北京交大附中20240-2025学年高二（上）期中 英 语（含答案）
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2024北京交大附中高二（上）期中
英 语
说明：本试卷共9 页，共100分。考试时长90分钟。
第一部分：知识运 （共两节，30分）
第 节 完形填空 （共10小题；每小题1.5分，共15分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从每题所给的A、B、C、D 四个选项中，选出最佳选项， 并在答题纸上将该项涂黑。
Reaching Impossible Heights
Xia, 69, reached the peak of Mount Qomolangma, the highest mountain in the world on May 14th, 2018. What’s remarkable, however, is that Xia has no ___1___ of his own.
Xia was chosen by the Chinese mountaineering team in 1974 and together with his teammates, Xia climbed Mount Qomolangma in 1975. However, they were trapped in a snowstorm just 200 meters below the peak and were forced to go down the hill. Eventually, nine climbers ___2___ the top, but Xia suffered severe freezing cold and lost both his feet.
He heard the news of his teammates’ success on the radio as he lay in bed in hospital awaiting the operation. “I was proud of my teammates, but I didn’t ___3___ to imagine my future of sitting in a wheelchair,” he said.
He felt hopeless until a doctor told him that on artificial legs, he could live life like anyone else, and might even do quite a lot of physical exercise. He set a target: he would climb Qomolangma. The vision of the ___4___ came close to him. It gave him the courage and hope to ___5___.
Although it took Xia more than 40 years to realize his dream, he stayed less than 10 minutes at the top because of a storm. Facing into the wind, he ___6___ his body to carry on down the mountain. His artificial legs had no feeling and didn’t ___7___ as they should. He uses twice as much energy as fully-able mountaineers. Many times, his feet got ___8___ in cracks（裂缝） in the ice and his teammates had to help pull his legs out.
His ___9___ is beyond most people’s imagination. When he was reported to have conquered(征服) Qomolangma, he replied, “It is Qomolangma that ___ 10____me. Nature cannot be conquered, but people can.”
1. A. ears B. eyes C. legs D. arms
2. A. missed B. reached C. defended D. overcame
3. A. dare B. strive C. apply D. commit
4. A. memory B. recovery C. operation D. mountain
5. A. take on B. live on C. depend on D. pass on
6. A. shook B. warned C. allowed D. forced
7. A. fit B. switch C. prevent D. destroy
8. A. lost B. involved C. dressed D. stuck
9. A. patience B. independence C. contribution D. determination
10. A. accepts B. obsesses C. rejects D. blames
第 节 语法填空 （共10小题；每小题1.5分，共15分）
阅读下列短文，根据短文内容填空。在未给提示词的空白处仅填写1个适当的单词，在给出提示词的空白处括号内所给词的正确形式填空。
A
As the human population expands, it’s getting harder for other creatures to find somewhere to hide during the day. Animals around the world choose to be nocturnal（夜间活动的）. But scientists suspect___11____ (become) nocturnal may hurt those species adapted to the sun. They might not be able to live well at night, ___12____would ultimately hurt their chances of survival and reproduction. It was found that in California's Santa Cruz Mountains, coyotes（丛林狼）had been more nocturnal in response to hikers and had started to alter their diet____13___daytime prey to nocturnal prey.
B
Huang Danian, the renowned Chinese geophysicist, was born in 1958 in Guangxi, China. As a keen and able student, Huang went to the UK in 1992___14__(further) his studies. By the time Huang moved back to China in 2009, he___15__(work) in the UK for 17 years. He had a good job and a life there, but he gave it all up to return home,_____16__（drive）by the idea that he needed to contribute to his country. As one of the world’s leading experts in deep earth exploration technology, Huang was approached to participate in the Thousand Talent programme. He took up a position at Jilin University, Changchun.
C
Many endangered species ___17____ (threaten) with becoming extinct. The main cause for animals and plants disappearing is often a disruption to the food chain due to hunting, habitat loss or even the introduction of invasive species. Humans can have___18____(disaster) effects on food chains. When people first ____19___ (explore) the world, they took animal and plant species from their home countries to the places they settled in. Nowadays there are strict rules controlling the movement of animals and plants between countries. With rising awareness of___20____humans affect the natural environment, hopefully we can learn to protect these food chains and help them to thrive.
第二部分：阅读理解（共两节，38 分）
第 节（共14小题；每小题2分，共28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，并在答题纸上将该项涂黑。
A
Recyclable items are waste materials that can be processed to make new products. The recycled materials go through an intense process of separating the materials and converting into reusable products. At Waste Control, we offer a suite of on-site (现场的) and off-site recycling services to meet the needs of our residential and business customers.
