2024-2025学年山西省高三上学期10月月考英语试题（含答案）

2024-2025学年山西省高三上学期10月月考英语试题
注意事项：
1. 答卷前，考生务必将自己的姓名、考生号等填写在答题卡上。
2. 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。如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案标号。回答非选择题时，将答案写在答题卡上。写在本试 卷上无效。
3. 考试结束后，将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。
考试时间为120分钟，满分150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。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. What are the classrooms like
A. New. B. Old. C. Large.
2. What does the woman mean
A Round windows are stronger. B. Round windows look beautiful.
C. Round windows take less space. 3. What is the man’s advice
A. Using a memory stick. B. Changing a computer C. Deleting some stuff.
4. What are the speakers mainly talking about
A. The coaches. B. A competition. C. A training session.
5. What did the woman do for Earth Hour last year
A. She composed music. B. She made some candles. C. She turned off the lights.
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。听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟;听完后，各 小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。
听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。
6 What is the probable relationship between the speakers
A. Husband and wife. B. Father and daughter. C. Boss and secretary.
7. What will Uncle Pablo do today
A. Surf the Internet on the boat.
B. Introduce the tour company.
C. Tell of the history of the town.
听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。
8. What is the woman doing
A. Seeking advice. B. Checking in. C. Asking for direction.
9. How will the woman go to the airport
A. By taxi. B. By train. C. By subway.
10. When should the woman leave for the airport
A. At 1:00 pm. B. At 2:30 pm. C. At 4:00 pm.
听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。
11. Why does the man feel upset
A. He is ill.
B. He had some accidents.
C. There is no power at his home. 12. What was wrong with the light
A. It hurt Philip’s fingers. B. It fell on the chair. C. It stopped working.
13 What does the woman ask the man to do
A. Have a cup of tea. B. Go to her house for supper. C. Cook dinner for her.
听第9段材料，回答第14至17题。
14. Why does the woman choose the course
A. It is practical. B. It is the most popular. C. It has better career prospects.
15. How does the woman feel about her current study
A. Relaxing. B. Disappointing. C. Stressful.
16. What does Claire say about the project she is working on
A. She needs to do further research.
B. She is satisfied with the materials she chose.
C. She knows the building will be constructed soon.
17. What might the man be
A. An advisor. B. An interviewer. C. An architect.
听第10段材料，回答第18至20题。
18. What is the speaker talking about
A. Job description. B. Marketing strategies. C. Personnel appointment.
19 What do we know about Sam
A. He is experienced.
B. He has potential to improve.
C. He enjoys socializing.
20. What does the speaker anticipate at the next meeting
A. Making the final decision. B. Introducing new candidates. C. Receiving fresh suggestions.
第二部分 阅读(共两节，满分50分)
第一节(共15小题;每小题2. 5分，满分37. 5分)
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的 A、B、C和D 四个选项中选出最佳选项。
A
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1. Why is priority delivery mentioned
A. To share how to enjoy free delivery.
B. To introduce a way to get orders faster.
C. To advise customers to select promotions.
D. To recommend a means of scheduling orders.
2. How much should you tip for a $40 order to be regarded as “a hero”
A. $6. B. $7. 2. C. $8. D. $10.
3. What is Uber One according to the text
A. It’s a grocery store association. B. It’s an online trading platform.
C. It’s an extra service for Uber Eats users. D. It’s an app for merchants on Uber Eats.
B
For twelve years I’d worked at the hospital. One day they told me I was no longer needed. I understood that it was a cost-cutting move to replace me with someone with less experience and a lower salary.
But my understanding didn’t excise the pain of feeling abandoned and useless. At sixty-two, what opportunities existed for someone at my age “Dear Lord,” I prayed, “show me the way.” As he so often does, he answered through someone else, a fellow health educator at another hospital. When I shared my worries about my future, she told me about a conference she had attended recently.
“I’ve just learmed the most helpful tool,” she said. “No matter what the situation is, there is an opposite, a benefit. Our typical response is to focus on the losses of job, marriage, home, or even health. Instead, the speaker told us to concentrate on finding what we gained with our loss.” At first, I resisted her advice as I was extremely sad. I missed the meaningful challenges of organizing health education classes for the sick. But as time passed, I grew tired of my sorrow. Maybe I should try my friend’s advice and seek some opposites.
Yet it wasn’t until our trip to Africa that I understood the power of opposite thinking. In 2023, we flew eight thousand miles to a village in West Africa. We brought many presents, believing that somehow we could improve the villagers’ lives. Instead, they taught us the opposite. Our lives were the ones that needed improving.
Despite living in mud huts without modern conveniences, running water, or sanitation (卫生设备 ), the villagers appeared content. Frequently laughing and greeting each other, they truly cared for their neighbors. Although we slept on the ground, I felt a peace I hadn’t known since I left my job. I had expected we would spend our time helping the poor villagers. Instead, they were teaching us that having less meant less to worry about and more time and energy for each other. These wonderful people with a different faith taught me an important lesson that guided me through the darkness of life.
