2024-2025学年陕西省榆林市府谷县高中联考高三上学期12月月考英语试题（含答案）
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2024-2025学年陕西省榆林市府谷县高中联考高三上学期12月月考英语试题
全卷满分150分，考试时间120分钟。
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
The diversity of Australian animals in NSW national parks is extraordinary. Some common species can be found across a range of parks, while others are endemic (特有的) to a specific area. Our national parks are also important shelters for threatened animals, many found nowhere else in the world. The following are some examples.
Albert’s lyrebird
The Albert’s lyrebird is much rarer than the superb lyrebird. Distinguished by its richer brown feather and less delicate tail feathers, it’s protected as a threatened species in NSW.
Cumberland Plain land snail
The endangered Cumberland Plain land snail is only found on the Cumberland Plain, west of Sydney. During drought it digs deep into the soil to escape severe conditions. Its brown shell is thin and fragile (脆弱的).
Australian fur seal The largest fur seal
Australian fur seals are found in isolated rocky outcrops and islands along the NSW coast. They come ashore to form breeding colonies (繁殖地) and can often be seen at Barunguba Montague Island Nature Reserve.
Australian brush turkey
The Australian brush turkey, also known as bush or scrub turkey, can be found in rainforests along eastern NSW. With a striking red head, blue-black feather and booming call, these distinctive Australian birds are easy to spot while bird watching in several NSW national parks.
21. What do Albert’s lyrebird and Cumberland Plain land snail have in common
A. They live in the soil. B. They hate dry conditions.
C. They have long feathers. D. They are species in danger.
22. What can we know about Australian brush turkey from the text
A. They breed on the sea shore. B. They are red from head to tail.
C. They adapt to rainforest climate. D. They are only seen on isolated islands.
23. Where can we read the text
A. In a science report. B. In a personal diary.
C. In a tourist brochure. D. In an educational magazine.
B
We went deep into the earth through dark, narrow caves. When I got used to the light, I stood amazed.
A vast lake or even an ocean, spread far beyond where the eye could see. The shore was lined with shining sand, being softly lapped by waves. It was covered with small shells once inhabited by the first living beings. Around this sea stood a huge rock wall being worn away by the endless action of the waves.
I could see far over this great sea because it was being lit up by a strange light. Not sunlight, of course, as we were deep below the surface. Under the “sky”, if it could be called so, being made of rock, were also vast clouds. The light gave no heat, so the place felt rather gloomy (幽暗的). We were shut up inside a vast cave which must have been several miles high.
My imagination was powerless before such wonders. I felt like I was on some distant planet, and was both amazed and rather scared. However, I was energetic by the breezy salty air supplying more oxygen to my lungs. After many days in much narrower spaces, it was a great relief.
We began to walk following the shore. Soon in front of us appeared a tall, dense forest, composed of trees formed like umbrellas. “Mushrooms!” said my uncle. And he was right! There were mushrooms in their thousands, and each at least thirty feet high.
“Now look under your feet!” cried my uncle and I noticed many bones being crushed under our feet as we walked. Might some monsters still roam (漫步) through these gloomy forests I anxiously surveyed the landscape, but we were the only living creatures here. Thankfully!
Eventually we returned to the cave we had entered from, and I fell asleep with strange thoughts.
— Journey to the centre of the earth
24. What does the underlined word “lapped” in Paragraph 2 mean
A Caught in. B. Sought for. C. Sheltered from. D. Beaten against.
25. Which words can best describe the scene in the author’s eyes
A. Huge, strange and amazing. B. Sunny, windy and wonderful.
C. Salty, narrow and comforting. D. Cloudy, gloomy and embarrassing.
26. What was found on the shore
A. A high and thick forest composed of tree-shaped umbrellas.
B. Lots of bones belonging to monsters that might have disappeared.
C. Thousands of mushrooms measuring no more than thirty feet high.
D. A couple of roaming creatures living in the gloomy and distant planet.
27. What can be inferred from the text
A. The author kept awake in the cave they had entered from.
B. The author thought it strange that he fell asleep in such a cave.
C. The author enjoyed the experience though he felt scared sometimes.
D. The author encountered with a monster before he returned to the cave.
C
Right now someone is speaking or thinking in a language that is on the verge of disappearing. Of the world’s roughly 7,000 spoken languages, one dies every 40 days, according to one estimate — languages like Babanki, spoken in Cameroon.
And some of the places where rare languages are the most concentrated are also most vulnerable (易受影响的) to climate change. Especially, linguists call global warming the final nail in the coffin (致命一击) for more than half of humanity’s language disappearing.
Let’s take Vanuatu, a South Pacific island nation, for example. It’s very small, but it has 110 languages spoken there, which is the highest density (密度) of languages in the world. It is also one of the countries most at risk of sea level rise and climate change. There, you can often see perfect hurricanes.
So if rising seas or storms force people in Vanuatu to move to Australia, what happens to the language they speak Well, what often happens is that they aren’t necessarily displaced with the same people in their community, and also, even if they are displaced with other people in their community, they and their children will often adopt the language of Australia, the dominant language there because it’s economically advantageous for them to speak the new language, the dominant language. And their language dies.
However, there is so much culturally lost when a language dies. It is because the language carries so much local knowledge and culture.
In fact, in the 1970s, it was something like 2,000 native speakers of Hawaiian remained. But activists launched some schools where children are taught from birth, usually by kind of grandparents, and now more than 18,700 people speak it. And the same thing happened in New Zealand in the 1970s. Only 5% of young Maori people spoke the language, but now something like 25% now speak it.
28 What do we know about Vanuatu
A. Its most languages have died out.
B. It is sensitive to climate change.
C It witnesses various disasters every year.
D. It is the highest density of population in the world.
29. What will happen to people who are forced to leave Vanuatu for Australia
A. They lose their advantages in economy.
B. They have few chances to speak their own language.
C. They fail to contact people in their previous community.
D. They willingly teach their kids the language of Australia.
30. What is the author’s attitude towards language disappearing
A. Favourable. B. Concerned. C. Doubtful. D. Unclear.
31. What does the last paragraph want to convey
A. More languages are faced with dying out.
B. It’s a must for kids to learn their mother tongue.
C. Grandparents play a vital role in passing down languages.
D. More efforts have been made to save endangered languages.
D
A school science project by a group of students in Canada has led to an important discovery: EpiPens, which help control dangerous allergic (过敏的) reactions, might not work in space.
An EpiPen is a shot that puts a medicine called “epinephrine (肾上腺素)” straight into a person’s body with a needle. The epinephrine calms the allergic reaction so the person can breathe.
But students in the Programme for Gifted Learners had a question about EpiPens: Would they work in space The students knew that on Earth, radiation from the sun can change the molecules (分子) of the epinephrine in an EpiPen. They wondered if the same thing would happen when epinephrine was exposed to radiation in space. So the students designed an experiment to test their idea. They wanted to send samples of the liquid in an EpiPen, as well as pure epinephrine, into space to see if anything changed.
Working with a group called iEDU, which offers a programme called Cubes in Space, the students sent two cubes into space — one on a rocket and the other on a balloon. Each cube held a bottle of pure epinephrine and a bottle of EpiPen liquid.
After the cubes returned to Earth, Dr. Mayer tested the liquids in the bottles once more. The results suggested that the students had discovered something big. The bottles that held the EpiPen liquid now had no epinephrine at all. The results from the bottles of pure epinephrine were even more surprising. Only 87% of the liquid was still epinephrine. The other 13% had turned into poisonous chemicals.
The discovery the students made is a big deal. It suggests that EpiPens might not work in space, and might even become dangerous. That’s important information for astronauts with allergies. The students now hope to repeat their experiment a second time, to check their results. They are also working on designing a container that could protect epinephrine in space.