ON-SITE RECYCLING SERVICES
At the Waste Control facility, we have Drop-off Recycling and Buy-back Recycling Centers. The drop-off recycling center is a free service and is located next to the Transfer Station Building entrance. You should bring what you want to recycle to the Buy-Back Recycling Center, which is located on the north end of the facility and is for customers wishing to be reimbursed(报销，偿还)for their recyclable materials at current market rates.
OFF-SITE RECYCLING SERVICES
We also offer many off-site recycling services to meet your needs. We maintain free drop-off recycling sites throughout the community for common recyclable materials and residential waste oil and antifreeze (防冻液). We also offer off-site residential roadside recycling and business recycling services.
HOURS & DIRECTIONS
Holiday Hours:
The Business Office is closed on all major holidays ( New Year’s Day. July 4th, Memorial Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, and Christmas).
Waste collection and roadside recycling services are uninterrupted during holidays, except for Christmas Day and New Years Day. If Christmas Day falls on a weekday, there will be no pickup on the holiday and all garbage, and recycling services will be moved one day forward from your regularly scheduled pickup for the remainder of the week. For example, if Christmas falls on a Wednesday, customers with regularly scheduled Wednesday service will be picked up on Thursday. Monday and Tuesday fall prior to the holiday and will be picked up as regularly scheduled.
21. If you wish to be paid back for the recyclable items, you should _______.
A. check the current market rates first
B. take them to the Waste Control facility
C. put them into the roadside recycling sites
D. separate them from waste oil and antifreeze
22. If Christmas Day falls on Tuesday, customers with regularly scheduled Tuesday service will be picked up on _______.
A. Tuesday B. Wednesday C. Thursday D. Friday
23. Which of the following statements is TRUE
A. Off-site services are not offered to collect business recyclable materials.
B. The Business Office is open on July 4th morning if it falls on a weekend.
C. The drop-off recycling center is far away from the buy-back recycling center.
D. There is no need for residents to pay for dropping off recyclable materials.
B
When Mary Moore began her high school in 1951, her mother told her, "Be sure and take a typing course so when this show business thing doesn't work out, you'll have something to rely on." Mary responded in typical teenage fashion. From that moment on, “the very last thing I ever thought about doing was taking a typing course,” she recalls.
The show business thing worked out, of course. In her career, Mary won many awards. Only recently, when she began to write her second book, did she feel sorry for ignoring her mom, "I don't know how to use a computer," she admits.
Unlike her 1995 autobiography, her second book Growing Up Again is less about her life as an award-winning actress and more as a diabetic. All the money from the book is intended for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (青少年糖尿病研究基金会), an organization she serves as international chairman. "I felt there was a need for a book like this," she says. "I didn't want to lecture, but I wanted other diabetics to know that things get better when we're self-controlled and do our part in managing the disease."
But she hasn't always practiced what she teaches. In her book, she describes that awful day, almost 40 years ago, when she received two pieces of life-changing news. First, she had lost the baby she was carrying, and second, tests showed that she had diabetes. In a childlike act, she left the hospital and treated herself to a box of doughnuts. Years would pass before she realized she had to grow up — again — and take control of her diabetes, not let it control her. Only then did she kick her three-pack-a-day cigarette habit, overcome her addiction to alcohol, and begin to follow a balanced diet.
Although her disease has affected her eyesight and forced her to the sidelines of the dance floor, she refuses to fall into self-pity. "Everybody on earth can ask, 'why me ' about something or other," she insists. "It doesn't do any good. No one is immune to heartache, pain, and disappointments. Sometimes we can make things better by helping others. I've come to realize the importance of that as I've grown up this second time. I want to speak out and be as helpful as I can be."
24.Why did Mary feel regretful
A. She didn't take care of her mother. B. She didn't follow her mother's advice.
C. She didn't achieve success in her career. D. She didn't use a typing machine when writing.
25.When Mary received the life-changing news, she ________.
A. lost control of herself B. began a balanced diet
C. decided to get a treatment D. made doughnuts by herself
26. Mary's second book is mainly about her ________.
A. service for her organization B. living with diabetes
C. controlling of disease D. stories in her juvenile life
27.What can we know from the last paragraph
A. Mary feels pity for herself.
B. Mary has recovered from her disease.
C. Mary wants to serve others as much as possible.
D. Mary determines to go back to the dancing floor.
C
Given the astonishing potential of AI to transform our lives, we all need to take action to deal with our AI-powered future, and this is where AI by Design: A Plan for Living with Artificial Intelligence comes in. This absorbing new book by Catriona Campbell is a practical roadmap addressing the challenges posed by the forthcoming AI revolution.
In the wrong hands, such a book could prove as complicated to process as the computer code that powers AI but, thankfully, Campbell has more than two decades’ professional experience translating the heady into the understandable. She writes from the practical angle of a business person rather than as an academic, making for a guide which is highly accessible and informative and which, by the close, will make you feel almost as smart as AI.
