上海市进才中学高三英语月考 20200414
满分 140 分 时间 120 分钟 命题： 审题：
Listening Comprehension
Section A
Directions: In Section A, you will hear ten short conversations between two speakers. At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. The conversations and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a conversation and the question about it, read the four possible answers on your paper, and decide which one is the best answer to the question you have heard.
A. At a railway station. B. At an airport. C. In a park. D. In Germany.
A. By metro. B. By bicycle. C. By car. D. On foot.
A. The woman is not a successful tourist guide.
The woman has visited all the countries in the world.
The man is from Africa.
The woman hasn’t been to any African country.
A. Godfather barely surprises viewers.
Godfather is worth watching repeatedly.
Every classic should be watched for at least 6 times.
The plot of Godfather is hard to believe.
5. A. 50 mph. B. 100 mph. C. 15 mph. D. 30 mph.
A. Do some outdoor exercise. B. Buy some coffee.
C. Continue with the lecture. D. Try to make the room less dry.
A. Doctor and nurse. B. Interviewer and interviewee.
C. Teacher and student. D. Boss and secretary.
8. A. 2 p.m. B. 2:30 p.m. C. 4:30 p.m. D. 4:40 p.m.
A. The ring is not hers. B. She doesn’t have gold rings.
She prefers gold to silver. D. She lost her silver ring.
A. The screen doesn’t have to be cleaned.
The keyboard also needs cleaning.
The man shouldn’t do the cleaning.
There’s not enough time to clean the computer.
Section B
Directions: In Section B, you will hear several passages and longer conversations, after each passage or conversation, you will be asked several questions. The passages and the conversations will be read twice, but the questions will be spoken only once. When you hear a question, read the four possible answers on your paper and decide which one is the best answer to the question you have heard.
Questions 11 to 13 are based on the following passage.
A. His university education focused on theoretical knowledge.
His dream at university was to become a volunteer.
He took pride in having contributed to the world.
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He felt honored to study English literature.
A. He participated in many discussions
He went through challenging survival tests
He wrote quite a few papers on voluntary work
He did well in countless interviews and presentations.
A. He experienced some difficulty adapting to the local culture
He learned to communicate in the local language.
He had overcome all his weaknesses before he left for home.
He was chosen as the most respectable teacher by his student
Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage.
A. Waiting for the sea to calm.
Turning off the engines of the searching warships.
Searching the area near the seabed where the tail of the plane was found.
Asking passing ships to change their routes.
A. Its overseas business is performed well.
The employers added more jobs than expected.
The unemployment rate reached its highest point since 2008.
The economy shows a weakening sign this year.
A. Beijing. B. Havana. C. Montreal. D. Indonesia.
Questions 17 and 18 are based on the following conversation.
A. David Jackson. B. The woman. C. Peter Jones. D. David Jones.
A. At 6:30, next Wednesday. B. At 6:30, tomorrow.
C. At 6:00, this Wednesday. D. At 6:00, tomorrow.
Questions 19 and 20 are based on the following conversation.
A. The differences between the big shopping centers and small shops.
People’s shopping habits.
The quality of the goods in the shopping centers.
People’s shopping experiences online.
A. The quality of the goods. B. The surroundings of the shops.
C. The attitude of the shop assistant. D. The prices of the goods.
Grammar and Vocabulary Section A
Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.
Science fiction often presents us with planets that speak a single language. However,
21 humans can express themselves in several thousand languages is a delight. Few would welcome the loss of this variety, and, along with it, a multiplicity of nations and cultures.
Unfortunately, the days _22 English shares the planet with thousands of other languages are numbered. A traveler to the future is likely to notice two things about the
language landscape of Earth. One, there will be vastly fewer languages. Two, languages will be
_23 (complicated) than they are today.
By 2115, it’s possible that only about 600 languages will be left on the planet as opposed to today’s 6,000. Too often, colonization has led to the disappearance of languages: Native speakers are punished _24 using their own languages. Urbanization has only furthered the destruction by bringing people away from their homelands to cities where a single language dominates.
In addition, it is easy for speakers to associate larger languages with opportunities and smaller ones with backwardness. Consequently, people stop passing on smaller languages to their children.
There are diligent efforts _25 (keep) endangered languages from dying. Sadly, few are likely to lead to communities’ _26 (raise) children in the languages, which is the only way the languages exist as their full selves.
Instead, many communities create new versions of the languages, with smaller vocabularies and simpler grammar. The Irish Gaelic ( 盖 尔 语 ) proudly spoken by today’s English-Gaelic bilinguals is an example, something that one might call a “New Gaelic.”
Linguists have no single term yet for these new speech varieties, _27 from Germany’s “Kiezdeutsch” to Singapore’s “Singlish,” the world is witnessing the birth of more optimized versions of old languages. This simplification should not be taken as a sign of decline. All of the “optimized” languages remain full languages in every sense of the term.
We _28 regret the eclipse of a world where 6,000 different languages
_29 (speak), but fortunately, it seems a decent amount of linguistic diversity will be preserved. Besides, _30 languages become easier to pick up, the future may promise even more mutual comprehension.
Section B
Directions: Complete the following passage with the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. There is one extra word which you don’t need.
A. marks B. released C. protective D. essential E. outbreak F. confirmed
G. restrictions H. objection I. discharged J. contain K. wake
NEW DELHI - The first case of the 2019-20 coronavirus pandemic in India was reported on 30 January 2020. So far, India has suspended "all existing visas, except diplomatic, official, UN/international organizations, employment, project visas" until April 15. India's federal health ministry said this Wednesday morning that the death toll due to COVID-19 in India rose to 149 and the total number of _31 cases in the country reached 5,194.
