湖北省“荆、荆、襄、宜四地七校”2024-2025学年高二上学期期中联考英语试卷（含答案，无听力原文及音频）

2024年秋“荆、荆、襄、宜四地七校考试联盟”高二期中联考
英语试题
考试用时：120分钟 试卷满分：150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。
例：How much is the shirt
A. 19.15. B. 9.18. C. 9.15.
答案是C。
1. Where does Anna work
A. At a theater. B. At a bank. C. At a restaurant.
2. What will the man do next Monday
A. Call the woman. B. Attend a party. C. Take care of his mother.
3. What is the man doing
A. He is doing his homework.
B. He is reading some books.
C. He is working on his project.
4. Where does the conversation probably take place
A. On a beach. B. At a hotel. C. In a castle.
5. What are the speakers taking about
A. An exam. B. A match. C. Some homework.
第二节(共15小题;每小题1.5分，满分22.5分)
听下面5段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项。听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟;听完后，各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。
听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。
6. What is the man’s reaction to the woman’s idea at first
A. Excitement. B. Disbelief. C. Surprise.
7. Why does the woman suggest traveling abroad this year
A. To visit her sister. B. To attend a wedding. C. To mark an event.
听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。
8. Who is Mr. Brown probably
A. Robert’s doctor. B. Robert’s teacher. C. Robert’s father.
9. What does Mrs. Hill offer to do for Robert
A. Make sure he can get his homework.
B. Get some medicine for him.
C. Pick him up from school.
听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。
10. Where does the conversation take place
A. At Sylvia’s home B. At a museum. C. At a hotel.
11. What is on the postcard the man sent to Sylvia
A. A TV. B. A fridge. C. A coffee can.
12. What do we learn about the man’s trip
A. He didn’t take any photos.
B. He visited many museums.
C. He went to Berlin.
听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。
13. What does the man think of the original book of the action film
A. Surprising. B. Interesting. C. Average.
14. Why did the man miss last week’s film
A. He went shopping. B. He went to school. C. He had no interest in it.
15. What is said about last week’s film
A. It is set in India. B. It features a detective. C. It has excellent characters.
16. What does the man dislike about the crime series
A. The plot. B. The special effects. C. The character.
听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。
17. What have officials asked people to do
A. Stay in their homes.
B. Drive off the east coast.
C. Help emergency workers clear the roads.
18. When is the power supposed to be repaired
A. In about three hours. B. In about five hours. C. In about seven hours.
19. What is to blame for the disappearance of some animals
A. Natural disasters. B. Human activities. C. The declining temperature.
20. What happened to the hometown team in the championship game
A. They lost the game. B. They scored two goals. C. They won first place.
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
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1 Which of the following is the daily task of a CNN producer
A. Tackling team-wide daily tasks. B. Removing video contents on webs.
C. Advertising different digital platforms. D. Correcting wrong parts of raw footage.
2. Who is most likely to get the job
A. A new graduate expert at Adobe Premiere. B. A journalist working in BBC for five years.
C. A novelist with two years’ writing experience. D. An editor with a fixed working schedule.
3. In which section of a website may the text appear
A. Tourism. B. Features. C. Editorial. D. Employment.
B
After years of pounding my knees and ankles in dashes and the long jump, pain ended my decades of track and field competition. But how do you live without the adrenaline (肾上腺素) of racing That’s simple. You just become sensible at age sixty and turn to competitive swimming! Suddenly, the pounding was gone, and so was the pain. However, in less than a month, I was fed up with pool laps and no sights. Now what
A friend in the Annapolis Striders had the answer. This marathoner said he had stayed fit by intense walking while healing from a running injury. “Try it,” he said. “It’s even a competitive sport.” Sure enough, a certain kind of energetic walking is a 100-year-old Olympic event called racewalking.
I took to this sport immediately. I didn’t have to enter races to be a racewalker. However, those who compete must follow rules and must please numerous hard-eyed judges or be disqualified (DQ). But for me, doing it was enough. It took me many months to become smooth in the style. I had lost a sport but had found another.
Then came a disaster. Lower back pain had arrived. “Surgery is a last solution,” I was told. Dr. Clifford Solomon, super-surgeon of Annapolis, Maryland, had the cure. It left me with full leg control, but a flopping (耷拉的) foot. I would be able to jog, but not meet racewalk rules. By chance I tuned the TV to an old movie showing Fred Astaire dancing up a storm. From the ankle down, his feet swiveled (旋转) in the very motion I needed. I turned off the TV and went to the Senior Center.
As the only man among twenty-nine students in the tap dancing class I learned that grandmothers are programmed to care for any wounded creature. Some paid particular attention to this seventy-five-year-old patient, staying after class to guide and inspire. With examples, humor, encouragement and advice, they taught me to tap dance. They cured my flopping foot.
Within a year, I was competing well enough to enter the USA Track and Field Nationals in Boston and break the American record for the 3,000- meter racewalk. And now, at eighty-six, I’m still competing and often thinking of those ladies.