As we soon come to learn from AI by Design, AI is already super-smart and will become more capable, moving from the current generation of “narrow-AI” to Artificial General Intelligence. From there, Campbell says, will come Artificial Dominant Intelligence. This is why Campbell has set out to raise awareness of AI and its future now — several decades before these developments are expected to take place. She says it is essential that we keep control of artificial intelligence, or risk being sidelined and perhaps even worse.
Campbell's point is to wake up those responsible for AI — the technology companies and world leaders — so they are on the same page as all the experts currently developing it. She explains we are at a “tipping point” in history and must act now to prevent an extinction-level event for humanity. We need to consider how we want our future with AI to pan out. Such structured thinking, followed by global regulation, will enable us to achieve greatness rather than our downfall.
AI will affect us all, and if you only read one book on the subject, this is it.
28. What does the phrase “In the wrong hands” in paragraph 2 probably mean
A. If read by someone poorly educated.
B. If reviewed by someone ill-intentioned.
C. If written by someone less competent.
D. If translated by someone unacademic.
29. What does Campbell urge people to do regarding AI development
A. Observe existing regulations on it.
B. Reconsider expert opinions about it.
C. Make joint efforts to keep it under control.
D. Learn from prior experience to slow it down.
30. What is the author's purpose in writing the text
A. To recommend a book on AI.
B. To give a brief account of AI history.
C. To clarify the definition of AI.
D. To honor an outstanding AI expert.
D
When prehistoric man arrived in new parts of the world, something strange happened to the large animals. They suddenly became extinct. Smaller species survived. The large, slow-growing animals were easy game, and were quickly hunted to extinction. Now something similar could be happening in the oceans.
That the seas are being overfished has been known for years. What researchers such as Ransom Myers and Boris Worm have shown is just how fast things are changing. They have looked at half a century of data from fisheries around the world. Their methods do not attempt to estimate the actual biomass (the amount of living biological matter) of fish species in particular parts of the ocean, but rather changes in that biomass over time. According to their latest paper published in Nature, the biomass of large predators (animals that kill and eat other animals) in a new fishery is reduced on average by 80% within 15 years of the start of exploitation. In some long-fished areas, it has halved again since then.
Dr. Worm acknowledges that the figures are conservative. One reason for this is that fishing technology has improved. Today's vessels (船)can find their prey using satellites and sonar, which were not available 50 years ago. That means a higher proportion of what is in the sea is being caught, so the real difference between present and past is likely to be worse than the one recorded by changes in catch sizes. In the early days, too, longlines (多钩长线) would have been more filled with fish. Some individuals would therefore not have been caught, since no baited hooks (带饵钩)would have been available to trap them, leading to an underestimate of fish stocks in the past. Furthermore, in the early days of longline fishing, a lot of fish were lost to sharks after they had been hooked. That is no longer a problem, because there are fewer sharks around now.
Dr. Myers and Dr. Worm argue that their work gives a correct baseline, which future management efforts must take into account. They believe the data support an idea current among marine biologists, that of the “shifting baseline". The idea is that people have failed to detect the massive changes which have happened in the ocean because they have been looking back only a relatively short time into the past. That matters because theory suggests that the maximum sustainable yield （产量）that can be cropped from a fishery comes when the biomass of a target species is about 50% of its original levels. Most fisheries are well below that, which is a bad way to do business.
31. The extinction of large prehistoric animals is noted to suggest that____.
A. large animals were easily hurt in the changing environment
B. small species survived as large animals disappeared
C. large sea animals may face the same threat today
D. slow-growing fish outlive fast-growing ones
32. By saying these figures are conservative , Dr. Worm means that____ .
A. fishing technology has improved rapidly
B. the data collected so far are out of date
C. the catch-sizes are actually smaller than recorded
D. the marine biomass has suffered a greater loss
33. Dr. Myers and other researchers hold that____ .
A. people should look for a baseline that can't work for a longer time
B. fisheries should keep the yield below 50% of the biomass
C. the ocean biomass should restore its original level
D. people should adjust the fishing baseline to changing situation
34. The writer seems to be mainly concerned with most fisheries’____ .
A. biomass level B. management efficiency
C. catch-size limits D. technological application
第 节（共5小题；每小题2分，共10分）
根据短文内容，从短文后的七个选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。选项中有两项为多余选项。
Is Managing Kids’ Screen Time a Good Idea
Screen time is a big topic of conversation in today’s households, particularly during the pandemic when online education hours have multiplied for many students. 35 They hope to spare their kids from the countless challenges that technology can bring. Yet the challenges of screen time overuse seldom come from kids’ devices themselves, but rather from the tense relationships that technology can bring to families. 36 But technology has positive benefits too. Since every child and family is different, managing screen time calls for joint family decision-making.
