天津市双菱中学2024-2025学年高二上学期期中考试英语试卷（含答案）
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双菱中学2024~2025学年度高二年级上学期期中考试
英语
注意事项：
1．答题前填写好自己的姓名、班级、考号等信息
2．请将答案正确填写在答题卡上
一、听力选择题（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）
1．How much did Tony pay for the book?
A．$6． B．$12． C．$18.
2．What do the speakers suggest?
A．Susan can hear better when she sits alone.
B．Susan will do better on the exam if she sits alone.
C．Susan may be copying Marsha’s exam paper.
3．What does the mar i think of his cake?
A．It’s not soft. B．It’s not fresh. C．It’s not sweet.
4．What is the relationship between the speakers?
A．Teacher and student. B．Workmates. C．Husband and wife.
5．What does the man mean?
A．A cold drink can be relaxing.
B．Scott and Tina like to play jocks on each other.
C．Humor can be helpful in embarrassing situations
听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
6．What does Bill have for lunch?
A．A sausage. B．A salad. C．A hamburger.
7．Why does Bill pay attention to sodium-rich foods?
A．To delay the aging process.
B．To prevent high blood pressure.
C．To lower the risk of heart attack.
8．What will Mary do tonight?
A．Eat out. B．Watch TV. C．Join a health club.
听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
9．What does the woman dislike about the play?
A．The clothes. B．The set. C．The acting.
10．Who is the man’s old classmate?
A．The actress. B．The director. C．The screenwriter.
11．When does the conversation take place?
A．At the beginning of a play.
B．In the middle of a play.
C．At the end of a play.
听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
12．What is the speaker mainly talking about?
A．A summer vacation plan.
B．Safety rules in water.
C．Swimming courses.
13．What is the most important thing about playing in the water?
A．Learning to swim first.
B．Taking others for company.
C．Being under lifeguards’ protection.
14．Where does the speaker work probably?
A．At a water park. B．At a police station. C．At a sports center.
15．What are the students reminded to do while boating?
A．A Wear a life jacket.
B．Be away from other boats.
C．Learn about the depth of the water.
单项选择
1. Distracted by the upcoming messages and various appealing entertainment applications, addicted people multiply the time finishing a single task and gradually develop _______.
A. exposure B. distinction C. delay D. intelligence
2. The event is a clear indication that food safety is a big problem; nobody can ________ all foods are secure to us, but we are sure that the situation is turning for the better.
A. acknowledge B. guarantee C. identify D. clarify
3. The study suggested that the ________ use of chemicals in agriculture had caused water pollution in this area.
A. complex B. commercial C. widespread D. ultimate
4. Sina Weibo banned 1830 users for 90 days, silenced 100 accounts ______ and deleted 3,770 posts for violating laws.
A. particularly B. ultimately C. permanently D. extensively
5. Plato believed that talent and intelligence _________genetically and thus _________in children born to all classes, although his proposed system of selective public education for an educated minority of the population does not really follow a democratic model.
A. is not distributed, is to be found B. are not distributed, are to be found
C. is not distributed has been found D. are not distributed, have been found
6. Large quantities of information gathered from extensive’ research studies _________ valuable insights into the trends affecting global health outcomes.
A. provide B. has been providing C. provides D. is providing
7. After ______ by the heavy deluge, Henan province suffered from serious damages to its scenic spots, many tourists ______ in the disaster region.
A. struck, were trapped B. being struck, trapped
C. struck, having been trapped D. having been struck ; were trapped
8. China and the United States will make joint efforts to ensure a successful United Nations climate change conference in November, a key task _________ will be to set a new financial target for supporting developing countries in their climate actions.
A. for which B. through which C. of which D. from which
9. —Peter and I get equal pay for equal work, but he has bought a new Benz again! —Don’t be jealous. Peter is the man who ______.
A. goes with the flow B. makes hay while the sun is shining
C. crosses over to the dark side D. sees the handwriting on the wall
10. Though our football boys are faced with four goals behind, they are still struggling hard in the field to ______.
A face the music B. save face
C. cost their arm and leg D. land on their feet
二、完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）
Last term, I read the book The Book Thief. It is a story about a 9-year-old girl named Liesel Meminger and her ____11____in Nazi Germany in 1939. In this book, Liesel’s father is taken away by the Nazis. Her mother_____12_____and never returns and her brother dies. Then she is sent to a foster family (寄养家庭) in a poor area of Munich.On the way,she ____13____a book named The Grave Digger’s Handbook, which becomes the first book she “steals”. It’s her_____14_____foster father Hans who helps Liesel to read, and the 14 books she steals provide her with_____15_____comfort. She manages to_____16_____the war and_____17_____helps the people around her who are also ____18____.
As I ____19____each page, I found myself absorbed in the______20______created by the author. The light but lingering (绵长的)_____21_____made me hold my _____22_____, as if I had the same experience as Liesel.
Every time I _____23_____this book, what comes to mind is not the _____24_____of the Nazis or the despair in the face of a very difficult and unfavourable situation. All I can think of is the resilience (韧性), sincerity and kindness of_____25_____in such a(n)_____26_____cruel period.Despite the fact that it is not easy for foster parents to _____27_____themselves, they still choose to foster Liesel when she is_____28_____. They also save and hide a Jewish girl in their basement when the Nazis start to kill the Jews.
All these details make me feel that _____29_____we keep the most _____30_____thing inside our hearts, even in despair, we still have the ability to walk toward the brightest future in front of us.
11. A. interview B. schedule C. responsibility D. experience
12. A. struggles B. disappears C. remains D. hesitates
13. A. comes across B. puts away C. turns over D. leaves behind
14. A. selfish B. narrow-minded C. kind-hearted D. wealthy
15. A. endless B. instant C. little D. physical
16. A. enter B. forget C. describe D. survive
17. A. sadly B. readily C. suddenly D. unfortunately
18. A. travelling B. operating C. suffering D. recovering
19. A. turned B. tore C. covered D. struck
20. A. world B. house C. street D. field
21. A. complaint B. sorrow C. delight D. regret
22. A. position B. record C. view D. breath
23. A. make room for B. take advantage of C. think back on D. get rid of
24. A. madness B. tiredness C. sickness D. awareness
25. A. literature B. humanity C. competition D. hardship
26. A. eventually B. initially C. extremely D. slightly
27. A. tolerate B. represent C. support D. treat
28. A. abandoned B. observed C. controlled D. trained
29. A. for fear that B. in order that C. even if D. as long as
30. A. similar B. precious C. serious D. natural
三、阅读理解（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）
A
Like toolmaking, teaching was once thought to be an exclusive capacity of the human mind. It is not actually.
“Teaching” requires this: one individual must take time from their own task to demonstrate and instruct with effort and the student must learn a new skill, That’s a tall order.
When a young chimpanzee watches a skilled adult and then imitates, that’s learning. But the adult has not taken time specifically to instruct, so it is not teaching. In the honeybees’ amazing dance, the dancer takes time to indicate information about a source of food, but observers learn no new skill. They do take time to show, but they do not pass on new skills to learners.
Dolphins teach. Atlantic spotted dolphin mothers sometimes free a caught fish in the presence of their youngsters and let their youngsters chase it, catching it again if it’s getting away. Dolphin youngsters also position themselves alongside mothers who are scanning sandy bottoms for hidden fish, and the mother spends extra time demonstrating.
Other teachers include: housecats who bring back live prey and let their young learn to catch it, and meerkats (猫鼬) who first bring to their growing young dead scorpions (蝎子), then disabled ones, to demonstrate how to remove the poisonous part on their tails.
Like toolmaking and teaching, imitation is also considered to reflect high intelligence. In South Africa lived a baby dolphin named Dolly. One day while she was just six months old, Dolly was watching a trainer standing at the window smoking a cigarette, blowing puffs of smoke. Dolly swam to her mother, got a mouthful of milk, then returned to the window and released a cloud of milk that surrounded her head. The trainer was “absolutely astonished”. Somehow Dolly came up with the idea of using milk to represent smoke. Using one thing to represent something else isn’t just imitation. It is art.
31. What does the underlined phrase “a tall order” probably mean in paragraph 2?
A. A clear instruction. B. A high risk.
C. A difficult requirement. D. useful purpose.
32. What can we infer about animals that can teach?
A. Bees show their dance to younger generations.
B. Housecats teach in a way similar to dolphins.
C. Young dolphins must learn how to free a fish.
D. Meerkats have poisonous parts on the tails.
33. Why does the author use Dolly’s example?
A. To prove smoking can affect other animals.
B. To explain dolphins are capable of making art.
C. To show animals can be surprisingly intelligent.
D. To stress milk is to dolphins what smoking is to men.
B
Some songs might speak to your soul even if you don't know the words. The almost magical way that music reflects and influences our emotions led American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow to declare it the “universal language of mankind”. But how universal is it really?
A team of more than a dozen researchers and countless undergraduates set out to collect and interpret descriptions and recordings of musical performances around the world. Their first finding: Music is indeed universal. Or at least statistical modeling strongly suggests that more than 99% of societies have music. Then, they analyzed the song descriptions for sixty very different societies and looked at different qualities related to song performance.
As they classified the songs, they found that three dimensions (方面) accounted for more than a quarter of the variability between songs. The first was how formal or informal a song was. Songs high in formality had large audiences and lots of instruments, often involved ceremonial events, and frequently had adult-only audiences. Informal events had smaller audiences, including children, or no audience at all. The second was how arousing a song was to its listeners. Lively events involving lots of dancing were high on this dimension, while a low value reflected a calmer event, like someone singing to themselves or a baby. The last was how religious song was. Songs used in ceremonies were high in religiosity, while those without a spiritual context scored low.