4. What can we learn about the author
A. She lacked work experience. B. She demanded higher salary.
C. She didn’t perform well at work. D. She was dismissed by the hospital.
5. What does the underlined word “excise” in paragraph 2 mean
A. Remove. B. Deepen. C. Classify. D. Describe.
6. What did the fellow health educator suggest the author do
A. Reevaluate her situation and find solutions to the failure.
B. Search for inner peace and cast off the economic darkness.
C. Stay positive and concentrate on health care education.
D. Shift her attitude to adversity and look on the bright side.
7. What lesson did the author learn from the villagers in Africa
A. Face up to the cruel realities of life.
B. Fortune favors those who use their judgement.
C. Owning more not necessarily adds to our happiness.
D. Devoting to volunteering can gain a sense of achievement.
C
Are people in some countries more generally dishonest than people in other countries An international team of researchers have examined this question.
In 2015, David Pascual-Ezama at Universidad Complutense Madrid and his colleagues investigated dishonesty in 16 different countries. They recruited 90 university students in each country to play a coin-flipping(抛硬币)game.
The game consisted of a single flip of a coin with a black and a white side. If the coin landed with the white side up, the student received a bar of chocolate as a prize. Each student flipped the coin in private and then reported the result to an experimenter. The experimenter didn’t know if a particular student reported the result truthfully or not. But—and here’s the clever part—the experimenter could accurately estimate the level of cheating in the group as a whole by simply counting the total number of chocolates handed out as prizes. If 90 students flip a coin, according to the laws of probability, about half of the coins will land on white and receive a prize. If almost all of the students report a prize-winning result, then we have evidence of a high level of cheating in that group.
Somewhat surprisingly, Pascual-Ezama and his team found that, across all 16 countries, only 57%of the students reported the white—just 7 percentage points higher than what we would expect if everyone told the truth. Among those students who would have been tempted(引诱)to lie because their coin landed on black, 86%of them resisted the temptation and told the truth. Some of the 16 countries cheated a little more and some a little less, but the differences were not statistically significant.
According to the researchers, the results of the study provide support for the theory of self- concept maintenance—we’re motivated by external incentives (激励)to cheat, but we’re also motivated by an internal desire to see ourselves as a good, decent, moral person. A low level of dishonesty(so-called”incomplete cheating”)is the result of our attempt to find a happy medium between external incentives to act dishonestly and our own internal desire to be a moral person.
8. Why did the researchers carry out the study
A. To discover the secret of being honest.
B. To highlight the significance of moral code.
C. To calculate the honest population in 16 countries.
D. To test participants’dishonesty in different countries.
9. What can be an evidence of a higher level of cheating in the group
A. Half of the coins are reported landing on black. B. Most participants report a prize-winning result.
C. A majority of students know the laws of probability. D. Almost all of the students successfully flip the coin.
10. What can be inferred from paragraph 4
A. The experimenters overestimated the level of cheating.
B. Over half of the students failed to resist the temptation.
C. There were visibly high levels of dishonesty across countries.
D. Some countries cheated remarkably more than other countries.
11. What role does “a happy medium” play according to the theory in the last paragraph
A. It regulates people’s behaviour. B. It drives people to act dishonestly.
C. It encourages people to compete. D. It limits people’s freedom of choice.
D
Researchers monitoring the lightless landscape of the Pacific Ocean floor think they’ve observed “dark oxygen” being created there, potentially challenging commonly held beliefs about how oxygen is produced on Earth.
Until now, it was thought that oxygen was created only through photosynthesis (光合作用), a process that requires sunlight. But the discovery casts doubt on that theory and raises new questions about the origins of life itself.
The research team led by Sweetman, a professor with the Scottish Association for Marine Science in Oban, Scotland, published its findings Monday in an article in the journal Nature Geoscience
The scientists aren’t certain how oxygen is created at such dark depths, but they believe it’s being produced by electrically charged minerals called polymetallic nodules (多金属结核). These nodules — “effectively batteries in a rock,” Sweetman said—may use their electric charge to split seawater into hydrogen and oxygen in a process called seawater electrolysis (电解).
Polymetallic nodules contain metals such as manganese, nickel and cobalt, which can be used to make the batteries used in consumer electronics, appliances and electric vehicles. Franz Geiger, a Northwestern University chemistry professor who worked on the study, said in a separate news release that there may be enough polymetallic nodules in an area of the Pacific Ocean called the Clarion-Clipperton Zone to meet global energy demands for decades after.
But Geiger also said that mining would have to be conducted in a way that did not remove oxygen for life forms in that part of the ocean. Companies conducted exploratory missions for deep-sea mining in the 1970s and 80s, he said, and recent research suggests that those missions may have had influences on marine life in the area for decades. “A few years ago, a team of marine biologists went back to those areas that were mined 40 years ago and found essentially no life,” Geiger said. “And then a few hundred meters over to the left and right, where the nodules were undamaged, plenty of life.”
