江苏省南京外国语学校2024-2025学年高二下学期期中考试 英语试题（含答案，无听力音频无听力原文）

南京外国语学校
2024-2025学年度第二学期期中高二年级
英语试题（A卷）
第一卷（95分）
一、听力（共两节，满分30分）
第一节（共5小题；每小题1.5分，满分7.5分）
听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项。听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。
1. What has the woman begun doing lately
A. Doing gardening. B. Learning cooking. C. Recycling rainwater.
2. What does the man say about virtual classrooms
A. They are convenient. B. They are expensive. C. They require travel.
3. What does the man plan to do tomorrow
A. Take an athletic test. B. Join a study group. C. Watch a sports race.
4. How many more trees can the machine plant than a person
A. About a quarter more. B. About a third more. C. About a half more.
5. Where are the speakers probably
A. In the classroom. B. At a hospital. C. On a ski field.
第二节（共15小题；每小题1.5分，满分22.5分）
听下面5段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项。听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟；听完后，各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。
听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。
6. What kind of influencers does the woman like
A. Fitness. B. Beauty. C. Travel.
7. What attitude does the man have towards the influencer economy
A. Opposed. B. Watchful. C. Welcoming.
听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。
8. What has the weather been like in the UK recently
A. Rainy. B. Hot. C. Windy.
9. What is the problem with humans according to Aimee
A. Not respecting science.
B. Denying climate change.
C. Doing bad things to the earth.
10. What is the man’s attitude towards the climate change theory
A. Supportive. B. Doubtful. C. Insecure.
听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。
11. What is the company working on
A. Green energy. B. Urban planning. C. Digital innovation.
12. What does the woman think of the man
A. Capable. B. Flexible. C. Humorous.
13. What is special about the new office building
A. It will be culture-rich. B. It will be eco-friendly. C. It will be artistic-looking.
听第9段材料，回答第14至16题。
14. What do we learn about hat factories in Britain
A. They have all been turned into movie theaters.
B. Nearly all of them closed down decades ago.
C. They have adapted to meet fashion changes.
15. What does the man say about most people in London
A. They don't speak foreign languages.
B. They enjoy watching foreign movies.
C. They don't go to movie theaters often.
16. What does the woman say about foreign movies shown in London
A. They attract large crowds of young Londoners.
B. They are hard for English people to appreciate.
C. They have an English translation on the screen.
听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。
17. According to a recent research conducted in Australia, what has a lasting impact on one's life
A. The time one starts school.
B. The school that one attends.
C. The relationship with classmates.
18. What was the purpose of the Australian research
A. To help parents decide when to send their children to school.
B. To find causes for differences in the participants' performance.
C. To offer constructive suggestions for making educational policies.
19. Who were the participants in the researcher's first study
A. Political leaders. B. Professional athletes. C. High-school students.
20. According to the researchers, what is one characteristic of successful people
A. Leadership ability. B. Risk-taking. C. Self-confidence.
二、单项选择（共10题；每小题1分，满分10分）
21. Apples are sorted by _________ size and then packaged by _________ box.
A.不填；不填 B. the; the C.不填；the； D. the; 不填
22. What to read this week The classics of literature around the world may give you some_________, which is profound and also accessible.
A. interpretation B. inspiration C. innovation D. invitation
23. The art gallery showcased more than millions of dollars _________ of paintings, attracting collectors from around the globe.
A. sum B. rate C. worth D. profit
24. The students from different countries shared their_________ cultures and traditions during the international exchange program, which enriched their knowledge and perspectives.
A. respected B. respectable C. respectful D. respective
25. The scenery of this small town is _________ beautiful than that of those famous attractions, but its number of tourists is very small.
A. not so B. no more C. not too D. no less
26. -Look at Mary staring at her phone!
--_________, she's waiting for an important message.
A. Typically B. Occasionally C. Accordingly D. Apparently
27. It is not only poor people who feel desperate. Rich people sometimes feel desperate, and
_________.
A. just helplessly B. less helplessly C. as helplessly D. so helplessly
28. It is almost ten years since she left her hometown, and she _________ as a manager in a multinational corporation.
A. served B. had served C. is serving D. would serve
29. --Did you have to work overtime last night
-No, I didn't, but I _________ if my colleague hadn't helped me finish the report.
