湖南省长沙市长郡中学集团2024-2025学年联考高三上学期第三次月考英语试卷（含解析）
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2024-2025学年湖南省长沙市长郡中学集团联考高三上学期第三次月考英语试卷
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、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。
A
AI & Theatre: A Discussion at the Library for the Performing Arts
With the development of technology, there is a wide use of Al in many aspects of our lives. The Library for the Performing Arts invites you to an afternoon discussion next Thursday. In the discussion, the hope is neither to promote nor to denigrate(贬低)AI—instead, lectures will allow listeners to have an open discussion about the potential impacts of AI on theatre at a crucial stage in its technological advancement.
Seating Policy
Programs are free and open to all, but registration is requested a week earlier. Registered guests are given priority and allowed to check in 15 to 30 minutes before the start time and holding seats for anyone is prohibited. If you arrive after the program starts, your seat will be arranged at a special place by our staff. Food or drink is not allowed inside.
Standby Line
If registration has ended, do not worry! We welcome you to the library regardless of registration status and you can wait in our standby line. Five minutes before the program starts, all remaining seats are released to attendees in the standby line. While this is not guaranteed, we will do our best to get you into any of our programs.
Assistive Listening and Interpretation
Interpretation in English and the real-time caption (说明文字) are available on request. Please submit your request at least two weeks in advance by emailing us ataccessibility@nypl.org.
Audio and Video Recording
Programs may be photographed and recorded by the Library for the Performing Arts. If you would prefer your image not to be photographed, please let us know and we can seat you accordingly. Please note that all recordings, including professional video recordings, are not allowed during the discussion.
1. What’s the purpose of the discussion
A. To promote the application of AI. B. To show the disadvantages of AI.
C. To explore the influence of AI on theater. D. To appreciate the development of technology.
2. How can you ensure a seat at the discussion
A. Pay a registration fee. B. Sign up for it ahead of time.
C. Wait in the standby line earlier. D. Contact the library staff a day ahead.
3. What can people do if they attend the discussion
A. Hold a seat for a friend. B. Ask for the real-time caption.
C. Broadcast the discussion live. D. Take photos during the discussion.
B
Yang Li, a native Miao woman passionate about embroidery, owns a folk culture products shop that sells Miao embroidery, batik cloth, and silver jewelry. At first, the small shop struggled as there were many similar products on the market. Yang realized the need for a unique brand to stand out from the competition. During a hike in Fanjing Mountain in July 2011, Yang accidentally cut her hand on a thorny leaf. This gave her an idea; “There are leaf-vein bookmarks and leaf-vein paintings. Why has nobody created leaf-vein embroidery yet ”
Obviously, the reason behind this is that embroidering on leaves requires delicate skills that few possess. Yang Li collected thousands of leaves from Fanjing Mountain and processed them by steaming, boiling, and tanning them to expose their veins. While the leaves become soft, they are also extremely fragile. The biggest challenge was improving the flexibility of the leaves. After consulting local expert Shen Min, she learned that soaking them in acidic water could make them tough enough for embroidery.
Through continuous learning and practice, she succeeded in creating her first piece of leaf-vein embroidery, which perfectly combines traditional embroidery patterns with the natural textures of the leaves. By adding traditional designs from the Miao, Tujia, and Dong ethnic groups, she produced art that exhibits a unique aesthetic appeal of traditional embroidery with contemporary craftsmanship. Yang notes that typically, only those with decades of embroidery experience can independently complete the entire leaf-embroidery process, which is fewer than 20 people in Tongren from 2011 to now.
Two years later, Yang opened an embroidery processing factory and offered jobs to more than 500 laid-off female workers, rural women, and people with disabilities. “Guizhou is a province with a large number of ethnic groups and has a long history of ethnic embroidery skills,” she says. “I will keep doing the leaf-vein embroidery for the rest of my life because it is meaningful.”
4. What inspired Yang Li to create leaf-vein embroidery
A. Her love for Miao embroidery. B. The discovery of a special leaf.
C. An accidental injury to her hand. D. A decrease in her shop’s earnings.
5. What is the biggest challenge for Yang Li
A. Softening the leaves. B. Exposing veins of leaves.
C. Collecting suitable leaves. D. Making leaves more flexible.
6. What do we know about Yang Li’s leaf-vein embroidery
A. It is costly to complete a single piece.
B. It is well-received by international consumers.
C. It is demanding for cooperation between craftsmen.
D. It is a unique combination of artistic elements.
7. Which of the following words can best describe Yang Li
A. Creative and dedicated. B. Ambitious and cautious.
C. Passionate and humorous. D. Optimistic and considerate.
C
Is modern fruit cultivated (培育) to be sweeter than in the past The short answer is yes, though the longer answer is more complicated. Some of the most powerful evidence that fruit is sweeter than before comes from zoos.
In 2018, it was reported that Melboume Zoo in Australia had stopped giving fruit to most of its animals because cultivated fruit was now so sweet that it was causing tooth decay (蛀牙) and weight gain. The monkeys at the zoo were provided with a lower-sugar vegetable-based diet instead of bananas.
Among fruit cultivators, the word “quality” is now routinely used as an equal for “high in sugar” (though firmness, color and size are also considerations). In 2010, in an article looking at ways to enhance the sweetness of fruit using “molecuiar (分子的) approaches”, a group of plant scientists of the Republic of Korea wrote that “in general, the sugar content” of many fruits is now higher than before “owing to continuous selection and breeding”. Modern apple varieties, the scientists noted, were on average sweeter than older ones.
Cultivation isn’t the only reason that modern fruit is sweeter; there’s also climate change. Research from Japan found that since the 1970s, with rising temperatures, Fuji apples (which were already a sweet variety) have become significantly sweeter and softer. The lead researcher, Toshihoko Sugiura, said that “if you could taste an apple harvested 30 years ago, you would feel the difference”.
It is sometimes claimed that the sweetness of modern fruit is not due to higher sugar content so much as the fact that the bitterness and sourness of wild fruit have been steadily cultivated out of it. There’s a grain — but only a grain — of truth in this. Studies of wild apples do indeed suggest that some ancient varieties were just as high in sugar as a modern Pink Lady or Honeycrisp. The difference is that there was much wider variation in sugar content across wild apples, whereas the modern supermarket apple seldom drops below a certain level of sweetness.
8. Why did Melbourne Zoo stop giving fruit to most of its animals
A. The animals preferred a vegetable- based diet.
B. Modern fruit did great harm to animals’ teeth.
C. The sugar content of modern fruit is lower than before.
D. The flavor of modern fruit was not good for the animals.
9. What can we learn from paragraph 3
A. The sugar content is breeders’ first priority.
B. Sweeter fruits are just a result of natural selection.
C. The sweetness of modern apples is equal to the average of older ones.
D Molecular approaches are adopted to add the sweetness of modern fruit.
10. What do studies of wild apples in the last paragraph suggest
A. Apples of old species tasted less sweet.
B. The sugar content of wild apples varied greatly.
C. The sweetness of modern apples is of the same level.
D. Fruit is sweet because bitterness in it has disappeared.
11. What’s the best title for this passage
A. Modern or Old: Which Is Better B. Modern Fruit: Sweetness Is Quality.
C. Fruit Is Sweeter: It’s Not a Misconception. D. Melbourne Zoo: Animals Stop Eating Fruits.
D
You see a fantastic offer, like a hotel room. You decide to book. Then it turns out there is a service fee. Then a cleaning fee. Then a few other extra costs. By the time you pay the final price, it is no longer the fantastic offer you thought.
Welcome to the world of drip pricing — the practice of promoting something at an attractive headline price and then, once you’ve committed to the purchase process, hitting you with unavoidable add-ons that are “dripped”.
In most cases, you see through all additionally added mandatory fees, and even though you could relinquish the deal, you choose to bite the bullet and complete the deal. Resistance to the idea of starting the search all over again is not simply a matter of laziness or indecision. There’s a profound psychological mechanism at play here, called the present bias.
In the paper, Doing It Now or Later, economist Matthew Rabin defines people’s present-biased preference via an example of choosing between doing seven hours of unpleasant activity on April 1 or eight hours two weeks later: If asked on February 1, most people will choose the earlier option. But come April 1, given the same choice, most of us tend to put off work till April 15. In simple terms, the inconvenience of doing something “right now” often feels disproportionately large. Beyond the challenge of starting over, there’s another psychological phenomenon that drip pricing uses - loss aversion. Imagine you’re booking tickets for a show. Initially attracted by the headline price, you’re now presented with different seating categories. Seeing a VIP ticket is within your budget, you decide to fork out. But then, during the checkout process, the drip begins. You realize you could have chosen lower-category seats, but by this stage, you’ve already imagined yourself enjoying the show from those nice seats. Going back to a cheaper seat will feel like a loss.
Buyers would benefit from a ban on drip pricing. Many countries are taking steps to protect consumers from drip pricing. The effectiveness of such measures, however, is uncertain. Nonetheless, you can hopefully make a more informed decision by understanding why the strategy works.
12. Which of the following is an example of drip pricing
A. FlightHub introduces a bonus after you choose their flight.
B. Airbnb offers you a membership account when you book a trip.
C. Rent-A-Car charges wear and tear fees beyond the advertised price.
D. Ticketmaster provides optional items at later stages of your purchase.
13. What does the underlined word “relinquish” in paragraph 3 mean
A. Reach. B. Abandon. C. Sign. D. Expand.
14. How will Rabin explain people’s refusal to cancel an order and remake one
A. People are likely to blindly stick to their initial intentions.
B. People like to grab earlier rewards and delay immediate costs.
C. People struggle to make a decision among multiple choices.
D. People tend to tolerate additional costs within their budget.
15. What is the author’s main purpose in writing the text
A. To explain why people fall into the drip pricing trick.
B. To educate customers on how to deal with drip pricing.
C. To call on governments to protect consumers’ interests.
D. To introduce two psychological phenomena about spending.
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。
There is little, it seems, that people won’t do for their pets. Americans spent $186bn on them last year, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis, covering everything from food and vet visits to toys and grooming. That is more than they spent on childcare.