12. What do we know about the new research
A. It questions whether oxygen exists in seawater.
B. It believes that the level of oxygen is higher in the deep sea.
C. It challenges the conventional view of how oxygen is produced.
D. It argues that oxygen is created only through photosynthesis.
13. What generates the oxygen under the sea according to the scientists
A. Hydrogen and seawater. B. Special rocks on the sea floor.
C. A kind of effective batteries. D. Marine plants and sunlight.
14. Why did Geiger mention the deep-sea mining in the 1970s and 80s
A. To emphasize the need to consult biologists before mining.
B. To call for more firms to learn from previous exploratory achievements
C. To remind the companies to avoid damaging the nodules when mining.
D. To encourage the biologists to monitor deep-sea life continuously.
15. What would be the most suitable title for the text
A. Mineral Resources Are Detected in the Pacific Ocean
B. Scientists Discover “Dark Oxygen” on the Sea Floor
C. “Polymetallic Nodules” Have Changed Undersea Landscape
D. “Dark Oxygen” Brings up a New Assumption on the Origin of Life
第二节(共5小题;每小题2. 5分，满分12. 5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。
What is it that allows Steve Jobs and Elon Musk to innovate so consistently ____16____ It’s about trying to step outside of the mental restrictions we impose (强加于) upon ourselves to attempt to look at a problem in a new light. Being creative allows yourself to do things, experience things or consider things in unfamiliar ways.____17____
Be curious.
Creativity at work is not limited only to what goes on in the workplace. If you want to be a creative and innovative individual, you need to broaden your horizons. ___18___This can help you learn about as many fields of knowledge as you can. If you have a too narrow outlook, you won’t be able to break out of your limited world view and make the connections you need to have original thoughts.
___19___
If creativity is all about having different perspectives and viewpoints, then it must make sense to hire people from different backgrounds and with different experiences. If you’re the boss, don’t simply hire people in your own image. If you populate your office with your clones and your company with like-minded people, creativity will suffer. A much better hiring policy is to try to create a team as diverse as possible. When it comes to discussions and coming up with new ideas, you will gain the rewards.
Surround yourself with inspiration.
Always be on the lookout for new and exciting material and decorate your workspace with whatever you find. ___20___ It’s up to you. Make sure you keep replacing everything too - it will keep your space fresh, and this, in turn, will keep your mind fresh. Above all, don’t let your environment become dull and boring.
A. Biuld a diverse team.
B. Organize brainstorming sessions in your team.
C. Try to step outside of the world you are familiar with.
D. Here are a few things to help you be more creative at work.
E. Creativity is about trying to see things from a different angle.
F. It’s amazing that a simple change of scenery can help your creativity flow again.
G. It could be newspaper headlines, inspiring sentences, objects, photos or anything else.
第三部分语言运用(共两节，满分30分)
第一节(共15小题;每小题1分，满分15分)
阅读下面短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和 D 四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
JongMay Urbonya is an American lady full of ___21___ :she is fluent in Mandarin, fond of hanfu and Chinese dance. She was born in China and lived there until the age of six. It was in those years that the seeds of love for Chinese culture were ___22___
Even while moving back to the U. S. , Urbonya’s parents used Chinese TV dramas to ___23___ her Chinese language abilities. The seeds of passion ___24___her back to China in 2011, studying Chinese dance in Beijing Normal University.
“When I was a kid, I had a “princess dream”. I often cover my shoulder with a blanket, ___25___ I was an ancient Chinese princess, ”she said. A chance to ___26___ that dream occurred in 2020, when a TV show had Urbonya visit a hanfu festival. “Hanfu has wide ___27___ and is winning recognition in the world. I got the full hanfu experience and I ___28___ then that hanfu culture is a new-found way to bring Chinese___29___ to the present, ”she said.
She ___30___ that 10 years ago when she was in college, wearing hanfu was not a(n) ___31___sight and she could only buy custom-made hanfu. “If I had worn hanfu walking down the street, people would probably ask ___32___in their hearts, ‘Why is this foreigner wearing an ancient outfit on the street ’”Now, she has ___33___hanfu in her everyday wear and is able to purchase different ___34___of hanfu online. “I’m really happy to be a hanfu culture enthusiast, and I hope to make it more ___35___ to those outside of China, ”she said.
