福建省厦门双十中学2024-2025学年高二上学期12月月考英语试卷（答案不全，无听力音频及听力原文）
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厦门双十中学2024—2025学年第一学期高二年第二次月考英 语
第一部分 听力(共两节，满分30分)
第一节 (共5小题; 每小题1.5分, 满分7.5分)
听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的 A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项。听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。
1. How does the girl want to go to the museum?
A. By subway. B. By bus. C. By car.
2. What has the weather been like recently?
A. Really dry. B. Really wet. C. Really cold.
3. What does the wedding hall forbid doing?
A. Throwing rice.
B. Throwing the pieces of newspaper.
C. Throwing colored paper.
4. What is the probable occupation of the man?
A. A politician. B. A lawyer. C. A journalist.
5. How many liters of water did the man drink today?
A. One. B. Two. C. Three.
第二节 (共15小题; 每小题1.5分, 满分22.5分)
听下面5段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项。听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟； 听完后，各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。
听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。
6. How does the man sound at first?
A. Nervous. B. Thrilled. C. Disappointed.
7. What color does the woman think old trains were?
A. Black. B. Green. C. Red.
听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。
8. What kind of show does the man want to make?
A. A cooking show. B. A quiz show. C. An interview show.
9. Where does the man want people to watch his show?
A. In their offices. B. In their homes. C. In their cars.
10. What is the woman's advice?
A. Picking a different goal. B. Saving up some money. C. Making his show different from others.
听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。
11. What are the speakers mainly talking about?
A. A colleague. B. A conference. C. A birthday party.
12. What is the woman planning on doing first?
A. Buying a gift. B. Going to the hospital. C. Picking up name cards.
13. How did the woman feel at Andy's birthday last year?
A. Angry. B. Confused. C. Satisfied.
听第9段材料，回答第14 至17题。
14. Why is going to the lake a bad idea?
A. It is too small. B. It will be too crowded. C. It is too hot.
15. What does the woman plan to do first?
A. Prepare lunch. B. Pack the luggage. C. Make coffee.
16. Where will the man probably get his drink?
A. At home. B. At the gas station. C. At the beach store.
17. What does the man want to use the towels for?
A. Lying on. B. Drying him off. C. Giving shade.
听第10段材料，回答第18至20题。
18. What is the goal of the exercise?
A. To learn how to follow instructions.
B. To learn about the importance of business.
C. To learn about the Industrial Revolution.
19. Which class did business managers belong to according to the speaker?
A. The upper class.
B. The middle to lower class.
C. The working class.
20. How many students will be needed to be the bank and security officers in total?
A. Four. B. Three. C. Two.
第二部分 阅读(共两节，满分50分)
第一节 (共15小题; 每小题2.5分, 满分37.5分)
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。
A
Starting Cycling
We have two services designed to give people the confidence and knowledge to cycle successfully.
Lessons
All our instructors have been trained to National Standards level of “Bikeability”. This means you will be trained to a standard consistent across the whole country.
There are 3 levels of skills to progress through. Children would start with levels 1 & 2, progressing from the playground or park to cycle on less busy local roads. Teenager and adult beginners can also learn levels 1 & 2 in an off-road and quiet environment.
Confident teenagers and adults can broaden their skills by learning level 3, using multi-lane (多道) roads and larger roundabouts (环岛). We provide both a complete package of lessons for the beginner or individual lessons tailored to the client. You can ride a bike but don’t feel confident about right turns on multi-lane roads. Whatever the need
We can address and practice until perfect!
Everyone can be taught to ride a bike!
We train both adults and children.
We cover London Zones 1 & 2
The cost is ￡30 per hour.
Guided Ride
We know that riding on the roads in London can be scary, and if you have to navigate (确定行车路线) as well it can become a real hard task! The Guided Ride service takes all the stress out of it for you by providing the following:
Route planned in advance to suit your skill level. Route map provided to you.
Cycle and equipment checked. We will teach you a simple method to check basic roadworthiness (车辆性能) of your bike that you can perform on a weekly basis.
Route discussed and focus given to any areas requiring special attention.
Cycle along with the instructor close behind. Here the traffic can be controlled by the instructor and rider observed.
Occasionally stopping to discuss events.
We currently cover London Zones 1 & 2. Please contact us if your requirements are outside of these areas.
Cost ￡30
1. Where can Level 1 & 2 lessons for adult beginners be carried out？
A. Off road
B. Near large roundabouts
C. On busy local roads
D. On multi-lane roads
2. What service does the Guided Ride mainly provide?.
A. They help you to be familiar with London roads
B. They check your cycle and equipment every week.
C. They let users experience the busiest road in London.
D. They ensure users ride safely in London Zones 1 & 2
3. Who is the text probably intended for ?.
A. Bike riding lovers.
B. Children and teenagers
C. Travelers in London
D. Parents loving cycling
B
I start every summer with the best of intentions:to attack one big book from the past, a classic that I was supposed to have read when young and ambitious. Often the pairings of books and settings have been purely accidental: "Moby Dick" on a three-day cross-country train trip: “The Magic Mountain” in a New England beachside cottage with no locks on the doors, no telephones or televisions in the rooms, and little to do beyond row on the salt pond. Attempting "The Man Without Qualities" on a return to Hawaii, my native state, however, was less fruitful: I made it through one and a quarter volumes (册), then decided that I'd got the point and went swimming instead.
But this summer I find myself at a loss. I’m not quite interested in Balzac, say, or “Tristram Shandy.” There’s always War and Peace, which I've covered some distance several times, only to get bogged down in the "War" part, set it aside for a while, and realize that I have to start over from the beginning again, having forgotten everyone’s name and social rank. How appealing to simply fall back on a favorite-once more into “The Waves” or “Justine,” which feels almost like cheating, too exciting and too much fun to properly belong in serious literature.
And then there’s Stendhal’s “The Red and the Black,” which happens to be the name of my favorite cocktail (鸡尾酒) of the summer, created by Michael Cecconi at Savoy and BackForty. It is easy to drink, and knocking back three or four seems like such a delightful idea. Cecconi's theory: "I take whatever’s fresh at the green market and turn it into liquid." The result is a pure shot of afternoon in the park, making one feel cheerful and peaceful all at once, lying on uncut grass with eyes shut, sun beating through the lids...
4. What can we infer about the author from the first paragraph?
A. He has a cottage in New England. B. He shows talents for literature.
C. He enjoys reading when traveling. D. He admires a lot of great writers.
5. What do the underlined words "get bogged down" in paragraph 2 mean?
A. Get confused. B. Be carried away.
C. Be interrupted. D. Make no progress.
6. Why does the author say reading his favorite books feels like cheating?
A. He finishes them quickly. B. He should read something serious.
C. He barely understands them. D. He has read them many times before.
7. What can be a suitable title for the text?
A. The Books of Summer B. My Summer Holidays
C. To Read or Not to Read D. It’s Never Too Late to Read
C
A drug designed entirely by artificial intelligence is about to enter clinical human trials for the first time. The drug, which is intended to treat obsessive-compulsive disorder ( OCD)(强迫症),was discovered using Al systems from Oxford-based biotech company Exscientia. While it would usually take around four and a half years to get a drug to this stage of development, Exscientia says that by using the Al tools it's taken less than 12 months.
The drug, known as DSP?1181, was created by using algorithms (算法)to examine potential compounds (化合物),checking them against a huge database of parameters, including a patient's genetic factors. Speaking to the BBC, Exscientia chief executive Professor Andrew Hopkins described the trials as a “ key milestone in drug discovery “ and noted that there are “ billions” of decisions needed to find the right molecules (分子)for a drug, making their eventual creation a “ huge decision. “ With Al, however, “the beauty of the algorithms is that they are unknowable, so can be applied to any disease.”
We've already seen multiple examples of Al being used to diagnose illness and analyze patient data, so using it to engineer drug treatment is an obvious progression of its place in medicine. But the Al - created drugs do bring about some relevant questions. Will patients be comfortable taking medicine designed by a machine? How will these drugs differ from those developed by humans alone? Who will make the rules for the use of Al in drug research? Hopkins and his team hope that these and a great many other questions will be explored in the trials, which will begin in March.
8. What is special about the drug designed by Al?
A. It's a better cure for OCD.
B. It has no side effect on humans.
C. Its development takes less time.
D. It doesn't need clinical human trials.
9. Which is a key factor in creating the drug according to Paragraph 2?
A. Trials. B. Algorithms.
C. Compounds. D. Molecules.
10. How does Hopkins feel about the way of drug creation?
A. Optimistic. B. Doubtful.
C. Disappointed. D. Puzzled.
11. What can be the best title for the text?
A. Medical Trials by Al B. An Example in Medical Trials
C. A Creation in Al Development D. Al - designed Drugs to Be on Trial
D
If you want to disturb the car industry, you'd better have a few billion dollars: Mom-and-pop carmakers are unlikely to beat the biggest car companies. But in agriculture, small farmers can get the best of the major players. By connecting directly with customers, and by responding quickly to changes in the markets as well as in the ecosystems(生态系统）, small farmers can keep one step ahead of the big guys. As the co-founder of the National Young Farmers Coalition (NYFC, 美国青年农会）and a family farmer myself. I have a front-row seat to the innovations among small farmers that are transforming the industry.
For example, take the Quick Cut Greens Harvester, a tool developed just a couple of years ago by a young farmer, Jonathan Dysinger, in Tennessee, with a small loan from a local Slow Money group. It enables small-scale farmers to harvest 175 pounds of green vegetables per hour—a huge improvement over harvesting just a few dozen pounds by hand—suddenly making it possible for the little guys to compete with large farms of California. Before the tool came out, small farmers couldn't touch the price per pound offered by California farms. But now, with the combination of a better price point and a generally fresher product, they can stay in business.
The sustainable success of small farmers, though, won't happen without fundamental changes to the industry. One crucial factor is secure access to land. Competition from investors, developers, and established large farmers makes owning one's own land unattainable for many new farmers.
From 2004 to 2013, agricultural land values doubled, and they continue to rise in many regions.