If parents believe they can manage a child’s screen time through adolescence, they are not only fooling themselves but also inviting relationship trouble with their teens. It is a myth to think that parents can or should manage their kids’ screen time through authoritarian restrictions, even during elementary school. 37 When children are left out of those decisions, they often become less communicative with parents and siblings. This is the opposite of what parents want to achieve.
38 From early ages, children are quite capable of understanding that a good life involves awareness and balance. Just as they learn right from wrong, and good from bad, they can also learn to use technology in healthy ways. Learning how to regulate oneself and develop healthy behaviors is one of the primary tasks of childhood and adolescence. What happens when an adult tries to regulate a child is that the child misses out on the opportunity to learn for themselves. Enforced restrictions can also make children feel helpless and less confident.
To be clear, this article is not suggesting that families never use apps or trackers, or that there should be no restrictions on screen time. 39 Parents should give voice to children and involve them in the planning and decision-making process.
A. Of course, there are websites that are unhealthy for kids to access.
B. The alternative is to involve children in decisions that govern screen time.
C. However, every family needs a family media plan between family members.
D. The goal is to see, hear, feel, and understand how children view screen time.
E. To manage children’s screen time, parents have invested in apps and trackers.
F. To get children involved, parents should trust and develop kids’ self-awareness.
G. What it is suggesting is that parents look at managing screen time in a different way.
第三部分 书面表达(共两节，32分)
第一节(共4小题;第40、41题各2分，第42题3分，第43题5分，共12分)
阅读下面短文，根据题目要求用英文回答问题。请在答题卡指定区域作答。
Fashion’s Melt Down
Throwaway culture is trashing the planet—but one young chemical engineer has her own way to turn it over.
Fast fashion has changed the way we dress. We buy more clothes, more often---but we wear them less. Alina Bassi, founder of Kleiderly, wants to give our clothing waste another chance at a useful life.
Bassi has always cared about the threat of climate change, but she actually started her career in the oil industry. After a few years, she landed at bio-bean, a startup that turned waste coffee grounds into products that could be burnt for heat and fuel. After a year, Bassi was keen to branch out—used coffee grounds are not the biggest threat facing the planet. Instead, she poured her efforts into tackling a much bigger global polluter: the fashion industry.
According to the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, we produce 100 billion items of clothing per year, and this is set to double by 2050. But they don’t last long enough to offset(抵消) the carbon cost of producing the material, creating the clothes, and then shipping them to customers. “It makes no sense that we have such a high carbon footprint for something so short-lived.” Bassi says.
Using the principles of a circular economy, Bassi has developed a low-energy, multi-stage process to turn clothing fibres into an alternative to oil-based plastic. This new plastic can then be used by manufacturers in their existing machines, so that your old T-shirts and jeans will become different products instead of clothes, such as clothing hangers, or even furniture.
Fashion companies have some other ways to reduce fashion waste, from creating clothes designed to last, to recycling the fabric to make more clothing. But “a problem this big needs multiple solutions,” Bassi says. “We think about the multiple lives of a product and how we can keep reusing it instead of letting it fall into landfills or incinerators (焚化炉),” she says.
40. Why did Bassi switch her focus to the fashion industry
41. How did she tackle the problems caused by the fashion industry
42. Please decide which part is false in the following statement, then underline it and explain why.
Kleiderly can change old jackets and trousers into a new material, which can be used to make more clothing.
Please briefly present your own solution(s) to the throwaway problem in daily life. (about 40 words)
第二节(20分)
44. 假如你是红星中学高三学生李华，你校国际部交换生 Jim 正在策划一次“减塑捡塑”
活动，作为好友，他发来邮件询问你的建议。请你用英文给他回复，内容包括：
1. 活动形式；
2. 活动内容。
Dear Jim,
Yours,
Li Hua
（请务必将作文写在答题卡指定区域内）
参考答案
完形填空1. C 2. B 3. A 4.D 5. B 6. D 7. A 8. D 9. D 10. A
语法填空 becoming, which, from,to further, had been working/ had worked,
driven,are threatened ,explored,disastrous, how
阅读理解
A: B B D
B: DA B C
C: CCA
D：CDDA
七选五：E A B F .G
40. Because it’s a much bigger global polluter.
41. Using the principles of a circular economy, Bassi developed a low-energy, multi-stage process to turn clothing fibres into an alternative to oil-based plastic.
Bassi used the principles of a circular economy and developed a low-energy, multi-stage process to turn clothing fibres into an alternative to oil-based plastic.
42. ● Kleiderly can change old jackets and trousers into a new material, which can be used to make more clothing.