4. Why did the author stop swimming
A. He couldn’t bear the pain any longer.
B. He lost the ability to compete with others.
C. He couldn’t adjust adrenaline to normal levels.
D. He was bored with it and couldn’t enjoy scenery.
5. What did the author spend many months doing
A. Visiting lots of strict judges. B. Perfecting his racewalking techniques.
C. Competing in racewalking events. D. Searching for alternatives to running.
6. What does the author want to stress in paragraph 5
A. He was the only one in need of care.
B. He engaged in diverse after-class activities.
C. He received the female classmates’ kindness.
D. The class was mostly comprised of elderly students.
7. Which of the following can best describe the author
A. Determined and conventional. B. Energetic and adventurous.
C. Committed and reliable. D. Responsible and courageous.
C
Time off is a treasure, but people often have to work practically twice as hard to prepare for it. There are projects to get ahead on, meetings to have about how to do tasks that you usually handle, requests to field from co-workers who know they soon won’t be able to reach you.
Some of the pressure that leads to the last- minute crunch may be coming from a desire not to leave tasks unfinished. According to Laura Giurge, a behavioral-science professor at the London School of Economics, many workers feel as though they must conquer their entire to-do list in order to be cut off from work and enjoy their vacation. “We think we need to finish all the things before holidays,” Giurge told me, “but then we ask, ‘When does it actually need to be finished ‘ And it turns out, probably two months from now.”
Another contributor to the pre-vacation pileup is a more general time-management phenomenon known as “deadline rush”-the idea that people tackle many tasks shortly before they need to be completed. With the single deadline of a vacation closing in on various tasks, some last-minute stress isn’t unusual.
Surely some of this urge to complete everything is a symptom of a culture that says people must first work in order to, as Giurge put it, be “deserving” of leisure. But some of it is psychological-having unfinished tasks can be mentally anxious. In the words of one academic paper, it can “cause an inner tension, originating from the need for closure.”
And Giurge suggested a fix inspired by something she’d recently heard while conducting a research study at a company. In an interview, one of the workers told Giurge that, in order to create unbroken time to catch up on important work tasks, they canceled the last two days of their trip but didn’t tell any co-workers.
To avoid the kind of pressure that would make someone cut their vacation short just to catch up on missions before officially returning to work, maybe, Giurge thought, it would be helpful to have an official day on either end of a long vacation that’s blocked off for easing into and out of time off.
8. What does the underlined word “crunch” in paragraph 2 refer to
A. Unpleasant situation. B. Inner desire.
C. Strict requirement. D. Quality time.
9. Why do people often feel stressed before the vacation
A. They are frightened of tasks piling up.
B They feel ashamed having tasks unfinished.
C. They prefer finishing everything to enjoy the vacation.
D. They are requested to complete the tasks as scheduled.
10. What’s Giurge’s attitude towards the pre-vacation pileup
A. Worried. B. Negative.
C. Favorable. D. Uninterested.
11. How can we ease the pressure according to the last paragraph
A. We can fix an extra day to adapt to the work schedule.
B. We can improve our work efficiency through practice.
C. We can use the vacation to catch up on missions.
D. We can finish the tasks after the vacation quickly.
D
While humans may think of agriculture as a uniquely human achievement, ants have been farming their own food for millions of years, a new study has revealed. Researchers found that ants began farming fungi (真菌) 66 million years ago, around the time an asteroid (小行星) struck Earth and caused a global mass extinction.
While the mass extinction was destructive for many species, including dinosaurs, it presented an opportunity for fungi. With plentiful rotten plant matter on the ground, ants developed an evolutionary partnership with fungi that still endures today. Over time, this relationship grew stronger, with ants improving their agricultural practices and developing advanced methods 27 million years ago, a process similar to the domestication of crops by humans. “Ants have been practicing agriculture and fungus farming for much longer than humans have existed,” Ted Schultz, lead author of the new paper, said in a statement. “We could probably learn something from the agricultural success of these ants over the past 66 million years.” Fungi-farming ants are particularly diverse in the Americas and the Caribbean, with nearly 250 different species engaged in this practice.
The research, published in the journal Science, analyzed genetic data from hundreds of ant and fungi species to create detailed evolutionary trees. These genetic timelines played an important role in revealing the evolution of ants’ agricultural techniques. The study builds on Schultz’s 35 years of research into ant-fungus relationships, during which he and his team collected thousands of genetic samples from Central and South America. By comparing wild fungal species with ants’ domesticated fungus, the researchers determined that ants have been farming fungi since shortly after the asteroid impact.
The ants have bacteria that can produce antibiotics (抗生素) to fight off diseases attacking their fungi. “Somehow, over the course of 66 million years, they’ve been able to continue to control crop disease and develop antibiotics that continue to be effective,” Schultz told Newsweek. “We’ve only been using antibiotics for less than100 years and we have major problems keeping up with resistance and developing new antibiotics.”