Another challenge for more than a million of the most qualified farm workers and managers is a non-existent path to citizenship — the greatest barrier to building a farm of their own. With farmers over the age of 65 outnumbering(多于）farmers younger than 35 by six to one, and with two-thirds of the nation's farmland in need of a new farmer, we must clear the path for talented people willing to grow the nation's food.
There are solutions that could light a path toward a more sustainable and fair farm economy, but farmers can't clumsily put them together before us. We at the NYFC need broad support as we urge Congress to increase farmland conservation, as we push for immigration reform, and as we seek policies that will ensure the success of a diverse and ambitious next generation of farms from all backgrounds. With a new farm bill to be debated in Congress, consumers must take a stand with young farmers.
12. The author mentions car industry at the beginning of the passage to introduce .
A. the progress made in car industry
B. a special feature of agriculture
C. a trend of development in agriculture
D. the importance of investing in car industry
13. What does the author want to illustrate with the example in paragraph 2?
A. Loans to small local farmers are necessary.
B. Technology is vital for agricultural development.
C. Competition between small and big farms is fierce
D. Small farmers may gain some advantages over big ones.
14. What is the difficulty for those new farmers?
A. To gain more financial aid.
B. To hire good farm managers.
C. To have farms of their own.
D. To win old farmers’ support.
15. What should farmers do for a more sustainable and fair farm economy?
A. Seek support beyond NYFC.
B. Expand farmland conservation.
C. Become members of NYFC.
D. Invest more to improve technology.
第二节 (共5小题; 每小题2.5分, 满分12.5分)
阅读下面短文，从短文后的选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
Some people are so rude. Who sends an e-mail or a text message that just says “Thank you?” Who leaves a voice mail message rather than texts you? Who asks for a fact easily found on the Internet? ______16______
Maybe I’m the rude one for not appreciating life’s little courtesies(礼节). But many social norms(规范) just don’t make sense to people drowning in digital communication.
Take the thank-you note. Daniel Post Senning, a coauthor of Emily Post’s Etiquette，asked, “At what point does showing appreciation outweigh the cost?”
_____17_____ Think of how long it takes to listen to one of those messages. In texts, you don’t have to declare who you are or even say hello. E-mail, too, is slower than a text. The worst are those who leave a voice mail and then send an e-mail message to tell you they left a voice mail.
This isn’t the first time technology has changed our manners, ____18____ Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor, suggested that people say, " Ahoy! "Finally, hello won out, and the victory sped up the greeting's use in face-to-face communications.
In the age of the smart phone, there is no reason to ask once-acceptable questions about:the weather forecast, a business’s phone number, or directions to a house, a restaurant, or an office, which can be easily found on a digital map. _____19_____ And when you answer, they respond with a thank-you e-mail.
How to handle these differing standards? Easy: Consider your audience. Some people,especially older ones, appreciate a thank-you message. ____20____ In traditional societies, the young learn from the old. But in modern societies, the old can also learn from the young. Here's hoping that politeness never goes out of fashion but that time-wasting forms of communication do.
A. Then there is voice mail.
B. Others, like me, want no reply.
C. But people still ask these things.
D. Don’t these people realize that they’re wasting your time?
E Won't new technology bring about changes in our daily life?
F. Face-to-face communication makes comprehension much easier.
G. When the telephone was invented, people didn't know how to greet a caller.
第三部分 语言运用(共2节，满分30分)
第一节(共15小题； 每小题1分，满分15分)
阅读下面短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
At around 11 p. m. last July 26, an emergency message on the Facebook page caught Clemens’ eye: a tiny black puppy was _____21_____ hurrying across a road in the neighborhood where she lives. Afterwards, sobs were heard from inside a nearby drain (排水管), _____22_____ it was likely that a puppy was _____23_____ down there.
Clemens _____24_____ out of bed and rushed to the scene. Once there, she heard desperate howls and whimpers from underground _____25_____ through the drain. She grabbed her son’s toy flashlight and pulled a metal fence off the drain.
“I wasn’t very well _____26_____,” Clemens said. “I was not expecting to go into the drain.” But nobody else was around, and the puppy was trapped in there. “Somebody’s got to do it.”
This was not Clemens’s first _____27_____ into a drain. Over the past nine years, she estimated she had saved at least100 creatures _____28_____ danger.
After lowering herself roughly 7 feet down the drain, Clemens _____29_____ through about 10 feet tunnel before reaching an area where she could crouch (蹲下) and search. Around ______30______ , staff from the local Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) arrived and joined Clemens. They worked until 3 a. m. trying to ______31______ down the dog. “We searched end to end, side to side,” Clemens says.
Although venturing down a drain was ______32______, Clemens said, “the thought of ______33______ a tortured animal is something I could never tolerate.” After several hours of searching, they finally found the tiny black pup.
Clemens’ perseverance didn’t surprise Faust, who runs another animal rescue nonprofit, Houston PetSet. “Once she becomes ______34______ on a rescue situation, she is unstoppable,” said Faust. “She is really a ______35______.”
21. A. spotted B. arrested C. seized D. alerted
22. A. yet B. so C. or D. but
23. A. sacrificed B. struck C. saved D. stuck
24. A. leapt B. stormed C. dropped D. spun
25. A. coughing B. buzzing C. echoing D. chanting
26. A. received B. equipped C. informed D. educated
27. A. entry B. enquiry C. trial D. insight
28. A. bathed in B. concerned with C. exposed to D. targeted at
29. A. slid B. crawled C. cracked D. climbed
30. A. dawn B. midday C. dusk D. midnight
31. A. lay B. settle C. track D. break
32. A. fascinating B. thriving C. amazing D. terrifying
33. A. conquering B. boosting C. abandoning D. distracting
34. A. focused B. counted C. based D. grounded
35. A. mate B. bee C. success D. crystal
第2节 (共10小题; 每小题1.5分, 满分15分)
阅读下面短文，在空白处填入一个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
The British Museum opened a Silk Road exhibition for a media preview on September 24, 2024, ____36____ (showcase) over 300 objects, including items from 29 national and international institutions. Spanning from around 500 to 1000 A. D., the exhibition explores ____37____ the journeys of people, objects and ideas along the Silk Road shaped cultures and histories across continents.
Luk Yu-ping, co-curator of the exhibition, stressed the ____38____ (relevant) of the past to the present. “In the past, China was ____39____ (centre) to these vast networks, influencing economic development and cultural exchange. This is mirrored today in initiatives like the Belt and Road, where China again plays a(n) ____40____ (replaceable) role in the global economy,” she noted. She highlighted the connections between China’s Tang Dynasty and the world. “For instance, we put ____41____ (emphasize) on maritime routes linking China to West Asia, illustrated by artifacts from Tang China.”
Sue, another co-curator, explained that the very links ____42____ connect the cultures do the trick and the Silk Road has a broad geographical scope. “We’re picturing it as ____43____ series of overlapping networks connecting Asia, Africa and Europe. Although Northwest Europe ____44____ (overlook) in Silk Road discussions, our exhibition concludes with the artifacts found in Scotland that can be _____45_____ (basic) traced back to present-day Iran,” she said.
第四部分 写作(共两节，满分40分)
第一节(满分15分)
46. 假定你是李华，你和你的美国笔友 John对中美身势语的差异做了一个简单的对比。请你根据以下表格中的内容完成一个关于中美身势语差异的英文报告，同时提醒人们在和外国朋友交际时，注意正确使用身势语。(字数100左右)
身势语
美国
中国
身体接触
保持距离， 较少接触， 尤其是同性之间
身体接触较多，例如女性之间可以手拉手等
伸舌头
一种粗鲁的表现
一种尴尬的表现
拍小孩的头
给予安慰或鼓励
表示喜爱
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第二节(满分25分)
47. 阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。
In 1945, a 12-year-old boy saw a beautiful brooch (胸针) in a shop window that set his heart racing. But the price—five dollars—was too high for Reuben Earle. Five dollars would buy almost a week’s food for his family.
Reuben couldn’t ask his father for the money. Everything his father made through fishing went to his mother, Dora. Slim and beautiful, she was the center of the home, the glue that held it together. The housework was never-ending, and she struggled to feed and clothe their five children, but she was happy as her family and their well-being were all she cared about.
Nevertheless, he opened the shop’s weathered ( 风 化 的 ) door and went inside. Standing proudly and straight in his flour-sack (面粉袋改做的) shirt and washed-out trousers, he told the shopkeeper what he wanted, adding, “But I don’t have the money right now. Can you please hold it for me for some time?”
“I’ll try,” the shopkeeper smiled. “People around here don’t usually have that kind of money to spend on things. It should be kept for a while.”
Reuben respectfully touched his worn cap and walked into the sunlight. He would raise the money and not tell anybody for he thought his mom would get surprised when she saw that brooch. On hearing the sound of hammering from a side street, Reuben had an idea—he could raise money by selling used nail bags. He ran towards the sound and stopped at a construction site. People built their own homes in Bay Roberts, using nails bought in bags from a local factory. Sometimes the used bags were thrown away at the construction site, and Reuben knew he could sell them back to the factory for five cents a piece.
That day he sold two nail bags and hid the money in a rusty soda tin (汽水罐).
注意：1.续写词数应为 150 左右；
2.请按如下格式作答。
Every day after school, Reuben started his plan.
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Finally, the time came!