The researchers applied their findings to four widespread categories of music: lullabies (摇篮), dance songs, love songs and healing songs, and found clear trend. Most dance was highly arousing and formal, but low in religiosity. Lullabies were mostly low in formality and low in arousal. And healing songs scored high in all dimensions while love songs were low in all dimensions. Even more interesting, the distribution of these behaviors was similar in all societies studied.
Scholars say that their database could fuel future research into even more inspiring questions about music universals. And their method might be used to pick out patterns in other hard-to-analyze fields, like storytelling or visual art.
34. How was the research conducted?
A. By making comparison and contrast. B. By finding similarities.
C. By collecting and analyzing data. D. By illustrating examples.
35. Which kind of music may involve the most audiences and instruments?
A. Lullabies. B. Dance songs. C. Love songs. D. Healing songs.
36. How is the future of their research findings according to the scholars?
A. Promising. B. Unpredictable. C. Impractical. D. Limited.
37. What can be concluded from the passage?
A. Songs can speak to your soul only if you know their words.
B. Differences in formality lead to the variability between songs.
C. Music is classified by the number of audience and instruments.
D. Research on the universals of music can help explore other fields.
C
The life of a journalist can be exciting. To be in constant pursuit of the latest news demands a curiosity that can only be rewarded by getting to “where it is happening” as soon as possible. The goal, of course, is to relate what is happening to the public as clearly as possible.
However, every journalist must be careful to report not only a vivid picture of what is happening, but a true picture. Each journalist reports his or her own version of what has taken place. Still, this version must be an actual account if the reporter is to maintain a reliable reputation.
In order to get to the truth in some new stories, a reporter must rely on the statements of someone who is on the inside of the situation. Often this insider will only talk to a reporter if the reporter promises never to reveal the insider’s name. The insider usually threatens never to admit meeting with the reporter if his or her name is revealed.
Because stories of this nature often involve criminal activity, reporting them becomes a dangerous job. This kind of work involved in obtaining news in this summer serves as an inviting situation for the underworld as well as the legal world. Members of the underworld want to find out who the insider is so that they can keep him or her quiet. Members of the legal world claim that the reporter will disturb justice if he or she fails to disclose the insider’s name.
Rather than be unaccountable to a trusted informant, most reporters will go to jail if need be. Freedom of the press is provided by the First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States. Impure interpretations of this portion of the constitution cause a small number of reporters to be jailed every year. However, as yet, no amount of legal maneuvering (操纵) has been able to put out this light of freedom set up by our forefathers. All of the reporters refusing to reveal the names of their informants have eventually been released.
Devotion of this kind has given journalism its reputation for reliability — a reliability that each journalist is expected to uphold in his or her search for truth. Supplying a truthful account of each day’s occurrence is the serious contract made between reporter and the public.
38. According to the passage, those who give inside information ________.
A. are usually under police protection
B. do not want their names made public
C. are on rare occasions on good terms with reliable reporter
D. often have difficulty in protecting their lives
39. Judging by the context, the word “inviting” in paragraph 4 can be replaced by _____.
A. scheming B. unknowing C. stirring D. tempting
40. Some reporters are put into prison mainly because ________.
A. the courts sometimes misinterpret the First Amendment of the Constitution
B. they get inside stories by dishonest means
C. they are against the First Amendment of the Constitution
D. there is no law in the United States to protect freedom of the press
41. The author implies in the passage that a reliable reporter ________.
A. seldom follows the First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States
B. should be diligent, clever and inventive
C. must provide the public with a truthful account as clearly as possible
D. must try every means to satisfy the public’s curiosity
D
“Assume you are wrong.” The advice came from Brian Nosek, a psychology professor, who was offering a strategy for pursuing better science.
To understand the context for Nosek’s advice, we need to take a step back to the nature of science itself. You see despite what many of us learned in elementary school, there is no single scientific method. Just as scientific theories become elaborated and change, so do scientific methods.
But methodological reform hasn’t come without some fretting and friction. Nasty things have been said by and about methodological reformers. Few people like having the value of their life’s work called into question. On the other side, few people are good at voicing criticisms in kind and constructive ways. So, part of the challenge is figuring out how to bake critical self-reflection into the culture of science itself, so it unfolds as a welcome and integrated part of the process, and not an embarrassing sideshow.
What Nosek recommended was a strategy for changing the way we offer and respond to critique. Assuming you are right might be a motivating force, sustaining the enormous effort that conducting scientific work requires. But it also makes it easy to interpret criticisms as personal attacks. Beginning, instead, from the assumption you are wrong, a criticism is easier to interpret as a constructive suggestion for how to be less wrong — a goal that your critic presumably shares.
One worry about this approach is that it could be demoralizing for scientists. Striving to be less wrong might be a less effective motivation than the promise of being right. Another concern is that a strategy that works well within science could backfire when it comes to communicating science with the public. Without an appreciation for how science works, it’s easy to take uncertainty or disagreements as marks against science, when in fact they reflect some of the very features of science that make it our best approach to reaching reliable conclusions about the world. Science is reliable because it responds to evidence: as the quantity and quality of our evidence improves, our theories can and should change, too.
Despite these worries, I like Nosek’s suggestion because it builds in cognitive humility along with a sense that we can do better. It also builds in a sense of community — we’re all in the same boat when it comes to falling short of getting things right.
Unfortunately, this still leaves us with an untested hypothesis (假说): that assuming one is wrong can change community norms for the better, and ultimately support better science and even, perhaps, better decisions in life. I don’t know if that’s true. In fact, I should probably assume that it’s wrong. But with the benefit of the scientific community and our best methodological tools, I hope we can get it less wrong, together.
42. What can we learn from Paragraph 3?
A. Reformers tend to devalue researchers’ work.
B. Scientists are unwilling to express kind criticisms.
C. People hold wrong assumptions about the culture of science.
D. The scientific community should practice critical self-reflection.
43. The strategy of “assuming you are wrong” may contribute to ______.
A. the enormous efforts of scientists at work B. the reliability of potential research results
C. the public’s passion for scientific findings D. the improvement in the quality of evidence
44. The underlined word “demoralizing” in Paragraph 5 means ______.
A. discouraging B. ineffective C. unfair D. misleading
45. The tone the author uses in talking about the untested hypothesis is ______.
A. doubtful but sincere B. disapproving but soft
C. authoritative and direct D. reflective and humorous
四、阅读表达（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）
阅读短文，并按照题目要求用英语回答问题。
I am sitting in an empty football field after my last high school football game has finished a few hours ago. I’m the quarterback (前卫) on my team. But in fact that’s not true now. I was the quarterback, and that’s a good way to end a high school football career at a high point.
I’ve been sitting here by myself shivering in the cold and thinking back over the game and other games I’ve played in my life. I’m looking at the goal and thinking how it always seemed to reach out and pull me with a secret, magical force.
I was 8 when I first started playing football. My dad loved football and would practice with me at home- passing, catching, running. He tried to teach me everything he knew about the game. “Just remember: don’t ever give up.” “Stay in the game. Don’t lose your concentration.” “Go out there-and give 110 percent every time.” Well, that was a long time ago but I still hear his words ringing in my ears. I had a lot on my mind before the game today. I don’t like things to be an end, I guess, and this was the last game, and it was the league championship. I was talking to myself and reminding myself about what to do and not to do. I didn’t sleep at all last night. But when the game started my mind became empty. Everything dropped away from me. I just lived in this game, this moment. I didn’t hear the crowd; I didn’t feel the cold or the pain; I never felt tired. I just kept my eyes on the ball, and inside a soft white light showing me the way to the goal, which was a beautiful feeling.
It’s all over now and it’s really getting cold here. It’s starting to snow. The sun’s almost gone and I can hardly see the goal. Now it’s dark and I’m sitting here all alone. Well, I guess it’s time to say goodbye and move on.
46. Why does the writer say that he was the quarterback in paragraph 1? (no more than 15 words)
_____________________________________________________________________
47. For what reason did the writer have a lot on his mind before the game? (no more than 20 words)
______________________________________________________________________
48. What made him feel beautiful in his last game? (no more than 15 words)
__________________________________________________________________
49. How can you understand the underlined sentence? (no more than 10 words)
_____________________________________________________________________
50. What is the goal of your life? And how will you make it realized? (no more than 20 words)
________________________________________________________________
五、书面表达（满分15分）
51. 为了迎接世界读书日，学校英语社计划以“Reading For Fun”为主题组织一场读书活动，请你写一份英文倡议书。内容包括：
1. 活动目的；
2. 活动内容；
3. 发出倡议。
参考词汇：World Book Day世界读书日
注意：
1. 词数80左右；
2. 开头和结尾已给出，可以适当增加细节，使行文连贯。
Dear fellows,
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
English Club
April 20
答案版
双菱中学2024~2025学年度高二年级上学期期中考试
英语
注意事项：
1．答题前填写好自己的姓名、班级、考号等信息
2．请将答案正确填写在答题卡上
一、听力选择题（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）
1．How much did Tony pay for the book?
A．$6． B．$12． C．$18.
2．What do the speakers suggest?
A．Susan can hear better when she sits alone.
B．Susan will do better on the exam if she sits alone.
C．Susan may be copying Marsha’s exam paper.
3．What does the mar i think of his cake?
A．It’s not soft. B．It’s not fresh. C．It’s not sweet.
4．What is the relationship between the speakers?
A．Teacher and student. B．Workmates. C．Husband and wife.
5．What does the man mean?
A．A cold drink can be relaxing.
B．Scott and Tina like to play jocks on each other.