According to the passage, the new material can be used to make different products.
43. 略
英 语
说明：本试卷共9 页，共100分。考试时长90分钟。
第一部分：知识运 （共两节，30分）
第 节 完形填空 （共10小题；每小题1.5分，共15分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从每题所给的A、B、C、D 四个选项中，选出最佳选项， 并在答题纸上将该项涂黑。
Reaching Impossible Heights
Xia, 69, reached the peak of Mount Qomolangma, the highest mountain in the world on May 14th, 2018. What’s remarkable, however, is that Xia has no ___1___ of his own.
Xia was chosen by the Chinese mountaineering team in 1974 and together with his teammates, Xia climbed Mount Qomolangma in 1975. However, they were trapped in a snowstorm just 200 meters below the peak and were forced to go down the hill. Eventually, nine climbers ___2___ the top, but Xia suffered severe freezing cold and lost both his feet.
He heard the news of his teammates’ success on the radio as he lay in bed in hospital awaiting the operation. “I was proud of my teammates, but I didn’t ___3___ to imagine my future of sitting in a wheelchair,” he said.
He felt hopeless until a doctor told him that on artificial legs, he could live life like anyone else, and might even do quite a lot of physical exercise. He set a target: he would climb Qomolangma. The vision of the ___4___ came close to him. It gave him the courage and hope to ___5___.
Although it took Xia more than 40 years to realize his dream, he stayed less than 10 minutes at the top because of a storm. Facing into the wind, he ___6___ his body to carry on down the mountain. His artificial legs had no feeling and didn’t ___7___ as they should. He uses twice as much energy as fully-able mountaineers. Many times, his feet got ___8___ in cracks（裂缝） in the ice and his teammates had to help pull his legs out.
His ___9___ is beyond most people’s imagination. When he was reported to have conquered(征服) Qomolangma, he replied, “It is Qomolangma that ___ 10____me. Nature cannot be conquered, but people can.”
1. A. ears B. eyes C. legs D. arms
2. A. missed B. reached C. defended D. overcame
3. A. dare B. strive C. apply D. commit
4. A. memory B. recovery C. operation D. mountain
5. A. take on B. live on C. depend on D. pass on
6. A. shook B. warned C. allowed D. forced
7. A. fit B. switch C. prevent D. destroy
8. A. lost B. involved C. dressed D. stuck
9. A. patience B. independence C. contribution D. determination
10. A. accepts B. obsesses C. rejects D. blames
第 节 语法填空 （共10小题；每小题1.5分，共15分）
阅读下列短文，根据短文内容填空。在未给提示词的空白处仅填写1个适当的单词，在给出提示词的空白处括号内所给词的正确形式填空。
A
As the human population expands, it’s getting harder for other creatures to find somewhere to hide during the day. Animals around the world choose to be nocturnal（夜间活动的）. But scientists suspect___11____ (become) nocturnal may hurt those species adapted to the sun. They might not be able to live well at night, ___12____would ultimately hurt their chances of survival and reproduction. It was found that in California's Santa Cruz Mountains, coyotes（丛林狼）had been more nocturnal in response to hikers and had started to alter their diet____13___daytime prey to nocturnal prey.
B
Huang Danian, the renowned Chinese geophysicist, was born in 1958 in Guangxi, China. As a keen and able student, Huang went to the UK in 1992___14__(further) his studies. By the time Huang moved back to China in 2009, he___15__(work) in the UK for 17 years. He had a good job and a life there, but he gave it all up to return home,_____16__（drive）by the idea that he needed to contribute to his country. As one of the world’s leading experts in deep earth exploration technology, Huang was approached to participate in the Thousand Talent programme. He took up a position at Jilin University, Changchun.
C
Many endangered species ___17____ (threaten) with becoming extinct. The main cause for animals and plants disappearing is often a disruption to the food chain due to hunting, habitat loss or even the introduction of invasive species. Humans can have___18____(disaster) effects on food chains. When people first ____19___ (explore) the world, they took animal and plant species from their home countries to the places they settled in. Nowadays there are strict rules controlling the movement of animals and plants between countries. With rising awareness of___20____humans affect the natural environment, hopefully we can learn to protect these food chains and help them to thrive.
第二部分：阅读理解（共两节，38 分）
第 节（共14小题；每小题2分，共28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，并在答题纸上将该项涂黑。
A
Recyclable items are waste materials that can be processed to make new products. The recycled materials go through an intense process of separating the materials and converting into reusable products. At Waste Control, we offer a suite of on-site (现场的) and off-site recycling services to meet the needs of our residential and business customers.