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答案版
厦门双十中学2024—2025学年第一学期高二年第二次月考英 语
第一部分 听力(共两节，满分30分)
第一节 (共5小题; 每小题1.5分, 满分7.5分)
听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的 A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项。听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。
1. How does the girl want to go to the museum?
A. By subway. B. By bus. C. By car.
2. What has the weather been like recently?
A. Really dry. B. Really wet. C. Really cold.
3. What does the wedding hall forbid doing?
A. Throwing rice.
B. Throwing the pieces of newspaper.
C. Throwing colored paper.
4. What is the probable occupation of the man?
A. A politician. B. A lawyer. C. A journalist.
5. How many liters of water did the man drink today?
A. One. B. Two. C. Three.
第二节 (共15小题; 每小题1.5分, 满分22.5分)
听下面5段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项。听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟； 听完后，各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。
听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。
6. How does the man sound at first?
A. Nervous. B. Thrilled. C. Disappointed.
7. What color does the woman think old trains were?
A. Black. B. Green. C. Red.
听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。
8. What kind of show does the man want to make?
A. A cooking show. B. A quiz show. C. An interview show.
9. Where does the man want people to watch his show?
A. In their offices. B. In their homes. C. In their cars.
10. What is the woman's advice?
A. Picking a different goal. B. Saving up some money. C. Making his show different from others.
听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。
11. What are the speakers mainly talking about?
A. A colleague. B. A conference. C. A birthday party.
12. What is the woman planning on doing first?
A. Buying a gift. B. Going to the hospital. C. Picking up name cards.
13. How did the woman feel at Andy's birthday last year?
A. Angry. B. Confused. C. Satisfied.
听第9段材料，回答第14 至17题。
14. Why is going to the lake a bad idea?
A. It is too small. B. It will be too crowded. C. It is too hot.
15. What does the woman plan to do first?
A. Prepare lunch. B. Pack the luggage. C. Make coffee.
16. Where will the man probably get his drink?
A. At home. B. At the gas station. C. At the beach store.
17. What does the man want to use the towels for?
A. Lying on. B. Drying him off. C. Giving shade.
听第10段材料，回答第18至20题。
18. What is the goal of the exercise?
A. To learn how to follow instructions.
B. To learn about the importance of business.
C. To learn about the Industrial Revolution.
19. Which class did business managers belong to according to the speaker?
A. The upper class.
B. The middle to lower class.
C. The working class.
20. How many students will be needed to be the bank and security officers in total?
A. Four. B. Three. C. Two.
听力答案 略
第二部分 阅读(共两节，满分50分)
第一节 (共15小题; 每小题2.5分, 满分37.5分)
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。
A
Starting Cycling
We have two services designed to give people the confidence and knowledge to cycle successfully.
Lessons
All our instructors have been trained to National Standards level of “Bikeability”. This means you will be trained to a standard consistent across the whole country.
There are 3 levels of skills to progress through. Children would start with levels 1 & 2, progressing from the playground or park to cycle on less busy local roads. Teenager and adult beginners can also learn levels 1 & 2 in an off-road and quiet environment.
Confident teenagers and adults can broaden their skills by learning level 3, using multi-lane (多道) roads and larger roundabouts (环岛). We provide both a complete package of lessons for the beginner or individual lessons tailored to the client. You can ride a bike but don’t feel confident about right turns on multi-lane roads. Whatever the need
We can address and practice until perfect!
Everyone can be taught to ride a bike!
We train both adults and children.
We cover London Zones 1 & 2
The cost is ￡30 per hour.
Guided Ride
We know that riding on the roads in London can be scary, and if you have to navigate (确定行车路线) as well it can become a real hard task! The Guided Ride service takes all the stress out of it for you by providing the following:
Route planned in advance to suit your skill level. Route map provided to you.
Cycle and equipment checked. We will teach you a simple method to check basic roadworthiness (车辆性能) of your bike that you can perform on a weekly basis.
Route discussed and focus given to any areas requiring special attention.
Cycle along with the instructor close behind. Here the traffic can be controlled by the instructor and rider observed.
Occasionally stopping to discuss events.
We currently cover London Zones 1 & 2. Please contact us if your requirements are outside of these areas.
Cost ￡30
1. Where can Level 1 & 2 lessons for adult beginners be carried out？
A. Off road
B. Near large roundabouts
C. On busy local roads
D. On multi-lane roads
2. What service does the Guided Ride mainly provide?.
A. They help you to be familiar with London roads
B. They check your cycle and equipment every week.
C. They let users experience the busiest road in London.
D. They ensure users ride safely in London Zones 1 & 2
3. Who is the text probably intended for ?.
A. Bike riding lovers.
B. Children and teenagers
C. Travelers in London
D. Parents loving cycling
【答案】1. A 2. D 3. A
B
I start every summer with the best of intentions:to attack one big book from the past, a classic that I was supposed to have read when young and ambitious. Often the pairings of books and settings have been purely accidental: "Moby Dick" on a three-day cross-country train trip: “The Magic Mountain” in a New England beachside cottage with no locks on the doors, no telephones or televisions in the rooms, and little to do beyond row on the salt pond. Attempting "The Man Without Qualities" on a return to Hawaii, my native state, however, was less fruitful: I made it through one and a quarter volumes (册), then decided that I'd got the point and went swimming instead.
But this summer I find myself at a loss. I’m not quite interested in Balzac, say, or “Tristram Shandy.” There’s always War and Peace, which I've covered some distance several times, only to get bogged down in the "War" part, set it aside for a while, and realize that I have to start over from the beginning again, having forgotten everyone’s name and social rank. How appealing to simply fall back on a favorite-once more into “The Waves” or “Justine,” which feels almost like cheating, too exciting and too much fun to properly belong in serious literature.
And then there’s Stendhal’s “The Red and the Black,” which happens to be the name of my favorite cocktail (鸡尾酒) of the summer, created by Michael Cecconi at Savoy and BackForty. It is easy to drink, and knocking back three or four seems like such a delightful idea. Cecconi's theory: "I take whatever’s fresh at the green market and turn it into liquid." The result is a pure shot of afternoon in the park, making one feel cheerful and peaceful all at once, lying on uncut grass with eyes shut, sun beating through the lids...
4. What can we infer about the author from the first paragraph?
A. He has a cottage in New England. B. He shows talents for literature.
C. He enjoys reading when traveling. D. He admires a lot of great writers.
5. What do the underlined words "get bogged down" in paragraph 2 mean?
A. Get confused. B. Be carried away.
C. Be interrupted. D. Make no progress.
6. Why does the author say reading his favorite books feels like cheating?
A. He finishes them quickly. B. He should read something serious.
C. He barely understands them. D. He has read them many times before.
7. What can be a suitable title for the text?
A. The Books of Summer B. My Summer Holidays
C. To Read or Not to Read D. It’s Never Too Late to Read
【答案】4. C 5. D 6. B 7. A
C
A drug designed entirely by artificial intelligence is about to enter clinical human trials for the first time. The drug, which is intended to treat obsessive-compulsive disorder ( OCD)(强迫症),was discovered using Al systems from Oxford-based biotech company Exscientia. While it would usually take around four and a half years to get a drug to this stage of development, Exscientia says that by using the Al tools it's taken less than 12 months.
The drug, known as DSP?1181, was created by using algorithms (算法)to examine potential compounds (化合物),checking them against a huge database of parameters, including a patient's genetic factors. Speaking to the BBC, Exscientia chief executive Professor Andrew Hopkins described the trials as a “ key milestone in drug discovery “ and noted that there are “ billions” of decisions needed to find the right molecules (分子)for a drug, making their eventual creation a “ huge decision. “ With Al, however, “the beauty of the algorithms is that they are unknowable, so can be applied to any disease.”
We've already seen multiple examples of Al being used to diagnose illness and analyze patient data, so using it to engineer drug treatment is an obvious progression of its place in medicine. But the Al - created drugs do bring about some relevant questions. Will patients be comfortable taking medicine designed by a machine? How will these drugs differ from those developed by humans alone? Who will make the rules for the use of Al in drug research? Hopkins and his team hope that these and a great many other questions will be explored in the trials, which will begin in March.
8. What is special about the drug designed by Al?
A. It's a better cure for OCD.
B. It has no side effect on humans.
C. Its development takes less time.
D. It doesn't need clinical human trials.
9. Which is a key factor in creating the drug according to Paragraph 2?
A. Trials. B. Algorithms.
C. Compounds. D. Molecules.
10. How does Hopkins feel about the way of drug creation?
A. Optimistic. B. Doubtful.
C. Disappointed. D. Puzzled.
11. What can be the best title for the text?
A. Medical Trials by Al B. An Example in Medical Trials
C. A Creation in Al Development D. Al - designed Drugs to Be on Trial
【答案】8. C 9. B 10. A 11. D
D
If you want to disturb the car industry, you'd better have a few billion dollars: Mom-and-pop carmakers are unlikely to beat the biggest car companies. But in agriculture, small farmers can get the best of the major players. By connecting directly with customers, and by responding quickly to changes in the markets as well as in the ecosystems(生态系统）, small farmers can keep one step ahead of the big guys. As the co-founder of the National Young Farmers Coalition (NYFC, 美国青年农会）and a family farmer myself. I have a front-row seat to the innovations among small farmers that are transforming the industry.
For example, take the Quick Cut Greens Harvester, a tool developed just a couple of years ago by a young farmer, Jonathan Dysinger, in Tennessee, with a small loan from a local Slow Money group. It enables small-scale farmers to harvest 175 pounds of green vegetables per hour—a huge improvement over harvesting just a few dozen pounds by hand—suddenly making it possible for the little guys to compete with large farms of California. Before the tool came out, small farmers couldn't touch the price per pound offered by California farms. But now, with the combination of a better price point and a generally fresher product, they can stay in business.
The sustainable success of small farmers, though, won't happen without fundamental changes to the industry. One crucial factor is secure access to land. Competition from investors, developers, and established large farmers makes owning one's own land unattainable for many new farmers.
From 2004 to 2013, agricultural land values doubled, and they continue to rise in many regions.
Another challenge for more than a million of the most qualified farm workers and managers is a non-existent path to citizenship — the greatest barrier to building a farm of their own. With farmers over the age of 65 outnumbering(多于）farmers younger than 35 by six to one, and with two-thirds of the nation's farmland in need of a new farmer, we must clear the path for talented people willing to grow the nation's food.
There are solutions that could light a path toward a more sustainable and fair farm economy, but farmers can't clumsily put them together before us. We at the NYFC need broad support as we urge Congress to increase farmland conservation, as we push for immigration reform, and as we seek policies that will ensure the success of a diverse and ambitious next generation of farms from all backgrounds. With a new farm bill to be debated in Congress, consumers must take a stand with young farmers.
