黑龙江省哈尔滨市2024-2025学年高三上学期期中考试英语试题(无答案)
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2024—2025学年度上学期高三学年期中考试
英语试卷
（满分150分 时间120分钟）
第Ⅰ卷
第一部分 听力（共两节，满分30分）
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．What did Fred have for breakfast today
A．Bread and an egg. B．Bread and an apple. C．A banana and an apple.
2．What does the woman think of herself
A．Outgoing. B．Shy. C．Confident.
3．When will the woman meet the man
A．At 7:30. B．At 6:45. C．At 6:00.
4．What may cause the woman trouble
A．Missing a class. B．Having dinner outside. C．Getting back home too late.
5．What are the speakers talking about
A．A teacher. B．A task. C．A movie.
第二节 （共15 小题，每小题1.5分，满分22.5分）
听下面5段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置，听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟；听完后，各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。
听第6段材料，回答第6-7题。
6．At what time will the woman meet a customer
A．2 o’clock. B．3 o’clock. C．4 o’clock.
7．Who will deliver the document
A．Ashley. B．Rebecca. C．Victor.
听第7段材料，回答8-9题。
8．Why isn’t the woman available
A．She is busy at the patient care workshop.
B．She has a doctor’s appointment.
C．She has a meeting with Greg.
9．What relation is the woman to the man
A．His wife. B．His workmate. C．His patient.
听第8段材料，回答10-12题。
10．Why does the woman talk to the man
A．To ask for his help.
B．To invite him to the music festival.
C．To introduce a folk band to him.
11．When will the speakers go to get tickets
A．On Friday. B．On Saturday. C．On Sunday.
12．What is the most important for the speakers to get tickets
A．Arriving by 6:00 a. m. B．Taking something to sit on.
C．Lining up in the park.
听第9段材料，回答13-16题。
13．Who is the woman staying with now
A．Her mother. B．Her father. C．Her sister.
14．What will the man do in the evening
A．Visit the woman. B．Work on his project. C．Stay with his relatives.
15．How will the man go to the woman’s house
A．By bus. B．By bike. C．By car.
16．When does the conversation take place
A．In the morning. B．At noon. C．In the afternoon.
听第10段材料，回答17—20题。
17．Where is Coopers
A．On the edge of town. B．Behind a market. C．Near the college.
18．What is the good point about Shopsmart
A．The price. B．The position. C．Transport.
19．What can people buy in Mass
A．Fruit and vegetables. B．Files and pens. C．Souvenirs.
20．What do we know about the museum in Newtown
A．It has its own shop. B．It is closed on Sunday. C．It provides parking spaces.
第二部分 阅读理解（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，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。
A
Arden University
Arden University has physical study centres in London, Manchester, Birmingham, and Berlin, Germany, and also offers high quality online bachelor and master degree programmes to British and international students all over the world. They have supported over 50,000 students while remaining true to their core values, ensuring higher education is available for all. Covering a range of professional subjects in 12 academic fields, Arden University makes UK education accessible and affordable through their creative study platform. Click here to view this school.
University of London International Programmes
We have over 60,000 students in every corner of the globe studying on more than 100 different programmes. Our global footprint and flexible study method have enabled students to study wherever they live. As a family of 19 world-class colleges and admired institutes, the University of London has an international reputation for academic distinction in teaching and research. Our students achieve exactly the same standard of internationally recognized qualification as those who attend the University itself. Click here to view this school.
University of York
The University of York is one of the top ten universities in the UK for teaching and research, and is ranked in the top 100 universities in the world. This well-established university consists of over 30 academic departments and research centres and a student body of 13,000, and was named Times Higher Education University of the Year 2010．Most of the distance learning courses are designed to meet professional development needs, and reflect the benefits of online learning in this context. Click here to view this school.
Lloyd’s Maritime（海事） Academy
Course options include popular and well-established diplomas in Marine Surveying, Ship Management, and Maritime Law. Various accreditation levels are available from short, online based certificate courses to fully-accredited diploma and postgraduate diploma study options. We also offer our best course — the MBA in Shipping & Logistics. The continued strength of these distance learning programmes have over 6,000 students enrolled on our courses. Click here to view this school.
21．Which holds the largest number of students
A．Arden University.
B．University of York.
C．Lloyd’s Maritime Academy.
D．University of London International Programmes.
22．What can you learn atlloyd’s Maritime Academy
A．How to be a training teacher. B．How to be a good programmer.
C．How to be a professional in shipping industry. D．How to be an excellent shipbuilder.
23．What do the four schools have in common
A．They all offer online courses. B．They are only accessible to the British.
C．They are all top ten schools in the world. D．They were all built in the early 20th century.
B
MY GARDEN IS MY REFUGE （避难所）;I find reflective isolation in it. I have seven children, so our house is a scene of lively confusion. For a long time, I guarded this place of peace and quiet. When the children followed me into the garden, I would hand out chores. “Here: you weed the beans, you water the onions.” Soon they would be hot or their backs would hurt from bending over, and they would leave me to myself.