____16____ Mars, a company best known for its chocolate bars, made two-thirds of its revenue last year from pet care. Besides owning the Royal Canin pet-food brand, the company also operates thousands of vet clinics. Nestle and Colgate, two other consumer-products giants, also make around a fifth of their revenue from their pet market.
Spending on pets rocketed through the COVID-19 pandemic. ____17____ Between 2019 and 2023, pet spending grew by a compound annual rate of 11%, in nominal terms, compared with 6% for consumer spending overall and 5% for pet spending over the preceding decade. ____18____
Unlike virtual yoga classes or meal-kit subscriptions, animals weren’t easy to drop once lockdowns ended. Consumers, wrestling lately with higher prices and a cooling job market, have been reluctant to employ tight budgets on their pets. Morgan Stanley, a bank, estimates pet spending in America, compared with other personal expenses, will grow by 2.5% this year. ____19____ The pet business proved similarly strong during the global financial crisis of 2007-2009.
And analysts hold the pet business will soon go viral again. Morgan Stanley forecasts that annual spending will rise to around $260bn by 2030, consistent with its pre-pandemic growth trend. ____20____ Owners increasingly see themselves as parents, not masters. “Pets have gone from the backyard to the living room to the bedroom,” says Loic Moutault, head of the pet division at Mars.
A. Plenty more growth is yet to come.
B. Catering to pets has become big business.
C. Owners are now giving their pets yummier food.
D. That is attracting plenty of newcomers to the pet industry.
E. It is well ahead of estimates for other spending like clothes.
F. Lonely people adopted animals and invested heavily in them at that time.
G. Behind that is a shift in the relationship between pets and humans.
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。
Our old, artificial Christmas tree was in rough shape by the time we withdrew it. At least a decade had passed since my wife and I ____21____ the tree from the Christmas retail market in Brooklyn, a medium-sized fir with built-in lights, and moved it on the subway to our previous ____22____.
Over the years, we dragged that tree from apartment to apartment, ____23____ it onto a moving truck to Los Angeles and later crammed the ____24____ box which was centuries-old, this time to Chicago and our ____25____ home. By the end, layers of tape held the box together, the wear and tear of a decade of ____26____ holiday cheer.
Our little tree looked running ____27____, but it was the only tree our family ever knew. It stood ____28____ and glowing in the background of photos of me and my ____29____ pregnant wife during our last Christmas in Brooklyn without children. She was eagerly expecting the baby’s coming. Our ____30____ was born a month later during a January snowstorm. The tree ____31____ again in the next year’s photos, this time surrounded by holiday gifts for a boy about to ____32____ one. Then it appeared in photos of our son and his 1-month-old brother.
And in more recent photos, our tree lighted up ____33____ overlooking glistening Chicago snow. This year, after much debate, we decided to ____34____ our dear old tree, with its ____35____ branches and the lights that had burned out years ago. Rather than feel terribly blue, we used the moment to launch a new family tradition: our first real Christmas tree.
21. A. brought B. sought C. bought D. held
22. A. apartment B. yard C. garage D. balcony
23. A. changed B. jammed C. pinned D. passed
24. A. painted B. polished C. weathered D. transformed
25. A. current B. instant C. shabby D. spacious
26. A. signalling B. delivering C. adapting D. receiving
27. A. away B. out C. off D. down
28. A. still B. quiet C. proud D. free
29. A. happily B. newly C. motherly D. dearly
30. A. nicer B. braver C. faster D. older
31. A. took up B. pulled up C. showed up D. put up
32. A. count B. turn C. secure D. grow
33. A. stairs B. bars C. doors D. windows
34. A. revise B. reject C. refresh D. retire
35. A. stuck B. stretched C. bent D. lit
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。
Chinese restaurants began to open in America in the mid-19th century, clustering (集中) on the west coast where the first immigrants landed.
They mostly served ____36____ unique version of Cantonese cuisine — chop suey, egg fu yung and the like. In that century and much of the 20th century, the immigrants largely ____37____ (flow) from China’s south-east regions, mainly Guangdong province.
Restaurants began calling their food “Hunan” and “Sichuan”, and though it ____38____ (true) bore much resemblance to ____39____ was eaten in those regions, it was more diverse and boldly spiced ____40____ the sweet, fried stuff that defined the earliest Chinese menus.
By the 1990s, adventurous diners in cities with sizeable Chinese populations could choose many regional cuisines. A particular ____41____ (favor) — Sichuan food, made its diners addictive with its extremely chilly dishes.
Virtually every small town had one Chinese restaurant and, generally, the menus were the same: ____42____ (steam) pork dumplings; sour soup; stir-fries listed by main ingredients, ____43____ a pepper star suggesting the amount of pepper.
But there were slight changes in some cities. For instance, in Boston, takeaways often come with dumplings ____44____ (feature) as a sweetened sauce, a special cuisine developed in upper Manhattan ____45____ (meet) diners’ novel taste.
第四部分写作(共两节，满分40分)
第一节(满分15分)
46. 假定你是校英语俱乐部主席李华，你校正进行读书活动，请你代表俱乐部写一篇倡议书，号召同学们多读中国经典好书。内容包括：
1. 倡议的目的；
2. 读经典作品的好处。
注意：
1. 写作词数应为80个左右；2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
Dear fellow students,
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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篇语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。
Lauri, 59, and his son, Johnny, 28, set out to begin the first of three legs of the Ironman competition in Cambridge. They weren’t the typical contestants. Johnny has cerebral palsy. His difficulty walking is caused by muscle weakness. Lauri would act as his arms and legs, literally carrying the weight of his son throughout the race. To qualify as having finished, contestants must complete 140 miles of swimming, bicycling, and running under 17 hours.
From the day Johnny was born, Lauri refused to let his son’s disabilities hold him back. Determined to show Johnny that he could pursue his dream of being an athlete when he was 15, Lauri signed him up with Team Triumph, an organization helping kids with disabilities engage in endurance sports. ”It gave me a new perspective on life,“ Johnny says.
Johnny started practicing in racing, and Lauri wanted to be a part of it. Lauri began waking up at 4 a.m. so he could run while pushing Johnny in a personally-designed wheelchair called a racing chair. And Johnny tried so hard to walk using his walker for finishing the last minutes of the Ironman competition, so he may step over the finishing line with his father. ”I wanted to fulfill his dreams," Lauri said.
The race began with a 2.4-mile swim in the Choptank River. Lauri helped Johnny into a kayak. With one end of a rope tied to his waist and the other end to the kayak, Lauri eased himself into the water. Swimming while dragging another person is tough enough. The pair completed the swim in 90 minutes, and it was on to the next leg: a 112-mile bicycle ride.
