河北省唐山市第一中学2024-2025学年高二10月月考英语试卷（含答案，无听力原文及音频）
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2024-2025学年河北省唐山市第一中学高二10月月考英语试卷
说明：
1.考试时间120分钟，满分150分。
2.答卷前，考生务必将自己的班级、姓名填写在答题卡，贴好条形码。
3.回答选择题时;选出每小题答案后，用铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。回答非选择题时，将答案写在答题卡上，写在本试卷上无效。
4.考试结束后，将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。
卷Ⅰ(选择题 共85分)
第一部分：听力(共两节，满分30分)
做题时，先将答案标在试卷上。录音内容结束后，你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的答案转涂到答题卡上。
第一节(共5小题;每小题1.5分，满分7.5分)
听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。
1. Why can’t the woman go to the game
A. She forgot her ticket at home.
B. She doesn’t want to wait in line.
C. She has to look after her nephew.
2. Where does the conversation take place
A. At a restaurant. B. In a hotel. C. Over the phone.
3 How much change can the man get
A. Five dollars. B. Seven dollars. C. Eight dollars.
4 What is the woman’s problem
A. A meeting room is occupied.
B. The meeting has been canceled.
C. Some software can’t be downloaded.
5. What does the woman mean
A. The essay part was easy.
B. She regretted not studying enough.
C. Her preparation paid off in the exam.
第二节(共15小题;每小题1.5分，满分22.5分)
听下面5段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟：听完后，各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间，每段对话或独白读两遍。
听下面一段对话，回答第6、7题。
6. What is the conversation mainly about
A. A research project. B. A company dinner. C. A customer survey.
7. What does the woman suggest doing
A. Training the staff. B. Changing some rules. C. Attending a conference.
听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。
8. Where will the woman go
A. Room 106. B. Room 210. C. Room 309.
9. Why will the man attend Dr. Probst’s lecture
A. He is a world-famous expert.
B. He was a former classmate.
C. He developed a new medical theory.
听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。
10. What season is it now
A. Spring B. Autumn. C. Winter.
11 What does John say about the young man’s coat
A. He doesn’t like the color.
B. He thinks it is out of style.
C. He is unsure if it would suit him.
12. What color are most of John’s clothes
A. Green. B. Black. C. Yellow.
听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。
13. How did Janet get introduced to stand-up comedy
A. By watching a performance.
B. By joining a local drama club.
C. By performing in school plays.
14. How did Janet’s parents react to her career choice
A. They encouraged her to follow her passion.
B They were unsupportive and discouraged her.
C. They-wanted her to follow a more traditional career.
15. What challenges does Janet face while performing
A. Creating her own material. B. Amusing the audience. C. Being alone on stage.
16. What motivates Janet to continue performing
A. The desire to uplift others.
B. The wish to gain recognition.
C. The chance to challenge herself.
听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。
17. What will be provided for the listeners
A. Clothes. B. Gloves. C. Breakfast.
18. What should the listeners do with fruit
A. Leave it untouched. B. Place it in the red bag. C. Put it into a special container.
19. What should the listeners do if they cut their hands
A. Seek help from fellow participants.
B. Visit the nearest hospital.
C. Turn to the speaker.
20. What is the main purpose of the talk
A. To give instructions. B. To promote a program. C. To welcome the listeners.
第二部分：阅读理解(共两节，满分40分)
第一节(共10小题：每小题2.5分，满分25分)
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A
In addition to applying for a traditional guide dog, the visually impaired (有视觉障碍的) people will soon have another option to help with their daily life — a robot guide dog.
About the size of an English Bulldog but a bit wider, the six-legged robot guide dog from Shanghai Jiao Tong University’s School of Mechanical Engineering can navigate (导航) users to destinations without running into barriers. It also has voice interaction functions and can recognize traffic light signals. With cameras, sensors, and AI technology, the robot dog can see, listen, and speak with users on daily journeys outside and be a companion at home. Professor Gao Feng, the head of the research team at SJT U, points out that with six legs, the robot guide dog can walk smoothly with high stability. “Even if three legs are raised, the structure still has three points of contact with the ground, creating a very stable base,” Gao said. He adds that operators can use a cane (手杖) to control the walking and running speed of the robot.
In China, there are currently about 17.31 million visually impaired people, yet only around 400 guide dogs are available due to high training costs. People have to wait for a long time after applying for one.
Unlike traditional dogs, the production of robot guide dogs could be scaled, especially in a major manufacturing center like China. “It’s a bit like cars. We can mass-produce them in the same way as cars so that it will become more affordable,” Gao said. “This could be a huge market because tens of millions of people might need guide dogs.”
Li Fei, among the visually impaired people participating in the field test, believes such high technology will likely change their lives soon. “The research teams are thoughtful and are continuously making improvements,” Li said. “The robot dog is electronic, making it easier to get into public places than traditional guide dogs. I will probably try the robot guide dog when it becomes available. They can be precise and reliable as they seldom make subjective mistakes.”
1. What do we know about the robot guide dog
A. It is smaller than an English Bulldog. B. It can identify traffic light signals.
C. It relies on AI technologies to move. D. It can interact with other robot guide dogs.
2. What is paragraph 4 mainly about
A. The potential market for robot guide dogs.
B. The high cost of training traditional guide dogs.
C. The difficulty of applying for a robot guide dog.
D. The standard of mass-producing robot guide dogs.
3. What can we infer about the robot guide dog according to Li Fei
A. It has been widely available to the public. B. It needs further improvement in accuracy.
C. It will benefit visually impaired people a lot. D. It will replace traditional guide dogs in the future.
B
The human voice is a delicate thing. Each person’s distinctive sound is produced when air from the lungs causes the vocal cords (声带) to vibrate. These vocal cords can easily get damaged. According to a 2005 study, 30% of the population will experience a voice disorder at some point in their life.
In a study published in the journal Nature Communications this week, a group of bioengineering researchers from the University of California have put forward an attractive solution. They have designed and tested a soft patch, that can be stuck onto a person’s neck, where it will pick up muscle movements and, with the help of machine-learning algorithms (算法) that process the signals, translate them into speech.
When a person loses their voice today, the easiest fix is to turn to typing, texting, or writing notes to communicate. Typing can be slow and inconvenient, says Jun Chen, the paper’s lead author, and writing notes is only possible in good lighting. The new solution would theoretically be able to clear all these hurdles.
Dr. Chen’s device works based on something called the magnetoelastic effect. Essentially, when tiny magnetic (磁性的) bits are placed into soft materials, their magnetic properties can change as the material is stretched.
When the throat muscles move under the soft patch, the resulting magnetic-field variations can be changed into electrical signals...In a test with eight participants, the researchers recorded the signals as “the subjects spoke and mouthed five different sentences. They then trained a machine-learning model which was then able to predict which of the five sentences the participants spoke — whether aloud or in silence — with more than 90% accuracy.
There is a way to go yet, for now the revice can only recognize the five phrases it was trained on. Plus, to make it practical at scare the researchers will need to collect a lot more data.
4. Why does the author mention the magnetoelastic effect
A. To explain the working principle. B. To present a solution.
C. To introduce the challenge. D. To make a comparison.
5. What is the function of the soft patch
A. Predicting five different sentences.
B. Destroying the background magnetic field.
C. Slowing the movements of throat muscles.
D. Helping turn muscle movements into electrical signals.
6. Which of the following is a suitable title for the text
A. Predicting the Importance of Voice Restoration
B. Using Algorithms in Bioengineering Research
C. Overcoming Voice Loss with an Innovative Patch
D. Finding the Principle of Communication Devices
C
If the benefits of physical activity were made into a pill, everyone would be on it. Studies show that moving improves nearly every aspect of health: boosting sleep, strength, and mental well-being. Still, most people don’t exercise nearly enough. According to data published in 2023, less than a third of U.S. adults get the government-recommended amount of physical activity in their free time: at least 20 minutes of moderate-intensity aerobic exercise per day, plus a couple of muscle-strengthening sessions each week.
Why is it so tough to get people to do something so good for them Physical limitations, health problems and modern life are certainly factors for many people. But research suggests there’s another factor: our brains don’t want us to exercise. For most of human existence, people had to be physically active to carry out the basic functions of life, such as finding food. Humans evolved (进化) to tolerate a high level of activity-but also to conserve energy for when movement was unnecessary, explains Daniel Lieberman, a human evolutionary biologist. As a society, we no longer move much in daily life, but the evolutionary instinct (本能) to conserve energy remains, Lieberman says. “That voice ‘I don’t want to exercise,’ is completely normal and natural,” he says.
Physical-activity researcher Matthieu Boisgontier demonstrated that phenomenon in a 2018 study. He gave people control of a digital avatar (化身) while they were connected to brain-activity monitors. They were instructed to move the avatar away from images of sedentary (久坐的) behavior that appeared on screen and toward images of physical activity. The study found that avoiding sedentary behavior took more brain power, suggesting that we have an “automatic tendency” to pick relaxing over moving.
That conclusion shows up repeatedly in research. Studies show, for example, that people consistently choose to take a lift instead of the stairs. “That natural instinct isn’t bad-it’s just that modern life gives us so many chances to give in to our preference for rest that we have reached an extreme that is no longer beneficial to our health,” Boisgontier says.
7. What do data published in 2023 suggest
A. U. S. adults have poor health awareness. B. The recommended activities are impractical.
C. Most Americans lack sufficient physical activity. D. Muscle-strengthening sessions deserve attention.
8. What makes people unwilling to exercise according to Lieberman
A. The physical limitations. B. The basic structure of the brain.
C. The convenient modern life. D. The natural energy-saving tendency.
9. What does the underlined part “that phenomenon” in paragraph 3 refer to
A. Sedentary behavior took much brain power. B. Most people tend to avoid physical activity.
C. Humans evolved for a high level of activity. D. Brain-related activities attract modern people.
10. What is Boisgontier’s attitude toward people’s physical inactivity
A. Doubtful B. Reserved. C. Approving. D. Opposed.
第二节(共5小题;每小题3分，满分15分)
根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，选项中有两项为多余选项。
How long does it take to become an elite (精英) in your field ___11___ 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. ___12___ 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.