21. A. mysteries B. ambitions C. surprises D. contradictions
22. A. spread B. collected C. sowed D. blossomed
23. A. keep up B. hold up C. take up D. wrap up
24. A. delivered B. brought C. forced D. flashed
25. A. celebrating B. demanding C. guaranteeing D. pretending
26. A. achieve B. appreciate C. imagine D. establish
27. A. appeal B. exposure C. admiration D. devotion
28. A. proposed B. indicated C. realized D. proved
29. A. faith B. history C. values D. virtues
30. A. memorized B. declared C. reminded D. recalled
31. A. awesome B. common C. worthwhile D. romantic
32. A. ridiculously B. seriously C. casually D. curiously
33. A. folded B. included C. replaced D. created
34. A. ranges B. models C. versions D. styles
35. A. reliable B. comfortable C. accessible D. reasonable
第二节(共10小题;每小题1. 5分，满分15分)
阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
Shanghai recently released an updated plan for evaluating the quality of compulsory education in the city, known as Green Indicators 3.0, ___36___ aims to provide a more comprehensive assessment of students’overall growth, going beyond ___37___ (pure) academic achievements.
Green Indicators 3. 0 introduces fresh criteria, including personal character, legal awareness, life skills and innovation, ___38___ (offer) a more comprehensive view of student development.
It places increased ___39___ (emphasize) on monitoring mental well-being by improving existing health indicators. In ___40___ effort to enhance students’social skills, the new evaluation system has introduced a ___41___ (dedicate) standard for assessing interpersonal relationships. It also strengthens assessments related to social-emotional competencies, including communication abilities, cooperation skills and emotional regulation capabilities. Nurturing (培养) these skills ___42___ (be) essential for the well-being and lifelong growth of young people.
To avoid ___43___ (increase) academic burdens, the city’s education committee said the evaluation results will not be tied to student graduation or advancement criteria. Instead, Shanghai aims to address social concerns through in-depth research ___44___ publicly share relevant reports to create an environment beneficial to educational development.
The green indicators have played an important role in diagnosing problems in school education and promoting the comprehensive development of students since they ____45____ (implement) in Shanghai in 2011 for evaluation of the quality of compulsory education.
第四部分写作(共两节，满分40分)
第一节(满分15分)
46. 假定你是李华，你校英文报最近在向全校师生征集意见和建议，你认为有必要设立一个问答专栏。请你给报纸负责人Henry写一封邮件，内容包括：
1. 提出建议——增加新专栏；
2. 设立新专栏原因及目的。
注意：1. 写作词数应为80左右；
2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
Dear Henry,
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Yours,
Li Hua
第二节(满分25分)
47. 阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。
With one week to go before the Los Angeles Marathon, one of my knees was injured. The thought of missing the marathon in five days concened me far more than my physical pain. I had notjust given the marathon a small place in my life, it had become my life.
The good news was that after a thorough examination, nothing appeared to be permanently damaged. The first thing I asked the doctor was, “When will I be able to run again ” Remaining cautious, he explained that as soon as the swelling went down, I could do whatever I felt I could tolerate. Later that afternoon, my self-confidence began to return to normal even though my knee hadn’t. The injury damaged my body, but not my spirit.
The next day, I hobbled (跛行) into a local running store and asked if there were any marathons later in the year. With all of the training that I had put in, I was certain that I’d be back on the streets within a couple of months. “There aren’t any more marathons until the last part of November,” said the clerk. “Oh, wait. There is one smaller race next month:the Long Beach Marathon.” A ray of hope emerged. However, the Long Beach Marathon was only three and a half weeks away. Impossible. But, Aristotle once said, “Hope is a waking dream.” My dream was only three weeks away.
The next morning, I began a self-made training schedule unlike any you’ll read about in Runner’s World, and probably it’s the first time anyone has ever prepared for a marathon without running. I was fortunate enough to be working in a hospital fitness center that had a wide variety of stationary bikes, treadmills (跑步机) and free weights. They could actually help me to recover and practice.
Over the course of the next week, the swelling in my knee went down as my fitness level climbed. I was actually becoming fitter without putting in so much as a mile of running. After about two and a half weeks, I got the doctor’s approval to start running again.
注意：
1. 续写词数应为150左右;
2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
The first day back out on the street was a challenge.
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When the race day arrived, I was fit and motivated to run the race of a lifetime.
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答案版
注意事项：
1. 答卷前，考生务必将自己的姓名、考生号等填写在答题卡上。
2. 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。如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案标号。回答非选择题时，将答案写在答题卡上。写在本试 卷上无效。
3. 考试结束后，将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。
考试时间为120分钟，满分150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。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. What are the classrooms like
A. New. B. Old. C. Large.
2. What does the woman mean
A. Round windows are stronger. B. Round windows look beautiful.
C. Round windows take less space. 3. What is the man’s advice
A. Using a memory stick. B. Changing a computer C. Deleting some stuff.
4. What are the speakers mainly talking about
A. The coaches. B. A competition. C. A training session.
5. What did the woman do for Earth Hour last year
A. She composed music. B. She made some candles. C. She turned off the lights.
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。听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟;听完后，各 小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。