A. would have B. probably have C. would do D. might do
30. --Should I ask the boss if he's upset at my missing the deadline
--If he hasn't said anything about it, just_________.
A. let sleeping dogs lie B. make hay while the sun shines
C. put yourself in his shoes D. take the bull by the horns
三、阅读（共两节，满分40分）
第一节（共15题；每小题2分，满分30分）
A
World Book Day 2025 Announcements
World Book Day will be held on 61 March 2025. Keep an eye on this space as we update it with announcements on our 2025 events, activities, and partnerships that will ensure that more children than ever can have the opportunity to discover a love of reading.
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World Book Day Online Events:
BEN DEAN VIRTUAL EVENT (06/03/25)
How do you write an edge-of-your-seat thriller Join former celebrity journalist, master of suspense, and WBD 1 book author Ben Dean to find out in this virtual session for secondary schools. In this session Ben will introduce his story for older readers This Story is a Lie.
BBC LIVE LESSON (06/03/25)
We'll be celebrating the joy of books, authors and reading for pleasure in a World Book Day lesson for 7-11 year-olds.
POBBLE'S FREE WRITING LESSON (06/03/25)
Step into the Magic Library with Pobble this World Book Day! Join our free live writing session, designed to inspire children aged 7-11 to create magical stories based on their favourite books. Perfect for celebrating the joy of reading and writing!
To sign up for any of our digital events click here.
31. What can children do before they decide which 1/?1.50 book to choose
A. Glance at some pages of the books.
B. Read the book for free for one day.
C. Appreciate the illustrations inside.
D. Look at the comments of the book.
32. What do the online activities have in common
A. They all involve creative writing.
B. They all charge fees for registration.
C. They all promote reading and literacy.
D. They all target at senior high students.
33. Where is this text probably taken from
A. A website on extreme sports.
B. A website on volunteer programs.
C. A website on educational resources.
D. A website on youth science carnivals.
B
Visit any antiques store and you'll encounter artifacts from the past, photographs, letters, a brochure detailing the Sinclair dinosaur exhibit from the 1964-65 World's Fair, the ephemera (昙花一现之物) of history. Yet these objects aren't truly ephemeral, because they're still here, decades, even centuries later. Why Because they're tangible.
Have you thought about the life cycle of intangible formats, digital information, given that those who produce these artifacts seldom make preparations for their long-term preservation At the time of creation, no attempts were made at intentional preservation, yet analog (模拟的）materials have a chance of surviving and serving as the historical record that biographers, historians, and novelists rely on. Libraries and archives have traditionally shouldered the responsibility of organization, preservation, and access to information. Librarians digitize the tangible so that researchers the world over can quickly search and access their holdings.
However, librarians' selfless devotion can act against us when users point to universality of access by holding up a cell phone and saying, "it's all in here" as evidence that libraries are less vital for researchers today. Yet how was that universality of access made possible and, perhaps more importantly, how is it maintained Who tends to what is preserved When it comes to born-digital information, the terrifying answer can be if not librarians and archivists, then no one. Digital information requires a great deal more care than analog.
Even when a digital object is preserved, it may only be the carrier that's saved, not the information itself. As technology advances and a format becomes obsolete （过时的）, the object is useless. Have you ever stared helplessly at a ZIP disk, thinking: how do I get the files off this Without constant migration of digital assets, a nightmare about the foreseeable future is what keeps historians up at night: a historical record that suddenly stops when digital replaces analog.
As a librarian whose day job revolves around special collections and digital assets, I share the night terrors of historians, and I'd be lying if I said a comprehensive preservation solution currently exists. Yet researchers can take some comfort in the fact that there are a large number of librarians devoted to discovering, organizing, and preserving digital information for researchers current and future. While future researchers may find the digital realm a challenging place to do their work, they won't find it an impossible one.