___13___ 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.
Hayes mapped out the timeline of each composers career. ___14___ 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. ___15___
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：语言运用(共两节，满分30分)
第一节完形填空(共15小题，每小题1分，满分15分)
阅读下面的短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
I’ve always been creative since I was a little girl. Every day was an exciting adventure of ____16____ in my childhood filled with arts, crafts and music. ____17____, somewhere along the way I lost touch with my creative self.
At 21, upon graduation, I ____18____ a job at a company. I would go to the office, sit at my desk and repeat the same work. The days were long and ____19____. Working this way for one year was painful enough. Before long I decided to make a ____20____. One thing I had developed an interest in was sewing, so I ____21____ a sewing course at a community college. It was only a five-week course but it ____22____ my interest and got my confidence up.
As I dreamt bigger, later I ____23____ a part-time design course. I took classes two nights a week. Although exhausting, it gave me energy, ____24____ and happiness. As it became clearer that _____25_____ was where my love lay, working at the company became harder. I felt bored. No energy, no _____26_____ and zero fulfillment. Apparently, I needed a bigger change. _____27_____, I made a difficult decision, — quitting my _____28_____ and studying my design course full time.
The last few years witnessed my success in what I love. Today I am living a creative life as the _____29_____ of my own fashion brand. I feel _____30_____ that setting the wheels of change has led me to where I am today.
16. A. learning B. creation C. imagination D. amusement
17. A. Besides B. Therefore C. However D. Otherwise
18. A. landed B. desired C. shifted D. handled
19. A. boring B. interesting C. rewarding D. challenging
20. A. survey B. change C. commitment D. preparation
21. A. taught B. passed C. attended D. designed
22. A. maintained B. increased C. awakened D. protected
23. A. benefited from B. tried out for C. came up with D. signed up for
24. A. passion B. recognition C. curiosity D. innovation
25. A. arts B. crafts C. fashion D. adventure
26. A. promotion B. vacation C. business D. motivation
27. A. Initially B. Instantly C. Gradually D. Eventually
28. A. job B. dream C. interest D. decision
29. A. teacher B. designer C. inventor D. musician
30. A. inspired B. blessed C. relieved D. impressed
卷Ⅱ(非选择题 共65分)
第三部分：语言运用(共两节，满分30分)
第二节语法填空(共10小题;每小题1.5分，满分15分)
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式：
As ____31____ educator, people often ask me’ how I know what is going on in the minds of my students. My answer is ____32____ I look at their body language so that I can judge what they are thinking about. It is easy for me ____33____ (recognise) when students are interested in a lesson. People have a tendency to lean towards whatever they are interested in: So if a student has his head ____34____ (lower) to look at his watch, it implies that he is bored and just ____35____ (count) the minutes for the class to end. Sometimes some students are amused by something else. They occupy themselves by staring out of the window or up at the ceiling, ____36____ their chins on their hands. So the main thing is reminding distracted students that they need to pay attention in class.
Though it is easy to perceive students are interested, bored, or distracted sometimes it is much ____37____ (hard) to distinguish when students ____38____ (trouble). For example, there are deep ____39____ (issue) at work if a student doesn’t spend time and energy brushing their hair. Ultimately, my duty is helping every student to learn. Their body language lets me kn ow when to adjust class activities, when to intervene, and when to talk to students _____40_____ (individual).
Reacting, to body language is an important component of being a teacher.
第四部分：语言知识(共两节，满分20分)
第一节选词填空(共10小题;每小题1分，满分10分)
从词汇框中选择合适的单词完成句子，并在答题卡上将正确选项涂黑。
A. merely B. essential C. employed D. suspects E subscribed F. substantially G. initially H. favour I. posing J. characteristics K. domestic L .boosting
41. The report examines teaching methods ______ in-the classroom.
42. Rising unemployment is ______ serious problems for the administration.
43. The current economy does not ______ the development of small businesses.
44. All great leaders share certain ______ which must be seen as the key to their success.
45. The President’s speech covered a range of foreign and ______ issues.
46. The committee does not blame any individual; we are ______ trying to find out how the accide nt happened.
47 It is ______ to read any document carefully before you sigu it.
48. Two ______ were arrested today in connection with the robbery.
49. She has always ______ to the view that children should be given responsibility from an early age.
50 The deer population has increased ______ in recent years.
第二节 补全句子(共10小题;每小题1分，满分10分)根据汉语补全句子，每空一词：
51. 会议持续了三个小时，11点时散会了。
The meeting lasted three hours and broke ______ at eleven o’clock.
52. 她在事故中幸免于难简直是奇迹。
______ she survived the accident is a miracle.
53. 我是在假定能拿到钱的情况下工作的。
I’m working ______ the assumption that the money will come through.
54. 她不同意我今年毕业。
She doesn’t approve ______ my leaving school this year.
55. 让人们激动的是太阳能船已经完成了那个旅行。
______ made people excited was that the solar ship had completed the trip.
56. 作为学生，你应该致力于你的学习。
As a student, you should devote yourself ______ your studies.
57. 在内心深处，他们意识到幸福是买不到的。
Deep ______ , they realized that happiness can’t be bought.
58. 一种说法是糟糕的天气引起的这种疾病。
One theory was ______ bad air caused the disease.
59. 我今天下午不能去拜访你了，因为我有急事要处理。
I can’t call ______ you this afternoon since I have something urgent to deal with.
60. 沙发可以当床凑合一两夜。
The sofa will serve ______ a bed for a night or two.
第五部分：书写(满分5分)
请按照书写格式和要求抄写以下内容。
We all make mistakes. Some of them are big while some are small. We can correct them and lean 1 from them. One thing is for sure, when we have done what we can, we must move forward . The problem with obstacles and challenges are being stuck in them. We sometimes would remain in that space. Often, we have to really pull ourselves out of a situation just so we can move forward.
第六部分：写作(满分25分)
61. 阅读下面短文，根据所给情节进行续写，使之构成一个完整的故事。
It was a cold, snowy evening. Tommy was running as fast as he could, focused on nothing but his destination----the shop on the street corner. Two weeks ago he saw figurines(小塑像) of Marvel superheroes on the shelves and felt he had to have one. He’s been walking the neighbor’s dog ever since then to earn money to fulfil his little dream. He was so excited and barely noticing the world around him. Maybe that’s why he tripped over the legs of a homeless woman, who was sitting on the pavement, her back against the wall. He murmured(低语) "sorry" and moved on to his destination.
Once he entered the shop, he went straight to the shelves with figurines. Hulk, Thor, Captain America, Iron Man, and many more----all of his admired heroes. With his heart pounding like crazy he reached for Spiderman.
“You like these, true believer ”
Tommy turned around. An old man was standing behind him with a wide smile on his face.
“Y-yes, …Yes, they’re awesome!” answered Tommy. “They’re strong and fast and help other people a lot ...”the boy looked at figurines in admiration. “I wish I could be a superhero too.”
“Then become one!” said the old man.
“How ” Tommy asked in surprise. “I don’t have any superpowers.”
“And why would you need them ” the old man smiled. Seeing the confusion on the boy's face, he squatted(蹲下) and put his hands on Tommy's arms. “Did you know that shopkeeper lady over there has a disabled husband She’s been working hard and taking care of him for years. I’ve never heard a word of complaint from her. And this person ---” he pointed at a redhead man, who just entered the shop. “He’s a firefighter; he’s saved countless lives. He never gives up, no matter how dangerous the situation seems to be.”
The old man looked Tommy in the eyes and smiled. “You don’t need a superpower to be a hero for someone else. The path of a superhero starts not in the mind not in the muscles, but in the heart.”
注意:
1.续写词数应为150左右;
2.请按如下格式在相应位置作答。
Tommy lowered his head and looked at his shoes thinking intensely.
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The homeless woman was right there, where he saw her last time.
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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唐山一中2024-2025学年度第一学期高二年级10月月考
英语试卷
答案版
说明：
1.考试时间120分钟，满分150分。
2.答卷前，考生务必将自己的班级、姓名填写在答题卡，贴好条形码。
3.回答选择题时;选出每小题答案后，用铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。回答非选择题时，将答案写在答题卡上，写在本试卷上无效。
4.考试结束后，将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。
卷Ⅰ(选择题 共85分)
第一部分：听力(共两节，满分30分)
做题时，先将答案标在试卷上。录音内容结束后，你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的答案转涂到答题卡上。
第一节(共5小题;每小题1.5分，满分7.5分)
听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。
1. Why can’t the woman go to the game
A. She forgot her ticket at home.
B. She doesn’t want to wait in line.
C. She has to look after her nephew.
2 Where does the conversation take place
A. At a restaurant. B. In a hotel. C. Over the phone.
3. How much change can the man get
A. Five dollars. B. Seven dollars. C. Eight dollars.
4. What is the woman’s problem
A. A meeting room is occupied.
B. The meeting has been canceled.
C. Some software can’t be downloaded.
5. What does the woman mean
A. The essay part was easy.
B. She regretted not studying enough.
C. Her preparation paid off in the exam.
第二节(共15小题;每小题1.5分，满分22.5分)
听下面5段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟：听完后，各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间，每段对话或独白读两遍。
听下面一段对话，回答第6、7题。
6. What is the conversation mainly about
A. A research project. B. A company dinner. C. A customer survey.
7. What does the woman suggest doing
A. Training the staff. B. Changing some rules. C. Attending a conference.
听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。
8. Where will the woman go
A. Room 106. B. Room 210. C. Room 309.
9. Why will the man attend Dr. Probst’s lecture
A. He is a world-famous expert.
B. He was a former classmate.
C. He developed a new medical theory.
听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。
10. What season is it now
A. Spring B. Autumn. C. Winter.
11 What does John say about the young man’s coat
A. He doesn’t like the color.
B. He thinks it is out of style.
C. He is unsure if it would suit him.
12. What color are most of John’s clothes
A. Green. B. Black. C. Yellow.
听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。
13. How did Janet get introduced to stand-up comedy
A. By watching a performance.
B. By joining a local drama club.
C. By performing in school plays.
14. How did Janet’s parents react to her career choice
A. They encouraged her to follow her passion.
B They were unsupportive and discouraged her.
