2024-2025学年黑龙江省龙东地区高二上学期阶段测试（二）（期中）英语试卷（含答案）
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2024-2025学年黑龙江省龙东地区高二上学期阶段测试（二）（期中）英语试卷
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，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. How did Julia get to school this morning
A. By bus. B. By bike. C. By car.
2. Where will the speakers go probably
A. The shopping center. B. The college. C. The cafe.
3. What is the man’s dream job
A. A publisher. B. A journalist. C. A businessman.
4. Why does the man lack confidence in his role
A. He dislikes his role.
B. The long lines puzzle him.
C. He can’t get along well with Miss Margarita.
5 What are the speakers mainly talking about
A. The weather. B. Their brother. C. A present.
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 does the man think of most plays
A. They are too expensive. B. They are badly written. C. They are hard to understand.
7. Where do the speakers decide to go
A. To the theater. B. To the cinema. C. To the concert.
听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。
8. What makes Grant Restaurant different from its competitors
A. The low prices. B. The choice of menus. C. The environment.
9. Why does the man talk to the woman
A. To discuss menu options. B. To make a reservation. C. To advertise for a restaurant.
听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。
10. Why is Angela watching an English movie
A. She wants to have a break.
B. She wants to improve her listening.
C. She needs to write a movie review.
11. Who got an A in the last physics test
A. Kevin. B. Angela. C. Daisy.
12. How does Angela sound in the end
A. Positive. B. Curious. C. Worried.
听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。
13. Why did Cindy go to New Bond Street
A. To do some shopping. B. To have a meal. C. To look for her wallet.
14. What does Bob Kumar do
A. He’s an assistant. B. He’s a singer. C. He’s a writer.
15. What will Cindy get from Bob Kumar
A. Several books. B. Some money. C. An album.
16. What is the probable relationship between the speakers
A. Friends. B. Classmates. C. Co- workers.
听第10段材料，回答第17至 20题。
17. Where is the meeting held
A On an online platform. B. At a history museum. C. In a school conference room.
18. What does the meeting focus on
A. The aim to cut carbon footprint.
B. How IT is reshaping our education.
C. The environmental problems facing us.
19. Who will attend the conference
A. City officials. B. Climate experts. C. University professors.
20. How will the attendees get the updates of the conference
A By interacting with teachers. B. By receiving email. C. By completing the registration.
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
Join us at Vancouver’s Family Day Charity Fun Walk
Families are like gardens: the more you water them, the more spectacularly they give more flower. Family time is an essential factor that helps to strengthen bonds among family members. Spending family time sharing experiences and creating memories develops a sense of security and forms family values. You get to discuss about what is going on in your individual lives, and everyone feels more valued, more heard. Now welcome to our project!
Basic information
Date 11 August 2025 (Sunday)
Time 8 a. m.
Place Maple Community, 13 Johnson Street, Vancouver 018910
*Sign up for the walk and get a fun pack worth over $100, which includes a T-shirt, a theatre ticket and more.
*Complete the walk and get a Jackson Supermarket grocery pack.
*Join us as we attempt to set a new record for the most number of participants in a mass walk in the Vancouver Book of Records.
*Take part in the carnival after the walk for more entertainment, food and shopping. (Carnival takes place from 9 a. m. to 12 p. m.)
Ticket information
Single ticket $25
Pair ticket $40
Happy family group $60
Visit toggle.sg/ilovemyfamily for more details and buy your tickets in advance. Tickets will not be on sale at the event place on 11, August 2024 (Sunday). 60% of the ticketing proceeds will be donated to WCWA (World Children’s Welfare Association)
Organizer’s contact information
Add: Bridge Peter Ltd, 8 Vista Avenue, Vancouver 138 508
Email: mpbevents@
1. What is the main purpose of the poster
A. To develop a sense of family security.
B. To design a Family Day charity event.
C. To encourage people to bond with their families.
D. To invite people to set a new world record for walk.
2. What do you have to do if you want a Jackson Supermarket grocery pack
A. Contact Bridge Peter Ltd. B. Complete the fun walk.
C. Take part in the carnival. D. Sign up before 11 August.
3. What can we learn about the project
A. No registrations required. B. WCWA will benefit a lot from it.
C. Participants must make donations. D. Tickets are available both online and offline.
B
Felicia Jackson was certified in CPR, but that didn’t stop her from drawing a blank in the face of a real-life crisis. When her son stopped breathing in the back seat of her car, she froze in panic. Thankfully, her husband remained calm and was able to save their child. However, Felicia was shaken to find that, with all her years of medical experience, she wasn’t able to respond to her son’s emergency under pressure.
This unpleasant situation inspired Felicia to come up with a simple tool to make performing CPR easier, especially in high-risk situation. She created the CPR Wrap, a pocket-sized packaging device that can be laid over the body of the victim to show where the rescuer should put their hands and mouth. Not only does the product provide helpful instructions, but it also includes a face shield (挡板) and a one-way breathing barrier. This cuts down on the transfer of germs while performing mouth-to-mouth.
“Even people experienced in CPR can forget their training in stressful situations,” reads the description on the product’s website. “CPR Wrap makes it possible for those individuals to effectively perform CPR at a moment’s notice.”
Although that CPR Wrap was launched in 2017, one video on the TikTok account has recently gone viral. In the video, Felicia shows viewers the simple process of using her product to perform CPR. She adds that it’s “so easy a child could do it.” The brand now boasts over 100,000 followers and 2 million likes.
Felicia Jackson is the inventor, founder, and CEO of CPR Wrap. Her son’s near-death experience inspired her to become the entrepreneur (企业家) she is today. After receiving her A.A.S in Physical Therapy in 2018, she continued to pursue education. She graduated from Launch of Chattanooga Entrepreneurial Academy in 2020 and established the Colab Accelerator Program in 2021. She and her husband now have three children. Felicia hopes to pass on her entrepreneurial spirit to her children so they may one day start businesses of their own.
4. How did Felicia feel about her reaction to her son’s near-death experience
A. It’s touching. B. It’s convincing.
C. It’s shocking. D. It’s irresponsible.
5. Why did Felicia invent the device CPR Wrap
A. To establish her own business.
B. To help others be prepared for emergency.
C. To improve professionals’ first aid skills.
D. To rescue her son in a high-risk situation.
6. What is Felicia’ CPR Wrap like
A. Cheap and flexible. B. Attractive and accurate.
C. Eco-friendly and simple. D. Portable and user-friendly.
7. What does the author mainly try to show in the last paragraph
A. Felicia’s achievements. B. Felicia’s hope for children.
C. Felicia’s early experience. D. Felicia’s son’s impact on her.
C
There are many different species of gulls (海鸥), but the ones most people think of as seagull, are called herring gulls. They’re the species most likely to nest in houses and steal food.
Gulls get food after watching others flock to a food source, suggesting a strong role being played by social learning. In urban populations, there’s also evidence that they can acquire foraging information from humans. Studies have found gulls adjust their foraging behavior to human activity patterns and focus their attention on people with food.
Researchers from Sussex University wanted to better understand herring gulls’ broader observational skills and cognition. For this, they studied a group of gulls on the beachfront of the city of Brighton for a few months in 2021 and 2022. They found seagulls are excellent social learners with a higher- than- expected level of cognition.
For their study, the team showed blue and green packets of chips to groups of herring gulls. One of the researchers sat on the ground five meters away and either watched the gulls or took packets from his bag and ate them. Almost 50% of the birds approached over the packets when the researcher was eating, compared with 19% when they weren’t.
But that’s not all. When the gulls approached and ate from the packets, they chose the same color as the researcher’s packet 95% of the time. This shows gulls watch humans and the food options they select, and then use that knowledge to make their own food choices. It is a sign of how intelligent these animals are.
Madeleine Goumas, an expert on herring gulls, told The Guardian the study shows gulls are learning about the type of foods humans eat. “This shows us how to reduce negative interactions between humans and gulls, as we seem to be teaching gulls to explore new food items by accident,” she said.
8. What does the underlined word “foraging” in Para. 2 probably mean
A. Looking for shelter. B. Searching for food.
C. Avoiding danger. D. Fighting with enemies.
9. Which of the following surprised the scientists
A. Seagulls and humans have similar food tastes.
B. Seagulls like to build their nests in houses.
C. Human activity plays an important role in seagulls’ life.
D. Seagulls have much higher intelligence than they thought.
10. What do Madeleine’s words suggest
A. Seagulls can send signals to human beings.
B. Some of our interactions with gulls may be harmful.
C. We humans teach seagulls how to choose food on purpose.
D Seagulls can accurately distinguish the types of human food.
11. What does the author intend to tell us in this passage
A. Nature never stops teaching us.
B. Seagulls and humans live in harmony.
C. Seagulls make food choices by watching humans.
D. Wildlife gradually depends on humans for survival.
D
Archacologists in Norway have discovered a 1, 300-year-old ship burial that exists before the Viking Age. It’s now the oldest known ship burial in Scandinavia, according to a statement from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.
Researchers discovered the ship burial while investigating a large, grassy hill in the coastal community of Leka. Known as the Herlaugshagen burial mound (墓地) , it measures 23 feet tall and197 feet in diameter. Given its size, researchers have long suspected it contained a ship. Ship burials were once a traditional custom that involved burying the dead person inside their ship and covering the ship with dirt. The practice was “believed to make the person’s way to the afterlife a safe one.”
After surveying the site this summer, archaeologists finally confirmed their suspicions. Working on behalf of the Norwegian Directorate for Cultural Heritage, the team dug part of the mound and found large nails and pieces of wood that were likely once part of a ship.