34. Why does the author mention the artifacts from the past
A. To bring up the issue of preservation.
B. To comment on their historical value.
C. To contrast them with everyday items.
D. To introduce the collection of antiques.
35. According to paragraph 3, what may librarians' work result in
A. Oversupply of materials.
B. Undervaluation of libraries.
C. Researchers' underperformance.
D. Users' overreliance on technology.
36. Why is the "ZIP disk" cited as an example
A. To explain the way of getting off files saved in their carriers.
B. To show the development of constantly migrating digital assets.
C. To illustrate the possibility of losing information in obsolete formats.
D. To reveal the inconvenience of storing information on analog devices.
37. Which of the following best summarizes the text
A. Hard work should be done to preserve artifacts.
B. Contributions of librarians should be recognized.
C. Accessing databases is essential to researchers.
D. Keeping digital historical records is a challenge.
C
When was the last time you ate and only focused on eating Many of us eat while working, fiddling with our smartphones or on the go. Distracted eating, as it is termed in scientific literature, coincides with greater flexibility in where we can eat our food and the accessibility of distractions. As a result, "you get this weird blend of different activities. They're no longer fixed to certain places and times," said Lotte van Dillen, a professor of social psychology at Leiden University. "You can do everything anywhere at any moment. That's not good."
When van Dillen and her colleagues conducted studies of large, representative samples of people in the Netherlands, they found a "surprisingly consistent" result: Roughly 70 to 75 percent of the time, people are distracted and doing something else when they eat.
Distracted eating could have adverse （不利的) health consequences. Studies show that when we are distracted, we tend to eat more. And when we are done eating, we are more likely to eat again sooner. In turn, regular distracted eating is associated with weight gain.
At the same time, distractions prevent us from fully tasting or enjoying what we are eating by disrupting signals in our brain. Despite eating more, "it's kind of tragic that you're not enjoying it so much," van Dillen said.
When we eat, our guts（肠道）getting full, a process which takes about 20 minutes. But being distracted makes it harder to release satiety hormones that signal to our brains that we are experience these satiety signals. Distractions add cognitive load to our brains that competes with and reduces our ability to sense not only the amount of food and how full we are getting, but also its taste.
In an early experiment from a 2013 study, van Dillen and her colleagues had 42 participants sweeten their own lemonade with sugary syrup to taste. Some were distracted by an easy cognitive task (memorizing a one-digit number), while others had a harder one (memorizing a seven-digit number). Those challenged with the harder mental task added a whopping 50 percent more of the sugary syrup but did not report their drink as sweeter than participants doing the easier mental task.
In a follow-up 2023 study published in the journal Appetite, van Dillen and her colleagues put 46 participants in an FMRI brain scanner and fed them sugar water of different sweetness levels through a bundle of tubes. When participants had a more challenging cognitive task, they rated the strong sugar solution as less sweet than when the task was easy. In short, distractions have a "sledgehammer effect" on our senses, van Dillen said.
In a 2024 study, van Dillen and her colleagues found evidence that distractions cause otherwise enjoyable activities such as eating a snack, reading a novel or watching TV, to feel less enjoyable that we expected. Feeling underwhelmed, we are more likely to overconsume to make up for this shortfall in enjoyment, engaging in what researchers call "hedonic(快乐的) compensation."
38. Which of the following behaviors can be considered as "distracted eating"
A. You eat dinner at a fixed place and time.
B. You eat snacks while working on your essay.
C. You have breakfast in a relaxing environment.
D. You have lunch at school without doing anything else.
39. What can we know about "satiety hormones" from paragraph 5
A. They make distractions.
B. They stimulate appetite.
C. They add cognitive load.
D. They send satiety signals.
40. How did van Dillen and her colleagues carry out their experiments
A. By conducting interviews. B. By testing effectiveness.
C. By making comparisons. D. By distributing surveys.
41. What can we learn from the studies
A. Distracted eating prompts us to taste more flavors.
B. Fully experiencing the food can help us better enjoy it.
C. Distractions fail to change how the brain processes taste.
D. The food will be tasteless if we choose to do harder work.
D
I shrug my shoulders when people tell me that their first impressions of a person are always right. For my own part I find that the longer I know people the more they puzzle me: my oldest friends are just those of whom I can say that I don't know anything about them.