32. What are EpiPens used to do
A. Help astronauts breathe properly in space. B. Aid in solving anything urgent in space.
C. Avoid exposing astronauts to radiation. D. Contribute to managing severe allergic reactions.
33. What’s the purpose of the experiment
A. To test whether epinephrine changes in space.
B. To test the purity of epinephrine in space.
C. To test the difference of radiation on Earth and in space.
D. To test the disadvantages of epinephrine.
34. Who might benefit from the students’ discovery
A. Astronauts who have some allergies.
B. Chemistry teachers in the middle school.
C. People who have allergic symptoms in their bodies.
D. Experts doing research about space in the lab.
35. What’s the best title for the text
A. What Is EpiPen and What Does It Do B. Kids Discover Poisonous EpiPen in Space
C. Student Scientists Study the EpiPen in Space D. Useful in Space A Funny EpiPen Project
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。
Watching a movie can be a magical experience, but do you know that the music in the films we watch has always been an important part of creating that magical experience ___36___
The first commercial film with sound came out in 1927. ___37___Even back in the early days of silent films，most movie theatres hired a musician or a group of musicians to provide music, mostly to drown out the sound of the film projectors (放映机) and people talking.
As sound-on-film technology developed, composers were hired to create original music for films. Like music written for an opera，film music serves to advance the story and the action. ___38___ In the same way, a film composer needs to support the screenplay’s storyline. The music also needs to reflect the screenplay’s mood, which includes everything from the action on the screen to sound effects to dialogue.
Music has a language of its own. The right piece of music can improve and sometimes even change a viewer’s ideas of what is taking place onscreen. Most of the time, music is used to stress the action onscreen, improve the mood of a scene, foreshadow action that is about to take place or even show the emotion of a character. ___39___ But in many instances the emotional power of the visuals would not be as great were it not for the music.
___40___ Ask yourself, “How would this scene feel if the music were different Is the composer trying to tell me how I should feel Or are they merely pushing me in an emotional direction ”
A. So, how is the film music created
B. Without it, it would be hard to imagine the scene.
C. An opera composer must follow the text of the opera.
D. Usually, composers and filmmakers don’t want to overshadow a film.
E. So the next time you watch a movie, pay close attention to the music.
F. The music in a film makes you cheer for the hero and cry at the drama.
G. Since then, music has been powerfully linked to the movie-watching experience.
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。
While doing some cleaning in my kitchen, I noticed a tiny black pellet(小球)on the shelf. Gecko(壁虎)dropping, I ___41___. There must be a baby gecko here.
There are lots of geckos here in the Desert Southwest. I’d ___42___ the habit of checking the oven and dishwasher before I turned them on. I didn’t want one of the little guys to get ___43___.
Nevertheless, the oven or the dishwasher wasn’t the biggest ___44___ for a gecko inside a home. It was ___45___. A gecko trapped in a house wouldn’t find enough bugs to eat. I didn’t want that to happen to my current visitor. But to save him, I had to find him first. And that would be ___46___.
I searched everywhere in the ___47___, but useless. Suddenly, a picture flashed in my mind: a pile of ___48___. “Yes, I know where that is!”I have a basket that holds my collection of oddly shaped or uniquely coloured stones, which caught my eye. Ever so carefully, I ___49___ one stone, then another—until I ____50____ a tiny yellow tail!
I brought the whole basket outside and left it on the ground, where I ____51____ the baby gecko could find his way home. When I ____52____ a few hours later, the little gecko was gone.
Now I ____53____ peek(窥视)inside the dishwasher and the oven before turning them on. ____54____, I know I am not the only one looking out for geckos. No ____55____ is too small for us to love.
41. A. remembered B. discovered C. thought D. wished
42. A. approved of B. sought for C. fed on D. got into
43. A. fixed B. touched C. hurt D. lost
44. A. trouble B. danger C. failure D. pleasure
45. A. starvation B. thirst C. climate D. poverty
46. A. different B. simple C. interesting D. tough
47. A. kitchen B. bedroom C. garden D. lab
48. A. books B. woods C. stones D. bottles
49. A. arranged B. grasped C. cleaned D. removed
50. A. dropped B. obtained C. spotted D. rescued
51. A. agreed B. hoped C. feared D. promised
52. A. counted B. checked C. picked D. locked
53. A. even B. never C. still D. already
54. A. Nevertheless B. Instead C. Therefore D. Otherwise
55. A. place B. dream C. human D. creature
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。
Many countries around Asia have unique ways of observing Lunar New Year. Some of these are famous, but Singapore has one special way,___56___ you may not know about. Each year, cooks across the country prepare yu sheng, a salad made with raw fish. The salad is placed at the centre of a dinner table. Diners will gather around and use their chopsticks ___57___(throw) the salad up into the air. This practice is known ___58___ Lo Hei.
Since its origins as ___59___ simple raw fish dish back in the 1930s，the recipe has undergone a series of transformations, and even until today, people are still finding innovative ways to present this dish. The dish ___60___(bring)to Singapore in the late 19th century by the migrants from China.
“Lo Hei”, in Cantonese (广东话)___61___ (literal) translates to “tossing (掷) up good fortune”, and it refers to the ritual (仪式) adopted in Singapore that involves a group of people gathered around a ___62___(mass) plate, tossing its contents violently while saying out lucky___63___(phrase) before eating it. For example, when the golden crackers (薄脆饼干) are added, everyone will say “bian di huang jin”. This ___64___(mean) “the entire floor will be covered with gold”. Also, it is popularly believed that the higher the toss, the ____65____(good) your prospects and fortune in the year ahead.
第四部分 写作（共两节，满分40分）
第一节 （满分15 分）
66. 假定你是李华，今天是奶奶的生日，但是你要参加一场重要的考试，无法参加她的生日聚会。请你根据以下提示，写一封电子邮件给奶奶。内容包括：
1. 表达问候和感激之情；
2. 说明缺席的原因；
3. 期待再次见面。
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 Grandma，
It’s a special day, your birthday!
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Love，
Li Hua
第二节 （满分25分）
67. 阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。
Our science teacher always enjoys giving out challenging assignments to our Grade 10 science class. Unlike other teachers who hand out page upon page of textbook questions, Mr. Hussey seems to prefer having the students learn science through a more hands-on, do-it-yourself approach.
“Today, ”said Mr. Hussey, “everyone will be making an icebox!”As we sat in awe, trying to imagine what kind of device he was referring to, Mr. Hussey handed out the project instructions. In groups of two, we would design a storage (贮藏) device that was capable of keeping its contents at a constant temperature for a certain period of time, regardless of the outside temperature. The competition was quite straightforward：every contestant would receive a cube (立方体) of ice. The team that had the biggest piece left the next day would win!
As always, I partnered with my best friend, Vlad. That afternoon we went straight to the library. After an intense discussion, we agreed on the basic idea of having the ice cube inside a box, which would be put inside another bigger box. Between the two boxes would be the heat insulator (绝缘体).
The first test of the icebox was extremely disappointing. Since this was our first experiment, we both wanted good results to build our confidence. Before I went to bed that night, I carefully picked out a huge block of ice from our refrigerator and placed it inside the icebox. When I woke up the next morning and looked into the icebox, there wasn’t even a bit of ice left. Reflecting on this failure, we were determined to find a better insulating material. Then we tried the same experiment again. This time, we made it. There was 70 percent of the ice left.
注意：
1. 续写词数应为150左右；
2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
The day of the competition came very fast.
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The next day, everybody rushed towards these works of art.
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答案版
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
The diversity of Australian animals in NSW national parks is extraordinary. Some common species can be found across a range of parks, while others are endemic (特有的) to a specific area. Our national parks are also important shelters for threatened animals, many found nowhere else in the world. The following are some examples.
Albert’s lyrebird
The Albert’s lyrebird is much rarer than the superb lyrebird. Distinguished by its richer brown feather and less delicate tail feathers, it’s protected as a threatened species in NSW.
Cumberland Plain land snail
The endangered Cumberland Plain land snail is only found on the Cumberland Plain, west of Sydney. During drought it digs deep into the soil to escape severe conditions. Its brown shell is thin and fragile (脆弱的).
Australian fur seal The largest fur seal
Australian fur seals are found in isolated rocky outcrops and islands along the NSW coast. They come ashore to form breeding colonies (繁殖地) and can often be seen at Barunguba Montague Island Nature Reserve.
