湖南省长沙市第一中学2026届高三上学期月考（一）英语试卷（含答案，无听力原文及音频）
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长沙市一中 2026届高三月考试卷(一)
英 语
时量:120 分钟 满分:150分
得分：
第一部分 听力(共两节，满分30分)
做题时，先将答案标在试卷上。录音内容结束后，你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的答案转涂到答题卡上。
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。
例: How much is the shirt?
A.?19.15. B.?9.18. C.?9.15.
答案是 答案C。
1. What will the woman do next?
A. Put the man through to Ben.
B. Go to the Market Department.
C. Give the man a phone number.
2. What does the woman think of the museum?
A. It gets less popular.
B. It is friendly to artists.
C. It becomes more crowded.
3. Why doesn't the man want to buy the refrigerator?
A. He dislikes the style.
B. It is not energy efficient.
C. The price is beyond the budget.
4. Where does the conversation take place?
A. In an office. B. In a restaurant. C. In a supermarket.
5. What are the speakers mainly talking about?
A. A list of animal species. B. A charity organization. C. An annual report.
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. Why didn’ t the woman buy any clothes in the shop?
A. They were of bad quality.
B. Her mother disliked them.
C. There weren't any warm jackets.
7. What season is it now?
A. Spring. B. Autumn. C. Winter.
听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。
8. What do we know about the beer festival?
A. It is very popular. B. It has a long history. C. It is held in Bamberg.
9. What did the man do during the trip?
A. He visited museums.
B. He attended the beer festival.
C. He went to some historic squares.
听第8段材料，回答第10 至12题。
10. What happened to the man at the age of six?
A. He met a young artist.
B. He survived a disaster.
C. He had to stop a lesson.
11. What is the aim of the man's projects?
A. To enrich his experiences.
B. To encourage children in need.
C. To promote the advantages of art.
12. What advice does the man give at last?
A. Pursue your dreams now.
B. Listen to the views of artists.
C. Treasure the people around you.
听第9段材料，回答第13 至16题。
13. How did Grace feel when she first entered university?
A. Stressed. B. Confused. C. Pleased.
14. What might Grace do halfway through the first term?
A. She decided to take more classes.
B. She began to catch up on her studies.
C. She managed time as she did in high school.
15. When does Grace study alone now?
A. In the morning. B. In the afternoon. C. In the evening.
16. What is Grace's final suggestion?
A. Use a planner. B. Set clear study goals. C. Balance learning and rest.
听第10段材料，回答第17 至 20题。
17. Why are people surprised by ancient rock art?
A. It varied in style.
B. It focused on human images.
C. It shared similarities in different cultures.
18. How long has the rock art in Australia existed?
A. For about 20,000 years. B. For about 10,000 years. C. For about 1,800 years.
19. What image shows British settlement in Australia?
A. The landscape. B. Horses. C. Stick figures.
20. What will the speaker talk about next?
A. Damage to rock art. B. Places to see rock art. C. Characteristics of rock art.
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。
The best books of 2024
2024 was full of fascinating, moving, alarming, entertaining, educational, and enjoyable books. As we look back over the last 12 months, here are three of the best.
Playground
Kindle ebook — $9.66, hardcover — $17.78, audiobook — $0.99
New York Times Bestseller
Finalist for the 2024 Kirkus Prize
Longlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize
Playground, by Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Richard Powers, is a brilliant novel about artificial intelligence and the race to save the Earth’s oceans. The novel involves a computer genius, a famous oceanographer (海洋学家), and a tiny island in the South Pacific. Powers draws these stories together in a mind-bending way that will transform the way you see the world.
James
Kindle ebook — $14.99, paperback — $13.7, audiobook — $0.99
New York Times Bestseller
Kirkus Prize Winner
Shortlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize
Move over, Mark Twain. Percival Everett’s novel James is a revolutionary response to The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Everett retells Mark Twain’s story from the perspective of Huck’s enslaved friend, Jim. You won’t believe how that change in perspective alters everything in this sometimes funny, sometimes terrifying satire on racism and American culture.
This Strange Eventful History
Kindle ebook — $9.66, hardcover — $13.9, audiobook — $0.98
Longlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize
Longlisted for the 2024 Giller Prize
Winner of the 2024 Deborah Pease Prize
Every family has secrets. Claire Messud has built a gorgeous novel around her own family’s hidden stories. This Strange Eventful History follows three generations as they journey across the globe from the Second World War into the 21st century. The narrator is a curious young woman determined to be a writer — not unlike Claire Messud herself. It is one of those rare novels that a reader doesn’t merely read but lives through with the characters.
1. What is the main theme of Playground?
A. Challenges facing oceans.
B. The journey of a computer genius.
C. The impact of the South Pacific islands.
D. Technology and environmental conservation.
2. Which book is based on an existing book?
A. James. B. Playground.
C. This Strange Eventful History. D. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
3. What do the three books have in common?
A. All offer same-price paperbacks.
B. All get 2024 Booker Prize recognition.
C. All are based on authors’ own lives.
D. All focus on environmental themes.
B
Monica Bertagnolli is an oncologist(肿瘤学家) at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and a professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School. Growing up in Wyoming, she was well aware of the lack of health care resources in rural areas. Access to in-depth care for cancer patients is hard to get. She’s worked throughout her career to change that.
In Wyoming, there’s a great distance to travel between where people live and where they can find a cancer specialist. “If you need treatments and they have to be administered every day, and if it’s 120 miles from where you live, that ends up being a huge barrier to receiving the kind of care you need.”
And now Monica serves as the vice president of the Coalition(联盟) of CancerCooperative Groups(CCCG)—— an international network of individuals who work to improve the quality of life and survival of cancer patients by increasing participation in cancer clinical trials.
She said, “One of the really important things is, we’re trying to make sure that cancer clinical trials can get to every single patient who needs them in my own state.” The coalition set up sites in northern and southern Wyoming that are able to run clinical trials. Before those trials became available, patients would usually go to Denver or Salt Lake City——a three-to-seven-hour drive.
Monica’s efforts to increase access to the health care needs of her rural Wyoming patients also include helping to develop new policies that will allow patients to participate in more clinical trials, and linking them with a regional doctor who can get them the access to the care they need.
In addition to the clinical trials, Monica said that technology’s progress like better cell phone and internet service in the mountains of Wyoming, as well as social media, has helped rural residents stay in touch with loved ones and medical professionals despite their distance.She is trying to advocate strongly for those changes to continue. “I still consider myself part of Wyoming and I am very devoted to making sure that patients can get access to care.”
4. What do rural cancer patients in Wyoming need most?
A Medical treatments. B. Better housing.
C. Public transportation. D. Further education.
5. How has Monica helped the cancer patients?
A. By offering clinical trials. B. By advocating financial aid.
C. By training medical professionals. D. By helping them strengthen family bonds.
6. Which of the following can best describe Monica?
A. Honest and generous. B. Determined and loyal.
C. Grateful and courageous. D. Dedicated and responsible.
7. What is a suitable title for the text?
A. A push for progress B. A helper for cancer patients
C. A hope for cancer patients D. A pioneer for cancer treatments
C
The nature of compassion fatigue (同情疲劳) means that many working in traditional care-giving roles are likely to experience its symptoms. This includes first responders, social workers, journalists, medical professionals and lawyers specializing in family law or criminal law.
Kelli Collins, a licensed family therapist, remarks “Think about muscle fatigue—if you work out too hard, your muscles might simply give out. In the same way, compassion fatigue means your ability to offer compassion to others is dramatically affected.”
Collins herself experienced compassion fatigue as a young therapist working in a community mental health setting, where she “had the strong desire to help” but quickly realized some things were out of her “range of influence”. She felt herself becoming easily annoyed with loved ones, sleeping very little, and fantasizing about changing careers. It was an overwhelming time, during which she felt she was failing her clients.
“I thought that by giving endless compassion to my clients, I was ‘leaving it all on the field’. In fact, bearing the responsibility for my clients’ pain without consideration for my own needs and limits meant that I wasn’t a particularly effective therapist,” she says.
Lynne Hughes, who founded Comfort Zone in 1999 and now serves as CEO, lost both her parents as a child, experiencing first-hand the lack of resources and support for grieving children. Hughes expresses similar feelings about the challenge of compassion fatigue, stressing the importance of looking inward.
“Suffering from compassion fatigue does not mean you’re bad at helping or caring; it only means the scale between caring for others and caring for yourself is no longer balanced,” she says. “When you’re in a role where you’re nurturing and caring for others—it’s crucial to extend that nurture and care to yourself so that ‘your well’ does not run dry.”
But both Hughes and Collins emphasize that it’s not only traditional caregivers who experience compassion fatigue. “It is applicable to anyone in a caring role,” says Hughes, while Collins believes it is a uniquely human condition, occupational or not.
8. Which group of people is more likely to get compassion fatigue?
A. Office workers. B. Delivery men.
C. Surgeons. D. Athletes.
9. Why does Collins mention “muscle fatigue” in paragraph 2?
A. To warn readers not to overwork.
B. To show the consequence of fatigue.
C. To tell the readers about her own experience.
D. To better explain what compassion fatigue is.
10. Which can be inferred from Collins’ work experience?
A. Caregivers always mix their personal and work lives.
B. Caregivers need to get outside help instead of relying on individual effort.
C. Caregivers have to balance helping others with caring for their own emotional needs.
D. Caregivers’ focus should be on helping clients since compassion fatigue can’t be avoided.
11. What does the phrase “your well” in paragraph 6 metaphorically refer to?
A. External support systems.
B. Physical health conditions under work pressure.
C. The sustainable capacity for emotional generosity.
D. Professional skills got through long-term practice.
D
In a grassland in Cambridge, Ont., a low hum fills the air. It’s a warm spring day and eastern bumblebee (大黄蜂) queens are busy with pollination (授粉). But take a closer look and you’ll notice some of them are wearing…backpacks?
These backpacks are actually a tool used by post-doctoral fellow Amanda Liczner of theUniversity of Guelph to learn more about the bees’ movement, behaviour and habitat choices. Instead of GPS collars normally used for tracking larger species, Liczner’s team attached tiny trackers to the queens’ backs. Once attached, these tiny trackers transmit radio signals to a collection of 44 radio towers which process the signals to record bees’ precise whereabouts. Liczner can then download the data from the towers to figure out how the bees are spending their time.