Radiocarbon dating (碳年代测定法) of the wood suggests the mound was built around 700 C. E. during the Merovingian Period (roughly 550 to 800 C. E. ) . This period immediately comes before the Viking Era (around 793 to 1066 C. E. ). “This dating is really exciting because it pushes the whole tradition of ship burials quite far back in time,” says Geir Gronnesby, an archaeologist at the university’s museum, in the statement. “The find suggests that people who lived in the region at that time were skilled sailors who could build big ships much earlier than we previously thought.”
Researchers aren’t sure what the ship buried at Herlaugshagen was used for. However, they do know Leka is situated along a centuries-old shipping route. “We know that the exchange of goods must have been extensive at this time, and the most logical thing is that the goods were transported by ship along the coast,” Geir Gronnesby adds.
12. What is a ship burial intended to do according to the passage
A. To honor the owner of the ship.
B. To remind us to remember ancestors.
C. To observe a long- held traditional practice.
D. To safeguard the dead from being discovered.
13. Why is the discovery of the ship burial at Herlaugshagen considered significant
A. It is the earliest evidence of big ship construction.
B. It highlights the importance of coastal communities.
C. It is the largest burial mound in Scandinavia.
D. It marks the beginning of the Viking Age.
14. What can be inferred about this buried ship according to Geir Gronnesby
A. It was used to transport soldiers. B. It explored many areas.
C. It was destroyed in a storm. D. It may be used to carry goods.
15. What is the most suitable title for the passage
A. 1, 300-Year-Old Ship Burial Unearthed in Norway
B. The Origin of Ancient Exploration in Norway
C. The Custom of Burying People in Their Ships
D. The Ship Burial Traditions in Scandinavia
第二节(共5小题;每小题2. 5分，满分12. 5分)
阅读下面短文，从短文后的选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
How Taking Short Vacations Can Improve Your Well-Being at Work
Without doubt, the nonstop demands of work and life can be bad for your well-being, exhausting your physical resources and cognitive capacities-and possibly resulting in adverse health and performance results.
____16____ Research emphatically shows that vacations improve our physical and mental health while also boosting our performance at work. Perhaps surprisingly, they can even increase the likelihood of receiving a pay raise or promotion.
____17____ In fact, nearly half of U.S. workers take less time off than their job allows, leaving an average of 9.5 days of paid time off (PTO) on the table, according to a 2023 survey by the Pew Research Center. And for 30 percent of employees, this unused vacation time doesn’t roll over to the next year. ____18____ taking mini-vacations throughout the year can improve their overall well-being. That means you can just use a long weekend to explore a new small town in your state, go camping in a national park, or do a biking tour of your local wineries.
We know that being on vacation feels good and that it’s good for us. ____19____ Naturally, there is the expense, and the bill involved in long trips-room, board, airfare, rail, sightseeing, everything-can be daunting. ____20____ The Pew survey of over 5,900 U.S. workers found that 49 percent of participants indicated they worried they might fall behind at work if they take more vacation time.
No wonder, then, that most people don’t use all their vacation time. And over half (52 percent) of U.S. employees work while on vacation.
A. If working hard is the way to earn more bread,
B. Even if many workers don’t use all their PTO,
C. Taking a real break is important for so many reasons.
D. But that doesn’t mean we always use our vacation time.
E. So why do we neglect to take all the time we’ve earned
F. Do you know why people like to take vacations whenever possible
G. It also turns out that taking extended time away from the office causes a lot of stress.
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、D四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
This is an inspiring story. Two Oak Park High School students are being praised as ____21____ after they did something to their PE teacher, Alfred Kattola, who suffered a sudden heart attack.
The event ____22____ during a regular student-teacher basketball game when the teacher ____23____ felt sick before falling down in the gym. “In some way, I was gone,” Kattola said to a TV reporter, reflecting on the ____24____ moment.
DuBose and Coleman, both junior students at Oak Park High School, took action ____25____. Using the knowledge of the CPR (心肺复苏) and first aid skills they had ____26____ just months earlier in a health sciences class, the two students began ____27____ life-saving measures.
“We thought we might use the skills at some point in our ____28____, but not that soon,” Coleman said.
“We’re sitting on the ground ... I just knew I had to ____29____ something,” DuBose said. “I began _____30_____ him. After around two and a half rounds of compressions (按压), he showed signs of recovery. Coleman helped me _____31_____ our teacher all the time.”
They played a key role in keeping their teacher _____32_____. An ambulance with doctors and nurses arrived on time, and Kattola was _____33_____ to a local hospital for further treatment. Unbelievably, he returned to school the following week, thanks to the _____34_____ action of his students.
Kattola reunited with the students to _____35_____ them. “I don’t have too much to say other than I love you guys,” he said.
21. A. players B. heroes C. reporters D. experts
22. A. stuck B. spread C. happened D. ended
23 A. suddenly B. actually C. exactly D. eventually
24. A. satisfying B. exciting C. frightening D. embarrassing
25. A. in silence B. in return C. without doubt D. without hesitation
26. A. shared B. learned C. explained D. mentioned
27. A. waiting for B. going through. C. watching over D. carrying out
28. A. lives B. homes C. schools D. studies
29. A. consider B. question C. do D. discover
30. A. pressing B. pushing C. comforting D. examining
31. A. protect B. calm C. rescue D. move
32. A. alive B. awake C. warm D. active
33. A. introduced B. rushed C. forced D. walked
34. A. polite B. strange C. expected D. quick
35. A. pay B. admire C. thank D. encourage
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。
A casual walk along the Beijing Central Axis, ____36____ (connect) the Drum Tower, the bustling Nanluoguxiang Lane, the Jingshan Park and the majestic Forbidden City—this was Zhao Xianghan’s maiden city-walking journey in the spring of 2022.
Since then, the 21-year-old student from the Beijing Foreign Studies University ____37____ (remain) a city-walk enthusiast, believing it to be the best way to rediscover a city.
“I visited Beijing before the start of my college life here, and it was a typical package tour during ____38____ going to scenic spots and taking photos was a big thing. The crowded tourist attractions gave me the ____39____ (impress) that Beijing was a noisy place,” said Zhao.
“Yet now a city-walk allows me ____40____ (see) a whole different side of Beijing, which is full of serenity,” Zhao added.
With the increasing variety of travel options, ____41____ (tradition) group tours can no longer satisfy people who are looking for a more personalized and different travel experience ____42____ hoping to find every part of the city in a more immersive way, according to a blog posted on social media platform WeChat that has gained more than 100, 000 views.
____43____ (compare) with tightly scheduled itineraries(行程) and picture-taking tours, city-walking focuses ____44____ free, casual and spontaneous experiences.
“City-walk is all about doing whatever you want in your own exploration of a city, and it is _____45_____ (actual) a kind of slow-paced and low-carbon lifestyle that I relate to so much,” said Zhao.
第四部分 写作(共两节，满分40分)
第一节(满分15分)
46. 为了让学生全面发展，你校在课外活动中，举办了主题为“Life Skills Show”比赛，你赢得了一等奖。请你就你的参赛经历写一篇短文向校英文报投稿，内容包括：
1. 活动目的；
2. 介绍你参赛的生活技能（烹饪或手工等）；
3. 个人感受。
注意：1. 写作词数应为80左右；
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Life Skills Show
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第二节 读后续写(满分25分)
47. 阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。
Our house was across the street from the entrance of a famous hospital in the city. We lived downstairs and rented the upstairs rooms to patients at the clinic. As I was fixing supper one summer evening, there was a knock at the door. I opened it to see a truly awful-looking man.
“He’s hardly taller than my eight-year-old,” I thought. Yet his voice was pleasant as he said, “Good evening. I’ve come to see if you have a room for just one night. I came for treatment from the eastern shore this morning, and there’s no bus till the morning. ”
For a moment, I hesitated, but his following words convinced me: “I could sleep in this rocking chair on the porch (门廊). My bus leaves early in the morning.” So I told him we would find him a bed but to rest on the porch.
I went inside and finished getting supper. When we were ready, I asked the old man if he would join us. “No, thank you.” When I had finished the dishes, I went out to talk with him for a few minutes.
It didn’t take long to see that this older man had a big heart crowded into that tiny body. He told me he fished for a living to support his family. He was grateful that no pain accompanied his disease, which was a form of skin cancer.
At bedtime, we put a camp cot (折叠床) in the children’s room for him. When I got up in the morning, the bed was neatly folded. He refused breakfast, but just before he left for his bus, he said, “Could I please come back and stay the next time I have a treatment ”
He paused a moment and then added, “Your children made me feel at home. Grownups are bothered by my face, but children don’t seem to mind. ” I told him he was welcome to come 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。
On his next trip, he brought a big fish as a gift.
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
My neighbor asked me, “Did you keep that awful- looking man You can lose roomers (房客) by putting up such people!”