Australian brush turkey
The Australian brush turkey, also known as bush or scrub turkey, can be found in rainforests along eastern NSW. With a striking red head, blue-black feather and booming call, these distinctive Australian birds are easy to spot while bird watching in several NSW national parks.
21. What do Albert’s lyrebird and Cumberland Plain land snail have in common
A. They live in the soil. B. They hate dry conditions.
C. They have long feathers. D. They are species in danger.
22. What can we know about Australian brush turkey from the text
A. They breed on the sea shore. B. They are red from head to tail.
C. They adapt to rainforest climate. D. They are only seen on isolated islands.
23. Where can we read the text
A. In a science report. B. In a personal diary.
C. In a tourist brochure. D. In an educational magazine.
【答案】21. D 22. C 23. C
B
We went deep into the earth through dark, narrow caves. When I got used to the light, I stood amazed.
A vast lake or even an ocean, spread far beyond where the eye could see. The shore was lined with shining sand, being softly lapped by waves. It was covered with small shells once inhabited by the first living beings. Around this sea stood a huge rock wall being worn away by the endless action of the waves.
I could see far over this great sea because it was being lit up by a strange light. Not sunlight, of course, as we were deep below the surface. Under the “sky”, if it could be called so, being made of rock, were also vast clouds. The light gave no heat, so the place felt rather gloomy (幽暗的). We were shut up inside a vast cave which must have been several miles high.
My imagination was powerless before such wonders. I felt like I was on some distant planet, and was both amazed and rather scared. However, I was energetic by the breezy salty air supplying more oxygen to my lungs. After many days in much narrower spaces, it was a great relief.
We began to walk following the shore. Soon in front of us appeared a tall, dense forest, composed of trees formed like umbrellas. “Mushrooms!” said my uncle. And he was right! There were mushrooms in their thousands, and each at least thirty feet high.
“Now look under your feet!” cried my uncle and I noticed many bones being crushed under our feet as we walked. Might some monsters still roam (漫步) through these gloomy forests I anxiously surveyed the landscape, but we were the only living creatures here. Thankfully!
Eventually we returned to the cave we had entered from, and I fell asleep with strange thoughts.
— Journey to the centre of the earth
24. What does the underlined word “lapped” in Paragraph 2 mean
A. Caught in. B. Sought for. C. Sheltered from. D. Beaten against.
25. Which words can best describe the scene in the author’s eyes
A. Huge, strange and amazing. B. Sunny, windy and wonderful.
C. Salty, narrow and comforting. D. Cloudy, gloomy and embarrassing.
26. What was found on the shore
A. A high and thick forest composed of tree-shaped umbrellas.
B. Lots of bones belonging to monsters that might have disappeared.
C. Thousands of mushrooms measuring no more than thirty feet high.
D. A couple of roaming creatures living in the gloomy and distant planet.
27 What can be inferred from the text
A. The author kept awake in the cave they had entered from.
B. The author thought it strange that he fell asleep in such a cave.
C. The author enjoyed the experience though he felt scared sometimes.
D. The author encountered with a monster before he returned to the cave.
【答案】24. D 25. A 26. B 27. C
C
Right now someone is speaking or thinking in a language that is on the verge of disappearing. Of the world’s roughly 7,000 spoken languages, one dies every 40 days, according to one estimate — languages like Babanki, spoken in Cameroon.
And some of the places where rare languages are the most concentrated are also most vulnerable (易受影响的) to climate change. Especially, linguists call global warming the final nail in the coffin (致命一击) for more than half of humanity’s language disappearing.
Let’s take Vanuatu, a South Pacific island nation, for example. It’s very small, but it has 110 languages spoken there, which is the highest density (密度) of languages in the world. It is also one of the countries most at risk of sea level rise and climate change. There, you can often see perfect hurricanes.
So if rising seas or storms force people in Vanuatu to move to Australia, what happens to the language they speak Well, what often happens is that they aren’t necessarily displaced with the same people in their community, and also, even if they are displaced with other people in their community, they and their children will often adopt the language of Australia, the dominant language there because it’s economically advantageous for them to speak the new language, the dominant language. And their language dies.
However, there is so much culturally lost when a language dies. It is because the language carries so much local knowledge and culture.
In fact, in the 1970s, it was something like 2,000 native speakers of Hawaiian remained. But activists launched some schools where children are taught from birth, usually by kind of grandparents, and now more than 18,700 people speak it. And the same thing happened in New Zealand in the 1970s. Only 5% of young Maori people spoke the language, but now something like 25% now speak it.
28. What do we know about Vanuatu
A. Its most languages have died out.
B It is sensitive to climate change.
C. It witnesses various disasters every year.
D. It is the highest density of population in the world.
29. What will happen to people who are forced to leave Vanuatu for Australia
A. They lose their advantages in economy.
B. They have few chances to speak their own language.
C. They fail to contact people in their previous community.
D. They willingly teach their kids the language of Australia.
30. What is the author’s attitude towards language disappearing
A. Favourable. B. Concerned. C. Doubtful. D. Unclear.
31. What does the last paragraph want to convey
A. More languages are faced with dying out.
B. It’s a must for kids to learn their mother tongue.
C. Grandparents play a vital role in passing down languages.
D. More efforts have been made to save endangered languages.
【答案】28. B 29. B 30. B 31. D
D
A school science project by a group of students in Canada has led to an important discovery: EpiPens, which help control dangerous allergic (过敏的) reactions, might not work in space.
An EpiPen is a shot that puts a medicine called “epinephrine (肾上腺素)” straight into a person’s body with a needle. The epinephrine calms the allergic reaction so the person can breathe.
But students in the Programme for Gifted Learners had a question about EpiPens: Would they work in space The students knew that on Earth, radiation from the sun can change the molecules (分子) of the epinephrine in an EpiPen. They wondered if the same thing would happen when epinephrine was exposed to radiation in space. So the students designed an experiment to test their idea. They wanted to send samples of the liquid in an EpiPen, as well as pure epinephrine, into space to see if anything changed.
Working with a group called iEDU, which offers a programme called Cubes in Space, the students sent two cubes into space — one on a rocket and the other on a balloon. Each cube held a bottle of pure epinephrine and a bottle of EpiPen liquid.
After the cubes returned to Earth, Dr. Mayer tested the liquids in the bottles once more. The results suggested that the students had discovered something big. The bottles that held the EpiPen liquid now had no epinephrine at all. The results from the bottles of pure epinephrine were even more surprising. Only 87% of the liquid was still epinephrine. The other 13% had turned into poisonous chemicals.
The discovery the students made is a big deal. It suggests that EpiPens might not work in space, and might even become dangerous. That’s important information for astronauts with allergies. The students now hope to repeat their experiment a second time, to check their results. They are also working on designing a container that could protect epinephrine in space.
32. What are EpiPens used to do
A. Help astronauts breathe properly in space. B. Aid in solving anything urgent in space.
C. Avoid exposing astronauts to radiation. D. Contribute to managing severe allergic reactions.
33. What’s the purpose of the experiment
A. To test whether epinephrine changes in space.
B. To test the purity of epinephrine in space.
C. To test the difference of radiation on Earth and in space.
D. To test the disadvantages of epinephrine.
34. Who might benefit from the students’ discovery
A. Astronauts who have some allergies.
B. Chemistry teachers in the middle school.
C. People who have allergic symptoms in their bodies.
D. Experts doing research about space in the lab.
35. What’s the best title for the text
A. What Is EpiPen and What Does It Do B. Kids Discover Poisonous EpiPen in Space
C. Student Scientists Study the EpiPen in Space D. Useful in Space A Funny EpiPen Project
【答案】32. D 33. A 34. A 35. C
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。
Watching a movie can be a magical experience, but do you know that the music in the films we watch has always been an important part of creating that magical experience ___36___
The first commercial film with sound came out in 1927. ___37___Even back in the early days of silent films，most movie theatres hired a musician or a group of musicians to provide music, mostly to drown out the sound of the film projectors (放映机) and people talking.