While we do know bumblebees need flowers, as Liczner will tell you, there’s a lot we still don't know about bumblebees, especially about how pesticides (杀虫剂) affect bees’ movement. This lack of information, says Liczner, makes it tricky to provide specific conservation recommendations.
So far, the team has made some interesting discoveries. In experiments focused on how different pesticides affect bee movement, the scientists learned that while using newer classes of pesticides may not kill bumblebees, “we have found that they’re flying in significantly odd ways,” says Liczner. For example, pesticide-treated late-season queens, which would usually be resting and building up energy reserves for the winter, were moving “all over the place”, potentially burning up the fat stores they need to survive the winter.
What’s more, 30% of flights are at night. That “blows everyone’s mind,” says Liczner. “And it’s at all times of night!” This is important and potentially alarming information, she says, because some regulations allow farmers to use pesticides between dusk and dawn, when bees were previously thought to be inactive.
This late summer, Liczner and her team were able to follow the backpacked queens to the spots where they dug into the ground to spend the winter. When the queens emerge,unfolding their wings in the spring sunshine, Liczner hopes to be there to learn more from this understudied species.
12. What is the function of “backpacks” on bumblebee queens?
A. To film bees’ habitats. B. To reveal bees’ locations.
C. To attach GPS collars to bees. D. To send signals to the towers.
13. How do pesticides impact bumblebees?
A. They determine bees’ flight patterns.
B. They decrease bees’ night activity.
C. They confuse bees’ perception of seasons.
D. They reduce bees’ energy storage for winter.
14. Which finding surprised the researchers most?
A. Bees need flowers to survive.
B. Radio towers record bees' locations.
C. 30% of bee flights happen at night.
D. Trackers can be attached to small bees.
15. What might be Liczner’s view on current pesticide regulations?
A. They should prioritize tracking bees’winter shelters.
B. They effectively protect bees by restricting daytime spraying.
C. They might be inadequate given bees’ unexpected night activity.
D. They are unnecessary since new pesticides don’t kill bees immediately.
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。
If you’ve ever experienced travel burnout and returned home from a trip completely exhausted, you probably didn’t travel slowly enough. Travelers are often so excited to explore a new destination that they forget to pace themselves along the way. ____16____
Slow travel means rejecting the usual “rush-and-tick” tourism and choosing experiences that are unique and immersive. It is a way of making your travel arrangements so that you are completing quests (探索) and seeking meaning rather than merely crossing attractions off a list.
The benefits of slow travel are immense. ____17____ Unlike rushed trips that only allow superficial interactions, slow travel lets you truly connect with the local people and their way of life. When your schedule is less packed, you have more time to learn a few local words, try the regional cuisine, and join cultural activities.
____18____ It allows a more relaxed pace, reducing stress and anxiety. It gives you space to be spontaneous (心血来潮的), to relax, and to appreciate each moment. By opting for long walks, yoga, hiking, cycling or meditation, you will probably feel great, instead of feeling exhausted.
In addition, staying longer in fewer places helps lower your environmental footprint. ____19____ You can use public transport more often, support local businesses, and cut down on carbon emissions.
Overall, slow travel reminds us not to rush but to enjoy the journey itself. ____20____ It transforms travel from a superficial activity into a truly significant experience.
A. But there is a simple solution: slow travel.
B. By traveling slower you can lower your impact on the environment.
C. Slow travel also has a positive impact on your physical and mental health.
D. Moreover, it encourages you to develop a deeper understanding of the culture.
E. In other words, it helps you choose experiences that allow deeper involvement.
F. Not only does it benefit you personally, but it also benefits the places you visit.
G. One of the main advantages is the chance to get deeply involved in local culture.
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。
When my ten-year-old son Luke joined a local football team, I never expected to witness such a profound life lesson on the field. During a critical match against our town’s ____21____ team, the stadium buzzed with unexpected energy as crowds packed the ____22____.
At a crucial time in the game, Luke got the football and was running for a touchdown. He ran this way and that, ____23____ players on the other team. His teammates did a ____24____ job in blocking too. Finally, only one opponent stood between my son and a touchdown. Then a teammate made a hard block, ____25____ the player to the ground.
There was now nothing between the goal and my son, who ran all out, then, ____26____, stopped, turned around, ran back to the boy lying on the ground, and took a ____27____.
The crowd went wild. Fans from our team ____28____ terrible words at Luke. People I had known for years said hateful things, staring at my son angrily and ____29____ him.
My heart pounding, I dashed across the field. Before I spoke, Luke whispered, “Dad, I heard a _____30_____ crack when he fell. His leg’s broken—scoring would have _____31_____ medical help.” Tears filled his eyes as he added, “Remember? True _____32_____ means doing what’s right.”
Overwhelmed with pride, I held him. Later, X-rays showed a serious break needing _____33_____. That night, Luke got no prize—yet his moral _____34_____ lit up the locker room (更衣室). Years later, coaches still tell how one boy’s compassion redefined _____35_____.
21. A. opposing B. same C. winning D. practice
22. A. field B. stands C. locker rooms D. parking lot
23. A. coaching B. greeting C. assisting D. avoiding
24. A. solid B. messy C. hesitant D. half-hearted
25. A. lifting B. knocking C. guiding D. inviting
26. A. cheerfully B. gradually C. unexpectedly D. unwillingly
27. A. bow B. breath C. knee D. step
28. A. aimed B. directed C. mouthed D. shouted
29. A. threatening B. grabbing C. ignoring D. comforting
30. A. soft B. musical C. sickening D. repeated
31. A. called off B. put off C. held back D. gave up
32. A. strategy B. competition C. fitness D. sportsmanship
33. A. rest B. surgery C. help D. medicine
34. A. judgment B. talent C. effort D. integrity
35. A. value B. rules C. victory D. privilege
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。
The 12th World Games burst onto the global stage on Thursday night with an opening ceremony that artfully ____36____ (marry) host city Chengdu’s rich cultural legacy with shocking firework displays, as State Councilor Shen Yiqin declared ____37____ event open before global audiences.
Bright and brilliant fireworks lit up the sky at moments throughout the opening ceremony, ____38____ (intensify) the energy and excitement of the impressive show. The fireworks featured ____39____ (meaning) symbols, including a shining rainbow bridge arching across the night, ancient Chinese seal characters for “Chengdu” and 12 floral fireworks symbolizing all the host cities of The World Games.
The ceremony unfolded beneath Asia’s ____40____ (large) freestanding wooden structure — the 460-meter front hall canopy (檐廊) of Tianfu International Conference Center. Viewers enjoyed a unique lawn seating experience on the waterfront, ____41____ the show presented urban sports culture through breakdancing, frisbee and rollerskating performances, alongside a 50-minute parade of athletes.
Xu Xingguo, vice-mayor of Chengdu, described the ceremony ____42____ “a dynamic, multicultural celebration that brought together sports lovers, children’s pleasant voices, a ____43____ (creative) designed flame-lighting ceremony and breathtaking fireworks — all combined into an astonishing audiovisual experience”.
Against the picturesque setting of lakes, greenery, dusk and starlight, it became “a globally ____44____ (share) celebration of culture and sports,” according to Xu. “Honoring the true spirit of athletics, the ceremony beautifully captured both the thrill of competition and the joy of public _____45_____ (engage),” he said.
第四部分 写作(共两节，满分40分)
第一节 (满分15分)
46. 假定你是李华，上周你们学校举行了一场“Creative Recycling”比赛。你和你的小组利用废旧材料，比如塑料瓶、纸板等，设计并制作了一件有实用价值的物品。请你给英国朋友 Chris写一封邮件，内容包括：
(1)你们小组完成的作品；
(2)你的感想。
注意：
(1)写作词数应为80个左右；
(2)请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
Dear Chris,
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Yours,
Li Hua
第二节 (满分25 分)
47. 阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。
When I was seven years old, my family moved from Mexico to America. In Mexico, I was a cheerful girl who loved making people laugh with my jokes and inventing fun games to play with my friends. However, when I arrived in America, I found it hard to fit in, and I became quieter.
We lived in a small house with a modest yard where we grew vegetables-my responsibility. While I took pride in watching them grow, there were times when I dreamed of having a beautiful garden like my schoolmate Luella’s, with its delicate tulips (郁金香). Although Luella lived in the same neighborhood as me, we barely knew each other.
It was after a tornado that Luella and I finally became close friends.
The tornado struck on a Sunday afternoon. The gentle breeze transformed into a strong wind, and thick gray clouds filled the sky. Gradually, the tornado took shape, starting as a thin rope and growing into a large black funnel (漏斗). My entire family gathered in the bathroom, seeking shelter from the storm. Terrified, I sat close to my mom, knees in my chest. After the storm had passed, our worries and fears were replaced by relief that we were unharmed and that our house had remained undamaged.
As I stepped outside, I witnessed the extent of the damage the tornado had caused to our neighborhood. Across the street, a tall tree had fallen, crushing Luella’s garden in front of her yellow house. We hurried over to check on it. Fortunately, her family seemed to be away at the time, and no one was injured. However, her once-beautiful garden was in ruins, with the fallen tree destroying the tulips and debris (碎片) spread everywhere. I could only imagine how heartbroken they must feel seeing this.
Then my mom’s usual words rang in my ear, “It is more blessed to give than to receive,” and my family started to think about how we could help.
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。
Just at that moment, Luella’s family returned in their car.
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Even after the debris was cleared, I could still sense Luella’s sorrow for her lost garden.
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
答案版
长沙市一中 2026届高三月考试卷(一)
英 语
时量:120 分钟 满分:150分
得分：
第一部分 听力(共两节，满分30分)
做题时，先将答案标在试卷上。录音内容结束后，你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的答案转涂到答题卡上。
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。
例: How much is the shirt?
A.?19.15. B.?9.18. C.?9.15.
答案是 答案C。
1. What will the woman do next?
A. Put the man through to Ben.
B. Go to the Market Department.
C. Give the man a phone number.
2. What does the woman think of the museum?
A. It gets less popular.
B. It is friendly to artists.
C. It becomes more crowded.
3. Why doesn't the man want to buy the refrigerator?
A. He dislikes the style.
B. It is not energy efficient.
C. The price is beyond the budget.
4. Where does the conversation take place?
A. In an office. B. In a restaurant. C. In a supermarket.
5. What are the speakers mainly talking about?
A. A list of animal species. B. A charity organization. C. An annual report.
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. Why didn’ t the woman buy any clothes in the shop?