Their specially-made bike has an additional back seat facing backward for Johnny.
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Then they set their sights on the final leg of the race with Johnny sitting in the racing chair.
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答案版
【答案】1. C 2. B 3. B
【1题】
细节理解题。根据第一段“In the discussion, the hope is neither to promote nor to denigrate(贬低)AI—instead, lectures will allow listeners to have an open discussion about the potential impacts of AI on theatre at a crucial stage in its technological advancement.(在讨论中，我们希望既不推崇也不诋毁人工智能，相反，讲座将允许听众就人工智能在技术进步的关键阶段对戏剧的潜在影响进行公开讨论。)” 可知，该活动聚焦 AI对戏剧演出的影响。故选C。
【2题】
细节理解题。根据 Seating Policy 的内容 “Programs are free and open to all, but registration is requested a week earlier. Registered guests are given priority and allowed to check in 15 to 30 minutes before the start time and holding seats for anyone is prohibited. (课程是免费的，对所有人开放，但要求提前一周注册。已登记的客人享有优先权，可以在开始时间前15到30分钟办理登机手续，禁止为任何人占座。)”可知，提前一周登记参会可以得到被分配好的座位。故选B。
【3题】
细节理解题。根据 Assistive Listening and Interpretation 的内容“Interpretation in English and the real-time caption (说明文字) are available on request.(可应要求提供英语翻译和实时字幕。)”可知，参会者可以申请实时字幕。故选B。
【答案】4. C 5. D 6. D 7. A
【4题】
细节理解题。根据文章第一段“During a hike in Fanjing Mountain in July 2011, Yang accidentally cut her hand on a thorny leaf. This gave her an idea; “There are leaf-vein bookmarks and leaf-vein paintings. Why has nobody created leaf-vein embroidery yet ”(2011年7月，在梵净山的一次徒步旅行中，杨丽不小心被一片带刺的叶子划伤了手。这给了她一个灵感：“有叶脉书签和叶脉画，为什么没有人尝试过叶脉刺绣呢？”)”可知，是手部的意外受伤激发了她创作叶脉刺绣的想法。故选C。
【5题】
细节理解题。根据文章第二段“The biggest challenge was improving the flexibility of the leaves.(最大的挑战在于提高叶子的柔韧性)”可知，最大的挑战是提高叶子的柔韧性，使叶子更有弹性。故选D。
【6题】
细节理解题。根据文章第三段“Through continuous learning and practice, she succeeded in creating her first piece of leaf-vein embroidery, which perfectly combines traditional embroidery patterns with the natural textures of the leaves.(经过不断的学习和实践，她成功地创造了她的第一件叶脉刺绣作品，完美地将传统的刺绣图案与叶子的自然纹理结合在一起)”可知，她的叶脉刺绣是传统刺绣图案与自然纹理的结合，是艺术元素的独特组合。故选D。
【7题】
推理判断题。根据文章第三段“Through continuous learning and practice, she succeeded in creating her first piece of leaf-vein embroidery, which perfectly combines traditional embroidery patterns with the natural textures of the leaves.(经过不断的学习和实践，她成功地创造了她的第一件叶脉刺绣作品，完美地将传统的刺绣图案与叶子的自然纹理结合在一起)”可知，她把传统刺绣图案与自然纹理相结合，创造了叶脉刺绣作品，她非常富有创造性，根据文章最后一段“Two years later, Yang opened an embroidery processing factory and offered jobs to more than 500 laid-off female workers, rural women, and people with disabilities. “Guizhou is a province with a large number of ethnic groups and has a long history of ethnic embroidery skills,” she says. “I will keep doing the leaf-vein embroidery for the rest of my life because it is meaningful.”(两年后，杨丽开设了一家刺绣加工厂，为超过500名下岗女工、农村妇女和残疾人提供了工作机会。“贵州是一个拥有大量少数民族的省份，有着悠久的民族刺绣技艺历史，”她说，“我将毕生致力于叶脉刺绣，因为它意义重大”)”可知，她致力于帮助当地女性就业，富有奉献精神。故选A项。
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【答案】8. B 9. D 10. B 11. C
【8题】
细节理解题。根据文章第二段的“In 2018, it was reported that Melboume Zoo in Australia had stopped giving fruit to most of its animals because cultivated fruit was now so sweet that it was causing tooth decay(蛀牙) and weight gain.(据报道，2018年，澳大利亚墨尔本动物园已经停止给大多数动物提供水果，因为现在种植的水果太甜了，会导致蛀牙和体重增加。)”可知现代水果对动物的牙齿有很大的危害，因此停止了给动物供应水果。故选B项。
【9题】
细节理解题。根据文章第三段“Among fruit cultivators, the word “quality” is now routinely used as an equal for “high in sugar”(though firmness, color and size are also considerations). In 2010, in an article looking at ways to enhance the sweetness of fruit using “molecuiar(分子的) approaches”, a group of plant scientists of the Republic of Korea wrote that “in general, the sugar content” of many fruits is now higher than before “owing to continuous selection and breeding”. (在水果种植者中，“优质”这个词现在通常被用作“高糖”的同义词(尽管硬度、颜色和大小也要考虑在内)。2010年，韩国的一组植物科学家在一篇文章中探讨了如何利用“分子方法”来提高水果的甜度，他们写道，“总的来说，由于不断的选择和育种”，现在许多水果的“含糖量”比以前要高。)”可知，现代水果的甜度采用分子方法，故选D项。
【10题】
细节理解题。根据文章最后一段的“The difference is that there was much wider variation in sugar content across wild apples, whereas the modern supermarket apple seldom drops below a certain level of sweetness.(不同之处在于，野生苹果的含糖量变化更大，而现代超市里的苹果很少低于一定的甜度。)” 可知野生苹果的含糖量变化很大，故选B项。
【11题】
主旨大意题。根据文章第一段内容“Is modern fruit cultivated(培育) to be sweeter than in the past The short answer is yes, though the longer answer is more complicated.( 现代种植的水果比过去更甜吗 简短的回答是肯定的，但较长的回答更为复杂)”并通读全文可知，文章主要讲述了现代农业技术使得现代水果比以前更甜。可知C项“水果更甜：这不是一个误解。”为最佳标题，故选C项。
【答案】12. C 13. B 14. B 15. A
【12题】
推理判断题。由文章第二段“Welcome to the world of drip pricing — the practice of promoting something at an attractive headline price and then, once you’ve committed to the purchase process, hitting you with unavoidable add-ons that are “dripped”. (欢迎来到滴漏式定价的世界——一种以吸引人的标题价格促销商品的做法，然后，一旦你承诺购买过程，就会用不可避免的“滴漏式”附加条款来打击你。)”可知，Rent-A-Car在广告价格之外收取磨损费是滴漏式定价的一个例子。故选C。
【13题】
词句猜测题。由第三段中“In most cases, you see through all additionally added mandatory fees, and even though you could relinquish the deal, you choose to bite the bullet and complete the deal. (在大多数情况下，你看透了所有额外的强制性费用，即使你可以relinquish这笔交易，你还是选择咬紧牙关完成这笔交易。)”可知，尽管你可以放弃这笔交易，但你还是选择咬紧牙关完成交易。relinquish意为“放弃”。A. Reach达到；B. Abandon放弃；C. Sign签名；D. Expand扩展。故选B。
【14题】
推理判断题。由第四段中“In the paper, Doing It Now or Later, economist Matthew Rabin defines people’s present-biased preference via an example of choosing between doing seven hours of unpleasant activity on April 1 or eight hours two weeks later: If asked on February 1, most people will choose the earlier option. But come April 1, given the same choice, most of us tend to put off work till April 15. (经济学家马修·拉宾在论文《现在做还是以后做》中，通过一个在4月1日做7小时不愉快的活动，还是在两周后做8小时不愉快的活动之间进行选择的例子，定义了人们对现在的偏好：如果在2月1日被问及这个问题，大多数人会选择更早的选项。但到了4月1日，如果面临同样的选择，我们大多数人倾向于把工作推迟到4月15日。)”可知，拉宾通过一个例子来解释人们拒绝取消订单并重新下单的原因，这个例子是选择在4月1日做7个小时的不愉快活动，还是在两周后做8个小时的活动。这表明人们喜欢提前获得奖励并推迟立即的成本。故选B。
【15题】
推理判断题。通读全文，尤其是由文章第二段“Welcome to the world of drip pricing — the practice of promoting something at an attractive headline price and then, once you’ve committed to the purchase process, hitting you with unavoidable add-ons that are “dripped”. (欢迎来到滴漏式定价的世界——一种以吸引人的标题价格促销商品的做法，然后，一旦你承诺购买过程，就会用不可避免的“滴漏式”附加条款来打击你。)”和最后一段中“Buyers would benefit from a ban on drip pricing. Many countries are taking steps to protect consumers from drip pricing. The effectiveness of such measures, however, is uncertain. Nonetheless, you can hopefully make a more informed decision by understanding why the strategy works. (买家将从滴漏式定价禁令中受益。许多国家正在采取措施保护消费者免受滴漏式定价的影响。然而，这些措施的有效性尚不确定。尽管如此，你还是可以通过理解为什么这个策略有效而做出更明智的决定。)”可知，文章主要介绍了滴漏式定价的策略，解释了为什么人们会落入这种定价策略的陷阱，并讨论了禁止滴漏式定价的措施。因此，作者的主要目的是解释为什么人们会落入滴漏式定价的陷阱。故选A。
【答案】16. B 17. F 18. A 19. E 20. G
【16题】
根据上文“Americans spent $186bn on them last year, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis, covering everything from food and vet visits to toys and grooming. That is more than they spent on childcare. (根据美国经济分析局的数据，去年美国人在宠物上的支出为1860亿美元，涵盖了从食品、兽医到玩具和美容的方方面面。这比他们花在儿童保育上的钱还多。)”可知，上文提到美国人去年在宠物上的花费巨大，超过了托儿服务的支出。本空要强调宠物经济的繁荣，B选项“Catering to pets has become big business. (照顾宠物已经成为大生意)”能承接上文，符合题意。故选B。
【17题】
根据上文“Spending on pets rocketed through the COVID-19 pandemic.(在2019冠状病毒病大流行期间，宠物支出飙升。)”可知，上文提到疫情期间宠物支出激增，本空要解释这一现象的原因；F选项“Lonely people adopted animals and invested heavily in them at that time. (孤独的人们在那段时间收养了动物并大量投资在它们身上)”解释了疫情期间宠物支出增长的原因，能承接上文，符合题意。故选F。
【18题】