As sound-on-film technology developed, composers were hired to create original music for films. Like music written for an opera，film music serves to advance the story and the action. ___38___ In the same way, a film composer needs to support the screenplay’s storyline. The music also needs to reflect the screenplay’s mood, which includes everything from the action on the screen to sound effects to dialogue.
Music has a language of its own. The right piece of music can improve and sometimes even change a viewer’s ideas of what is taking place onscreen. Most of the time, music is used to stress the action onscreen, improve the mood of a scene, foreshadow action that is about to take place or even show the emotion of a character. ___39___ But in many instances the emotional power of the visuals would not be as great were it not for the music.
___40___ Ask yourself, “How would this scene feel if the music were different Is the composer trying to tell me how I should feel Or are they merely pushing me in an emotional direction ”
A. So, how is the film music created
B. Without it, it would be hard to imagine the scene.
C. An opera composer must follow the text of the opera.
D. Usually, composers and filmmakers don’t want to overshadow a film.
E. So the next time you watch a movie, pay close attention to the music.
F. The music in a film makes you cheer for the hero and cry at the drama.
G. Since then, music has been powerfully linked to the movie-watching experience.
【答案】36. B 37. G 38. C 39. D 40. E
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。
While doing some cleaning in my kitchen, I noticed a tiny black pellet(小球)on the shelf. Gecko(壁虎)dropping, I ___41___. There must be a baby gecko here.
There are lots of geckos here in the Desert Southwest. I’d ___42___ the habit of checking the oven and dishwasher before I turned them on. I didn’t want one of the little guys to get ___43___.
Nevertheless, the oven or the dishwasher wasn’t the biggest ___44___ for a gecko inside a home. It was ___45___. A gecko trapped in a house wouldn’t find enough bugs to eat. I didn’t want that to happen to my current visitor. But to save him, I had to find him first. And that would be ___46___.
I searched everywhere in the ___47___, but useless. Suddenly, a picture flashed in my mind: a pile of ___48___. “Yes, I know where that is!”I have a basket that holds my collection of oddly shaped or uniquely coloured stones, which caught my eye. Ever so carefully, I ___49___ one stone, then another—until I ____50____ a tiny yellow tail!
I brought the whole basket outside and left it on the ground, where I ____51____ the baby gecko could find his way home. When I ____52____ a few hours later, the little gecko was gone.
Now I ____53____ peek(窥视)inside the dishwasher and the oven before turning them on. ____54____, I know I am not the only one looking out for geckos. No ____55____ is too small for us to love.
41. A. remembered B. discovered C. thought D. wished
42. A. approved of B. sought for C. fed on D. got into
43. A. fixed B. touched C. hurt D. lost
44. A. trouble B. danger C. failure D. pleasure
45. A. starvation B. thirst C. climate D. poverty
46. A. different B. simple C. interesting D. tough
47. A. kitchen B. bedroom C. garden D. lab
48. A. books B. woods C. stones D. bottles
49. A. arranged B. grasped C. cleaned D. removed
50. A. dropped B. obtained C. spotted D. rescued
51. A. agreed B. hoped C. feared D. promised
52. A. counted B. checked C. picked D. locked
53. A. even B. never C. still D. already
54. A. Nevertheless B. Instead C. Therefore D. Otherwise
55. A. place B. dream C. human D. creature
【答案】41. C 42. D 43. C 44. B 45. A 46. D 47. A 48. C 49. D 50. C 51. B 52. B 53. C 54. A 55. D
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。
Many countries around Asia have unique ways of observing Lunar New Year. Some of these are famous, but Singapore has one special way,___56___ you may not know about. Each year, cooks across the country prepare yu sheng, a salad made with raw fish. The salad is placed at the centre of a dinner table. Diners will gather around and use their chopsticks ___57___(throw) the salad up into the air. This practice is known ___58___ Lo Hei.
Since its origins as ___59___ simple raw fish dish back in the 1930s，the recipe has undergone a series of transformations, and even until today, people are still finding innovative ways to present this dish. The dish ___60___(bring)to Singapore in the late 19th century by the migrants from China.
“Lo Hei”, in Cantonese (广东话)___61___ (literal) translates to “tossing (掷) up good fortune”, and it refers to the ritual (仪式) adopted in Singapore that involves a group of people gathered around a ___62___(mass) plate, tossing its contents violently while saying out lucky___63___(phrase) before eating it. For example, when the golden crackers (薄脆饼干) are added, everyone will say “bian di huang jin”. This ___64___(mean) “the entire floor will be covered with gold”. Also, it is popularly believed that the higher the toss, the ____65____(good) your prospects and fortune in the year ahead.
【答案】56. which
57. to throw
58. as 59. a
60. was brought
61. literally
62. massive
63. phrases
64. means 65. better
第四部分 写作（共两节，满分40分）
第一节 （满分15 分）
66. 假定你是李华，今天是奶奶的生日，但是你要参加一场重要的考试，无法参加她的生日聚会。请你根据以下提示，写一封电子邮件给奶奶。内容包括：
1. 表达问候和感激之情；
2. 说明缺席的原因；
3. 期待再次见面。
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 Grandma，
It’s a special day, your birthday!
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Love，
Li Hua
【答案】Dear Grandma.
It’s a special day, your birthday! Here I first wish you a happy birthday. Second. I want to take this opportunity to thank you for being such a wonderful person in my life. You have told me thousands of stories that were meant to teach me important lessons about life. I think if it were not for you, I wouldn’t be as confident as I am today. You are my hero!
I’m really sorry for not visiting you due to my exams. But when I visit you next time, I will take you to the restaurant where we ate for your birthday last year. For today, I hope you have a great birthday!
Love,
Li Hua
第二节 （满分25分）
67. 阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。
Our science teacher always enjoys giving out challenging assignments to our Grade 10 science class. Unlike other teachers who hand out page upon page of textbook questions, Mr. Hussey seems to prefer having the students learn science through a more hands-on, do-it-yourself approach.
“Today, ”said Mr. Hussey, “everyone will be making an icebox!”As we sat in awe, trying to imagine what kind of device he was referring to, Mr. Hussey handed out the project instructions. In groups of two, we would design a storage (贮藏) device that was capable of keeping its contents at a constant temperature for a certain period of time, regardless of the outside temperature. The competition was quite straightforward：every contestant would receive a cube (立方体) of ice. The team that had the biggest piece left the next day would win!
As always, I partnered with my best friend, Vlad. That afternoon we went straight to the library. After an intense discussion, we agreed on the basic idea of having the ice cube inside a box, which would be put inside another bigger box. Between the two boxes would be the heat insulator (绝缘体).
The first test of the icebox was extremely disappointing. Since this was our first experiment, we both wanted good results to build our confidence. Before I went to bed that night, I carefully picked out a huge block of ice from our refrigerator and placed it inside the icebox. When I woke up the next morning and looked into the icebox, there wasn’t even a bit of ice left. Reflecting on this failure, we were determined to find a better insulating material. Then we tried the same experiment again. This time, we made it. There was 70 percent of the ice left.
注意：
1. 续写词数应为150左右；
2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
The day of the competition came very fast.
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The next day, everybody rushed towards these works of art.
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
【答案】One possible version:
The day of the competition came very fast. We all brought our masterpieces into the classroom. Every team had a different design-from boxes made of different materials to boxes that operated in different ways. One fellow even attached a motor to his icebox and turned it into a refrigerator. Before we left school, Mr. Hussey gave each group an ice tube of the same size. We put them in the iceboxes that were placed side by side on the table. Then we left for home, hoping that we would win.
The next day, everybody rushed towards these works of art. We all hoped that there would still be some ice left. Some kids searched and searched, and were even about to tear their iceboxes apart, but couldn’t find anything. Luckily, it turned out that we didn’t do too badly. Having almost 60 percent of the ice cube still remaining, we had an above-average result! The winner of the competition, however, was the guy who made a motorized refrigerator. When we opened his icebox, he had a piece of ice that was 140 percent the size of the original! His innovative design was definitely a cut above the rest.