C. They-wanted her to follow a more traditional career.
15. What challenges does Janet face while performing
A. Creating her own material. B. Amusing the audience. C. Being alone on stage.
16. What motivates Janet to continue performing
A. The desire to uplift others.
B. The wish to gain recognition.
C. The chance to challenge herself.
听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。
17. What will be provided for the listeners
A. Clothes. B. Gloves. C. Breakfast.
18. What should the listeners do with fruit
A. Leave it untouched. B. Place it in the red bag. C. Put it into a special container.
19. What should the listeners do if they cut their hands
A. Seek help from fellow participants.
B. Visit the nearest hospital.
C. Turn to the speaker.
20. What is the main purpose of the talk
A. To give instructions. B. To promote a program. C. To welcome the listeners.
听力答案：1-5 CBAAC 6-10CACBB 11-15CBACB 16-20ABACA
第二部分：阅读理解(共两节，满分40分)
第一节(共10小题：每小题2.5分，满分25分)
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A
In addition to applying for a traditional guide dog, the visually impaired (有视觉障碍的) people will soon have another option to help with their daily life — a robot guide dog.
About the size of an English Bulldog but a bit wider, the six-legged robot guide dog from Shanghai Jiao Tong University’s School of Mechanical Engineering can navigate (导航) users to destinations without running into barriers. It also has voice interaction functions and can recognize traffic light signals. With cameras, sensors, and AI technology, the robot dog can see, listen, and speak with users on daily journeys outside and be a companion at home. Professor Gao Feng, the head of the research team at SJT U, points out that with six legs, the robot guide dog can walk smoothly with high stability. “Even if three legs are raised, the structure still has three points of contact with the ground, creating a very stable base,” Gao said. He adds that operators can use a cane (手杖) to control the walking and running speed of the robot.
In China, there are currently about 17.31 million visually impaired people, yet only around 400 guide dogs are available due to high training costs. People have to wait for a long time after applying for one.
Unlike traditional dogs, the production of robot guide dogs could be scaled, especially in a major manufacturing center like China. “It’s a bit like cars. We can mass-produce them in the same way as cars so that it will become more affordable,” Gao said. “This could be a huge market because tens of millions of people might need guide dogs.”
Li Fei, among the visually impaired people participating in the field test, believes such high technology will likely change their lives soon. “The research teams are thoughtful and are continuously making improvements,” Li said. “The robot dog is electronic, making it easier to get into public places than traditional guide dogs. I will probably try the robot guide dog when it becomes available. They can be precise and reliable as they seldom make subjective mistakes.”
1. What do we know about the robot guide dog
A. It is smaller than an English Bulldog. B. It can identify traffic light signals.
C. It relies on AI technologies to move. D. It can interact with other robot guide dogs.
2. What is paragraph 4 mainly about
A. The potential market for robot guide dogs.
B. The high cost of training traditional guide dogs.
C. The difficulty of applying for a robot guide dog.
D. The standard of mass-producing robot guide dogs.
3. What can we infer about the robot guide dog according to Li Fei
A. It has been widely available to the public. B. It needs further improvement in accuracy.
C. It will benefit visually impaired people a lot. D. It will replace traditional guide dogs in the future.
【答案】1. B 2. A 3. C
B
The human voice is a delicate thing. Each person’s distinctive sound is produced when air from the lungs causes the vocal cords (声带) to vibrate. These vocal cords can easily get damaged. According to a 2005 study, 30% of the population will experience a voice disorder at some point in their life.
In a study published in the journal Nature Communications this week, a group of bioengineering researchers from the University of California have put forward an attractive solution. They have designed and tested a soft patch, that can be stuck onto a person’s neck, where it will pick up muscle movements and, with the help of machine-learning algorithms (算法) that process the signals, translate them into speech.
When a person loses their voice today, the easiest fix is to turn to typing, texting, or writing notes to communicate. Typing can be slow and inconvenient, says Jun Chen, the paper’s lead author, and writing notes is only possible in good lighting. The new solution would theoretically be able to clear all these hurdles.
Dr. Chen’s device works based on something called the magnetoelastic effect. Essentially, when tiny magnetic (磁性的) bits are placed into soft materials, their magnetic properties can change as the material is stretched.
When the throat muscles move under the soft patch, the resulting magnetic-field variations can be changed into electrical signals...In a test with eight participants, the researchers recorded the signals as “the subjects spoke and mouthed five different sentences. They then trained a machine-learning model which was then able to predict which of the five sentences the participants spoke — whether aloud or in silence — with more than 90% accuracy.
There is a way to go yet, for now the revice can only recognize the five phrases it was trained on. Plus, to make it practical at scare the researchers will need to collect a lot more data.
4. Why does the author mention the magnetoelastic effect
A. To explain the working principle. B. To present a solution.
C. To introduce the challenge. D. To make a comparison.
5. What is the function of the soft patch
A. Predicting five different sentences.
B. Destroying the background magnetic field.
C. Slowing the movements of throat muscles.
D Helping turn muscle movements into electrical signals.
6. Which of the following is a suitable title for the text
A. Predicting the Importance of Voice Restoration
B. Using Algorithms in Bioengineering Research
C. Overcoming Voice Loss with an Innovative Patch
D. Finding the Principle of Communication Devices
【答案】4. A 5. D 6. C
C
If the benefits of physical activity were made into a pill, everyone would be on it. Studies show that moving improves nearly every aspect of health: boosting sleep, strength, and mental well-being. Still, most people don’t exercise nearly enough. According to data published in 2023, less than a third of U.S. adults get the government-recommended amount of physical activity in their free time: at least 20 minutes of moderate-intensity aerobic exercise per day, plus a couple of muscle-strengthening sessions each week.
Why is it so tough to get people to do something so good for them Physical limitations, health problems and modern life are certainly factors for many people. But research suggests there’s another factor: our brains don’t want us to exercise. For most of human existence, people had to be physically active to carry out the basic functions of life, such as finding food. Humans evolved (进化) to tolerate a high level of activity-but also to conserve energy for when movement was unnecessary, explains Daniel Lieberman, a human evolutionary biologist. As a society, we no longer move much in daily life, but the evolutionary instinct (本能) to conserve energy remains, Lieberman says. “That voice ‘I don’t want to exercise,’ is completely normal and natural,” he says.
Physical-activity researcher Matthieu Boisgontier demonstrated that phenomenon in a 2018 study. He gave people control of a digital avatar (化身) while they were connected to brain-activity monitors. They were instructed to move the avatar away from images of sedentary (久坐的) behavior that appeared on screen and toward images of physical activity. The study found that avoiding sedentary behavior took more brain power, suggesting that we have an “automatic tendency” to pick relaxing over moving.
That conclusion shows up repeatedly in research. Studies show, for example, that people consistently choose to take a lift instead of the stairs. “That natural instinct isn’t bad-it’s just that modern life gives us so many chances to give in to our preference for rest that we have reached an extreme that is no longer beneficial to our health,” Boisgontier says.
7. What do data published in 2023 suggest
A. U. S. adults have poor health awareness. B. The recommended activities are impractical.
C. Most Americans lack sufficient physical activity. D. Muscle-strengthening sessions deserve attention.
8. What makes people unwilling to exercise according to Lieberman
A. The physical limitations. B. The basic structure of the brain.
C. The convenient modern life. D. The natural energy-saving tendency.
9. What does the underlined part “that phenomenon” in paragraph 3 refer to
A. Sedentary behavior took much brain power. B. Most people tend to avoid physical activity.
C. Humans evolved for a high level of activity. D. Brain-related activities attract modern people.
10. What is Boisgontier’s attitude toward people’s physical inactivity
A. Doubtful B. Reserved. C. Approving. D. Opposed.
【答案】7. C 8. D 9. B 10. D
第二节(共5小题;每小题3分，满分15分)
根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，选项中有两项为多余选项。
How long does it take to become an elite (精英) in your field ___11___ 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. ___12___ 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.
___13___ 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.
Hayes mapped out the timeline of each composers career. ___14___ 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. ___15___
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】11. F 12. C 13. D 14. G 15. E
第三部分：语言运用(共两节，满分30分)
第一节完形填空(共15小题，每小题1分，满分15分)
阅读下面的短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
I’ve always been creative since I was a little girl. Every day was an exciting adventure of ____16____ in my childhood filled with arts, crafts and music. ____17____, somewhere along the way I lost touch with my creative self.
At 21, upon graduation, I ____18____ a job at a company. I would go to the office, sit at my desk and repeat the same work. The days were long and ____19____. Working this way for one year was painful enough. Before long I decided to make a ____20____. One thing I had developed an interest in was sewing, so I ____21____ a sewing course at a community college. It was only a five-week course but it ____22____ my interest and got my confidence up.