"As of 8:00 am (local time) today 149 deaths related to novel coronavirus have been recorded in the country," reads the information _32 by the ministry. On Tuesday evening the number of COVID-19 cases in the country was 4789 and the death toll was 124.
According to ministry officials, so far 402 people have been _33 from hospitals after showing improvement. "The number of active cases in the country right now is 4,643," reads the information.
Wednesday _34 the 15th straight day of ongoing 21-day lockdown across the
country announced by the government to _35 the spread of the pandemic. Authorities have imposed strict curfew-like _36 to prevent the movement of people across the country. All road, rail and air services have been suspended in the _37 of the lockdown, except _38 services which are exempted. The three-week lockdown is expected to end on April 14.
India's federal home minister Amit Shah has asked authorities to take quick and stern action against individuals involved in hoarding and black marketing. Meanwhile, Indian Council of Medical Research said it has no _39 to state governments setting up convenient sample collection sites. However, the top health research body said its guidelines should be followed and the sample collection should be done using recommended personal _40 equipment.
Reading Comprehension Section A
Directions: For each blank in the following passage, there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.
A new phone app uses vibrations from smart phones to warn people about earthquakes.
The phone app _41 sudden shaking of the earth’s surface through sensors in smart phones. It is called MyShake. It is the work of four researchers at the University of California, Berkeley. They said they created a worldwide warning system that would _42 people and give them time to prepare. The MyShake app is _43 only for Android phones.
Smart phones are _44 accelerometers (加速度感应器). These instruments measure
movement, like that of a car or airplane. MyShake uses phone accelerometers to measure seismic (地震的) activity. It has been _45 to know the difference between normal activity and earthquake movement. The software developers say their app is right 93 percent of the time.
A smart phone sends seismic information to the app developers. If the developers receive several notifications _46 , it recognizes that an earthquake might be taking place or will take place soon.
Using information sent from the app, the network then _47 the location and strength of the quake in real time. MyShake can record magnitude 5.0 earthquakes at distances of 10 kilometers or less.
MyShake uses very _48 power, according to its developers. Only when seismic activity is _49 by the app does it become active and sends data to the network. The app works best when your phone is resting on a _50 surface, like a table.
The developers hope that MyShake can add to information collected by the U.S. Geological Survey. That U.S. agency has created the Earthquake Early Warning System, also
_51 EEW. The EEW has deployed (部署) sensors for measuring quakes in many areas.
In places where no such equipment _52 , MyShake may be the only method of early quake _53 . The app also shows ways to stay safer during an earthquake. The developers say it will become more effective as more people use it.
“Our goal is to build a worldwide seismic network and use the data to _54 the effects of earthquakes on us as individuals and on society as a whole,” say the researchers.
The developers say they hope to add a feature that would _55 people about a possible tsunami: a huge wave after an earthquake.
41. A. reports B. recognizes C. reveals D. reviews
42. A. infer B. include C. influence D. inform
43. A. acquired B. available C. affordable D. approachable
44. A. equipped with B. made up of C. filled with D. in need of
45. A. programmed B. protected C. prohibited D. promised
46. A. from different places B. from one area
C. from the same phone D. from another developer
47. A. controls B. connects C. estimates D. receives
48. A. much B. little C. excessive D. green
49. A. activated B. sensed C. resisted D. issued
50. A. low B. wooden C. high D. flat
51. A. honored with B. called for C. known as D. defined as
52. A. exists B. forms C. counts D. exploits
53. A. protection B. diagnosis C. detection D. resistance
54. A. raise B. receive C. record D. reduce
55. A. confirm B. appoint C. alert D. acknowledge
Section B
Directions: Read the following three passages. Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage you have just read.
(A)
Learning how to cope with death has always been a central part of human existence. Even the Pixar movie Coco bases its story on the Mexican traditions of Dia de los Muertos. In this article, you will find out why and how Mexicans celebrate the Day of the Dead.
I once visited the Museum of Mummies in the Mexican city of Guanajuato with a Swedish friend. The mummies were displayed among fake cobwebs ( 蜘 蛛 网 ), and other cheap adornments (装饰物). Confronted with this seeming lack of respect for the dead, I explained to my shocked companion that Mexicans have a peculiarly different relationship with death to other cultures. As the Nobel Prize-winning Mexican writer Octavio Paz explained in his work:
“The Mexican ... is familiar with death, jokes about it, caresses it, sleeps with it, and celebrates it. True, there is as much fear in his attitude as in that of others, but at least death is not hidden away: he looks at it face to face, with impatience, disdain (鄙视) or irony.”
The celebration of the Day of the Dead — a week of festivities from 28 October to 2 November — is an essential part of this embracement of death that is particular to Mexican national identity. The popular belief is that the dead have divine permission to visit friends and relatives on earth and enjoy once again the pleasures of life. Therefore, Mexicans visit the graves of families and friends and adorn them with colorful flowers and offerings of food. The period is a joyous celebration of life, rather than a sober mourning of its passing.
The origins of the festival lie in the 16th-century fusion of the Aztecs’ belief in death as merely one part in the wider cycle of existence, their ritual venerations (仪式崇拜) and offerings to the goddess Mictecacihuatl (“Lady of the Dead”) for the deceased, and the Spanish
conquerors’ desire to accommodate these festivities within the Catholic celebrations of All Saints’ Day and All Souls’ Day.