听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。
6. What is the probable relationship between the speakers
A. Husband and wife. B. Father and daughter. C. Boss and secretary.
7. What will Uncle Pablo do today
A. Surf the Internet on the boat.
B. Introduce the tour company.
C. Tell of the history of the town.
听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。
8. What is the woman doing
A. Seeking advice. B. Checking in. C. Asking for direction.
9. How will the woman go to the airport
A. By taxi. B. By train. C. By subway.
10. When should the woman leave for the airport
A. At 1:00 pm. B. At 2:30 pm. C. At 4:00 pm.
听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。
11. Why does the man feel upset
A. He is ill.
B. He had some accidents.
C. There is no power at his home. 12. What was wrong with the light
A. It hurt Philip’s fingers. B. It fell on the chair. C. It stopped working.
13. What does the woman ask the man to do
A. Have a cup of tea. B. Go to her house for supper. C. Cook dinner for her.
听第9段材料，回答第14至17题。
14. Why does the woman choose the course
A. It is practical. B. It is the most popular. C. It has better career prospects.
15. How does the woman feel about her current study
A. Relaxing. B. Disappointing. C. Stressful.
16. What does Claire say about the project she is working on
A. She needs to do further research.
B. She is satisfied with the materials she chose.
C. She knows the building will be constructed soon.
17. What might the man be
A. An advisor. B. An interviewer. C. An architect.
听第10段材料，回答第18至20题。
18. What is the speaker talking about
A Job description. B. Marketing strategies. C. Personnel appointment.
19. What do we know about Sam
A. He is experienced.
B. He has potential to improve.
C. He enjoys socializing.
20. What does the speaker anticipate at the next meeting
A. Making the final decision. B. Introducing new candidates. C. Receiving fresh suggestions.
听力答案 略
第二部分 阅读(共两节，满分50分)
第一节(共15小题;每小题2. 5分，满分37. 5分)
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的 A、B、C和D 四个选项中选出最佳选项。
A
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1. Why is priority delivery mentioned
A. To share how to enjoy free delivery.
B. To introduce a way to get orders faster.
C. To advise customers to select promotions.
D. To recommend a means of scheduling orders.
2. How much should you tip for a $40 order to be regarded as “a hero”
A. $6. B. $7. 2. C. $8. D. $10.
3. What is Uber One according to the text
A. It’s a grocery store association. B. It’s an online trading platform.
C. It’s an extra service for Uber Eats users. D. It’s an app for merchants on Uber Eats.
【答案】1. B 2. D 3. C
B
For twelve years I’d worked at the hospital. One day they told me I was no longer needed. I understood that it was a cost-cutting move to replace me with someone with less experience and a lower salary.
But my understanding didn’t excise the pain of feeling abandoned and useless. At sixty-two, what opportunities existed for someone at my age “Dear Lord,” I prayed, “show me the way.” As he so often does, he answered through someone else, a fellow health educator at another hospital. When I shared my worries about my future, she told me about a conference she had attended recently.
“I’ve just learmed the most helpful tool,” she said. “No matter what the situation is, there is an opposite, a benefit. Our typical response is to focus on the losses of job, marriage, home, or even health. Instead, the speaker told us to concentrate on finding what we gained with our loss.” At first, I resisted her advice as I was extremely sad. I missed the meaningful challenges of organizing health education classes for the sick. But as time passed, I grew tired of my sorrow. Maybe I should try my friend’s advice and seek some opposites.
Yet it wasn’t until our trip to Africa that I understood the power of opposite thinking. In 2023, we flew eight thousand miles to a village in West Africa. We brought many presents, believing that somehow we could improve the villagers’ lives. Instead, they taught us the opposite. Our lives were the ones that needed improving.
Despite living in mud huts without modern conveniences, running water, or sanitation (卫生设备 ), the villagers appeared content. Frequently laughing and greeting each other, they truly cared for their neighbors. Although we slept on the ground, I felt a peace I hadn’t known since I left my job. I had expected we would spend our time helping the poor villagers. Instead, they were teaching us that having less meant less to worry about and more time and energy for each other. These wonderful people with a different faith taught me an important lesson that guided me through the darkness of life.
4. What can we learn about the author
A. She lacked work experience. B. She demanded higher salary.
C. She didn’t perform well at work. D. She was dismissed by the hospital.
5. What does the underlined word “excise” in paragraph 2 mean
A. Remove. B. Deepen. C. Classify. D. Describe.
6. What did the fellow health educator suggest the author do
A. Reevaluate her situation and find solutions to the failure.
B. Search for inner peace and cast off the economic darkness.
C. Stay positive and concentrate on health care education.
D. Shift her attitude to adversity and look on the bright side.
7. What lesson did the author learn from the villagers in Africa
A. Face up to the cruel realities of life.
B. Fortune favors those who use their judgement.
C. Owning more not necessarily adds to our happiness.
D. Devoting to volunteering can gain a sense of achievement.
【答案】4. D 5. A 6. D 7. C
C
Are people in some countries more generally dishonest than people in other countries An international team of researchers have examined this question.