As I dreamt bigger, later I ____23____ a part-time design course. I took classes two nights a week. Although exhausting, it gave me energy, ____24____ and happiness. As it became clearer that _____25_____ was where my love lay, working at the company became harder. I felt bored. No energy, no _____26_____ and zero fulfillment. Apparently, I needed a bigger change. _____27_____, I made a difficult decision, — quitting my _____28_____ and studying my design course full time.
The last few years witnessed my success in what I love. Today I am living a creative life as the _____29_____ of my own fashion brand. I feel _____30_____ that setting the wheels of change has led me to where I am today.
16. A. learning B. creation C. imagination D. amusement
17. A. Besides B. Therefore C. However D. Otherwise
18. A. landed B. desired C. shifted D. handled
19. A. boring B. interesting C. rewarding D. challenging
20. A. survey B. change C. commitment D. preparation
21. A. taught B. passed C. attended D. designed
22. A. maintained B. increased C. awakened D. protected
23. A. benefited from B. tried out for C. came up with D. signed up for
24. A. passion B. recognition C. curiosity D. innovation
25. A. arts B. crafts C. fashion D. adventure
26. A. promotion B. vacation C. business D. motivation
27. A. Initially B. Instantly C. Gradually D. Eventually
28. A. job B. dream C. interest D. decision
29. A. teacher B. designer C. inventor D. musician
30. A. inspired B. blessed C. relieved D. impressed
【答案】16. B 17. C 18. A 19. A 20. B 21. C 22. C 23. D 24. A 25. C 26. D 27. D 28. A 29. B 30. B
卷Ⅱ(非选择题 共65分)
第三部分：语言运用(共两节，满分30分)
第二节语法填空(共10小题;每小题1.5分，满分15分)
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式：
As ____31____ educator, people often ask me’ how I know what is going on in the minds of my students. My answer is ____32____ I look at their body language so that I can judge what they are thinking about. It is easy for me ____33____ (recognise) when students are interested in a lesson. People have a tendency to lean towards whatever they are interested in: So if a student has his head ____34____ (lower) to look at his watch, it implies that he is bored and just ____35____ (count) the minutes for the class to end. Sometimes some students are amused by something else. They occupy themselves by staring out of the window or up at the ceiling, ____36____ their chins on their hands. So the main thing is reminding distracted students that they need to pay attention in class.
Though it is easy to perceive students are interested, bored, or distracted sometimes it is much ____37____ (hard) to distinguish when students ____38____ (trouble). For example, there are deep ____39____ (issue) at work if a student doesn’t spend time and energy brushing their hair. Ultimately, my duty is helping every student to learn. Their body language lets me kn ow when to adjust class activities, when to intervene, and when to talk to students _____40_____ (individual).
Reacting, to body language is an important component of being a teacher.
【答案】31. an 32. that
33. to recognize
34. lowered
35. counting
36. with 37. harder
38. are troubled
39. issues 40. individually
第四部分：语言知识(共两节，满分20分)
第一节选词填空(共10小题;每小题1分，满分10分)
从词汇框中选择合适的单词完成句子，并在答题卡上将正确选项涂黑。
A. merely B. essential C. employed D. suspects E subscribed F. substantially G. initially H. favour I. posing J. characteristics K. domestic L .boosting
41. The report examines teaching methods ______ in-the classroom.
42. Rising unemployment is ______ serious problems for the administration.
43. The current economy does not ______ the development of small businesses.
44. All great leaders share certain ______ which must be seen as the key to their success.
45. The President’s speech covered a range of foreign and ______ issues.
46. The committee does not blame any individual; we are ______ trying to find out how the accide nt happened.
47. It is ______ to read any document carefully before you sigu it.
48. Two ______ were arrested today in connection with the robbery.
49 She has always ______ to the view that children should be given responsibility from an early age.
50. The deer population has increased ______ in recent years.
【答案】41. C 42. I
43. H 44. J
45. K 46. A
47. B 48. D
49. E 50. F
第二节 补全句子(共10小题;每小题1分，满分10分)根据汉语补全句子，每空一词：
51. 会议持续了三个小时，11点时散会了。
The meeting lasted three hours and broke ______ at eleven o’clock.
【答案】up
【解析】
【详解】考查介词。根据汉语提示可知，空处需要需要补全“散会”，可用动词短语break up“散（会）”。故填up。
52. 她在事故中幸免于难简直是奇迹。
______ she survived the accident is a miracle.
【答案】That
【解析】
【详解】考查主语从句。空处引导主语从句，从句中不缺成分，句意完整，所以用连接代词that引导该从句。该词位于句首，首字母大写。故填That。
53. 我是在假定能拿到钱的情况下工作的。
I’m working ______ the assumption that the money will come through.
【答案】on
【解析】
【详解】考查介词。“假定……”为固定搭配on the assumption that，其中that引导同位语从句。故填on。
54. 她不同意我今年毕业。
She doesn’t approve ______ my leaving school this year.
【答案】of
【解析】
【详解】考查介词根据汉语提示可知，空处需要补全“同意”，可用动词短语approve of“同意”。故填of。
55. 让人们激动的是太阳能船已经完成了那个旅行。
______ made people excited was that the solar ship had completed the trip.
【答案】What
【解析】
【详解】考查主语从句。空处引导主语从句，从句中缺少主语，且表示“……的事情”，所以用连词代词what引导该从句。该词位于句首，首字母大写。故填What。
56. 作为学生，你应该致力于你的学习。
As a student, you should devote yourself ______ your studies.
【答案】to
【解析】
【详解】考查固定短语。根据句意，表示“致力于……”应为devote oneself to，所以此处使用介词to。故填to。
57. 在内心深处，他们意识到幸福是买不到的。
Deep ______ , they realized that happiness can’t be bought.
【答案】down
【解析】
【详解】考查固定短语。根据句意以及句子结构可知，此处为固定短语deep down“在内心深处”，作状语。故填down。
58. 一种说法是糟糕的天气引起的这种疾病。
One theory was ______ bad air caused the disease.
【答案】that
【解析】
【详解】考查表语从句。空处引导表语从句，从句中不缺成分，句意完整，所以用连接代词that引导该从句。故填that。
59. 我今天下午不能去拜访你了，因为我有急事要处理。
I can’t call ______ you this afternoon since I have something urgent to deal with.
【答案】on
【解析】
【详解】考查介词。句意：我今天下午不能去拜访你了，因为我有急事要处理。根据句意可知，需要使用固定短语“call on sb.”，意为“拜访某人”。故填on。
60. 沙发可以当床凑合一两夜。
The sofa will serve ______ a bed for a night or two.
【答案】as
【解析】
【详解】考查动词短语。根据句意以及句子结构可知，此处为动词短语serve as“充当”，满足句意要求。故填as。
第五部分：书写(满分5分)
请按照书写格式和要求抄写以下内容。
We all make mistakes. Some of them are big while some are small. We can correct them and lean 1 from them. One thing is for sure, when we have done what we can, we must move forward . The problem with obstacles and challenges are being stuck in them. We sometimes would remain in that space. Often, we have to really pull ourselves out of a situation just so we can move forward.
第六部分：写作(满分25分)
61. 阅读下面短文，根据所给情节进行续写，使之构成一个完整的故事。
It was a cold, snowy evening. Tommy was running as fast as he could, focused on nothing but his destination----the shop on the street corner. Two weeks ago he saw figurines(小塑像) of Marvel superheroes on the shelves and felt he had to have one. He’s been walking the neighbor’s dog ever since then to earn money to fulfil his little dream. He was so excited and barely noticing the world around him. Maybe that’s why he tripped over the legs of a homeless woman, who was sitting on the pavement, her back against the wall. He murmured(低语) "sorry" and moved on to his destination.
Once he entered the shop, he went straight to the shelves with figurines. Hulk, Thor, Captain America, Iron Man, and many more----all of his admired heroes. With his heart pounding like crazy he reached for Spiderman.
“You like these, true believer ”
Tommy turned around. An old man was standing behind him with a wide smile on his face.
“Y-yes, …Yes, they’re awesome!” answered Tommy. “They’re strong and fast and help other people a lot ...”the boy looked at figurines in admiration. “I wish I could be a superhero too.”
“Then become one!” said the old man.
“How ” Tommy asked in surprise. “I don’t have any superpowers.”
“And why would you need them ” the old man smiled. Seeing the confusion on the boy's face, he squatted(蹲下) and put his hands on Tommy's arms. “Did you know that shopkeeper lady over there has a disabled husband She’s been working hard and taking care of him for years. I’ve never heard a word of complaint from her. And this person ---” he pointed at a redhead man, who just entered the shop. “He’s a firefighter; he’s saved countless lives. He never gives up, no matter how dangerous the situation seems to be.”
The old man looked Tommy in the eyes and smiled. “You don’t need a superpower to be a hero for someone else. The path of a superhero starts not in the mind, not in the muscles, but in the heart.”
注意:
1.续写词数应为150左右;
2.请按如下格式在相应位置作答。
Tommy lowered his head and looked at his shoes thinking intensely.
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The homeless woman was right there, where he saw her last time.
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
【答案】One possible version:
Tommy lowered his head and looked at his shoes thinking intensely. Finally he raised his head. "So I am supposed to...” he stopped mid-sentence when he realized that he was alone. He turned his head left and right, but the old man was nowhere to be seen. His eyes lit up---- he already had an idea of what he should do. He looked at figurines for the last time and moved towards the counter. "Two sandwiches and a cup of tea please, "he said, and then returned, food in hand.
The homeless woman was right there, where he saw her last time. Tommy came closer and carefully gave the woman his buys. Her eyes opened wide in surprise, then filled with tears. “Thank you," she whispered. Tommy bowed his head, turned around and went back home. He was moving faster and faster and finally he started to run. Strange energy filling his body made him feel like he could fly. When he finally stopped, he was breathing heavily, but he didn’t feel tired. He smiled happily --- it was a wonderful feeling. And nothing could stop it.