C．Humor can be helpful in embarrassing situations
听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
6．What does Bill have for lunch?
A．A sausage. B．A salad. C．A hamburger.
7．Why does Bill pay attention to sodium-rich foods?
A．To delay the aging process.
B．To prevent high blood pressure.
C．To lower the risk of heart attack.
8．What will Mary do tonight?
A．Eat out. B．Watch TV. C．Join a health club.
听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
9．What does the woman dislike about the play?
A．The clothes. B．The set. C．The acting.
10．Who is the man’s old classmate?
A．The actress. B．The director. C．The screenwriter.
11．When does the conversation take place?
A．At the beginning of a play.
B．In the middle of a play.
C．At the end of a play.
听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
12．What is the speaker mainly talking about?
A．A summer vacation plan.
B．Safety rules in water.
C．Swimming courses.
13．What is the most important thing about playing in the water?
A．Learning to swim first.
B．Taking others for company.
C．Being under lifeguards’ protection.
14．Where does the speaker work probably?
A．At a water park. B．At a police station. C．At a sports center.
15．What are the students reminded to do while boating?
A．A Wear a life jacket.
B．Be away from other boats.
C．Learn about the depth of the water.
听力答案 略
单项选择
1. Distracted by the upcoming messages and various appealing entertainment applications, addicted people multiply the time finishing a single task and gradually develop _______.
A. exposure B. distinction C. delay D. intelligence
【答案】C
2. The event is a clear indication that food safety is a big problem; nobody can ________ all foods are secure to us, but we are sure that the situation is turning for the better.
A. acknowledge B. guarantee C. identify D. clarify
【答案】B
3. The study suggested that the ________ use of chemicals in agriculture had caused water pollution in this area.
A. complex B. commercial C. widespread D. ultimate
【答案】C
4. Sina Weibo banned 1830 users for 90 days, silenced 100 accounts ______ and deleted 3,770 posts for violating laws.
A. particularly B. ultimately C. permanently D. extensively
【答案】C
5. Plato believed that talent and intelligence _________genetically and thus _________in children born to all classes, although his proposed system of selective public education for an educated minority of the population does not really follow a democratic model.
A. is not distributed, is to be found B. are not distributed, are to be found
C. is not distributed has been found D. are not distributed, have been found
【答案】A
6. Large quantities of information gathered from extensive’ research studies _________ valuable insights into the trends affecting global health outcomes.
A. provide B. has been providing C. provides D. is providing
【答案】A
7. After ______ by the heavy deluge, Henan province suffered from serious damages to its scenic spots, many tourists ______ in the disaster region.
A. struck, were trapped B. being struck, trapped
C. struck, having been trapped D. having been struck ; were trapped
【答案】B
8. China and the United States will make joint efforts to ensure a successful United Nations climate change conference in November, a key task _________ will be to set a new financial target for supporting developing countries in their climate actions.
A. for which B. through which C. of which D. from which
【答案】C
9. —Peter and I get equal pay for equal work, but he has bought a new Benz again! —Don’t be jealous. Peter is the man who ______.
A. goes with the flow B. makes hay while the sun is shining
C. crosses over to the dark side D. sees the handwriting on the wall
【答案】B
10. Though our football boys are faced with four goals behind, they are still struggling hard in the field to ______.
A face the music B. save face
C. cost their arm and leg D. land on their feet
【答案】B
二、完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）
Last term, I read the book The Book Thief. It is a story about a 9-year-old girl named Liesel Meminger and her ____11____in Nazi Germany in 1939. In this book, Liesel’s father is taken away by the Nazis. Her mother_____12_____and never returns and her brother dies. Then she is sent to a foster family (寄养家庭) in a poor area of Munich.On the way,she ____13____a book named The Grave Digger’s Handbook, which becomes the first book she “steals”. It’s her_____14_____foster father Hans who helps Liesel to read, and the 14 books she steals provide her with_____15_____comfort. She manages to_____16_____the war and_____17_____helps the people around her who are also ____18____.
As I ____19____each page, I found myself absorbed in the______20______created by the author. The light but lingering (绵长的)_____21_____made me hold my _____22_____, as if I had the same experience as Liesel.
Every time I _____23_____this book, what comes to mind is not the _____24_____of the Nazis or the despair in the face of a very difficult and unfavourable situation. All I can think of is the resilience (韧性), sincerity and kindness of_____25_____in such a(n)_____26_____cruel period.Despite the fact that it is not easy for foster parents to _____27_____themselves, they still choose to foster Liesel when she is_____28_____. They also save and hide a Jewish girl in their basement when the Nazis start to kill the Jews.
All these details make me feel that _____29_____we keep the most _____30_____thing inside our hearts, even in despair, we still have the ability to walk toward the brightest future in front of us.
11. A. interview B. schedule C. responsibility D. experience
12. A. struggles B. disappears C. remains D. hesitates
13. A. comes across B. puts away C. turns over D. leaves behind
14. A. selfish B. narrow-minded C. kind-hearted D. wealthy
15. A. endless B. instant C. little D. physical
16. A. enter B. forget C. describe D. survive
17. A. sadly B. readily C. suddenly D. unfortunately
18. A. travelling B. operating C. suffering D. recovering
19. A. turned B. tore C. covered D. struck
20. A. world B. house C. street D. field
21. A. complaint B. sorrow C. delight D. regret
22. A. position B. record C. view D. breath
23. A. make room for B. take advantage of C. think back on D. get rid of
24. A. madness B. tiredness C. sickness D. awareness
25. A. literature B. humanity C. competition D. hardship
26. A. eventually B. initially C. extremely D. slightly
27. A. tolerate B. represent C. support D. treat
28. A. abandoned B. observed C. controlled D. trained
29. A. for fear that B. in order that C. even if D. as long as
30. A. similar B. precious C. serious D. natural
【答案】11. D 12. B 13. A 14. C 15. A 16. D 17. B 18. C 19. A 20. A 21. B 22. D 23. C 24. A 25. B 26. C 27. C 28. A 29. D 30. B
三、阅读理解（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）
A
Like toolmaking, teaching was once thought to be an exclusive capacity of the human mind. It is not actually.
“Teaching” requires this: one individual must take time from their own task to demonstrate and instruct with effort and the student must learn a new skill, That’s a tall order.
When a young chimpanzee watches a skilled adult and then imitates, that’s learning. But the adult has not taken time specifically to instruct, so it is not teaching. In the honeybees’ amazing dance, the dancer takes time to indicate information about a source of food, but observers learn no new skill. They do take time to show, but they do not pass on new skills to learners.
Dolphins teach. Atlantic spotted dolphin mothers sometimes free a caught fish in the presence of their youngsters and let their youngsters chase it, catching it again if it’s getting away. Dolphin youngsters also position themselves alongside mothers who are scanning sandy bottoms for hidden fish, and the mother spends extra time demonstrating.
Other teachers include: housecats who bring back live prey and let their young learn to catch it, and meerkats (猫鼬) who first bring to their growing young dead scorpions (蝎子), then disabled ones, to demonstrate how to remove the poisonous part on their tails.
Like toolmaking and teaching, imitation is also considered to reflect high intelligence. In South Africa lived a baby dolphin named Dolly. One day while she was just six months old, Dolly was watching a trainer standing at the window smoking a cigarette, blowing puffs of smoke. Dolly swam to her mother, got a mouthful of milk, then returned to the window and released a cloud of milk that surrounded her head. The trainer was “absolutely astonished”. Somehow Dolly came up with the idea of using milk to represent smoke. Using one thing to represent something else isn’t just imitation. It is art.
31. What does the underlined phrase “a tall order” probably mean in paragraph 2?
A. A clear instruction. B. A high risk.
C. A difficult requirement. D. useful purpose.
32. What can we infer about animals that can teach?
A. Bees show their dance to younger generations.
B. Housecats teach in a way similar to dolphins.
C. Young dolphins must learn how to free a fish.
D. Meerkats have poisonous parts on the tails.
33. Why does the author use Dolly’s example?
A. To prove smoking can affect other animals.
B. To explain dolphins are capable of making art.
C. To show animals can be surprisingly intelligent.
D. To stress milk is to dolphins what smoking is to men.
【答案】31. C 32. B 33. C
B
Some songs might speak to your soul even if you don't know the words. The almost magical way that music reflects and influences our emotions led American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow to declare it the “universal language of mankind”. But how universal is it really?
A team of more than a dozen researchers and countless undergraduates set out to collect and interpret descriptions and recordings of musical performances around the world. Their first finding: Music is indeed universal. Or at least statistical modeling strongly suggests that more than 99% of societies have music. Then, they analyzed the song descriptions for sixty very different societies and looked at different qualities related to song performance.
As they classified the songs, they found that three dimensions (方面) accounted for more than a quarter of the variability between songs. The first was how formal or informal a song was. Songs high in formality had large audiences and lots of instruments, often involved ceremonial events, and frequently had adult-only audiences. Informal events had smaller audiences, including children, or no audience at all. The second was how arousing a song was to its listeners. Lively events involving lots of dancing were high on this dimension, while a low value reflected a calmer event, like someone singing to themselves or a baby. The last was how religious song was. Songs used in ceremonies were high in religiosity, while those without a spiritual context scored low.
The researchers applied their findings to four widespread categories of music: lullabies (摇篮), dance songs, love songs and healing songs, and found clear trend. Most dance was highly arousing and formal, but low in religiosity. Lullabies were mostly low in formality and low in arousal. And healing songs scored high in all dimensions while love songs were low in all dimensions. Even more interesting, the distribution of these behaviors was similar in all societies studied.