In a country as socially and geographically diverse as Mexico, there is significant regional variation in the nature of festivities: the southern state of Chiapas is far more likely to focus its efforts on processions ( 队 伍 ) and public commemorations( 纪 念 ) of death than the valley of
Mexico, where the decoration of altars ( 供 坛 ) in homes and tombs of the deceased is more
popular. Urbanization, too, plays a large role in regional variations. For the south and rural areas the period holds far greater social and cultural significance than in the north and large cities; families and communities in rural areas will often spend large parts of the year preparing for the occasion.
Why does the author say “Mexicans have a peculiarly different relationship with death to other cultures?”
Because Mexicans always show their respect for death in the form of mummies.
Because Mexicans do not fear death or respect it.
Because adornments like flowers can be seen everywhere during the Day of the Dead.
Mexicans face death bravely rather than hide it away.
Which statement is NOT true according to the origins of the Day of the Dead?
It was the Aztecs who determined how to celebrate the Day of the Dead.
The Aztecs believed death was part of the wider cycle of existence.
The Aztecs would give offerings to the goddess of death for their lost loved ones.
The Spanish conquerors wanted to fit the festivities into some of their Catholic celebrations.
Why do Mexicans visit the graves of families and friends and offer colorful flowers and food?
Because they can ask God to permit the dead to visit them in this way.
To celebrate the joy of new life in spring.
Because the dead will be permitted to visit their families and enjoy the pleasure of life again.
Because this is an essential part of embracement of death.
Which of the following explains the role that urbanization plays in the regional variations of celebrating the Day of the Dead?
People in the south and rural areas put more emphasis on the occasion.
People in the valleys usually decorate the alters in homes and the tombs of the dead.
People in the north and big cities spend large part of the year preparing for the celebration.
The southern states do not care about the decoration of alters at home.
(B)
This booklet, prepared by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), provides an overview on depression. It will help you learn the things that everyone should know about depression.
This booklet is intended for informational purposes only and should not be considered a guide for making medical decisions. For more information on depression, please visit the NIMH website at www.nimh.nih.gov.
Depression is a real illness.
Sadness is something we all experience. It is a normal reaction to difficult times in life and usually passes with a little time. When a person has depression, however, it interferes with daily life and normal functioning. Doctors call this condition “depressive disorder.” It is a real illness. Many factors may play a role in depression.
Causes of Depression
Genetics, brain biology and chemistry
Life events such as trauma, loss of a loved one
A difficult relationship
Early childhood experience
Chronic illness, drug and alcohol abuse
Any stressful situation
Depression affects people in different ways.
Not everyone who is depressed experiences every symptom. Some people experience only a few symptoms; others have many. The seriousness and frequency of symptoms, and how long they last, vary depending on the individual and the stage of the illness.
Symptoms of Depression
Feelings of guilt, sadness, worthlessness, helplessness or hopelessness
Loss of interest or pleasure in hobbies and activities
Difficulty concentrating, remembering, making decisions
Persistent aches or pains
Insomnia
Appetite and/ or weight changes
Consistent fatigue and decreased energy
Thoughts of death or suicide, suicide attempts
Depression is treatable.
Depression, even the most serious cases, can be treated. The earlier treatment begins, the more effective it will be.
Dealing With Depression
Reach out and stay connected: Make real-life communication a priority! Spend time with other people and confide in a trusted friend or relative. Let them help you.
Try to be active and exercise: Aim for at least 30 minutes of exercise every day. This does not have to be all at once. A ten-minute walk can improve your mood for two hours.
Eat a healthy and mood-boosting diet: Reduce foods that contain caffeine, alcohol, trans fats, and foods with high levels of chemical preservatives as well as sugars.
Get a daily dose of sunlight: Sunlight can help improve your mood. Whenever possible, get outside during daylight hours and expose yourself to the sun.
Challenge negative thinking: Nothing is as bad as it seems at first. Try to move your focus away from concentrating on what is bad in your life.
Find professional help: If none of the above tips help, do not wait for the symptoms to disappear. Seek professional help.
You are not alone.
In addition to your treatment, you could also join a support group. At the meetings, people share experiences, feelings, information, and coping strategies for living with depression.
Depression Around the World
Nearly seven percent of American teens and adults are currently living with depression.
About 300 million people around the world are suffering from depression.
According to the article, depression is NOT something that .
① makes a person feel a little bit sad
② always has a clear cause
③ a person can get rid of
④ happens to a small group of people
A. ①②③ B. ①②④ C. ①③④ D. ②③④
According to the article, who might be suffering from depression?
A teenager who frequently complained of stomachaches before going to school and preferred to stay in her room alone.
A firefighter who had a sleepless night after a tough task.
A mother who felt really exhausted after helping her child with her homework.
An old man who had no appetite for his favorite food and decided to try a new diet.
If you had a friend who was living with depression, you should probably suggest he .
make an overseas trip all by himself
stay at the gym and work out day and night
concentrate on the negative feelings and try to overcome them
take professional advice and accept medical intervention
(C)
On Wednesday, two things happened. In Syria, 80 people were killed by government airstrikes. Meanwhile, in Florida, Elon Musk’s SpaceX successfully launched and fired a sports car into space. Guess which story has dominated mainstream news sites?
The launch of Musk’s Falcon Heavy rocket, the most powerful ever launched by a private company, went off successfully. Musk sent his cherry-red Tesla roadster running toward Mars, launching “a new space age”. The event attracted phenomenal publicity and made the rocket launch a masterstroke of advertising for Tesla.