全卷满分150分，考试时间120分钟。
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
The diversity of Australian animals in NSW national parks is extraordinary. Some common species can be found across a range of parks, while others are endemic (特有的) to a specific area. Our national parks are also important shelters for threatened animals, many found nowhere else in the world. The following are some examples.
Albert’s lyrebird
The Albert’s lyrebird is much rarer than the superb lyrebird. Distinguished by its richer brown feather and less delicate tail feathers, it’s protected as a threatened species in NSW.
Cumberland Plain land snail
The endangered Cumberland Plain land snail is only found on the Cumberland Plain, west of Sydney. During drought it digs deep into the soil to escape severe conditions. Its brown shell is thin and fragile (脆弱的).
Australian fur seal The largest fur seal
Australian fur seals are found in isolated rocky outcrops and islands along the NSW coast. They come ashore to form breeding colonies (繁殖地) and can often be seen at Barunguba Montague Island Nature Reserve.
Australian brush turkey
The Australian brush turkey, also known as bush or scrub turkey, can be found in rainforests along eastern NSW. With a striking red head, blue-black feather and booming call, these distinctive Australian birds are easy to spot while bird watching in several NSW national parks.
21. What do Albert’s lyrebird and Cumberland Plain land snail have in common
A. They live in the soil. B. They hate dry conditions.
C. They have long feathers. D. They are species in danger.
22. What can we know about Australian brush turkey from the text
A. They breed on the sea shore. B. They are red from head to tail.
C. They adapt to rainforest climate. D. They are only seen on isolated islands.
23. Where can we read the text
A. In a science report. B. In a personal diary.
C. In a tourist brochure. D. In an educational magazine.
B
We went deep into the earth through dark, narrow caves. When I got used to the light, I stood amazed.
A vast lake or even an ocean, spread far beyond where the eye could see. The shore was lined with shining sand, being softly lapped by waves. It was covered with small shells once inhabited by the first living beings. Around this sea stood a huge rock wall being worn away by the endless action of the waves.
I could see far over this great sea because it was being lit up by a strange light. Not sunlight, of course, as we were deep below the surface. Under the “sky”, if it could be called so, being made of rock, were also vast clouds. The light gave no heat, so the place felt rather gloomy (幽暗的). We were shut up inside a vast cave which must have been several miles high.
My imagination was powerless before such wonders. I felt like I was on some distant planet, and was both amazed and rather scared. However, I was energetic by the breezy salty air supplying more oxygen to my lungs. After many days in much narrower spaces, it was a great relief.
We began to walk following the shore. Soon in front of us appeared a tall, dense forest, composed of trees formed like umbrellas. “Mushrooms!” said my uncle. And he was right! There were mushrooms in their thousands, and each at least thirty feet high.
“Now look under your feet!” cried my uncle and I noticed many bones being crushed under our feet as we walked. Might some monsters still roam (漫步) through these gloomy forests I anxiously surveyed the landscape, but we were the only living creatures here. Thankfully!
Eventually we returned to the cave we had entered from, and I fell asleep with strange thoughts.
— Journey to the centre of the earth
24. What does the underlined word “lapped” in Paragraph 2 mean
A Caught in. B. Sought for. C. Sheltered from. D. Beaten against.
25. Which words can best describe the scene in the author’s eyes
A. Huge, strange and amazing. B. Sunny, windy and wonderful.
C. Salty, narrow and comforting. D. Cloudy, gloomy and embarrassing.
26. What was found on the shore
A. A high and thick forest composed of tree-shaped umbrellas.
B. Lots of bones belonging to monsters that might have disappeared.
C. Thousands of mushrooms measuring no more than thirty feet high.
D. A couple of roaming creatures living in the gloomy and distant planet.
27. What can be inferred from the text
A. The author kept awake in the cave they had entered from.
B. The author thought it strange that he fell asleep in such a cave.
C. The author enjoyed the experience though he felt scared sometimes.
D. The author encountered with a monster before he returned to the cave.
C
Right now someone is speaking or thinking in a language that is on the verge of disappearing. Of the world’s roughly 7,000 spoken languages, one dies every 40 days, according to one estimate — languages like Babanki, spoken in Cameroon.
And some of the places where rare languages are the most concentrated are also most vulnerable (易受影响的) to climate change. Especially, linguists call global warming the final nail in the coffin (致命一击) for more than half of humanity’s language disappearing.
Let’s take Vanuatu, a South Pacific island nation, for example. It’s very small, but it has 110 languages spoken there, which is the highest density (密度) of languages in the world. It is also one of the countries most at risk of sea level rise and climate change. There, you can often see perfect hurricanes.
So if rising seas or storms force people in Vanuatu to move to Australia, what happens to the language they speak Well, what often happens is that they aren’t necessarily displaced with the same people in their community, and also, even if they are displaced with other people in their community, they and their children will often adopt the language of Australia, the dominant language there because it’s economically advantageous for them to speak the new language, the dominant language. And their language dies.
However, there is so much culturally lost when a language dies. It is because the language carries so much local knowledge and culture.
In fact, in the 1970s, it was something like 2,000 native speakers of Hawaiian remained. But activists launched some schools where children are taught from birth, usually by kind of grandparents, and now more than 18,700 people speak it. And the same thing happened in New Zealand in the 1970s. Only 5% of young Maori people spoke the language, but now something like 25% now speak it.
28 What do we know about Vanuatu
A. Its most languages have died out.
B. It is sensitive to climate change.
C It witnesses various disasters every year.
D. It is the highest density of population in the world.
29. What will happen to people who are forced to leave Vanuatu for Australia
A. They lose their advantages in economy.
B. They have few chances to speak their own language.
C. They fail to contact people in their previous community.
D. They willingly teach their kids the language of Australia.
30. What is the author’s attitude towards language disappearing
A. Favourable. B. Concerned. C. Doubtful. D. Unclear.
31. What does the last paragraph want to convey
A. More languages are faced with dying out.
B. It’s a must for kids to learn their mother tongue.
C. Grandparents play a vital role in passing down languages.
D. More efforts have been made to save endangered languages.
D
A school science project by a group of students in Canada has led to an important discovery: EpiPens, which help control dangerous allergic (过敏的) reactions, might not work in space.
An EpiPen is a shot that puts a medicine called “epinephrine (肾上腺素)” straight into a person’s body with a needle. The epinephrine calms the allergic reaction so the person can breathe.
But students in the Programme for Gifted Learners had a question about EpiPens: Would they work in space The students knew that on Earth, radiation from the sun can change the molecules (分子) of the epinephrine in an EpiPen. They wondered if the same thing would happen when epinephrine was exposed to radiation in space. So the students designed an experiment to test their idea. They wanted to send samples of the liquid in an EpiPen, as well as pure epinephrine, into space to see if anything changed.
Working with a group called iEDU, which offers a programme called Cubes in Space, the students sent two cubes into space — one on a rocket and the other on a balloon. Each cube held a bottle of pure epinephrine and a bottle of EpiPen liquid.
After the cubes returned to Earth, Dr. Mayer tested the liquids in the bottles once more. The results suggested that the students had discovered something big. The bottles that held the EpiPen liquid now had no epinephrine at all. The results from the bottles of pure epinephrine were even more surprising. Only 87% of the liquid was still epinephrine. The other 13% had turned into poisonous chemicals.
The discovery the students made is a big deal. It suggests that EpiPens might not work in space, and might even become dangerous. That’s important information for astronauts with allergies. The students now hope to repeat their experiment a second time, to check their results. They are also working on designing a container that could protect epinephrine in space.