Scholars say that their database could fuel future research into even more inspiring questions about music universals. And their method might be used to pick out patterns in other hard-to-analyze fields, like storytelling or visual art.
34. How was the research conducted?
A. By making comparison and contrast. B. By finding similarities.
C. By collecting and analyzing data. D. By illustrating examples.
35. Which kind of music may involve the most audiences and instruments?
A. Lullabies. B. Dance songs. C. Love songs. D. Healing songs.
36. How is the future of their research findings according to the scholars?
A. Promising. B. Unpredictable. C. Impractical. D. Limited.
37. What can be concluded from the passage?
A. Songs can speak to your soul only if you know their words.
B. Differences in formality lead to the variability between songs.
C. Music is classified by the number of audience and instruments.
D. Research on the universals of music can help explore other fields.
【答案】34. C 35. B 36. A 37. D
C
The life of a journalist can be exciting. To be in constant pursuit of the latest news demands a curiosity that can only be rewarded by getting to “where it is happening” as soon as possible. The goal, of course, is to relate what is happening to the public as clearly as possible.
However, every journalist must be careful to report not only a vivid picture of what is happening, but a true picture. Each journalist reports his or her own version of what has taken place. Still, this version must be an actual account if the reporter is to maintain a reliable reputation.
In order to get to the truth in some new stories, a reporter must rely on the statements of someone who is on the inside of the situation. Often this insider will only talk to a reporter if the reporter promises never to reveal the insider’s name. The insider usually threatens never to admit meeting with the reporter if his or her name is revealed.
Because stories of this nature often involve criminal activity, reporting them becomes a dangerous job. This kind of work involved in obtaining news in this summer serves as an inviting situation for the underworld as well as the legal world. Members of the underworld want to find out who the insider is so that they can keep him or her quiet. Members of the legal world claim that the reporter will disturb justice if he or she fails to disclose the insider’s name.
Rather than be unaccountable to a trusted informant, most reporters will go to jail if need be. Freedom of the press is provided by the First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States. Impure interpretations of this portion of the constitution cause a small number of reporters to be jailed every year. However, as yet, no amount of legal maneuvering (操纵) has been able to put out this light of freedom set up by our forefathers. All of the reporters refusing to reveal the names of their informants have eventually been released.
Devotion of this kind has given journalism its reputation for reliability — a reliability that each journalist is expected to uphold in his or her search for truth. Supplying a truthful account of each day’s occurrence is the serious contract made between reporter and the public.
38. According to the passage, those who give inside information ________.
A. are usually under police protection
B. do not want their names made public
C. are on rare occasions on good terms with reliable reporter
D. often have difficulty in protecting their lives
39. Judging by the context, the word “inviting” in paragraph 4 can be replaced by _____.
A. scheming B. unknowing C. stirring D. tempting
40. Some reporters are put into prison mainly because ________.
A. the courts sometimes misinterpret the First Amendment of the Constitution
B. they get inside stories by dishonest means
C. they are against the First Amendment of the Constitution
D. there is no law in the United States to protect freedom of the press
41. The author implies in the passage that a reliable reporter ________.
A. seldom follows the First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States
B. should be diligent, clever and inventive
C. must provide the public with a truthful account as clearly as possible
D. must try every means to satisfy the public’s curiosity
【答案】38. B 39. D 40. A 41. C
D
“Assume you are wrong.” The advice came from Brian Nosek, a psychology professor, who was offering a strategy for pursuing better science.
To understand the context for Nosek’s advice, we need to take a step back to the nature of science itself. You see despite what many of us learned in elementary school, there is no single scientific method. Just as scientific theories become elaborated and change, so do scientific methods.
But methodological reform hasn’t come without some fretting and friction. Nasty things have been said by and about methodological reformers. Few people like having the value of their life’s work called into question. On the other side, few people are good at voicing criticisms in kind and constructive ways. So, part of the challenge is figuring out how to bake critical self-reflection into the culture of science itself, so it unfolds as a welcome and integrated part of the process, and not an embarrassing sideshow.
What Nosek recommended was a strategy for changing the way we offer and respond to critique. Assuming you are right might be a motivating force, sustaining the enormous effort that conducting scientific work requires. But it also makes it easy to interpret criticisms as personal attacks. Beginning, instead, from the assumption you are wrong, a criticism is easier to interpret as a constructive suggestion for how to be less wrong — a goal that your critic presumably shares.
One worry about this approach is that it could be demoralizing for scientists. Striving to be less wrong might be a less effective motivation than the promise of being right. Another concern is that a strategy that works well within science could backfire when it comes to communicating science with the public. Without an appreciation for how science works, it’s easy to take uncertainty or disagreements as marks against science, when in fact they reflect some of the very features of science that make it our best approach to reaching reliable conclusions about the world. Science is reliable because it responds to evidence: as the quantity and quality of our evidence improves, our theories can and should change, too.
Despite these worries, I like Nosek’s suggestion because it builds in cognitive humility along with a sense that we can do better. It also builds in a sense of community — we’re all in the same boat when it comes to falling short of getting things right.
Unfortunately, this still leaves us with an untested hypothesis (假说): that assuming one is wrong can change community norms for the better, and ultimately support better science and even, perhaps, better decisions in life. I don’t know if that’s true. In fact, I should probably assume that it’s wrong. But with the benefit of the scientific community and our best methodological tools, I hope we can get it less wrong, together.
42. What can we learn from Paragraph 3?
A. Reformers tend to devalue researchers’ work.
B. Scientists are unwilling to express kind criticisms.
C. People hold wrong assumptions about the culture of science.
D. The scientific community should practice critical self-reflection.
43. The strategy of “assuming you are wrong” may contribute to ______.
A. the enormous efforts of scientists at work B. the reliability of potential research results
C. the public’s passion for scientific findings D. the improvement in the quality of evidence
44. The underlined word “demoralizing” in Paragraph 5 means ______.
A. discouraging B. ineffective C. unfair D. misleading
45. The tone the author uses in talking about the untested hypothesis is ______.
A. doubtful but sincere B. disapproving but soft
C. authoritative and direct D. reflective and humorous
【答案】42. D 43. B 44. A 45. D
四、阅读表达（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）
阅读短文，并按照题目要求用英语回答问题。
I am sitting in an empty football field after my last high school football game has finished a few hours ago. I’m the quarterback (前卫) on my team. But in fact that’s not true now. I was the quarterback, and that’s a good way to end a high school football career at a high point.
I’ve been sitting here by myself shivering in the cold and thinking back over the game and other games I’ve played in my life. I’m looking at the goal and thinking how it always seemed to reach out and pull me with a secret, magical force.
I was 8 when I first started playing football. My dad loved football and would practice with me at home- passing, catching, running. He tried to teach me everything he knew about the game. “Just remember: don’t ever give up.” “Stay in the game. Don’t lose your concentration.” “Go out there-and give 110 percent every time.” Well, that was a long time ago but I still hear his words ringing in my ears. I had a lot on my mind before the game today. I don’t like things to be an end, I guess, and this was the last game, and it was the league championship. I was talking to myself and reminding myself about what to do and not to do. I didn’t sleep at all last night. But when the game started my mind became empty. Everything dropped away from me. I just lived in this game, this moment. I didn’t hear the crowd; I didn’t feel the cold or the pain; I never felt tired. I just kept my eyes on the ball, and inside a soft white light showing me the way to the goal, which was a beautiful feeling.
It’s all over now and it’s really getting cold here. It’s starting to snow. The sun’s almost gone and I can hardly see the goal. Now it’s dark and I’m sitting here all alone. Well, I guess it’s time to say goodbye and move on.
46. Why does the writer say that he was the quarterback in paragraph 1? (no more than 15 words)
_____________________________________________________________________
47. For what reason did the writer have a lot on his mind before the game? (no more than 20 words)
______________________________________________________________________
48. What made him feel beautiful in his last game? (no more than 15 words)
__________________________________________________________________
49. How can you understand the underlined sentence? (no more than 10 words)
_____________________________________________________________________
50. What is the goal of your life? And how will you make it realized? (no more than 20 words)
________________________________________________________________
【答案】46. Because his last high school football game has just finished.
Or: Because his high school football career ended after the game.
47. Because it was the last game and the league championship and he kept thinking what to do.
48. Everything dropped from his mind and he can just focus on the game.
Or: Nothing but a light showing him the way to the goal.
Or: He lived in the game, in the moment, feeling nothing else at all.
49. The high school football career is about to end.
Or: And I am going to say good bye to the football (gate).
Or: It’s time to accept the end and move forward.
50. My goal is to become a successful businessman. First, study to equip myself with sufficient knowledge. Second, overcome shortcomings.
五、书面表达（满分15分）
51. 为了迎接世界读书日，学校英语社计划以“Reading For Fun”为主题组织一场读书活动，请你写一份英文倡议书。内容包括：
1. 活动目的；
2. 活动内容；
3. 发出倡议。
参考词汇：World Book Day世界读书日
注意：
1. 词数80左右；
2. 开头和结尾已给出，可以适当增加细节，使行文连贯。
Dear fellows,
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
English Club
April 20
【答案】One possible version:
Dear fellows,
In order to celebrate the upcoming World Book Day, an interesting reading campaign will be launched. Not only does the activity stimulate our creativity and shape our character, but it can also enrich our lives in a unique way.
The following are activities involved in this reading campaign. As scheduled, reading clubs are organized in groups for a shared topic in the library every Wednesday afternoon. Participants are welcome to discuss figures in the book, who are the source of motivation to help them beat the odds and create miracles. In addition, every participant is required to submit a reading report within given time to enhance their critical thinking ability and writing capability.