说明：
1.考试时间120分钟，满分150分。
2.答卷前，考生务必将自己的班级、姓名填写在答题卡，贴好条形码。
3.回答选择题时;选出每小题答案后，用铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。回答非选择题时，将答案写在答题卡上，写在本试卷上无效。
4.考试结束后，将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。
卷Ⅰ(选择题 共85分)
第一部分：听力(共两节，满分30分)
做题时，先将答案标在试卷上。录音内容结束后，你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的答案转涂到答题卡上。
第一节(共5小题;每小题1.5分，满分7.5分)
听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。
1. Why can’t the woman go to the game
A. She forgot her ticket at home.
B. She doesn’t want to wait in line.
C. She has to look after her nephew.
2. Where does the conversation take place
A. At a restaurant. B. In a hotel. C. Over the phone.
3 How much change can the man get
A. Five dollars. B. Seven dollars. C. Eight dollars.
4 What is the woman’s problem
A. A meeting room is occupied.
B. The meeting has been canceled.
C. Some software can’t be downloaded.
5. What does the woman mean
A. The essay part was easy.
B. She regretted not studying enough.
C. Her preparation paid off in the exam.
第二节(共15小题;每小题1.5分，满分22.5分)
听下面5段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟：听完后，各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间，每段对话或独白读两遍。
听下面一段对话，回答第6、7题。
6. What is the conversation mainly about
A. A research project. B. A company dinner. C. A customer survey.
7. What does the woman suggest doing
A. Training the staff. B. Changing some rules. C. Attending a conference.
听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。
8. Where will the woman go
A. Room 106. B. Room 210. C. Room 309.
9. Why will the man attend Dr. Probst’s lecture
A. He is a world-famous expert.
B. He was a former classmate.
C. He developed a new medical theory.
听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。
10. What season is it now
A. Spring B. Autumn. C. Winter.
11 What does John say about the young man’s coat
A. He doesn’t like the color.
B. He thinks it is out of style.
C. He is unsure if it would suit him.
12. What color are most of John’s clothes
A. Green. B. Black. C. Yellow.
听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。
13. How did Janet get introduced to stand-up comedy
A. By watching a performance.
B. By joining a local drama club.
C. By performing in school plays.
14. How did Janet’s parents react to her career choice
A. They encouraged her to follow her passion.
B They were unsupportive and discouraged her.
C. They-wanted her to follow a more traditional career.
15. What challenges does Janet face while performing
A. Creating her own material. B. Amusing the audience. C. Being alone on stage.
16. What motivates Janet to continue performing
A. The desire to uplift others.
B. The wish to gain recognition.
C. The chance to challenge herself.
听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。
17. What will be provided for the listeners
A. Clothes. B. Gloves. C. Breakfast.
18. What should the listeners do with fruit
A. Leave it untouched. B. Place it in the red bag. C. Put it into a special container.
19. What should the listeners do if they cut their hands
A. Seek help from fellow participants.
B. Visit the nearest hospital.
C. Turn to the speaker.
20. What is the main purpose of the talk
A. To give instructions. B. To promote a program. C. To welcome the listeners.
第二部分：阅读理解(共两节，满分40分)
第一节(共10小题：每小题2.5分，满分25分)
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A
In addition to applying for a traditional guide dog, the visually impaired (有视觉障碍的) people will soon have another option to help with their daily life — a robot guide dog.
About the size of an English Bulldog but a bit wider, the six-legged robot guide dog from Shanghai Jiao Tong University’s School of Mechanical Engineering can navigate (导航) users to destinations without running into barriers. It also has voice interaction functions and can recognize traffic light signals. With cameras, sensors, and AI technology, the robot dog can see, listen, and speak with users on daily journeys outside and be a companion at home. Professor Gao Feng, the head of the research team at SJT U, points out that with six legs, the robot guide dog can walk smoothly with high stability. “Even if three legs are raised, the structure still has three points of contact with the ground, creating a very stable base,” Gao said. He adds that operators can use a cane (手杖) to control the walking and running speed of the robot.
In China, there are currently about 17.31 million visually impaired people, yet only around 400 guide dogs are available due to high training costs. People have to wait for a long time after applying for one.
Unlike traditional dogs, the production of robot guide dogs could be scaled, especially in a major manufacturing center like China. “It’s a bit like cars. We can mass-produce them in the same way as cars so that it will become more affordable,” Gao said. “This could be a huge market because tens of millions of people might need guide dogs.”
Li Fei, among the visually impaired people participating in the field test, believes such high technology will likely change their lives soon. “The research teams are thoughtful and are continuously making improvements,” Li said. “The robot dog is electronic, making it easier to get into public places than traditional guide dogs. I will probably try the robot guide dog when it becomes available. They can be precise and reliable as they seldom make subjective mistakes.”
1. What do we know about the robot guide dog
A. It is smaller than an English Bulldog. B. It can identify traffic light signals.
C. It relies on AI technologies to move. D. It can interact with other robot guide dogs.
2. What is paragraph 4 mainly about
A. The potential market for robot guide dogs.
B. The high cost of training traditional guide dogs.
C. The difficulty of applying for a robot guide dog.
D. The standard of mass-producing robot guide dogs.
3. What can we infer about the robot guide dog according to Li Fei
A. It has been widely available to the public. B. It needs further improvement in accuracy.
C. It will benefit visually impaired people a lot. D. It will replace traditional guide dogs in the future.
B
The human voice is a delicate thing. Each person’s distinctive sound is produced when air from the lungs causes the vocal cords (声带) to vibrate. These vocal cords can easily get damaged. According to a 2005 study, 30% of the population will experience a voice disorder at some point in their life.
In a study published in the journal Nature Communications this week, a group of bioengineering researchers from the University of California have put forward an attractive solution. They have designed and tested a soft patch, that can be stuck onto a person’s neck, where it will pick up muscle movements and, with the help of machine-learning algorithms (算法) that process the signals, translate them into speech.
When a person loses their voice today, the easiest fix is to turn to typing, texting, or writing notes to communicate. Typing can be slow and inconvenient, says Jun Chen, the paper’s lead author, and writing notes is only possible in good lighting. The new solution would theoretically be able to clear all these hurdles.
Dr. Chen’s device works based on something called the magnetoelastic effect. Essentially, when tiny magnetic (磁性的) bits are placed into soft materials, their magnetic properties can change as the material is stretched.
When the throat muscles move under the soft patch, the resulting magnetic-field variations can be changed into electrical signals...In a test with eight participants, the researchers recorded the signals as “the subjects spoke and mouthed five different sentences. They then trained a machine-learning model which was then able to predict which of the five sentences the participants spoke — whether aloud or in silence — with more than 90% accuracy.
There is a way to go yet, for now the revice can only recognize the five phrases it was trained on. Plus, to make it practical at scare the researchers will need to collect a lot more data.
4. Why does the author mention the magnetoelastic effect
A. To explain the working principle. B. To present a solution.
C. To introduce the challenge. D. To make a comparison.
5. What is the function of the soft patch
A. Predicting five different sentences.
B. Destroying the background magnetic field.
C. Slowing the movements of throat muscles.
D. Helping turn muscle movements into electrical signals.
6. Which of the following is a suitable title for the text
A. Predicting the Importance of Voice Restoration
B. Using Algorithms in Bioengineering Research
C. Overcoming Voice Loss with an Innovative Patch
D. Finding the Principle of Communication Devices
C
If the benefits of physical activity were made into a pill, everyone would be on it. Studies show that moving improves nearly every aspect of health: boosting sleep, strength, and mental well-being. Still, most people don’t exercise nearly enough. According to data published in 2023, less than a third of U.S. adults get the government-recommended amount of physical activity in their free time: at least 20 minutes of moderate-intensity aerobic exercise per day, plus a couple of muscle-strengthening sessions each week.
Why is it so tough to get people to do something so good for them Physical limitations, health problems and modern life are certainly factors for many people. But research suggests there’s another factor: our brains don’t want us to exercise. For most of human existence, people had to be physically active to carry out the basic functions of life, such as finding food. Humans evolved (进化) to tolerate a high level of activity-but also to conserve energy for when movement was unnecessary, explains Daniel Lieberman, a human evolutionary biologist. As a society, we no longer move much in daily life, but the evolutionary instinct (本能) to conserve energy remains, Lieberman says. “That voice ‘I don’t want to exercise,’ is completely normal and natural,” he says.
Physical-activity researcher Matthieu Boisgontier demonstrated that phenomenon in a 2018 study. He gave people control of a digital avatar (化身) while they were connected to brain-activity monitors. They were instructed to move the avatar away from images of sedentary (久坐的) behavior that appeared on screen and toward images of physical activity. The study found that avoiding sedentary behavior took more brain power, suggesting that we have an “automatic tendency” to pick relaxing over moving.
That conclusion shows up repeatedly in research. Studies show, for example, that people consistently choose to take a lift instead of the stairs. “That natural instinct isn’t bad-it’s just that modern life gives us so many chances to give in to our preference for rest that we have reached an extreme that is no longer beneficial to our health,” Boisgontier says.
7. What do data published in 2023 suggest
A. U. S. adults have poor health awareness. B. The recommended activities are impractical.
C. Most Americans lack sufficient physical activity. D. Muscle-strengthening sessions deserve attention.
8. What makes people unwilling to exercise according to Lieberman
A. The physical limitations. B. The basic structure of the brain.
C. The convenient modern life. D. The natural energy-saving tendency.
9. What does the underlined part “that phenomenon” in paragraph 3 refer to
A. Sedentary behavior took much brain power. B. Most people tend to avoid physical activity.
C. Humans evolved for a high level of activity. D. Brain-related activities attract modern people.
10. What is Boisgontier’s attitude toward people’s physical inactivity
A. Doubtful B. Reserved. C. Approving. D. Opposed.
第二节(共5小题;每小题3分，满分15分)
根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，选项中有两项为多余选项。
How long does it take to become an elite (精英) in your field ___11___ 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. ___12___ 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.