ON-SITE RECYCLING SERVICES
At the Waste Control facility, we have Drop-off Recycling and Buy-back Recycling Centers. The drop-off recycling center is a free service and is located next to the Transfer Station Building entrance. You should bring what you want to recycle to the Buy-Back Recycling Center, which is located on the north end of the facility and is for customers wishing to be reimbursed(报销，偿还)for their recyclable materials at current market rates.
OFF-SITE RECYCLING SERVICES
We also offer many off-site recycling services to meet your needs. We maintain free drop-off recycling sites throughout the community for common recyclable materials and residential waste oil and antifreeze (防冻液). We also offer off-site residential roadside recycling and business recycling services.
HOURS & DIRECTIONS
Holiday Hours:
The Business Office is closed on all major holidays ( New Year’s Day. July 4th, Memorial Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, and Christmas).
Waste collection and roadside recycling services are uninterrupted during holidays, except for Christmas Day and New Years Day. If Christmas Day falls on a weekday, there will be no pickup on the holiday and all garbage, and recycling services will be moved one day forward from your regularly scheduled pickup for the remainder of the week. For example, if Christmas falls on a Wednesday, customers with regularly scheduled Wednesday service will be picked up on Thursday. Monday and Tuesday fall prior to the holiday and will be picked up as regularly scheduled.
21. If you wish to be paid back for the recyclable items, you should _______.
A. check the current market rates first
B. take them to the Waste Control facility
C. put them into the roadside recycling sites
D. separate them from waste oil and antifreeze
22. If Christmas Day falls on Tuesday, customers with regularly scheduled Tuesday service will be picked up on _______.
A. Tuesday B. Wednesday C. Thursday D. Friday
23. Which of the following statements is TRUE
A. Off-site services are not offered to collect business recyclable materials.
B. The Business Office is open on July 4th morning if it falls on a weekend.
C. The drop-off recycling center is far away from the buy-back recycling center.
D. There is no need for residents to pay for dropping off recyclable materials.
B
When Mary Moore began her high school in 1951, her mother told her, "Be sure and take a typing course so when this show business thing doesn't work out, you'll have something to rely on." Mary responded in typical teenage fashion. From that moment on, “the very last thing I ever thought about doing was taking a typing course,” she recalls.
The show business thing worked out, of course. In her career, Mary won many awards. Only recently, when she began to write her second book, did she feel sorry for ignoring her mom, "I don't know how to use a computer," she admits.
Unlike her 1995 autobiography, her second book Growing Up Again is less about her life as an award-winning actress and more as a diabetic. All the money from the book is intended for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (青少年糖尿病研究基金会), an organization she serves as international chairman. "I felt there was a need for a book like this," she says. "I didn't want to lecture, but I wanted other diabetics to know that things get better when we're self-controlled and do our part in managing the disease."
But she hasn't always practiced what she teaches. In her book, she describes that awful day, almost 40 years ago, when she received two pieces of life-changing news. First, she had lost the baby she was carrying, and second, tests showed that she had diabetes. In a childlike act, she left the hospital and treated herself to a box of doughnuts. Years would pass before she realized she had to grow up — again — and take control of her diabetes, not let it control her. Only then did she kick her three-pack-a-day cigarette habit, overcome her addiction to alcohol, and begin to follow a balanced diet.
Although her disease has affected her eyesight and forced her to the sidelines of the dance floor, she refuses to fall into self-pity. "Everybody on earth can ask, 'why me ' about something or other," she insists. "It doesn't do any good. No one is immune to heartache, pain, and disappointments. Sometimes we can make things better by helping others. I've come to realize the importance of that as I've grown up this second time. I want to speak out and be as helpful as I can be."
24.Why did Mary feel regretful
A. She didn't take care of her mother. B. She didn't follow her mother's advice.
C. She didn't achieve success in her career. D. She didn't use a typing machine when writing.
25.When Mary received the life-changing news, she ________.
A. lost control of herself B. began a balanced diet
C. decided to get a treatment D. made doughnuts by herself
26. Mary's second book is mainly about her ________.
A. service for her organization B. living with diabetes
C. controlling of disease D. stories in her juvenile life
27.What can we know from the last paragraph
A. Mary feels pity for herself.
B. Mary has recovered from her disease.
C. Mary wants to serve others as much as possible.
D. Mary determines to go back to the dancing floor.
C
Given the astonishing potential of AI to transform our lives, we all need to take action to deal with our AI-powered future, and this is where AI by Design: A Plan for Living with Artificial Intelligence comes in. This absorbing new book by Catriona Campbell is a practical roadmap addressing the challenges posed by the forthcoming AI revolution.
In the wrong hands, such a book could prove as complicated to process as the computer code that powers AI but, thankfully, Campbell has more than two decades’ professional experience translating the heady into the understandable. She writes from the practical angle of a business person rather than as an academic, making for a guide which is highly accessible and informative and which, by the close, will make you feel almost as smart as AI.