I was introduced to Edward Hyde Burton at the British Club. We played bridge together. He played a good game and a generous one. He did not talk very much, either then or later when we were having drinks, but what he said was sensible. He had a quiet, dry humour. He seemed to be popular at the club and afterwards, when he had gone, they described him as one of the best. I think the chief thing that struck me about Burton was his kindliness. There was something very
pleasing in his mild blue eyes. His voice was gentle; you could not imagine that he could raise it in anger; his smile was kind. But there was nothing sentimental about him: he liked his game of cards and his cocktail, he could tell a good and spicy story, and in his youth he had been something of an athlete. He was a rich man and he had made every penny himself. I suppose one thing that made you like him was that he was so small and frail; he aroused your instincts of protection. You felt that he would not hurt a fly.
One afternoon I met him in the lounge of the Grand Hotel and we talked about our common friends.
"Do you know Lenny Burton " said him.
"No. I don't believe I remember the name."
"He was quite a remarkable player. He seemed to have an instinct about the cards. It was uncanny. I used to play with him a lot. He was in Kobe for some time."
Burton sipped his gin.
"It's rather a funny story," he said. "He was always well-dressed and he was handsome in a way, with curly hair and pink-and-white cheeks. Of course he drank too much. Fellows like him always do. A bit of money used to come in for him once a quarter and he made a bit more by card-playing. He won a good deal of mine, I know that."
Burton gave a kindly little chuckle. I knew from my own experience that he could lose money at bridge with a good grace.
"I suppose that is why he came to me when he went broke, that and the fact that he was a namesake （同名) of mine. He came to see me in my office one day and asked me for a job. I was rather surprised. He told me that there was no more money coming from home and he wanted to work. I asked him how old he was.
Thirty five," he said.
"And what have you been doing I asked him.
Well, nothing very much," he said.
" ‘I'm afraid I can't do anything for you just now,' I said. ‘Come back and see me in another thirty-five years, and I'll see what I can do.'
"He didn't move. He went rather pale. He hesitated for a moment and then he told me that he had had bad luck at cards for some time. He hadn't a penny. He'd pawned (典当) everything he had. He was down and out. If he couldn't get a job he'd have to commit suicide.
“ ‘Well, isn't there anything you can do except play cards ’ I asked him.
“ ‘I can swim," he said.
“ ‘Swim!'
“ I could hardly believe my ears; it seemed such a silly answer.
“I swam for my university.'
“I was a pretty good swimmer myself when I was a young man,'I said.
“Suddenly I had an idea."
Pausing in his story, Burton turned to me.
"Do you know Kobe " he asked.
"No," I said, "I passed through it once, but I only spent a night there."
"Then you don't know the Shioya Club. When I was a young man I swam from there round the beacon and landed at the creek of Tarumi. It's over three miles and it's rather difficult on account of the currents round the beacon. Well, I told my young namesake about it and I said to him that if he'd do it I'd give him a job.
"I could see he was rather taken aback（震惊的）.
"You say you're a swimmer,' I said.
"I'm not in very good condition," he answered.
"I didn't say anything. I shrugged my shoulders. He looked at me for a moment and then he nodded.
"All right," he said. "When do you want me to do it '
"I looked at my watch. It was just after ten.
"The swim shouldn't take you much over an hour and a quarter. I'll drive round to the creek at half past twelve and meet you. I'll take you back to the club to dress and then we'll have lunch together.'
"Done," he said.
"We shook hands. I wished him good luck and he left me. I had a lot of work to do that morning and I only just managed to get to the creek at half past twelve. But I needn't have hurried; he never turned up."
"Did he get frightened at the last moment " I asked.
"No, he didn't. He started all right. But of course he'd ruined his health by drink. The currents round the beacon were more than he could manage. We didn't get the body for about three days."
I didn't say anything for a moment or two. I was a little shocked. Then I asked Burton a question.