Then one day, I was trying to prepare the soil, and I honestly wasn’t enjoying my time of peace and loneliness. My 13-year-old son, Josiah, picked up a spare spade and began helping. Working as a team, we had the pea patch dug up and fertilized in no time at all. I thanked Josiah, realizing that I had enjoyed his company.
The same thing happened with picking up rocks and planting the seeds — one or two of the children would appear to watch and then participate. Each time, I would feel surprised to find the work was lighter for their help, and their laughter made time pass faster. So I stopped resenting their company and instead I began to share my gardening secrets. As spring became summer and the real work began, I expected the children to disappear, but no, there they were, watering, pulling weeds and checking for insects.
One day I slipped out by myself to the garden, feeling a little bit guilty. I had a suspicion that the sugar snap peas were ripe, and I wanted a taste. As I walked along the row, a little voice piped up behind me. “What are you eating, Mama ”
Abby’s big blue eyes sparkled as I showed her how to pull the strings off and pop（剥出） the peas into her mouth. She just loved how tasty they were. Then my sweet seven-year-old girl put me to shame. “Mama, I’ve got to pick a bunch. Won’ t the others love them I can’t wait to share.”
I realized how selfish I had been. I’d tried to keep the joys of gardening to myself, and here was a child who couldn’t wait to share with her brothers and sisters. I held back tears and said, “Sure, honey, let’s pick some and I’ll show you how to prepare them. We’ll make the most wonderful supper.”
24．Why did the writer ask her children to do chores whenever they were in the garden
A．She didn’t want to do all the work on her own.
B．She intended to show the hard labor of gardening.
C．She didn’t want them to get hurt or get too tired.
D．She was determined to keep the garden to herself.
25．What were the children like
① loud ② lively ③ enterprising ④ loving ⑤ strong
A．①②③④ B．①②④ C．①②③ D．④⑤
26．The underlined word “resent” probably means ______.
A．dislike B．expect C．keep D．sacrifice
27．What did the writer try to tell the readers with this story
A．The best way to communicate with children is by working together.
B．The golden rule of gardening is that many hands make light work.
C．Everything feels better when shared with your family or your friend.
D．Parents should spend as much time with their children as possible.
C
Wild animals are equipped with a variety of techniques to avoid becoming lunch for a bigger animal, also known as a predator（捕食者） in nature. The most well-known methods include the classic fight and flight as well as freeze.
A team of researchers wondered whether closeness to people might impact those survival strategies. “We often see that animals are more tolerant around us in urban areas, but we don’t really know why.” says evolutionary biologist Dan Blumstein. “Is it individual plasticity, meaning individuals change their fear of us and that leads to tolerance Or can there be an evolutionary factor involved ”
To find out, Blumstein and his colleagues combined information from 173 studies of over100 species, including mammals, birds, fish and even mollusks. It turns out that regardless of evolutionary ancestry, the animals react in a similar way to life among humans: they lose their anti-predator characteristics. That pattern is especially pronounced for plant-eating animals and for social species. This behavioral change is perhaps unsurprising when it’s intentional, the result of domestication or controlled breeding. But it turns out that urbanization alone results in a similar change, though around three times more slowly.
The main point is: we’re essentially domesticating animals by urbanization. We’re selecting for the same sorts of characteristics that we would if we were actually trying to domesticate them. If the urbanization process helps animals better co-exist with people, it could be to their benefit. But if it makes them more defenseless to their nonhuman predators, it could be a real problem. Either way, these results, mean that city living has enough of an influence on wild animals that evolutionary processes kick in. Those reductions in anti-predator characteristics become encoded in their genes. We’re changing the population genetics one way or another.
What the researchers now wonder is whether the mere presence of tourists in less urbanized areas can cause similar changes in wild animals. If so, serious questions exist for the idea of ethical, welfare-oriented eco-tourism. If we wish to help animals keep their anti-predator defenses, the researchers say, we might have to intentionally expose animals to predators. It’s just yet one other way that we’re changing the world around us.
28．The research led by Blumstein is aimed at ______.
A．determining how animals’ survival is impacted by individual plasticity.
B．studying how living among humans affects animals’ survival strategies
C．comparing the effectiveness of different survival techniques
D．finding out which evolutionary factor impacts animals’ survival methods
29．Which of the following practices may contribute to animals losing anti-predator characteristics
A．Controlled breeding of animals. B．Banning the operation of eco-tourism.
C．Planned selection of favorable genes. D．Eliminating domestication.
30．Which of the following statements is Blumstein likely to agree with
A．Urbanization has made wild animals more alert.
B．Urbanization has brought concrete benefits to animals.
C．City living has led to animals’ genetic variations.
D．City living has helped to preserve animal species.
31．What is the purpose of the passage
A．To amuse people with recent interesting scientific findings.
B．To remind people to help animals survive in a correct way.
C．To promote eco-tourism in cities around the world.
D．To warn people of the danger of animal presence in cities.