Meanwhile, in Syria, where hundreds of thousands of refugees may be forced to return to unsafe homes, a UN human rights coordinator for Syria said despondently(沮丧地) that he was no longer sure why he bothers to videotape the effects of bombing, since nobody ever pays attention: He wondered what level of violence it would take to make the world care.
There is, perhaps, no better way to appreciate the tragedy of 21st-century global inequality than by watching a billionaire spend $90m launching a $100,000 car into space.
Musk said he wanted to participate in a space race because “races are exciting” and that while strapping his car to a rocket may be “silly and fun … silly and fun things are important”. Thus, anyone who mentions the huge waste the project involves, or the various social uses to which these resources could be put, can be dismissed as a killjoy.
But one doesn’t have to hate fun to question the justification for pursuing a costly new
space race at exactly this moment. If we examine the situation honestly, it becomes hard to defend a project like this.
A mission to Mars does indeed sound exciting, but it’s important to have our priorities straight. First, perhaps we could make it so that a child no longer dies of malaria every two minutes. Or we could try to address the level of poverty in Alabama which has become so extreme that the UN investigator did not believe it could occur in a first-world country. Perhaps when violence, poverty and disease are solved, then we can head for the stars.
Many might think that what Elon Musk chooses to do with his billions is Elon Musk’s business alone. If he wanted to spend all his money on medicine for children, that would be nice, but if he’d like to spend it making big explosions and sending his convertible on a million-mile space voyage, that’s his right.
But Musk is only rich enough to afford these money-consuming projects because we have allowed social inequalities to arise in the first place. If wealth were actually distributed fairly in this country, nobody would be in a position to fund his own private space program.
Elon Musk is right: silly and fun things are important. But some of them are an indefensible waste of resources. While there are still humanitarian crises such as that in Syria, nobody can justify vast spending on rocketry experiments.
Why does the writer mention the two pieces of news at the beginning of the passage?
To highlight the significance of SpaceX’s successful launch of a rocket and a car into space.
To illustrate the inequality of wealth distribution and the consequent inequality of attention distribution.
To appeal to the government for more attention to the air strikes and refugee crisis in Syria.
To find out which news dominated the mainstream news sites.
Why did the UN human rights coordinator for Syria feel disappointed?
Because nobody appreciated his work and all the efforts he made.
Because the violence in Syria is not serious enough to make the world care.
Because however hard he tried, nobody seemed to care about the situation in Syria.
Because he had great difficulty videotaping the effects of bombing.
What is implied in paragraph in 6 and 7?
The space project of SpaceX cost the government too much money.
Addressing problems of violence, poverty and diseases should be our top priority.
Space programs are a waste of money that cannot be justified.
It kills the fun to question the justification of the pursuit of space programs.
What does the writer mainly want to tell us?
We should pay equal attention to space projects and solving social problems.
No private companies should be allowed to spend money in rocketry experiments.
The successful launch of SpaceX has distracted the world from more important things.
The money and resources used in space projects could have been used to deal with various social problems.
Section C
Directions: Complete the following passage by using the sentences in the box. Each sentence can only be used once. Note that there are two sentences more than you need.
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He
inspired
our
imagination
and
hoped
we
could
use
it
to
make
the
world
a
better
place.
If all these entertainment products can be traced to one person, it would be Stan Lee,
who
died last November at the age of
95.
Lee also appeared in a number of Marvel movies, watering his lawn, delivering the mail,
and
so
on.
In
order
to
keep
multiple
stories
going
at
the
same
time,
Lee
wove
them
together
into
a
seamless(
无缝的
) fictional
world.
Under
Lee,
Marvel
transformed
the
comic
book
world
by
humanizing
its
characters.
Through the honesty of guys like Spider-Man, we learn about different aspects of
human
nature.
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Think of Spider-Man, Iron Man and Ant-Man. Think of Black Panther, the Mighty Thor and the X-Men. Think of the Incredible Hulk, the Fantastic Four and all the other superheroes that have stimulated the popular imagination. 67 . From a small office in Manhattan in the 1960s, he helped create a lineup of fictional heroes that have crossed from page to screen in a series of TV and movie adaptations and changed the face of popular culture.
For many, he was the face of Marvel, if not comic books in general, witnessing the company’s rise to become an international media giant. As a writer, editor, publisher and Hollywood executive, he played a critical role in what comic fans call one of the medium’s golden ages.
68 . Lee gave the heroes flaws and insecurities, as well as an awareness of trends, social causes and a sense of humor, trying to “make them real flesh-and-blood characters with personality,” he told The Washington Post in 1992. “That’s what any story should have, but comics didn’t have it until that point. They were all cardboard figures.”
69 . Iron Man, for example, could join forces with the Fantastic Four, and Captain America could find himself a wedding guest alongside Doctor Strange. Lee created a fictional universe for readers to explore — one that made readers buy multiple series to get the whole story.
“I used to think what I did was not very important,” Lee told the Chicago Tribune in 2014. “People are building bridges and participating in medical research, and here I was working on stories about fictional people who do crazy things and wear costumes. But I suppose I have come to realize that entertainment is not easily dismissed.”
Stan Lee was as extraordinary as the characters he created, said Disney chairman and CEO Bob Iger. Indeed, Lee worked tirelessly his whole life creating great characters for the world to enjoy. 70 . His legacy will outlive us all.
Summary Writing (71)
Directions: Read the following passage. Summarize the main idea and the main point(s) of the passage in no more than 60 words. Use your own words as far as possible.
Standing desks have been praised for their positive effects on physical health, reducing sitting time and lowering certain health risks linked to a sedentary( 久坐的) lifestyle. But could standing desks have positive mental effects?