As we soon come to learn from AI by Design, AI is already super-smart and will become more capable, moving from the current generation of “narrow-AI” to Artificial General Intelligence. From there, Campbell says, will come Artificial Dominant Intelligence. This is why Campbell has set out to raise awareness of AI and its future now — several decades before these developments are expected to take place. She says it is essential that we keep control of artificial intelligence, or risk being sidelined and perhaps even worse.
Campbell's point is to wake up those responsible for AI — the technology companies and world leaders — so they are on the same page as all the experts currently developing it. She explains we are at a “tipping point” in history and must act now to prevent an extinction-level event for humanity. We need to consider how we want our future with AI to pan out. Such structured thinking, followed by global regulation, will enable us to achieve greatness rather than our downfall.
AI will affect us all, and if you only read one book on the subject, this is it.
28. What does the phrase “In the wrong hands” in paragraph 2 probably mean
A. If read by someone poorly educated.
B. If reviewed by someone ill-intentioned.
C. If written by someone less competent.
D. If translated by someone unacademic.
29. What does Campbell urge people to do regarding AI development
A. Observe existing regulations on it.
B. Reconsider expert opinions about it.
C. Make joint efforts to keep it under control.
D. Learn from prior experience to slow it down.
30. What is the author's purpose in writing the text
A. To recommend a book on AI.
B. To give a brief account of AI history.
C. To clarify the definition of AI.
D. To honor an outstanding AI expert.
D
When prehistoric man arrived in new parts of the world, something strange happened to the large animals. They suddenly became extinct. Smaller species survived. The large, slow-growing animals were easy game, and were quickly hunted to extinction. Now something similar could be happening in the oceans.
That the seas are being overfished has been known for years. What researchers such as Ransom Myers and Boris Worm have shown is just how fast things are changing. They have looked at half a century of data from fisheries around the world. Their methods do not attempt to estimate the actual biomass (the amount of living biological matter) of fish species in particular parts of the ocean, but rather changes in that biomass over time. According to their latest paper published in Nature, the biomass of large predators (animals that kill and eat other animals) in a new fishery is reduced on average by 80% within 15 years of the start of exploitation. In some long-fished areas, it has halved again since then.
Dr. Worm acknowledges that the figures are conservative. One reason for this is that fishing technology has improved. Today's vessels (船)can find their prey using satellites and sonar, which were not available 50 years ago. That means a higher proportion of what is in the sea is being caught, so the real difference between present and past is likely to be worse than the one recorded by changes in catch sizes. In the early days, too, longlines (多钩长线) would have been more filled with fish. Some individuals would therefore not have been caught, since no baited hooks (带饵钩)would have been available to trap them, leading to an underestimate of fish stocks in the past. Furthermore, in the early days of longline fishing, a lot of fish were lost to sharks after they had been hooked. That is no longer a problem, because there are fewer sharks around now.
Dr. Myers and Dr. Worm argue that their work gives a correct baseline, which future management efforts must take into account. They believe the data support an idea current among marine biologists, that of the “shifting baseline". The idea is that people have failed to detect the massive changes which have happened in the ocean because they have been looking back only a relatively short time into the past. That matters because theory suggests that the maximum sustainable yield （产量）that can be cropped from a fishery comes when the biomass of a target species is about 50% of its original levels. Most fisheries are well below that, which is a bad way to do business.
31. The extinction of large prehistoric animals is noted to suggest that____.
A. large animals were easily hurt in the changing environment
B. small species survived as large animals disappeared
C. large sea animals may face the same threat today
D. slow-growing fish outlive fast-growing ones
32. By saying these figures are conservative , Dr. Worm means that____ .
A. fishing technology has improved rapidly
B. the data collected so far are out of date
C. the catch-sizes are actually smaller than recorded
D. the marine biomass has suffered a greater loss
33. Dr. Myers and other researchers hold that____ .
A. people should look for a baseline that can't work for a longer time
B. fisheries should keep the yield below 50% of the biomass
C. the ocean biomass should restore its original level
D. people should adjust the fishing baseline to changing situation
34. The writer seems to be mainly concerned with most fisheries’____ .
A. biomass level B. management efficiency
C. catch-size limits D. technological application
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根据短文内容，从短文后的七个选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。选项中有两项为多余选项。
Is Managing Kids’ Screen Time a Good Idea
Screen time is a big topic of conversation in today’s households, particularly during the pandemic when online education hours have multiplied for many students. 35 They hope to spare their kids from the countless challenges that technology can bring. Yet the challenges of screen time overuse seldom come from kids’ devices themselves, but rather from the tense relationships that technology can bring to families. 36 But technology has positive benefits too. Since every child and family is different, managing screen time calls for joint family decision-making.