D
When evaluating people on various psychological tests, psychologists often distinguish between markers of absolute performance and relative performance. Absolute performance reflects the raw measurement of something, like the time it takes to run a mile. Relative performance is how a person rates in relation to their peers, as in what place a runner gets in a race.
The standards we use to evaluate ourselves are almost always relative, as we compare ourselves to our peers and the standards that are most familiar to us. Our conscious recognition of these peers and norms is what sets our expectations, shaping our self-image and happiness. What’s interesting about the relative comparisons that most of us make is that in whatever area of life we consider— for example, our highest level of education— it’s not how we fare （成功） in comparison to the rest of the world that seems to matter most, but rather how we compare to our closest peers.
For instance, in my private practice, I have one patient I will call “Omar” who is dependent on social services and makes less than $30,000 per year at his job. While this level of poverty would lead most people to wake up depressed each day, Omar is one of the most optimistic and appreciative individuals I know. Why Because most of his closest peers— his siblings and friends from childhood— have lives far worse than his.
In contrast t Omar, I have another patient, an adolescent I’ll call “Lena”, whose family has property over $5 million. Lena, however, lives in an upper-class neighborhood where her family is at the lower end of the income level. Though Lena’ s family allows her to enjoy possessions and experiences that less than 1 percent of her peers across the world can share, she consistently feels “less than”. Why Because Lena doesn’t compare herself to the rest of the world; this is too abstract an exercise for her, as it would be for most of us.
Accordingly, whether a psychologist is psychodynamic or cognitive-behavioral, therapy（疗法） with individuals struggling with situational or psychological depression aims to solve the problems associated with basing one’s self-worth on comparisons with others. Psychologists try to help people focus on personal growth around the achievement of concrete goals in line with their values independent of the achievement of others. For all of us, defining these goals, especially during periods of emotional calm, can go a long way in helping us to avoid the trap of relativity that often leads to situational and psychological depression.
32．In writing Paragraph 1, the author aims to ______.
A．show the significance of evaluating people.
B．motivate readers to study psychological tests.
C．help people perform well in psychological tests
D．provide some background information on evaluating people.
33．Why does the author mention his two patients
A．To measure different achievement.
B．To introduce the standards to evaluate people.
C．To explain relative performance with examples.
D．To contrast relative performance and absolute performance.
34．What message does the last paragraph convey
A．Setting goals in life is essential for everyone.
B．It’s important to avoid unhealthy comparisons.
C．A sense of achievement can affect one’s happiness.
D．Improving self-worth can help get rid of depression.
35．What is the best title for the text
A．Happiness: Is it all relative B．Happiness: Is it associated with achievement
C．Self-worth: Is it based on efforts D．Self-worth: Is it measurable
第二节 （共5小题，每小题2.5分，满分12.5分）
根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
Getting Lost in a Good Book Can Help Keep You Healthy
I’m a novelist and it’s obviously in my interest to encourage people to read. But there’s increasing evidence that reading isn’t just for pleasure, or merely a way of improving literacy skills and factual knowledge. 36
Firstly, reading helps to lengthen attention spans in children and improves their ability to think clearly. 37 It is essential to learn this skill as a small child. The more they do it, the better they get at it.
Also, reading can help people learn to empathize （产生共鸣）. A recent study at the University of Michigan found that there had been a 48% decrease in empathy among college students. 38 In a computer game, you might have rescued a princess, but you don’t care about her, you just want to win. But a princess in a book has a past, present and future, she has connections and motivations. We can relate to her. We see the world through her eyes.
As a matter of fact, reading is far from a passive activity. Reading exercises the whole brain. When we read and imagine the landscapes, sounds, smells and tastes described on the page, the various areas of the brain that are used to process these experiences in real life are activated, creating new neural pathways. 39 This doesn’t happen when we’re watching TV or playing a computer game.
Getting sucked into a good novel appears to be beneficial to our mental health too. 40 Reading not only avoids feelings of loneliness, it helps us to wind down, de-stress and forget our own problems for a while.
A．Stories have a structure that encourages their brains to think in sequence, to link cause, effect and significance.
B．In other words, our brains model real experiences, just as if we were living them ourselves.
C．When we read a good book, we’re trying to find out its main idea.
D．It might actually be good for our mental and physical health too.
E．But those who did not enjoy these activities had lots of loss.
F．As the old saying goes, “You’re never alone with a book.”
G．Encouraging reading could overcome this.
第三部分 英语知识运用（共两节，满分30分）
第一节 完形填空（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Veteran （老兵） Willenbring has always been a fighter. She grew up with her parents on the West Coast during an adolescence she describes as sometimes 41 . But the military struck Willenbring as a way to 42 the aggression she says built up during an unstable upbringing. In 1998, she joined the army and was 43 to a foreign country.
“We were actually part of the initial 44 to go into the country,” she says. “And I can’t even describe the 45 .” In the scenes of destruction, Willenbring recalled some ordinary sights that briefly woke her from the stress of the war every night. As her mission came to an end, her luck ran out. She ended up severely 46 and had to be taken away in an air ambulance.