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答案
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，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. How did Julia get to school this morning
A. By bus. B. By bike. C. By car.
2. Where will the speakers go probably
A. The shopping center. B. The college. C. The cafe.
3. What is the man’s dream job
A. A publisher. B. A journalist. C. A businessman.
4. Why does the man lack confidence in his role
A. He dislikes his role.
B. The long lines puzzle him.
C. He can’t get along well with Miss Margarita.
5. What are the speakers mainly talking about
A. The weather. B. Their brother. C. A present.
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 does the man think of most plays
A. They are too expensive. B. They are badly written. C. They are hard to understand.
7 Where do the speakers decide to go
A. To the theater. B. To the cinema. C. To the concert.
听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。
8. What makes Grant Restaurant different from its competitors
A. The low prices. B. The choice of menus. C. The environment.
9. Why does the man talk to the woman
A. To discuss menu options. B. To make a reservation. C. To advertise for a restaurant.
听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。
10. Why is Angela watching an English movie
A. She wants to have a break.
B. She wants to improve her listening.
C. She needs to write a movie review.
11. Who got an A in the last physics test
A. Kevin. B. Angela. C. Daisy.
12. How does Angela sound in the end
A. Positive. B. Curious. C. Worried.
听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。
13. Why did Cindy go to New Bond Street
A. To do some shopping. B. To have a meal. C. To look for her wallet.
14. What does Bob Kumar do
A. He’s an assistant. B. He’s a singer. C. He’s a writer.
15. What will Cindy get from Bob Kumar
A. Several books. B. Some money. C. An album.
16. What is the probable relationship between the speakers
A. Friends. B. Classmates. C. Co- workers.
听第10段材料，回答第17至 20题。
17. Where is the meeting held
A. On an online platform. B. At a history museum. C. In a school conference room.
18. What does the meeting focus on
A. The aim to cut carbon footprint.
B. How IT is reshaping our education.
C. The environmental problems facing us.
19. Who will attend the conference
A. City officials. B. Climate experts. C. University professors.
20. How will the attendees get the updates of the conference
A. By interacting with teachers. B. By receiving email. C. By completing the registration.
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
Join us at Vancouver’s Family Day Charity Fun Walk
Families are like gardens: the more you water them, the more spectacularly they give more flower. Family time is an essential factor that helps to strengthen bonds among family members. Spending family time sharing experiences and creating memories develops a sense of security and forms family values. You get to discuss about what is going on in your individual lives, and everyone feels more valued, more heard. Now welcome to our project!
Basic information
Date 11 August 2025 (Sunday)
Time 8 a. m.
Place Maple Community, 13 Johnson Street, Vancouver 018910
*Sign up for the walk and get a fun pack worth over $100, which includes a T-shirt, a theatre ticket and more.
*Complete the walk and get a Jackson Supermarket grocery pack.
*Join us as we attempt to set a new record for the most number of participants in a mass walk in the Vancouver Book of Records.
*Take part in the carnival after the walk for more entertainment, food and shopping. (Carnival takes place from 9 a. m. to 12 p. m.)
Ticket information
Single ticket $25
Pair ticket $40
Happy family group $60
Visit toggle.sg/ilovemyfamily for more details and buy your tickets in advance. Tickets will not be on sale at the event place on 11, August 2024 (Sunday). 60% of the ticketing proceeds will be donated to WCWA (World Children’s Welfare Association)
Organizer’s contact information
Add: Bridge Peter Ltd, 8 Vista Avenue, Vancouver 138 508
Email: mpbevents@
1. What is the main purpose of the poster
A. To develop a sense of family security.
B. To design a Family Day charity event.
C. To encourage people to bond with their families.
D. To invite people to set a new world record for walk.
2. What do you have to do if you want a Jackson Supermarket grocery pack
A. Contact Bridge Peter Ltd. B. Complete the fun walk.
C. Take part in the carnival. D. Sign up before 11 August.
3. What can we learn about the project
A. No registrations required. B. WCWA will benefit a lot from it.
C. Participants must make donations. D. Tickets are available both online and offline.
【答案】1. C 2. B 3. B
B
Felicia Jackson was certified in CPR, but that didn’t stop her from drawing a blank in the face of a real-life crisis. When her son stopped breathing in the back seat of her car, she froze in panic. Thankfully, her husband remained calm and was able to save their child. However, Felicia was shaken to find that, with all her years of medical experience, she wasn’t able to respond to her son’s emergency under pressure.
This unpleasant situation inspired Felicia to come up with a simple tool to make performing CPR easier, especially in high-risk situation. She created the CPR Wrap, a pocket-sized packaging device that can be laid over the body of the victim to show where the rescuer should put their hands and mouth. Not only does the product provide helpful instructions, but it also includes a face shield (挡板) and a one-way breathing barrier. This cuts down on the transfer of germs while performing mouth-to-mouth.
“Even people experienced in CPR can forget their training in stressful situations,” reads the description on the product’s website. “CPR Wrap makes it possible for those individuals to effectively perform CPR at a moment’s notice.”
Although that CPR Wrap was launched in 2017, one video on the TikTok account has recently gone viral. In the video, Felicia shows viewers the simple process of using her product to perform CPR. She adds that it’s “so easy a child could do it.” The brand now boasts over 100,000 followers and 2 million likes.
Felicia Jackson is the inventor, founder, and CEO of CPR Wrap. Her son’s near-death experience inspired her to become the entrepreneur (企业家) she is today. After receiving her A.A.S in Physical Therapy in 2018, she continued to pursue education. She graduated from Launch of Chattanooga Entrepreneurial Academy in 2020 and established the Colab Accelerator Program in 2021. She and her husband now have three children. Felicia hopes to pass on her entrepreneurial spirit to her children so they may one day start businesses of their own.
4. How did Felicia feel about her reaction to her son’s near-death experience
A. It’s touching. B. It’s convincing.
C. It’s shocking. D. It’s irresponsible.
5. Why did Felicia invent the device CPR Wrap
A. To establish her own business.
B. To help others be prepared for emergency.
C. To improve professionals’ first aid skills.
D. To rescue her son in a high-risk situation.
6. What is Felicia’ CPR Wrap like
A. Cheap and flexible. B. Attractive and accurate.
C. Eco-friendly and simple. D. Portable and user-friendly.
7. What does the author mainly try to show in the last paragraph
A. Felicia’s achievements. B. Felicia’s hope for children.
C. Felicia’s early experience. D. Felicia’s son’s impact on her.
【答案】4. C 5. B 6. D 7. A
C
There are many different species of gulls (海鸥), but the ones most people think of as seagull, are called herring gulls. They’re the species most likely to nest in houses and steal food.
Gulls get food after watching others flock to a food source, suggesting a strong role being played by social learning. In urban populations, there’s also evidence that they can acquire foraging information from humans. Studies have found gulls adjust their foraging behavior to human activity patterns and focus their attention on people with food.
Researchers from Sussex University wanted to better understand herring gulls’ broader observational skills and cognition. For this, they studied a group of gulls on the beachfront of the city of Brighton for a few months in 2021 and 2022. They found seagulls are excellent social learners with a higher- than- expected level of cognition.
For their study, the team showed blue and green packets of chips to groups of herring gulls. One of the researchers sat on the ground five meters away and either watched the gulls or took packets from his bag and ate them. Almost 50% of the birds approached over the packets when the researcher was eating, compared with 19% when they weren’t.
But that’s not all. When the gulls approached and ate from the packets, they chose the same color as the researcher’s packet 95% of the time. This shows gulls watch humans and the food options they select, and then use that knowledge to make their own food choices. It is a sign of how intelligent these animals are.
Madeleine Goumas, an expert on herring gulls, told The Guardian the study shows gulls are learning about the type of foods humans eat. “This shows us how to reduce negative interactions between humans and gulls, as we seem to be teaching gulls to explore new food items by accident,” she said.
8 What does the underlined word “foraging” in Para. 2 probably mean
A. Looking for shelter. B. Searching for food.
C. Avoiding danger. D. Fighting with enemies.
9. Which of the following surprised the scientists
A. Seagulls and humans have similar food tastes.
B. Seagulls like to build their nests in houses.
C. Human activity plays an important role in seagulls’ life.
D. Seagulls have much higher intelligence than they thought.
10. What do Madeleine’s words suggest
A. Seagulls can send signals to human beings.
B. Some of our interactions with gulls may be harmful.
C. We humans teach seagulls how to choose food on purpose.
D. Seagulls can accurately distinguish the types of human food.
11. What does the author intend to tell us in this passage
A. Nature never stops teaching us.
B. Seagulls and humans live in harmony.
C. Seagulls make food choices by watching humans.
D. Wildlife gradually depends on humans for survival.
【答案】8. B 9. D 10. B 11. C
D
Archacologists in Norway have discovered a 1, 300-year-old ship burial that exists before the Viking Age. It’s now the oldest known ship burial in Scandinavia, according to a statement from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.
Researchers discovered the ship burial while investigating a large, grassy hill in the coastal community of Leka. Known as the Herlaugshagen burial mound (墓地) , it measures 23 feet tall and197 feet in diameter. Given its size, researchers have long suspected it contained a ship. Ship burials were once a traditional custom that involved burying the dead person inside their ship and covering the ship with dirt. The practice was “believed to make the person’s way to the afterlife a safe one.”
After surveying the site this summer, archaeologists finally confirmed their suspicions. Working on behalf of the Norwegian Directorate for Cultural Heritage, the team dug part of the mound and found large nails and pieces of wood that were likely once part of a ship.
Radiocarbon dating (碳年代测定法) of the wood suggests the mound was built around 700 C. E. during the Merovingian Period (roughly 550 to 800 C. E. ) . This period immediately comes before the Viking Era (around 793 to 1066 C. E. ). “This dating is really exciting because it pushes the whole tradition of ship burials quite far back in time,” says Geir Gronnesby, an archaeologist at the university’s museum, in the statement. “The find suggests that people who lived in the region at that time were skilled sailors who could build big ships much earlier than we previously thought.”
Researchers aren’t sure what the ship buried at Herlaugshagen was used for. However, they do know Leka is situated along a centuries-old shipping route. “We know that the exchange of goods must have been extensive at this time, and the most logical thing is that the goods were transported by ship along the coast,” Geir Gronnesby adds.