"When you made him that offer of a job, did you know that he'd be drowned "
He gave a little mild chuckle and he looked at me with those kind blue eyes of his. He rubbed his chin with his hand.
"Well, I hadn't got a vacancy in my office at the moment."
--adapted from Somerset Maugham's story A Friend In Need
42. What did the author think of Edward Burton according to paragraph 2
A. He was afraid of insects. B. He was bad at sports.
C. He was a self-made man. D. He was a terrible storyteller.
43. What does the underlined word "that" in paragraph 10 refer to
A. Edward often lost to Lenny in the Bridge.
B. Lenny made little money by playing cards.
C. Edward and Lenny were very close friends.
D. Lenny stopped receiving money from home.
44. Why didn't Lenny show up at the creek in the end
A. Because he gave up in the end. B. Because he forgot the appointment.
C. Because he was sent to hospital. D. Because he lost his life in the water.
45. What can we learn about Edward's personality from the ending
A. Humorous and sensible. B. Gentle and kind-hearted.
C. Impulsive and pessimistic. D. Hypocritical and hard-hearted.
第二节（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后的选项中选出填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
People on a college campus were more likely to give money to the March of Dimes if they were asked for a donation by a disabled woman in a wheelchair than if asked by a non-disabled woman. In another study, subway riders in New York saw a man carrying a stick stumble （绊脚）and fall to the floor. Sometimes the victim had a large red birthmark on his face; sometimes he did not. In this situation, the victim was more likely to receive aid if his face was spotless than if he had an unattractive birthmark. In understanding these and other research findings, two themes are important. 46______________
47. ______________ For example, in a field study researchers placed a completed application to graduate school in a telephone box at the airport. The application was ready to be mailed, but had apparently been "lost". The photo attached to the application was sometimes that of a very good-looking person and sometimes that of a less attractive person. The measure of helping was whether the individual who found the envelope actually mailed it or not. Results showed that people were more likely to mail the application if the person in the photo was physically attractive. The degree of similarity between the potential helper and the person in need is also important. 48______________ In another study, shoppers on a busy street in Scotland were more likely to help a person wearing a plain T-shirt than a person wearing a T-shirt printed with offensive words.
49______________ For example, shoppers in a supermarket were more likely to give someone money to buy milk rather than to buy cookies, probably because milk is thought more essential for health than cookies. Passengers on a New York subway were more likely to help a man who fell to the ground if he appeared to be sick rather than drunk. 50______________
A. Whether a person receives help depends in part on the "worth" of the case.
B. It's interesting to consider the factors that influence whether or not someone will offer help to another person.
C. Cultural differences and communication obstacles can both affect how people respond.
D. We are more willing to help people we like for some reason and people we think deserve assistance.
E. People might donate more to an arts program than for car repairs, despite the latter's necessity, due to the perceived community value of art.
F. In some situations, those who are physically attractive are more likely to receive aid.
G. People are more likely to help a stranger who is from the same country rather than a foreigner.
四、完形填空（共15题；每小题1分，满分15分）
From an airplane, cars crawling down the highway look like ants. But actual ants-unlike cars-somehow ______ 51______ to avoid the problem of stop-and-go traffic. Researchers are now studying these insects' cooperative tactics to learn how to program self-driving cars that don't jam up.
The free flow of traffic becomes unstable as the ______52______ of cars increases on a highway. At 15 vehicles per mile per lane, one driver tapping the ______53______ can trigger a persistent wave of congestion(堵). "It's a kind of phase ______54______," like water turning from a liquid to a solid form, says Katsuhiro Nishinari, a mathematical physicist at the University of Tokyo.
Nishinari's previous research had shown that foraging ants can ______55______ their flow even at high densities. So what's their secret In a recent study published in Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives, researchers recorded Ochetellus ants on foraging trails and used traffic-engineering models to analyze their movement. They found that the ants don't jam because they travel in groups of 3 to 20 that move at nearly constant rates while keeping good distances between one another-and they don't ______56______ to pass others.