12. What can be inferred from paragraph 2
A. Ants began to co-exist with fungi 27 million years ago.
B. Around 250 species of ants worldwide took part in fungi farming.
C. Ants used more advanced ways of practicing agriculture than humans.
D. Dead plant matter provided conditions for fungi to expand.
13. What does paragraph 3 mainly focus on
A. The methods in the research process. B. The research findings on fungi farming.
C. The analysis of the genetic timeline. D. The impact of the asteroid event.
14. Which statement would Schultz probably agree with
A. Human history is much longer than that of ant agriculture.
B. The antibiotics produced by ants could be used to treat humans.
C. Further study could be focused on how to keep antibiotics effective.
D. It’s meaningless for humans to follow ants’ success story in farming.
15. What’s the best title for this text
A. Ants are smarter than humans
B. Agriculture isn’t unique to humans
C. Ants provided solutions for human farming
D. Ants mastered agriculture long before humans
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。
Uh oh. It happened again. You’ve walked into a room with a purpose, only to realize you have no idea why you’re there or what you were doing. Some people like to call them ‘brain farts’ — those moments when your brain seems to make you feel or look stupid.
What causes brain farts Forgetting a name, losing focus, or struggling to think clearly are pretty standard and often linked to stress, fatigue, and multitasking demand. ____16____ This model contains information about the environment and the various thoughts and actions that relate to it.
While brain farts are a part of life, there are things you can do to minimize how often they happen — and deal with them gracefully when they do:
Stay organized: Keeping your space neat, tidy, and organized can go a long way toward minimizing mental mishaps (晦气). ____17____
Write things down: If you tend to forget certain information, such as names, dates, or appointments, start writing them down as soon as you can. ____18____ Sometimes, just the act of writing it down can help strengthen it more firmly in your memory.
Use active listening: ____19____ “It’s also helpful to resist the urge to multitask,” Dr. Fenkel suggests. “Instead, try to focus on one thing at a time, allowing your brain to engage with the task entirely.”
____20____: Brain farts are more likely to happen when you are tired, so strive to get enough rest each night. “Prioritizing sleep is super important; a well-rested brain is sharper and less prone (易于) to errors,” Dr. Fenkel says.
If these tricks aren’t helping, or if you notice that your memory problems are worsening, talk to your doctor. They can evaluate your memory for signs of a more serious problem — and suggest treatments or solutions that can help.
A. Get plenty of sleep
B. Enjoy a good night
C. Forgetful moments tend to strike when you’re multitasking.
D. According to researchers, it happens because our brains create a temporary “event model.”
E. Make a designated spot for the items you use regularly, like your keys, glasses, and wallet.
F. As you take in new information, work on staying fully engaged and giving it your full attention.
G. You might keep a notebook handy or try an online app to keep track of this type of information.
第三部分 语言运用(共两节，满分30分)
第一节(共15小题，每小题1分，满分15分)
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
“You want to learn what now ” my husband asked.
“The drums. I want to learn the drums,” I replied.
He was ____21____ . Throughout our 35 years of marriage, I’ve shown almost no interest in music, other than ____22____ saying, “Can you turn it down ”
____23____ this, I’ve spent my career working on music variety television shows like The Grammys and The Voice and ____24____ that made me “drum curious”.
I saw recent research that said playing music can ____25____ cognitive (认知的) function, which aroused my desire to learn it. With the kids grown and my work slowing down, I finally ____26____ for a free drum lesson. Immediately I got ____27____ about it.
The sight of my teacher only worsened my nerves. He was a musician in his 20s, looking like he had just got out of bed. But he ____28____ me with his enthusiasm. “We get people of all ages,” he insisted.
He taught me how to count ____29____. Then it was time to attempt a rhythm. I expected that drumming would be physically ____30____. For someone who was never good at sports or dance or even walking, this would be a challenge.
As I ____31____ a basic rhythm, I started to lean into it a bit. It was fun! At the end of class, he said I did great. I left the class feeling happy.
Eager to ____32____, I watched online drum videos and found comments from others of my age learning drums for the first time. Despite feeling indulgent (放纵的) after a lifetime of ____33____ such pleasures , knowing others of my age were taking classes made it feel more okay.
In my ____34____ class, I managed to hit patterns of quarter, eighth, and sixteenth notes. My teacher said he was proud of me. Then I went home and practiced more because you never know when a famous musician might call, needing someone to____35____ him or her for a few songs.
21. A. supportive B. speechless C. embarrassed D. talkative
22. A. eagerly B. eventually C. willingly D. occasionally
23. A. Without B. Before C. Despite D. Besides
24. A. otherwise B. instead C. somehow D. still
25. A. preserve B. decrease C. evaluate D. supply
26. A. paid B. called C. accounted D. registered
27. A. crazy B. anxious C. annoyed D. confident
28. A. amused B. confused C. surprised D. reminded
29. A. numbers B. beats C. notes D. keys
30. A. damaging B. appealing C. relaxing D. demanding
31. A. drummed B. sang C. danced D. recited
32. A. escape B. struggle C. advance D. pause
33. A. showing B. containing C. promising D. pursuing
34. A. first B. favorite C. familiar D. latest
35. A. stand in for B. catch up with C. drop in on D. fit in with
第二节(共10小题，每小题1.5分，满分15分)
阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
Third-century poet Cao Zhi’s Luo Shen Fu(Rhapsody on the Nymph (仙女) of the Luo River)tells about a story of a romantic meeting with a nymph ____36____ (live) in the Luo River and the sadness of her ill-fated relationship with a mortal man (凡人).