12. What is a ship burial intended to do according to the passage
A. To honor the owner of the ship.
B. To remind us to remember ancestors.
C. To observe a long- held traditional practice.
D. To safeguard the dead from being discovered.
13. Why is the discovery of the ship burial at Herlaugshagen considered significant
A. It is the earliest evidence of big ship construction.
B. It highlights the importance of coastal communities.
C. It is the largest burial mound in Scandinavia.
D. It marks the beginning of the Viking Age.
14. What can be inferred about this buried ship according to Geir Gronnesby
A. It was used to transport soldiers. B. It explored many areas.
C. It was destroyed in a storm. D. It may be used to carry goods.
15. What is the most suitable title for the passage
A. 1, 300-Year-Old Ship Burial Unearthed in Norway
B. The Origin of Ancient Exploration in Norway
C. The Custom of Burying People in Their Ships
D. The Ship Burial Traditions in Scandinavia
【答案】12. C 13. A 14. D 15. A
第二节(共5小题;每小题2. 5分，满分12. 5分)
阅读下面短文，从短文后的选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
How Taking Short Vacations Can Improve Your Well-Being at Work
Without doubt, the nonstop demands of work and life can be bad for your well-being, exhausting your physical resources and cognitive capacities-and possibly resulting in adverse health and performance results.
____16____ Research emphatically shows that vacations improve our physical and mental health while also boosting our performance at work. Perhaps surprisingly, they can even increase the likelihood of receiving a pay raise or promotion.
____17____ In fact, nearly half of U.S. workers take less time off than their job allows, leaving an average of 9.5 days of paid time off (PTO) on the table, according to a 2023 survey by the Pew Research Center. And for 30 percent of employees, this unused vacation time doesn’t roll over to the next year. ____18____ taking mini-vacations throughout the year can improve their overall well-being. That means you can just use a long weekend to explore a new small town in your state, go camping in a national park, or do a biking tour of your local wineries.
We know that being on vacation feels good and that it’s good for us. ____19____ Naturally, there is the expense, and the bill involved in long trips-room, board, airfare, rail, sightseeing, everything-can be daunting. ____20____ The Pew survey of over 5,900 U.S. workers found that 49 percent of participants indicated they worried they might fall behind at work if they take more vacation time.
No wonder, then, that most people don’t use all their vacation time. And over half (52 percent) of U.S. employees work while on vacation.
A. If working hard is the way to earn more bread,
B. Even if many workers don’t use all their PTO,
C. Taking a real break is important for so many reasons.
D. But that doesn’t mean we always use our vacation time.
E. So why do we neglect to take all the time we’ve earned
F. Do you know why people like to take vacations whenever possible
G. It also turns out that taking extended time away from the office causes a lot of stress.
【答案】16. C 17. D 18. B 19. E 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、D四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
This is an inspiring story. Two Oak Park High School students are being praised as ____21____ after they did something to their PE teacher, Alfred Kattola, who suffered a sudden heart attack.
The event ____22____ during a regular student-teacher basketball game when the teacher ____23____ felt sick before falling down in the gym. “In some way, I was gone,” Kattola said to a TV reporter, reflecting on the ____24____ moment.
DuBose and Coleman, both junior students at Oak Park High School, took action ____25____. Using the knowledge of the CPR (心肺复苏) and first aid skills they had ____26____ just months earlier in a health sciences class, the two students began ____27____ life-saving measures.
“We thought we might use the skills at some point in our ____28____, but not that soon,” Coleman said.
“We’re sitting on the ground ... I just knew I had to ____29____ something,” DuBose said. “I began _____30_____ him. After around two and a half rounds of compressions (按压), he showed signs of recovery. Coleman helped me _____31_____ our teacher all the time.”
They played a key role in keeping their teacher _____32_____. An ambulance with doctors and nurses arrived on time, and Kattola was _____33_____ to a local hospital for further treatment. Unbelievably, he returned to school the following week, thanks to the _____34_____ action of his students.
Kattola reunited with the students to _____35_____ them. “I don’t have too much to say other than I love you guys,” he said.
21. A. players B. heroes C. reporters D. experts
22. A. stuck B. spread C. happened D. ended
23. A. suddenly B. actually C. exactly D. eventually
24. A. satisfying B. exciting C. frightening D. embarrassing
25. A. in silence B. in return C. without doubt D. without hesitation
26. A. shared B. learned C. explained D. mentioned
27. A. waiting for B. going through. C. watching over D. carrying out
28. A. lives B. homes C. schools D. studies
29. A. consider B. question C. do D. discover
30. A. pressing B. pushing C. comforting D. examining
31. A. protect B. calm C. rescue D. move
32 A. alive B. awake C. warm D. active
33. A. introduced B. rushed C. forced D. walked
34. A. polite B. strange C. expected D. quick
35. A. pay B. admire C. thank D. encourage
【答案】21. B 22. C 23. A 24. C 25. D 26. B 27. D 28. A 29. C 30. A 31. C 32. A 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。
A casual walk along the Beijing Central Axis, ____36____ (connect) the Drum Tower, the bustling Nanluoguxiang Lane, the Jingshan Park and the majestic Forbidden City—this was Zhao Xianghan’s maiden city-walking journey in the spring of 2022.
Since then, the 21-year-old student from the Beijing Foreign Studies University ____37____ (remain) a city-walk enthusiast, believing it to be the best way to rediscover a city.
“I visited Beijing before the start of my college life here, and it was a typical package tour during ____38____ going to scenic spots and taking photos was a big thing. The crowded tourist attractions gave me the ____39____ (impress) that Beijing was a noisy place,” said Zhao.
“Yet now a city-walk allows me ____40____ (see) a whole different side of Beijing, which is full of serenity,” Zhao added.
With the increasing variety of travel options ____41____ (tradition) group tours can no longer satisfy people who are looking for a more personalized and different travel experience ____42____ hoping to find every part of the city in a more immersive way, according to a blog posted on social media platform WeChat that has gained more than 100, 000 views.
____43____ (compare) with tightly scheduled itineraries(行程) and picture-taking tours, city-walking focuses ____44____ free, casual and spontaneous experiences.
“City-walk is all about doing whatever you want in your own exploration of a city, and it is _____45_____ (actual) a kind of slow-paced and low-carbon lifestyle that I relate to so much,” said Zhao.
【答案】36. connecting
37. has remained
38. which 39. impression
40. to see 41. traditional
42. and pared
44. on 45. actually
第四部分 写作(共两节，满分40分)
第一节(满分15分)
46. 为了让学生全面发展，你校在课外活动中，举办了主题为“Life Skills Show”比赛，你赢得了一等奖。请你就你的参赛经历写一篇短文向校英文报投稿，内容包括：
1. 活动目的；
2. 介绍你参赛的生活技能（烹饪或手工等）；
3. 个人感受。
注意：1. 写作词数应为80左右；
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Life Skills Show
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【答案】Life Skills Show
In order to promote students’ all-round development, our school recently held a competition themed “Life Skills Show”. Students of all grades took an active part in the activity.
Considering that cooking is an essential life skill and I’m fascinated with all kinds of delicious food, I chose cooking skill to compete. I surfed the Internet and watched lots of short videos, which brought me a lot of inspiration to cooking techniques. I also turned to my parents for help. They patiently explained their daily cooking routine to me. And finally, I made it.
Thanks for this competition, I not only enjoyed myself, but also learned some useful life skills. Success is not by dreams and hopes, but with effort and practice.
第二节 读后续写(满分25分)
47. 阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。
Our house was across the street from the entrance of a famous hospital in the city. We lived downstairs and rented the upstairs rooms to patients at the clinic. As I was fixing supper one summer evening, there was a knock at the door. I opened it to see a truly awful-looking man.
“He’s hardly taller than my eight-year-old,” I thought. Yet his voice was pleasant as he said, “Good evening. I’ve come to see if you have a room for just one night. I came for treatment from the eastern shore this morning, and there’s no bus till the morning. ”
For a moment, I hesitated, but his following words convinced me: “I could sleep in this rocking chair on the porch (门廊). My bus leaves early in the morning.” So I told him we would find him a bed but to rest on the porch.
I went inside and finished getting supper. When we were ready, I asked the old man if he would join us. “No, thank you.” When I had finished the dishes, I went out to talk with him for a few minutes.
It didn’t take long to see that this older man had a big heart crowded into that tiny body. He told me he fished for a living to support his family. He was grateful that no pain accompanied his disease, which was a form of skin cancer.
At bedtime, we put a camp cot (折叠床) in the children’s room for him. When I got up in the morning, the bed was neatly folded. He refused breakfast, but just before he left for his bus, he said, “Could I please come back and stay the next time I have a treatment ”
He paused a moment and then added, “Your children made me feel at home. Grownups are bothered by my face, but children don’t seem to mind. ” I told him he was welcome to come 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。
On his next trip, he brought a big fish as a gift.
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My neighbor asked me, “Did you keep that awful- looking man You can lose roomers (房客) by putting up such people!”
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【答案】
On his next trip, he brought a big fish as a gift. It was a generous offering and gratitude for the warmth and comfort we had provided. The fish was more than a meal; it was a symbol of the bond that had formed between us. My children were thrilled, and they helped prepare it for dinner, asking many questions about the man’s life and fishing stories. He shared tales of the sea, teaching them valuable lessons about perseverance and the simple joys of life. His visits became a cherished part of our lives, each one bringing a new story or a small gift
My neighbor asked me, “Did you keep that awful- looking man You can lose roomers (房客) by putting up such people!” Her words stung, but I knew in my heart that we had done the right thing. I patiently explained to her how the man, despite his appearance, had a heart of gold and how he had positively impacted my children. I also mentioned that several of our regular guests had commented on the positive atmosphere in our home, which I attributed partly to the man’s visits. In the end, it wasn’t the appearance that mattered, but the character and the connections we formed. Our home was richer for having known him.