Human drivers at rush hour are hardly _ 57 to follow such rules. "We're maximizing the ______58______ of individuals, which is why, at a given point, you start to have a traffic jam," says study co-author Nicola Pugno, who studies solid mechanics at the University of Trento in Italy. But self-driving cars, if they one day become ubiquitous ( 普遍的）, could have more ______59______ programming. In one vision of this future, autonomous vehicles would share information with nearby cars to optimize traffic flow-perhaps, the researchers suggest, by prioritizing constant speeds and headways or by not passing others on the road.
This vehicle network would be ______60______ to ants on a trail, which use scent to coordinate behavior while interacting with one another. "There is no leader, but this organization emerges anyway," says Noa Pinter-Wollman, a behavioral scientist studying ants at the University of California, Los Angeles. And in both ant and vehicle traffic, this type of distributed system can be "very, very strong and resilient", Nishinari says.
______61______ ants can do a lot of things that cars even self-driving ones-can't, Pinter-Wollman points out. Ants can forge trails as wide as they like, unlike drivers stuck on highways. The insects do sometimes jam up when confined ( 限制) in tunnels, but to keep things moving, "they'll find a way to walk on the ceiling," she says. Plus, unlike cars, ants don't ______62______
-they can literally walk over one another.
Today's drivers can learn ______63______ one thing from ants to avoid causing a traffic jam, Nishinari says: don't tailgate. By leaving room between their car and the one ahead of them, drivers can absorb a wave of braking in dense traffic conditions that would ______64______ be amplified (放大) into a full-blown "phantom （幽灵）' traffic jam with no ______65______ cause. "Just keeping away," he says, can help traffic flow smoothly.
51. A. manage B. attempt C. happen D. fail
52. A. movement B. density C. spacing D. speed
53. A. buttons B. gas C. brakes D. horn
54. A. transportation B. transition C. translation D. transcription
55. A. disrupt B. restart C. increase D. maintain
56. A. fasten up B. stay up C. speed up D. pull up
57. A. reluctant B. willing C. proud D. ashamed
58. A. resources B. interests C. rights D. options
59. A. creative B. competitive C. cooperative D. constructive
60. A. similar B. equal C. relevant D. superior
61. A. Overall B. Consequently C. Instead D. Still
62. A. collapse B. crack C. crush D. crash
63. A. at best B. at worst C. at least D. at most
64. A. ever B. otherwise C. yet D. already
65. A. primary B. reasonable C. likely D. obvious
第二卷（55分）
五、首字母填空（共10题；每小题1分，满分10分）
（请使用选必四Unit 2和新概念三Lesson 24 &25新学单词）
66. Police reports indicate that the driver was s____________ with one hand and using his phone with the other when the accident occurred.
67. Modern container v____________, some stretching over 400 meters in length, can carry more than 20,000 standard shipping containers at once.
68. The minister's claim that the policy would just cause "minor disruptions" u____________ the reality, for thousands of small businesses faced closure due to the new regulations.
69. A single light bulb d____________ from the warehouse ceiling, its flickering glow casting long shadows.
70. The bank teller, p____________ during the armed robbery, later told the police she was too frightened to notice anything.
71. The t____________ shelters built after the earthquake were meant to last six months, but three years later, families still live there amid delays in permanent housing.
72. The f____________ between Edison and Tesla wasn't just scientific; it was deeply personal, fueled by Edison's public ridicule of Tesla's AC current experiments.
73. While the surgeon was technically c____________, her lack of bedside manner left patients feeling uneasy despite successful outcomes.
74. After tasting the new school lunch menu, the student council finally a____________ of the changes, praising the chef's creative use of local vegetables.
75. S____________ firewood into symmetrical piles isn't just about aesthetics--it ensures proper airflow to speed up drying.
六、词组替换（共5题；每小题1分，满分5分）
（请使用选必四Unit 2和新概念 Lesson 24 & 25)
76. Countries around the world are affected by climate change more or less, with some racing more severe consequences than others.
77. Survivors of the earthquake described how they were frightened when they heard the deafening roar of collapsing buildings around them.
78. The CEO resigned after journalists uncovered his embarrassing secret—illegal dumping of the toxic waste in the 1990s.