In 2015, David Pascual-Ezama at Universidad Complutense Madrid and his colleagues investigated dishonesty in 16 different countries. They recruited 90 university students in each country to play a coin-flipping(抛硬币)game.
The game consisted of a single flip of a coin with a black and a white side. If the coin landed with the white side up, the student received a bar of chocolate as a prize. Each student flipped the coin in private and then reported the result to an experimenter. The experimenter didn’t know if a particular student reported the result truthfully or not. But—and here’s the clever part—the experimenter could accurately estimate the level of cheating in the group as a whole by simply counting the total number of chocolates handed out as prizes. If 90 students flip a coin, according to the laws of probability, about half of the coins will land on white and receive a prize. If almost all of the students report a prize-winning result, then we have evidence of a high level of cheating in that group.
Somewhat surprisingly, Pascual-Ezama and his team found that, across all 16 countries, only 57%of the students reported the white—just 7 percentage points higher than what we would expect if everyone told the truth. Among those students who would have been tempted(引诱)to lie because their coin landed on black, 86%of them resisted the temptation and told the truth. Some of the 16 countries cheated a little more and some a little less, but the differences were not statistically significant.
According to the researchers, the results of the study provide support for the theory of self- concept maintenance—we’re motivated by external incentives (激励)to cheat, but we’re also motivated by an internal desire to see ourselves as a good, decent, moral person. A low level of dishonesty(so-called”incomplete cheating”)is the result of our attempt to find a happy medium between external incentives to act dishonestly and our own internal desire to be a moral person.
8. Why did the researchers carry out the study
A. To discover the secret of being honest.
B. To highlight the significance of moral code.
C. To calculate the honest population in 16 countries.
D. To test participants’dishonesty in different countries.
9. What can be an evidence of a higher level of cheating in the group
A. Half of the coins are reported landing on black. B. Most participants report a prize-winning result.
C. A majority of students know the laws of probability. D. Almost all of the students successfully flip the coin.
10. What can be inferred from paragraph 4
A. The experimenters overestimated the level of cheating.
B. Over half of the students failed to resist the temptation.
C. There were visibly high levels of dishonesty across countries.
D. Some countries cheated remarkably more than other countries.
11. What role does “a happy medium” play according to the theory in the last paragraph
A. It regulates people’s behaviour. B. It drives people to act dishonestly.
C. It encourages people to compete. D. It limits people’s freedom of choice.
【答案】8. D 9. B 10. A 11. A
D
Researchers monitoring the lightless landscape of the Pacific Ocean floor think they’ve observed “dark oxygen” being created there, potentially challenging commonly held beliefs about how oxygen is produced on Earth.
Until now, it was thought that oxygen was created only through photosynthesis (光合作用), a process that requires sunlight. But the discovery casts doubt on that theory and raises new questions about the origins of life itself.
The research team led by Sweetman, a professor with the Scottish Association for Marine Science in Oban, Scotland, published its findings Monday in an article in the journal Nature Geoscience
The scientists aren’t certain how oxygen is created at such dark depths, but they believe it’s being produced by electrically charged minerals called polymetallic nodules (多金属结核). These nodules — “effectively batteries in a rock,” Sweetman said—may use their electric charge to split seawater into hydrogen and oxygen in a process called seawater electrolysis (电解).
Polymetallic nodules contain metals such as manganese, nickel and cobalt, which can be used to make the batteries used in consumer electronics, appliances and electric vehicles. Franz Geiger, a Northwestern University chemistry professor who worked on the study, said in a separate news release that there may be enough polymetallic nodules in an area of the Pacific Ocean called the Clarion-Clipperton Zone to meet global energy demands for decades after.
But Geiger also said that mining would have to be conducted in a way that did not remove oxygen for life forms in that part of the ocean. Companies conducted exploratory missions for deep-sea mining in the 1970s and 80s, he said, and recent research suggests that those missions may have had influences on marine life in the area for decades. “A few years ago, a team of marine biologists went back to those areas that were mined 40 years ago and found essentially no life,” Geiger said. “And then a few hundred meters over to the left and right, where the nodules were undamaged, plenty of life.”