___13___ 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.
Hayes mapped out the timeline of each composers career. ___14___ 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. ___15___
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：语言运用(共两节，满分30分)
第一节完形填空(共15小题，每小题1分，满分15分)
阅读下面的短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
I’ve always been creative since I was a little girl. Every day was an exciting adventure of ____16____ in my childhood filled with arts, crafts and music. ____17____, somewhere along the way I lost touch with my creative self.
At 21, upon graduation, I ____18____ a job at a company. I would go to the office, sit at my desk and repeat the same work. The days were long and ____19____. Working this way for one year was painful enough. Before long I decided to make a ____20____. One thing I had developed an interest in was sewing, so I ____21____ a sewing course at a community college. It was only a five-week course but it ____22____ my interest and got my confidence up.
As I dreamt bigger, later I ____23____ a part-time design course. I took classes two nights a week. Although exhausting, it gave me energy, ____24____ and happiness. As it became clearer that _____25_____ was where my love lay, working at the company became harder. I felt bored. No energy, no _____26_____ and zero fulfillment. Apparently, I needed a bigger change. _____27_____, I made a difficult decision, — quitting my _____28_____ and studying my design course full time.
The last few years witnessed my success in what I love. Today I am living a creative life as the _____29_____ of my own fashion brand. I feel _____30_____ that setting the wheels of change has led me to where I am today.
16. A. learning B. creation C. imagination D. amusement
17. A. Besides B. Therefore C. However D. Otherwise
18. A. landed B. desired C. shifted D. handled
19. A. boring B. interesting C. rewarding D. challenging
20. A. survey B. change C. commitment D. preparation
21. A. taught B. passed C. attended D. designed
22. A. maintained B. increased C. awakened D. protected
23. A. benefited from B. tried out for C. came up with D. signed up for
24. A. passion B. recognition C. curiosity D. innovation
25. A. arts B. crafts C. fashion D. adventure
26. A. promotion B. vacation C. business D. motivation
27. A. Initially B. Instantly C. Gradually D. Eventually
28. A. job B. dream C. interest D. decision
29. A. teacher B. designer C. inventor D. musician
30. A. inspired B. blessed C. relieved D. impressed
卷Ⅱ(非选择题 共65分)
第三部分：语言运用(共两节，满分30分)
第二节语法填空(共10小题;每小题1.5分，满分15分)
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式：
As ____31____ educator, people often ask me’ how I know what is going on in the minds of my students. My answer is ____32____ I look at their body language so that I can judge what they are thinking about. It is easy for me ____33____ (recognise) when students are interested in a lesson. People have a tendency to lean towards whatever they are interested in: So if a student has his head ____34____ (lower) to look at his watch, it implies that he is bored and just ____35____ (count) the minutes for the class to end. Sometimes some students are amused by something else. They occupy themselves by staring out of the window or up at the ceiling, ____36____ their chins on their hands. So the main thing is reminding distracted students that they need to pay attention in class.
Though it is easy to perceive students are interested, bored, or distracted sometimes it is much ____37____ (hard) to distinguish when students ____38____ (trouble). For example, there are deep ____39____ (issue) at work if a student doesn’t spend time and energy brushing their hair. Ultimately, my duty is helping every student to learn. Their body language lets me kn ow when to adjust class activities, when to intervene, and when to talk to students _____40_____ (individual).
Reacting, to body language is an important component of being a teacher.
第四部分：语言知识(共两节，满分20分)
第一节选词填空(共10小题;每小题1分，满分10分)
从词汇框中选择合适的单词完成句子，并在答题卡上将正确选项涂黑。
A. merely B. essential C. employed D. suspects E subscribed F. substantially G. initially H. favour I. posing J. characteristics K. domestic L .boosting
41. The report examines teaching methods ______ in-the classroom.
42. Rising unemployment is ______ serious problems for the administration.
43. The current economy does not ______ the development of small businesses.
44. All great leaders share certain ______ which must be seen as the key to their success.
45. The President’s speech covered a range of foreign and ______ issues.
46. The committee does not blame any individual; we are ______ trying to find out how the accide nt happened.
47 It is ______ to read any document carefully before you sigu it.
48. Two ______ were arrested today in connection with the robbery.
49. She has always ______ to the view that children should be given responsibility from an early age.
50 The deer population has increased ______ in recent years.
第二节 补全句子(共10小题;每小题1分，满分10分)根据汉语补全句子，每空一词：
51. 会议持续了三个小时，11点时散会了。
The meeting lasted three hours and broke ______ at eleven o’clock.
52. 她在事故中幸免于难简直是奇迹。
______ she survived the accident is a miracle.
53. 我是在假定能拿到钱的情况下工作的。
I’m working ______ the assumption that the money will come through.
54. 她不同意我今年毕业。
She doesn’t approve ______ my leaving school this year.
55. 让人们激动的是太阳能船已经完成了那个旅行。
______ made people excited was that the solar ship had completed the trip.
56. 作为学生，你应该致力于你的学习。
As a student, you should devote yourself ______ your studies.
57. 在内心深处，他们意识到幸福是买不到的。
Deep ______ , they realized that happiness can’t be bought.
58. 一种说法是糟糕的天气引起的这种疾病。
One theory was ______ bad air caused the disease.
59. 我今天下午不能去拜访你了，因为我有急事要处理。
I can’t call ______ you this afternoon since I have something urgent to deal with.
60. 沙发可以当床凑合一两夜。
The sofa will serve ______ a bed for a night or two.
第五部分：书写(满分5分)
请按照书写格式和要求抄写以下内容。
We all make mistakes. Some of them are big while some are small. We can correct them and lean 1 from them. One thing is for sure, when we have done what we can, we must move forward . The problem with obstacles and challenges are being stuck in them. We sometimes would remain in that space. Often, we have to really pull ourselves out of a situation just so we can move forward.
第六部分：写作(满分25分)
61. 阅读下面短文，根据所给情节进行续写，使之构成一个完整的故事。
It was a cold, snowy evening. Tommy was running as fast as he could, focused on nothing but his destination----the shop on the street corner. Two weeks ago he saw figurines(小塑像) of Marvel superheroes on the shelves and felt he had to have one. He’s been walking the neighbor’s dog ever since then to earn money to fulfil his little dream. He was so excited and barely noticing the world around him. Maybe that’s why he tripped over the legs of a homeless woman, who was sitting on the pavement, her back against the wall. He murmured(低语) "sorry" and moved on to his destination.
Once he entered the shop, he went straight to the shelves with figurines. Hulk, Thor, Captain America, Iron Man, and many more----all of his admired heroes. With his heart pounding like crazy he reached for Spiderman.
“You like these, true believer ”
Tommy turned around. An old man was standing behind him with a wide smile on his face.
“Y-yes, …Yes, they’re awesome!” answered Tommy. “They’re strong and fast and help other people a lot ...”the boy looked at figurines in admiration. “I wish I could be a superhero too.”
“Then become one!” said the old man.
“How ” Tommy asked in surprise. “I don’t have any superpowers.”
“And why would you need them ” the old man smiled. Seeing the confusion on the boy's face, he squatted(蹲下) and put his hands on Tommy's arms. “Did you know that shopkeeper lady over there has a disabled husband She’s been working hard and taking care of him for years. I’ve never heard a word of complaint from her. And this person ---” he pointed at a redhead man, who just entered the shop. “He’s a firefighter; he’s saved countless lives. He never gives up, no matter how dangerous the situation seems to be.”
The old man looked Tommy in the eyes and smiled. “You don’t need a superpower to be a hero for someone else. The path of a superhero starts not in the mind not in the muscles, but in the heart.”
注意:
1.续写词数应为150左右;
2.请按如下格式在相应位置作答。
Tommy lowered his head and looked at his shoes thinking intensely.
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The homeless woman was right there, where he saw her last time.
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
听力答案：1-5 CBAAC 6-10CACBB 11-15CBACB 16-20ABACA
唐山一中2024-2025学年度第一学期高二年级10月月考
英语试卷
答案版
说明：
1.考试时间120分钟，满分150分。
2.答卷前，考生务必将自己的班级、姓名填写在答题卡，贴好条形码。
3.回答选择题时;选出每小题答案后，用铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。回答非选择题时，将答案写在答题卡上，写在本试卷上无效。
4.考试结束后，将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。
卷Ⅰ(选择题 共85分)
第一部分：听力(共两节，满分30分)
做题时，先将答案标在试卷上。录音内容结束后，你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的答案转涂到答题卡上。
第一节(共5小题;每小题1.5分，满分7.5分)
听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。
1. Why can’t the woman go to the game
A. She forgot her ticket at home.
B. She doesn’t want to wait in line.
C. She has to look after her nephew.
2 Where does the conversation take place
A. At a restaurant. B. In a hotel. C. Over the phone.
3. How much change can the man get
A. Five dollars. B. Seven dollars. C. Eight dollars.
4. What is the woman’s problem
A. A meeting room is occupied.
B. The meeting has been canceled.
C. Some software can’t be downloaded.
5. What does the woman mean
A. The essay part was easy.
B. She regretted not studying enough.
C. Her preparation paid off in the exam.
第二节(共15小题;每小题1.5分，满分22.5分)
听下面5段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟：听完后，各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间，每段对话或独白读两遍。
听下面一段对话，回答第6、7题。
6. What is the conversation mainly about
A. A research project. B. A company dinner. C. A customer survey.
7. What does the woman suggest doing
A. Training the staff. B. Changing some rules. C. Attending a conference.
听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。
8. Where will the woman go
A. Room 106. B. Room 210. C. Room 309.
9. Why will the man attend Dr. Probst’s lecture
A. He is a world-famous expert.
B. He was a former classmate.
C. He developed a new medical theory.
听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。
10. What season is it now
A. Spring B. Autumn. C. Winter.
11 What does John say about the young man’s coat
A. He doesn’t like the color.
B. He thinks it is out of style.
C. He is unsure if it would suit him.
12. What color are most of John’s clothes
A. Green. B. Black. C. Yellow.
听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。
13. How did Janet get introduced to stand-up comedy
A. By watching a performance.
B. By joining a local drama club.
C. By performing in school plays.
14. How did Janet’s parents react to her career choice
A. They encouraged her to follow her passion.
B They were unsupportive and discouraged her.