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New research suggests that students may think best when they are on their feet. It offers some of the first evidence of mental benefits of standing desks in classrooms.
Testing was done on high school freshmen who used standing desks, evaluating them at the beginning and end of the school year. Dr. Ranjana Mehta, an assistant professor at the Texas A&M School of Public Health, led the experiments aiming to assess standing desks’ mental benefits.
Through computerized tests, students’ executive functions were evaluated. Executive functions are the cognitive skills used to analyze tasks and break them into steps, and are directly related to academic needs like time management, memorizing facts and solving multi-step
problems. These functions are largely controlled by frontal(前额的) brain regions, so researchers
used a portable brain-imaging device to examine any related changes.
“Test results indicated that continued use of standing desks was associated with significant improvements in executive functions and working memory abilities,” Mehta said. “Changes in corresponding brain activation patterns were also observed.”
“Interestingly, our research showed the use of standing desks improved mental function, which is consistent with results from previous studies on school-based exercise programs,” Mehta noted.
Policymakers, public health professionals and school administrators should consider the positive effects of standing desks and make some simple changes in classrooms that will have the potential to increase energy expenditure and develop cognitive skills. That would be a valuable contribution to the educational world.
Translation
Directions: Translate the following sentences into English, using the words given in the brackets.
72. 有些家长从来没有意识到，替孩子们做所有事情其实对孩子们的成长弊大于利。（It）
73. 专家认为 2019 冠状病毒病（COVID-19)的疫苗可能需要 12 至 18 个月才能成功研发出来。（take）
74. 各种在线学习课程会把你的时间表排满，所以你得抽出充足的时间去放松或运动，正如 你在校园学习时一样。（set aside)
75. 当被要求居家隔离并保持社交距离时，很多人用各种活动自娱自乐，以乐观心态应对这 场危机。(entertain)
Guided Writing
Directions: Write an English composition in 120 -150 words according to the instructions given below in Chinese.
最近新冠病毒肆虐的特殊时期，全国各地大中小学都在组织学生在家上网课，学生利用
电脑、手机以及各种 App 学习。 经历了两个多月的网上学习体验，请把居家上网课和在学 校课堂学习做一个比较，并说明你更喜欢哪一种方式及理由。
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上海市进才中学高三英语月考 20200414
满分 140 分 时间 120 分钟 命题： 审题：
I. Listening Comprehension
Section A
Directions: In Section A, you will hear ten short conversations between two speakers. At the end
of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. The conversations and the
questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a conversation and the question about it, read
the four possible answers on your paper, and decide which one is the best answer to the question
you have heard.
1. A. At a railway station. B. At an airport. C. In a park. D. In Germany.
2. A. By metro. B. By bicycle. C. By car. D. On foot.
3. A. The woman is not a successful tourist guide.
B. The woman has visited all the countries in the world.
C. The man is from Africa.
D. The woman hasn’t been to any African country.
4. A. Godfather barely surprises viewers.
B. Godfather is worth watching repeatedly.
C. Every classic should be watched for at least 6 times.
D. The plot of Godfather is hard to believe.
5. A. 50 mph. B. 100 mph. C. 15 mph. D. 30 mph.
6. A. Do some outdoor exercise. B. Buy some coffee.
C. Continue with the lecture. D. Try to make the room less dry.
7. A. Doctor and nurse. B. Interviewer and interviewee.
C. Teacher and student. D. Boss and secretary.
8. A. 2 p.m. B. 2:30 p.m. C. 4:30 p.m. D. 4:40 p.m.
9. A. The ring is not hers. B. She doesn’t have gold rings.
C. She prefers gold to silver. D. She lost her silver ring.
10. A. The screen doesn’t have to be cleaned.
B. The keyboard also needs cleaning.
C. The man shouldn’t do the cleaning.
D. There’s not enough time to clean the computer.
Section B
Directions: In Section B, you will hear several passages and longer conversations, after each
passage or conversation, you will be asked several questions. The passages and the conversations
will be read twice, but the questions will be spoken only once. When you hear a question, read the
four possible answers on your paper and decide which one is the best answer to the question you
have heard.
Questions 11 to 13 are based on the following passage.
11. A. His university education focused on theoretical knowledge.
B. His dream at university was to become a volunteer.
C. He took pride in having contributed to the world.
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D. He felt honored to study English literature.
12. A. He participated in many discussions
B. He went through challenging survival tests
C. He wrote quite a few papers on voluntary work
D. He did well in countless interviews and presentations.
13. A. He experienced some difficulty adapting to the local culture
B. He learned to communicate in the local language.
C. He had overcome all his weaknesses before he left for home.
D. He was chosen as the most respectable teacher by his student
Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage.
14. A. Waiting for the sea to calm.
B. Turning off the engines of the searching warships.
C. Searching the area near the seabed where the tail of the plane was found.
D. Asking passing ships to change their routes.
15. A. Its overseas business is performed well.
B. The employers added more jobs than expected.
C. The unemployment rate reached its highest point since 2008.
D. The economy shows a weakening sign this year.
16. A. Beijing. B. Havana. C. Montreal. D. Indonesia.
Questions 17 and 18 are based on the following conversation.
17. A. David Jackson. B. The woman. C. Peter Jones. D. David Jones.
18. A. At 6:30, next Wednesday. B. At 6:30, tomorrow.
C. At 6:00, this Wednesday. D. At 6:00, tomorrow.
Questions 19 and 20 are based on the following conversation.