79. The unusual weather patterns in the Pacific can be explained by the El Nino phenomenon, which triggers extreme climate events worldwide.
80. In the 19th century, whaling ships often stopped during a journey at remote Pacific ports to refill supplies and recruit crew.
七、语法填空（共10题；每小题1分，满分10分）
DeepSeek, a remarkable Chinese-made AI, has recently burst into the global spotlight. It ___81___ (develop) by a group of talented Chinese researchers with the aim of ___82___ (advance) artificial intelligence technology.
What makes DeepSeek stand out is its powerful capabilities. It can handle a wide range of tasks, from natural language processing to image recognition. In natural language processing, it can generate high-quality text, answer complex questions accurately, ___83___ even engage in intelligent conversations. When it comes to image recognition, it can identify various objects and scenes with impressive precision.
The success of DeepSeek is not ___84___ (accident). It benefits from the continuous investment in AI research in China and ___85___ rich talent pool in this field. The researchers behind DeepSeek ___86___ (make) numerous efforts to improve its algorithms and performance. They have also incorporated the latest technology breakthroughs into the development process.
Moreover, DeepSeek has found a wide range of ___87___ (apply) in many industries. In the medical field, it can assist doctors ___88___ diagnosing diseases by analyzing medical images and patient data. In the education sector, it can provide ___89___ (personalize) learning resources for students. In the business world, it can help companies with market analysis and customer service.
_____90_____ DeepSeek continues to gain popularity, it is playing an increasingly important role in promoting international cooperation in the Al field. It shows the world the remarkable achievements of Chinese Al technology and boosts the confidence of the Chinese scientific community.
八、写作 读后续写（满分30分）
In the busy city of New York, a man named Alex spent nearly 30 years searching for his long-lost childhood best friend, Sam. Growing up together in the same neighbourhood, they had shared countless memories and adventures. From exploring hidden corners of the neighbourhood park to sharing secrets under the night sky, their friendship was a storybook tale. But when Sam's family suddenly moved away during their teenage years, that story was left unfinished. Despite the passage of time, Alex never forgot Sam and the bond they shared.
Over the years, Alex tried every possible means to locate Sam. He checked old phone books, contacted many friends and even used social media, but all his efforts were in vain. It seemed as if Sam had disappeared into the air. Yet, the bond they once shared kept Alex's hope alive.
One day, while looking through an old photo album, Alex came across a faded picture of Sam and himself, taken during a summer camp they had attended as kids. The photo captured Sam's wide smile and his signature gesture, running his hand through his brown thick curly hair. Alex couldn't help recalling their happy times--swimming in the lake, telling stories by the campfire and laughing together.
Feeling hopeful, He got in touch with the camp organizers, hoping they might have some clues. Luckily, the camp had maintained records of past attendees and they were able to provide Alex with a list of potential contacts. Weeks passed as Alex reached out to each name on the list. It wasn't until he contacted the last name on the list that he finally got a breakthrough.
The person on the other end of the line was Sam's cousin, who had kept in touch with Sam over the years. She was excited to hear from Alex and immediately gave Alex Sam's number.
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。
With shaking hands, Alex picked up his cell phone.
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When Alex approached the park entrance, a familiar figure came into view.
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参考答案
听力：1-5 CACBC 6-10 CBACB 11-15 CABBA 16-20 CABCB
单项选择：21-25 CBCDD 26-30 DCCAA
阅读理解：31-33 ACC 34-37 ABCD 38-41 BDCB 42-45 CADD
七选五：46-50 DFGAB
完形填空：51-55 ABCBD 56-60 CBBCA 61-65 DDCBD
首字母：66. steering 67. vessels 68. understated 69. dangled 70. petrified
71. temporary 72. friction petent 74. approved 75. stacking
词组替换： 76. to varying degrees 77. their hair stood on end 78. a skeleton in the cupboard
79. be accounted for 80. called in
语法填空： 81. was developed 82. advancing 83. and 84. accidental 85. a
86. have made 87. applications 88. in 89. personalized 90. As
书面表达：略