She 47 returned to her home country, and spent three years living in her hometown, a city called Salem. She 48 to adjust to civilian life. Fireworks would 49 particularly difficult episodes. “I had PTSD （创伤后应激障碍） so badly that I could not 50 living in a city anymore,” she says.
Instead, in 2010 Willenbring 51 on a plot with sheep in rural Oregon. The sheep, she says, have helped her manage her trauma symptoms. She’s surrounded by animals that 52 her emotions and can tell her own mood.
The 53 rural life is an apparent contrast to the chaos of battle. Willenbring hasn’t had a major 54 related to her PTSD for eight years. Farming has its dramas, she says, “but it is also something that is about creation, about 55 over death rather than death over life.”
41．A．violent B．graceful C．cheerful D．sad
42．A．encourage B．channel C．resist D．ignore
43．A．sent B．delivered C．brought D．led
44．A．government B．police C．force D．organization
45．A．situation B．scenery C．background D．chaos
46．A．punished B．neglected C．embarrassed D．injured
47．A．hardly B．temporarily C．immediately D．cautiously
48．A．struggled B．managed C．hesitated D．pretended
49．A．extend B．trigger C．pause D．shrink
50．A．go with B．begin with C．deal with D．negotiate with
51．A．settled B．went C．relied D．lay
52．A．control B．mirror C．express D．hide
53．A．tough B．uneasy C．peaceful D．challenging
54．A．element B．reason C．method D．episode
55．A．kindness B．gratitude C．victory D．life
第二节 语法填空 （共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）
阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的词或括号内单词的正确形式。
As the summer vacation goes on, museums remain in the spotlight, with crowds of visitors 56 （long） to immerse themselves in rich traditional culture, which reflects a significant rise in people’s passion for culture. It came as a result of President Xi Jinping’s consistent promotion of traditional Chinese culture and his call for museums to bring cultural relics to life, as well as his 57 （emphasize） on mutual learning between civilizations.
Xi 58 （highlight） on many occasions that China’s fine traditional culture is the “root and soul” of the Chinese nation, 59 he has called, during visits to museums and cultural sites across the nation in the past few years, for a better employment of cultural relics and for making them “alive”.
To attract more visitors, many institutions have transitioned from their role 60 only collectors and protectors of artworks and antiques to also becoming cultural service providers. From concerts and digital immersive experiences to children’s plays, museums and cultural institutions are coming up with 61 （innovate） ways to entertain as well as educate the public.
Henan Museum in Zhengzhou, the capital of Central China’s Henan province, hosts concerts for museum visitors 62 feature musicians playing ancient pieces of music with traditional instruments that are replicas of antiques collected by the museum, some of which were used more than 2,000 years ago. 63 clothing styles of the musicians are in line with the dynasties during which their specific instruments were 64 （original） played. During Spring Festival in February, the museum welcomed about 100,000 visitors, and concert tickets were hard 65 （obtain）.
第Ⅱ卷
第四部分 书面表达 （满分40分）
第一节 （满分15分）
假定你是李华，你的英国朋友Liz来信表示对中国烹饪很感兴趣。正好这学期你校要开设“Exploring Chinese Cuisine”的线上课程，请你回信向他推荐此课程。内容包括：
1．开课时间；
2．课程内容；
3．报名方式。
注意：
1．写作词数应为80左右；
2．请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
Dear Liz,
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Yours
Li Hua
第二节 （满分25分）
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。
After graduating from college, I worked as a salesman for a piano company. We advertised our pianos in small town newspapers and then, when we received many replies, we would load our little trucks, drive into the area and sell the pianos to those who had replied. Every time we advertised, we would receive a reply on a postcard which said, “Please bring me a new piano for my little granddaughter. It must be red mahogany （红木）. I can pay $10 a month with my egg money.” Of course, we could not sell a new piano for $10 a month. No finance company would carry a contract with payments that small, so we ignored her postcards.
One day, however, I happened to be in that area calling on other replies, and out of curiosity I decided to meet the old lady. I found pretty much what I expected: The old lady lived in a one-room cabin in the middle of a cotton field. The cabin had a dirt floor and there were chickens in the house. Obviously, she could not have qualified to purchase anything on credit— no car, no phone, no real job, nothing but a roof over her head. I could see daylight through the roof in several places.
Her little granddaughter was about 8, barefoot and wearing a dress made out of cotton bags holding animal feed. I explained to the old lady that we could not sell a new piano for $10 a month and that she should stop writing to us every time she saw our advertisement.
I drove away heartsick, but my advice had no effect— she still sent us the same postcard every time we advertised. Always wanting a new piano, red mahogany, she swore she would never miss a $10 payment. It was sad.
Several years later, I owned my own piano company, and each time I advertised in that area, the old lady’s postcards would come to me.