A. They were of bad quality.
B. Her mother disliked them.
C. There weren't any warm jackets.
7. What season is it now?
A. Spring. B. Autumn. C. Winter.
听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。
8. What do we know about the beer festival?
A. It is very popular. B. It has a long history. C. It is held in Bamberg.
9. What did the man do during the trip?
A. He visited museums.
B. He attended the beer festival.
C. He went to some historic squares.
听第8段材料，回答第10 至12题。
10. What happened to the man at the age of six?
A. He met a young artist.
B. He survived a disaster.
C. He had to stop a lesson.
11. What is the aim of the man's projects?
A. To enrich his experiences.
B. To encourage children in need.
C. To promote the advantages of art.
12. What advice does the man give at last?
A. Pursue your dreams now.
B. Listen to the views of artists.
C. Treasure the people around you.
听第9段材料，回答第13 至16题。
13. How did Grace feel when she first entered university?
A. Stressed. B. Confused. C. Pleased.
14. What might Grace do halfway through the first term?
A. She decided to take more classes.
B. She began to catch up on her studies.
C. She managed time as she did in high school.
15. When does Grace study alone now?
A. In the morning. B. In the afternoon. C. In the evening.
16. What is Grace's final suggestion?
A. Use a planner. B. Set clear study goals. C. Balance learning and rest.
听第10段材料，回答第17 至 20题。
17. Why are people surprised by ancient rock art?
A. It varied in style.
B. It focused on human images.
C. It shared similarities in different cultures.
18. How long has the rock art in Australia existed?
A. For about 20,000 years. B. For about 10,000 years. C. For about 1,800 years.
19. What image shows British settlement in Australia?
A. The landscape. B. Horses. C. Stick figures.
20. What will the speaker talk about next?
A. Damage to rock art. B. Places to see rock art. C. Characteristics of rock art.
听力答案：1-10 ACBBC BBACC 11-20 BACBA CCABA
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。
The best books of 2024
2024 was full of fascinating, moving, alarming, entertaining, educational, and enjoyable books. As we look back over the last 12 months, here are three of the best.
Playground
Kindle ebook — $9.66, hardcover — $17.78, audiobook — $0.99
New York Times Bestseller
Finalist for the 2024 Kirkus Prize
Longlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize
Playground, by Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Richard Powers, is a brilliant novel about artificial intelligence and the race to save the Earth’s oceans. The novel involves a computer genius, a famous oceanographer (海洋学家), and a tiny island in the South Pacific. Powers draws these stories together in a mind-bending way that will transform the way you see the world.
James
Kindle ebook — $14.99, paperback — $13.7, audiobook — $0.99
New York Times Bestseller
Kirkus Prize Winner
Shortlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize
Move over, Mark Twain. Percival Everett’s novel James is a revolutionary response to The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Everett retells Mark Twain’s story from the perspective of Huck’s enslaved friend, Jim. You won’t believe how that change in perspective alters everything in this sometimes funny, sometimes terrifying satire on racism and American culture.
This Strange Eventful History
Kindle ebook — $9.66, hardcover — $13.9, audiobook — $0.98
Longlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize
Longlisted for the 2024 Giller Prize
Winner of the 2024 Deborah Pease Prize
Every family has secrets. Claire Messud has built a gorgeous novel around her own family’s hidden stories. This Strange Eventful History follows three generations as they journey across the globe from the Second World War into the 21st century. The narrator is a curious young woman determined to be a writer — not unlike Claire Messud herself. It is one of those rare novels that a reader doesn’t merely read but lives through with the characters.
1. What is the main theme of Playground?
A. Challenges facing oceans.
B. The journey of a computer genius.
C. The impact of the South Pacific islands.
D. Technology and environmental conservation.
2. Which book is based on an existing book?
A. James. B. Playground.
C. This Strange Eventful History. D. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
3. What do the three books have in common?
A. All offer same-price paperbacks.
B. All get 2024 Booker Prize recognition.
C. All are based on authors’ own lives.
D. All focus on environmental themes.
【答案】1. D 2. A 3. B
B
Monica Bertagnolli is an oncologist(肿瘤学家) at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and a professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School. Growing up in Wyoming, she was well aware of the lack of health care resources in rural areas. Access to in-depth care for cancer patients is hard to get. She’s worked throughout her career to change that.
In Wyoming, there’s a great distance to travel between where people live and where they can find a cancer specialist. “If you need treatments and they have to be administered every day, and if it’s 120 miles from where you live, that ends up being a huge barrier to receiving the kind of care you need.”
And now Monica serves as the vice president of the Coalition(联盟) of CancerCooperative Groups(CCCG)—— an international network of individuals who work to improve the quality of life and survival of cancer patients by increasing participation in cancer clinical trials.
She said, “One of the really important things is, we’re trying to make sure that cancer clinical trials can get to every single patient who needs them in my own state.” The coalition set up sites in northern and southern Wyoming that are able to run clinical trials. Before those trials became available, patients would usually go to Denver or Salt Lake City——a three-to-seven-hour drive.
Monica’s efforts to increase access to the health care needs of her rural Wyoming patients also include helping to develop new policies that will allow patients to participate in more clinical trials, and linking them with a regional doctor who can get them the access to the care they need.
In addition to the clinical trials, Monica said that technology’s progress like better cell phone and internet service in the mountains of Wyoming, as well as social media, has helped rural residents stay in touch with loved ones and medical professionals despite their distance.She is trying to advocate strongly for those changes to continue. “I still consider myself part of Wyoming and I am very devoted to making sure that patients can get access to care.”
4. What do rural cancer patients in Wyoming need most?
A Medical treatments. B. Better housing.
C. Public transportation. D. Further education.
5. How has Monica helped the cancer patients?
A. By offering clinical trials. B. By advocating financial aid.
C. By training medical professionals. D. By helping them strengthen family bonds.
6. Which of the following can best describe Monica?
A. Honest and generous. B. Determined and loyal.
C. Grateful and courageous. D. Dedicated and responsible.
7. What is a suitable title for the text?
A. A push for progress B. A helper for cancer patients
C. A hope for cancer patients D. A pioneer for cancer treatments
【答案】4. A 5. A 6. D 7. B
C
The nature of compassion fatigue (同情疲劳) means that many working in traditional care-giving roles are likely to experience its symptoms. This includes first responders, social workers, journalists, medical professionals and lawyers specializing in family law or criminal law.
Kelli Collins, a licensed family therapist, remarks “Think about muscle fatigue—if you work out too hard, your muscles might simply give out. In the same way, compassion fatigue means your ability to offer compassion to others is dramatically affected.”
Collins herself experienced compassion fatigue as a young therapist working in a community mental health setting, where she “had the strong desire to help” but quickly realized some things were out of her “range of influence”. She felt herself becoming easily annoyed with loved ones, sleeping very little, and fantasizing about changing careers. It was an overwhelming time, during which she felt she was failing her clients.
“I thought that by giving endless compassion to my clients, I was ‘leaving it all on the field’. In fact, bearing the responsibility for my clients’ pain without consideration for my own needs and limits meant that I wasn’t a particularly effective therapist,” she says.
Lynne Hughes, who founded Comfort Zone in 1999 and now serves as CEO, lost both her parents as a child, experiencing first-hand the lack of resources and support for grieving children. Hughes expresses similar feelings about the challenge of compassion fatigue, stressing the importance of looking inward.
“Suffering from compassion fatigue does not mean you’re bad at helping or caring; it only means the scale between caring for others and caring for yourself is no longer balanced,” she says. “When you’re in a role where you’re nurturing and caring for others—it’s crucial to extend that nurture and care to yourself so that ‘your well’ does not run dry.”
But both Hughes and Collins emphasize that it’s not only traditional caregivers who experience compassion fatigue. “It is applicable to anyone in a caring role,” says Hughes, while Collins believes it is a uniquely human condition, occupational or not.
8. Which group of people is more likely to get compassion fatigue?
A. Office workers. B. Delivery men.
C. Surgeons. D. Athletes.
9. Why does Collins mention “muscle fatigue” in paragraph 2?
A. To warn readers not to overwork.
B. To show the consequence of fatigue.
C. To tell the readers about her own experience.
D. To better explain what compassion fatigue is.
10. Which can be inferred from Collins’ work experience?
A. Caregivers always mix their personal and work lives.
B. Caregivers need to get outside help instead of relying on individual effort.
C. Caregivers have to balance helping others with caring for their own emotional needs.
D. Caregivers’ focus should be on helping clients since compassion fatigue can’t be avoided.
11. What does the phrase “your well” in paragraph 6 metaphorically refer to?
A. External support systems.
B. Physical health conditions under work pressure.
C. The sustainable capacity for emotional generosity.
D. Professional skills got through long-term practice.
【答案】8. C 9. D 10. C 11. C
D
In a grassland in Cambridge, Ont., a low hum fills the air. It’s a warm spring day and eastern bumblebee (大黄蜂) queens are busy with pollination (授粉). But take a closer look and you’ll notice some of them are wearing…backpacks?
These backpacks are actually a tool used by post-doctoral fellow Amanda Liczner of theUniversity of Guelph to learn more about the bees’ movement, behaviour and habitat choices. Instead of GPS collars normally used for tracking larger species, Liczner’s team attached tiny trackers to the queens’ backs. Once attached, these tiny trackers transmit radio signals to a collection of 44 radio towers which process the signals to record bees’ precise whereabouts. Liczner can then download the data from the towers to figure out how the bees are spending their time.
While we do know bumblebees need flowers, as Liczner will tell you, there’s a lot we still don't know about bumblebees, especially about how pesticides (杀虫剂) affect bees’ movement. This lack of information, says Liczner, makes it tricky to provide specific conservation recommendations.
So far, the team has made some interesting discoveries. In experiments focused on how different pesticides affect bee movement, the scientists learned that while using newer classes of pesticides may not kill bumblebees, “we have found that they’re flying in significantly odd ways,” says Liczner. For example, pesticide-treated late-season queens, which would usually be resting and building up energy reserves for the winter, were moving “all over the place”, potentially burning up the fat stores they need to survive the winter.
What’s more, 30% of flights are at night. That “blows everyone’s mind,” says Liczner. “And it’s at all times of night!” This is important and potentially alarming information, she says, because some regulations allow farmers to use pesticides between dusk and dawn, when bees were previously thought to be inactive.