Cao used graceful words, especially in creating many phrases that inspire visualization, ____37____ (praise) the goddess’ elegance, making the poem____38____ classic throughout the following centuries. Its popularity was even increased by fourth-century ____39____ (distinguish) artist Gu Kaizhi, who made a vivid painting to show the love story.
The encounter takes place when Cao, a prince of the kingdom of Wei, and his attendants ____40____ (return) to his fiefdom (封地). ____41____ comes into sight is amazing when they stop on the bank of the Luo River to rest and feed their horses. An ____42____ (extraordinary) attractive woman stands by the mountain. Cao describes her: “She moves as lightly as a swan and as softly as a dragon.” “Seen from afar, her brightness is like____43____ of the sun rising above the rosy clouds of dawn. Close-up, she is as shining as a lotus flower in clear waters.” When the nymph disappears into the waves, sadness seizes Cao as he continues his journey home.
Cao Zhi ____44____ (defeat) and sidelined by his brother, Cao Pi, who inherited the crown. Cao Zhi constantly bore political setbacks and depression until his death at age 40, so Cao’s imagined romance with the nymph is believed to be a metaphor, _____45_____ the nymph represents his unfulfilled political ambitions.
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，你校广播站英语节目“Music Enriches Life”正在面向全校征徇能帮助缓解高中生学习和心理压力的音乐或歌曲。请你给负责人 Eric写一封邮件，内容包括：
1. 介绍推荐乐曲；
2. 说明推荐理由。
注意：
1. 写作词数应为80左右；
2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
Dear Eric,
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Yours sincerely,
Li Hua
第二节(满分25分)
47. 阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。
Two tickets. Only two tickets to the big basketball game. Three pairs of eyes all focused on the tickets in Dad’s outstretched hand.
Marcus, the oldest, spoke the question running through everyone’s mind, “Only two tickets But, Dad, which of us gets to go with you ”
“Yeah, Daddy, who gets to go ” repeated Caleb, the youngest.
“Dad, can’t you get any more tickets ” I asked. I might be the in-between sister, but I was just as eager as my basketball-crazy brothers were for a night out with Dad.
“I’m afraid not,” Dad answered. “Mr. Williams only has two tickets. He was thoughtful enough to offer the tickets to me when he found out he’d be out of town this weekend.”
Dad scratched his head, “Caleb, don’t you think you’re a little young to enjoy a professional basketball game… ”“Am not! Am not!” Caleb insisted. Dad shifted his focus and tried again. “Jill, since you’re a girl…” Before I could respond, Mom came to my defense and said, “Jill’s out there practicing with Marcus and all of his friends, and she’s better than quite a few of them, too!”
“Okay, okay,” Dad smiled. “I guess I’ll have to figure out a fair way of choosing between the three of you by tomorrow morning. I’ll have to decide who deserves it most.”
The next morning, Marcus hurried into the kitchen. “Where’s Dad ” he asked. “He and Mom went to pick up some books from the library,” Caleb answered, digging his spoon into a bowl of cereal (麦片).
“And he said we should all get started on our Saturday household chores as soon as we finish breakfast,” I added.
“Chores! He’s got to be kidding. ” Marcus said. “How can we concentrate on chores when the big game is a mere eleven hours away ” “I’m going to play basketball for a while,” Marcus announced.
“Wait for me!” Caleb added and dashed after his brother. The back door slammed shut as the two boys ran down the driveway.
注意：
1. 续写词数应为150左右;
2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
I looked at the breakfast table in front of me: bits of cereal here and there.
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A white envelope was taped to the inside of the rubbish bin lid(盖子).
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答案版
2024年秋“荆、荆、襄、宜四地七校考试联盟”高二期中联考
英语试题
考试用时：120分钟 试卷满分：150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。
例：How much is the shirt
A. 19.15. B. 9.18. C. 9.15.
答案是C。
1. Where does Anna work
A. At a theater. B. At a bank. C. At a restaurant.
2. What will the man do next Monday
A. Call the woman. B. Attend a party. C. Take care of his mother.
3. What is the man doing
A. He is doing his homework.
B. He is reading some books.
C. He is working on his project.
4. Where does the conversation probably take place
A. On a beach. B. At a hotel. C. In a castle.
5. What are the speakers taking about
A. An exam. B. A match. C. Some homework.
第二节(共15小题;每小题1.5分，满分22.5分)
听下面5段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项。听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟;听完后，各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。