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。
One day when I was in that area, I made a big decision. ___________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Twenty years later, while sitting at a bar, I heard the most beautiful piano music behind me. ______________
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
英语试卷
（满分150分 时间120分钟）
第Ⅰ卷
第一部分 听力（共两节，满分30分）
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．What did Fred have for breakfast today
A．Bread and an egg. B．Bread and an apple. C．A banana and an apple.
2．What does the woman think of herself
A．Outgoing. B．Shy. C．Confident.
3．When will the woman meet the man
A．At 7:30. B．At 6:45. C．At 6:00.
4．What may cause the woman trouble
A．Missing a class. B．Having dinner outside. C．Getting back home too late.
5．What are the speakers talking about
A．A teacher. B．A task. C．A movie.
第二节 （共15 小题，每小题1.5分，满分22.5分）
听下面5段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置，听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟；听完后，各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。
听第6段材料，回答第6-7题。
6．At what time will the woman meet a customer
A．2 o’clock. B．3 o’clock. C．4 o’clock.
7．Who will deliver the document
A．Ashley. B．Rebecca. C．Victor.
听第7段材料，回答8-9题。
8．Why isn’t the woman available
A．She is busy at the patient care workshop.
B．She has a doctor’s appointment.
C．She has a meeting with Greg.
9．What relation is the woman to the man
A．His wife. B．His workmate. C．His patient.
听第8段材料，回答10-12题。
10．Why does the woman talk to the man
A．To ask for his help.
B．To invite him to the music festival.
C．To introduce a folk band to him.
11．When will the speakers go to get tickets
A．On Friday. B．On Saturday. C．On Sunday.
12．What is the most important for the speakers to get tickets
A．Arriving by 6:00 a. m. B．Taking something to sit on.
C．Lining up in the park.
听第9段材料，回答13-16题。
13．Who is the woman staying with now
A．Her mother. B．Her father. C．Her sister.
14．What will the man do in the evening
A．Visit the woman. B．Work on his project. C．Stay with his relatives.
15．How will the man go to the woman’s house
A．By bus. B．By bike. C．By car.
16．When does the conversation take place
A．In the morning. B．At noon. C．In the afternoon.
听第10段材料，回答17—20题。
17．Where is Coopers
A．On the edge of town. B．Behind a market. C．Near the college.
18．What is the good point about Shopsmart
A．The price. B．The position. C．Transport.
19．What can people buy in Mass
A．Fruit and vegetables. B．Files and pens. C．Souvenirs.
20．What do we know about the museum in Newtown
A．It has its own shop. B．It is closed on Sunday. C．It provides parking spaces.
第二部分 阅读理解（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，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。
A
Arden University
Arden University has physical study centres in London, Manchester, Birmingham, and Berlin, Germany, and also offers high quality online bachelor and master degree programmes to British and international students all over the world. They have supported over 50,000 students while remaining true to their core values, ensuring higher education is available for all. Covering a range of professional subjects in 12 academic fields, Arden University makes UK education accessible and affordable through their creative study platform. Click here to view this school.
University of London International Programmes
We have over 60,000 students in every corner of the globe studying on more than 100 different programmes. Our global footprint and flexible study method have enabled students to study wherever they live. As a family of 19 world-class colleges and admired institutes, the University of London has an international reputation for academic distinction in teaching and research. Our students achieve exactly the same standard of internationally recognized qualification as those who attend the University itself. Click here to view this school.
University of York
The University of York is one of the top ten universities in the UK for teaching and research, and is ranked in the top 100 universities in the world. This well-established university consists of over 30 academic departments and research centres and a student body of 13,000, and was named Times Higher Education University of the Year 2010．Most of the distance learning courses are designed to meet professional development needs, and reflect the benefits of online learning in this context. Click here to view this school.
Lloyd’s Maritime（海事） Academy
Course options include popular and well-established diplomas in Marine Surveying, Ship Management, and Maritime Law. Various accreditation levels are available from short, online based certificate courses to fully-accredited diploma and postgraduate diploma study options. We also offer our best course — the MBA in Shipping & Logistics. The continued strength of these distance learning programmes have over 6,000 students enrolled on our courses. Click here to view this school.
21．Which holds the largest number of students
A．Arden University.
B．University of York.
C．Lloyd’s Maritime Academy.
D．University of London International Programmes.
22．What can you learn atlloyd’s Maritime Academy
A．How to be a training teacher. B．How to be a good programmer.
C．How to be a professional in shipping industry. D．How to be an excellent shipbuilder.
23．What do the four schools have in common
A．They all offer online courses. B．They are only accessible to the British.
C．They are all top ten schools in the world. D．They were all built in the early 20th century.
B
MY GARDEN IS MY REFUGE （避难所）;I find reflective isolation in it. I have seven children, so our house is a scene of lively confusion. For a long time, I guarded this place of peace and quiet. When the children followed me into the garden, I would hand out chores. “Here: you weed the beans, you water the onions.” Soon they would be hot or their backs would hurt from bending over, and they would leave me to myself.