All in all, by immersing ourselves in the charm of books, this activity definitely offers endless fun to us. My dear fellows, please join us as soon as possible!
English Club
April 20
英语
注意事项：
1．答题前填写好自己的姓名、班级、考号等信息
2．请将答案正确填写在答题卡上
一、听力选择题（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）
1．How much did Tony pay for the book?
A．$6． B．$12． C．$18.
2．What do the speakers suggest?
A．Susan can hear better when she sits alone.
B．Susan will do better on the exam if she sits alone.
C．Susan may be copying Marsha’s exam paper.
3．What does the mar i think of his cake?
A．It’s not soft. B．It’s not fresh. C．It’s not sweet.
4．What is the relationship between the speakers?
A．Teacher and student. B．Workmates. C．Husband and wife.
5．What does the man mean?
A．A cold drink can be relaxing.
B．Scott and Tina like to play jocks on each other.
C．Humor can be helpful in embarrassing situations
听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
6．What does Bill have for lunch?
A．A sausage. B．A salad. C．A hamburger.
7．Why does Bill pay attention to sodium-rich foods?
A．To delay the aging process.
B．To prevent high blood pressure.
C．To lower the risk of heart attack.
8．What will Mary do tonight?
A．Eat out. B．Watch TV. C．Join a health club.
听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
9．What does the woman dislike about the play?
A．The clothes. B．The set. C．The acting.
10．Who is the man’s old classmate?
A．The actress. B．The director. C．The screenwriter.
11．When does the conversation take place?
A．At the beginning of a play.
B．In the middle of a play.
C．At the end of a play.
听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
12．What is the speaker mainly talking about?
A．A summer vacation plan.
B．Safety rules in water.
C．Swimming courses.
13．What is the most important thing about playing in the water?
A．Learning to swim first.
B．Taking others for company.
C．Being under lifeguards’ protection.
14．Where does the speaker work probably?
A．At a water park. B．At a police station. C．At a sports center.
15．What are the students reminded to do while boating?
A．A Wear a life jacket.
B．Be away from other boats.
C．Learn about the depth of the water.
单项选择
1. Distracted by the upcoming messages and various appealing entertainment applications, addicted people multiply the time finishing a single task and gradually develop _______.
A. exposure B. distinction C. delay D. intelligence
2. The event is a clear indication that food safety is a big problem; nobody can ________ all foods are secure to us, but we are sure that the situation is turning for the better.
A. acknowledge B. guarantee C. identify D. clarify
3. The study suggested that the ________ use of chemicals in agriculture had caused water pollution in this area.
A. complex B. commercial C. widespread D. ultimate
4. Sina Weibo banned 1830 users for 90 days, silenced 100 accounts ______ and deleted 3,770 posts for violating laws.
A. particularly B. ultimately C. permanently D. extensively
5. Plato believed that talent and intelligence _________genetically and thus _________in children born to all classes, although his proposed system of selective public education for an educated minority of the population does not really follow a democratic model.
A. is not distributed, is to be found B. are not distributed, are to be found
C. is not distributed has been found D. are not distributed, have been found
6. Large quantities of information gathered from extensive’ research studies _________ valuable insights into the trends affecting global health outcomes.
A. provide B. has been providing C. provides D. is providing
7. After ______ by the heavy deluge, Henan province suffered from serious damages to its scenic spots, many tourists ______ in the disaster region.
A. struck, were trapped B. being struck, trapped
C. struck, having been trapped D. having been struck ; were trapped
8. China and the United States will make joint efforts to ensure a successful United Nations climate change conference in November, a key task _________ will be to set a new financial target for supporting developing countries in their climate actions.
A. for which B. through which C. of which D. from which
9. —Peter and I get equal pay for equal work, but he has bought a new Benz again! —Don’t be jealous. Peter is the man who ______.
A. goes with the flow B. makes hay while the sun is shining
C. crosses over to the dark side D. sees the handwriting on the wall
10. Though our football boys are faced with four goals behind, they are still struggling hard in the field to ______.
A face the music B. save face
C. cost their arm and leg D. land on their feet
二、完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）
Last term, I read the book The Book Thief. It is a story about a 9-year-old girl named Liesel Meminger and her ____11____in Nazi Germany in 1939. In this book, Liesel’s father is taken away by the Nazis. Her mother_____12_____and never returns and her brother dies. Then she is sent to a foster family (寄养家庭) in a poor area of Munich.On the way,she ____13____a book named The Grave Digger’s Handbook, which becomes the first book she “steals”. It’s her_____14_____foster father Hans who helps Liesel to read, and the 14 books she steals provide her with_____15_____comfort. She manages to_____16_____the war and_____17_____helps the people around her who are also ____18____.
As I ____19____each page, I found myself absorbed in the______20______created by the author. The light but lingering (绵长的)_____21_____made me hold my _____22_____, as if I had the same experience as Liesel.
Every time I _____23_____this book, what comes to mind is not the _____24_____of the Nazis or the despair in the face of a very difficult and unfavourable situation. All I can think of is the resilience (韧性), sincerity and kindness of_____25_____in such a(n)_____26_____cruel period.Despite the fact that it is not easy for foster parents to _____27_____themselves, they still choose to foster Liesel when she is_____28_____. They also save and hide a Jewish girl in their basement when the Nazis start to kill the Jews.
All these details make me feel that _____29_____we keep the most _____30_____thing inside our hearts, even in despair, we still have the ability to walk toward the brightest future in front of us.
11. A. interview B. schedule C. responsibility D. experience
12. A. struggles B. disappears C. remains D. hesitates
13. A. comes across B. puts away C. turns over D. leaves behind
14. A. selfish B. narrow-minded C. kind-hearted D. wealthy
15. A. endless B. instant C. little D. physical
16. A. enter B. forget C. describe D. survive
17. A. sadly B. readily C. suddenly D. unfortunately
18. A. travelling B. operating C. suffering D. recovering
19. A. turned B. tore C. covered D. struck
20. A. world B. house C. street D. field
21. A. complaint B. sorrow C. delight D. regret
22. A. position B. record C. view D. breath
23. A. make room for B. take advantage of C. think back on D. get rid of
24. A. madness B. tiredness C. sickness D. awareness
25. A. literature B. humanity C. competition D. hardship
26. A. eventually B. initially C. extremely D. slightly
27. A. tolerate B. represent C. support D. treat
28. A. abandoned B. observed C. controlled D. trained
29. A. for fear that B. in order that C. even if D. as long as
30. A. similar B. precious C. serious D. natural
三、阅读理解（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）
A
Like toolmaking, teaching was once thought to be an exclusive capacity of the human mind. It is not actually.
“Teaching” requires this: one individual must take time from their own task to demonstrate and instruct with effort and the student must learn a new skill, That’s a tall order.
When a young chimpanzee watches a skilled adult and then imitates, that’s learning. But the adult has not taken time specifically to instruct, so it is not teaching. In the honeybees’ amazing dance, the dancer takes time to indicate information about a source of food, but observers learn no new skill. They do take time to show, but they do not pass on new skills to learners.
Dolphins teach. Atlantic spotted dolphin mothers sometimes free a caught fish in the presence of their youngsters and let their youngsters chase it, catching it again if it’s getting away. Dolphin youngsters also position themselves alongside mothers who are scanning sandy bottoms for hidden fish, and the mother spends extra time demonstrating.
Other teachers include: housecats who bring back live prey and let their young learn to catch it, and meerkats (猫鼬) who first bring to their growing young dead scorpions (蝎子), then disabled ones, to demonstrate how to remove the poisonous part on their tails.
Like toolmaking and teaching, imitation is also considered to reflect high intelligence. In South Africa lived a baby dolphin named Dolly. One day while she was just six months old, Dolly was watching a trainer standing at the window smoking a cigarette, blowing puffs of smoke. Dolly swam to her mother, got a mouthful of milk, then returned to the window and released a cloud of milk that surrounded her head. The trainer was “absolutely astonished”. Somehow Dolly came up with the idea of using milk to represent smoke. Using one thing to represent something else isn’t just imitation. It is art.
31. What does the underlined phrase “a tall order” probably mean in paragraph 2?
A. A clear instruction. B. A high risk.
C. A difficult requirement. D. useful purpose.
32. What can we infer about animals that can teach?
A. Bees show their dance to younger generations.
B. Housecats teach in a way similar to dolphins.
C. Young dolphins must learn how to free a fish.
D. Meerkats have poisonous parts on the tails.
33. Why does the author use Dolly’s example?
A. To prove smoking can affect other animals.
B. To explain dolphins are capable of making art.
C. To show animals can be surprisingly intelligent.
D. To stress milk is to dolphins what smoking is to men.
B
Some songs might speak to your soul even if you don't know the words. The almost magical way that music reflects and influences our emotions led American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow to declare it the “universal language of mankind”. But how universal is it really?
A team of more than a dozen researchers and countless undergraduates set out to collect and interpret descriptions and recordings of musical performances around the world. Their first finding: Music is indeed universal. Or at least statistical modeling strongly suggests that more than 99% of societies have music. Then, they analyzed the song descriptions for sixty very different societies and looked at different qualities related to song performance.
As they classified the songs, they found that three dimensions (方面) accounted for more than a quarter of the variability between songs. The first was how formal or informal a song was. Songs high in formality had large audiences and lots of instruments, often involved ceremonial events, and frequently had adult-only audiences. Informal events had smaller audiences, including children, or no audience at all. The second was how arousing a song was to its listeners. Lively events involving lots of dancing were high on this dimension, while a low value reflected a calmer event, like someone singing to themselves or a baby. The last was how religious song was. Songs used in ceremonies were high in religiosity, while those without a spiritual context scored low.
