controversial public lives.
第三部分：书面表达（共 20 分）
根据中文提示和所给关键词，将下列句子翻译成英文。（共 5 小题，每小题 4 分，共 20 分）
46. Jim 在学校里总是专心听讲，积极思考，有空就做作业。(attentive)
47. 购物前，能够比较不同网店的质量和价格，非常方便。(convenient)
48. 离开的想法曾在脑海中闪过，但是他很快就放弃了这个念头，并且找到了应对挑战的办法。(flash
through)
49. 我们班已经为运动会准备了大量的水和巧克力。(prepare)
50. Jim 觉得很激动，因为这个学校和他以前的学校在很多方面不一样。(differ)
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