Then one day, I was trying to prepare the soil, and I honestly wasn’t enjoying my time of peace and loneliness. My 13-year-old son, Josiah, picked up a spare spade and began helping. Working as a team, we had the pea patch dug up and fertilized in no time at all. I thanked Josiah, realizing that I had enjoyed his company.
The same thing happened with picking up rocks and planting the seeds — one or two of the children would appear to watch and then participate. Each time, I would feel surprised to find the work was lighter for their help, and their laughter made time pass faster. So I stopped resenting their company and instead I began to share my gardening secrets. As spring became summer and the real work began, I expected the children to disappear, but no, there they were, watering, pulling weeds and checking for insects.
One day I slipped out by myself to the garden, feeling a little bit guilty. I had a suspicion that the sugar snap peas were ripe, and I wanted a taste. As I walked along the row, a little voice piped up behind me. “What are you eating, Mama ”
Abby’s big blue eyes sparkled as I showed her how to pull the strings off and pop（剥出） the peas into her mouth. She just loved how tasty they were. Then my sweet seven-year-old girl put me to shame. “Mama, I’ve got to pick a bunch. Won’ t the others love them I can’t wait to share.”
I realized how selfish I had been. I’d tried to keep the joys of gardening to myself, and here was a child who couldn’t wait to share with her brothers and sisters. I held back tears and said, “Sure, honey, let’s pick some and I’ll show you how to prepare them. We’ll make the most wonderful supper.”
24．Why did the writer ask her children to do chores whenever they were in the garden
A．She didn’t want to do all the work on her own.
B．She intended to show the hard labor of gardening.
C．She didn’t want them to get hurt or get too tired.
D．She was determined to keep the garden to herself.
25．What were the children like
① loud ② lively ③ enterprising ④ loving ⑤ strong
A．①②③④ B．①②④ C．①②③ D．④⑤
26．The underlined word “resent” probably means ______.
A．dislike B．expect C．keep D．sacrifice
27．What did the writer try to tell the readers with this story
A．The best way to communicate with children is by working together.
B．The golden rule of gardening is that many hands make light work.
C．Everything feels better when shared with your family or your friend.
D．Parents should spend as much time with their children as possible.
C
Wild animals are equipped with a variety of techniques to avoid becoming lunch for a bigger animal, also known as a predator（捕食者） in nature. The most well-known methods include the classic fight and flight as well as freeze.
A team of researchers wondered whether closeness to people might impact those survival strategies. “We often see that animals are more tolerant around us in urban areas, but we don’t really know why.” says evolutionary biologist Dan Blumstein. “Is it individual plasticity, meaning individuals change their fear of us and that leads to tolerance Or can there be an evolutionary factor involved ”
To find out, Blumstein and his colleagues combined information from 173 studies of over100 species, including mammals, birds, fish and even mollusks. It turns out that regardless of evolutionary ancestry, the animals react in a similar way to life among humans: they lose their anti-predator characteristics. That pattern is especially pronounced for plant-eating animals and for social species. This behavioral change is perhaps unsurprising when it’s intentional, the result of domestication or controlled breeding. But it turns out that urbanization alone results in a similar change, though around three times more slowly.
The main point is: we’re essentially domesticating animals by urbanization. We’re selecting for the same sorts of characteristics that we would if we were actually trying to domesticate them. If the urbanization process helps animals better co-exist with people, it could be to their benefit. But if it makes them more defenseless to their nonhuman predators, it could be a real problem. Either way, these results, mean that city living has enough of an influence on wild animals that evolutionary processes kick in. Those reductions in anti-predator characteristics become encoded in their genes. We’re changing the population genetics one way or another.
What the researchers now wonder is whether the mere presence of tourists in less urbanized areas can cause similar changes in wild animals. If so, serious questions exist for the idea of ethical, welfare-oriented eco-tourism. If we wish to help animals keep their anti-predator defenses, the researchers say, we might have to intentionally expose animals to predators. It’s just yet one other way that we’re changing the world around us.
28．The research led by Blumstein is aimed at ______.
A．determining how animals’ survival is impacted by individual plasticity.
B．studying how living among humans affects animals’ survival strategies
C．comparing the effectiveness of different survival techniques
D．finding out which evolutionary factor impacts animals’ survival methods
29．Which of the following practices may contribute to animals losing anti-predator characteristics
A．Controlled breeding of animals. B．Banning the operation of eco-tourism.
C．Planned selection of favorable genes. D．Eliminating domestication.
30．Which of the following statements is Blumstein likely to agree with
A．Urbanization has made wild animals more alert.
B．Urbanization has brought concrete benefits to animals.
C．City living has led to animals’ genetic variations.
D．City living has helped to preserve animal species.
31．What is the purpose of the passage
A．To amuse people with recent interesting scientific findings.
B．To remind people to help animals survive in a correct way.
C．To promote eco-tourism in cities around the world.
D．To warn people of the danger of animal presence in cities.