12. What do we know about the new research
A. It questions whether oxygen exists in seawater.
B. It believes that the level of oxygen is higher in the deep sea.
C. It challenges the conventional view of how oxygen is produced.
D. It argues that oxygen is created only through photosynthesis.
13. What generates the oxygen under the sea according to the scientists
A. Hydrogen and seawater. B. Special rocks on the sea floor.
C. A kind of effective batteries. D. Marine plants and sunlight.
14. Why did Geiger mention the deep-sea mining in the 1970s and 80s
A. To emphasize the need to consult biologists before mining.
B. To call for more firms to learn from previous exploratory achievements
C. To remind the companies to avoid damaging the nodules when mining.
D. To encourage the biologists to monitor deep-sea life continuously.
15. What would be the most suitable title for the text
A. Mineral Resources Are Detected in the Pacific Ocean
B. Scientists Discover “Dark Oxygen” on the Sea Floor
C. “Polymetallic Nodules” Have Changed Undersea Landscape
D. “Dark Oxygen” Brings up a New Assumption on the Origin of Life
【答案】12. C 13. B 14. C 15. B
第二节(共5小题;每小题2. 5分，满分12. 5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。
What is it that allows Steve Jobs and Elon Musk to innovate so consistently ____16____ It’s about trying to step outside of the mental restrictions we impose (强加于) upon ourselves to attempt to look at a problem in a new light. Being creative allows yourself to do things, experience things or consider things in unfamiliar ways.____17____
Be curious.
Creativity at work is not limited only to what goes on in the workplace. If you want to be a creative and innovative individual, you need to broaden your horizons. ___18___This can help you learn about as many fields of knowledge as you can. If you have a too narrow outlook, you won’t be able to break out of your limited world view and make the connections you need to have original thoughts.
___19___
If creativity is all about having different perspectives and viewpoints, then it must make sense to hire people from different backgrounds and with different experiences. If you’re the boss, don’t simply hire people in your own image. If you populate your office with your clones and your company with like-minded people, creativity will suffer. A much better hiring policy is to try to create a team as diverse as possible. When it comes to discussions and coming up with new ideas, you will gain the rewards.
Surround yourself with inspiration.
Always be on the lookout for new and exciting material and decorate your workspace with whatever you find. ___20___ It’s up to you. Make sure you keep replacing everything too - it will keep your space fresh, and this, in turn, will keep your mind fresh. Above all, don’t let your environment become dull and boring.
A. Biuld a diverse team.
B. Organize brainstorming sessions in your team.
C. Try to step outside of the world you are familiar with.
D. Here are a few things to help you be more creative at work.
E. Creativity is about trying to see things from a different angle.
F. It’s amazing that a simple change of scenery can help your creativity flow again.
G. It could be newspaper headlines, inspiring sentences, objects, photos or anything else.
【答案】16. E 17. D 18. C 19. A 20. G
第三部分语言运用(共两节，满分30分)
第一节(共15小题;每小题1分，满分15分)
阅读下面短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和 D 四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
JongMay Urbonya is an American lady full of ___21___ :she is fluent in Mandarin, fond of hanfu and Chinese dance. She was born in China and lived there until the age of six. It was in those years that the seeds of love for Chinese culture were ___22___
Even while moving back to the U. S. , Urbonya’s parents used Chinese TV dramas to ___23___ her Chinese language abilities. The seeds of passion ___24___her back to China in 2011, studying Chinese dance in Beijing Normal University.
“When I was a kid, I had a “princess dream”. I often cover my shoulder with a blanket, ___25___ I was an ancient Chinese princess, ”she said. A chance to ___26___ that dream occurred in 2020, when a TV show had Urbonya visit a hanfu festival. “Hanfu has wide ___27___ and is winning recognition in the world. I got the full hanfu experience and I ___28___ then that hanfu culture is a new-found way to bring Chinese___29___ to the present, ”she said.
She ___30___ that 10 years ago when she was in college, wearing hanfu was not a(n) ___31___sight and she could only buy custom-made hanfu. “If I had worn hanfu walking down the street, people would probably ask ___32___in their hearts, ‘Why is this foreigner wearing an ancient outfit on the street ’”Now, she has ___33___hanfu in her everyday wear and is able to purchase different ___34___of hanfu online. “I’m really happy to be a hanfu culture enthusiast, and I hope to make it more ___35___ to those outside of China, ”she said.
21. A. mysteries B. ambitions C. surprises D. contradictions
22. A. spread B. collected C. sowed D. blossomed
23. A. keep up B. hold up C. take up D. wrap up
24. A. delivered B. brought C. forced D. flashed
25. A. celebrating B. demanding C. guaranteeing D. pretending
26. A. achieve B. appreciate C. imagine D. establish
27. A. appeal B. exposure C. admiration D. devotion
28. A. proposed B. indicated C. realized D. proved
29. A. faith B. history C. values D. virtues
30. A. memorized B. declared C. reminded D. recalled
31. A. awesome B. common C. worthwhile D. romantic
32. A. ridiculously B. seriously C. casually D. curiously
33. A. folded B. included C. replaced D. created
34. A. ranges B. models C. versions D. styles
35. A. reliable B. comfortable C. accessible D. reasonable
【答案】21. C 22. C 23. A 24. B 25. D 26. A 27. A 28. C 29. B 30. D 31. B 32. D 33. B 34. D 35. C
第二节(共10小题;每小题1. 5分，满分15分)
阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
Shanghai recently released an updated plan for evaluating the quality of compulsory education in the city, known as Green Indicators 3.0, ___36___ aims to provide a more comprehensive assessment of students’overall growth, going beyond ___37___ (pure) academic achievements.