32. What are EpiPens used to do
A. Help astronauts breathe properly in space. B. Aid in solving anything urgent in space.
C. Avoid exposing astronauts to radiation. D. Contribute to managing severe allergic reactions.
33. What’s the purpose of the experiment
A. To test whether epinephrine changes in space.
B. To test the purity of epinephrine in space.
C. To test the difference of radiation on Earth and in space.
D. To test the disadvantages of epinephrine.
34. Who might benefit from the students’ discovery
A. Astronauts who have some allergies.
B. Chemistry teachers in the middle school.
C. People who have allergic symptoms in their bodies.
D. Experts doing research about space in the lab.
35. What’s the best title for the text
A. What Is EpiPen and What Does It Do B. Kids Discover Poisonous EpiPen in Space
C. Student Scientists Study the EpiPen in Space D. Useful in Space A Funny EpiPen Project
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。
Watching a movie can be a magical experience, but do you know that the music in the films we watch has always been an important part of creating that magical experience ___36___
The first commercial film with sound came out in 1927. ___37___Even back in the early days of silent films，most movie theatres hired a musician or a group of musicians to provide music, mostly to drown out the sound of the film projectors (放映机) and people talking.
As sound-on-film technology developed, composers were hired to create original music for films. Like music written for an opera，film music serves to advance the story and the action. ___38___ In the same way, a film composer needs to support the screenplay’s storyline. The music also needs to reflect the screenplay’s mood, which includes everything from the action on the screen to sound effects to dialogue.
Music has a language of its own. The right piece of music can improve and sometimes even change a viewer’s ideas of what is taking place onscreen. Most of the time, music is used to stress the action onscreen, improve the mood of a scene, foreshadow action that is about to take place or even show the emotion of a character. ___39___ But in many instances the emotional power of the visuals would not be as great were it not for the music.
___40___ Ask yourself, “How would this scene feel if the music were different Is the composer trying to tell me how I should feel Or are they merely pushing me in an emotional direction ”
A. So, how is the film music created
B. Without it, it would be hard to imagine the scene.
C. An opera composer must follow the text of the opera.
D. Usually, composers and filmmakers don’t want to overshadow a film.
E. So the next time you watch a movie, pay close attention to the music.
F. The music in a film makes you cheer for the hero and cry at the drama.
G. Since then, music has been powerfully linked to the movie-watching experience.
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。
While doing some cleaning in my kitchen, I noticed a tiny black pellet(小球)on the shelf. Gecko(壁虎)dropping, I ___41___. There must be a baby gecko here.
There are lots of geckos here in the Desert Southwest. I’d ___42___ the habit of checking the oven and dishwasher before I turned them on. I didn’t want one of the little guys to get ___43___.
Nevertheless, the oven or the dishwasher wasn’t the biggest ___44___ for a gecko inside a home. It was ___45___. A gecko trapped in a house wouldn’t find enough bugs to eat. I didn’t want that to happen to my current visitor. But to save him, I had to find him first. And that would be ___46___.
I searched everywhere in the ___47___, but useless. Suddenly, a picture flashed in my mind: a pile of ___48___. “Yes, I know where that is!”I have a basket that holds my collection of oddly shaped or uniquely coloured stones, which caught my eye. Ever so carefully, I ___49___ one stone, then another—until I ____50____ a tiny yellow tail!
I brought the whole basket outside and left it on the ground, where I ____51____ the baby gecko could find his way home. When I ____52____ a few hours later, the little gecko was gone.
Now I ____53____ peek(窥视)inside the dishwasher and the oven before turning them on. ____54____, I know I am not the only one looking out for geckos. No ____55____ is too small for us to love.
41. A. remembered B. discovered C. thought D. wished
42. A. approved of B. sought for C. fed on D. got into
43. A. fixed B. touched C. hurt D. lost
44. A. trouble B. danger C. failure D. pleasure
45. A. starvation B. thirst C. climate D. poverty
46. A. different B. simple C. interesting D. tough
47. A. kitchen B. bedroom C. garden D. lab
48. A. books B. woods C. stones D. bottles
49. A. arranged B. grasped C. cleaned D. removed
50. A. dropped B. obtained C. spotted D. rescued
51. A. agreed B. hoped C. feared D. promised
52. A. counted B. checked C. picked D. locked
53. A. even B. never C. still D. already
54. A. Nevertheless B. Instead C. Therefore D. Otherwise
55. A. place B. dream C. human D. creature
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。
Many countries around Asia have unique ways of observing Lunar New Year. Some of these are famous, but Singapore has one special way,___56___ you may not know about. Each year, cooks across the country prepare yu sheng, a salad made with raw fish. The salad is placed at the centre of a dinner table. Diners will gather around and use their chopsticks ___57___(throw) the salad up into the air. This practice is known ___58___ Lo Hei.
Since its origins as ___59___ simple raw fish dish back in the 1930s，the recipe has undergone a series of transformations, and even until today, people are still finding innovative ways to present this dish. The dish ___60___(bring)to Singapore in the late 19th century by the migrants from China.
“Lo Hei”, in Cantonese (广东话)___61___ (literal) translates to “tossing (掷) up good fortune”, and it refers to the ritual (仪式) adopted in Singapore that involves a group of people gathered around a ___62___(mass) plate, tossing its contents violently while saying out lucky___63___(phrase) before eating it. For example, when the golden crackers (薄脆饼干) are added, everyone will say “bian di huang jin”. This ___64___(mean) “the entire floor will be covered with gold”. Also, it is popularly believed that the higher the toss, the ____65____(good) your prospects and fortune in the year ahead.
第四部分 写作（共两节，满分40分）
第一节 （满分15 分）
66. 假定你是李华，今天是奶奶的生日，但是你要参加一场重要的考试，无法参加她的生日聚会。请你根据以下提示，写一封电子邮件给奶奶。内容包括：
1. 表达问候和感激之情；
2. 说明缺席的原因；
3. 期待再次见面。
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 Grandma，
It’s a special day, your birthday!
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Love，
Li Hua
第二节 （满分25分）
67. 阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。
Our science teacher always enjoys giving out challenging assignments to our Grade 10 science class. Unlike other teachers who hand out page upon page of textbook questions, Mr. Hussey seems to prefer having the students learn science through a more hands-on, do-it-yourself approach.
“Today, ”said Mr. Hussey, “everyone will be making an icebox!”As we sat in awe, trying to imagine what kind of device he was referring to, Mr. Hussey handed out the project instructions. In groups of two, we would design a storage (贮藏) device that was capable of keeping its contents at a constant temperature for a certain period of time, regardless of the outside temperature. The competition was quite straightforward：every contestant would receive a cube (立方体) of ice. The team that had the biggest piece left the next day would win!
As always, I partnered with my best friend, Vlad. That afternoon we went straight to the library. After an intense discussion, we agreed on the basic idea of having the ice cube inside a box, which would be put inside another bigger box. Between the two boxes would be the heat insulator (绝缘体).
The first test of the icebox was extremely disappointing. Since this was our first experiment, we both wanted good results to build our confidence. Before I went to bed that night, I carefully picked out a huge block of ice from our refrigerator and placed it inside the icebox. When I woke up the next morning and looked into the icebox, there wasn’t even a bit of ice left. Reflecting on this failure, we were determined to find a better insulating material. Then we tried the same experiment again. This time, we made it. There was 70 percent of the ice left.
注意：
1. 续写词数应为150左右；
2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
The day of the competition came very fast.
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The next day, everybody rushed towards these works of art.
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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
The diversity of Australian animals in NSW national parks is extraordinary. Some common species can be found across a range of parks, while others are endemic (特有的) to a specific area. Our national parks are also important shelters for threatened animals, many found nowhere else in the world. The following are some examples.
Albert’s lyrebird
The Albert’s lyrebird is much rarer than the superb lyrebird. Distinguished by its richer brown feather and less delicate tail feathers, it’s protected as a threatened species in NSW.
Cumberland Plain land snail
The endangered Cumberland Plain land snail is only found on the Cumberland Plain, west of Sydney. During drought it digs deep into the soil to escape severe conditions. Its brown shell is thin and fragile (脆弱的).
Australian fur seal The largest fur seal
Australian fur seals are found in isolated rocky outcrops and islands along the NSW coast. They come ashore to form breeding colonies (繁殖地) and can often be seen at Barunguba Montague Island Nature Reserve.