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，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. How did Julia get to school this morning
A. By bus. B. By bike. C. By car.
2. Where will the speakers go probably
A. The shopping center. B. The college. C. The cafe.
3. What is the man’s dream job
A. A publisher. B. A journalist. C. A businessman.
4. Why does the man lack confidence in his role
A. He dislikes his role.
B. The long lines puzzle him.
C. He can’t get along well with Miss Margarita.
5 What are the speakers mainly talking about
A. The weather. B. Their brother. C. A present.
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 does the man think of most plays
A. They are too expensive. B. They are badly written. C. They are hard to understand.
7. Where do the speakers decide to go
A. To the theater. B. To the cinema. C. To the concert.
听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。
8. What makes Grant Restaurant different from its competitors
A. The low prices. B. The choice of menus. C. The environment.
9. Why does the man talk to the woman
A. To discuss menu options. B. To make a reservation. C. To advertise for a restaurant.
听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。
10. Why is Angela watching an English movie
A. She wants to have a break.
B. She wants to improve her listening.
C. She needs to write a movie review.
11. Who got an A in the last physics test
A. Kevin. B. Angela. C. Daisy.
12. How does Angela sound in the end
A. Positive. B. Curious. C. Worried.
听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。
13. Why did Cindy go to New Bond Street
A. To do some shopping. B. To have a meal. C. To look for her wallet.
14. What does Bob Kumar do
A. He’s an assistant. B. He’s a singer. C. He’s a writer.
15. What will Cindy get from Bob Kumar
A. Several books. B. Some money. C. An album.
16. What is the probable relationship between the speakers
A. Friends. B. Classmates. C. Co- workers.
听第10段材料，回答第17至 20题。
17. Where is the meeting held
A On an online platform. B. At a history museum. C. In a school conference room.
18. What does the meeting focus on
A. The aim to cut carbon footprint.
B. How IT is reshaping our education.
C. The environmental problems facing us.
19. Who will attend the conference
A. City officials. B. Climate experts. C. University professors.
20. How will the attendees get the updates of the conference
A By interacting with teachers. B. By receiving email. C. By completing the registration.
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
Join us at Vancouver’s Family Day Charity Fun Walk
Families are like gardens: the more you water them, the more spectacularly they give more flower. Family time is an essential factor that helps to strengthen bonds among family members. Spending family time sharing experiences and creating memories develops a sense of security and forms family values. You get to discuss about what is going on in your individual lives, and everyone feels more valued, more heard. Now welcome to our project!
Basic information
Date 11 August 2025 (Sunday)
Time 8 a. m.
Place Maple Community, 13 Johnson Street, Vancouver 018910
*Sign up for the walk and get a fun pack worth over $100, which includes a T-shirt, a theatre ticket and more.
*Complete the walk and get a Jackson Supermarket grocery pack.
*Join us as we attempt to set a new record for the most number of participants in a mass walk in the Vancouver Book of Records.
*Take part in the carnival after the walk for more entertainment, food and shopping. (Carnival takes place from 9 a. m. to 12 p. m.)
Ticket information
Single ticket $25
Pair ticket $40
Happy family group $60
Visit toggle.sg/ilovemyfamily for more details and buy your tickets in advance. Tickets will not be on sale at the event place on 11, August 2024 (Sunday). 60% of the ticketing proceeds will be donated to WCWA (World Children’s Welfare Association)
Organizer’s contact information
Add: Bridge Peter Ltd, 8 Vista Avenue, Vancouver 138 508
Email: mpbevents@
1. What is the main purpose of the poster
A. To develop a sense of family security.
B. To design a Family Day charity event.
C. To encourage people to bond with their families.
D. To invite people to set a new world record for walk.
2. What do you have to do if you want a Jackson Supermarket grocery pack
A. Contact Bridge Peter Ltd. B. Complete the fun walk.
C. Take part in the carnival. D. Sign up before 11 August.
3. What can we learn about the project
A. No registrations required. B. WCWA will benefit a lot from it.
C. Participants must make donations. D. Tickets are available both online and offline.
B
Felicia Jackson was certified in CPR, but that didn’t stop her from drawing a blank in the face of a real-life crisis. When her son stopped breathing in the back seat of her car, she froze in panic. Thankfully, her husband remained calm and was able to save their child. However, Felicia was shaken to find that, with all her years of medical experience, she wasn’t able to respond to her son’s emergency under pressure.
This unpleasant situation inspired Felicia to come up with a simple tool to make performing CPR easier, especially in high-risk situation. She created the CPR Wrap, a pocket-sized packaging device that can be laid over the body of the victim to show where the rescuer should put their hands and mouth. Not only does the product provide helpful instructions, but it also includes a face shield (挡板) and a one-way breathing barrier. This cuts down on the transfer of germs while performing mouth-to-mouth.
“Even people experienced in CPR can forget their training in stressful situations,” reads the description on the product’s website. “CPR Wrap makes it possible for those individuals to effectively perform CPR at a moment’s notice.”
Although that CPR Wrap was launched in 2017, one video on the TikTok account has recently gone viral. In the video, Felicia shows viewers the simple process of using her product to perform CPR. She adds that it’s “so easy a child could do it.” The brand now boasts over 100,000 followers and 2 million likes.
Felicia Jackson is the inventor, founder, and CEO of CPR Wrap. Her son’s near-death experience inspired her to become the entrepreneur (企业家) she is today. After receiving her A.A.S in Physical Therapy in 2018, she continued to pursue education. She graduated from Launch of Chattanooga Entrepreneurial Academy in 2020 and established the Colab Accelerator Program in 2021. She and her husband now have three children. Felicia hopes to pass on her entrepreneurial spirit to her children so they may one day start businesses of their own.
4. How did Felicia feel about her reaction to her son’s near-death experience
A. It’s touching. B. It’s convincing.
C. It’s shocking. D. It’s irresponsible.
5. Why did Felicia invent the device CPR Wrap
A. To establish her own business.
B. To help others be prepared for emergency.
C. To improve professionals’ first aid skills.
D. To rescue her son in a high-risk situation.
6. What is Felicia’ CPR Wrap like
A. Cheap and flexible. B. Attractive and accurate.
C. Eco-friendly and simple. D. Portable and user-friendly.
7. What does the author mainly try to show in the last paragraph
A. Felicia’s achievements. B. Felicia’s hope for children.
C. Felicia’s early experience. D. Felicia’s son’s impact on her.
C
There are many different species of gulls (海鸥), but the ones most people think of as seagull, are called herring gulls. They’re the species most likely to nest in houses and steal food.
Gulls get food after watching others flock to a food source, suggesting a strong role being played by social learning. In urban populations, there’s also evidence that they can acquire foraging information from humans. Studies have found gulls adjust their foraging behavior to human activity patterns and focus their attention on people with food.
Researchers from Sussex University wanted to better understand herring gulls’ broader observational skills and cognition. For this, they studied a group of gulls on the beachfront of the city of Brighton for a few months in 2021 and 2022. They found seagulls are excellent social learners with a higher- than- expected level of cognition.
For their study, the team showed blue and green packets of chips to groups of herring gulls. One of the researchers sat on the ground five meters away and either watched the gulls or took packets from his bag and ate them. Almost 50% of the birds approached over the packets when the researcher was eating, compared with 19% when they weren’t.
But that’s not all. When the gulls approached and ate from the packets, they chose the same color as the researcher’s packet 95% of the time. This shows gulls watch humans and the food options they select, and then use that knowledge to make their own food choices. It is a sign of how intelligent these animals are.
Madeleine Goumas, an expert on herring gulls, told The Guardian the study shows gulls are learning about the type of foods humans eat. “This shows us how to reduce negative interactions between humans and gulls, as we seem to be teaching gulls to explore new food items by accident,” she said.
8. What does the underlined word “foraging” in Para. 2 probably mean
A. Looking for shelter. B. Searching for food.
C. Avoiding danger. D. Fighting with enemies.
9. Which of the following surprised the scientists
A. Seagulls and humans have similar food tastes.
B. Seagulls like to build their nests in houses.
C. Human activity plays an important role in seagulls’ life.
D. Seagulls have much higher intelligence than they thought.
10. What do Madeleine’s words suggest
A. Seagulls can send signals to human beings.
B. Some of our interactions with gulls may be harmful.
C. We humans teach seagulls how to choose food on purpose.
D Seagulls can accurately distinguish the types of human food.
11. What does the author intend to tell us in this passage
A. Nature never stops teaching us.
B. Seagulls and humans live in harmony.
C. Seagulls make food choices by watching humans.
D. Wildlife gradually depends on humans for survival.
D
Archacologists in Norway have discovered a 1, 300-year-old ship burial that exists before the Viking Age. It’s now the oldest known ship burial in Scandinavia, according to a statement from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.
Researchers discovered the ship burial while investigating a large, grassy hill in the coastal community of Leka. Known as the Herlaugshagen burial mound (墓地) , it measures 23 feet tall and197 feet in diameter. Given its size, researchers have long suspected it contained a ship. Ship burials were once a traditional custom that involved burying the dead person inside their ship and covering the ship with dirt. The practice was “believed to make the person’s way to the afterlife a safe one.”
After surveying the site this summer, archaeologists finally confirmed their suspicions. Working on behalf of the Norwegian Directorate for Cultural Heritage, the team dug part of the mound and found large nails and pieces of wood that were likely once part of a ship.