This late summer, Liczner and her team were able to follow the backpacked queens to the spots where they dug into the ground to spend the winter. When the queens emerge,unfolding their wings in the spring sunshine, Liczner hopes to be there to learn more from this understudied species.
12. What is the function of “backpacks” on bumblebee queens?
A. To film bees’ habitats. B. To reveal bees’ locations.
C. To attach GPS collars to bees. D. To send signals to the towers.
13. How do pesticides impact bumblebees?
A. They determine bees’ flight patterns.
B. They decrease bees’ night activity.
C. They confuse bees’ perception of seasons.
D. They reduce bees’ energy storage for winter.
14. Which finding surprised the researchers most?
A. Bees need flowers to survive.
B. Radio towers record bees' locations.
C. 30% of bee flights happen at night.
D. Trackers can be attached to small bees.
15. What might be Liczner’s view on current pesticide regulations?
A. They should prioritize tracking bees’winter shelters.
B. They effectively protect bees by restricting daytime spraying.
C. They might be inadequate given bees’ unexpected night activity.
D. They are unnecessary since new pesticides don’t kill bees immediately.
【答案】12. D 13. D 14. C 15. 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。
If you’ve ever experienced travel burnout and returned home from a trip completely exhausted, you probably didn’t travel slowly enough. Travelers are often so excited to explore a new destination that they forget to pace themselves along the way. ____16____
Slow travel means rejecting the usual “rush-and-tick” tourism and choosing experiences that are unique and immersive. It is a way of making your travel arrangements so that you are completing quests (探索) and seeking meaning rather than merely crossing attractions off a list.
The benefits of slow travel are immense. ____17____ Unlike rushed trips that only allow superficial interactions, slow travel lets you truly connect with the local people and their way of life. When your schedule is less packed, you have more time to learn a few local words, try the regional cuisine, and join cultural activities.
____18____ It allows a more relaxed pace, reducing stress and anxiety. It gives you space to be spontaneous (心血来潮的), to relax, and to appreciate each moment. By opting for long walks, yoga, hiking, cycling or meditation, you will probably feel great, instead of feeling exhausted.
In addition, staying longer in fewer places helps lower your environmental footprint. ____19____ You can use public transport more often, support local businesses, and cut down on carbon emissions.
Overall, slow travel reminds us not to rush but to enjoy the journey itself. ____20____ It transforms travel from a superficial activity into a truly significant experience.
A. But there is a simple solution: slow travel.
B. By traveling slower you can lower your impact on the environment.
C. Slow travel also has a positive impact on your physical and mental health.
D. Moreover, it encourages you to develop a deeper understanding of the culture.
E. In other words, it helps you choose experiences that allow deeper involvement.
F. Not only does it benefit you personally, but it also benefits the places you visit.
G. One of the main advantages is the chance to get deeply involved in local culture.
【答案】16. A 17. G 18. C 19. B 20. 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。
When my ten-year-old son Luke joined a local football team, I never expected to witness such a profound life lesson on the field. During a critical match against our town’s ____21____ team, the stadium buzzed with unexpected energy as crowds packed the ____22____.
At a crucial time in the game, Luke got the football and was running for a touchdown. He ran this way and that, ____23____ players on the other team. His teammates did a ____24____ job in blocking too. Finally, only one opponent stood between my son and a touchdown. Then a teammate made a hard block, ____25____ the player to the ground.
There was now nothing between the goal and my son, who ran all out, then, ____26____, stopped, turned around, ran back to the boy lying on the ground, and took a ____27____.
The crowd went wild. Fans from our team ____28____ terrible words at Luke. People I had known for years said hateful things, staring at my son angrily and ____29____ him.
My heart pounding, I dashed across the field. Before I spoke, Luke whispered, “Dad, I heard a _____30_____ crack when he fell. His leg’s broken—scoring would have _____31_____ medical help.” Tears filled his eyes as he added, “Remember? True _____32_____ means doing what’s right.”
Overwhelmed with pride, I held him. Later, X-rays showed a serious break needing _____33_____. That night, Luke got no prize—yet his moral _____34_____ lit up the locker room (更衣室). Years later, coaches still tell how one boy’s compassion redefined _____35_____.
21. A. opposing B. same C. winning D. practice
22. A. field B. stands C. locker rooms D. parking lot
23. A. coaching B. greeting C. assisting D. avoiding
24. A. solid B. messy C. hesitant D. half-hearted
25. A. lifting B. knocking C. guiding D. inviting
26. A. cheerfully B. gradually C. unexpectedly D. unwillingly
27. A. bow B. breath C. knee D. step
28. A. aimed B. directed C. mouthed D. shouted
29. A. threatening B. grabbing C. ignoring D. comforting
30. A. soft B. musical C. sickening D. repeated
31. A. called off B. put off C. held back D. gave up
32. A. strategy B. competition C. fitness D. sportsmanship
33. A. rest B. surgery C. help D. medicine
34. A. judgment B. talent C. effort D. integrity
35. A. value B. rules C. victory D. privilege
【答案】21. A 22. B 23. D 24. A 25. B 26. C 27. C 28. D 29. A 30. C 31. B 32. D 33. B 34. D 35. C
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。
The 12th World Games burst onto the global stage on Thursday night with an opening ceremony that artfully ____36____ (marry) host city Chengdu’s rich cultural legacy with shocking firework displays, as State Councilor Shen Yiqin declared ____37____ event open before global audiences.
Bright and brilliant fireworks lit up the sky at moments throughout the opening ceremony, ____38____ (intensify) the energy and excitement of the impressive show. The fireworks featured ____39____ (meaning) symbols, including a shining rainbow bridge arching across the night, ancient Chinese seal characters for “Chengdu” and 12 floral fireworks symbolizing all the host cities of The World Games.
The ceremony unfolded beneath Asia’s ____40____ (large) freestanding wooden structure — the 460-meter front hall canopy (檐廊) of Tianfu International Conference Center. Viewers enjoyed a unique lawn seating experience on the waterfront, ____41____ the show presented urban sports culture through breakdancing, frisbee and rollerskating performances, alongside a 50-minute parade of athletes.
Xu Xingguo, vice-mayor of Chengdu, described the ceremony ____42____ “a dynamic, multicultural celebration that brought together sports lovers, children’s pleasant voices, a ____43____ (creative) designed flame-lighting ceremony and breathtaking fireworks — all combined into an astonishing audiovisual experience”.
Against the picturesque setting of lakes, greenery, dusk and starlight, it became “a globally ____44____ (share) celebration of culture and sports,” according to Xu. “Honoring the true spirit of athletics, the ceremony beautifully captured both the thrill of competition and the joy of public _____45_____ (engage),” he said.
【答案】36. married
37. the 38. intensifying
39. meaningful
40. largest
41. where 42. as
43. creatively
44. shared 45. engagement
第四部分 写作(共两节，满分40分)
第一节 (满分15分)
46. 假定你是李华，上周你们学校举行了一场“Creative Recycling”比赛。你和你的小组利用废旧材料，比如塑料瓶、纸板等，设计并制作了一件有实用价值的物品。请你给英国朋友 Chris写一封邮件，内容包括：
(1)你们小组完成的作品；
(2)你的感想。
注意：
(1)写作词数应为80个左右；
(2)请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
Dear Chris,
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Yours,
Li Hua
【答案】参考范文
Dear Chris,
How are you? I’m writing to tell you about a fun eco-friendly project we did at school last week in the “Creative Recycling” competition, where we transformed waste into useful items. My team and I had a great time creating something special!
We made a pencil holder using old plastic bottles and cardboard. After cleaning and cutting the materials, we painted them and fit them together. It was amazing to see how everyday trash could become something practical! The project not only sparked our creativity but also deepened our appreciation for recycling.
This experience showed me that small efforts can make a big difference to the environment. Maybe you could try a similar project too! Let me know what you think.
Yours,
Li Hua
第二节 (满分25 分)
47. 阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。
When I was seven years old, my family moved from Mexico to America. In Mexico, I was a cheerful girl who loved making people laugh with my jokes and inventing fun games to play with my friends. However, when I arrived in America, I found it hard to fit in, and I became quieter.
We lived in a small house with a modest yard where we grew vegetables-my responsibility. While I took pride in watching them grow, there were times when I dreamed of having a beautiful garden like my schoolmate Luella’s, with its delicate tulips (郁金香). Although Luella lived in the same neighborhood as me, we barely knew each other.
It was after a tornado that Luella and I finally became close friends.
The tornado struck on a Sunday afternoon. The gentle breeze transformed into a strong wind, and thick gray clouds filled the sky. Gradually, the tornado took shape, starting as a thin rope and growing into a large black funnel (漏斗). My entire family gathered in the bathroom, seeking shelter from the storm. Terrified, I sat close to my mom, knees in my chest. After the storm had passed, our worries and fears were replaced by relief that we were unharmed and that our house had remained undamaged.
As I stepped outside, I witnessed the extent of the damage the tornado had caused to our neighborhood. Across the street, a tall tree had fallen, crushing Luella’s garden in front of her yellow house. We hurried over to check on it. Fortunately, her family seemed to be away at the time, and no one was injured. However, her once-beautiful garden was in ruins, with the fallen tree destroying the tulips and debris (碎片) spread everywhere. I could only imagine how heartbroken they must feel seeing this.
Then my mom’s usual words rang in my ear, “It is more blessed to give than to receive,” and my family started to think about how we could help.
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。
Just at that moment, Luella’s family returned in their car.
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Even after the debris was cleared, I could still sense Luella’s sorrow for her lost garden.
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【答案】 Just at that moment, Luella’ family returned in their car. Empathy surged within me as I saw their shock and disbelief. Approaching Luella, I tightly held her hands and said, “I’m so sorry for your loss, but thankfully you’re all right.” She weakly nodded, still puzzled by the shocking scene. My family volunteered to help clean up the mess, cutting down the branches and removing the fallen trees. To lift Luella’s spirits and give her comfort, I tried my best to cheer her up while tidying the garden with her, during which my own joyful personality seemed to revive a bit.
Even after the debris was cleared, I could still sense Luella’ sorrow for her lost garden. My heart went out to her, knowing how much she had cherished those tulips that she had devoted so much energy to. Determined to restore the beauty of the garden, I suggested we rebuild the garden, which Luella delightedly agreed. Carefully planted and watered, the new tulip seedlings once again filled the garden, which symbolized the beginning of our friendship, as well as the turning that I finally got embraced by this new environment. My mom was right: it’s more blessed to give than to receive because when you give, you may receive something unexpected in return.