C. They-wanted her to follow a more traditional career.
15. What challenges does Janet face while performing
A. Creating her own material. B. Amusing the audience. C. Being alone on stage.
16. What motivates Janet to continue performing
A. The desire to uplift others.
B. The wish to gain recognition.
C. The chance to challenge herself.
听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。
17. What will be provided for the listeners
A. Clothes. B. Gloves. C. Breakfast.
18. What should the listeners do with fruit
A. Leave it untouched. B. Place it in the red bag. C. Put it into a special container.
19. What should the listeners do if they cut their hands
A. Seek help from fellow participants.
B. Visit the nearest hospital.
C. Turn to the speaker.
20. What is the main purpose of the talk
A. To give instructions. B. To promote a program. C. To welcome the listeners.
听力答案：1-5 CBAAC 6-10CACBB 11-15CBACB 16-20ABACA
第二部分：阅读理解(共两节，满分40分)
第一节(共10小题：每小题2.5分，满分25分)
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A
In addition to applying for a traditional guide dog, the visually impaired (有视觉障碍的) people will soon have another option to help with their daily life — a robot guide dog.
About the size of an English Bulldog but a bit wider, the six-legged robot guide dog from Shanghai Jiao Tong University’s School of Mechanical Engineering can navigate (导航) users to destinations without running into barriers. It also has voice interaction functions and can recognize traffic light signals. With cameras, sensors, and AI technology, the robot dog can see, listen, and speak with users on daily journeys outside and be a companion at home. Professor Gao Feng, the head of the research team at SJT U, points out that with six legs, the robot guide dog can walk smoothly with high stability. “Even if three legs are raised, the structure still has three points of contact with the ground, creating a very stable base,” Gao said. He adds that operators can use a cane (手杖) to control the walking and running speed of the robot.
In China, there are currently about 17.31 million visually impaired people, yet only around 400 guide dogs are available due to high training costs. People have to wait for a long time after applying for one.
Unlike traditional dogs, the production of robot guide dogs could be scaled, especially in a major manufacturing center like China. “It’s a bit like cars. We can mass-produce them in the same way as cars so that it will become more affordable,” Gao said. “This could be a huge market because tens of millions of people might need guide dogs.”
Li Fei, among the visually impaired people participating in the field test, believes such high technology will likely change their lives soon. “The research teams are thoughtful and are continuously making improvements,” Li said. “The robot dog is electronic, making it easier to get into public places than traditional guide dogs. I will probably try the robot guide dog when it becomes available. They can be precise and reliable as they seldom make subjective mistakes.”
1. What do we know about the robot guide dog
A. It is smaller than an English Bulldog. B. It can identify traffic light signals.
C. It relies on AI technologies to move. D. It can interact with other robot guide dogs.
2. What is paragraph 4 mainly about
A. The potential market for robot guide dogs.
B. The high cost of training traditional guide dogs.
C. The difficulty of applying for a robot guide dog.
D. The standard of mass-producing robot guide dogs.
3. What can we infer about the robot guide dog according to Li Fei
A. It has been widely available to the public. B. It needs further improvement in accuracy.
C. It will benefit visually impaired people a lot. D. It will replace traditional guide dogs in the future.
【答案】1. B 2. A 3. C
B
The human voice is a delicate thing. Each person’s distinctive sound is produced when air from the lungs causes the vocal cords (声带) to vibrate. These vocal cords can easily get damaged. According to a 2005 study, 30% of the population will experience a voice disorder at some point in their life.
In a study published in the journal Nature Communications this week, a group of bioengineering researchers from the University of California have put forward an attractive solution. They have designed and tested a soft patch, that can be stuck onto a person’s neck, where it will pick up muscle movements and, with the help of machine-learning algorithms (算法) that process the signals, translate them into speech.
When a person loses their voice today, the easiest fix is to turn to typing, texting, or writing notes to communicate. Typing can be slow and inconvenient, says Jun Chen, the paper’s lead author, and writing notes is only possible in good lighting. The new solution would theoretically be able to clear all these hurdles.
Dr. Chen’s device works based on something called the magnetoelastic effect. Essentially, when tiny magnetic (磁性的) bits are placed into soft materials, their magnetic properties can change as the material is stretched.
When the throat muscles move under the soft patch, the resulting magnetic-field variations can be changed into electrical signals...In a test with eight participants, the researchers recorded the signals as “the subjects spoke and mouthed five different sentences. They then trained a machine-learning model which was then able to predict which of the five sentences the participants spoke — whether aloud or in silence — with more than 90% accuracy.
There is a way to go yet, for now the revice can only recognize the five phrases it was trained on. Plus, to make it practical at scare the researchers will need to collect a lot more data.
4. Why does the author mention the magnetoelastic effect
A. To explain the working principle. B. To present a solution.
C. To introduce the challenge. D. To make a comparison.
5. What is the function of the soft patch
A. Predicting five different sentences.
B. Destroying the background magnetic field.
C. Slowing the movements of throat muscles.
D Helping turn muscle movements into electrical signals.
6. Which of the following is a suitable title for the text
A. Predicting the Importance of Voice Restoration
B. Using Algorithms in Bioengineering Research
C. Overcoming Voice Loss with an Innovative Patch
D. Finding the Principle of Communication Devices
【答案】4. A 5. D 6. C
C
If the benefits of physical activity were made into a pill, everyone would be on it. Studies show that moving improves nearly every aspect of health: boosting sleep, strength, and mental well-being. Still, most people don’t exercise nearly enough. According to data published in 2023, less than a third of U.S. adults get the government-recommended amount of physical activity in their free time: at least 20 minutes of moderate-intensity aerobic exercise per day, plus a couple of muscle-strengthening sessions each week.
Why is it so tough to get people to do something so good for them Physical limitations, health problems and modern life are certainly factors for many people. But research suggests there’s another factor: our brains don’t want us to exercise. For most of human existence, people had to be physically active to carry out the basic functions of life, such as finding food. Humans evolved (进化) to tolerate a high level of activity-but also to conserve energy for when movement was unnecessary, explains Daniel Lieberman, a human evolutionary biologist. As a society, we no longer move much in daily life, but the evolutionary instinct (本能) to conserve energy remains, Lieberman says. “That voice ‘I don’t want to exercise,’ is completely normal and natural,” he says.
Physical-activity researcher Matthieu Boisgontier demonstrated that phenomenon in a 2018 study. He gave people control of a digital avatar (化身) while they were connected to brain-activity monitors. They were instructed to move the avatar away from images of sedentary (久坐的) behavior that appeared on screen and toward images of physical activity. The study found that avoiding sedentary behavior took more brain power, suggesting that we have an “automatic tendency” to pick relaxing over moving.
That conclusion shows up repeatedly in research. Studies show, for example, that people consistently choose to take a lift instead of the stairs. “That natural instinct isn’t bad-it’s just that modern life gives us so many chances to give in to our preference for rest that we have reached an extreme that is no longer beneficial to our health,” Boisgontier says.
7. What do data published in 2023 suggest
A. U. S. adults have poor health awareness. B. The recommended activities are impractical.
C. Most Americans lack sufficient physical activity. D. Muscle-strengthening sessions deserve attention.
8. What makes people unwilling to exercise according to Lieberman
A. The physical limitations. B. The basic structure of the brain.
C. The convenient modern life. D. The natural energy-saving tendency.
9. What does the underlined part “that phenomenon” in paragraph 3 refer to
A. Sedentary behavior took much brain power. B. Most people tend to avoid physical activity.
C. Humans evolved for a high level of activity. D. Brain-related activities attract modern people.
10. What is Boisgontier’s attitude toward people’s physical inactivity
A. Doubtful B. Reserved. C. Approving. D. Opposed.
【答案】7. C 8. D 9. B 10. D
第二节(共5小题;每小题3分，满分15分)
根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，选项中有两项为多余选项。
How long does it take to become an elite (精英) in your field ___11___ 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. ___12___ 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.
___13___ 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.
Hayes mapped out the timeline of each composers career. ___14___ 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. ___15___
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】11. F 12. C 13. D 14. G 15. E
第三部分：语言运用(共两节，满分30分)
第一节完形填空(共15小题，每小题1分，满分15分)
阅读下面的短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
I’ve always been creative since I was a little girl. Every day was an exciting adventure of ____16____ in my childhood filled with arts, crafts and music. ____17____, somewhere along the way I lost touch with my creative self.
At 21, upon graduation, I ____18____ a job at a company. I would go to the office, sit at my desk and repeat the same work. The days were long and ____19____. Working this way for one year was painful enough. Before long I decided to make a ____20____. One thing I had developed an interest in was sewing, so I ____21____ a sewing course at a community college. It was only a five-week course but it ____22____ my interest and got my confidence up.
As I dreamt bigger, later I ____23____ a part-time design course. I took classes two nights a week. Although exhausting, it gave me energy, ____24____ and happiness. As it became clearer that _____25_____ was where my love lay, working at the company became harder. I felt bored. No energy, no _____26_____ and zero fulfillment. Apparently, I needed a bigger change. _____27_____, I made a difficult decision, — quitting my _____28_____ and studying my design course full time.