19. A. The differences between the big shopping centers and small shops.
B. People’s shopping habits.
C. The quality of the goods in the shopping centers.
D. People’s shopping experiences online.
20. A. The quality of the goods. B. The surroundings of the shops.
C. The attitude of the shop assistant. D. The prices of the goods.
II. Grammar and Vocabulary
Section A
Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and
grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of
the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.
Science fiction often presents us with planets that speak a single language. However,
21 humans can express themselves in several thousand languages is a delight. Few
would welcome the loss of this variety, and, along with it, a multiplicity of nations and cultures.
Unfortunately, the days _22 English shares the planet with thousands of
other languages are numbered. A traveler to the future is likely to notice two things about the
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language landscape of Earth. One, there will be vastly fewer languages. Two, languages will be
_23 (complicated) than they are today.
By 2115, it’s possible that only about 600 languages will be left on the planet as opposed to
today’s 6,000. Too often, colonization has led to the disappearance of languages: Native speakers
are punished _24 using their own languages. Urbanization has only furthered the
destruction by bringing people away from their homelands to cities where a single language
dominates.
In addition, it is easy for speakers to associate larger languages with opportunities and
smaller ones with backwardness. Consequently, people stop passing on smaller languages to
their children.
There are diligent efforts _25 (keep) endangered languages from dying.
Sadly, few are likely to lead to communities’ _26 (raise) children in the
languages, which is the only way the languages exist as their full selves.
Instead, many communities create new versions of the languages, with smaller vocabularies
and simpler grammar. The Irish Gaelic ( 盖 尔 语 ) proudly spoken by today’s English-Gaelic
bilinguals is an example, something that one might call a “New Gaelic.”
Linguists have no single term yet for these new speech varieties, _27 from
Germany’s “Kiezdeutsch” to Singapore’s “Singlish,” the world is witnessing the birth of more
optimized versions of old languages. This simplification should not be taken as a sign of decline.
All of the “optimized” languages remain full languages in every sense of the term.
We _28 regret the eclipse of a world where 6,000 different languages
_29 (speak), but fortunately, it seems a decent amount of linguistic diversity will
be preserved. Besides, _30 languages become easier to pick up, the future may
promise even more mutual comprehension.
Section B
Directions: Complete the following passage with the words in the box. Each word can only be
used once. There is one extra word which you don’t need.
A. marks B. released C. protective D. essential E. outbreak F. confirmed
G. restrictions H. objection I. discharged J. contain K. wake
NEW DELHI - The first case of the 2019-20 coronavirus pandemic in India was reported on 30
January 2020. So far, India has suspended "all existing visas, except diplomatic, official,
UN/international organizations, employment, project visas" until April 15. India's federal health
ministry said this Wednesday morning that the death toll due to COVID-19 in India rose to 149
and the total number of _31 cases in the country reached 5,194.
"As of 8:00 am (local time) today 149 deaths related to novel coronavirus have been recorded
in the country," reads the information _32 by the ministry. On Tuesday evening the
number of COVID-19 cases in the country was 4789 and the death toll was 124.
According to ministry officials, so far 402 people have been _33 from hospitals
after showing improvement. "The number of active cases in the country right now is 4,643,"
reads the information.
Wednesday _34 the 15th straight day of ongoing 21-day lockdown across the
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country announced by the government to _35 the spread of the pandemic.
Authorities have imposed strict curfew-like _36 to prevent the movement of people
across the country. All road, rail and air services have been suspended in the _37 of
the lockdown, except _38 services which are exempted. The three-week lockdown is
expected to end on April 14.
India's federal home minister Amit Shah has asked authorities to take quick and stern action
against individuals involved in hoarding and black marketing. Meanwhile, Indian Council of
Medical Research said it has no _39 to state governments setting up convenient
sample collection sites. However, the top health research body said its guidelines should be
followed and the sample collection should be done using recommended personal _40
equipment.
III. Reading Comprehension
Section A
Directions: For each blank in the following passage, there are four words or phrases marked A, B,
C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.
A new phone app uses vibrations from smart phones to warn people about earthquakes.
The phone app _41 sudden shaking of the earth’s surface through sensors in smart
phones. It is called MyShake. It is the work of four researchers at the University of California,
Berkeley. They said they created a worldwide warning system that would _42 people
and give them time to prepare. The MyShake app is _43 only for Android phones.
Smart phones are _44 accelerometers (加速度感应器). These instruments measure
movement, like that of a car or airplane. MyShake uses phone accelerometers to measure seismic
(地震的) activity. It has been _45 to know the difference between normal activity and
earthquake movement. The software developers say their app is right 93 percent of the time.
A smart phone sends seismic information to the app developers. If the developers receive
several notifications _46 , it recognizes that an earthquake might be taking place or will
take place soon.
Using information sent from the app, the network then _47 the location and
strength of the quake in real time. MyShake can record magnitude 5.0 earthquakes at distances
of 10 kilometers or less.
MyShake uses very _48 power, according to its developers. Only when seismic
activity is _49 by the app does it become active and sends data to the network.
The app works best when your phone is resting on a _50 surface, like a table.
The developers hope that MyShake can add to information collected by the U.S. Geological
Survey. That U.S. agency has created the Earthquake Early Warning System, also
_51 EEW. The EEW has deployed (部署) sensors for measuring quakes in many areas.
In places where no such equipment _52 , MyShake may be the only method of early
quake _53 . The app also shows ways to stay safer during an earthquake. The
developers say it will become more effective as more people use it.
“Our goal is to build a worldwide seismic network and use the data to _54 the
effects of earthquakes on us as individuals and on society as a whole,” say the researchers.