12. The author mentions car industry at the beginning of the passage to introduce .
A. the progress made in car industry
B. a special feature of agriculture
C. a trend of development in agriculture
D. the importance of investing in car industry
13. What does the author want to illustrate with the example in paragraph 2?
A. Loans to small local farmers are necessary.
B. Technology is vital for agricultural development.
C. Competition between small and big farms is fierce
D. Small farmers may gain some advantages over big ones.
14. What is the difficulty for those new farmers?
A. To gain more financial aid.
B. To hire good farm managers.
C. To have farms of their own.
D. To win old farmers’ support.
15. What should farmers do for a more sustainable and fair farm economy?
A. Seek support beyond NYFC.
B. Expand farmland conservation.
C. Become members of NYFC.
D. Invest more to improve technology.
【答案】12. B 13. D 14. C 15. A
第二节 (共5小题; 每小题2.5分, 满分12.5分)
阅读下面短文，从短文后的选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
Some people are so rude. Who sends an e-mail or a text message that just says “Thank you?” Who leaves a voice mail message rather than texts you? Who asks for a fact easily found on the Internet? ______16______
Maybe I’m the rude one for not appreciating life’s little courtesies(礼节). But many social norms(规范) just don’t make sense to people drowning in digital communication.
Take the thank-you note. Daniel Post Senning, a coauthor of Emily Post’s Etiquette，asked, “At what point does showing appreciation outweigh the cost?”
_____17_____ Think of how long it takes to listen to one of those messages. In texts, you don’t have to declare who you are or even say hello. E-mail, too, is slower than a text. The worst are those who leave a voice mail and then send an e-mail message to tell you they left a voice mail.
This isn’t the first time technology has changed our manners, ____18____ Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor, suggested that people say, " Ahoy! "Finally, hello won out, and the victory sped up the greeting's use in face-to-face communications.
In the age of the smart phone, there is no reason to ask once-acceptable questions about:the weather forecast, a business’s phone number, or directions to a house, a restaurant, or an office, which can be easily found on a digital map. _____19_____ And when you answer, they respond with a thank-you e-mail.
How to handle these differing standards? Easy: Consider your audience. Some people,especially older ones, appreciate a thank-you message. ____20____ In traditional societies, the young learn from the old. But in modern societies, the old can also learn from the young. Here's hoping that politeness never goes out of fashion but that time-wasting forms of communication do.
A. Then there is voice mail.
B. Others, like me, want no reply.
C. But people still ask these things.
D. Don’t these people realize that they’re wasting your time?
E Won't new technology bring about changes in our daily life?
F. Face-to-face communication makes comprehension much easier.
G. When the telephone was invented, people didn't know how to greet a caller.
【答案】16. D 17. A 18. G 19. C 20. B
第三部分 语言运用(共2节，满分30分)
第一节(共15小题； 每小题1分，满分15分)
阅读下面短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
At around 11 p. m. last July 26, an emergency message on the Facebook page caught Clemens’ eye: a tiny black puppy was _____21_____ hurrying across a road in the neighborhood where she lives. Afterwards, sobs were heard from inside a nearby drain (排水管), _____22_____ it was likely that a puppy was _____23_____ down there.
Clemens _____24_____ out of bed and rushed to the scene. Once there, she heard desperate howls and whimpers from underground _____25_____ through the drain. She grabbed her son’s toy flashlight and pulled a metal fence off the drain.
“I wasn’t very well _____26_____,” Clemens said. “I was not expecting to go into the drain.” But nobody else was around, and the puppy was trapped in there. “Somebody’s got to do it.”
This was not Clemens’s first _____27_____ into a drain. Over the past nine years, she estimated she had saved at least100 creatures _____28_____ danger.
After lowering herself roughly 7 feet down the drain, Clemens _____29_____ through about 10 feet tunnel before reaching an area where she could crouch (蹲下) and search. Around ______30______ , staff from the local Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) arrived and joined Clemens. They worked until 3 a. m. trying to ______31______ down the dog. “We searched end to end, side to side,” Clemens says.
Although venturing down a drain was ______32______, Clemens said, “the thought of ______33______ a tortured animal is something I could never tolerate.” After several hours of searching, they finally found the tiny black pup.
Clemens’ perseverance didn’t surprise Faust, who runs another animal rescue nonprofit, Houston PetSet. “Once she becomes ______34______ on a rescue situation, she is unstoppable,” said Faust. “She is really a ______35______.”
21. A. spotted B. arrested C. seized D. alerted
22. A. yet B. so C. or D. but
23. A. sacrificed B. struck C. saved D. stuck
24. A. leapt B. stormed C. dropped D. spun
25. A. coughing B. buzzing C. echoing D. chanting
26. A. received B. equipped C. informed D. educated
27. A. entry B. enquiry C. trial D. insight
28. A. bathed in B. concerned with C. exposed to D. targeted at
29. A. slid B. crawled C. cracked D. climbed
30. A. dawn B. midday C. dusk D. midnight
31. A. lay B. settle C. track D. break
32. A. fascinating B. thriving C. amazing D. terrifying
33. A. conquering B. boosting C. abandoning D. distracting
34. A. focused B. counted C. based D. grounded
35. A. mate B. bee C. success D. crystal
【答案】21. A 22. B 23. D 24. A 25. C 26. B 27. A 28. C 29. B 30. D 31. C 32. D 33. C 34. A 35. B
第2节 (共10小题; 每小题1.5分, 满分15分)
阅读下面短文，在空白处填入一个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
The British Museum opened a Silk Road exhibition for a media preview on September 24, 2024, ____36____ (showcase) over 300 objects, including items from 29 national and international institutions. Spanning from around 500 to 1000 A. D., the exhibition explores ____37____ the journeys of people, objects and ideas along the Silk Road shaped cultures and histories across continents.
Luk Yu-ping, co-curator of the exhibition, stressed the ____38____ (relevant) of the past to the present. “In the past, China was ____39____ (centre) to these vast networks, influencing economic development and cultural exchange. This is mirrored today in initiatives like the Belt and Road, where China again plays a(n) ____40____ (replaceable) role in the global economy,” she noted. She highlighted the connections between China’s Tang Dynasty and the world. “For instance, we put ____41____ (emphasize) on maritime routes linking China to West Asia, illustrated by artifacts from Tang China.”
Sue, another co-curator, explained that the very links ____42____ connect the cultures do the trick and the Silk Road has a broad geographical scope. “We’re picturing it as ____43____ series of overlapping networks connecting Asia, Africa and Europe. Although Northwest Europe ____44____ (overlook) in Silk Road discussions, our exhibition concludes with the artifacts found in Scotland that can be _____45_____ (basic) traced back to present-day Iran,” she said.
【答案】36. showcasing
37. how 38. relevance
39. central
40. irreplaceable
41. emphasis
42. that 43. a
44. is overlooked
45. basically
第四部分 写作(共两节，满分40分)
第一节(满分15分)
46. 假定你是李华，你和你的美国笔友 John对中美身势语的差异做了一个简单的对比。请你根据以下表格中的内容完成一个关于中美身势语差异的英文报告，同时提醒人们在和外国朋友交际时，注意正确使用身势语。(字数100左右)
身势语
美国
中国
身体接触
保持距离， 较少接触， 尤其是同性之间
身体接触较多，例如女性之间可以手拉手等
伸舌头
一种粗鲁的表现
一种尴尬的表现
拍小孩的头
给予安慰或鼓励
表示喜爱
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
【答案】 As we have more communication with foreigners freely, we should pay more attention to the differences in our body language.
As we can see from the table, many differences exist between Chinese and American body language. For example, there are more touching gestures in China than in America. Women or girls in China often walk hand in hand, which is very rare in America. Also, Americans think it rude to put out one’s tongue, while the Chinese often use this gesture when they are embarrassed. Furthermore, Chinese people will pat children on the head if they like them, while Americans do so to offer encouragement or comfort.
第二节(满分25分)
47. 阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。
In 1945, a 12-year-old boy saw a beautiful brooch (胸针) in a shop window that set his heart racing. But the price—five dollars—was too high for Reuben Earle. Five dollars would buy almost a week’s food for his family.
Reuben couldn’t ask his father for the money. Everything his father made through fishing went to his mother, Dora. Slim and beautiful, she was the center of the home, the glue that held it together. The housework was never-ending, and she struggled to feed and clothe their five children, but she was happy as her family and their well-being were all she cared about.
Nevertheless, he opened the shop’s weathered ( 风 化 的 ) door and went inside. Standing proudly and straight in his flour-sack (面粉袋改做的) shirt and washed-out trousers, he told the shopkeeper what he wanted, adding, “But I don’t have the money right now. Can you please hold it for me for some time?”
“I’ll try,” the shopkeeper smiled. “People around here don’t usually have that kind of money to spend on things. It should be kept for a while.”
Reuben respectfully touched his worn cap and walked into the sunlight. He would raise the money and not tell anybody for he thought his mom would get surprised when she saw that brooch. On hearing the sound of hammering from a side street, Reuben had an idea—he could raise money by selling used nail bags. He ran towards the sound and stopped at a construction site. People built their own homes in Bay Roberts, using nails bought in bags from a local factory. Sometimes the used bags were thrown away at the construction site, and Reuben knew he could sell them back to the factory for five cents a piece.
That day he sold two nail bags and hid the money in a rusty soda tin (汽水罐).
注意：1.续写词数应为 150 左右；
2.请按如下格式作答。
Every day after school, Reuben started his plan.
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Finally, the time came!
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【答案】One possible version
Every day after school, Reuben started his plan. Cold and hungry, Reuben wandered on the streets, searching for the nail bags carefully. To save money, he even decided to deliver papers in the next morning. Exhausted and tired as he felt, he still stuck to the plan. It was the brooch in the shop window that reminded him that what he did was worthwhile. After a long time of hard work, he made it eventually.
Finally, the time came! He took out the soda tin, poured the coins out and began to count. Five dollars! His hard work paid off! Holding the soda tin firmly, Reuben rushed to the shop to buy the brooch. The moment he got the beautiful brooch, he burst through the front door and placed it in Dora’s hand. Never had Dora received such a gift. Speechless and happy, she held her son tightly in her arms, with tears welling up in her eyes.