英 语
时量:120 分钟 满分:150分
得分：
第一部分 听力(共两节，满分30分)
做题时，先将答案标在试卷上。录音内容结束后，你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的答案转涂到答题卡上。
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。
例: How much is the shirt?
A.?19.15. B.?9.18. C.?9.15.
答案是 答案C。
1. What will the woman do next?
A. Put the man through to Ben.
B. Go to the Market Department.
C. Give the man a phone number.
2. What does the woman think of the museum?
A. It gets less popular.
B. It is friendly to artists.
C. It becomes more crowded.
3. Why doesn't the man want to buy the refrigerator?
A. He dislikes the style.
B. It is not energy efficient.
C. The price is beyond the budget.
4. Where does the conversation take place?
A. In an office. B. In a restaurant. C. In a supermarket.
5. What are the speakers mainly talking about?
A. A list of animal species. B. A charity organization. C. An annual report.
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. Why didn’ t the woman buy any clothes in the shop?
A. They were of bad quality.
B. Her mother disliked them.
C. There weren't any warm jackets.
7. What season is it now?
A. Spring. B. Autumn. C. Winter.
听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。
8. What do we know about the beer festival?
A. It is very popular. B. It has a long history. C. It is held in Bamberg.
9. What did the man do during the trip?
A. He visited museums.
B. He attended the beer festival.
C. He went to some historic squares.
听第8段材料，回答第10 至12题。
10. What happened to the man at the age of six?
A. He met a young artist.
B. He survived a disaster.
C. He had to stop a lesson.
11. What is the aim of the man's projects?
A. To enrich his experiences.
B. To encourage children in need.
C. To promote the advantages of art.
12. What advice does the man give at last?
A. Pursue your dreams now.
B. Listen to the views of artists.
C. Treasure the people around you.
听第9段材料，回答第13 至16题。
13. How did Grace feel when she first entered university?
A. Stressed. B. Confused. C. Pleased.
14. What might Grace do halfway through the first term?
A. She decided to take more classes.
B. She began to catch up on her studies.
C. She managed time as she did in high school.
15. When does Grace study alone now?
A. In the morning. B. In the afternoon. C. In the evening.
16. What is Grace's final suggestion?
A. Use a planner. B. Set clear study goals. C. Balance learning and rest.
听第10段材料，回答第17 至 20题。
17. Why are people surprised by ancient rock art?
A. It varied in style.
B. It focused on human images.
C. It shared similarities in different cultures.
18. How long has the rock art in Australia existed?
A. For about 20,000 years. B. For about 10,000 years. C. For about 1,800 years.
19. What image shows British settlement in Australia?
A. The landscape. B. Horses. C. Stick figures.
20. What will the speaker talk about next?
A. Damage to rock art. B. Places to see rock art. C. Characteristics of rock art.
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。
The best books of 2024
2024 was full of fascinating, moving, alarming, entertaining, educational, and enjoyable books. As we look back over the last 12 months, here are three of the best.
Playground
Kindle ebook — $9.66, hardcover — $17.78, audiobook — $0.99
New York Times Bestseller
Finalist for the 2024 Kirkus Prize
Longlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize
Playground, by Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Richard Powers, is a brilliant novel about artificial intelligence and the race to save the Earth’s oceans. The novel involves a computer genius, a famous oceanographer (海洋学家), and a tiny island in the South Pacific. Powers draws these stories together in a mind-bending way that will transform the way you see the world.
James
Kindle ebook — $14.99, paperback — $13.7, audiobook — $0.99
New York Times Bestseller
Kirkus Prize Winner
Shortlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize
Move over, Mark Twain. Percival Everett’s novel James is a revolutionary response to The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Everett retells Mark Twain’s story from the perspective of Huck’s enslaved friend, Jim. You won’t believe how that change in perspective alters everything in this sometimes funny, sometimes terrifying satire on racism and American culture.
This Strange Eventful History
Kindle ebook — $9.66, hardcover — $13.9, audiobook — $0.98
Longlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize
Longlisted for the 2024 Giller Prize
Winner of the 2024 Deborah Pease Prize
Every family has secrets. Claire Messud has built a gorgeous novel around her own family’s hidden stories. This Strange Eventful History follows three generations as they journey across the globe from the Second World War into the 21st century. The narrator is a curious young woman determined to be a writer — not unlike Claire Messud herself. It is one of those rare novels that a reader doesn’t merely read but lives through with the characters.
1. What is the main theme of Playground?
A. Challenges facing oceans.
B. The journey of a computer genius.
C. The impact of the South Pacific islands.
D. Technology and environmental conservation.
2. Which book is based on an existing book?
A. James. B. Playground.
C. This Strange Eventful History. D. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
3. What do the three books have in common?
A. All offer same-price paperbacks.
B. All get 2024 Booker Prize recognition.
C. All are based on authors’ own lives.
D. All focus on environmental themes.
B
Monica Bertagnolli is an oncologist(肿瘤学家) at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and a professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School. Growing up in Wyoming, she was well aware of the lack of health care resources in rural areas. Access to in-depth care for cancer patients is hard to get. She’s worked throughout her career to change that.
In Wyoming, there’s a great distance to travel between where people live and where they can find a cancer specialist. “If you need treatments and they have to be administered every day, and if it’s 120 miles from where you live, that ends up being a huge barrier to receiving the kind of care you need.”
And now Monica serves as the vice president of the Coalition(联盟) of CancerCooperative Groups(CCCG)—— an international network of individuals who work to improve the quality of life and survival of cancer patients by increasing participation in cancer clinical trials.
She said, “One of the really important things is, we’re trying to make sure that cancer clinical trials can get to every single patient who needs them in my own state.” The coalition set up sites in northern and southern Wyoming that are able to run clinical trials. Before those trials became available, patients would usually go to Denver or Salt Lake City——a three-to-seven-hour drive.
Monica’s efforts to increase access to the health care needs of her rural Wyoming patients also include helping to develop new policies that will allow patients to participate in more clinical trials, and linking them with a regional doctor who can get them the access to the care they need.
In addition to the clinical trials, Monica said that technology’s progress like better cell phone and internet service in the mountains of Wyoming, as well as social media, has helped rural residents stay in touch with loved ones and medical professionals despite their distance.She is trying to advocate strongly for those changes to continue. “I still consider myself part of Wyoming and I am very devoted to making sure that patients can get access to care.”
4. What do rural cancer patients in Wyoming need most?
A Medical treatments. B. Better housing.
C. Public transportation. D. Further education.
5. How has Monica helped the cancer patients?
A. By offering clinical trials. B. By advocating financial aid.
C. By training medical professionals. D. By helping them strengthen family bonds.
6. Which of the following can best describe Monica?
A. Honest and generous. B. Determined and loyal.
C. Grateful and courageous. D. Dedicated and responsible.
7. What is a suitable title for the text?
A. A push for progress B. A helper for cancer patients
C. A hope for cancer patients D. A pioneer for cancer treatments
C
The nature of compassion fatigue (同情疲劳) means that many working in traditional care-giving roles are likely to experience its symptoms. This includes first responders, social workers, journalists, medical professionals and lawyers specializing in family law or criminal law.
Kelli Collins, a licensed family therapist, remarks “Think about muscle fatigue—if you work out too hard, your muscles might simply give out. In the same way, compassion fatigue means your ability to offer compassion to others is dramatically affected.”
Collins herself experienced compassion fatigue as a young therapist working in a community mental health setting, where she “had the strong desire to help” but quickly realized some things were out of her “range of influence”. She felt herself becoming easily annoyed with loved ones, sleeping very little, and fantasizing about changing careers. It was an overwhelming time, during which she felt she was failing her clients.
“I thought that by giving endless compassion to my clients, I was ‘leaving it all on the field’. In fact, bearing the responsibility for my clients’ pain without consideration for my own needs and limits meant that I wasn’t a particularly effective therapist,” she says.
Lynne Hughes, who founded Comfort Zone in 1999 and now serves as CEO, lost both her parents as a child, experiencing first-hand the lack of resources and support for grieving children. Hughes expresses similar feelings about the challenge of compassion fatigue, stressing the importance of looking inward.
“Suffering from compassion fatigue does not mean you’re bad at helping or caring; it only means the scale between caring for others and caring for yourself is no longer balanced,” she says. “When you’re in a role where you’re nurturing and caring for others—it’s crucial to extend that nurture and care to yourself so that ‘your well’ does not run dry.”
But both Hughes and Collins emphasize that it’s not only traditional caregivers who experience compassion fatigue. “It is applicable to anyone in a caring role,” says Hughes, while Collins believes it is a uniquely human condition, occupational or not.
8. Which group of people is more likely to get compassion fatigue?
A. Office workers. B. Delivery men.
C. Surgeons. D. Athletes.
9. Why does Collins mention “muscle fatigue” in paragraph 2?
A. To warn readers not to overwork.
B. To show the consequence of fatigue.
C. To tell the readers about her own experience.
D. To better explain what compassion fatigue is.
10. Which can be inferred from Collins’ work experience?
A. Caregivers always mix their personal and work lives.
B. Caregivers need to get outside help instead of relying on individual effort.
C. Caregivers have to balance helping others with caring for their own emotional needs.
D. Caregivers’ focus should be on helping clients since compassion fatigue can’t be avoided.
11. What does the phrase “your well” in paragraph 6 metaphorically refer to?
A. External support systems.
B. Physical health conditions under work pressure.
C. The sustainable capacity for emotional generosity.
D. Professional skills got through long-term practice.
D
In a grassland in Cambridge, Ont., a low hum fills the air. It’s a warm spring day and eastern bumblebee (大黄蜂) queens are busy with pollination (授粉). But take a closer look and you’ll notice some of them are wearing…backpacks?
These backpacks are actually a tool used by post-doctoral fellow Amanda Liczner of theUniversity of Guelph to learn more about the bees’ movement, behaviour and habitat choices. Instead of GPS collars normally used for tracking larger species, Liczner’s team attached tiny trackers to the queens’ backs. Once attached, these tiny trackers transmit radio signals to a collection of 44 radio towers which process the signals to record bees’ precise whereabouts. Liczner can then download the data from the towers to figure out how the bees are spending their time.
While we do know bumblebees need flowers, as Liczner will tell you, there’s a lot we still don't know about bumblebees, especially about how pesticides (杀虫剂) affect bees’ movement. This lack of information, says Liczner, makes it tricky to provide specific conservation recommendations.