根据上文“Between 2019 and 2023, pet spending grew by a compound annual rate of 11%, in nominal terms, compared with 6% for consumer spending overall and 5% for pet spending over the preceding decade. (2019年至2023年期间，宠物支出的名义复合年增长率为11%，而在过去十年中，整体消费者支出的增长率为6%，宠物支出的增长率为5%。)”可知，上文提到宠物支出的增长率远高于整体消费支出和过去十年的宠物支出增长率。本空要展望未来的增长趋势，因此，A选项“Plenty more growth is yet to come. (还有更多的增长即将到来)”能承接上文，引出未来的增长预测，符合题意。故选A。
【19题】
根据上文“Consumers, wrestling lately with higher prices and a cooling job market, have been reluctant to employ tight budgets on their pets. Morgan Stanley, a bank, estimates pet spending in America, compared with other personal expenses, will grow by 2.5% this year. (最近，消费者正与物价上涨和就业市场降温作斗争，他们不愿在宠物身上投入紧张的预算。摩根斯坦利银行估计，与其他个人开支相比，今年美国的宠物开支将增长2.5%。)”可知，上文提到尽管面临经济压力，宠物支出仍将继续增长。由下文“The pet business proved similarly strong during the global financial crisis of 2007-2009. (在2007-2009年的全球金融危机期间，宠物业同样表现强劲。)”可知，宠物经济在过去和未来都表现出强劲的增长势头。本空要进一步突出宠物支出的增长这一点，E选项“It is well ahead of estimates for other spending like clothes. (这远远超过了服装等其他支出的估计。)”进一步强调了宠物支出的增长速度，能承上启下，符合题意。故选E。
【20题】
根据上文“Morgan Stanley forecasts that annual spending will rise to around $260bn by 2030, consistent with its pre-pandemic growth trend. (摩根士丹利预测，到2030年，年度支出将增至2600亿美元左右，与疫情前的增长趋势一致。)”可知，上文提到宠物经济在过去和未来都表现出强劲的增长势头。本空要解释这种增长背后的原因，由下文“Owners increasingly see themselves as parents, not masters. “Pets have gone from the backyard to the living room to the bedroom,” says Loic Moutault, head of the pet division at Mars. (业主们越来越把自己视为父母，而不是主人。‘宠物已经从后院走到客厅，再到卧室，’玛氏宠物部主管洛伊克·穆奥特说。)”可知，宠物与人类的关系发生了变化，宠物越来越被视为家庭成员，本空应解释关系发生了变化是增长背后的原因。因此，G选项“Behind that is a shift in the relationship between pets and humans. (这背后是宠物与人类关系的变化)”引出了对宠物与人类关系变化的讨论，能承上启下，符合题意。故选G。
【答案】21. C 22. A 23. B 24. C 25. A 26. B 27. D 28. C 29. A 30. D 31. C 32. B 33. D 34. D 35. C
【21题】
考查动词词义辨析。句意：我和妻子从布鲁克林的圣诞零售市场买了这棵中等大小的冷杉树，带着内置的灯，然后用地铁把它搬到了我们以前的公寓，至今已经有至少十年的时间了。A. brought带来；B. sought寻找；C. bought买；D. held拿着。根据下文“the tree from the Christmas retail market in Brooklyn”可知，去市场买圣诞树，故选C。
【22题】
考查名词词义辨析。句意：我和妻子从布鲁克林的圣诞零售市场买了这棵中等大小的冷杉树，带着内置的灯，然后用地铁把它搬到了我们以前的公寓，至今已经有至少十年的时间了。A. apartment公寓；B. yard院子；C. garage车库；D. balcony阳台。根据上文“the tree from the Christmas retail market in Brooklyn, a medium-sized fir with built-in lights, and moved it on the subway to our previous”和下文“Over the years, we dragged that tree from apartment to apartment”可知，搬家通常是从一个公寓或房子到另一个，此处指十年前买完树后搬到了十年前的公寓。因此选A。
【23题】
考查动词词义辨析。句意：多年来，我们把那棵树从一个公寓拖到另一个公寓，把它塞进一辆搬家卡车，运到洛杉矶，后来又塞进那个有几百年历史的风化箱子，这次是运到芝加哥，也就是我们现在的家。A. changed改变；B. jammed塞进；C. pinned固定；D. passed通过。根据下文“it onto a moving truck”和常识可知，把东西放入狭小空间通常使用“塞进”，故选B。
【24题】
考查形容词词义辨析。句意：多年来，我们把那棵树从一个公寓拖到另一个公寓，把它塞进一辆搬家卡车，运到洛杉矶，后来又塞进那个有几百年历史的风化箱子，这次是运到芝加哥，也就是我们现在的家。A. painted涂漆的；B. polished打磨过的；C. weathered风化的；D. transformed改变过的。根据下文的“which was centuries-old”可知，箱子用了很长时间，描述老旧状态应用“风化的”，故选C。
【25题】
考查形容词词义辨析。句意：多年来，我们把那棵树从一个公寓拖到另一个公寓，把它塞进一辆搬家卡车，运到洛杉矶，后来又塞进那个有几百年历史的风化箱子，这次是运到芝加哥，也就是我们现在的家。A. current现在的；B. instant瞬间的；C. shabby破旧的；D. spacious宽敞的。根据上文“Over the years, we dragged that tree from apartment to apartment”和“this time to Chicago and our”可知，描述的是现在的居住地，故选A。
【26题】
考查动词词义辨析。句意：最后，一层又一层的胶带把盒子粘在一起，这是十年来传递的节日欢呼的磨损。A. signalling发出信号；B. delivering传递；C. adapting适应；D. receiving收到。根据上文“By the end, layers of tape held the box together, the wear and tear of a decade of”和下文“holiday cheer”可知，此处指这棵树传递的十年的节日欢乐，故选B。
【27题】
考查副词词义辨析。句意：我们的小树看起来快要倒了，但它是我们家唯一熟悉的树。A. away远处；B. out外面；C. off远离；D. down向下。根据上文“Over the years, we dragged that tree from apartment to apartment, jammed it onto a moving truck to Los Angeles and later crammed the weathered box which was centuries-old”可知，圣诞树被用了很多年，而且屡经搬迁，磨损很多，run down表示“逐渐损耗”，符合此处描述圣诞树目前的状况。故选D。
【28题】
考查形容词词义辨析。句意：在我们没有孩子在布鲁克林度过的最后一个圣诞节里，这张照片的背景中，它骄傲而闪亮地矗立着，照片上是我和我那幸福怀孕的妻子。A. still静止的；B. quiet安静的；C. proud骄傲的；D. free自由的。根据上文“It stood”和下文“and glowing in the background”可知，此处描述圣诞树神采奕奕的样子，骄傲而闪亮。故选C。
【29题】
考查副词词义辨析。句意：在我们没有孩子在布鲁克林度过的最后一个圣诞节里，这张照片的背景中，它骄傲而闪亮地矗立着，照片上是我和我那幸福怀孕的妻子。A. happily幸福地；B. newly新近地；C. motherly母亲般地；D. dearly深深爱着。根据下文“pregnant wife during our last Christmas in Brooklyn without children”可知，怀孕的妻子很幸福，故选A。
【30题】
考查形容词词义辨析。句意：我们年长的孩子出生于一个一月的暴风雪中。A. nicer更好的；B. braver更勇敢的；C. faster更快的；D. older年长的。根据上文“pregnant wife during our last Christmas in Brooklyn without children”和下文“was born a month later during a January snowstorm”可知，那时夫妻二人还没有孩子诞生，妻子已怀孕，所以此处描写的是年长的孩子，即第一个孩子。故选D。
【31题】
考查动词短语辨析。句意：这棵树在第二年的照片中又出现了，这次是给一个即将满一岁的男孩的节日礼物。A. took up占据；B. pulled up提起；C. showed up出现；D. put up举起。根据上文“It stood 8 and glowing in the background of photos of me and my 9 pregnant wife during our last Christmas”和下文“again in the next year’s photos”可知，上文描述圣诞树出现在照片中，本空描述圣诞树再次出现，故选C。
【32题】
考查动词词义辨析。句意：这棵树在第二年的照片中又出现了，这次是给一个即将满一岁的男孩的节日礼物。A. count数；B. turn变成；C. secure保护；D. grow生长。根据上文“a boy about to”可知，此处描述即将达到（岁数时）用turn“变成”，故选B。
【33题】
考查名词词义辨析。句意：在最近的照片中，我们的圣诞树照亮了窗户，俯瞰着芝加哥闪闪发光的雪。A. stairs楼梯；B. bars酒吧；C. doors门；D. windows窗户。根据下文的“overlooking glistening Chicago snow”和常识可知，通常是透过窗户观看景象，圣诞树照亮了窗户。故选D。
【34题】
考查动词词义辨析。句意：今年，经过一番争论，我们决定让我们亲爱的老树退休，它的树枝弯曲，多年前就熄灭了灯光。A. revise修订；B. reject拒绝；C. refresh刷新；D. retire退休。根据下文“our dear old tree, with its 15 branches and the lights that had burned out years ago.”可知，圣诞树状况不好，用retire表达不再使用，让亲爱的老树退休。故选D。
【35题】
考查形容词词义辨析。句意：今年，经过一番争论，我们决定让我们亲爱的老树退休，它的树枝弯曲，多年前就熄灭了灯光。A. stuck卡住的；B. stretched拉伸的；C. bent弯曲的，驼背的；D. lit被点亮的。根据上文“This year, after much debate, we decided to 14 our dear old tree”和下文“branches and the lights that had burned out years ago”的描述，圣诞树状况不好，树枝形态是“弯曲的”，故选C。
【答案】36. a 37. flowed
38. truly 39. what
40. than 41. favorite
42. steamed
43. with 44. featuring
45. to meet
【36题】
考查冠词。句意：他们大多提供一种独特的粤菜——炒杂烩、芙蓉蛋等。空处应填不定冠词泛指一个，unique以辅音音素开头，应用不定冠词a。故填a。
【37题】
考查动词的时态。句意：在那个世纪和20世纪的大部分时间里，移民主要来自中国的东南地区，主要是广东省。根据时间状语In that century and much of the 20th century可知，句子描述过去发生的事情，应用一般过去时，空处应用动词的过去式形式。故填flowed。
【38题】
考查副词。句意：餐馆开始将他们的食物称为“湖南”和“四川”菜，尽管这些菜确实与那些地区所吃的菜肴有很多相似之处，但比起最早期中餐菜单上定义性的甜、油炸食品，它们更加多样化且大胆调味。空处应用副词truly修饰动词bore。故填truly。
【39题】
考查主语从句。句意同上。空处引导宾语从句，且在宾语从句中作主语，表示“被吃的东西”，故用连接代词what。故填what。
【40题】
考查介词。句意同上。根据前面的more diverse and boldly spiced可知，空处应用than引导比较级结构。故填than。
【41题】
考查名词。句意：一种极受欢迎的菜品——四川菜，以其极为辛辣的菜肴让食客上瘾。空处应用名词favorite“特别喜爱的事物”在句中作主语，由a可知，应用单数形式。故填favorite。
【42题】
考查非谓语动词。句意：几乎每个小镇都有一家中餐馆，而且一般来说，菜单上的内容都差不多：猪肉蒸饺、酸汤、按照主料列出的炒菜，旁边有一个辣椒图标表示辣度。空处在句中作定语修饰dumplings，动词steam与被修饰词dumplings构成被动关系，应用过去分词的形式。故填steamed。
【43题】
考查介词。句意同上。空处应用介词with表示“带有”，构成with的复合结构“with+宾语+现在分词”。故填with。
【44题】
考查非谓语动词。句意：例如，在波士顿，外卖常常配有蘸着甜酱的饺子，这是一种为了迎合食客的新口味而在上曼哈顿开发的特殊菜肴。空处在句中作定语修饰dumplings，动词feature与被修饰词dumplings构成主动关系，应用现在分词的形式。故填featuring。
【45题】
考查非谓语动词。句意同上。空处应用动词不定式在句中作目的状语。故填to meet。
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【作文答案】
Dear fellow students,
As the president of the English Club, I’m writing to encourage all of you to read more Chinese classic books.
The purpose of this initiative is to promote our cultural heritage and enhance our understanding of Chinese wisdom. Reading these classics provides us with a profound insight into traditional values and enriches our spiritual world. Moreover, it improves our language skills and critical thinking.
Let us embark on this journey of exploring our cultural roots together.
Yours sincerely,
Li Hua
【读后续写答案】
Their specially-made bike has an additional back seat facing backward for Johnny. Lauri mounted the bike, feeling the added weight but also the shared purpose. They pedaled through the countryside, the wind rushing past them, the sun beating down. Johnny, despite his limitations, shouted encouragement to his father, their bond growing stronger with every mile. Lauri’s legs burned with fatigue, but his heart swelled with pride and determination.