第一部分 听力(共两节，满分30分)
第一节 (共5小题; 每小题1.5分, 满分7.5分)
听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的 A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项。听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。
1. How does the girl want to go to the museum?
A. By subway. B. By bus. C. By car.
2. What has the weather been like recently?
A. Really dry. B. Really wet. C. Really cold.
3. What does the wedding hall forbid doing?
A. Throwing rice.
B. Throwing the pieces of newspaper.
C. Throwing colored paper.
4. What is the probable occupation of the man?
A. A politician. B. A lawyer. C. A journalist.
5. How many liters of water did the man drink today?
A. One. B. Two. C. Three.
第二节 (共15小题; 每小题1.5分, 满分22.5分)
听下面5段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项。听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟； 听完后，各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。
听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。
6. How does the man sound at first?
A. Nervous. B. Thrilled. C. Disappointed.
7. What color does the woman think old trains were?
A. Black. B. Green. C. Red.
听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。
8. What kind of show does the man want to make?
A. A cooking show. B. A quiz show. C. An interview show.
9. Where does the man want people to watch his show?
A. In their offices. B. In their homes. C. In their cars.
10. What is the woman's advice?
A. Picking a different goal. B. Saving up some money. C. Making his show different from others.
听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。
11. What are the speakers mainly talking about?
A. A colleague. B. A conference. C. A birthday party.
12. What is the woman planning on doing first?
A. Buying a gift. B. Going to the hospital. C. Picking up name cards.
13. How did the woman feel at Andy's birthday last year?
A. Angry. B. Confused. C. Satisfied.
听第9段材料，回答第14 至17题。
14. Why is going to the lake a bad idea?
A. It is too small. B. It will be too crowded. C. It is too hot.
15. What does the woman plan to do first?
A. Prepare lunch. B. Pack the luggage. C. Make coffee.
16. Where will the man probably get his drink?
A. At home. B. At the gas station. C. At the beach store.
17. What does the man want to use the towels for?
A. Lying on. B. Drying him off. C. Giving shade.
听第10段材料，回答第18至20题。
18. What is the goal of the exercise?
A. To learn how to follow instructions.
B. To learn about the importance of business.
C. To learn about the Industrial Revolution.
19. Which class did business managers belong to according to the speaker?
A. The upper class.
B. The middle to lower class.
C. The working class.
20. How many students will be needed to be the bank and security officers in total?
A. Four. B. Three. C. Two.
第二部分 阅读(共两节，满分50分)
第一节 (共15小题; 每小题2.5分, 满分37.5分)
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。
A
Starting Cycling
We have two services designed to give people the confidence and knowledge to cycle successfully.
Lessons
All our instructors have been trained to National Standards level of “Bikeability”. This means you will be trained to a standard consistent across the whole country.
There are 3 levels of skills to progress through. Children would start with levels 1 & 2, progressing from the playground or park to cycle on less busy local roads. Teenager and adult beginners can also learn levels 1 & 2 in an off-road and quiet environment.
Confident teenagers and adults can broaden their skills by learning level 3, using multi-lane (多道) roads and larger roundabouts (环岛). We provide both a complete package of lessons for the beginner or individual lessons tailored to the client. You can ride a bike but don’t feel confident about right turns on multi-lane roads. Whatever the need
We can address and practice until perfect!
Everyone can be taught to ride a bike!
We train both adults and children.
We cover London Zones 1 & 2
The cost is ￡30 per hour.
Guided Ride
We know that riding on the roads in London can be scary, and if you have to navigate (确定行车路线) as well it can become a real hard task! The Guided Ride service takes all the stress out of it for you by providing the following:
Route planned in advance to suit your skill level. Route map provided to you.
Cycle and equipment checked. We will teach you a simple method to check basic roadworthiness (车辆性能) of your bike that you can perform on a weekly basis.
Route discussed and focus given to any areas requiring special attention.
Cycle along with the instructor close behind. Here the traffic can be controlled by the instructor and rider observed.
Occasionally stopping to discuss events.
We currently cover London Zones 1 & 2. Please contact us if your requirements are outside of these areas.
Cost ￡30
1. Where can Level 1 & 2 lessons for adult beginners be carried out？
A. Off road
B. Near large roundabouts
C. On busy local roads
D. On multi-lane roads
2. What service does the Guided Ride mainly provide?.
A. They help you to be familiar with London roads
B. They check your cycle and equipment every week.
C. They let users experience the busiest road in London.
D. They ensure users ride safely in London Zones 1 & 2
3. Who is the text probably intended for ?.
A. Bike riding lovers.
B. Children and teenagers
C. Travelers in London
D. Parents loving cycling
B
I start every summer with the best of intentions:to attack one big book from the past, a classic that I was supposed to have read when young and ambitious. Often the pairings of books and settings have been purely accidental: "Moby Dick" on a three-day cross-country train trip: “The Magic Mountain” in a New England beachside cottage with no locks on the doors, no telephones or televisions in the rooms, and little to do beyond row on the salt pond. Attempting "The Man Without Qualities" on a return to Hawaii, my native state, however, was less fruitful: I made it through one and a quarter volumes (册), then decided that I'd got the point and went swimming instead.
But this summer I find myself at a loss. I’m not quite interested in Balzac, say, or “Tristram Shandy.” There’s always War and Peace, which I've covered some distance several times, only to get bogged down in the "War" part, set it aside for a while, and realize that I have to start over from the beginning again, having forgotten everyone’s name and social rank. How appealing to simply fall back on a favorite-once more into “The Waves” or “Justine,” which feels almost like cheating, too exciting and too much fun to properly belong in serious literature.
And then there’s Stendhal’s “The Red and the Black,” which happens to be the name of my favorite cocktail (鸡尾酒) of the summer, created by Michael Cecconi at Savoy and BackForty. It is easy to drink, and knocking back three or four seems like such a delightful idea. Cecconi's theory: "I take whatever’s fresh at the green market and turn it into liquid." The result is a pure shot of afternoon in the park, making one feel cheerful and peaceful all at once, lying on uncut grass with eyes shut, sun beating through the lids...
4. What can we infer about the author from the first paragraph?
A. He has a cottage in New England. B. He shows talents for literature.
C. He enjoys reading when traveling. D. He admires a lot of great writers.
5. What do the underlined words "get bogged down" in paragraph 2 mean?
A. Get confused. B. Be carried away.
C. Be interrupted. D. Make no progress.
6. Why does the author say reading his favorite books feels like cheating?
A. He finishes them quickly. B. He should read something serious.
C. He barely understands them. D. He has read them many times before.
7. What can be a suitable title for the text?
A. The Books of Summer B. My Summer Holidays
C. To Read or Not to Read D. It’s Never Too Late to Read
C
A drug designed entirely by artificial intelligence is about to enter clinical human trials for the first time. The drug, which is intended to treat obsessive-compulsive disorder ( OCD)(强迫症),was discovered using Al systems from Oxford-based biotech company Exscientia. While it would usually take around four and a half years to get a drug to this stage of development, Exscientia says that by using the Al tools it's taken less than 12 months.
The drug, known as DSP?1181, was created by using algorithms (算法)to examine potential compounds (化合物),checking them against a huge database of parameters, including a patient's genetic factors. Speaking to the BBC, Exscientia chief executive Professor Andrew Hopkins described the trials as a “ key milestone in drug discovery “ and noted that there are “ billions” of decisions needed to find the right molecules (分子)for a drug, making their eventual creation a “ huge decision. “ With Al, however, “the beauty of the algorithms is that they are unknowable, so can be applied to any disease.”
We've already seen multiple examples of Al being used to diagnose illness and analyze patient data, so using it to engineer drug treatment is an obvious progression of its place in medicine. But the Al - created drugs do bring about some relevant questions. Will patients be comfortable taking medicine designed by a machine? How will these drugs differ from those developed by humans alone? Who will make the rules for the use of Al in drug research? Hopkins and his team hope that these and a great many other questions will be explored in the trials, which will begin in March.
8. What is special about the drug designed by Al?
A. It's a better cure for OCD.
B. It has no side effect on humans.
C. Its development takes less time.
D. It doesn't need clinical human trials.
9. Which is a key factor in creating the drug according to Paragraph 2?
A. Trials. B. Algorithms.
C. Compounds. D. Molecules.
10. How does Hopkins feel about the way of drug creation?
A. Optimistic. B. Doubtful.
C. Disappointed. D. Puzzled.
11. What can be the best title for the text?
A. Medical Trials by Al B. An Example in Medical Trials
C. A Creation in Al Development D. Al - designed Drugs to Be on Trial
D
If you want to disturb the car industry, you'd better have a few billion dollars: Mom-and-pop carmakers are unlikely to beat the biggest car companies. But in agriculture, small farmers can get the best of the major players. By connecting directly with customers, and by responding quickly to changes in the markets as well as in the ecosystems(生态系统）, small farmers can keep one step ahead of the big guys. As the co-founder of the National Young Farmers Coalition (NYFC, 美国青年农会）and a family farmer myself. I have a front-row seat to the innovations among small farmers that are transforming the industry.
For example, take the Quick Cut Greens Harvester, a tool developed just a couple of years ago by a young farmer, Jonathan Dysinger, in Tennessee, with a small loan from a local Slow Money group. It enables small-scale farmers to harvest 175 pounds of green vegetables per hour—a huge improvement over harvesting just a few dozen pounds by hand—suddenly making it possible for the little guys to compete with large farms of California. Before the tool came out, small farmers couldn't touch the price per pound offered by California farms. But now, with the combination of a better price point and a generally fresher product, they can stay in business.
The sustainable success of small farmers, though, won't happen without fundamental changes to the industry. One crucial factor is secure access to land. Competition from investors, developers, and established large farmers makes owning one's own land unattainable for many new farmers.
From 2004 to 2013, agricultural land values doubled, and they continue to rise in many regions.