So far, the team has made some interesting discoveries. In experiments focused on how different pesticides affect bee movement, the scientists learned that while using newer classes of pesticides may not kill bumblebees, “we have found that they’re flying in significantly odd ways,” says Liczner. For example, pesticide-treated late-season queens, which would usually be resting and building up energy reserves for the winter, were moving “all over the place”, potentially burning up the fat stores they need to survive the winter.
What’s more, 30% of flights are at night. That “blows everyone’s mind,” says Liczner. “And it’s at all times of night!” This is important and potentially alarming information, she says, because some regulations allow farmers to use pesticides between dusk and dawn, when bees were previously thought to be inactive.
This late summer, Liczner and her team were able to follow the backpacked queens to the spots where they dug into the ground to spend the winter. When the queens emerge,unfolding their wings in the spring sunshine, Liczner hopes to be there to learn more from this understudied species.
12. What is the function of “backpacks” on bumblebee queens?
A. To film bees’ habitats. B. To reveal bees’ locations.
C. To attach GPS collars to bees. D. To send signals to the towers.
13. How do pesticides impact bumblebees?
A. They determine bees’ flight patterns.
B. They decrease bees’ night activity.
C. They confuse bees’ perception of seasons.
D. They reduce bees’ energy storage for winter.
14. Which finding surprised the researchers most?
A. Bees need flowers to survive.
B. Radio towers record bees' locations.
C. 30% of bee flights happen at night.
D. Trackers can be attached to small bees.
15. What might be Liczner’s view on current pesticide regulations?
A. They should prioritize tracking bees’winter shelters.
B. They effectively protect bees by restricting daytime spraying.
C. They might be inadequate given bees’ unexpected night activity.
D. They are unnecessary since new pesticides don’t kill bees immediately.
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。
If you’ve ever experienced travel burnout and returned home from a trip completely exhausted, you probably didn’t travel slowly enough. Travelers are often so excited to explore a new destination that they forget to pace themselves along the way. ____16____
Slow travel means rejecting the usual “rush-and-tick” tourism and choosing experiences that are unique and immersive. It is a way of making your travel arrangements so that you are completing quests (探索) and seeking meaning rather than merely crossing attractions off a list.
The benefits of slow travel are immense. ____17____ Unlike rushed trips that only allow superficial interactions, slow travel lets you truly connect with the local people and their way of life. When your schedule is less packed, you have more time to learn a few local words, try the regional cuisine, and join cultural activities.
____18____ It allows a more relaxed pace, reducing stress and anxiety. It gives you space to be spontaneous (心血来潮的), to relax, and to appreciate each moment. By opting for long walks, yoga, hiking, cycling or meditation, you will probably feel great, instead of feeling exhausted.
In addition, staying longer in fewer places helps lower your environmental footprint. ____19____ You can use public transport more often, support local businesses, and cut down on carbon emissions.
Overall, slow travel reminds us not to rush but to enjoy the journey itself. ____20____ It transforms travel from a superficial activity into a truly significant experience.
A. But there is a simple solution: slow travel.
B. By traveling slower you can lower your impact on the environment.
C. Slow travel also has a positive impact on your physical and mental health.
D. Moreover, it encourages you to develop a deeper understanding of the culture.
E. In other words, it helps you choose experiences that allow deeper involvement.
F. Not only does it benefit you personally, but it also benefits the places you visit.
G. One of the main advantages is the chance to get deeply involved in local culture.
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。
When my ten-year-old son Luke joined a local football team, I never expected to witness such a profound life lesson on the field. During a critical match against our town’s ____21____ team, the stadium buzzed with unexpected energy as crowds packed the ____22____.
At a crucial time in the game, Luke got the football and was running for a touchdown. He ran this way and that, ____23____ players on the other team. His teammates did a ____24____ job in blocking too. Finally, only one opponent stood between my son and a touchdown. Then a teammate made a hard block, ____25____ the player to the ground.
There was now nothing between the goal and my son, who ran all out, then, ____26____, stopped, turned around, ran back to the boy lying on the ground, and took a ____27____.
The crowd went wild. Fans from our team ____28____ terrible words at Luke. People I had known for years said hateful things, staring at my son angrily and ____29____ him.
My heart pounding, I dashed across the field. Before I spoke, Luke whispered, “Dad, I heard a _____30_____ crack when he fell. His leg’s broken—scoring would have _____31_____ medical help.” Tears filled his eyes as he added, “Remember? True _____32_____ means doing what’s right.”
Overwhelmed with pride, I held him. Later, X-rays showed a serious break needing _____33_____. That night, Luke got no prize—yet his moral _____34_____ lit up the locker room (更衣室). Years later, coaches still tell how one boy’s compassion redefined _____35_____.
21. A. opposing B. same C. winning D. practice
22. A. field B. stands C. locker rooms D. parking lot
23. A. coaching B. greeting C. assisting D. avoiding
24. A. solid B. messy C. hesitant D. half-hearted
25. A. lifting B. knocking C. guiding D. inviting
26. A. cheerfully B. gradually C. unexpectedly D. unwillingly
27. A. bow B. breath C. knee D. step
28. A. aimed B. directed C. mouthed D. shouted
29. A. threatening B. grabbing C. ignoring D. comforting
30. A. soft B. musical C. sickening D. repeated
31. A. called off B. put off C. held back D. gave up
32. A. strategy B. competition C. fitness D. sportsmanship
33. A. rest B. surgery C. help D. medicine
34. A. judgment B. talent C. effort D. integrity
35. A. value B. rules C. victory D. privilege
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。
The 12th World Games burst onto the global stage on Thursday night with an opening ceremony that artfully ____36____ (marry) host city Chengdu’s rich cultural legacy with shocking firework displays, as State Councilor Shen Yiqin declared ____37____ event open before global audiences.
Bright and brilliant fireworks lit up the sky at moments throughout the opening ceremony, ____38____ (intensify) the energy and excitement of the impressive show. The fireworks featured ____39____ (meaning) symbols, including a shining rainbow bridge arching across the night, ancient Chinese seal characters for “Chengdu” and 12 floral fireworks symbolizing all the host cities of The World Games.
The ceremony unfolded beneath Asia’s ____40____ (large) freestanding wooden structure — the 460-meter front hall canopy (檐廊) of Tianfu International Conference Center. Viewers enjoyed a unique lawn seating experience on the waterfront, ____41____ the show presented urban sports culture through breakdancing, frisbee and rollerskating performances, alongside a 50-minute parade of athletes.
Xu Xingguo, vice-mayor of Chengdu, described the ceremony ____42____ “a dynamic, multicultural celebration that brought together sports lovers, children’s pleasant voices, a ____43____ (creative) designed flame-lighting ceremony and breathtaking fireworks — all combined into an astonishing audiovisual experience”.
Against the picturesque setting of lakes, greenery, dusk and starlight, it became “a globally ____44____ (share) celebration of culture and sports,” according to Xu. “Honoring the true spirit of athletics, the ceremony beautifully captured both the thrill of competition and the joy of public _____45_____ (engage),” he said.
第四部分 写作(共两节，满分40分)
第一节 (满分15分)
46. 假定你是李华，上周你们学校举行了一场“Creative Recycling”比赛。你和你的小组利用废旧材料，比如塑料瓶、纸板等，设计并制作了一件有实用价值的物品。请你给英国朋友 Chris写一封邮件，内容包括：
(1)你们小组完成的作品；
(2)你的感想。
注意：
(1)写作词数应为80个左右；
(2)请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
Dear Chris,
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Yours,
Li Hua
第二节 (满分25 分)
47. 阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。
When I was seven years old, my family moved from Mexico to America. In Mexico, I was a cheerful girl who loved making people laugh with my jokes and inventing fun games to play with my friends. However, when I arrived in America, I found it hard to fit in, and I became quieter.
We lived in a small house with a modest yard where we grew vegetables-my responsibility. While I took pride in watching them grow, there were times when I dreamed of having a beautiful garden like my schoolmate Luella’s, with its delicate tulips (郁金香). Although Luella lived in the same neighborhood as me, we barely knew each other.
It was after a tornado that Luella and I finally became close friends.
The tornado struck on a Sunday afternoon. The gentle breeze transformed into a strong wind, and thick gray clouds filled the sky. Gradually, the tornado took shape, starting as a thin rope and growing into a large black funnel (漏斗). My entire family gathered in the bathroom, seeking shelter from the storm. Terrified, I sat close to my mom, knees in my chest. After the storm had passed, our worries and fears were replaced by relief that we were unharmed and that our house had remained undamaged.
As I stepped outside, I witnessed the extent of the damage the tornado had caused to our neighborhood. Across the street, a tall tree had fallen, crushing Luella’s garden in front of her yellow house. We hurried over to check on it. Fortunately, her family seemed to be away at the time, and no one was injured. However, her once-beautiful garden was in ruins, with the fallen tree destroying the tulips and debris (碎片) spread everywhere. I could only imagine how heartbroken they must feel seeing this.
Then my mom’s usual words rang in my ear, “It is more blessed to give than to receive,” and my family started to think about how we could help.
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。
Just at that moment, Luella’s family returned in their car.
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Even after the debris was cleared, I could still sense Luella’s sorrow for her lost garden.
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答案版
长沙市一中 2026届高三月考试卷(一)
英 语
时量:120 分钟 满分:150分
得分：
第一部分 听力(共两节，满分30分)
做题时，先将答案标在试卷上。录音内容结束后，你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的答案转涂到答题卡上。
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。
例: How much is the shirt?
A.?19.15. B.?9.18. C.?9.15.
答案是 答案C。
1. What will the woman do next?
A. Put the man through to Ben.
B. Go to the Market Department.
C. Give the man a phone number.
2. What does the woman think of the museum?
A. It gets less popular.
B. It is friendly to artists.
C. It becomes more crowded.
3. Why doesn't the man want to buy the refrigerator?
A. He dislikes the style.
B. It is not energy efficient.
C. The price is beyond the budget.
4. Where does the conversation take place?
A. In an office. B. In a restaurant. C. In a supermarket.
5. What are the speakers mainly talking about?
A. A list of animal species. B. A charity organization. C. An annual report.
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. Why didn’ t the woman buy any clothes in the shop?