If parents believe they can manage a child’s screen time through adolescence, they are not only fooling themselves but also inviting relationship trouble with their teens. It is a myth to think that parents can or should manage their kids’ screen time through authoritarian restrictions, even during elementary school. 37 When children are left out of those decisions, they often become less communicative with parents and siblings. This is the opposite of what parents want to achieve.
38 From early ages, children are quite capable of understanding that a good life involves awareness and balance. Just as they learn right from wrong, and good from bad, they can also learn to use technology in healthy ways. Learning how to regulate oneself and develop healthy behaviors is one of the primary tasks of childhood and adolescence. What happens when an adult tries to regulate a child is that the child misses out on the opportunity to learn for themselves. Enforced restrictions can also make children feel helpless and less confident.
To be clear, this article is not suggesting that families never use apps or trackers, or that there should be no restrictions on screen time. 39 Parents should give voice to children and involve them in the planning and decision-making process.
A. Of course, there are websites that are unhealthy for kids to access.
B. The alternative is to involve children in decisions that govern screen time.
C. However, every family needs a family media plan between family members.
D. The goal is to see, hear, feel, and understand how children view screen time.
E. To manage children’s screen time, parents have invested in apps and trackers.
F. To get children involved, parents should trust and develop kids’ self-awareness.
G. What it is suggesting is that parents look at managing screen time in a different way.
第三部分 书面表达(共两节，32分)
第一节(共4小题;第40、41题各2分，第42题3分，第43题5分，共12分)
阅读下面短文，根据题目要求用英文回答问题。请在答题卡指定区域作答。
Fashion’s Melt Down
Throwaway culture is trashing the planet—but one young chemical engineer has her own way to turn it over.
Fast fashion has changed the way we dress. We buy more clothes, more often---but we wear them less. Alina Bassi, founder of Kleiderly, wants to give our clothing waste another chance at a useful life.
Bassi has always cared about the threat of climate change, but she actually started her career in the oil industry. After a few years, she landed at bio-bean, a startup that turned waste coffee grounds into products that could be burnt for heat and fuel. After a year, Bassi was keen to branch out—used coffee grounds are not the biggest threat facing the planet. Instead, she poured her efforts into tackling a much bigger global polluter: the fashion industry.
According to the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, we produce 100 billion items of clothing per year, and this is set to double by 2050. But they don’t last long enough to offset(抵消) the carbon cost of producing the material, creating the clothes, and then shipping them to customers. “It makes no sense that we have such a high carbon footprint for something so short-lived.” Bassi says.
Using the principles of a circular economy, Bassi has developed a low-energy, multi-stage process to turn clothing fibres into an alternative to oil-based plastic. This new plastic can then be used by manufacturers in their existing machines, so that your old T-shirts and jeans will become different products instead of clothes, such as clothing hangers, or even furniture.
Fashion companies have some other ways to reduce fashion waste, from creating clothes designed to last, to recycling the fabric to make more clothing. But “a problem this big needs multiple solutions,” Bassi says. “We think about the multiple lives of a product and how we can keep reusing it instead of letting it fall into landfills or incinerators (焚化炉),” she says.
40. Why did Bassi switch her focus to the fashion industry
41. How did she tackle the problems caused by the fashion industry
42. Please decide which part is false in the following statement, then underline it and explain why.
Kleiderly can change old jackets and trousers into a new material, which can be used to make more clothing.
Please briefly present your own solution(s) to the throwaway problem in daily life. (about 40 words)
第二节(20分)
44. 假如你是红星中学高三学生李华，你校国际部交换生 Jim 正在策划一次“减塑捡塑”
活动，作为好友，他发来邮件询问你的建议。请你用英文给他回复，内容包括：
1. 活动形式；
2. 活动内容。
Dear Jim,
Yours,
Li Hua
（请务必将作文写在答题卡指定区域内）
参考答案
完形填空1. C 2. B 3. A 4.D 5. B 6. D 7. A 8. D 9. D 10. A
语法填空 becoming, which, from,to further, had been working/ had worked,
driven,are threatened ,explored,disastrous, how
阅读理解
A: B B D
B: DA B C
C: CCA
D：CDDA
七选五：E A B F .G
40. Because it’s a much bigger global polluter.
41. Using the principles of a circular economy, Bassi developed a low-energy, multi-stage process to turn clothing fibres into an alternative to oil-based plastic.
Bassi used the principles of a circular economy and developed a low-energy, multi-stage process to turn clothing fibres into an alternative to oil-based plastic.
42. ● Kleiderly can change old jackets and trousers into a new material, which can be used to make more clothing.
According to the passage, the new material can be used to make different products.
43. 略