Australian brush turkey
The Australian brush turkey, also known as bush or scrub turkey, can be found in rainforests along eastern NSW. With a striking red head, blue-black feather and booming call, these distinctive Australian birds are easy to spot while bird watching in several NSW national parks.
21. What do Albert’s lyrebird and Cumberland Plain land snail have in common
A. They live in the soil. B. They hate dry conditions.
C. They have long feathers. D. They are species in danger.
22. What can we know about Australian brush turkey from the text
A. They breed on the sea shore. B. They are red from head to tail.
C. They adapt to rainforest climate. D. They are only seen on isolated islands.
23. Where can we read the text
A. In a science report. B. In a personal diary.
C. In a tourist brochure. D. In an educational magazine.
【答案】21. D 22. C 23. C
B
We went deep into the earth through dark, narrow caves. When I got used to the light, I stood amazed.
A vast lake or even an ocean, spread far beyond where the eye could see. The shore was lined with shining sand, being softly lapped by waves. It was covered with small shells once inhabited by the first living beings. Around this sea stood a huge rock wall being worn away by the endless action of the waves.
I could see far over this great sea because it was being lit up by a strange light. Not sunlight, of course, as we were deep below the surface. Under the “sky”, if it could be called so, being made of rock, were also vast clouds. The light gave no heat, so the place felt rather gloomy (幽暗的). We were shut up inside a vast cave which must have been several miles high.
My imagination was powerless before such wonders. I felt like I was on some distant planet, and was both amazed and rather scared. However, I was energetic by the breezy salty air supplying more oxygen to my lungs. After many days in much narrower spaces, it was a great relief.
We began to walk following the shore. Soon in front of us appeared a tall, dense forest, composed of trees formed like umbrellas. “Mushrooms!” said my uncle. And he was right! There were mushrooms in their thousands, and each at least thirty feet high.
“Now look under your feet!” cried my uncle and I noticed many bones being crushed under our feet as we walked. Might some monsters still roam (漫步) through these gloomy forests I anxiously surveyed the landscape, but we were the only living creatures here. Thankfully!
Eventually we returned to the cave we had entered from, and I fell asleep with strange thoughts.
— Journey to the centre of the earth
24. What does the underlined word “lapped” in Paragraph 2 mean
A. Caught in. B. Sought for. C. Sheltered from. D. Beaten against.
25. Which words can best describe the scene in the author’s eyes
A. Huge, strange and amazing. B. Sunny, windy and wonderful.
C. Salty, narrow and comforting. D. Cloudy, gloomy and embarrassing.
26. What was found on the shore
A. A high and thick forest composed of tree-shaped umbrellas.
B. Lots of bones belonging to monsters that might have disappeared.
C. Thousands of mushrooms measuring no more than thirty feet high.
D. A couple of roaming creatures living in the gloomy and distant planet.
27 What can be inferred from the text
A. The author kept awake in the cave they had entered from.
B. The author thought it strange that he fell asleep in such a cave.
C. The author enjoyed the experience though he felt scared sometimes.
D. The author encountered with a monster before he returned to the cave.
【答案】24. D 25. A 26. B 27. C
C
Right now someone is speaking or thinking in a language that is on the verge of disappearing. Of the world’s roughly 7,000 spoken languages, one dies every 40 days, according to one estimate — languages like Babanki, spoken in Cameroon.
And some of the places where rare languages are the most concentrated are also most vulnerable (易受影响的) to climate change. Especially, linguists call global warming the final nail in the coffin (致命一击) for more than half of humanity’s language disappearing.
Let’s take Vanuatu, a South Pacific island nation, for example. It’s very small, but it has 110 languages spoken there, which is the highest density (密度) of languages in the world. It is also one of the countries most at risk of sea level rise and climate change. There, you can often see perfect hurricanes.
So if rising seas or storms force people in Vanuatu to move to Australia, what happens to the language they speak Well, what often happens is that they aren’t necessarily displaced with the same people in their community, and also, even if they are displaced with other people in their community, they and their children will often adopt the language of Australia, the dominant language there because it’s economically advantageous for them to speak the new language, the dominant language. And their language dies.
However, there is so much culturally lost when a language dies. It is because the language carries so much local knowledge and culture.
In fact, in the 1970s, it was something like 2,000 native speakers of Hawaiian remained. But activists launched some schools where children are taught from birth, usually by kind of grandparents, and now more than 18,700 people speak it. And the same thing happened in New Zealand in the 1970s. Only 5% of young Maori people spoke the language, but now something like 25% now speak it.
28. What do we know about Vanuatu
A. Its most languages have died out.
B It is sensitive to climate change.
C. It witnesses various disasters every year.
D. It is the highest density of population in the world.
29. What will happen to people who are forced to leave Vanuatu for Australia
A. They lose their advantages in economy.
B. They have few chances to speak their own language.
C. They fail to contact people in their previous community.
D. They willingly teach their kids the language of Australia.
30. What is the author’s attitude towards language disappearing
A. Favourable. B. Concerned. C. Doubtful. D. Unclear.
31. What does the last paragraph want to convey
A. More languages are faced with dying out.
B. It’s a must for kids to learn their mother tongue.
C. Grandparents play a vital role in passing down languages.
D. More efforts have been made to save endangered languages.
【答案】28. B 29. B 30. B 31. D
D
A school science project by a group of students in Canada has led to an important discovery: EpiPens, which help control dangerous allergic (过敏的) reactions, might not work in space.
An EpiPen is a shot that puts a medicine called “epinephrine (肾上腺素)” straight into a person’s body with a needle. The epinephrine calms the allergic reaction so the person can breathe.
But students in the Programme for Gifted Learners had a question about EpiPens: Would they work in space The students knew that on Earth, radiation from the sun can change the molecules (分子) of the epinephrine in an EpiPen. They wondered if the same thing would happen when epinephrine was exposed to radiation in space. So the students designed an experiment to test their idea. They wanted to send samples of the liquid in an EpiPen, as well as pure epinephrine, into space to see if anything changed.
Working with a group called iEDU, which offers a programme called Cubes in Space, the students sent two cubes into space — one on a rocket and the other on a balloon. Each cube held a bottle of pure epinephrine and a bottle of EpiPen liquid.
After the cubes returned to Earth, Dr. Mayer tested the liquids in the bottles once more. The results suggested that the students had discovered something big. The bottles that held the EpiPen liquid now had no epinephrine at all. The results from the bottles of pure epinephrine were even more surprising. Only 87% of the liquid was still epinephrine. The other 13% had turned into poisonous chemicals.
The discovery the students made is a big deal. It suggests that EpiPens might not work in space, and might even become dangerous. That’s important information for astronauts with allergies. The students now hope to repeat their experiment a second time, to check their results. They are also working on designing a container that could protect epinephrine in space.
32. What are EpiPens used to do
A. Help astronauts breathe properly in space. B. Aid in solving anything urgent in space.
C. Avoid exposing astronauts to radiation. D. Contribute to managing severe allergic reactions.
33. What’s the purpose of the experiment
A. To test whether epinephrine changes in space.
B. To test the purity of epinephrine in space.
C. To test the difference of radiation on Earth and in space.
D. To test the disadvantages of epinephrine.
34. Who might benefit from the students’ discovery
A. Astronauts who have some allergies.
B. Chemistry teachers in the middle school.
C. People who have allergic symptoms in their bodies.
D. Experts doing research about space in the lab.
35. What’s the best title for the text
A. What Is EpiPen and What Does It Do B. Kids Discover Poisonous EpiPen in Space
C. Student Scientists Study the EpiPen in Space D. Useful in Space A Funny EpiPen Project
【答案】32. D 33. A 34. A 35. C
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。
Watching a movie can be a magical experience, but do you know that the music in the films we watch has always been an important part of creating that magical experience ___36___
The first commercial film with sound came out in 1927. ___37___Even back in the early days of silent films，most movie theatres hired a musician or a group of musicians to provide music, mostly to drown out the sound of the film projectors (放映机) and people talking.