The developers say they hope to add a feature that would _55 people about a
possible tsunami: a huge wave after an earthquake.
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41. A. reports B. recognizes C. reveals D. reviews
42. A. infer B. include C. influence D. inform
43. A. acquired B. available C. affordable D. approachable
44. A. equipped with B. made up of C. filled with D. in need of
45. A. programmed B. protected C. prohibited D. promised
46. A. from different places B. from one area
C. from the same phone D. from another developer
47. A. controls B. connects C. estimates D. receives
48. A. much B. little C. excessive D. green
49. A. activated B. sensed C. resisted D. issued
50. A. low B. wooden C. high D. flat
51. A. honored with B. called for C. known as D. defined as
52. A. exists B. forms C. counts D. exploits
53. A. protection B. diagnosis C. detection D. resistance
54. A. raise B. receive C. record D. reduce
55. A. confirm B. appoint C. alert D. acknowledge
Section B
Directions: Read the following three passages. Each passage is followed by several questions or
unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the
one that fits best according to the information given in the passage you have just read.
(A)
Learning how to cope with death has always been a central part of human existence. Even
the Pixar movie Coco bases its story on the Mexican traditions of Dia de los Muertos. In this
article, you will find out why and how Mexicans celebrate the Day of the Dead.
I once visited the Museum of Mummies in the Mexican city of Guanajuato with a Swedish
friend. The mummies were displayed among fake cobwebs ( 蜘 蛛 网 ), and other cheap
adornments (装饰物). Confronted with this seeming lack of respect for the dead, I explained to
my shocked companion that Mexicans have a peculiarly different relationship with death to other
cultures. As the Nobel Prize-winning Mexican writer Octavio Paz explained in his work:
“The Mexican ... is familiar with death, jokes about it, caresses it, sleeps with it, and
celebrates it. True, there is as much fear in his attitude as in that of others, but at least death is
not hidden away: he looks at it face to face, with impatience, disdain (鄙视) or irony.”
The celebration of the Day of the Dead — a week of festivities from 28 October to 2
November — is an essential part of this embracement of death that is particular to Mexican
national identity. The popular belief is that the dead have divine permission to visit friends and
relatives on earth and enjoy once again the pleasures of life. Therefore, Mexicans visit the graves
of families and friends and adorn them with colorful flowers and offerings of food. The period is a
joyous celebration of life, rather than a sober mourning of its passing.
The origins of the festival lie in the 16th-century fusion of the Aztecs’ belief in death as
merely one part in the wider cycle of existence, their ritual venerations (仪式崇拜) and offerings
to the goddess Mictecacihuatl (“Lady of the Dead”) for the deceased, and the Spanish
conquerors’ desire to accommodate these festivities within the Catholic celebrations of All Saints’
Day and All Souls’ Day.
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In a country as socially and geographically diverse as Mexico, there is significant regional
variation in the nature of festivities: the southern state of Chiapas is far more likely to focus its
efforts on processions ( 队 伍 ) and public commemorations( 纪 念 ) of death than the valley of
Mexico, where the decoration of altars ( 供 坛 ) in homes and tombs of the deceased is more
popular. Urbanization, too, plays a large role in regional variations. For the south and rural areas
the period holds far greater social and cultural significance than in the north and large cities;
families and communities in rural areas will often spend large parts of the year preparing for the
occasion.
56. Why does the author say “Mexicans have a peculiarly different relationship with death to
other cultures?”
A. Because Mexicans always show their respect for death in the form of mummies.
B. Because Mexicans do not fear death or respect it.
C. Because adornments like flowers can be seen everywhere during the Day of the Dead.
D. Mexicans face death bravely rather than hide it away.
57. Which statement is NOT true according to the origins of the Day of the Dead?
A. It was the Aztecs who determined how to celebrate the Day of the Dead.
B. The Aztecs believed death was part of the wider cycle of existence.
C. The Aztecs would give offerings to the goddess of death for their lost loved ones.
D. The Spanish conquerors wanted to fit the festivities into some of their Catholic celebrations.
58. Why do Mexicans visit the graves of families and friends and offer colorful flowers and food?
A. Because they can ask God to permit the dead to visit them in this way.
B. To celebrate the joy of new life in spring.
C. Because the dead will be permitted to visit their families and enjoy the pleasure of life again.
D. Because this is an essential part of embracement of death.
59. Which of the following explains the role that urbanization plays in the regional variations of
celebrating the Day of the Dead?
A. People in the south and rural areas put more emphasis on the occasion.
B. People in the valleys usually decorate the alters in homes and the tombs of the dead.
C. People in the north and big cities spend large part of the year preparing for the celebration.
D. The southern states do not care about the decoration of alters at home.
(B)
This booklet, prepared by the National Institute of Mental
Health (NIMH), provides an overview on depression. It will help
you learn the things that everyone should know about
depression.
This booklet is intended for informational purposes only
and should not be considered a guide for making medical
decisions. For more information on depression, please visit the
NIMH website at www.nimh.nih.gov.
1. Depression is a real illness.
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Sadness is something we all experience. It is a normal reaction to difficult times in life and
usually passes with a little time. When a person has depression, however, it interferes with daily
life and normal functioning. Doctors call this condition “depressive disorder.” It is a real illness.
Many factors may play a role in depression.