D
When evaluating people on various psychological tests, psychologists often distinguish between markers of absolute performance and relative performance. Absolute performance reflects the raw measurement of something, like the time it takes to run a mile. Relative performance is how a person rates in relation to their peers, as in what place a runner gets in a race.
The standards we use to evaluate ourselves are almost always relative, as we compare ourselves to our peers and the standards that are most familiar to us. Our conscious recognition of these peers and norms is what sets our expectations, shaping our self-image and happiness. What’s interesting about the relative comparisons that most of us make is that in whatever area of life we consider— for example, our highest level of education— it’s not how we fare （成功） in comparison to the rest of the world that seems to matter most, but rather how we compare to our closest peers.
For instance, in my private practice, I have one patient I will call “Omar” who is dependent on social services and makes less than $30,000 per year at his job. While this level of poverty would lead most people to wake up depressed each day, Omar is one of the most optimistic and appreciative individuals I know. Why Because most of his closest peers— his siblings and friends from childhood— have lives far worse than his.
In contrast t Omar, I have another patient, an adolescent I’ll call “Lena”, whose family has property over $5 million. Lena, however, lives in an upper-class neighborhood where her family is at the lower end of the income level. Though Lena’ s family allows her to enjoy possessions and experiences that less than 1 percent of her peers across the world can share, she consistently feels “less than”. Why Because Lena doesn’t compare herself to the rest of the world; this is too abstract an exercise for her, as it would be for most of us.
Accordingly, whether a psychologist is psychodynamic or cognitive-behavioral, therapy（疗法） with individuals struggling with situational or psychological depression aims to solve the problems associated with basing one’s self-worth on comparisons with others. Psychologists try to help people focus on personal growth around the achievement of concrete goals in line with their values independent of the achievement of others. For all of us, defining these goals, especially during periods of emotional calm, can go a long way in helping us to avoid the trap of relativity that often leads to situational and psychological depression.
32．In writing Paragraph 1, the author aims to ______.
A．show the significance of evaluating people.
B．motivate readers to study psychological tests.
C．help people perform well in psychological tests
D．provide some background information on evaluating people.
33．Why does the author mention his two patients
A．To measure different achievement.
B．To introduce the standards to evaluate people.
C．To explain relative performance with examples.
D．To contrast relative performance and absolute performance.
34．What message does the last paragraph convey
A．Setting goals in life is essential for everyone.
B．It’s important to avoid unhealthy comparisons.
C．A sense of achievement can affect one’s happiness.
D．Improving self-worth can help get rid of depression.
35．What is the best title for the text
A．Happiness: Is it all relative B．Happiness: Is it associated with achievement
C．Self-worth: Is it based on efforts D．Self-worth: Is it measurable
第二节 （共5小题，每小题2.5分，满分12.5分）
根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
Getting Lost in a Good Book Can Help Keep You Healthy
I’m a novelist and it’s obviously in my interest to encourage people to read. But there’s increasing evidence that reading isn’t just for pleasure, or merely a way of improving literacy skills and factual knowledge. 36
Firstly, reading helps to lengthen attention spans in children and improves their ability to think clearly. 37 It is essential to learn this skill as a small child. The more they do it, the better they get at it.
Also, reading can help people learn to empathize （产生共鸣）. A recent study at the University of Michigan found that there had been a 48% decrease in empathy among college students. 38 In a computer game, you might have rescued a princess, but you don’t care about her, you just want to win. But a princess in a book has a past, present and future, she has connections and motivations. We can relate to her. We see the world through her eyes.
As a matter of fact, reading is far from a passive activity. Reading exercises the whole brain. When we read and imagine the landscapes, sounds, smells and tastes described on the page, the various areas of the brain that are used to process these experiences in real life are activated, creating new neural pathways. 39 This doesn’t happen when we’re watching TV or playing a computer game.
Getting sucked into a good novel appears to be beneficial to our mental health too. 40 Reading not only avoids feelings of loneliness, it helps us to wind down, de-stress and forget our own problems for a while.
A．Stories have a structure that encourages their brains to think in sequence, to link cause, effect and significance.
B．In other words, our brains model real experiences, just as if we were living them ourselves.
C．When we read a good book, we’re trying to find out its main idea.
D．It might actually be good for our mental and physical health too.
E．But those who did not enjoy these activities had lots of loss.
F．As the old saying goes, “You’re never alone with a book.”
G．Encouraging reading could overcome this.
第三部分 英语知识运用（共两节，满分30分）
第一节 完形填空（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Veteran （老兵） Willenbring has always been a fighter. She grew up with her parents on the West Coast during an adolescence she describes as sometimes 41 . But the military struck Willenbring as a way to 42 the aggression she says built up during an unstable upbringing. In 1998, she joined the army and was 43 to a foreign country.
“We were actually part of the initial 44 to go into the country,” she says. “And I can’t even describe the 45 .” In the scenes of destruction, Willenbring recalled some ordinary sights that briefly woke her from the stress of the war every night. As her mission came to an end, her luck ran out. She ended up severely 46 and had to be taken away in an air ambulance.