Radiocarbon dating (碳年代测定法) of the wood suggests the mound was built around 700 C. E. during the Merovingian Period (roughly 550 to 800 C. E. ) . This period immediately comes before the Viking Era (around 793 to 1066 C. E. ). “This dating is really exciting because it pushes the whole tradition of ship burials quite far back in time,” says Geir Gronnesby, an archaeologist at the university’s museum, in the statement. “The find suggests that people who lived in the region at that time were skilled sailors who could build big ships much earlier than we previously thought.”
Researchers aren’t sure what the ship buried at Herlaugshagen was used for. However, they do know Leka is situated along a centuries-old shipping route. “We know that the exchange of goods must have been extensive at this time, and the most logical thing is that the goods were transported by ship along the coast,” Geir Gronnesby adds.
12. What is a ship burial intended to do according to the passage
A. To honor the owner of the ship.
B. To remind us to remember ancestors.
C. To observe a long- held traditional practice.
D. To safeguard the dead from being discovered.
13. Why is the discovery of the ship burial at Herlaugshagen considered significant
A. It is the earliest evidence of big ship construction.
B. It highlights the importance of coastal communities.
C. It is the largest burial mound in Scandinavia.
D. It marks the beginning of the Viking Age.
14. What can be inferred about this buried ship according to Geir Gronnesby
A. It was used to transport soldiers. B. It explored many areas.
C. It was destroyed in a storm. D. It may be used to carry goods.
15. What is the most suitable title for the passage
A. 1, 300-Year-Old Ship Burial Unearthed in Norway
B. The Origin of Ancient Exploration in Norway
C. The Custom of Burying People in Their Ships
D. The Ship Burial Traditions in Scandinavia
第二节(共5小题;每小题2. 5分，满分12. 5分)
阅读下面短文，从短文后的选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
How Taking Short Vacations Can Improve Your Well-Being at Work
Without doubt, the nonstop demands of work and life can be bad for your well-being, exhausting your physical resources and cognitive capacities-and possibly resulting in adverse health and performance results.
____16____ Research emphatically shows that vacations improve our physical and mental health while also boosting our performance at work. Perhaps surprisingly, they can even increase the likelihood of receiving a pay raise or promotion.
____17____ In fact, nearly half of U.S. workers take less time off than their job allows, leaving an average of 9.5 days of paid time off (PTO) on the table, according to a 2023 survey by the Pew Research Center. And for 30 percent of employees, this unused vacation time doesn’t roll over to the next year. ____18____ taking mini-vacations throughout the year can improve their overall well-being. That means you can just use a long weekend to explore a new small town in your state, go camping in a national park, or do a biking tour of your local wineries.
We know that being on vacation feels good and that it’s good for us. ____19____ Naturally, there is the expense, and the bill involved in long trips-room, board, airfare, rail, sightseeing, everything-can be daunting. ____20____ The Pew survey of over 5,900 U.S. workers found that 49 percent of participants indicated they worried they might fall behind at work if they take more vacation time.
No wonder, then, that most people don’t use all their vacation time. And over half (52 percent) of U.S. employees work while on vacation.
A. If working hard is the way to earn more bread,
B. Even if many workers don’t use all their PTO,
C. Taking a real break is important for so many reasons.
D. But that doesn’t mean we always use our vacation time.
E. So why do we neglect to take all the time we’ve earned
F. Do you know why people like to take vacations whenever possible
G. It also turns out that taking extended time away from the office causes a lot of stress.
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、D四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
This is an inspiring story. Two Oak Park High School students are being praised as ____21____ after they did something to their PE teacher, Alfred Kattola, who suffered a sudden heart attack.
The event ____22____ during a regular student-teacher basketball game when the teacher ____23____ felt sick before falling down in the gym. “In some way, I was gone,” Kattola said to a TV reporter, reflecting on the ____24____ moment.
DuBose and Coleman, both junior students at Oak Park High School, took action ____25____. Using the knowledge of the CPR (心肺复苏) and first aid skills they had ____26____ just months earlier in a health sciences class, the two students began ____27____ life-saving measures.
“We thought we might use the skills at some point in our ____28____, but not that soon,” Coleman said.
“We’re sitting on the ground ... I just knew I had to ____29____ something,” DuBose said. “I began _____30_____ him. After around two and a half rounds of compressions (按压), he showed signs of recovery. Coleman helped me _____31_____ our teacher all the time.”
They played a key role in keeping their teacher _____32_____. An ambulance with doctors and nurses arrived on time, and Kattola was _____33_____ to a local hospital for further treatment. Unbelievably, he returned to school the following week, thanks to the _____34_____ action of his students.
Kattola reunited with the students to _____35_____ them. “I don’t have too much to say other than I love you guys,” he said.
21. A. players B. heroes C. reporters D. experts
22. A. stuck B. spread C. happened D. ended
23 A. suddenly B. actually C. exactly D. eventually
24. A. satisfying B. exciting C. frightening D. embarrassing
25. A. in silence B. in return C. without doubt D. without hesitation
26. A. shared B. learned C. explained D. mentioned
27. A. waiting for B. going through. C. watching over D. carrying out
28. A. lives B. homes C. schools D. studies
29. A. consider B. question C. do D. discover
30. A. pressing B. pushing C. comforting D. examining
31. A. protect B. calm C. rescue D. move
32. A. alive B. awake C. warm D. active
33. A. introduced B. rushed C. forced D. walked
34. A. polite B. strange C. expected D. quick
35. A. pay B. admire C. thank D. encourage
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。
A casual walk along the Beijing Central Axis, ____36____ (connect) the Drum Tower, the bustling Nanluoguxiang Lane, the Jingshan Park and the majestic Forbidden City—this was Zhao Xianghan’s maiden city-walking journey in the spring of 2022.
Since then, the 21-year-old student from the Beijing Foreign Studies University ____37____ (remain) a city-walk enthusiast, believing it to be the best way to rediscover a city.
“I visited Beijing before the start of my college life here, and it was a typical package tour during ____38____ going to scenic spots and taking photos was a big thing. The crowded tourist attractions gave me the ____39____ (impress) that Beijing was a noisy place,” said Zhao.
“Yet now a city-walk allows me ____40____ (see) a whole different side of Beijing, which is full of serenity,” Zhao added.
With the increasing variety of travel options, ____41____ (tradition) group tours can no longer satisfy people who are looking for a more personalized and different travel experience ____42____ hoping to find every part of the city in a more immersive way, according to a blog posted on social media platform WeChat that has gained more than 100, 000 views.
____43____ (compare) with tightly scheduled itineraries(行程) and picture-taking tours, city-walking focuses ____44____ free, casual and spontaneous experiences.
“City-walk is all about doing whatever you want in your own exploration of a city, and it is _____45_____ (actual) a kind of slow-paced and low-carbon lifestyle that I relate to so much,” said Zhao.
第四部分 写作(共两节，满分40分)
第一节(满分15分)
46. 为了让学生全面发展，你校在课外活动中，举办了主题为“Life Skills Show”比赛，你赢得了一等奖。请你就你的参赛经历写一篇短文向校英文报投稿，内容包括：
1. 活动目的；
2. 介绍你参赛的生活技能（烹饪或手工等）；
3. 个人感受。
注意：1. 写作词数应为80左右；
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Life Skills Show
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第二节 读后续写(满分25分)
47. 阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。
Our house was across the street from the entrance of a famous hospital in the city. We lived downstairs and rented the upstairs rooms to patients at the clinic. As I was fixing supper one summer evening, there was a knock at the door. I opened it to see a truly awful-looking man.
“He’s hardly taller than my eight-year-old,” I thought. Yet his voice was pleasant as he said, “Good evening. I’ve come to see if you have a room for just one night. I came for treatment from the eastern shore this morning, and there’s no bus till the morning. ”
For a moment, I hesitated, but his following words convinced me: “I could sleep in this rocking chair on the porch (门廊). My bus leaves early in the morning.” So I told him we would find him a bed but to rest on the porch.
I went inside and finished getting supper. When we were ready, I asked the old man if he would join us. “No, thank you.” When I had finished the dishes, I went out to talk with him for a few minutes.
It didn’t take long to see that this older man had a big heart crowded into that tiny body. He told me he fished for a living to support his family. He was grateful that no pain accompanied his disease, which was a form of skin cancer.
At bedtime, we put a camp cot (折叠床) in the children’s room for him. When I got up in the morning, the bed was neatly folded. He refused breakfast, but just before he left for his bus, he said, “Could I please come back and stay the next time I have a treatment ”
He paused a moment and then added, “Your children made me feel at home. Grownups are bothered by my face, but children don’t seem to mind. ” I told him he was welcome to come 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。
On his next trip, he brought a big fish as a gift.
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My neighbor asked me, “Did you keep that awful- looking man You can lose roomers (房客) by putting up such people!”