The researchers applied their findings to four widespread categories of music: lullabies (摇篮), dance songs, love songs and healing songs, and found clear trend. Most dance was highly arousing and formal, but low in religiosity. Lullabies were mostly low in formality and low in arousal. And healing songs scored high in all dimensions while love songs were low in all dimensions. Even more interesting, the distribution of these behaviors was similar in all societies studied.
Scholars say that their database could fuel future research into even more inspiring questions about music universals. And their method might be used to pick out patterns in other hard-to-analyze fields, like storytelling or visual art.
34. How was the research conducted?
A. By making comparison and contrast. B. By finding similarities.
C. By collecting and analyzing data. D. By illustrating examples.
35. Which kind of music may involve the most audiences and instruments?
A. Lullabies. B. Dance songs. C. Love songs. D. Healing songs.
36. How is the future of their research findings according to the scholars?
A. Promising. B. Unpredictable. C. Impractical. D. Limited.
37. What can be concluded from the passage?
A. Songs can speak to your soul only if you know their words.
B. Differences in formality lead to the variability between songs.
C. Music is classified by the number of audience and instruments.
D. Research on the universals of music can help explore other fields.
C
The life of a journalist can be exciting. To be in constant pursuit of the latest news demands a curiosity that can only be rewarded by getting to “where it is happening” as soon as possible. The goal, of course, is to relate what is happening to the public as clearly as possible.
However, every journalist must be careful to report not only a vivid picture of what is happening, but a true picture. Each journalist reports his or her own version of what has taken place. Still, this version must be an actual account if the reporter is to maintain a reliable reputation.
In order to get to the truth in some new stories, a reporter must rely on the statements of someone who is on the inside of the situation. Often this insider will only talk to a reporter if the reporter promises never to reveal the insider’s name. The insider usually threatens never to admit meeting with the reporter if his or her name is revealed.
Because stories of this nature often involve criminal activity, reporting them becomes a dangerous job. This kind of work involved in obtaining news in this summer serves as an inviting situation for the underworld as well as the legal world. Members of the underworld want to find out who the insider is so that they can keep him or her quiet. Members of the legal world claim that the reporter will disturb justice if he or she fails to disclose the insider’s name.
Rather than be unaccountable to a trusted informant, most reporters will go to jail if need be. Freedom of the press is provided by the First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States. Impure interpretations of this portion of the constitution cause a small number of reporters to be jailed every year. However, as yet, no amount of legal maneuvering (操纵) has been able to put out this light of freedom set up by our forefathers. All of the reporters refusing to reveal the names of their informants have eventually been released.
Devotion of this kind has given journalism its reputation for reliability — a reliability that each journalist is expected to uphold in his or her search for truth. Supplying a truthful account of each day’s occurrence is the serious contract made between reporter and the public.
38. According to the passage, those who give inside information ________.
A. are usually under police protection
B. do not want their names made public
C. are on rare occasions on good terms with reliable reporter
D. often have difficulty in protecting their lives
39. Judging by the context, the word “inviting” in paragraph 4 can be replaced by _____.
A. scheming B. unknowing C. stirring D. tempting
40. Some reporters are put into prison mainly because ________.
A. the courts sometimes misinterpret the First Amendment of the Constitution
B. they get inside stories by dishonest means
C. they are against the First Amendment of the Constitution
D. there is no law in the United States to protect freedom of the press
41. The author implies in the passage that a reliable reporter ________.
A. seldom follows the First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States
B. should be diligent, clever and inventive
C. must provide the public with a truthful account as clearly as possible
D. must try every means to satisfy the public’s curiosity
D
“Assume you are wrong.” The advice came from Brian Nosek, a psychology professor, who was offering a strategy for pursuing better science.
To understand the context for Nosek’s advice, we need to take a step back to the nature of science itself. You see despite what many of us learned in elementary school, there is no single scientific method. Just as scientific theories become elaborated and change, so do scientific methods.
But methodological reform hasn’t come without some fretting and friction. Nasty things have been said by and about methodological reformers. Few people like having the value of their life’s work called into question. On the other side, few people are good at voicing criticisms in kind and constructive ways. So, part of the challenge is figuring out how to bake critical self-reflection into the culture of science itself, so it unfolds as a welcome and integrated part of the process, and not an embarrassing sideshow.
What Nosek recommended was a strategy for changing the way we offer and respond to critique. Assuming you are right might be a motivating force, sustaining the enormous effort that conducting scientific work requires. But it also makes it easy to interpret criticisms as personal attacks. Beginning, instead, from the assumption you are wrong, a criticism is easier to interpret as a constructive suggestion for how to be less wrong — a goal that your critic presumably shares.
One worry about this approach is that it could be demoralizing for scientists. Striving to be less wrong might be a less effective motivation than the promise of being right. Another concern is that a strategy that works well within science could backfire when it comes to communicating science with the public. Without an appreciation for how science works, it’s easy to take uncertainty or disagreements as marks against science, when in fact they reflect some of the very features of science that make it our best approach to reaching reliable conclusions about the world. Science is reliable because it responds to evidence: as the quantity and quality of our evidence improves, our theories can and should change, too.
Despite these worries, I like Nosek’s suggestion because it builds in cognitive humility along with a sense that we can do better. It also builds in a sense of community — we’re all in the same boat when it comes to falling short of getting things right.
Unfortunately, this still leaves us with an untested hypothesis (假说): that assuming one is wrong can change community norms for the better, and ultimately support better science and even, perhaps, better decisions in life. I don’t know if that’s true. In fact, I should probably assume that it’s wrong. But with the benefit of the scientific community and our best methodological tools, I hope we can get it less wrong, together.
42. What can we learn from Paragraph 3?
A. Reformers tend to devalue researchers’ work.
B. Scientists are unwilling to express kind criticisms.
C. People hold wrong assumptions about the culture of science.
D. The scientific community should practice critical self-reflection.
43. The strategy of “assuming you are wrong” may contribute to ______.
A. the enormous efforts of scientists at work B. the reliability of potential research results
C. the public’s passion for scientific findings D. the improvement in the quality of evidence
44. The underlined word “demoralizing” in Paragraph 5 means ______.
A. discouraging B. ineffective C. unfair D. misleading
45. The tone the author uses in talking about the untested hypothesis is ______.
A. doubtful but sincere B. disapproving but soft
C. authoritative and direct D. reflective and humorous
四、阅读表达（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）
阅读短文，并按照题目要求用英语回答问题。
I am sitting in an empty football field after my last high school football game has finished a few hours ago. I’m the quarterback (前卫) on my team. But in fact that’s not true now. I was the quarterback, and that’s a good way to end a high school football career at a high point.
I’ve been sitting here by myself shivering in the cold and thinking back over the game and other games I’ve played in my life. I’m looking at the goal and thinking how it always seemed to reach out and pull me with a secret, magical force.
I was 8 when I first started playing football. My dad loved football and would practice with me at home- passing, catching, running. He tried to teach me everything he knew about the game. “Just remember: don’t ever give up.” “Stay in the game. Don’t lose your concentration.” “Go out there-and give 110 percent every time.” Well, that was a long time ago but I still hear his words ringing in my ears. I had a lot on my mind before the game today. I don’t like things to be an end, I guess, and this was the last game, and it was the league championship. I was talking to myself and reminding myself about what to do and not to do. I didn’t sleep at all last night. But when the game started my mind became empty. Everything dropped away from me. I just lived in this game, this moment. I didn’t hear the crowd; I didn’t feel the cold or the pain; I never felt tired. I just kept my eyes on the ball, and inside a soft white light showing me the way to the goal, which was a beautiful feeling.
It’s all over now and it’s really getting cold here. It’s starting to snow. The sun’s almost gone and I can hardly see the goal. Now it’s dark and I’m sitting here all alone. Well, I guess it’s time to say goodbye and move on.
46. Why does the writer say that he was the quarterback in paragraph 1? (no more than 15 words)
_____________________________________________________________________
47. For what reason did the writer have a lot on his mind before the game? (no more than 20 words)
______________________________________________________________________
48. What made him feel beautiful in his last game? (no more than 15 words)
__________________________________________________________________
49. How can you understand the underlined sentence? (no more than 10 words)
_____________________________________________________________________
50. What is the goal of your life? And how will you make it realized? (no more than 20 words)
________________________________________________________________
五、书面表达（满分15分）
51. 为了迎接世界读书日，学校英语社计划以“Reading For Fun”为主题组织一场读书活动，请你写一份英文倡议书。内容包括：
1. 活动目的；
2. 活动内容；
3. 发出倡议。
参考词汇：World Book Day世界读书日
注意：
1. 词数80左右；
2. 开头和结尾已给出，可以适当增加细节，使行文连贯。
Dear fellows,
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English Club
April 20
答案版
双菱中学2024~2025学年度高二年级上学期期中考试
英语
注意事项：
1．答题前填写好自己的姓名、班级、考号等信息
2．请将答案正确填写在答题卡上
一、听力选择题（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）
1．How much did Tony pay for the book?
A．$6． B．$12． C．$18.
2．What do the speakers suggest?
A．Susan can hear better when she sits alone.
B．Susan will do better on the exam if she sits alone.
C．Susan may be copying Marsha’s exam paper.
3．What does the mar i think of his cake?
A．It’s not soft. B．It’s not fresh. C．It’s not sweet.
4．What is the relationship between the speakers?
A．Teacher and student. B．Workmates. C．Husband and wife.
5．What does the man mean?
A．A cold drink can be relaxing.
B．Scott and Tina like to play jocks on each other.