Green Indicators 3. 0 introduces fresh criteria, including personal character, legal awareness, life skills and innovation, ___38___ (offer) a more comprehensive view of student development.
It places increased ___39___ (emphasize) on monitoring mental well-being by improving existing health indicators. In ___40___ effort to enhance students’social skills, the new evaluation system has introduced a ___41___ (dedicate) standard for assessing interpersonal relationships. It also strengthens assessments related to social-emotional competencies, including communication abilities, cooperation skills and emotional regulation capabilities. Nurturing (培养) these skills ___42___ (be) essential for the well-being and lifelong growth of young people.
To avoid ___43___ (increase) academic burdens, the city’s education committee said the evaluation results will not be tied to student graduation or advancement criteria. Instead, Shanghai aims to address social concerns through in-depth research ___44___ publicly share relevant reports to create an environment beneficial to educational development.
The green indicators have played an important role in diagnosing problems in school education and promoting the comprehensive development of students since they ____45____ (implement) in Shanghai in 2011 for evaluation of the quality of compulsory education.
【答案】36. which
37. purely 38. to offer
39. emphasis
40. an 41. dedicated
42. is 43. increasing
44. and 45. were implemented
第四部分写作(共两节，满分40分)
第一节(满分15分)
46. 假定你是李华，你校英文报最近在向全校师生征集意见和建议，你认为有必要设立一个问答专栏。请你给报纸负责人Henry写一封邮件，内容包括：
1. 提出建议——增加新专栏；
2. 设立新专栏的原因及目的。
注意：1. 写作词数应为80左右；
2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
Dear Henry,
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Yours,
Li Hua
【答案】Dear Henry,
I'm writing to making a suggestion. I was wondering if it might be possible to add a new column for our English newspaper.
The name of the column can be “Ask and Answer” the aim of which is to help deal with our problems. It's true that we teenagers are surrounded with numerous problems in our study as well as in our lives. In the face of various challenges, worries and anxieties, we need comfort, encouragement and solutions. As a matter of fact, a timely suggestion can make a great difference to us. So I firmly believe such a column is not only necessary but also significant.
I sincerely hope you'll take my suggestion into consideration. Looking forward to your reply.
Yours,
Li Hua
第二节(满分25分)
47. 阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。
With one week to go before the Los Angeles Marathon, one of my knees was injured. The thought of missing the marathon in five days concened me far more than my physical pain. I had notjust given the marathon a small place in my life, it had become my life.
The good news was that after a thorough examination, nothing appeared to be permanently damaged. The first thing I asked the doctor was, “When will I be able to run again ” Remaining cautious, he explained that as soon as the swelling went down, I could do whatever I felt I could tolerate. Later that afternoon, my self-confidence began to return to normal even though my knee hadn’t. The injury damaged my body, but not my spirit.
The next day, I hobbled (跛行) into a local running store and asked if there were any marathons later in the year. With all of the training that I had put in, I was certain that I’d be back on the streets within a couple of months. “There aren’t any more marathons until the last part of November,” said the clerk. “Oh, wait. There is one smaller race next month:the Long Beach Marathon.” A ray of hope emerged. However, the Long Beach Marathon was only three and a half weeks away. Impossible. But, Aristotle once said, “Hope is a waking dream.” My dream was only three weeks away.
The next morning, I began a self-made training schedule unlike any you’ll read about in Runner’s World, and probably it’s the first time anyone has ever prepared for a marathon without running. I was fortunate enough to be working in a hospital fitness center that had a wide variety of stationary bikes, treadmills (跑步机) and free weights. They could actually help me to recover and practice.
Over the course of the next week, the swelling in my knee went down as my fitness level climbed. I was actually becoming fitter without putting in so much as a mile of running. After about two and a half weeks, I got the doctor’s approval to start running again.
注意：
1. 续写词数应为150左右;
2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
The first day back out on the street was a challenge.
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When the race day arrived, I was fit and motivated to run the race of a lifetime.
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【答案】The first day back out on the street was a challenge. My knee still felt a bit weak and every step seemed to test its strength. I started slowly, almost hesitantly. But as I moved forward, the familiar rhythm of running began to take over. I told myself to focus on my form and not push too hard. The wind blew gently against my face, as if encouraging me. I could feel my confidence growing with each step, even though it was a struggle at first.
When the race day arrived I was fit and motivated to run the race of a lifetime. I stood at the starting line, my heart full of excitement. As the gun went off, I took off with determination. The crowd’s cheers spurred me on. I ran smoothly, my knee holding up well. I thought about all the hard work and the setbacks I had overcome. With every mile, I felt stronger. I crossed the finish line with a sense of pride and accomplishment, knowing that I had beaten the odds.