听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。
6. What is the man’s reaction to the woman’s idea at first
A. Excitement. B. Disbelief. C. Surprise.
7. Why does the woman suggest traveling abroad this year
A. To visit her sister. B. To attend a wedding. C. To mark an event.
听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。
8. Who is Mr. Brown probably
A. Robert’s doctor. B. Robert’s teacher. C. Robert’s father.
9. What does Mrs. Hill offer to do for Robert
A. Make sure he can get his homework.
B. Get some medicine for him.
C. Pick him up from school.
听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。
10. Where does the conversation take place
A. At Sylvia’s home B. At a museum. C. At a hotel.
11. What is on the postcard the man sent to Sylvia
A. A TV. B. A fridge. C. A coffee can.
12. What do we learn about the man’s trip
A. He didn’t take any photos.
B. He visited many museums.
C. He went to Berlin.
听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。
13. What does the man think of the original book of the action film
A. Surprising. B. Interesting. C. Average.
14. Why did the man miss last week’s film
A. He went shopping. B. He went to school. C. He had no interest in it.
15. What is said about last week’s film
A. It is set in India. B. It features a detective. C. It has excellent characters.
16. What does the man dislike about the crime series
A. The plot. B. The special effects. C. The character.
听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。
17. What have officials asked people to do
A. Stay in their homes.
B. Drive off the east coast.
C. Help emergency workers clear the roads.
18. When is the power supposed to be repaired
A. In about three hours. B. In about five hours. C. In about seven hours.
19. What is to blame for the disappearance of some animals
A. Natural disasters. B. Human activities. C. The declining temperature.
20. What happened to the hometown team in the championship game
A. They lost the game. B. They scored two goals. C. They won first place.
听力答案：1-5 BCABA 6-10 BCBAA 11-15 CCBAA 16-20CABBC
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
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·Must be able to work shifts at all times of day and night
1 Which of the following is the daily task of a CNN producer
A. Tackling team-wide daily tasks. B. Removing video contents on webs.
C. Advertising different digital platforms. D. Correcting wrong parts of raw footage.
2. Who is most likely to get the job
A. A new graduate expert at Adobe Premiere. B. A journalist working in BBC for five years.
C. A novelist with two years’ writing experience. D. An editor with a fixed working schedule.
3. In which section of a website may the text appear
A. Tourism. B. Features. C. Editorial. D. Employment.
【答案】1. A 2. B 3. D
B
After years of pounding my knees and ankles in dashes and the long jump, pain ended my decades of track and field competition. But how do you live without the adrenaline (肾上腺素) of racing That’s simple. You just become sensible at age sixty and turn to competitive swimming! Suddenly, the pounding was gone, and so was the pain. However, in less than a month, I was fed up with pool laps and no sights. Now what
A friend in the Annapolis Striders had the answer. This marathoner said he had stayed fit by intense walking while healing from a running injury. “Try it,” he said. “It’s even a competitive sport.” Sure enough, a certain kind of energetic walking is a 100-year-old Olympic event called racewalking.
I took to this sport immediately. I didn’t have to enter races to be a racewalker. However, those who compete must follow rules and must please numerous hard-eyed judges or be disqualified (DQ). But for me, doing it was enough. It took me many months to become smooth in the style. I had lost a sport but had found another.
Then came a disaster. Lower back pain had arrived. “Surgery is a last solution,” I was told. Dr. Clifford Solomon, super-surgeon of Annapolis, Maryland, had the cure. It left me with full leg control, but a flopping (耷拉的) foot. I would be able to jog, but not meet racewalk rules. By chance I tuned the TV to an old movie showing Fred Astaire dancing up a storm. From the ankle down, his feet swiveled (旋转) in the very motion I needed. I turned off the TV and went to the Senior Center.
As the only man among twenty-nine students in the tap dancing class I learned that grandmothers are programmed to care for any wounded creature. Some paid particular attention to this seventy-five-year-old patient, staying after class to guide and inspire. With examples, humor, encouragement and advice, they taught me to tap dance. They cured my flopping foot.
Within a year, I was competing well enough to enter the USA Track and Field Nationals in Boston and break the American record for the 3,000- meter racewalk. And now, at eighty-six, I’m still competing and often thinking of those ladies.
4. Why did the author stop swimming
A. He couldn’t bear the pain any longer.
B. He lost the ability to compete with others.
C. He couldn’t adjust adrenaline to normal levels.
D. He was bored with it and couldn’t enjoy scenery.
5. What did the author spend many months doing
A. Visiting lots of strict judges. B. Perfecting his racewalking techniques.
C. Competing in racewalking events. D. Searching for alternatives to running.
6. What does the author want to stress in paragraph 5
A. He was the only one in need of care.
B. He engaged in diverse after-class activities.
C. He received the female classmates’ kindness.
D. The class was mostly comprised of elderly students.
7. Which of the following can best describe the author
A. Determined and conventional. B. Energetic and adventurous.
C. Committed and reliable. D. Responsible and courageous.
【答案】4. D 5. B 6. C 7. B
C
Time off is a treasure, but people often have to work practically twice as hard to prepare for it. There are projects to get ahead on, meetings to have about how to do tasks that you usually handle, requests to field from co-workers who know they soon won’t be able to reach you.