C．Humor can be helpful in embarrassing situations
听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
6．What does Bill have for lunch?
A．A sausage. B．A salad. C．A hamburger.
7．Why does Bill pay attention to sodium-rich foods?
A．To delay the aging process.
B．To prevent high blood pressure.
C．To lower the risk of heart attack.
8．What will Mary do tonight?
A．Eat out. B．Watch TV. C．Join a health club.
听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
9．What does the woman dislike about the play?
A．The clothes. B．The set. C．The acting.
10．Who is the man’s old classmate?
A．The actress. B．The director. C．The screenwriter.
11．When does the conversation take place?
A．At the beginning of a play.
B．In the middle of a play.
C．At the end of a play.
听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
12．What is the speaker mainly talking about?
A．A summer vacation plan.
B．Safety rules in water.
C．Swimming courses.
13．What is the most important thing about playing in the water?
A．Learning to swim first.
B．Taking others for company.
C．Being under lifeguards’ protection.
14．Where does the speaker work probably?
A．At a water park. B．At a police station. C．At a sports center.
15．What are the students reminded to do while boating?
A．A Wear a life jacket.
B．Be away from other boats.
C．Learn about the depth of the water.
听力答案 略
单项选择
1. Distracted by the upcoming messages and various appealing entertainment applications, addicted people multiply the time finishing a single task and gradually develop _______.
A. exposure B. distinction C. delay D. intelligence
【答案】C
2. The event is a clear indication that food safety is a big problem; nobody can ________ all foods are secure to us, but we are sure that the situation is turning for the better.
A. acknowledge B. guarantee C. identify D. clarify
【答案】B
3. The study suggested that the ________ use of chemicals in agriculture had caused water pollution in this area.
A. complex B. commercial C. widespread D. ultimate
【答案】C
4. Sina Weibo banned 1830 users for 90 days, silenced 100 accounts ______ and deleted 3,770 posts for violating laws.
A. particularly B. ultimately C. permanently D. extensively
【答案】C
5. Plato believed that talent and intelligence _________genetically and thus _________in children born to all classes, although his proposed system of selective public education for an educated minority of the population does not really follow a democratic model.
A. is not distributed, is to be found B. are not distributed, are to be found
C. is not distributed has been found D. are not distributed, have been found
【答案】A
6. Large quantities of information gathered from extensive’ research studies _________ valuable insights into the trends affecting global health outcomes.
A. provide B. has been providing C. provides D. is providing
【答案】A
7. After ______ by the heavy deluge, Henan province suffered from serious damages to its scenic spots, many tourists ______ in the disaster region.
A. struck, were trapped B. being struck, trapped
C. struck, having been trapped D. having been struck ; were trapped
【答案】B
8. China and the United States will make joint efforts to ensure a successful United Nations climate change conference in November, a key task _________ will be to set a new financial target for supporting developing countries in their climate actions.
A. for which B. through which C. of which D. from which
【答案】C
9. —Peter and I get equal pay for equal work, but he has bought a new Benz again! —Don’t be jealous. Peter is the man who ______.
A. goes with the flow B. makes hay while the sun is shining
C. crosses over to the dark side D. sees the handwriting on the wall
【答案】B
10. Though our football boys are faced with four goals behind, they are still struggling hard in the field to ______.
A face the music B. save face
C. cost their arm and leg D. land on their feet
【答案】B
二、完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）
Last term, I read the book The Book Thief. It is a story about a 9-year-old girl named Liesel Meminger and her ____11____in Nazi Germany in 1939. In this book, Liesel’s father is taken away by the Nazis. Her mother_____12_____and never returns and her brother dies. Then she is sent to a foster family (寄养家庭) in a poor area of Munich.On the way,she ____13____a book named The Grave Digger’s Handbook, which becomes the first book she “steals”. It’s her_____14_____foster father Hans who helps Liesel to read, and the 14 books she steals provide her with_____15_____comfort. She manages to_____16_____the war and_____17_____helps the people around her who are also ____18____.
As I ____19____each page, I found myself absorbed in the______20______created by the author. The light but lingering (绵长的)_____21_____made me hold my _____22_____, as if I had the same experience as Liesel.
Every time I _____23_____this book, what comes to mind is not the _____24_____of the Nazis or the despair in the face of a very difficult and unfavourable situation. All I can think of is the resilience (韧性), sincerity and kindness of_____25_____in such a(n)_____26_____cruel period.Despite the fact that it is not easy for foster parents to _____27_____themselves, they still choose to foster Liesel when she is_____28_____. They also save and hide a Jewish girl in their basement when the Nazis start to kill the Jews.
All these details make me feel that _____29_____we keep the most _____30_____thing inside our hearts, even in despair, we still have the ability to walk toward the brightest future in front of us.
11. A. interview B. schedule C. responsibility D. experience
12. A. struggles B. disappears C. remains D. hesitates
13. A. comes across B. puts away C. turns over D. leaves behind
14. A. selfish B. narrow-minded C. kind-hearted D. wealthy
15. A. endless B. instant C. little D. physical
16. A. enter B. forget C. describe D. survive
17. A. sadly B. readily C. suddenly D. unfortunately
18. A. travelling B. operating C. suffering D. recovering
19. A. turned B. tore C. covered D. struck
20. A. world B. house C. street D. field
21. A. complaint B. sorrow C. delight D. regret
22. A. position B. record C. view D. breath
23. A. make room for B. take advantage of C. think back on D. get rid of
24. A. madness B. tiredness C. sickness D. awareness
25. A. literature B. humanity C. competition D. hardship
26. A. eventually B. initially C. extremely D. slightly
27. A. tolerate B. represent C. support D. treat
28. A. abandoned B. observed C. controlled D. trained
29. A. for fear that B. in order that C. even if D. as long as
30. A. similar B. precious C. serious D. natural
【答案】11. D 12. B 13. A 14. C 15. A 16. D 17. B 18. C 19. A 20. A 21. B 22. D 23. C 24. A 25. B 26. C 27. C 28. A 29. D 30. B
三、阅读理解（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）
A
Like toolmaking, teaching was once thought to be an exclusive capacity of the human mind. It is not actually.
“Teaching” requires this: one individual must take time from their own task to demonstrate and instruct with effort and the student must learn a new skill, That’s a tall order.
When a young chimpanzee watches a skilled adult and then imitates, that’s learning. But the adult has not taken time specifically to instruct, so it is not teaching. In the honeybees’ amazing dance, the dancer takes time to indicate information about a source of food, but observers learn no new skill. They do take time to show, but they do not pass on new skills to learners.
Dolphins teach. Atlantic spotted dolphin mothers sometimes free a caught fish in the presence of their youngsters and let their youngsters chase it, catching it again if it’s getting away. Dolphin youngsters also position themselves alongside mothers who are scanning sandy bottoms for hidden fish, and the mother spends extra time demonstrating.
Other teachers include: housecats who bring back live prey and let their young learn to catch it, and meerkats (猫鼬) who first bring to their growing young dead scorpions (蝎子), then disabled ones, to demonstrate how to remove the poisonous part on their tails.
Like toolmaking and teaching, imitation is also considered to reflect high intelligence. In South Africa lived a baby dolphin named Dolly. One day while she was just six months old, Dolly was watching a trainer standing at the window smoking a cigarette, blowing puffs of smoke. Dolly swam to her mother, got a mouthful of milk, then returned to the window and released a cloud of milk that surrounded her head. The trainer was “absolutely astonished”. Somehow Dolly came up with the idea of using milk to represent smoke. Using one thing to represent something else isn’t just imitation. It is art.
31. What does the underlined phrase “a tall order” probably mean in paragraph 2?
A. A clear instruction. B. A high risk.
C. A difficult requirement. D. useful purpose.
32. What can we infer about animals that can teach?
A. Bees show their dance to younger generations.
B. Housecats teach in a way similar to dolphins.
C. Young dolphins must learn how to free a fish.
D. Meerkats have poisonous parts on the tails.
33. Why does the author use Dolly’s example?
A. To prove smoking can affect other animals.
B. To explain dolphins are capable of making art.
C. To show animals can be surprisingly intelligent.
D. To stress milk is to dolphins what smoking is to men.
【答案】31. C 32. B 33. C
B
Some songs might speak to your soul even if you don't know the words. The almost magical way that music reflects and influences our emotions led American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow to declare it the “universal language of mankind”. But how universal is it really?
A team of more than a dozen researchers and countless undergraduates set out to collect and interpret descriptions and recordings of musical performances around the world. Their first finding: Music is indeed universal. Or at least statistical modeling strongly suggests that more than 99% of societies have music. Then, they analyzed the song descriptions for sixty very different societies and looked at different qualities related to song performance.
As they classified the songs, they found that three dimensions (方面) accounted for more than a quarter of the variability between songs. The first was how formal or informal a song was. Songs high in formality had large audiences and lots of instruments, often involved ceremonial events, and frequently had adult-only audiences. Informal events had smaller audiences, including children, or no audience at all. The second was how arousing a song was to its listeners. Lively events involving lots of dancing were high on this dimension, while a low value reflected a calmer event, like someone singing to themselves or a baby. The last was how religious song was. Songs used in ceremonies were high in religiosity, while those without a spiritual context scored low.
The researchers applied their findings to four widespread categories of music: lullabies (摇篮), dance songs, love songs and healing songs, and found clear trend. Most dance was highly arousing and formal, but low in religiosity. Lullabies were mostly low in formality and low in arousal. And healing songs scored high in all dimensions while love songs were low in all dimensions. Even more interesting, the distribution of these behaviors was similar in all societies studied.