Then they set their sights on the final leg of the race with Johnny sitting in the racing chair. Lauri pushed the chair with all his might, the finish line in sight. Johnny’s face lit up with determination and joy, his eyes fixed on the goal ahead. The crowd cheered loudly, their support fueling the father-son duo’s final push. As they crossed the line together, Lauri and Johnny were not just finishers of the Ironman, but true heroes of perseverance and love.
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、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。
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AI & Theatre: A Discussion at the Library for the Performing Arts
With the development of technology, there is a wide use of Al in many aspects of our lives. The Library for the Performing Arts invites you to an afternoon discussion next Thursday. In the discussion, the hope is neither to promote nor to denigrate(贬低)AI—instead, lectures will allow listeners to have an open discussion about the potential impacts of AI on theatre at a crucial stage in its technological advancement.
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Assistive Listening and Interpretation
Interpretation in English and the real-time caption (说明文字) are available on request. Please submit your request at least two weeks in advance by emailing us ataccessibility@nypl.org.
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1. What’s the purpose of the discussion
A. To promote the application of AI. B. To show the disadvantages of AI.
C. To explore the influence of AI on theater. D. To appreciate the development of technology.
2. How can you ensure a seat at the discussion
A. Pay a registration fee. B. Sign up for it ahead of time.
C. Wait in the standby line earlier. D. Contact the library staff a day ahead.
3. What can people do if they attend the discussion
A. Hold a seat for a friend. B. Ask for the real-time caption.
C. Broadcast the discussion live. D. Take photos during the discussion.
B
Yang Li, a native Miao woman passionate about embroidery, owns a folk culture products shop that sells Miao embroidery, batik cloth, and silver jewelry. At first, the small shop struggled as there were many similar products on the market. Yang realized the need for a unique brand to stand out from the competition. During a hike in Fanjing Mountain in July 2011, Yang accidentally cut her hand on a thorny leaf. This gave her an idea; “There are leaf-vein bookmarks and leaf-vein paintings. Why has nobody created leaf-vein embroidery yet ”
Obviously, the reason behind this is that embroidering on leaves requires delicate skills that few possess. Yang Li collected thousands of leaves from Fanjing Mountain and processed them by steaming, boiling, and tanning them to expose their veins. While the leaves become soft, they are also extremely fragile. The biggest challenge was improving the flexibility of the leaves. After consulting local expert Shen Min, she learned that soaking them in acidic water could make them tough enough for embroidery.
Through continuous learning and practice, she succeeded in creating her first piece of leaf-vein embroidery, which perfectly combines traditional embroidery patterns with the natural textures of the leaves. By adding traditional designs from the Miao, Tujia, and Dong ethnic groups, she produced art that exhibits a unique aesthetic appeal of traditional embroidery with contemporary craftsmanship. Yang notes that typically, only those with decades of embroidery experience can independently complete the entire leaf-embroidery process, which is fewer than 20 people in Tongren from 2011 to now.
Two years later, Yang opened an embroidery processing factory and offered jobs to more than 500 laid-off female workers, rural women, and people with disabilities. “Guizhou is a province with a large number of ethnic groups and has a long history of ethnic embroidery skills,” she says. “I will keep doing the leaf-vein embroidery for the rest of my life because it is meaningful.”
4. What inspired Yang Li to create leaf-vein embroidery
A. Her love for Miao embroidery. B. The discovery of a special leaf.
C. An accidental injury to her hand. D. A decrease in her shop’s earnings.
5. What is the biggest challenge for Yang Li
A. Softening the leaves. B. Exposing veins of leaves.
C. Collecting suitable leaves. D. Making leaves more flexible.
6. What do we know about Yang Li’s leaf-vein embroidery
A. It is costly to complete a single piece.
B. It is well-received by international consumers.
C. It is demanding for cooperation between craftsmen.
D. It is a unique combination of artistic elements.
7. Which of the following words can best describe Yang Li
A. Creative and dedicated. B. Ambitious and cautious.
C. Passionate and humorous. D. Optimistic and considerate.
C
Is modern fruit cultivated (培育) to be sweeter than in the past The short answer is yes, though the longer answer is more complicated. Some of the most powerful evidence that fruit is sweeter than before comes from zoos.
In 2018, it was reported that Melboume Zoo in Australia had stopped giving fruit to most of its animals because cultivated fruit was now so sweet that it was causing tooth decay (蛀牙) and weight gain. The monkeys at the zoo were provided with a lower-sugar vegetable-based diet instead of bananas.
Among fruit cultivators, the word “quality” is now routinely used as an equal for “high in sugar” (though firmness, color and size are also considerations). In 2010, in an article looking at ways to enhance the sweetness of fruit using “molecuiar (分子的) approaches”, a group of plant scientists of the Republic of Korea wrote that “in general, the sugar content” of many fruits is now higher than before “owing to continuous selection and breeding”. Modern apple varieties, the scientists noted, were on average sweeter than older ones.
Cultivation isn’t the only reason that modern fruit is sweeter; there’s also climate change. Research from Japan found that since the 1970s, with rising temperatures, Fuji apples (which were already a sweet variety) have become significantly sweeter and softer. The lead researcher, Toshihoko Sugiura, said that “if you could taste an apple harvested 30 years ago, you would feel the difference”.
It is sometimes claimed that the sweetness of modern fruit is not due to higher sugar content so much as the fact that the bitterness and sourness of wild fruit have been steadily cultivated out of it. There’s a grain — but only a grain — of truth in this. Studies of wild apples do indeed suggest that some ancient varieties were just as high in sugar as a modern Pink Lady or Honeycrisp. The difference is that there was much wider variation in sugar content across wild apples, whereas the modern supermarket apple seldom drops below a certain level of sweetness.
8. Why did Melbourne Zoo stop giving fruit to most of its animals
A. The animals preferred a vegetable- based diet.
B. Modern fruit did great harm to animals’ teeth.
C. The sugar content of modern fruit is lower than before.
D. The flavor of modern fruit was not good for the animals.
9. What can we learn from paragraph 3
A. The sugar content is breeders’ first priority.
B. Sweeter fruits are just a result of natural selection.
C. The sweetness of modern apples is equal to the average of older ones.
D Molecular approaches are adopted to add the sweetness of modern fruit.
10. What do studies of wild apples in the last paragraph suggest
A. Apples of old species tasted less sweet.
B. The sugar content of wild apples varied greatly.
C. The sweetness of modern apples is of the same level.
D. Fruit is sweet because bitterness in it has disappeared.
11. What’s the best title for this passage
A. Modern or Old: Which Is Better B. Modern Fruit: Sweetness Is Quality.
C. Fruit Is Sweeter: It’s Not a Misconception. D. Melbourne Zoo: Animals Stop Eating Fruits.
D
You see a fantastic offer, like a hotel room. You decide to book. Then it turns out there is a service fee. Then a cleaning fee. Then a few other extra costs. By the time you pay the final price, it is no longer the fantastic offer you thought.
Welcome to the world of drip pricing — the practice of promoting something at an attractive headline price and then, once you’ve committed to the purchase process, hitting you with unavoidable add-ons that are “dripped”.
In most cases, you see through all additionally added mandatory fees, and even though you could relinquish the deal, you choose to bite the bullet and complete the deal. Resistance to the idea of starting the search all over again is not simply a matter of laziness or indecision. There’s a profound psychological mechanism at play here, called the present bias.
In the paper, Doing It Now or Later, economist Matthew Rabin defines people’s present-biased preference via an example of choosing between doing seven hours of unpleasant activity on April 1 or eight hours two weeks later: If asked on February 1, most people will choose the earlier option. But come April 1, given the same choice, most of us tend to put off work till April 15. In simple terms, the inconvenience of doing something “right now” often feels disproportionately large. Beyond the challenge of starting over, there’s another psychological phenomenon that drip pricing uses - loss aversion. Imagine you’re booking tickets for a show. Initially attracted by the headline price, you’re now presented with different seating categories. Seeing a VIP ticket is within your budget, you decide to fork out. But then, during the checkout process, the drip begins. You realize you could have chosen lower-category seats, but by this stage, you’ve already imagined yourself enjoying the show from those nice seats. Going back to a cheaper seat will feel like a loss.
Buyers would benefit from a ban on drip pricing. Many countries are taking steps to protect consumers from drip pricing. The effectiveness of such measures, however, is uncertain. Nonetheless, you can hopefully make a more informed decision by understanding why the strategy works.
12. Which of the following is an example of drip pricing
A. FlightHub introduces a bonus after you choose their flight.
B. Airbnb offers you a membership account when you book a trip.
C. Rent-A-Car charges wear and tear fees beyond the advertised price.
D. Ticketmaster provides optional items at later stages of your purchase.
13. What does the underlined word “relinquish” in paragraph 3 mean
A. Reach. B. Abandon. C. Sign. D. Expand.
14. How will Rabin explain people’s refusal to cancel an order and remake one
A. People are likely to blindly stick to their initial intentions.
B. People like to grab earlier rewards and delay immediate costs.
C. People struggle to make a decision among multiple choices.
D. People tend to tolerate additional costs within their budget.
15. What is the author’s main purpose in writing the text
A. To explain why people fall into the drip pricing trick.
B. To educate customers on how to deal with drip pricing.
C. To call on governments to protect consumers’ interests.
D. To introduce two psychological phenomena about spending.
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。
There is little, it seems, that people won’t do for their pets. Americans spent $186bn on them last year, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis, covering everything from food and vet visits to toys and grooming. That is more than they spent on childcare.
____16____ Mars, a company best known for its chocolate bars, made two-thirds of its revenue last year from pet care. Besides owning the Royal Canin pet-food brand, the company also operates thousands of vet clinics. Nestle and Colgate, two other consumer-products giants, also make around a fifth of their revenue from their pet market.