As sound-on-film technology developed, composers were hired to create original music for films. Like music written for an opera，film music serves to advance the story and the action. ___38___ In the same way, a film composer needs to support the screenplay’s storyline. The music also needs to reflect the screenplay’s mood, which includes everything from the action on the screen to sound effects to dialogue.
Music has a language of its own. The right piece of music can improve and sometimes even change a viewer’s ideas of what is taking place onscreen. Most of the time, music is used to stress the action onscreen, improve the mood of a scene, foreshadow action that is about to take place or even show the emotion of a character. ___39___ But in many instances the emotional power of the visuals would not be as great were it not for the music.
___40___ Ask yourself, “How would this scene feel if the music were different Is the composer trying to tell me how I should feel Or are they merely pushing me in an emotional direction ”
A. So, how is the film music created
B. Without it, it would be hard to imagine the scene.
C. An opera composer must follow the text of the opera.
D. Usually, composers and filmmakers don’t want to overshadow a film.
E. So the next time you watch a movie, pay close attention to the music.
F. The music in a film makes you cheer for the hero and cry at the drama.
G. Since then, music has been powerfully linked to the movie-watching experience.
【答案】36. B 37. G 38. C 39. D 40. E
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。
While doing some cleaning in my kitchen, I noticed a tiny black pellet(小球)on the shelf. Gecko(壁虎)dropping, I ___41___. There must be a baby gecko here.
There are lots of geckos here in the Desert Southwest. I’d ___42___ the habit of checking the oven and dishwasher before I turned them on. I didn’t want one of the little guys to get ___43___.
Nevertheless, the oven or the dishwasher wasn’t the biggest ___44___ for a gecko inside a home. It was ___45___. A gecko trapped in a house wouldn’t find enough bugs to eat. I didn’t want that to happen to my current visitor. But to save him, I had to find him first. And that would be ___46___.
I searched everywhere in the ___47___, but useless. Suddenly, a picture flashed in my mind: a pile of ___48___. “Yes, I know where that is!”I have a basket that holds my collection of oddly shaped or uniquely coloured stones, which caught my eye. Ever so carefully, I ___49___ one stone, then another—until I ____50____ a tiny yellow tail!
I brought the whole basket outside and left it on the ground, where I ____51____ the baby gecko could find his way home. When I ____52____ a few hours later, the little gecko was gone.
Now I ____53____ peek(窥视)inside the dishwasher and the oven before turning them on. ____54____, I know I am not the only one looking out for geckos. No ____55____ is too small for us to love.
41. A. remembered B. discovered C. thought D. wished
42. A. approved of B. sought for C. fed on D. got into
43. A. fixed B. touched C. hurt D. lost
44. A. trouble B. danger C. failure D. pleasure
45. A. starvation B. thirst C. climate D. poverty
46. A. different B. simple C. interesting D. tough
47. A. kitchen B. bedroom C. garden D. lab
48. A. books B. woods C. stones D. bottles
49. A. arranged B. grasped C. cleaned D. removed
50. A. dropped B. obtained C. spotted D. rescued
51. A. agreed B. hoped C. feared D. promised
52. A. counted B. checked C. picked D. locked
53. A. even B. never C. still D. already
54. A. Nevertheless B. Instead C. Therefore D. Otherwise
55. A. place B. dream C. human D. creature
【答案】41. C 42. D 43. C 44. B 45. A 46. D 47. A 48. C 49. D 50. C 51. B 52. B 53. C 54. A 55. D
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。
Many countries around Asia have unique ways of observing Lunar New Year. Some of these are famous, but Singapore has one special way,___56___ you may not know about. Each year, cooks across the country prepare yu sheng, a salad made with raw fish. The salad is placed at the centre of a dinner table. Diners will gather around and use their chopsticks ___57___(throw) the salad up into the air. This practice is known ___58___ Lo Hei.
Since its origins as ___59___ simple raw fish dish back in the 1930s，the recipe has undergone a series of transformations, and even until today, people are still finding innovative ways to present this dish. The dish ___60___(bring)to Singapore in the late 19th century by the migrants from China.
“Lo Hei”, in Cantonese (广东话)___61___ (literal) translates to “tossing (掷) up good fortune”, and it refers to the ritual (仪式) adopted in Singapore that involves a group of people gathered around a ___62___(mass) plate, tossing its contents violently while saying out lucky___63___(phrase) before eating it. For example, when the golden crackers (薄脆饼干) are added, everyone will say “bian di huang jin”. This ___64___(mean) “the entire floor will be covered with gold”. Also, it is popularly believed that the higher the toss, the ____65____(good) your prospects and fortune in the year ahead.
【答案】56. which
57. to throw
58. as 59. a
60. was brought
61. literally
62. massive
63. phrases
64. means 65. better
第四部分 写作（共两节，满分40分）
第一节 （满分15 分）
66. 假定你是李华，今天是奶奶的生日，但是你要参加一场重要的考试，无法参加她的生日聚会。请你根据以下提示，写一封电子邮件给奶奶。内容包括：
1. 表达问候和感激之情；
2. 说明缺席的原因；
3. 期待再次见面。
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 Grandma，
It’s a special day, your birthday!
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Love，
Li Hua
【答案】Dear Grandma.
It’s a special day, your birthday! Here I first wish you a happy birthday. Second. I want to take this opportunity to thank you for being such a wonderful person in my life. You have told me thousands of stories that were meant to teach me important lessons about life. I think if it were not for you, I wouldn’t be as confident as I am today. You are my hero!
I’m really sorry for not visiting you due to my exams. But when I visit you next time, I will take you to the restaurant where we ate for your birthday last year. For today, I hope you have a great birthday!
Love,
Li Hua
第二节 （满分25分）
67. 阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。
Our science teacher always enjoys giving out challenging assignments to our Grade 10 science class. Unlike other teachers who hand out page upon page of textbook questions, Mr. Hussey seems to prefer having the students learn science through a more hands-on, do-it-yourself approach.
“Today, ”said Mr. Hussey, “everyone will be making an icebox!”As we sat in awe, trying to imagine what kind of device he was referring to, Mr. Hussey handed out the project instructions. In groups of two, we would design a storage (贮藏) device that was capable of keeping its contents at a constant temperature for a certain period of time, regardless of the outside temperature. The competition was quite straightforward：every contestant would receive a cube (立方体) of ice. The team that had the biggest piece left the next day would win!
As always, I partnered with my best friend, Vlad. That afternoon we went straight to the library. After an intense discussion, we agreed on the basic idea of having the ice cube inside a box, which would be put inside another bigger box. Between the two boxes would be the heat insulator (绝缘体).
The first test of the icebox was extremely disappointing. Since this was our first experiment, we both wanted good results to build our confidence. Before I went to bed that night, I carefully picked out a huge block of ice from our refrigerator and placed it inside the icebox. When I woke up the next morning and looked into the icebox, there wasn’t even a bit of ice left. Reflecting on this failure, we were determined to find a better insulating material. Then we tried the same experiment again. This time, we made it. There was 70 percent of the ice left.
注意：
1. 续写词数应为150左右；
2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
The day of the competition came very fast.
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The next day, everybody rushed towards these works of art.
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【答案】One possible version:
The day of the competition came very fast. We all brought our masterpieces into the classroom. Every team had a different design-from boxes made of different materials to boxes that operated in different ways. One fellow even attached a motor to his icebox and turned it into a refrigerator. Before we left school, Mr. Hussey gave each group an ice tube of the same size. We put them in the iceboxes that were placed side by side on the table. Then we left for home, hoping that we would win.
The next day, everybody rushed towards these works of art. We all hoped that there would still be some ice left. Some kids searched and searched, and were even about to tear their iceboxes apart, but couldn’t find anything. Luckily, it turned out that we didn’t do too badly. Having almost 60 percent of the ice cube still remaining, we had an above-average result! The winner of the competition, however, was the guy who made a motorized refrigerator. When we opened his icebox, he had a piece of ice that was 140 percent the size of the original! His innovative design was definitely a cut above the rest.
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