Scholars say that their database could fuel future research into even more inspiring questions about music universals. And their method might be used to pick out patterns in other hard-to-analyze fields, like storytelling or visual art.
34. How was the research conducted?
A. By making comparison and contrast. B. By finding similarities.
C. By collecting and analyzing data. D. By illustrating examples.
35. Which kind of music may involve the most audiences and instruments?
A. Lullabies. B. Dance songs. C. Love songs. D. Healing songs.
36. How is the future of their research findings according to the scholars?
A. Promising. B. Unpredictable. C. Impractical. D. Limited.
37. What can be concluded from the passage?
A. Songs can speak to your soul only if you know their words.
B. Differences in formality lead to the variability between songs.
C. Music is classified by the number of audience and instruments.
D. Research on the universals of music can help explore other fields.
【答案】34. C 35. B 36. A 37. D
C
The life of a journalist can be exciting. To be in constant pursuit of the latest news demands a curiosity that can only be rewarded by getting to “where it is happening” as soon as possible. The goal, of course, is to relate what is happening to the public as clearly as possible.
However, every journalist must be careful to report not only a vivid picture of what is happening, but a true picture. Each journalist reports his or her own version of what has taken place. Still, this version must be an actual account if the reporter is to maintain a reliable reputation.
In order to get to the truth in some new stories, a reporter must rely on the statements of someone who is on the inside of the situation. Often this insider will only talk to a reporter if the reporter promises never to reveal the insider’s name. The insider usually threatens never to admit meeting with the reporter if his or her name is revealed.
Because stories of this nature often involve criminal activity, reporting them becomes a dangerous job. This kind of work involved in obtaining news in this summer serves as an inviting situation for the underworld as well as the legal world. Members of the underworld want to find out who the insider is so that they can keep him or her quiet. Members of the legal world claim that the reporter will disturb justice if he or she fails to disclose the insider’s name.
Rather than be unaccountable to a trusted informant, most reporters will go to jail if need be. Freedom of the press is provided by the First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States. Impure interpretations of this portion of the constitution cause a small number of reporters to be jailed every year. However, as yet, no amount of legal maneuvering (操纵) has been able to put out this light of freedom set up by our forefathers. All of the reporters refusing to reveal the names of their informants have eventually been released.
Devotion of this kind has given journalism its reputation for reliability — a reliability that each journalist is expected to uphold in his or her search for truth. Supplying a truthful account of each day’s occurrence is the serious contract made between reporter and the public.
38. According to the passage, those who give inside information ________.
A. are usually under police protection
B. do not want their names made public
C. are on rare occasions on good terms with reliable reporter
D. often have difficulty in protecting their lives
39. Judging by the context, the word “inviting” in paragraph 4 can be replaced by _____.
A. scheming B. unknowing C. stirring D. tempting
40. Some reporters are put into prison mainly because ________.
A. the courts sometimes misinterpret the First Amendment of the Constitution
B. they get inside stories by dishonest means
C. they are against the First Amendment of the Constitution
D. there is no law in the United States to protect freedom of the press
41. The author implies in the passage that a reliable reporter ________.
A. seldom follows the First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States
B. should be diligent, clever and inventive
C. must provide the public with a truthful account as clearly as possible
D. must try every means to satisfy the public’s curiosity
【答案】38. B 39. D 40. A 41. C
D
“Assume you are wrong.” The advice came from Brian Nosek, a psychology professor, who was offering a strategy for pursuing better science.
To understand the context for Nosek’s advice, we need to take a step back to the nature of science itself. You see despite what many of us learned in elementary school, there is no single scientific method. Just as scientific theories become elaborated and change, so do scientific methods.
But methodological reform hasn’t come without some fretting and friction. Nasty things have been said by and about methodological reformers. Few people like having the value of their life’s work called into question. On the other side, few people are good at voicing criticisms in kind and constructive ways. So, part of the challenge is figuring out how to bake critical self-reflection into the culture of science itself, so it unfolds as a welcome and integrated part of the process, and not an embarrassing sideshow.
What Nosek recommended was a strategy for changing the way we offer and respond to critique. Assuming you are right might be a motivating force, sustaining the enormous effort that conducting scientific work requires. But it also makes it easy to interpret criticisms as personal attacks. Beginning, instead, from the assumption you are wrong, a criticism is easier to interpret as a constructive suggestion for how to be less wrong — a goal that your critic presumably shares.
One worry about this approach is that it could be demoralizing for scientists. Striving to be less wrong might be a less effective motivation than the promise of being right. Another concern is that a strategy that works well within science could backfire when it comes to communicating science with the public. Without an appreciation for how science works, it’s easy to take uncertainty or disagreements as marks against science, when in fact they reflect some of the very features of science that make it our best approach to reaching reliable conclusions about the world. Science is reliable because it responds to evidence: as the quantity and quality of our evidence improves, our theories can and should change, too.
Despite these worries, I like Nosek’s suggestion because it builds in cognitive humility along with a sense that we can do better. It also builds in a sense of community — we’re all in the same boat when it comes to falling short of getting things right.
Unfortunately, this still leaves us with an untested hypothesis (假说): that assuming one is wrong can change community norms for the better, and ultimately support better science and even, perhaps, better decisions in life. I don’t know if that’s true. In fact, I should probably assume that it’s wrong. But with the benefit of the scientific community and our best methodological tools, I hope we can get it less wrong, together.
42. What can we learn from Paragraph 3?
A. Reformers tend to devalue researchers’ work.
B. Scientists are unwilling to express kind criticisms.
C. People hold wrong assumptions about the culture of science.
D. The scientific community should practice critical self-reflection.
43. The strategy of “assuming you are wrong” may contribute to ______.
A. the enormous efforts of scientists at work B. the reliability of potential research results
C. the public’s passion for scientific findings D. the improvement in the quality of evidence
44. The underlined word “demoralizing” in Paragraph 5 means ______.
A. discouraging B. ineffective C. unfair D. misleading
45. The tone the author uses in talking about the untested hypothesis is ______.
A. doubtful but sincere B. disapproving but soft
C. authoritative and direct D. reflective and humorous
【答案】42. D 43. B 44. A 45. D
四、阅读表达（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）
阅读短文，并按照题目要求用英语回答问题。
I am sitting in an empty football field after my last high school football game has finished a few hours ago. I’m the quarterback (前卫) on my team. But in fact that’s not true now. I was the quarterback, and that’s a good way to end a high school football career at a high point.
I’ve been sitting here by myself shivering in the cold and thinking back over the game and other games I’ve played in my life. I’m looking at the goal and thinking how it always seemed to reach out and pull me with a secret, magical force.
I was 8 when I first started playing football. My dad loved football and would practice with me at home- passing, catching, running. He tried to teach me everything he knew about the game. “Just remember: don’t ever give up.” “Stay in the game. Don’t lose your concentration.” “Go out there-and give 110 percent every time.” Well, that was a long time ago but I still hear his words ringing in my ears. I had a lot on my mind before the game today. I don’t like things to be an end, I guess, and this was the last game, and it was the league championship. I was talking to myself and reminding myself about what to do and not to do. I didn’t sleep at all last night. But when the game started my mind became empty. Everything dropped away from me. I just lived in this game, this moment. I didn’t hear the crowd; I didn’t feel the cold or the pain; I never felt tired. I just kept my eyes on the ball, and inside a soft white light showing me the way to the goal, which was a beautiful feeling.
It’s all over now and it’s really getting cold here. It’s starting to snow. The sun’s almost gone and I can hardly see the goal. Now it’s dark and I’m sitting here all alone. Well, I guess it’s time to say goodbye and move on.
46. Why does the writer say that he was the quarterback in paragraph 1? (no more than 15 words)
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47. For what reason did the writer have a lot on his mind before the game? (no more than 20 words)
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48. What made him feel beautiful in his last game? (no more than 15 words)
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49. How can you understand the underlined sentence? (no more than 10 words)
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50. What is the goal of your life? And how will you make it realized? (no more than 20 words)
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【答案】46. Because his last high school football game has just finished.
Or: Because his high school football career ended after the game.
47. Because it was the last game and the league championship and he kept thinking what to do.
48. Everything dropped from his mind and he can just focus on the game.
Or: Nothing but a light showing him the way to the goal.
Or: He lived in the game, in the moment, feeling nothing else at all.
49. The high school football career is about to end.
Or: And I am going to say good bye to the football (gate).
Or: It’s time to accept the end and move forward.
50. My goal is to become a successful businessman. First, study to equip myself with sufficient knowledge. Second, overcome shortcomings.
五、书面表达（满分15分）
51. 为了迎接世界读书日，学校英语社计划以“Reading For Fun”为主题组织一场读书活动，请你写一份英文倡议书。内容包括：
1. 活动目的；
2. 活动内容；
3. 发出倡议。
参考词汇：World Book Day世界读书日
注意：
1. 词数80左右；
2. 开头和结尾已给出，可以适当增加细节，使行文连贯。
Dear fellows,
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English Club
April 20
【答案】One possible version:
Dear fellows,
In order to celebrate the upcoming World Book Day, an interesting reading campaign will be launched. Not only does the activity stimulate our creativity and shape our character, but it can also enrich our lives in a unique way.
The following are activities involved in this reading campaign. As scheduled, reading clubs are organized in groups for a shared topic in the library every Wednesday afternoon. Participants are welcome to discuss figures in the book, who are the source of motivation to help them beat the odds and create miracles. In addition, every participant is required to submit a reading report within given time to enhance their critical thinking ability and writing capability.
All in all, by immersing ourselves in the charm of books, this activity definitely offers endless fun to us. My dear fellows, please join us as soon as possible!
English Club
April 20
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