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答案
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，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. How did Julia get to school this morning
A. By bus. B. By bike. C. By car.
2. Where will the speakers go probably
A. The shopping center. B. The college. C. The cafe.
3. What is the man’s dream job
A. A publisher. B. A journalist. C. A businessman.
4. Why does the man lack confidence in his role
A. He dislikes his role.
B. The long lines puzzle him.
C. He can’t get along well with Miss Margarita.
5. What are the speakers mainly talking about
A. The weather. B. Their brother. C. A present.
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 does the man think of most plays
A. They are too expensive. B. They are badly written. C. They are hard to understand.
7 Where do the speakers decide to go
A. To the theater. B. To the cinema. C. To the concert.
听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。
8. What makes Grant Restaurant different from its competitors
A. The low prices. B. The choice of menus. C. The environment.
9. Why does the man talk to the woman
A. To discuss menu options. B. To make a reservation. C. To advertise for a restaurant.
听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。
10. Why is Angela watching an English movie
A. She wants to have a break.
B. She wants to improve her listening.
C. She needs to write a movie review.
11. Who got an A in the last physics test
A. Kevin. B. Angela. C. Daisy.
12. How does Angela sound in the end
A. Positive. B. Curious. C. Worried.
听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。
13. Why did Cindy go to New Bond Street
A. To do some shopping. B. To have a meal. C. To look for her wallet.
14. What does Bob Kumar do
A. He’s an assistant. B. He’s a singer. C. He’s a writer.
15. What will Cindy get from Bob Kumar
A. Several books. B. Some money. C. An album.
16. What is the probable relationship between the speakers
A. Friends. B. Classmates. C. Co- workers.
听第10段材料，回答第17至 20题。
17. Where is the meeting held
A. On an online platform. B. At a history museum. C. In a school conference room.
18. What does the meeting focus on
A. The aim to cut carbon footprint.
B. How IT is reshaping our education.
C. The environmental problems facing us.
19. Who will attend the conference
A. City officials. B. Climate experts. C. University professors.
20. How will the attendees get the updates of the conference
A. By interacting with teachers. B. By receiving email. C. By completing the registration.
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
Join us at Vancouver’s Family Day Charity Fun Walk
Families are like gardens: the more you water them, the more spectacularly they give more flower. Family time is an essential factor that helps to strengthen bonds among family members. Spending family time sharing experiences and creating memories develops a sense of security and forms family values. You get to discuss about what is going on in your individual lives, and everyone feels more valued, more heard. Now welcome to our project!
Basic information
Date 11 August 2025 (Sunday)
Time 8 a. m.
Place Maple Community, 13 Johnson Street, Vancouver 018910
*Sign up for the walk and get a fun pack worth over $100, which includes a T-shirt, a theatre ticket and more.
*Complete the walk and get a Jackson Supermarket grocery pack.
*Join us as we attempt to set a new record for the most number of participants in a mass walk in the Vancouver Book of Records.
*Take part in the carnival after the walk for more entertainment, food and shopping. (Carnival takes place from 9 a. m. to 12 p. m.)
Ticket information
Single ticket $25
Pair ticket $40
Happy family group $60
Visit toggle.sg/ilovemyfamily for more details and buy your tickets in advance. Tickets will not be on sale at the event place on 11, August 2024 (Sunday). 60% of the ticketing proceeds will be donated to WCWA (World Children’s Welfare Association)
Organizer’s contact information
Add: Bridge Peter Ltd, 8 Vista Avenue, Vancouver 138 508
Email: mpbevents@
1. What is the main purpose of the poster
A. To develop a sense of family security.
B. To design a Family Day charity event.
C. To encourage people to bond with their families.
D. To invite people to set a new world record for walk.
2. What do you have to do if you want a Jackson Supermarket grocery pack
A. Contact Bridge Peter Ltd. B. Complete the fun walk.
C. Take part in the carnival. D. Sign up before 11 August.
3. What can we learn about the project
A. No registrations required. B. WCWA will benefit a lot from it.
C. Participants must make donations. D. Tickets are available both online and offline.
【答案】1. C 2. B 3. B
B
Felicia Jackson was certified in CPR, but that didn’t stop her from drawing a blank in the face of a real-life crisis. When her son stopped breathing in the back seat of her car, she froze in panic. Thankfully, her husband remained calm and was able to save their child. However, Felicia was shaken to find that, with all her years of medical experience, she wasn’t able to respond to her son’s emergency under pressure.
This unpleasant situation inspired Felicia to come up with a simple tool to make performing CPR easier, especially in high-risk situation. She created the CPR Wrap, a pocket-sized packaging device that can be laid over the body of the victim to show where the rescuer should put their hands and mouth. Not only does the product provide helpful instructions, but it also includes a face shield (挡板) and a one-way breathing barrier. This cuts down on the transfer of germs while performing mouth-to-mouth.
“Even people experienced in CPR can forget their training in stressful situations,” reads the description on the product’s website. “CPR Wrap makes it possible for those individuals to effectively perform CPR at a moment’s notice.”
Although that CPR Wrap was launched in 2017, one video on the TikTok account has recently gone viral. In the video, Felicia shows viewers the simple process of using her product to perform CPR. She adds that it’s “so easy a child could do it.” The brand now boasts over 100,000 followers and 2 million likes.
Felicia Jackson is the inventor, founder, and CEO of CPR Wrap. Her son’s near-death experience inspired her to become the entrepreneur (企业家) she is today. After receiving her A.A.S in Physical Therapy in 2018, she continued to pursue education. She graduated from Launch of Chattanooga Entrepreneurial Academy in 2020 and established the Colab Accelerator Program in 2021. She and her husband now have three children. Felicia hopes to pass on her entrepreneurial spirit to her children so they may one day start businesses of their own.
4. How did Felicia feel about her reaction to her son’s near-death experience
A. It’s touching. B. It’s convincing.
C. It’s shocking. D. It’s irresponsible.
5. Why did Felicia invent the device CPR Wrap
A. To establish her own business.
B. To help others be prepared for emergency.
C. To improve professionals’ first aid skills.
D. To rescue her son in a high-risk situation.
6. What is Felicia’ CPR Wrap like
A. Cheap and flexible. B. Attractive and accurate.
C. Eco-friendly and simple. D. Portable and user-friendly.
7. What does the author mainly try to show in the last paragraph
A. Felicia’s achievements. B. Felicia’s hope for children.
C. Felicia’s early experience. D. Felicia’s son’s impact on her.
【答案】4. C 5. B 6. D 7. A
C
There are many different species of gulls (海鸥), but the ones most people think of as seagull, are called herring gulls. They’re the species most likely to nest in houses and steal food.
Gulls get food after watching others flock to a food source, suggesting a strong role being played by social learning. In urban populations, there’s also evidence that they can acquire foraging information from humans. Studies have found gulls adjust their foraging behavior to human activity patterns and focus their attention on people with food.
Researchers from Sussex University wanted to better understand herring gulls’ broader observational skills and cognition. For this, they studied a group of gulls on the beachfront of the city of Brighton for a few months in 2021 and 2022. They found seagulls are excellent social learners with a higher- than- expected level of cognition.
For their study, the team showed blue and green packets of chips to groups of herring gulls. One of the researchers sat on the ground five meters away and either watched the gulls or took packets from his bag and ate them. Almost 50% of the birds approached over the packets when the researcher was eating, compared with 19% when they weren’t.
But that’s not all. When the gulls approached and ate from the packets, they chose the same color as the researcher’s packet 95% of the time. This shows gulls watch humans and the food options they select, and then use that knowledge to make their own food choices. It is a sign of how intelligent these animals are.
Madeleine Goumas, an expert on herring gulls, told The Guardian the study shows gulls are learning about the type of foods humans eat. “This shows us how to reduce negative interactions between humans and gulls, as we seem to be teaching gulls to explore new food items by accident,” she said.
8 What does the underlined word “foraging” in Para. 2 probably mean
A. Looking for shelter. B. Searching for food.
C. Avoiding danger. D. Fighting with enemies.
9. Which of the following surprised the scientists
A. Seagulls and humans have similar food tastes.
B. Seagulls like to build their nests in houses.
C. Human activity plays an important role in seagulls’ life.
D. Seagulls have much higher intelligence than they thought.
10. What do Madeleine’s words suggest
A. Seagulls can send signals to human beings.
B. Some of our interactions with gulls may be harmful.
C. We humans teach seagulls how to choose food on purpose.
D. Seagulls can accurately distinguish the types of human food.
11. What does the author intend to tell us in this passage
A. Nature never stops teaching us.
B. Seagulls and humans live in harmony.
C. Seagulls make food choices by watching humans.
D. Wildlife gradually depends on humans for survival.
【答案】8. B 9. D 10. B 11. C
D
Archacologists in Norway have discovered a 1, 300-year-old ship burial that exists before the Viking Age. It’s now the oldest known ship burial in Scandinavia, according to a statement from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.
Researchers discovered the ship burial while investigating a large, grassy hill in the coastal community of Leka. Known as the Herlaugshagen burial mound (墓地) , it measures 23 feet tall and197 feet in diameter. Given its size, researchers have long suspected it contained a ship. Ship burials were once a traditional custom that involved burying the dead person inside their ship and covering the ship with dirt. The practice was “believed to make the person’s way to the afterlife a safe one.”
After surveying the site this summer, archaeologists finally confirmed their suspicions. Working on behalf of the Norwegian Directorate for Cultural Heritage, the team dug part of the mound and found large nails and pieces of wood that were likely once part of a ship.
Radiocarbon dating (碳年代测定法) of the wood suggests the mound was built around 700 C. E. during the Merovingian Period (roughly 550 to 800 C. E. ) . This period immediately comes before the Viking Era (around 793 to 1066 C. E. ). “This dating is really exciting because it pushes the whole tradition of ship burials quite far back in time,” says Geir Gronnesby, an archaeologist at the university’s museum, in the statement. “The find suggests that people who lived in the region at that time were skilled sailors who could build big ships much earlier than we previously thought.”
Researchers aren’t sure what the ship buried at Herlaugshagen was used for. However, they do know Leka is situated along a centuries-old shipping route. “We know that the exchange of goods must have been extensive at this time, and the most logical thing is that the goods were transported by ship along the coast,” Geir Gronnesby adds.