Another challenge for more than a million of the most qualified farm workers and managers is a non-existent path to citizenship — the greatest barrier to building a farm of their own. With farmers over the age of 65 outnumbering(多于）farmers younger than 35 by six to one, and with two-thirds of the nation's farmland in need of a new farmer, we must clear the path for talented people willing to grow the nation's food.
There are solutions that could light a path toward a more sustainable and fair farm economy, but farmers can't clumsily put them together before us. We at the NYFC need broad support as we urge Congress to increase farmland conservation, as we push for immigration reform, and as we seek policies that will ensure the success of a diverse and ambitious next generation of farms from all backgrounds. With a new farm bill to be debated in Congress, consumers must take a stand with young farmers.
12. The author mentions car industry at the beginning of the passage to introduce .
A. the progress made in car industry
B. a special feature of agriculture
C. a trend of development in agriculture
D. the importance of investing in car industry
13. What does the author want to illustrate with the example in paragraph 2?
A. Loans to small local farmers are necessary.
B. Technology is vital for agricultural development.
C. Competition between small and big farms is fierce
D. Small farmers may gain some advantages over big ones.
14. What is the difficulty for those new farmers?
A. To gain more financial aid.
B. To hire good farm managers.
C. To have farms of their own.
D. To win old farmers’ support.
15. What should farmers do for a more sustainable and fair farm economy?
A. Seek support beyond NYFC.
B. Expand farmland conservation.
C. Become members of NYFC.
D. Invest more to improve technology.
第二节 (共5小题; 每小题2.5分, 满分12.5分)
阅读下面短文，从短文后的选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
Some people are so rude. Who sends an e-mail or a text message that just says “Thank you?” Who leaves a voice mail message rather than texts you? Who asks for a fact easily found on the Internet? ______16______
Maybe I’m the rude one for not appreciating life’s little courtesies(礼节). But many social norms(规范) just don’t make sense to people drowning in digital communication.
Take the thank-you note. Daniel Post Senning, a coauthor of Emily Post’s Etiquette，asked, “At what point does showing appreciation outweigh the cost?”
_____17_____ Think of how long it takes to listen to one of those messages. In texts, you don’t have to declare who you are or even say hello. E-mail, too, is slower than a text. The worst are those who leave a voice mail and then send an e-mail message to tell you they left a voice mail.
This isn’t the first time technology has changed our manners, ____18____ Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor, suggested that people say, " Ahoy! "Finally, hello won out, and the victory sped up the greeting's use in face-to-face communications.
In the age of the smart phone, there is no reason to ask once-acceptable questions about:the weather forecast, a business’s phone number, or directions to a house, a restaurant, or an office, which can be easily found on a digital map. _____19_____ And when you answer, they respond with a thank-you e-mail.
How to handle these differing standards? Easy: Consider your audience. Some people,especially older ones, appreciate a thank-you message. ____20____ In traditional societies, the young learn from the old. But in modern societies, the old can also learn from the young. Here's hoping that politeness never goes out of fashion but that time-wasting forms of communication do.
A. Then there is voice mail.
B. Others, like me, want no reply.
C. But people still ask these things.
D. Don’t these people realize that they’re wasting your time?
E Won't new technology bring about changes in our daily life?
F. Face-to-face communication makes comprehension much easier.
G. When the telephone was invented, people didn't know how to greet a caller.
第三部分 语言运用(共2节，满分30分)
第一节(共15小题； 每小题1分，满分15分)
阅读下面短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
At around 11 p. m. last July 26, an emergency message on the Facebook page caught Clemens’ eye: a tiny black puppy was _____21_____ hurrying across a road in the neighborhood where she lives. Afterwards, sobs were heard from inside a nearby drain (排水管), _____22_____ it was likely that a puppy was _____23_____ down there.
Clemens _____24_____ out of bed and rushed to the scene. Once there, she heard desperate howls and whimpers from underground _____25_____ through the drain. She grabbed her son’s toy flashlight and pulled a metal fence off the drain.
“I wasn’t very well _____26_____,” Clemens said. “I was not expecting to go into the drain.” But nobody else was around, and the puppy was trapped in there. “Somebody’s got to do it.”
This was not Clemens’s first _____27_____ into a drain. Over the past nine years, she estimated she had saved at least100 creatures _____28_____ danger.
After lowering herself roughly 7 feet down the drain, Clemens _____29_____ through about 10 feet tunnel before reaching an area where she could crouch (蹲下) and search. Around ______30______ , staff from the local Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) arrived and joined Clemens. They worked until 3 a. m. trying to ______31______ down the dog. “We searched end to end, side to side,” Clemens says.
Although venturing down a drain was ______32______, Clemens said, “the thought of ______33______ a tortured animal is something I could never tolerate.” After several hours of searching, they finally found the tiny black pup.
Clemens’ perseverance didn’t surprise Faust, who runs another animal rescue nonprofit, Houston PetSet. “Once she becomes ______34______ on a rescue situation, she is unstoppable,” said Faust. “She is really a ______35______.”
21. A. spotted B. arrested C. seized D. alerted
22. A. yet B. so C. or D. but
23. A. sacrificed B. struck C. saved D. stuck
24. A. leapt B. stormed C. dropped D. spun
25. A. coughing B. buzzing C. echoing D. chanting
26. A. received B. equipped C. informed D. educated
27. A. entry B. enquiry C. trial D. insight
28. A. bathed in B. concerned with C. exposed to D. targeted at
29. A. slid B. crawled C. cracked D. climbed
30. A. dawn B. midday C. dusk D. midnight
31. A. lay B. settle C. track D. break
32. A. fascinating B. thriving C. amazing D. terrifying
33. A. conquering B. boosting C. abandoning D. distracting
34. A. focused B. counted C. based D. grounded
35. A. mate B. bee C. success D. crystal
第2节 (共10小题; 每小题1.5分, 满分15分)
阅读下面短文，在空白处填入一个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
The British Museum opened a Silk Road exhibition for a media preview on September 24, 2024, ____36____ (showcase) over 300 objects, including items from 29 national and international institutions. Spanning from around 500 to 1000 A. D., the exhibition explores ____37____ the journeys of people, objects and ideas along the Silk Road shaped cultures and histories across continents.
Luk Yu-ping, co-curator of the exhibition, stressed the ____38____ (relevant) of the past to the present. “In the past, China was ____39____ (centre) to these vast networks, influencing economic development and cultural exchange. This is mirrored today in initiatives like the Belt and Road, where China again plays a(n) ____40____ (replaceable) role in the global economy,” she noted. She highlighted the connections between China’s Tang Dynasty and the world. “For instance, we put ____41____ (emphasize) on maritime routes linking China to West Asia, illustrated by artifacts from Tang China.”
Sue, another co-curator, explained that the very links ____42____ connect the cultures do the trick and the Silk Road has a broad geographical scope. “We’re picturing it as ____43____ series of overlapping networks connecting Asia, Africa and Europe. Although Northwest Europe ____44____ (overlook) in Silk Road discussions, our exhibition concludes with the artifacts found in Scotland that can be _____45_____ (basic) traced back to present-day Iran,” she said.
第四部分 写作(共两节，满分40分)
第一节(满分15分)
46. 假定你是李华，你和你的美国笔友 John对中美身势语的差异做了一个简单的对比。请你根据以下表格中的内容完成一个关于中美身势语差异的英文报告，同时提醒人们在和外国朋友交际时，注意正确使用身势语。(字数100左右)
身势语
美国
中国
身体接触
保持距离， 较少接触， 尤其是同性之间
身体接触较多，例如女性之间可以手拉手等
伸舌头
一种粗鲁的表现
一种尴尬的表现
拍小孩的头
给予安慰或鼓励
表示喜爱
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第二节(满分25分)
47. 阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。
In 1945, a 12-year-old boy saw a beautiful brooch (胸针) in a shop window that set his heart racing. But the price—five dollars—was too high for Reuben Earle. Five dollars would buy almost a week’s food for his family.
Reuben couldn’t ask his father for the money. Everything his father made through fishing went to his mother, Dora. Slim and beautiful, she was the center of the home, the glue that held it together. The housework was never-ending, and she struggled to feed and clothe their five children, but she was happy as her family and their well-being were all she cared about.
Nevertheless, he opened the shop’s weathered ( 风 化 的 ) door and went inside. Standing proudly and straight in his flour-sack (面粉袋改做的) shirt and washed-out trousers, he told the shopkeeper what he wanted, adding, “But I don’t have the money right now. Can you please hold it for me for some time?”
“I’ll try,” the shopkeeper smiled. “People around here don’t usually have that kind of money to spend on things. It should be kept for a while.”
Reuben respectfully touched his worn cap and walked into the sunlight. He would raise the money and not tell anybody for he thought his mom would get surprised when she saw that brooch. On hearing the sound of hammering from a side street, Reuben had an idea—he could raise money by selling used nail bags. He ran towards the sound and stopped at a construction site. People built their own homes in Bay Roberts, using nails bought in bags from a local factory. Sometimes the used bags were thrown away at the construction site, and Reuben knew he could sell them back to the factory for five cents a piece.
That day he sold two nail bags and hid the money in a rusty soda tin (汽水罐).
注意：1.续写词数应为 150 左右；
2.请按如下格式作答。
Every day after school, Reuben started his plan.
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Finally, the time came!