Spending on pets rocketed through the COVID-19 pandemic. ____17____ Between 2019 and 2023, pet spending grew by a compound annual rate of 11%, in nominal terms, compared with 6% for consumer spending overall and 5% for pet spending over the preceding decade. ____18____
Unlike virtual yoga classes or meal-kit subscriptions, animals weren’t easy to drop once lockdowns ended. Consumers, wrestling lately with higher prices and a cooling job market, have been reluctant to employ tight budgets on their pets. Morgan Stanley, a bank, estimates pet spending in America, compared with other personal expenses, will grow by 2.5% this year. ____19____ The pet business proved similarly strong during the global financial crisis of 2007-2009.
And analysts hold the pet business will soon go viral again. Morgan Stanley forecasts that annual spending will rise to around $260bn by 2030, consistent with its pre-pandemic growth trend. ____20____ Owners increasingly see themselves as parents, not masters. “Pets have gone from the backyard to the living room to the bedroom,” says Loic Moutault, head of the pet division at Mars.
A. Plenty more growth is yet to come.
B. Catering to pets has become big business.
C. Owners are now giving their pets yummier food.
D. That is attracting plenty of newcomers to the pet industry.
E. It is well ahead of estimates for other spending like clothes.
F. Lonely people adopted animals and invested heavily in them at that time.
G. Behind that is a shift in the relationship between pets and humans.
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。
Our old, artificial Christmas tree was in rough shape by the time we withdrew it. At least a decade had passed since my wife and I ____21____ the tree from the Christmas retail market in Brooklyn, a medium-sized fir with built-in lights, and moved it on the subway to our previous ____22____.
Over the years, we dragged that tree from apartment to apartment, ____23____ it onto a moving truck to Los Angeles and later crammed the ____24____ box which was centuries-old, this time to Chicago and our ____25____ home. By the end, layers of tape held the box together, the wear and tear of a decade of ____26____ holiday cheer.
Our little tree looked running ____27____, but it was the only tree our family ever knew. It stood ____28____ and glowing in the background of photos of me and my ____29____ pregnant wife during our last Christmas in Brooklyn without children. She was eagerly expecting the baby’s coming. Our ____30____ was born a month later during a January snowstorm. The tree ____31____ again in the next year’s photos, this time surrounded by holiday gifts for a boy about to ____32____ one. Then it appeared in photos of our son and his 1-month-old brother.
And in more recent photos, our tree lighted up ____33____ overlooking glistening Chicago snow. This year, after much debate, we decided to ____34____ our dear old tree, with its ____35____ branches and the lights that had burned out years ago. Rather than feel terribly blue, we used the moment to launch a new family tradition: our first real Christmas tree.
21. A. brought B. sought C. bought D. held
22. A. apartment B. yard C. garage D. balcony
23. A. changed B. jammed C. pinned D. passed
24. A. painted B. polished C. weathered D. transformed
25. A. current B. instant C. shabby D. spacious
26. A. signalling B. delivering C. adapting D. receiving
27. A. away B. out C. off D. down
28. A. still B. quiet C. proud D. free
29. A. happily B. newly C. motherly D. dearly
30. A. nicer B. braver C. faster D. older
31. A. took up B. pulled up C. showed up D. put up
32. A. count B. turn C. secure D. grow
33. A. stairs B. bars C. doors D. windows
34. A. revise B. reject C. refresh D. retire
35. A. stuck B. stretched C. bent D. lit
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。
Chinese restaurants began to open in America in the mid-19th century, clustering (集中) on the west coast where the first immigrants landed.
They mostly served ____36____ unique version of Cantonese cuisine — chop suey, egg fu yung and the like. In that century and much of the 20th century, the immigrants largely ____37____ (flow) from China’s south-east regions, mainly Guangdong province.
Restaurants began calling their food “Hunan” and “Sichuan”, and though it ____38____ (true) bore much resemblance to ____39____ was eaten in those regions, it was more diverse and boldly spiced ____40____ the sweet, fried stuff that defined the earliest Chinese menus.
By the 1990s, adventurous diners in cities with sizeable Chinese populations could choose many regional cuisines. A particular ____41____ (favor) — Sichuan food, made its diners addictive with its extremely chilly dishes.
Virtually every small town had one Chinese restaurant and, generally, the menus were the same: ____42____ (steam) pork dumplings; sour soup; stir-fries listed by main ingredients, ____43____ a pepper star suggesting the amount of pepper.
But there were slight changes in some cities. For instance, in Boston, takeaways often come with dumplings ____44____ (feature) as a sweetened sauce, a special cuisine developed in upper Manhattan ____45____ (meet) diners’ novel taste.
第四部分写作(共两节，满分40分)
第一节(满分15分)
46. 假定你是校英语俱乐部主席李华，你校正进行读书活动，请你代表俱乐部写一篇倡议书，号召同学们多读中国经典好书。内容包括：
1. 倡议的目的；
2. 读经典作品的好处。
注意：
1. 写作词数应为80个左右；2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
Dear fellow students,
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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篇语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。
Lauri, 59, and his son, Johnny, 28, set out to begin the first of three legs of the Ironman competition in Cambridge. They weren’t the typical contestants. Johnny has cerebral palsy. His difficulty walking is caused by muscle weakness. Lauri would act as his arms and legs, literally carrying the weight of his son throughout the race. To qualify as having finished, contestants must complete 140 miles of swimming, bicycling, and running under 17 hours.
From the day Johnny was born, Lauri refused to let his son’s disabilities hold him back. Determined to show Johnny that he could pursue his dream of being an athlete when he was 15, Lauri signed him up with Team Triumph, an organization helping kids with disabilities engage in endurance sports. ”It gave me a new perspective on life,“ Johnny says.
Johnny started practicing in racing, and Lauri wanted to be a part of it. Lauri began waking up at 4 a.m. so he could run while pushing Johnny in a personally-designed wheelchair called a racing chair. And Johnny tried so hard to walk using his walker for finishing the last minutes of the Ironman competition, so he may step over the finishing line with his father. ”I wanted to fulfill his dreams," Lauri said.
The race began with a 2.4-mile swim in the Choptank River. Lauri helped Johnny into a kayak. With one end of a rope tied to his waist and the other end to the kayak, Lauri eased himself into the water. Swimming while dragging another person is tough enough. The pair completed the swim in 90 minutes, and it was on to the next leg: a 112-mile bicycle ride.
Their specially-made bike has an additional back seat facing backward for Johnny.
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Then they set their sights on the final leg of the race with Johnny sitting in the racing chair.
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答案版
【答案】1. C 2. B 3. B
【1题】