12. What is a ship burial intended to do according to the passage
A. To honor the owner of the ship.
B. To remind us to remember ancestors.
C. To observe a long- held traditional practice.
D. To safeguard the dead from being discovered.
13. Why is the discovery of the ship burial at Herlaugshagen considered significant
A. It is the earliest evidence of big ship construction.
B. It highlights the importance of coastal communities.
C. It is the largest burial mound in Scandinavia.
D. It marks the beginning of the Viking Age.
14. What can be inferred about this buried ship according to Geir Gronnesby
A. It was used to transport soldiers. B. It explored many areas.
C. It was destroyed in a storm. D. It may be used to carry goods.
15. What is the most suitable title for the passage
A. 1, 300-Year-Old Ship Burial Unearthed in Norway
B. The Origin of Ancient Exploration in Norway
C. The Custom of Burying People in Their Ships
D. The Ship Burial Traditions in Scandinavia
【答案】12. C 13. A 14. D 15. A
第二节(共5小题;每小题2. 5分，满分12. 5分)
阅读下面短文，从短文后的选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
How Taking Short Vacations Can Improve Your Well-Being at Work
Without doubt, the nonstop demands of work and life can be bad for your well-being, exhausting your physical resources and cognitive capacities-and possibly resulting in adverse health and performance results.
____16____ Research emphatically shows that vacations improve our physical and mental health while also boosting our performance at work. Perhaps surprisingly, they can even increase the likelihood of receiving a pay raise or promotion.
____17____ In fact, nearly half of U.S. workers take less time off than their job allows, leaving an average of 9.5 days of paid time off (PTO) on the table, according to a 2023 survey by the Pew Research Center. And for 30 percent of employees, this unused vacation time doesn’t roll over to the next year. ____18____ taking mini-vacations throughout the year can improve their overall well-being. That means you can just use a long weekend to explore a new small town in your state, go camping in a national park, or do a biking tour of your local wineries.
We know that being on vacation feels good and that it’s good for us. ____19____ Naturally, there is the expense, and the bill involved in long trips-room, board, airfare, rail, sightseeing, everything-can be daunting. ____20____ The Pew survey of over 5,900 U.S. workers found that 49 percent of participants indicated they worried they might fall behind at work if they take more vacation time.
No wonder, then, that most people don’t use all their vacation time. And over half (52 percent) of U.S. employees work while on vacation.
A. If working hard is the way to earn more bread,
B. Even if many workers don’t use all their PTO,
C. Taking a real break is important for so many reasons.
D. But that doesn’t mean we always use our vacation time.
E. So why do we neglect to take all the time we’ve earned
F. Do you know why people like to take vacations whenever possible
G. It also turns out that taking extended time away from the office causes a lot of stress.
【答案】16. C 17. D 18. B 19. E 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、D四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
This is an inspiring story. Two Oak Park High School students are being praised as ____21____ after they did something to their PE teacher, Alfred Kattola, who suffered a sudden heart attack.
The event ____22____ during a regular student-teacher basketball game when the teacher ____23____ felt sick before falling down in the gym. “In some way, I was gone,” Kattola said to a TV reporter, reflecting on the ____24____ moment.
DuBose and Coleman, both junior students at Oak Park High School, took action ____25____. Using the knowledge of the CPR (心肺复苏) and first aid skills they had ____26____ just months earlier in a health sciences class, the two students began ____27____ life-saving measures.
“We thought we might use the skills at some point in our ____28____, but not that soon,” Coleman said.
“We’re sitting on the ground ... I just knew I had to ____29____ something,” DuBose said. “I began _____30_____ him. After around two and a half rounds of compressions (按压), he showed signs of recovery. Coleman helped me _____31_____ our teacher all the time.”
They played a key role in keeping their teacher _____32_____. An ambulance with doctors and nurses arrived on time, and Kattola was _____33_____ to a local hospital for further treatment. Unbelievably, he returned to school the following week, thanks to the _____34_____ action of his students.
Kattola reunited with the students to _____35_____ them. “I don’t have too much to say other than I love you guys,” he said.
21. A. players B. heroes C. reporters D. experts
22. A. stuck B. spread C. happened D. ended
23. A. suddenly B. actually C. exactly D. eventually
24. A. satisfying B. exciting C. frightening D. embarrassing
25. A. in silence B. in return C. without doubt D. without hesitation
26. A. shared B. learned C. explained D. mentioned
27. A. waiting for B. going through. C. watching over D. carrying out
28. A. lives B. homes C. schools D. studies
29. A. consider B. question C. do D. discover
30. A. pressing B. pushing C. comforting D. examining
31. A. protect B. calm C. rescue D. move
32 A. alive B. awake C. warm D. active
33. A. introduced B. rushed C. forced D. walked
34. A. polite B. strange C. expected D. quick
35. A. pay B. admire C. thank D. encourage
【答案】21. B 22. C 23. A 24. C 25. D 26. B 27. D 28. A 29. C 30. A 31. C 32. A 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。
A casual walk along the Beijing Central Axis, ____36____ (connect) the Drum Tower, the bustling Nanluoguxiang Lane, the Jingshan Park and the majestic Forbidden City—this was Zhao Xianghan’s maiden city-walking journey in the spring of 2022.
Since then, the 21-year-old student from the Beijing Foreign Studies University ____37____ (remain) a city-walk enthusiast, believing it to be the best way to rediscover a city.
“I visited Beijing before the start of my college life here, and it was a typical package tour during ____38____ going to scenic spots and taking photos was a big thing. The crowded tourist attractions gave me the ____39____ (impress) that Beijing was a noisy place,” said Zhao.
“Yet now a city-walk allows me ____40____ (see) a whole different side of Beijing, which is full of serenity,” Zhao added.
With the increasing variety of travel options ____41____ (tradition) group tours can no longer satisfy people who are looking for a more personalized and different travel experience ____42____ hoping to find every part of the city in a more immersive way, according to a blog posted on social media platform WeChat that has gained more than 100, 000 views.
____43____ (compare) with tightly scheduled itineraries(行程) and picture-taking tours, city-walking focuses ____44____ free, casual and spontaneous experiences.
“City-walk is all about doing whatever you want in your own exploration of a city, and it is _____45_____ (actual) a kind of slow-paced and low-carbon lifestyle that I relate to so much,” said Zhao.
【答案】36. connecting
37. has remained
38. which 39. impression
40. to see 41. traditional
42. and pared
44. on 45. actually
第四部分 写作(共两节，满分40分)
第一节(满分15分)
46. 为了让学生全面发展，你校在课外活动中，举办了主题为“Life Skills Show”比赛，你赢得了一等奖。请你就你的参赛经历写一篇短文向校英文报投稿，内容包括：
1. 活动目的；
2. 介绍你参赛的生活技能（烹饪或手工等）；
3. 个人感受。
注意：1. 写作词数应为80左右；
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Life Skills Show
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【答案】Life Skills Show
In order to promote students’ all-round development, our school recently held a competition themed “Life Skills Show”. Students of all grades took an active part in the activity.
Considering that cooking is an essential life skill and I’m fascinated with all kinds of delicious food, I chose cooking skill to compete. I surfed the Internet and watched lots of short videos, which brought me a lot of inspiration to cooking techniques. I also turned to my parents for help. They patiently explained their daily cooking routine to me. And finally, I made it.
Thanks for this competition, I not only enjoyed myself, but also learned some useful life skills. Success is not by dreams and hopes, but with effort and practice.
第二节 读后续写(满分25分)
47. 阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。
Our house was across the street from the entrance of a famous hospital in the city. We lived downstairs and rented the upstairs rooms to patients at the clinic. As I was fixing supper one summer evening, there was a knock at the door. I opened it to see a truly awful-looking man.
“He’s hardly taller than my eight-year-old,” I thought. Yet his voice was pleasant as he said, “Good evening. I’ve come to see if you have a room for just one night. I came for treatment from the eastern shore this morning, and there’s no bus till the morning. ”
For a moment, I hesitated, but his following words convinced me: “I could sleep in this rocking chair on the porch (门廊). My bus leaves early in the morning.” So I told him we would find him a bed but to rest on the porch.
I went inside and finished getting supper. When we were ready, I asked the old man if he would join us. “No, thank you.” When I had finished the dishes, I went out to talk with him for a few minutes.
It didn’t take long to see that this older man had a big heart crowded into that tiny body. He told me he fished for a living to support his family. He was grateful that no pain accompanied his disease, which was a form of skin cancer.
At bedtime, we put a camp cot (折叠床) in the children’s room for him. When I got up in the morning, the bed was neatly folded. He refused breakfast, but just before he left for his bus, he said, “Could I please come back and stay the next time I have a treatment ”
He paused a moment and then added, “Your children made me feel at home. Grownups are bothered by my face, but children don’t seem to mind. ” I told him he was welcome to come 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。
On his next trip, he brought a big fish as a gift.
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My neighbor asked me, “Did you keep that awful- looking man You can lose roomers (房客) by putting up such people!”
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【答案】
On his next trip, he brought a big fish as a gift. It was a generous offering and gratitude for the warmth and comfort we had provided. The fish was more than a meal; it was a symbol of the bond that had formed between us. My children were thrilled, and they helped prepare it for dinner, asking many questions about the man’s life and fishing stories. He shared tales of the sea, teaching them valuable lessons about perseverance and the simple joys of life. His visits became a cherished part of our lives, each one bringing a new story or a small gift
My neighbor asked me, “Did you keep that awful- looking man You can lose roomers (房客) by putting up such people!” Her words stung, but I knew in my heart that we had done the right thing. I patiently explained to her how the man, despite his appearance, had a heart of gold and how he had positively impacted my children. I also mentioned that several of our regular guests had commented on the positive atmosphere in our home, which I attributed partly to the man’s visits. In the end, it wasn’t the appearance that mattered, but the character and the connections we formed. Our home was richer for having known him.
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