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厦门双十中学2024—2025学年第一学期高二年第二次月考英 语
第一部分 听力(共两节，满分30分)
第一节 (共5小题; 每小题1.5分, 满分7.5分)
听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的 A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项。听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。
1. How does the girl want to go to the museum?
A. By subway. B. By bus. C. By car.
2. What has the weather been like recently?
A. Really dry. B. Really wet. C. Really cold.
3. What does the wedding hall forbid doing?
A. Throwing rice.
B. Throwing the pieces of newspaper.
C. Throwing colored paper.
4. What is the probable occupation of the man?
A. A politician. B. A lawyer. C. A journalist.
5. How many liters of water did the man drink today?
A. One. B. Two. C. Three.
第二节 (共15小题; 每小题1.5分, 满分22.5分)
听下面5段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项。听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟； 听完后，各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。
听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。
6. How does the man sound at first?
A. Nervous. B. Thrilled. C. Disappointed.
7. What color does the woman think old trains were?
A. Black. B. Green. C. Red.
听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。
8. What kind of show does the man want to make?
A. A cooking show. B. A quiz show. C. An interview show.
9. Where does the man want people to watch his show?
A. In their offices. B. In their homes. C. In their cars.
10. What is the woman's advice?
A. Picking a different goal. B. Saving up some money. C. Making his show different from others.
听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。
11. What are the speakers mainly talking about?
A. A colleague. B. A conference. C. A birthday party.
12. What is the woman planning on doing first?
A. Buying a gift. B. Going to the hospital. C. Picking up name cards.
13. How did the woman feel at Andy's birthday last year?
A. Angry. B. Confused. C. Satisfied.
听第9段材料，回答第14 至17题。
14. Why is going to the lake a bad idea?
A. It is too small. B. It will be too crowded. C. It is too hot.
15. What does the woman plan to do first?
A. Prepare lunch. B. Pack the luggage. C. Make coffee.
16. Where will the man probably get his drink?
A. At home. B. At the gas station. C. At the beach store.
17. What does the man want to use the towels for?
A. Lying on. B. Drying him off. C. Giving shade.
听第10段材料，回答第18至20题。
18. What is the goal of the exercise?
A. To learn how to follow instructions.
B. To learn about the importance of business.
C. To learn about the Industrial Revolution.
19. Which class did business managers belong to according to the speaker?
A. The upper class.
B. The middle to lower class.
C. The working class.
20. How many students will be needed to be the bank and security officers in total?
A. Four. B. Three. C. Two.
听力答案 略
第二部分 阅读(共两节，满分50分)
第一节 (共15小题; 每小题2.5分, 满分37.5分)
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。
A
Starting Cycling
We have two services designed to give people the confidence and knowledge to cycle successfully.
Lessons
All our instructors have been trained to National Standards level of “Bikeability”. This means you will be trained to a standard consistent across the whole country.
There are 3 levels of skills to progress through. Children would start with levels 1 & 2, progressing from the playground or park to cycle on less busy local roads. Teenager and adult beginners can also learn levels 1 & 2 in an off-road and quiet environment.
Confident teenagers and adults can broaden their skills by learning level 3, using multi-lane (多道) roads and larger roundabouts (环岛). We provide both a complete package of lessons for the beginner or individual lessons tailored to the client. You can ride a bike but don’t feel confident about right turns on multi-lane roads. Whatever the need
We can address and practice until perfect!
Everyone can be taught to ride a bike!
We train both adults and children.
We cover London Zones 1 & 2
The cost is ￡30 per hour.
Guided Ride
We know that riding on the roads in London can be scary, and if you have to navigate (确定行车路线) as well it can become a real hard task! The Guided Ride service takes all the stress out of it for you by providing the following:
Route planned in advance to suit your skill level. Route map provided to you.
Cycle and equipment checked. We will teach you a simple method to check basic roadworthiness (车辆性能) of your bike that you can perform on a weekly basis.
Route discussed and focus given to any areas requiring special attention.
Cycle along with the instructor close behind. Here the traffic can be controlled by the instructor and rider observed.
Occasionally stopping to discuss events.
We currently cover London Zones 1 & 2. Please contact us if your requirements are outside of these areas.
Cost ￡30
1. Where can Level 1 & 2 lessons for adult beginners be carried out？
A. Off road
B. Near large roundabouts
C. On busy local roads
D. On multi-lane roads
2. What service does the Guided Ride mainly provide?.
A. They help you to be familiar with London roads
B. They check your cycle and equipment every week.
C. They let users experience the busiest road in London.
D. They ensure users ride safely in London Zones 1 & 2
3. Who is the text probably intended for ?.
A. Bike riding lovers.
B. Children and teenagers
C. Travelers in London
D. Parents loving cycling
【答案】1. A 2. D 3. A
B
I start every summer with the best of intentions:to attack one big book from the past, a classic that I was supposed to have read when young and ambitious. Often the pairings of books and settings have been purely accidental: "Moby Dick" on a three-day cross-country train trip: “The Magic Mountain” in a New England beachside cottage with no locks on the doors, no telephones or televisions in the rooms, and little to do beyond row on the salt pond. Attempting "The Man Without Qualities" on a return to Hawaii, my native state, however, was less fruitful: I made it through one and a quarter volumes (册), then decided that I'd got the point and went swimming instead.
But this summer I find myself at a loss. I’m not quite interested in Balzac, say, or “Tristram Shandy.” There’s always War and Peace, which I've covered some distance several times, only to get bogged down in the "War" part, set it aside for a while, and realize that I have to start over from the beginning again, having forgotten everyone’s name and social rank. How appealing to simply fall back on a favorite-once more into “The Waves” or “Justine,” which feels almost like cheating, too exciting and too much fun to properly belong in serious literature.
And then there’s Stendhal’s “The Red and the Black,” which happens to be the name of my favorite cocktail (鸡尾酒) of the summer, created by Michael Cecconi at Savoy and BackForty. It is easy to drink, and knocking back three or four seems like such a delightful idea. Cecconi's theory: "I take whatever’s fresh at the green market and turn it into liquid." The result is a pure shot of afternoon in the park, making one feel cheerful and peaceful all at once, lying on uncut grass with eyes shut, sun beating through the lids...
4. What can we infer about the author from the first paragraph?
A. He has a cottage in New England. B. He shows talents for literature.
C. He enjoys reading when traveling. D. He admires a lot of great writers.
5. What do the underlined words "get bogged down" in paragraph 2 mean?
A. Get confused. B. Be carried away.
C. Be interrupted. D. Make no progress.
6. Why does the author say reading his favorite books feels like cheating?
A. He finishes them quickly. B. He should read something serious.
C. He barely understands them. D. He has read them many times before.
7. What can be a suitable title for the text?
A. The Books of Summer B. My Summer Holidays
C. To Read or Not to Read D. It’s Never Too Late to Read
【答案】4. C 5. D 6. B 7. A
C
A drug designed entirely by artificial intelligence is about to enter clinical human trials for the first time. The drug, which is intended to treat obsessive-compulsive disorder ( OCD)(强迫症),was discovered using Al systems from Oxford-based biotech company Exscientia. While it would usually take around four and a half years to get a drug to this stage of development, Exscientia says that by using the Al tools it's taken less than 12 months.
The drug, known as DSP?1181, was created by using algorithms (算法)to examine potential compounds (化合物),checking them against a huge database of parameters, including a patient's genetic factors. Speaking to the BBC, Exscientia chief executive Professor Andrew Hopkins described the trials as a “ key milestone in drug discovery “ and noted that there are “ billions” of decisions needed to find the right molecules (分子)for a drug, making their eventual creation a “ huge decision. “ With Al, however, “the beauty of the algorithms is that they are unknowable, so can be applied to any disease.”
We've already seen multiple examples of Al being used to diagnose illness and analyze patient data, so using it to engineer drug treatment is an obvious progression of its place in medicine. But the Al - created drugs do bring about some relevant questions. Will patients be comfortable taking medicine designed by a machine? How will these drugs differ from those developed by humans alone? Who will make the rules for the use of Al in drug research? Hopkins and his team hope that these and a great many other questions will be explored in the trials, which will begin in March.
8. What is special about the drug designed by Al?
A. It's a better cure for OCD.
B. It has no side effect on humans.
C. Its development takes less time.
D. It doesn't need clinical human trials.
9. Which is a key factor in creating the drug according to Paragraph 2?
A. Trials. B. Algorithms.
C. Compounds. D. Molecules.
10. How does Hopkins feel about the way of drug creation?
A. Optimistic. B. Doubtful.
C. Disappointed. D. Puzzled.
11. What can be the best title for the text?
A. Medical Trials by Al B. An Example in Medical Trials
C. A Creation in Al Development D. Al - designed Drugs to Be on Trial
【答案】8. C 9. B 10. A 11. D
D
If you want to disturb the car industry, you'd better have a few billion dollars: Mom-and-pop carmakers are unlikely to beat the biggest car companies. But in agriculture, small farmers can get the best of the major players. By connecting directly with customers, and by responding quickly to changes in the markets as well as in the ecosystems(生态系统）, small farmers can keep one step ahead of the big guys. As the co-founder of the National Young Farmers Coalition (NYFC, 美国青年农会）and a family farmer myself. I have a front-row seat to the innovations among small farmers that are transforming the industry.
For example, take the Quick Cut Greens Harvester, a tool developed just a couple of years ago by a young farmer, Jonathan Dysinger, in Tennessee, with a small loan from a local Slow Money group. It enables small-scale farmers to harvest 175 pounds of green vegetables per hour—a huge improvement over harvesting just a few dozen pounds by hand—suddenly making it possible for the little guys to compete with large farms of California. Before the tool came out, small farmers couldn't touch the price per pound offered by California farms. But now, with the combination of a better price point and a generally fresher product, they can stay in business.
The sustainable success of small farmers, though, won't happen without fundamental changes to the industry. One crucial factor is secure access to land. Competition from investors, developers, and established large farmers makes owning one's own land unattainable for many new farmers.
From 2004 to 2013, agricultural land values doubled, and they continue to rise in many regions.
Another challenge for more than a million of the most qualified farm workers and managers is a non-existent path to citizenship — the greatest barrier to building a farm of their own. With farmers over the age of 65 outnumbering(多于）farmers younger than 35 by six to one, and with two-thirds of the nation's farmland in need of a new farmer, we must clear the path for talented people willing to grow the nation's food.
There are solutions that could light a path toward a more sustainable and fair farm economy, but farmers can't clumsily put them together before us. We at the NYFC need broad support as we urge Congress to increase farmland conservation, as we push for immigration reform, and as we seek policies that will ensure the success of a diverse and ambitious next generation of farms from all backgrounds. With a new farm bill to be debated in Congress, consumers must take a stand with young farmers.