A. They were of bad quality.
B. Her mother disliked them.
C. There weren't any warm jackets.
7. What season is it now?
A. Spring. B. Autumn. C. Winter.
听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。
8. What do we know about the beer festival?
A. It is very popular. B. It has a long history. C. It is held in Bamberg.
9. What did the man do during the trip?
A. He visited museums.
B. He attended the beer festival.
C. He went to some historic squares.
听第8段材料，回答第10 至12题。
10. What happened to the man at the age of six?
A. He met a young artist.
B. He survived a disaster.
C. He had to stop a lesson.
11. What is the aim of the man's projects?
A. To enrich his experiences.
B. To encourage children in need.
C. To promote the advantages of art.
12. What advice does the man give at last?
A. Pursue your dreams now.
B. Listen to the views of artists.
C. Treasure the people around you.
听第9段材料，回答第13 至16题。
13. How did Grace feel when she first entered university?
A. Stressed. B. Confused. C. Pleased.
14. What might Grace do halfway through the first term?
A. She decided to take more classes.
B. She began to catch up on her studies.
C. She managed time as she did in high school.
15. When does Grace study alone now?
A. In the morning. B. In the afternoon. C. In the evening.
16. What is Grace's final suggestion?
A. Use a planner. B. Set clear study goals. C. Balance learning and rest.
听第10段材料，回答第17 至 20题。
17. Why are people surprised by ancient rock art?
A. It varied in style.
B. It focused on human images.
C. It shared similarities in different cultures.
18. How long has the rock art in Australia existed?
A. For about 20,000 years. B. For about 10,000 years. C. For about 1,800 years.
19. What image shows British settlement in Australia?
A. The landscape. B. Horses. C. Stick figures.
20. What will the speaker talk about next?
A. Damage to rock art. B. Places to see rock art. C. Characteristics of rock art.
听力答案：1-10 ACBBC BBACC 11-20 BACBA CCABA
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。
The best books of 2024
2024 was full of fascinating, moving, alarming, entertaining, educational, and enjoyable books. As we look back over the last 12 months, here are three of the best.
Playground
Kindle ebook — $9.66, hardcover — $17.78, audiobook — $0.99
New York Times Bestseller
Finalist for the 2024 Kirkus Prize
Longlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize
Playground, by Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Richard Powers, is a brilliant novel about artificial intelligence and the race to save the Earth’s oceans. The novel involves a computer genius, a famous oceanographer (海洋学家), and a tiny island in the South Pacific. Powers draws these stories together in a mind-bending way that will transform the way you see the world.
James
Kindle ebook — $14.99, paperback — $13.7, audiobook — $0.99
New York Times Bestseller
Kirkus Prize Winner
Shortlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize
Move over, Mark Twain. Percival Everett’s novel James is a revolutionary response to The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Everett retells Mark Twain’s story from the perspective of Huck’s enslaved friend, Jim. You won’t believe how that change in perspective alters everything in this sometimes funny, sometimes terrifying satire on racism and American culture.
This Strange Eventful History
Kindle ebook — $9.66, hardcover — $13.9, audiobook — $0.98
Longlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize
Longlisted for the 2024 Giller Prize
Winner of the 2024 Deborah Pease Prize
Every family has secrets. Claire Messud has built a gorgeous novel around her own family’s hidden stories. This Strange Eventful History follows three generations as they journey across the globe from the Second World War into the 21st century. The narrator is a curious young woman determined to be a writer — not unlike Claire Messud herself. It is one of those rare novels that a reader doesn’t merely read but lives through with the characters.
1. What is the main theme of Playground?
A. Challenges facing oceans.
B. The journey of a computer genius.
C. The impact of the South Pacific islands.
D. Technology and environmental conservation.
2. Which book is based on an existing book?
A. James. B. Playground.
C. This Strange Eventful History. D. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
3. What do the three books have in common?
A. All offer same-price paperbacks.
B. All get 2024 Booker Prize recognition.
C. All are based on authors’ own lives.
D. All focus on environmental themes.
【答案】1. D 2. A 3. B
B
Monica Bertagnolli is an oncologist(肿瘤学家) at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and a professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School. Growing up in Wyoming, she was well aware of the lack of health care resources in rural areas. Access to in-depth care for cancer patients is hard to get. She’s worked throughout her career to change that.
In Wyoming, there’s a great distance to travel between where people live and where they can find a cancer specialist. “If you need treatments and they have to be administered every day, and if it’s 120 miles from where you live, that ends up being a huge barrier to receiving the kind of care you need.”
And now Monica serves as the vice president of the Coalition(联盟) of CancerCooperative Groups(CCCG)—— an international network of individuals who work to improve the quality of life and survival of cancer patients by increasing participation in cancer clinical trials.
She said, “One of the really important things is, we’re trying to make sure that cancer clinical trials can get to every single patient who needs them in my own state.” The coalition set up sites in northern and southern Wyoming that are able to run clinical trials. Before those trials became available, patients would usually go to Denver or Salt Lake City——a three-to-seven-hour drive.
Monica’s efforts to increase access to the health care needs of her rural Wyoming patients also include helping to develop new policies that will allow patients to participate in more clinical trials, and linking them with a regional doctor who can get them the access to the care they need.
In addition to the clinical trials, Monica said that technology’s progress like better cell phone and internet service in the mountains of Wyoming, as well as social media, has helped rural residents stay in touch with loved ones and medical professionals despite their distance.She is trying to advocate strongly for those changes to continue. “I still consider myself part of Wyoming and I am very devoted to making sure that patients can get access to care.”
4. What do rural cancer patients in Wyoming need most?
A Medical treatments. B. Better housing.
C. Public transportation. D. Further education.
5. How has Monica helped the cancer patients?
A. By offering clinical trials. B. By advocating financial aid.
C. By training medical professionals. D. By helping them strengthen family bonds.
6. Which of the following can best describe Monica?
A. Honest and generous. B. Determined and loyal.
C. Grateful and courageous. D. Dedicated and responsible.
7. What is a suitable title for the text?
A. A push for progress B. A helper for cancer patients
C. A hope for cancer patients D. A pioneer for cancer treatments
【答案】4. A 5. A 6. D 7. B
C
The nature of compassion fatigue (同情疲劳) means that many working in traditional care-giving roles are likely to experience its symptoms. This includes first responders, social workers, journalists, medical professionals and lawyers specializing in family law or criminal law.
Kelli Collins, a licensed family therapist, remarks “Think about muscle fatigue—if you work out too hard, your muscles might simply give out. In the same way, compassion fatigue means your ability to offer compassion to others is dramatically affected.”
Collins herself experienced compassion fatigue as a young therapist working in a community mental health setting, where she “had the strong desire to help” but quickly realized some things were out of her “range of influence”. She felt herself becoming easily annoyed with loved ones, sleeping very little, and fantasizing about changing careers. It was an overwhelming time, during which she felt she was failing her clients.
“I thought that by giving endless compassion to my clients, I was ‘leaving it all on the field’. In fact, bearing the responsibility for my clients’ pain without consideration for my own needs and limits meant that I wasn’t a particularly effective therapist,” she says.
Lynne Hughes, who founded Comfort Zone in 1999 and now serves as CEO, lost both her parents as a child, experiencing first-hand the lack of resources and support for grieving children. Hughes expresses similar feelings about the challenge of compassion fatigue, stressing the importance of looking inward.
“Suffering from compassion fatigue does not mean you’re bad at helping or caring; it only means the scale between caring for others and caring for yourself is no longer balanced,” she says. “When you’re in a role where you’re nurturing and caring for others—it’s crucial to extend that nurture and care to yourself so that ‘your well’ does not run dry.”
But both Hughes and Collins emphasize that it’s not only traditional caregivers who experience compassion fatigue. “It is applicable to anyone in a caring role,” says Hughes, while Collins believes it is a uniquely human condition, occupational or not.
8. Which group of people is more likely to get compassion fatigue?
A. Office workers. B. Delivery men.
C. Surgeons. D. Athletes.
9. Why does Collins mention “muscle fatigue” in paragraph 2?
A. To warn readers not to overwork.
B. To show the consequence of fatigue.
C. To tell the readers about her own experience.
D. To better explain what compassion fatigue is.
10. Which can be inferred from Collins’ work experience?
A. Caregivers always mix their personal and work lives.
B. Caregivers need to get outside help instead of relying on individual effort.
C. Caregivers have to balance helping others with caring for their own emotional needs.
D. Caregivers’ focus should be on helping clients since compassion fatigue can’t be avoided.
11. What does the phrase “your well” in paragraph 6 metaphorically refer to?
A. External support systems.
B. Physical health conditions under work pressure.
C. The sustainable capacity for emotional generosity.
D. Professional skills got through long-term practice.
【答案】8. C 9. D 10. C 11. C
D
In a grassland in Cambridge, Ont., a low hum fills the air. It’s a warm spring day and eastern bumblebee (大黄蜂) queens are busy with pollination (授粉). But take a closer look and you’ll notice some of them are wearing…backpacks?
These backpacks are actually a tool used by post-doctoral fellow Amanda Liczner of theUniversity of Guelph to learn more about the bees’ movement, behaviour and habitat choices. Instead of GPS collars normally used for tracking larger species, Liczner’s team attached tiny trackers to the queens’ backs. Once attached, these tiny trackers transmit radio signals to a collection of 44 radio towers which process the signals to record bees’ precise whereabouts. Liczner can then download the data from the towers to figure out how the bees are spending their time.
While we do know bumblebees need flowers, as Liczner will tell you, there’s a lot we still don't know about bumblebees, especially about how pesticides (杀虫剂) affect bees’ movement. This lack of information, says Liczner, makes it tricky to provide specific conservation recommendations.
So far, the team has made some interesting discoveries. In experiments focused on how different pesticides affect bee movement, the scientists learned that while using newer classes of pesticides may not kill bumblebees, “we have found that they’re flying in significantly odd ways,” says Liczner. For example, pesticide-treated late-season queens, which would usually be resting and building up energy reserves for the winter, were moving “all over the place”, potentially burning up the fat stores they need to survive the winter.
What’s more, 30% of flights are at night. That “blows everyone’s mind,” says Liczner. “And it’s at all times of night!” This is important and potentially alarming information, she says, because some regulations allow farmers to use pesticides between dusk and dawn, when bees were previously thought to be inactive.
This late summer, Liczner and her team were able to follow the backpacked queens to the spots where they dug into the ground to spend the winter. When the queens emerge,unfolding their wings in the spring sunshine, Liczner hopes to be there to learn more from this understudied species.