细节理解题。根据第一段“In the discussion, the hope is neither to promote nor to denigrate(贬低)AI—instead, lectures will allow listeners to have an open discussion about the potential impacts of AI on theatre at a crucial stage in its technological advancement.(在讨论中，我们希望既不推崇也不诋毁人工智能，相反，讲座将允许听众就人工智能在技术进步的关键阶段对戏剧的潜在影响进行公开讨论。)” 可知，该活动聚焦 AI对戏剧演出的影响。故选C。
【2题】
细节理解题。根据 Seating Policy 的内容 “Programs are free and open to all, but registration is requested a week earlier. Registered guests are given priority and allowed to check in 15 to 30 minutes before the start time and holding seats for anyone is prohibited. (课程是免费的，对所有人开放，但要求提前一周注册。已登记的客人享有优先权，可以在开始时间前15到30分钟办理登机手续，禁止为任何人占座。)”可知，提前一周登记参会可以得到被分配好的座位。故选B。
【3题】
细节理解题。根据 Assistive Listening and Interpretation 的内容“Interpretation in English and the real-time caption (说明文字) are available on request.(可应要求提供英语翻译和实时字幕。)”可知，参会者可以申请实时字幕。故选B。
【答案】4. C 5. D 6. D 7. A
【4题】
细节理解题。根据文章第一段“During a hike in Fanjing Mountain in July 2011, Yang accidentally cut her hand on a thorny leaf. This gave her an idea; “There are leaf-vein bookmarks and leaf-vein paintings. Why has nobody created leaf-vein embroidery yet ”(2011年7月，在梵净山的一次徒步旅行中，杨丽不小心被一片带刺的叶子划伤了手。这给了她一个灵感：“有叶脉书签和叶脉画，为什么没有人尝试过叶脉刺绣呢？”)”可知，是手部的意外受伤激发了她创作叶脉刺绣的想法。故选C。
【5题】
细节理解题。根据文章第二段“The biggest challenge was improving the flexibility of the leaves.(最大的挑战在于提高叶子的柔韧性)”可知，最大的挑战是提高叶子的柔韧性，使叶子更有弹性。故选D。
【6题】
细节理解题。根据文章第三段“Through continuous learning and practice, she succeeded in creating her first piece of leaf-vein embroidery, which perfectly combines traditional embroidery patterns with the natural textures of the leaves.(经过不断的学习和实践，她成功地创造了她的第一件叶脉刺绣作品，完美地将传统的刺绣图案与叶子的自然纹理结合在一起)”可知，她的叶脉刺绣是传统刺绣图案与自然纹理的结合，是艺术元素的独特组合。故选D。
【7题】
推理判断题。根据文章第三段“Through continuous learning and practice, she succeeded in creating her first piece of leaf-vein embroidery, which perfectly combines traditional embroidery patterns with the natural textures of the leaves.(经过不断的学习和实践，她成功地创造了她的第一件叶脉刺绣作品，完美地将传统的刺绣图案与叶子的自然纹理结合在一起)”可知，她把传统刺绣图案与自然纹理相结合，创造了叶脉刺绣作品，她非常富有创造性，根据文章最后一段“Two years later, Yang opened an embroidery processing factory and offered jobs to more than 500 laid-off female workers, rural women, and people with disabilities. “Guizhou is a province with a large number of ethnic groups and has a long history of ethnic embroidery skills,” she says. “I will keep doing the leaf-vein embroidery for the rest of my life because it is meaningful.”(两年后，杨丽开设了一家刺绣加工厂，为超过500名下岗女工、农村妇女和残疾人提供了工作机会。“贵州是一个拥有大量少数民族的省份，有着悠久的民族刺绣技艺历史，”她说，“我将毕生致力于叶脉刺绣，因为它意义重大”)”可知，她致力于帮助当地女性就业，富有奉献精神。故选A项。
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【答案】8. B 9. D 10. B 11. C
【8题】
细节理解题。根据文章第二段的“In 2018, it was reported that Melboume Zoo in Australia had stopped giving fruit to most of its animals because cultivated fruit was now so sweet that it was causing tooth decay(蛀牙) and weight gain.(据报道，2018年，澳大利亚墨尔本动物园已经停止给大多数动物提供水果，因为现在种植的水果太甜了，会导致蛀牙和体重增加。)”可知现代水果对动物的牙齿有很大的危害，因此停止了给动物供应水果。故选B项。
【9题】
细节理解题。根据文章第三段“Among fruit cultivators, the word “quality” is now routinely used as an equal for “high in sugar”(though firmness, color and size are also considerations). In 2010, in an article looking at ways to enhance the sweetness of fruit using “molecuiar(分子的) approaches”, a group of plant scientists of the Republic of Korea wrote that “in general, the sugar content” of many fruits is now higher than before “owing to continuous selection and breeding”. (在水果种植者中，“优质”这个词现在通常被用作“高糖”的同义词(尽管硬度、颜色和大小也要考虑在内)。2010年，韩国的一组植物科学家在一篇文章中探讨了如何利用“分子方法”来提高水果的甜度，他们写道，“总的来说，由于不断的选择和育种”，现在许多水果的“含糖量”比以前要高。)”可知，现代水果的甜度采用分子方法，故选D项。
【10题】
细节理解题。根据文章最后一段的“The difference is that there was much wider variation in sugar content across wild apples, whereas the modern supermarket apple seldom drops below a certain level of sweetness.(不同之处在于，野生苹果的含糖量变化更大，而现代超市里的苹果很少低于一定的甜度。)” 可知野生苹果的含糖量变化很大，故选B项。
【11题】
主旨大意题。根据文章第一段内容“Is modern fruit cultivated(培育) to be sweeter than in the past The short answer is yes, though the longer answer is more complicated.( 现代种植的水果比过去更甜吗 简短的回答是肯定的，但较长的回答更为复杂)”并通读全文可知，文章主要讲述了现代农业技术使得现代水果比以前更甜。可知C项“水果更甜：这不是一个误解。”为最佳标题，故选C项。
【答案】12. C 13. B 14. B 15. A
【12题】
推理判断题。由文章第二段“Welcome to the world of drip pricing — the practice of promoting something at an attractive headline price and then, once you’ve committed to the purchase process, hitting you with unavoidable add-ons that are “dripped”. (欢迎来到滴漏式定价的世界——一种以吸引人的标题价格促销商品的做法，然后，一旦你承诺购买过程，就会用不可避免的“滴漏式”附加条款来打击你。)”可知，Rent-A-Car在广告价格之外收取磨损费是滴漏式定价的一个例子。故选C。
【13题】
词句猜测题。由第三段中“In most cases, you see through all additionally added mandatory fees, and even though you could relinquish the deal, you choose to bite the bullet and complete the deal. (在大多数情况下，你看透了所有额外的强制性费用，即使你可以relinquish这笔交易，你还是选择咬紧牙关完成这笔交易。)”可知，尽管你可以放弃这笔交易，但你还是选择咬紧牙关完成交易。relinquish意为“放弃”。A. Reach达到；B. Abandon放弃；C. Sign签名；D. Expand扩展。故选B。
【14题】
推理判断题。由第四段中“In the paper, Doing It Now or Later, economist Matthew Rabin defines people’s present-biased preference via an example of choosing between doing seven hours of unpleasant activity on April 1 or eight hours two weeks later: If asked on February 1, most people will choose the earlier option. But come April 1, given the same choice, most of us tend to put off work till April 15. (经济学家马修·拉宾在论文《现在做还是以后做》中，通过一个在4月1日做7小时不愉快的活动，还是在两周后做8小时不愉快的活动之间进行选择的例子，定义了人们对现在的偏好：如果在2月1日被问及这个问题，大多数人会选择更早的选项。但到了4月1日，如果面临同样的选择，我们大多数人倾向于把工作推迟到4月15日。)”可知，拉宾通过一个例子来解释人们拒绝取消订单并重新下单的原因，这个例子是选择在4月1日做7个小时的不愉快活动，还是在两周后做8个小时的活动。这表明人们喜欢提前获得奖励并推迟立即的成本。故选B。
【15题】
推理判断题。通读全文，尤其是由文章第二段“Welcome to the world of drip pricing — the practice of promoting something at an attractive headline price and then, once you’ve committed to the purchase process, hitting you with unavoidable add-ons that are “dripped”. (欢迎来到滴漏式定价的世界——一种以吸引人的标题价格促销商品的做法，然后，一旦你承诺购买过程，就会用不可避免的“滴漏式”附加条款来打击你。)”和最后一段中“Buyers would benefit from a ban on drip pricing. Many countries are taking steps to protect consumers from drip pricing. The effectiveness of such measures, however, is uncertain. Nonetheless, you can hopefully make a more informed decision by understanding why the strategy works. (买家将从滴漏式定价禁令中受益。许多国家正在采取措施保护消费者免受滴漏式定价的影响。然而，这些措施的有效性尚不确定。尽管如此，你还是可以通过理解为什么这个策略有效而做出更明智的决定。)”可知，文章主要介绍了滴漏式定价的策略，解释了为什么人们会落入这种定价策略的陷阱，并讨论了禁止滴漏式定价的措施。因此，作者的主要目的是解释为什么人们会落入滴漏式定价的陷阱。故选A。
【答案】16. B 17. F 18. A 19. E 20. G
【16题】
根据上文“Americans spent $186bn on them last year, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis, covering everything from food and vet visits to toys and grooming. That is more than they spent on childcare. (根据美国经济分析局的数据，去年美国人在宠物上的支出为1860亿美元，涵盖了从食品、兽医到玩具和美容的方方面面。这比他们花在儿童保育上的钱还多。)”可知，上文提到美国人去年在宠物上的花费巨大，超过了托儿服务的支出。本空要强调宠物经济的繁荣，B选项“Catering to pets has become big business. (照顾宠物已经成为大生意)”能承接上文，符合题意。故选B。
【17题】
根据上文“Spending on pets rocketed through the COVID-19 pandemic.(在2019冠状病毒病大流行期间，宠物支出飙升。)”可知，上文提到疫情期间宠物支出激增，本空要解释这一现象的原因；F选项“Lonely people adopted animals and invested heavily in them at that time. (孤独的人们在那段时间收养了动物并大量投资在它们身上)”解释了疫情期间宠物支出增长的原因，能承接上文，符合题意。故选F。
【18题】
根据上文“Between 2019 and 2023, pet spending grew by a compound annual rate of 11%, in nominal terms, compared with 6% for consumer spending overall and 5% for pet spending over the preceding decade. (2019年至2023年期间，宠物支出的名义复合年增长率为11%，而在过去十年中，整体消费者支出的增长率为6%，宠物支出的增长率为5%。)”可知，上文提到宠物支出的增长率远高于整体消费支出和过去十年的宠物支出增长率。本空要展望未来的增长趋势，因此，A选项“Plenty more growth is yet to come. (还有更多的增长即将到来)”能承接上文，引出未来的增长预测，符合题意。故选A。
【19题】