Some of the pressure that leads to the last- minute crunch may be coming from a desire not to leave tasks unfinished. According to Laura Giurge, a behavioral-science professor at the London School of Economics, many workers feel as though they must conquer their entire to-do list in order to be cut off from work and enjoy their vacation. “We think we need to finish all the things before holidays,” Giurge told me, “but then we ask, ‘When does it actually need to be finished ‘ And it turns out, probably two months from now.”
Another contributor to the pre-vacation pileup is a more general time-management phenomenon known as “deadline rush”-the idea that people tackle many tasks shortly before they need to be completed. With the single deadline of a vacation closing in on various tasks, some last-minute stress isn’t unusual.
Surely some of this urge to complete everything is a symptom of a culture that says people must first work in order to, as Giurge put it, be “deserving” of leisure. But some of it is psychological-having unfinished tasks can be mentally anxious. In the words of one academic paper, it can “cause an inner tension, originating from the need for closure.”
And Giurge suggested a fix inspired by something she’d recently heard while conducting a research study at a company. In an interview, one of the workers told Giurge that, in order to create unbroken time to catch up on important work tasks, they canceled the last two days of their trip but didn’t tell any co-workers.
To avoid the kind of pressure that would make someone cut their vacation short just to catch up on missions before officially returning to work, maybe, Giurge thought, it would be helpful to have an official day on either end of a long vacation that’s blocked off for easing into and out of time off.
8. What does the underlined word “crunch” in paragraph 2 refer to
A. Unpleasant situation. B. Inner desire.
C. Strict requirement. D. Quality time.
9. Why do people often feel stressed before the vacation
A. They are frightened of tasks piling up.
B They feel ashamed having tasks unfinished.
C. They prefer finishing everything to enjoy the vacation.
D. They are requested to complete the tasks as scheduled.
10. What’s Giurge’s attitude towards the pre-vacation pileup
A. Worried. B. Negative.
C. Favorable. D. Uninterested.
11. How can we ease the pressure according to the last paragraph
A. We can fix an extra day to adapt to the work schedule.
B. We can improve our work efficiency through practice.
C. We can use the vacation to catch up on missions.
D. We can finish the tasks after the vacation quickly.
【答案】8. A 9. C 10. B 11. A
D
While humans may think of agriculture as a uniquely human achievement, ants have been farming their own food for millions of years, a new study has revealed. Researchers found that ants began farming fungi (真菌) 66 million years ago, around the time an asteroid (小行星) struck Earth and caused a global mass extinction.
While the mass extinction was destructive for many species, including dinosaurs, it presented an opportunity for fungi. With plentiful rotten plant matter on the ground, ants developed an evolutionary partnership with fungi that still endures today. Over time, this relationship grew stronger, with ants improving their agricultural practices and developing advanced methods 27 million years ago, a process similar to the domestication of crops by humans. “Ants have been practicing agriculture and fungus farming for much longer than humans have existed,” Ted Schultz, lead author of the new paper, said in a statement. “We could probably learn something from the agricultural success of these ants over the past 66 million years.” Fungi-farming ants are particularly diverse in the Americas and the Caribbean, with nearly 250 different species engaged in this practice.
The research, published in the journal Science, analyzed genetic data from hundreds of ant and fungi species to create detailed evolutionary trees. These genetic timelines played an important role in revealing the evolution of ants’ agricultural techniques. The study builds on Schultz’s 35 years of research into ant-fungus relationships, during which he and his team collected thousands of genetic samples from Central and South America. By comparing wild fungal species with ants’ domesticated fungus, the researchers determined that ants have been farming fungi since shortly after the asteroid impact.
The ants have bacteria that can produce antibiotics (抗生素) to fight off diseases attacking their fungi. “Somehow, over the course of 66 million years, they’ve been able to continue to control crop disease and develop antibiotics that continue to be effective,” Schultz told Newsweek. “We’ve only been using antibiotics for less than100 years and we have major problems keeping up with resistance and developing new antibiotics.”
12. What can be inferred from paragraph 2
A. Ants began to co-exist with fungi 27 million years ago.
B. Around 250 species of ants worldwide took part in fungi farming.
C. Ants used more advanced ways of practicing agriculture than humans.
D. Dead plant matter provided conditions for fungi to expand.
13. What does paragraph 3 mainly focus on
A. The methods in the research process. B. The research findings on fungi farming.
C. The analysis of the genetic timeline. D. The impact of the asteroid event.
14. Which statement would Schultz probably agree with
A. Human history is much longer than that of ant agriculture.
B. The antibiotics produced by ants could be used to treat humans.
C. Further study could be focused on how to keep antibiotics effective.
D. It’s meaningless for humans to follow ants’ success story in farming.
15. What’s the best title for this text
A. Ants are smarter than humans
B. Agriculture isn’t unique to humans
C. Ants provided solutions for human farming
D. Ants mastered agriculture long before humans
【答案】12. D 13. A 14. C 15. D
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。
Uh oh. It happened again. You’ve walked into a room with a purpose, only to realize you have no idea why you’re there or what you were doing. Some people like to call them ‘brain farts’ — those moments when your brain seems to make you feel or look stupid.