12. What is the function of “backpacks” on bumblebee queens?
A. To film bees’ habitats. B. To reveal bees’ locations.
C. To attach GPS collars to bees. D. To send signals to the towers.
13. How do pesticides impact bumblebees?
A. They determine bees’ flight patterns.
B. They decrease bees’ night activity.
C. They confuse bees’ perception of seasons.
D. They reduce bees’ energy storage for winter.
14. Which finding surprised the researchers most?
A. Bees need flowers to survive.
B. Radio towers record bees' locations.
C. 30% of bee flights happen at night.
D. Trackers can be attached to small bees.
15. What might be Liczner’s view on current pesticide regulations?
A. They should prioritize tracking bees’winter shelters.
B. They effectively protect bees by restricting daytime spraying.
C. They might be inadequate given bees’ unexpected night activity.
D. They are unnecessary since new pesticides don’t kill bees immediately.
【答案】12. D 13. D 14. C 15. 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。
If you’ve ever experienced travel burnout and returned home from a trip completely exhausted, you probably didn’t travel slowly enough. Travelers are often so excited to explore a new destination that they forget to pace themselves along the way. ____16____
Slow travel means rejecting the usual “rush-and-tick” tourism and choosing experiences that are unique and immersive. It is a way of making your travel arrangements so that you are completing quests (探索) and seeking meaning rather than merely crossing attractions off a list.
The benefits of slow travel are immense. ____17____ Unlike rushed trips that only allow superficial interactions, slow travel lets you truly connect with the local people and their way of life. When your schedule is less packed, you have more time to learn a few local words, try the regional cuisine, and join cultural activities.
____18____ It allows a more relaxed pace, reducing stress and anxiety. It gives you space to be spontaneous (心血来潮的), to relax, and to appreciate each moment. By opting for long walks, yoga, hiking, cycling or meditation, you will probably feel great, instead of feeling exhausted.
In addition, staying longer in fewer places helps lower your environmental footprint. ____19____ You can use public transport more often, support local businesses, and cut down on carbon emissions.
Overall, slow travel reminds us not to rush but to enjoy the journey itself. ____20____ It transforms travel from a superficial activity into a truly significant experience.
A. But there is a simple solution: slow travel.
B. By traveling slower you can lower your impact on the environment.
C. Slow travel also has a positive impact on your physical and mental health.
D. Moreover, it encourages you to develop a deeper understanding of the culture.
E. In other words, it helps you choose experiences that allow deeper involvement.
F. Not only does it benefit you personally, but it also benefits the places you visit.
G. One of the main advantages is the chance to get deeply involved in local culture.
【答案】16. A 17. G 18. C 19. B 20. 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。
When my ten-year-old son Luke joined a local football team, I never expected to witness such a profound life lesson on the field. During a critical match against our town’s ____21____ team, the stadium buzzed with unexpected energy as crowds packed the ____22____.
At a crucial time in the game, Luke got the football and was running for a touchdown. He ran this way and that, ____23____ players on the other team. His teammates did a ____24____ job in blocking too. Finally, only one opponent stood between my son and a touchdown. Then a teammate made a hard block, ____25____ the player to the ground.
There was now nothing between the goal and my son, who ran all out, then, ____26____, stopped, turned around, ran back to the boy lying on the ground, and took a ____27____.
The crowd went wild. Fans from our team ____28____ terrible words at Luke. People I had known for years said hateful things, staring at my son angrily and ____29____ him.
My heart pounding, I dashed across the field. Before I spoke, Luke whispered, “Dad, I heard a _____30_____ crack when he fell. His leg’s broken—scoring would have _____31_____ medical help.” Tears filled his eyes as he added, “Remember? True _____32_____ means doing what’s right.”
Overwhelmed with pride, I held him. Later, X-rays showed a serious break needing _____33_____. That night, Luke got no prize—yet his moral _____34_____ lit up the locker room (更衣室). Years later, coaches still tell how one boy’s compassion redefined _____35_____.
21. A. opposing B. same C. winning D. practice
22. A. field B. stands C. locker rooms D. parking lot
23. A. coaching B. greeting C. assisting D. avoiding
24. A. solid B. messy C. hesitant D. half-hearted
25. A. lifting B. knocking C. guiding D. inviting
26. A. cheerfully B. gradually C. unexpectedly D. unwillingly
27. A. bow B. breath C. knee D. step
28. A. aimed B. directed C. mouthed D. shouted
29. A. threatening B. grabbing C. ignoring D. comforting
30. A. soft B. musical C. sickening D. repeated
31. A. called off B. put off C. held back D. gave up
32. A. strategy B. competition C. fitness D. sportsmanship
33. A. rest B. surgery C. help D. medicine
34. A. judgment B. talent C. effort D. integrity
35. A. value B. rules C. victory D. privilege
【答案】21. A 22. B 23. D 24. A 25. B 26. C 27. C 28. D 29. A 30. C 31. B 32. D 33. B 34. D 35. C
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。
The 12th World Games burst onto the global stage on Thursday night with an opening ceremony that artfully ____36____ (marry) host city Chengdu’s rich cultural legacy with shocking firework displays, as State Councilor Shen Yiqin declared ____37____ event open before global audiences.
Bright and brilliant fireworks lit up the sky at moments throughout the opening ceremony, ____38____ (intensify) the energy and excitement of the impressive show. The fireworks featured ____39____ (meaning) symbols, including a shining rainbow bridge arching across the night, ancient Chinese seal characters for “Chengdu” and 12 floral fireworks symbolizing all the host cities of The World Games.
The ceremony unfolded beneath Asia’s ____40____ (large) freestanding wooden structure — the 460-meter front hall canopy (檐廊) of Tianfu International Conference Center. Viewers enjoyed a unique lawn seating experience on the waterfront, ____41____ the show presented urban sports culture through breakdancing, frisbee and rollerskating performances, alongside a 50-minute parade of athletes.
Xu Xingguo, vice-mayor of Chengdu, described the ceremony ____42____ “a dynamic, multicultural celebration that brought together sports lovers, children’s pleasant voices, a ____43____ (creative) designed flame-lighting ceremony and breathtaking fireworks — all combined into an astonishing audiovisual experience”.
Against the picturesque setting of lakes, greenery, dusk and starlight, it became “a globally ____44____ (share) celebration of culture and sports,” according to Xu. “Honoring the true spirit of athletics, the ceremony beautifully captured both the thrill of competition and the joy of public _____45_____ (engage),” he said.
【答案】36. married
37. the 38. intensifying
39. meaningful
40. largest
41. where 42. as
43. creatively
44. shared 45. engagement
第四部分 写作(共两节，满分40分)
第一节 (满分15分)
46. 假定你是李华，上周你们学校举行了一场“Creative Recycling”比赛。你和你的小组利用废旧材料，比如塑料瓶、纸板等，设计并制作了一件有实用价值的物品。请你给英国朋友 Chris写一封邮件，内容包括：
(1)你们小组完成的作品；
(2)你的感想。
注意：
(1)写作词数应为80个左右；
(2)请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
Dear Chris,
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Yours,
Li Hua
【答案】参考范文
Dear Chris,
How are you? I’m writing to tell you about a fun eco-friendly project we did at school last week in the “Creative Recycling” competition, where we transformed waste into useful items. My team and I had a great time creating something special!
We made a pencil holder using old plastic bottles and cardboard. After cleaning and cutting the materials, we painted them and fit them together. It was amazing to see how everyday trash could become something practical! The project not only sparked our creativity but also deepened our appreciation for recycling.
This experience showed me that small efforts can make a big difference to the environment. Maybe you could try a similar project too! Let me know what you think.
Yours,
Li Hua
第二节 (满分25 分)
47. 阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。
When I was seven years old, my family moved from Mexico to America. In Mexico, I was a cheerful girl who loved making people laugh with my jokes and inventing fun games to play with my friends. However, when I arrived in America, I found it hard to fit in, and I became quieter.
We lived in a small house with a modest yard where we grew vegetables-my responsibility. While I took pride in watching them grow, there were times when I dreamed of having a beautiful garden like my schoolmate Luella’s, with its delicate tulips (郁金香). Although Luella lived in the same neighborhood as me, we barely knew each other.
It was after a tornado that Luella and I finally became close friends.
The tornado struck on a Sunday afternoon. The gentle breeze transformed into a strong wind, and thick gray clouds filled the sky. Gradually, the tornado took shape, starting as a thin rope and growing into a large black funnel (漏斗). My entire family gathered in the bathroom, seeking shelter from the storm. Terrified, I sat close to my mom, knees in my chest. After the storm had passed, our worries and fears were replaced by relief that we were unharmed and that our house had remained undamaged.
As I stepped outside, I witnessed the extent of the damage the tornado had caused to our neighborhood. Across the street, a tall tree had fallen, crushing Luella’s garden in front of her yellow house. We hurried over to check on it. Fortunately, her family seemed to be away at the time, and no one was injured. However, her once-beautiful garden was in ruins, with the fallen tree destroying the tulips and debris (碎片) spread everywhere. I could only imagine how heartbroken they must feel seeing this.
Then my mom’s usual words rang in my ear, “It is more blessed to give than to receive,” and my family started to think about how we could help.
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。
Just at that moment, Luella’s family returned in their car.
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Even after the debris was cleared, I could still sense Luella’s sorrow for her lost garden.
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【答案】 Just at that moment, Luella’ family returned in their car. Empathy surged within me as I saw their shock and disbelief. Approaching Luella, I tightly held her hands and said, “I’m so sorry for your loss, but thankfully you’re all right.” She weakly nodded, still puzzled by the shocking scene. My family volunteered to help clean up the mess, cutting down the branches and removing the fallen trees. To lift Luella’s spirits and give her comfort, I tried my best to cheer her up while tidying the garden with her, during which my own joyful personality seemed to revive a bit.
Even after the debris was cleared, I could still sense Luella’ sorrow for her lost garden. My heart went out to her, knowing how much she had cherished those tulips that she had devoted so much energy to. Determined to restore the beauty of the garden, I suggested we rebuild the garden, which Luella delightedly agreed. Carefully planted and watered, the new tulip seedlings once again filled the garden, which symbolized the beginning of our friendship, as well as the turning that I finally got embraced by this new environment. My mom was right: it’s more blessed to give than to receive because when you give, you may receive something unexpected in return.
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