根据上文“Consumers, wrestling lately with higher prices and a cooling job market, have been reluctant to employ tight budgets on their pets. Morgan Stanley, a bank, estimates pet spending in America, compared with other personal expenses, will grow by 2.5% this year. (最近，消费者正与物价上涨和就业市场降温作斗争，他们不愿在宠物身上投入紧张的预算。摩根斯坦利银行估计，与其他个人开支相比，今年美国的宠物开支将增长2.5%。)”可知，上文提到尽管面临经济压力，宠物支出仍将继续增长。由下文“The pet business proved similarly strong during the global financial crisis of 2007-2009. (在2007-2009年的全球金融危机期间，宠物业同样表现强劲。)”可知，宠物经济在过去和未来都表现出强劲的增长势头。本空要进一步突出宠物支出的增长这一点，E选项“It is well ahead of estimates for other spending like clothes. (这远远超过了服装等其他支出的估计。)”进一步强调了宠物支出的增长速度，能承上启下，符合题意。故选E。
【20题】
根据上文“Morgan Stanley forecasts that annual spending will rise to around $260bn by 2030, consistent with its pre-pandemic growth trend. (摩根士丹利预测，到2030年，年度支出将增至2600亿美元左右，与疫情前的增长趋势一致。)”可知，上文提到宠物经济在过去和未来都表现出强劲的增长势头。本空要解释这种增长背后的原因，由下文“Owners increasingly see themselves as parents, not masters. “Pets have gone from the backyard to the living room to the bedroom,” says Loic Moutault, head of the pet division at Mars. (业主们越来越把自己视为父母，而不是主人。‘宠物已经从后院走到客厅，再到卧室，’玛氏宠物部主管洛伊克·穆奥特说。)”可知，宠物与人类的关系发生了变化，宠物越来越被视为家庭成员，本空应解释关系发生了变化是增长背后的原因。因此，G选项“Behind that is a shift in the relationship between pets and humans. (这背后是宠物与人类关系的变化)”引出了对宠物与人类关系变化的讨论，能承上启下，符合题意。故选G。
【答案】21. C 22. A 23. B 24. C 25. A 26. B 27. D 28. C 29. A 30. D 31. C 32. B 33. D 34. D 35. C
【21题】
考查动词词义辨析。句意：我和妻子从布鲁克林的圣诞零售市场买了这棵中等大小的冷杉树，带着内置的灯，然后用地铁把它搬到了我们以前的公寓，至今已经有至少十年的时间了。A. brought带来；B. sought寻找；C. bought买；D. held拿着。根据下文“the tree from the Christmas retail market in Brooklyn”可知，去市场买圣诞树，故选C。
【22题】
考查名词词义辨析。句意：我和妻子从布鲁克林的圣诞零售市场买了这棵中等大小的冷杉树，带着内置的灯，然后用地铁把它搬到了我们以前的公寓，至今已经有至少十年的时间了。A. apartment公寓；B. yard院子；C. garage车库；D. balcony阳台。根据上文“the tree from the Christmas retail market in Brooklyn, a medium-sized fir with built-in lights, and moved it on the subway to our previous”和下文“Over the years, we dragged that tree from apartment to apartment”可知，搬家通常是从一个公寓或房子到另一个，此处指十年前买完树后搬到了十年前的公寓。因此选A。
【23题】
考查动词词义辨析。句意：多年来，我们把那棵树从一个公寓拖到另一个公寓，把它塞进一辆搬家卡车，运到洛杉矶，后来又塞进那个有几百年历史的风化箱子，这次是运到芝加哥，也就是我们现在的家。A. changed改变；B. jammed塞进；C. pinned固定；D. passed通过。根据下文“it onto a moving truck”和常识可知，把东西放入狭小空间通常使用“塞进”，故选B。
【24题】
考查形容词词义辨析。句意：多年来，我们把那棵树从一个公寓拖到另一个公寓，把它塞进一辆搬家卡车，运到洛杉矶，后来又塞进那个有几百年历史的风化箱子，这次是运到芝加哥，也就是我们现在的家。A. painted涂漆的；B. polished打磨过的；C. weathered风化的；D. transformed改变过的。根据下文的“which was centuries-old”可知，箱子用了很长时间，描述老旧状态应用“风化的”，故选C。
【25题】
考查形容词词义辨析。句意：多年来，我们把那棵树从一个公寓拖到另一个公寓，把它塞进一辆搬家卡车，运到洛杉矶，后来又塞进那个有几百年历史的风化箱子，这次是运到芝加哥，也就是我们现在的家。A. current现在的；B. instant瞬间的；C. shabby破旧的；D. spacious宽敞的。根据上文“Over the years, we dragged that tree from apartment to apartment”和“this time to Chicago and our”可知，描述的是现在的居住地，故选A。
【26题】
考查动词词义辨析。句意：最后，一层又一层的胶带把盒子粘在一起，这是十年来传递的节日欢呼的磨损。A. signalling发出信号；B. delivering传递；C. adapting适应；D. receiving收到。根据上文“By the end, layers of tape held the box together, the wear and tear of a decade of”和下文“holiday cheer”可知，此处指这棵树传递的十年的节日欢乐，故选B。
【27题】
考查副词词义辨析。句意：我们的小树看起来快要倒了，但它是我们家唯一熟悉的树。A. away远处；B. out外面；C. off远离；D. down向下。根据上文“Over the years, we dragged that tree from apartment to apartment, jammed it onto a moving truck to Los Angeles and later crammed the weathered box which was centuries-old”可知，圣诞树被用了很多年，而且屡经搬迁，磨损很多，run down表示“逐渐损耗”，符合此处描述圣诞树目前的状况。故选D。
【28题】
考查形容词词义辨析。句意：在我们没有孩子在布鲁克林度过的最后一个圣诞节里，这张照片的背景中，它骄傲而闪亮地矗立着，照片上是我和我那幸福怀孕的妻子。A. still静止的；B. quiet安静的；C. proud骄傲的；D. free自由的。根据上文“It stood”和下文“and glowing in the background”可知，此处描述圣诞树神采奕奕的样子，骄傲而闪亮。故选C。
【29题】
考查副词词义辨析。句意：在我们没有孩子在布鲁克林度过的最后一个圣诞节里，这张照片的背景中，它骄傲而闪亮地矗立着，照片上是我和我那幸福怀孕的妻子。A. happily幸福地；B. newly新近地；C. motherly母亲般地；D. dearly深深爱着。根据下文“pregnant wife during our last Christmas in Brooklyn without children”可知，怀孕的妻子很幸福，故选A。
【30题】
考查形容词词义辨析。句意：我们年长的孩子出生于一个一月的暴风雪中。A. nicer更好的；B. braver更勇敢的；C. faster更快的；D. older年长的。根据上文“pregnant wife during our last Christmas in Brooklyn without children”和下文“was born a month later during a January snowstorm”可知，那时夫妻二人还没有孩子诞生，妻子已怀孕，所以此处描写的是年长的孩子，即第一个孩子。故选D。
【31题】
考查动词短语辨析。句意：这棵树在第二年的照片中又出现了，这次是给一个即将满一岁的男孩的节日礼物。A. took up占据；B. pulled up提起；C. showed up出现；D. put up举起。根据上文“It stood 8 and glowing in the background of photos of me and my 9 pregnant wife during our last Christmas”和下文“again in the next year’s photos”可知，上文描述圣诞树出现在照片中，本空描述圣诞树再次出现，故选C。
【32题】
考查动词词义辨析。句意：这棵树在第二年的照片中又出现了，这次是给一个即将满一岁的男孩的节日礼物。A. count数；B. turn变成；C. secure保护；D. grow生长。根据上文“a boy about to”可知，此处描述即将达到（岁数时）用turn“变成”，故选B。
【33题】
考查名词词义辨析。句意：在最近的照片中，我们的圣诞树照亮了窗户，俯瞰着芝加哥闪闪发光的雪。A. stairs楼梯；B. bars酒吧；C. doors门；D. windows窗户。根据下文的“overlooking glistening Chicago snow”和常识可知，通常是透过窗户观看景象，圣诞树照亮了窗户。故选D。
【34题】
考查动词词义辨析。句意：今年，经过一番争论，我们决定让我们亲爱的老树退休，它的树枝弯曲，多年前就熄灭了灯光。A. revise修订；B. reject拒绝；C. refresh刷新；D. retire退休。根据下文“our dear old tree, with its 15 branches and the lights that had burned out years ago.”可知，圣诞树状况不好，用retire表达不再使用，让亲爱的老树退休。故选D。
【35题】
考查形容词词义辨析。句意：今年，经过一番争论，我们决定让我们亲爱的老树退休，它的树枝弯曲，多年前就熄灭了灯光。A. stuck卡住的；B. stretched拉伸的；C. bent弯曲的，驼背的；D. lit被点亮的。根据上文“This year, after much debate, we decided to 14 our dear old tree”和下文“branches and the lights that had burned out years ago”的描述，圣诞树状况不好，树枝形态是“弯曲的”，故选C。
【答案】36. a 37. flowed
38. truly 39. what
40. than 41. favorite
42. steamed
43. with 44. featuring
45. to meet
【36题】
考查冠词。句意：他们大多提供一种独特的粤菜——炒杂烩、芙蓉蛋等。空处应填不定冠词泛指一个，unique以辅音音素开头，应用不定冠词a。故填a。
【37题】
考查动词的时态。句意：在那个世纪和20世纪的大部分时间里，移民主要来自中国的东南地区，主要是广东省。根据时间状语In that century and much of the 20th century可知，句子描述过去发生的事情，应用一般过去时，空处应用动词的过去式形式。故填flowed。
【38题】
考查副词。句意：餐馆开始将他们的食物称为“湖南”和“四川”菜，尽管这些菜确实与那些地区所吃的菜肴有很多相似之处，但比起最早期中餐菜单上定义性的甜、油炸食品，它们更加多样化且大胆调味。空处应用副词truly修饰动词bore。故填truly。
【39题】
考查主语从句。句意同上。空处引导宾语从句，且在宾语从句中作主语，表示“被吃的东西”，故用连接代词what。故填what。
【40题】
考查介词。句意同上。根据前面的more diverse and boldly spiced可知，空处应用than引导比较级结构。故填than。
【41题】
考查名词。句意：一种极受欢迎的菜品——四川菜，以其极为辛辣的菜肴让食客上瘾。空处应用名词favorite“特别喜爱的事物”在句中作主语，由a可知，应用单数形式。故填favorite。
【42题】
考查非谓语动词。句意：几乎每个小镇都有一家中餐馆，而且一般来说，菜单上的内容都差不多：猪肉蒸饺、酸汤、按照主料列出的炒菜，旁边有一个辣椒图标表示辣度。空处在句中作定语修饰dumplings，动词steam与被修饰词dumplings构成被动关系，应用过去分词的形式。故填steamed。
【43题】
考查介词。句意同上。空处应用介词with表示“带有”，构成with的复合结构“with+宾语+现在分词”。故填with。
【44题】
考查非谓语动词。句意：例如，在波士顿，外卖常常配有蘸着甜酱的饺子，这是一种为了迎合食客的新口味而在上曼哈顿开发的特殊菜肴。空处在句中作定语修饰dumplings，动词feature与被修饰词dumplings构成主动关系，应用现在分词的形式。故填featuring。
【45题】
考查非谓语动词。句意同上。空处应用动词不定式在句中作目的状语。故填to meet。
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【作文答案】
Dear fellow students,
As the president of the English Club, I’m writing to encourage all of you to read more Chinese classic books.
The purpose of this initiative is to promote our cultural heritage and enhance our understanding of Chinese wisdom. Reading these classics provides us with a profound insight into traditional values and enriches our spiritual world. Moreover, it improves our language skills and critical thinking.
Let us embark on this journey of exploring our cultural roots together.
Yours sincerely,
Li Hua
【读后续写答案】
Their specially-made bike has an additional back seat facing backward for Johnny. Lauri mounted the bike, feeling the added weight but also the shared purpose. They pedaled through the countryside, the wind rushing past them, the sun beating down. Johnny, despite his limitations, shouted encouragement to his father, their bond growing stronger with every mile. Lauri’s legs burned with fatigue, but his heart swelled with pride and determination.
Then they set their sights on the final leg of the race with Johnny sitting in the racing chair. Lauri pushed the chair with all his might, the finish line in sight. Johnny’s face lit up with determination and joy, his eyes fixed on the goal ahead. The crowd cheered loudly, their support fueling the father-son duo’s final push. As they crossed the line together, Lauri and Johnny were not just finishers of the Ironman, but true heroes of perseverance and love.
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