What causes brain farts Forgetting a name, losing focus, or struggling to think clearly are pretty standard and often linked to stress, fatigue, and multitasking demand. ____16____ This model contains information about the environment and the various thoughts and actions that relate to it.
While brain farts are a part of life, there are things you can do to minimize how often they happen — and deal with them gracefully when they do:
Stay organized: Keeping your space neat, tidy, and organized can go a long way toward minimizing mental mishaps (晦气). ____17____
Write things down: If you tend to forget certain information, such as names, dates, or appointments, start writing them down as soon as you can. ____18____ Sometimes, just the act of writing it down can help strengthen it more firmly in your memory.
Use active listening: ____19____ “It’s also helpful to resist the urge to multitask,” Dr. Fenkel suggests. “Instead, try to focus on one thing at a time, allowing your brain to engage with the task entirely.”
____20____: Brain farts are more likely to happen when you are tired, so strive to get enough rest each night. “Prioritizing sleep is super important; a well-rested brain is sharper and less prone (易于) to errors,” Dr. Fenkel says.
If these tricks aren’t helping, or if you notice that your memory problems are worsening, talk to your doctor. They can evaluate your memory for signs of a more serious problem — and suggest treatments or solutions that can help.
A. Get plenty of sleep
B. Enjoy a good night
C. Forgetful moments tend to strike when you’re multitasking.
D. According to researchers, it happens because our brains create a temporary “event model.”
E. Make a designated spot for the items you use regularly, like your keys, glasses, and wallet.
F. As you take in new information, work on staying fully engaged and giving it your full attention.
G. You might keep a notebook handy or try an online app to keep track of this type of information.
【答案】16. D 17. E 18. G 19. F 20. A
第三部分 语言运用(共两节，满分30分)
第一节(共15小题，每小题1分，满分15分)
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
“You want to learn what now ” my husband asked.
“The drums. I want to learn the drums,” I replied.
He was ____21____ . Throughout our 35 years of marriage, I’ve shown almost no interest in music, other than ____22____ saying, “Can you turn it down ”
____23____ this, I’ve spent my career working on music variety television shows like The Grammys and The Voice and ____24____ that made me “drum curious”.
I saw recent research that said playing music can ____25____ cognitive (认知的) function, which aroused my desire to learn it. With the kids grown and my work slowing down, I finally ____26____ for a free drum lesson. Immediately I got ____27____ about it.
The sight of my teacher only worsened my nerves. He was a musician in his 20s, looking like he had just got out of bed. But he ____28____ me with his enthusiasm. “We get people of all ages,” he insisted.
He taught me how to count ____29____. Then it was time to attempt a rhythm. I expected that drumming would be physically ____30____. For someone who was never good at sports or dance or even walking, this would be a challenge.
As I ____31____ a basic rhythm, I started to lean into it a bit. It was fun! At the end of class, he said I did great. I left the class feeling happy.
Eager to ____32____, I watched online drum videos and found comments from others of my age learning drums for the first time. Despite feeling indulgent (放纵的) after a lifetime of ____33____ such pleasures , knowing others of my age were taking classes made it feel more okay.
In my ____34____ class, I managed to hit patterns of quarter, eighth, and sixteenth notes. My teacher said he was proud of me. Then I went home and practiced more because you never know when a famous musician might call, needing someone to____35____ him or her for a few songs.
21. A. supportive B. speechless C. embarrassed D. talkative
22. A. eagerly B. eventually C. willingly D. occasionally
23. A. Without B. Before C. Despite D. Besides
24. A. otherwise B. instead C. somehow D. still
25. A. preserve B. decrease C. evaluate D. supply
26. A. paid B. called C. accounted D. registered
27. A. crazy B. anxious C. annoyed D. confident
28. A. amused B. confused C. surprised D. reminded
29. A. numbers B. beats C. notes D. keys
30. A. damaging B. appealing C. relaxing D. demanding
31. A. drummed B. sang C. danced D. recited
32. A. escape B. struggle C. advance D. pause
33. A. showing B. containing C. promising D. pursuing
34. A. first B. favorite C. familiar D. latest
35. A. stand in for B. catch up with C. drop in on D. fit in with
【答案】21. B 22. D 23. C 24. C 25. A 26. D 27. B 28. C 29. B 30. D 31. A 32. C 33. B 34. D 35. A
第二节(共10小题，每小题1.5分，满分15分)
阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
Third-century poet Cao Zhi’s Luo Shen Fu(Rhapsody on the Nymph (仙女) of the Luo River)tells about a story of a romantic meeting with a nymph ____36____ (live) in the Luo River and the sadness of her ill-fated relationship with a mortal man (凡人).
Cao used graceful words, especially in creating many phrases that inspire visualization, ____37____ (praise) the goddess’ elegance, making the poem____38____ classic throughout the following centuries. Its popularity was even increased by fourth-century ____39____ (distinguish) artist Gu Kaizhi, who made a vivid painting to show the love story.