The last few years witnessed my success in what I love. Today I am living a creative life as the _____29_____ of my own fashion brand. I feel _____30_____ that setting the wheels of change has led me to where I am today.
16. A. learning B. creation C. imagination D. amusement
17. A. Besides B. Therefore C. However D. Otherwise
18. A. landed B. desired C. shifted D. handled
19. A. boring B. interesting C. rewarding D. challenging
20. A. survey B. change C. commitment D. preparation
21. A. taught B. passed C. attended D. designed
22. A. maintained B. increased C. awakened D. protected
23. A. benefited from B. tried out for C. came up with D. signed up for
24. A. passion B. recognition C. curiosity D. innovation
25. A. arts B. crafts C. fashion D. adventure
26. A. promotion B. vacation C. business D. motivation
27. A. Initially B. Instantly C. Gradually D. Eventually
28. A. job B. dream C. interest D. decision
29. A. teacher B. designer C. inventor D. musician
30. A. inspired B. blessed C. relieved D. impressed
【答案】16. B 17. C 18. A 19. A 20. B 21. C 22. C 23. D 24. A 25. C 26. D 27. D 28. A 29. B 30. B
卷Ⅱ(非选择题 共65分)
第三部分：语言运用(共两节，满分30分)
第二节语法填空(共10小题;每小题1.5分，满分15分)
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式：
As ____31____ educator, people often ask me’ how I know what is going on in the minds of my students. My answer is ____32____ I look at their body language so that I can judge what they are thinking about. It is easy for me ____33____ (recognise) when students are interested in a lesson. People have a tendency to lean towards whatever they are interested in: So if a student has his head ____34____ (lower) to look at his watch, it implies that he is bored and just ____35____ (count) the minutes for the class to end. Sometimes some students are amused by something else. They occupy themselves by staring out of the window or up at the ceiling, ____36____ their chins on their hands. So the main thing is reminding distracted students that they need to pay attention in class.
Though it is easy to perceive students are interested, bored, or distracted sometimes it is much ____37____ (hard) to distinguish when students ____38____ (trouble). For example, there are deep ____39____ (issue) at work if a student doesn’t spend time and energy brushing their hair. Ultimately, my duty is helping every student to learn. Their body language lets me kn ow when to adjust class activities, when to intervene, and when to talk to students _____40_____ (individual).
Reacting, to body language is an important component of being a teacher.
【答案】31. an 32. that
33. to recognize
34. lowered
35. counting
36. with 37. harder
38. are troubled
39. issues 40. individually
第四部分：语言知识(共两节，满分20分)
第一节选词填空(共10小题;每小题1分，满分10分)
从词汇框中选择合适的单词完成句子，并在答题卡上将正确选项涂黑。
A. merely B. essential C. employed D. suspects E subscribed F. substantially G. initially H. favour I. posing J. characteristics K. domestic L .boosting
41. The report examines teaching methods ______ in-the classroom.
42. Rising unemployment is ______ serious problems for the administration.
43. The current economy does not ______ the development of small businesses.
44. All great leaders share certain ______ which must be seen as the key to their success.
45. The President’s speech covered a range of foreign and ______ issues.
46. The committee does not blame any individual; we are ______ trying to find out how the accide nt happened.
47. It is ______ to read any document carefully before you sigu it.
48. Two ______ were arrested today in connection with the robbery.
49 She has always ______ to the view that children should be given responsibility from an early age.
50. The deer population has increased ______ in recent years.
【答案】41. C 42. I
43. H 44. J
45. K 46. A
47. B 48. D
49. E 50. F
第二节 补全句子(共10小题;每小题1分，满分10分)根据汉语补全句子，每空一词：
51. 会议持续了三个小时，11点时散会了。
The meeting lasted three hours and broke ______ at eleven o’clock.
【答案】up
【解析】
【详解】考查介词。根据汉语提示可知，空处需要需要补全“散会”，可用动词短语break up“散（会）”。故填up。
52. 她在事故中幸免于难简直是奇迹。
______ she survived the accident is a miracle.
【答案】That
【解析】
【详解】考查主语从句。空处引导主语从句，从句中不缺成分，句意完整，所以用连接代词that引导该从句。该词位于句首，首字母大写。故填That。
53. 我是在假定能拿到钱的情况下工作的。
I’m working ______ the assumption that the money will come through.
【答案】on
【解析】
【详解】考查介词。“假定……”为固定搭配on the assumption that，其中that引导同位语从句。故填on。
54. 她不同意我今年毕业。
She doesn’t approve ______ my leaving school this year.
【答案】of
【解析】
【详解】考查介词根据汉语提示可知，空处需要补全“同意”，可用动词短语approve of“同意”。故填of。
55. 让人们激动的是太阳能船已经完成了那个旅行。
______ made people excited was that the solar ship had completed the trip.
【答案】What
【解析】
【详解】考查主语从句。空处引导主语从句，从句中缺少主语，且表示“……的事情”，所以用连词代词what引导该从句。该词位于句首，首字母大写。故填What。
56. 作为学生，你应该致力于你的学习。
As a student, you should devote yourself ______ your studies.
【答案】to
【解析】
【详解】考查固定短语。根据句意，表示“致力于……”应为devote oneself to，所以此处使用介词to。故填to。
57. 在内心深处，他们意识到幸福是买不到的。
Deep ______ , they realized that happiness can’t be bought.
【答案】down
【解析】
【详解】考查固定短语。根据句意以及句子结构可知，此处为固定短语deep down“在内心深处”，作状语。故填down。
58. 一种说法是糟糕的天气引起的这种疾病。
One theory was ______ bad air caused the disease.
【答案】that
【解析】
【详解】考查表语从句。空处引导表语从句，从句中不缺成分，句意完整，所以用连接代词that引导该从句。故填that。
59. 我今天下午不能去拜访你了，因为我有急事要处理。
I can’t call ______ you this afternoon since I have something urgent to deal with.
【答案】on
【解析】
【详解】考查介词。句意：我今天下午不能去拜访你了，因为我有急事要处理。根据句意可知，需要使用固定短语“call on sb.”，意为“拜访某人”。故填on。
60. 沙发可以当床凑合一两夜。
The sofa will serve ______ a bed for a night or two.
【答案】as
【解析】
【详解】考查动词短语。根据句意以及句子结构可知，此处为动词短语serve as“充当”，满足句意要求。故填as。
第五部分：书写(满分5分)
请按照书写格式和要求抄写以下内容。
We all make mistakes. Some of them are big while some are small. We can correct them and lean 1 from them. One thing is for sure, when we have done what we can, we must move forward . The problem with obstacles and challenges are being stuck in them. We sometimes would remain in that space. Often, we have to really pull ourselves out of a situation just so we can move forward.
第六部分：写作(满分25分)
61. 阅读下面短文，根据所给情节进行续写，使之构成一个完整的故事。
It was a cold, snowy evening. Tommy was running as fast as he could, focused on nothing but his destination----the shop on the street corner. Two weeks ago he saw figurines(小塑像) of Marvel superheroes on the shelves and felt he had to have one. He’s been walking the neighbor’s dog ever since then to earn money to fulfil his little dream. He was so excited and barely noticing the world around him. Maybe that’s why he tripped over the legs of a homeless woman, who was sitting on the pavement, her back against the wall. He murmured(低语) "sorry" and moved on to his destination.
Once he entered the shop, he went straight to the shelves with figurines. Hulk, Thor, Captain America, Iron Man, and many more----all of his admired heroes. With his heart pounding like crazy he reached for Spiderman.
“You like these, true believer ”
Tommy turned around. An old man was standing behind him with a wide smile on his face.
“Y-yes, …Yes, they’re awesome!” answered Tommy. “They’re strong and fast and help other people a lot ...”the boy looked at figurines in admiration. “I wish I could be a superhero too.”
“Then become one!” said the old man.
“How ” Tommy asked in surprise. “I don’t have any superpowers.”
“And why would you need them ” the old man smiled. Seeing the confusion on the boy's face, he squatted(蹲下) and put his hands on Tommy's arms. “Did you know that shopkeeper lady over there has a disabled husband She’s been working hard and taking care of him for years. I’ve never heard a word of complaint from her. And this person ---” he pointed at a redhead man, who just entered the shop. “He’s a firefighter; he’s saved countless lives. He never gives up, no matter how dangerous the situation seems to be.”
The old man looked Tommy in the eyes and smiled. “You don’t need a superpower to be a hero for someone else. The path of a superhero starts not in the mind, not in the muscles, but in the heart.”
注意:
1.续写词数应为150左右;
2.请按如下格式在相应位置作答。
Tommy lowered his head and looked at his shoes thinking intensely.
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The homeless woman was right there, where he saw her last time.
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
【答案】One possible version:
Tommy lowered his head and looked at his shoes thinking intensely. Finally he raised his head. "So I am supposed to...” he stopped mid-sentence when he realized that he was alone. He turned his head left and right, but the old man was nowhere to be seen. His eyes lit up---- he already had an idea of what he should do. He looked at figurines for the last time and moved towards the counter. "Two sandwiches and a cup of tea please, "he said, and then returned, food in hand.
The homeless woman was right there, where he saw her last time. Tommy came closer and carefully gave the woman his buys. Her eyes opened wide in surprise, then filled with tears. “Thank you," she whispered. Tommy bowed his head, turned around and went back home. He was moving faster and faster and finally he started to run. Strange energy filling his body made him feel like he could fly. When he finally stopped, he was breathing heavily, but he didn’t feel tired. He smiled happily --- it was a wonderful feeling. And nothing could stop it.
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