12. The author mentions car industry at the beginning of the passage to introduce .
A. the progress made in car industry
B. a special feature of agriculture
C. a trend of development in agriculture
D. the importance of investing in car industry
13. What does the author want to illustrate with the example in paragraph 2?
A. Loans to small local farmers are necessary.
B. Technology is vital for agricultural development.
C. Competition between small and big farms is fierce
D. Small farmers may gain some advantages over big ones.
14. What is the difficulty for those new farmers?
A. To gain more financial aid.
B. To hire good farm managers.
C. To have farms of their own.
D. To win old farmers’ support.
15. What should farmers do for a more sustainable and fair farm economy?
A. Seek support beyond NYFC.
B. Expand farmland conservation.
C. Become members of NYFC.
D. Invest more to improve technology.
【答案】12. B 13. D 14. C 15. A
第二节 (共5小题; 每小题2.5分, 满分12.5分)
阅读下面短文，从短文后的选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
Some people are so rude. Who sends an e-mail or a text message that just says “Thank you?” Who leaves a voice mail message rather than texts you? Who asks for a fact easily found on the Internet? ______16______
Maybe I’m the rude one for not appreciating life’s little courtesies(礼节). But many social norms(规范) just don’t make sense to people drowning in digital communication.
Take the thank-you note. Daniel Post Senning, a coauthor of Emily Post’s Etiquette，asked, “At what point does showing appreciation outweigh the cost?”
_____17_____ Think of how long it takes to listen to one of those messages. In texts, you don’t have to declare who you are or even say hello. E-mail, too, is slower than a text. The worst are those who leave a voice mail and then send an e-mail message to tell you they left a voice mail.
This isn’t the first time technology has changed our manners, ____18____ Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor, suggested that people say, " Ahoy! "Finally, hello won out, and the victory sped up the greeting's use in face-to-face communications.
In the age of the smart phone, there is no reason to ask once-acceptable questions about:the weather forecast, a business’s phone number, or directions to a house, a restaurant, or an office, which can be easily found on a digital map. _____19_____ And when you answer, they respond with a thank-you e-mail.
How to handle these differing standards? Easy: Consider your audience. Some people,especially older ones, appreciate a thank-you message. ____20____ In traditional societies, the young learn from the old. But in modern societies, the old can also learn from the young. Here's hoping that politeness never goes out of fashion but that time-wasting forms of communication do.
A. Then there is voice mail.
B. Others, like me, want no reply.
C. But people still ask these things.
D. Don’t these people realize that they’re wasting your time?
E Won't new technology bring about changes in our daily life?
F. Face-to-face communication makes comprehension much easier.
G. When the telephone was invented, people didn't know how to greet a caller.
【答案】16. D 17. A 18. G 19. C 20. B
第三部分 语言运用(共2节，满分30分)
第一节(共15小题； 每小题1分，满分15分)
阅读下面短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
At around 11 p. m. last July 26, an emergency message on the Facebook page caught Clemens’ eye: a tiny black puppy was _____21_____ hurrying across a road in the neighborhood where she lives. Afterwards, sobs were heard from inside a nearby drain (排水管), _____22_____ it was likely that a puppy was _____23_____ down there.
Clemens _____24_____ out of bed and rushed to the scene. Once there, she heard desperate howls and whimpers from underground _____25_____ through the drain. She grabbed her son’s toy flashlight and pulled a metal fence off the drain.
“I wasn’t very well _____26_____,” Clemens said. “I was not expecting to go into the drain.” But nobody else was around, and the puppy was trapped in there. “Somebody’s got to do it.”
This was not Clemens’s first _____27_____ into a drain. Over the past nine years, she estimated she had saved at least100 creatures _____28_____ danger.
After lowering herself roughly 7 feet down the drain, Clemens _____29_____ through about 10 feet tunnel before reaching an area where she could crouch (蹲下) and search. Around ______30______ , staff from the local Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) arrived and joined Clemens. They worked until 3 a. m. trying to ______31______ down the dog. “We searched end to end, side to side,” Clemens says.
Although venturing down a drain was ______32______, Clemens said, “the thought of ______33______ a tortured animal is something I could never tolerate.” After several hours of searching, they finally found the tiny black pup.
Clemens’ perseverance didn’t surprise Faust, who runs another animal rescue nonprofit, Houston PetSet. “Once she becomes ______34______ on a rescue situation, she is unstoppable,” said Faust. “She is really a ______35______.”
21. A. spotted B. arrested C. seized D. alerted
22. A. yet B. so C. or D. but
23. A. sacrificed B. struck C. saved D. stuck
24. A. leapt B. stormed C. dropped D. spun
25. A. coughing B. buzzing C. echoing D. chanting
26. A. received B. equipped C. informed D. educated
27. A. entry B. enquiry C. trial D. insight
28. A. bathed in B. concerned with C. exposed to D. targeted at
29. A. slid B. crawled C. cracked D. climbed
30. A. dawn B. midday C. dusk D. midnight
31. A. lay B. settle C. track D. break
32. A. fascinating B. thriving C. amazing D. terrifying
33. A. conquering B. boosting C. abandoning D. distracting
34. A. focused B. counted C. based D. grounded
35. A. mate B. bee C. success D. crystal
【答案】21. A 22. B 23. D 24. A 25. C 26. B 27. A 28. C 29. B 30. D 31. C 32. D 33. C 34. A 35. B
第2节 (共10小题; 每小题1.5分, 满分15分)
阅读下面短文，在空白处填入一个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
The British Museum opened a Silk Road exhibition for a media preview on September 24, 2024, ____36____ (showcase) over 300 objects, including items from 29 national and international institutions. Spanning from around 500 to 1000 A. D., the exhibition explores ____37____ the journeys of people, objects and ideas along the Silk Road shaped cultures and histories across continents.
Luk Yu-ping, co-curator of the exhibition, stressed the ____38____ (relevant) of the past to the present. “In the past, China was ____39____ (centre) to these vast networks, influencing economic development and cultural exchange. This is mirrored today in initiatives like the Belt and Road, where China again plays a(n) ____40____ (replaceable) role in the global economy,” she noted. She highlighted the connections between China’s Tang Dynasty and the world. “For instance, we put ____41____ (emphasize) on maritime routes linking China to West Asia, illustrated by artifacts from Tang China.”
Sue, another co-curator, explained that the very links ____42____ connect the cultures do the trick and the Silk Road has a broad geographical scope. “We’re picturing it as ____43____ series of overlapping networks connecting Asia, Africa and Europe. Although Northwest Europe ____44____ (overlook) in Silk Road discussions, our exhibition concludes with the artifacts found in Scotland that can be _____45_____ (basic) traced back to present-day Iran,” she said.
【答案】36. showcasing
37. how 38. relevance
39. central
40. irreplaceable
41. emphasis
42. that 43. a
44. is overlooked
45. basically
第四部分 写作(共两节，满分40分)
第一节(满分15分)
46. 假定你是李华，你和你的美国笔友 John对中美身势语的差异做了一个简单的对比。请你根据以下表格中的内容完成一个关于中美身势语差异的英文报告，同时提醒人们在和外国朋友交际时，注意正确使用身势语。(字数100左右)
身势语
美国
中国
身体接触
保持距离， 较少接触， 尤其是同性之间
身体接触较多，例如女性之间可以手拉手等
伸舌头
一种粗鲁的表现
一种尴尬的表现
拍小孩的头
给予安慰或鼓励
表示喜爱
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【答案】 As we have more communication with foreigners freely, we should pay more attention to the differences in our body language.
As we can see from the table, many differences exist between Chinese and American body language. For example, there are more touching gestures in China than in America. Women or girls in China often walk hand in hand, which is very rare in America. Also, Americans think it rude to put out one’s tongue, while the Chinese often use this gesture when they are embarrassed. Furthermore, Chinese people will pat children on the head if they like them, while Americans do so to offer encouragement or comfort.
第二节(满分25分)
47. 阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。
In 1945, a 12-year-old boy saw a beautiful brooch (胸针) in a shop window that set his heart racing. But the price—five dollars—was too high for Reuben Earle. Five dollars would buy almost a week’s food for his family.
Reuben couldn’t ask his father for the money. Everything his father made through fishing went to his mother, Dora. Slim and beautiful, she was the center of the home, the glue that held it together. The housework was never-ending, and she struggled to feed and clothe their five children, but she was happy as her family and their well-being were all she cared about.
Nevertheless, he opened the shop’s weathered ( 风 化 的 ) door and went inside. Standing proudly and straight in his flour-sack (面粉袋改做的) shirt and washed-out trousers, he told the shopkeeper what he wanted, adding, “But I don’t have the money right now. Can you please hold it for me for some time?”
“I’ll try,” the shopkeeper smiled. “People around here don’t usually have that kind of money to spend on things. It should be kept for a while.”
Reuben respectfully touched his worn cap and walked into the sunlight. He would raise the money and not tell anybody for he thought his mom would get surprised when she saw that brooch. On hearing the sound of hammering from a side street, Reuben had an idea—he could raise money by selling used nail bags. He ran towards the sound and stopped at a construction site. People built their own homes in Bay Roberts, using nails bought in bags from a local factory. Sometimes the used bags were thrown away at the construction site, and Reuben knew he could sell them back to the factory for five cents a piece.
That day he sold two nail bags and hid the money in a rusty soda tin (汽水罐).
注意：1.续写词数应为 150 左右；
2.请按如下格式作答。
Every day after school, Reuben started his plan.
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Finally, the time came!
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【答案】One possible version
Every day after school, Reuben started his plan. Cold and hungry, Reuben wandered on the streets, searching for the nail bags carefully. To save money, he even decided to deliver papers in the next morning. Exhausted and tired as he felt, he still stuck to the plan. It was the brooch in the shop window that reminded him that what he did was worthwhile. After a long time of hard work, he made it eventually.
Finally, the time came! He took out the soda tin, poured the coins out and began to count. Five dollars! His hard work paid off! Holding the soda tin firmly, Reuben rushed to the shop to buy the brooch. The moment he got the beautiful brooch, he burst through the front door and placed it in Dora’s hand. Never had Dora received such a gift. Speechless and happy, she held her son tightly in her arms, with tears welling up in her eyes.
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