The encounter takes place when Cao, a prince of the kingdom of Wei, and his attendants ____40____ (return) to his fiefdom (封地). ____41____ comes into sight is amazing when they stop on the bank of the Luo River to rest and feed their horses. An ____42____ (extraordinary) attractive woman stands by the mountain. Cao describes her: “She moves as lightly as a swan and as softly as a dragon.” “Seen from afar, her brightness is like____43____ of the sun rising above the rosy clouds of dawn. Close-up, she is as shining as a lotus flower in clear waters.” When the nymph disappears into the waves, sadness seizes Cao as he continues his journey home.
Cao Zhi ____44____ (defeat) and sidelined by his brother, Cao Pi, who inherited the crown. Cao Zhi constantly bore political setbacks and depression until his death at age 40, so Cao’s imagined romance with the nymph is believed to be a metaphor, _____45_____ the nymph represents his unfulfilled political ambitions.
【答案】36. living
37. to praise
38 a 39. distinguished
40. are returning
41. What 42. extraordinarily
43. that 44. was defeated
45. where
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，你校广播站英语节目“Music Enriches Life”正在面向全校征徇能帮助缓解高中生学习和心理压力的音乐或歌曲。请你给负责人 Eric写一封邮件，内容包括：
1. 介绍推荐乐曲；
2. 说明推荐理由。
注意：
1. 写作词数应为80左右；
2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
Dear Eric,
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Yours sincerely,
Li Hua
【答案】Dear Eric,
Knowing that you are planning to collect some music that helps relieve our learning stress, I’m writing with great delight and excitement to share with you my ideal music-Schubert’s Serenade.
This piece is one of the masterpieces of Austrian composer Schubert, who is known as “Lord of the Songs”. And the entire piece lasts less than ten minutes, which makes it a perfect choice to play in the ten-minute break. At the sound of the music, you will find yourself immersed in its beautiful melody and fantastic world, thus forgetting your worries and sufferings. Admittedly, it is an effective way to reduce anxiety and stress, get refreshed and stay focused in class if you listen attentively on a daily basis.
With an increasing number of students under various stress, finding a way out is a must. So, why not give this melody a shot
Yours sincerely,
Li Hua
第二节(满分25分)
47. 阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。
Two tickets. Only two tickets to the big basketball game. Three pairs of eyes all focused on the tickets in Dad’s outstretched hand.
Marcus, the oldest, spoke the question running through everyone’s mind, “Only two tickets But, Dad, which of us gets to go with you ”
“Yeah, Daddy, who gets to go ” repeated Caleb, the youngest.
“Dad, can’t you get any more tickets ” I asked. I might be the in-between sister, but I was just as eager as my basketball-crazy brothers were for a night out with Dad.
“I’m afraid not,” Dad answered. “Mr. Williams only has two tickets. He was thoughtful enough to offer the tickets to me when he found out he’d be out of town this weekend.”
Dad scratched his head, “Caleb, don’t you think you’re a little young to enjoy a professional basketball game… ”“Am not! Am not!” Caleb insisted. Dad shifted his focus and tried again. “Jill, since you’re a girl…” Before I could respond, Mom came to my defense and said, “Jill’s out there practicing with Marcus and all of his friends, and she’s better than quite a few of them, too!”
“Okay, okay,” Dad smiled. “I guess I’ll have to figure out a fair way of choosing between the three of you by tomorrow morning. I’ll have to decide who deserves it most.”
The next morning, Marcus hurried into the kitchen. “Where’s Dad ” he asked. “He and Mom went to pick up some books from the library,” Caleb answered, digging his spoon into a bowl of cereal (麦片).
“And he said we should all get started on our Saturday household chores as soon as we finish breakfast,” I added.
“Chores! He’s got to be kidding. ” Marcus said. “How can we concentrate on chores when the big game is a mere eleven hours away ” “I’m going to play basketball for a while,” Marcus announced.
“Wait for me!” Caleb added and dashed after his brother. The back door slammed shut as the two boys ran down the driveway.
注意：
1. 续写词数应为150左右;
2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
I looked at the breakfast table in front of me: bits of cereal here and there.
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A white envelope was taped to the inside of the rubbish bin lid(盖子).
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
【答案】Paragraph 1:
I looked at the breakfast table in front of me: bits of cereal here and there. I pushed my chair away from the table, thinking to myself: “It looks like Saturday morning chores start right here.” As I was doing the chores, I heard the basketball bouncing off the driveway. I glanced out of the kitchen window and saw Marcus practicing shooting the basketball while Caleb cheered him on. Frustrated, though, I continued the household chores. I carried the rubbish outside the back door and opened the lid on the rubbish bin.
Paragraph 2:
A white envelope was taped to the inside of the rubbish bin lid (盖子). Someone had written the word “Congratulations!” on the cover. I opened the envelope and pulled out a folded piece of paper, “To the one who deserves to go”, the paper read, and inside of it was a ticket to the basketball game! That evening turned out to be as special as I’d imagined: Two seats at Center Court, and Dad and I cheering our team to victory. It was also a lesson in responsibility from a dad, who let his kids make their own choices and earn their own rewards.
听力答案：1-5 BCABA 6-10 BCBAA 11-15 CCBAA 16-20CABBC