She 47 returned to her home country, and spent three years living in her hometown, a city called Salem. She 48 to adjust to civilian life. Fireworks would 49 particularly difficult episodes. “I had PTSD （创伤后应激障碍） so badly that I could not 50 living in a city anymore,” she says.
Instead, in 2010 Willenbring 51 on a plot with sheep in rural Oregon. The sheep, she says, have helped her manage her trauma symptoms. She’s surrounded by animals that 52 her emotions and can tell her own mood.
The 53 rural life is an apparent contrast to the chaos of battle. Willenbring hasn’t had a major 54 related to her PTSD for eight years. Farming has its dramas, she says, “but it is also something that is about creation, about 55 over death rather than death over life.”
41．A．violent B．graceful C．cheerful D．sad
42．A．encourage B．channel C．resist D．ignore
43．A．sent B．delivered C．brought D．led
44．A．government B．police C．force D．organization
45．A．situation B．scenery C．background D．chaos
46．A．punished B．neglected C．embarrassed D．injured
47．A．hardly B．temporarily C．immediately D．cautiously
48．A．struggled B．managed C．hesitated D．pretended
49．A．extend B．trigger C．pause D．shrink
50．A．go with B．begin with C．deal with D．negotiate with
51．A．settled B．went C．relied D．lay
52．A．control B．mirror C．express D．hide
53．A．tough B．uneasy C．peaceful D．challenging
54．A．element B．reason C．method D．episode
55．A．kindness B．gratitude C．victory D．life
第二节 语法填空 （共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）
阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的词或括号内单词的正确形式。
As the summer vacation goes on, museums remain in the spotlight, with crowds of visitors 56 （long） to immerse themselves in rich traditional culture, which reflects a significant rise in people’s passion for culture. It came as a result of President Xi Jinping’s consistent promotion of traditional Chinese culture and his call for museums to bring cultural relics to life, as well as his 57 （emphasize） on mutual learning between civilizations.
Xi 58 （highlight） on many occasions that China’s fine traditional culture is the “root and soul” of the Chinese nation, 59 he has called, during visits to museums and cultural sites across the nation in the past few years, for a better employment of cultural relics and for making them “alive”.
To attract more visitors, many institutions have transitioned from their role 60 only collectors and protectors of artworks and antiques to also becoming cultural service providers. From concerts and digital immersive experiences to children’s plays, museums and cultural institutions are coming up with 61 （innovate） ways to entertain as well as educate the public.
Henan Museum in Zhengzhou, the capital of Central China’s Henan province, hosts concerts for museum visitors 62 feature musicians playing ancient pieces of music with traditional instruments that are replicas of antiques collected by the museum, some of which were used more than 2,000 years ago. 63 clothing styles of the musicians are in line with the dynasties during which their specific instruments were 64 （original） played. During Spring Festival in February, the museum welcomed about 100,000 visitors, and concert tickets were hard 65 （obtain）.
第Ⅱ卷
第四部分 书面表达 （满分40分）
第一节 （满分15分）
假定你是李华，你的英国朋友Liz来信表示对中国烹饪很感兴趣。正好这学期你校要开设“Exploring Chinese Cuisine”的线上课程，请你回信向他推荐此课程。内容包括：
1．开课时间；
2．课程内容；
3．报名方式。
注意：
1．写作词数应为80左右；
2．请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
Dear Liz,
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Yours
Li Hua
第二节 （满分25分）
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。
After graduating from college, I worked as a salesman for a piano company. We advertised our pianos in small town newspapers and then, when we received many replies, we would load our little trucks, drive into the area and sell the pianos to those who had replied. Every time we advertised, we would receive a reply on a postcard which said, “Please bring me a new piano for my little granddaughter. It must be red mahogany （红木）. I can pay $10 a month with my egg money.” Of course, we could not sell a new piano for $10 a month. No finance company would carry a contract with payments that small, so we ignored her postcards.
One day, however, I happened to be in that area calling on other replies, and out of curiosity I decided to meet the old lady. I found pretty much what I expected: The old lady lived in a one-room cabin in the middle of a cotton field. The cabin had a dirt floor and there were chickens in the house. Obviously, she could not have qualified to purchase anything on credit— no car, no phone, no real job, nothing but a roof over her head. I could see daylight through the roof in several places.
Her little granddaughter was about 8, barefoot and wearing a dress made out of cotton bags holding animal feed. I explained to the old lady that we could not sell a new piano for $10 a month and that she should stop writing to us every time she saw our advertisement.
I drove away heartsick, but my advice had no effect— she still sent us the same postcard every time we advertised. Always wanting a new piano, red mahogany, she swore she would never miss a $10 payment. It was sad.
Several years later, I owned my own piano company, and each time I advertised in that area, the old lady’s postcards would come to me.
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。
One day when I was in that area, I made a big decision. ___________________________________________
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Twenty years later, while sitting at a bar, I heard the most beautiful piano music behind me. ______________
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