Causes of Depression
(1) Genetics, brain biology and chemistry
(2) Life events such as trauma, loss of a loved one
(3) A difficult relationship
(4) Early childhood experience
(5) Chronic illness, drug and alcohol abuse
(6) Any stressful situation
2. Depression affects people in different ways.
Not everyone who is depressed experiences every symptom. Some people experience only a
few symptoms; others have many. The seriousness and frequency of symptoms, and how long
they last, vary depending on the individual and the stage of the illness.
Symptoms of Depression
(1) Feelings of guilt, sadness, worthlessness, helplessness or hopelessness
(2) Loss of interest or pleasure in hobbies and activities
(3) Difficulty concentrating, remembering, making decisions
(4) Persistent aches or pains
(5) Insomnia
(6) Appetite and/ or weight changes
(7) Consistent fatigue and decreased energy
(8) Thoughts of death or suicide, suicide attempts
3. Depression is treatable.
Depression, even the most serious cases, can be treated. The earlier treatment begins, the
more effective it will be.
Dealing With Depression
? Reach out and stay connected: Make real-life communication a priority! Spend time with
other people and confide in a trusted friend or relative. Let them help you.
? Try to be active and exercise: Aim for at least 30 minutes of exercise every day. This does not
have to be all at once. A ten-minute walk can improve your mood for two hours.
? Eat a healthy and mood-boosting diet: Reduce foods that contain caffeine, alcohol, trans fats,
and foods with high levels of chemical preservatives as well as sugars.
? Get a daily dose of sunlight: Sunlight can help improve your mood. Whenever possible, get
outside during daylight hours and expose yourself to the sun.
? Challenge negative thinking: Nothing is as bad as it seems at first. Try to move your focus
away from concentrating on what is bad in your life.
? Find professional help: If none of the above tips help, do not wait for the symptoms to
disappear. Seek professional help.
4. You are not alone.
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In addition to your treatment, you could also join a support group. At the meetings, people
share experiences, feelings, information, and coping strategies for living with depression.
Depression Around the World
Nearly seven percent of American teens and adults are currently living with depression.
About 300 million people around the world are suffering from depression.
60. According to the article, depression is NOT something that .
① makes a person feel a little bit sad
② always has a clear cause
③ a person can get rid of
④ happens to a small group of people
A. ①②③ B. ①②④ C. ①③④ D. ②③④
61. According to the article, who might be suffering from depression?
A. A teenager who frequently complained of stomachaches before going to school and
preferred to stay in her room alone.
B. A firefighter who had a sleepless night after a tough task.
C. A mother who felt really exhausted after helping her child with her homework.
D. An old man who had no appetite for his favorite food and decided to try a new diet.
62. If you had a friend who was living with depression, you should probably suggest he .
A. make an overseas trip all by himself
B. stay at the gym and work out day and night
C. concentrate on the negative feelings and try to overcome them
D. take professional advice and accept medical intervention
(C)
On Wednesday, two things happened. In Syria, 80 people were killed by government
airstrikes. Meanwhile, in Florida, Elon Musk’s SpaceX successfully launched and fired a sports car
into space. Guess which story has dominated mainstream news sites?
The launch of Musk’s Falcon Heavy rocket, the most powerful ever launched by a private
company, went off successfully. Musk sent his cherry-red Tesla roadster running toward Mars,
launching “a new space age”. The event attracted phenomenal publicity and made the rocket
launch a masterstroke of advertising for Tesla.
Meanwhile, in Syria, where hundreds of thousands of refugees may be forced to return to
unsafe homes, a UN human rights coordinator for Syria said despondently(沮丧地) that he was
no longer sure why he bothers to videotape the effects of bombing, since nobody ever pays
attention: He wondered what level of violence it would take to make the world care.
There is, perhaps, no better way to appreciate the tragedy of 21st-century global inequality
than by watching a billionaire spend $90m launching a $100,000 car into space.
Musk said he wanted to participate in a space race because “races are exciting” and that
while strapping his car to a rocket may be “silly and fun … silly and fun things are important”.
Thus, anyone who mentions the huge waste the project involves, or the various social uses to
which these resources could be put, can be dismissed as a killjoy.
But one doesn’t have to hate fun to question the justification for pursuing a costly new
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space race at exactly this moment. If we examine the situation honestly, it becomes hard to
defend a project like this.
A mission to Mars does indeed sound exciting, but it’s important to have our priorities
straight. First, perhaps we could make it so that a child no longer dies of malaria every two
minutes. Or we could try to address the level of poverty in Alabama which has become so
extreme that the UN investigator did not believe it could occur in a first-world country. Perhaps
when violence, poverty and disease are solved, then we can head for the stars.
Many might think that what Elon Musk chooses to do with his billions is Elon Musk’s
business alone. If he wanted to spend all his money on medicine for children, that would be nice,
but if he’d like to spend it making big explosions and sending his convertible on a million-mile
space voyage, that’s his right.
But Musk is only rich enough to afford these money-consuming projects because we have
allowed social inequalities to arise in the first place. If wealth were actually distributed fairly in
this country, nobody would be in a position to fund his own private space program.
Elon Musk is right: silly and fun things are important. But some of them are an indefensible
waste of resources. While there are still humanitarian crises such as that in Syria, nobody can
justify vast spending on rocketry experiments.
63. Why does the writer mention the two pieces of news at the beginning of the passage?
A. To highlight the significance of SpaceX’s successful launch of a rocket and a car into space.
B. To illustrate the inequality of wealth distribution and the consequent inequality of
attention distribution.
C. To appeal to the government for more attention to the air strikes and refugee crisis in Syria.
D. To find out which news dominated the mainstream news sites.
64. Why did the UN human rights coordinator for Syria feel disappointed?
A. Because nobody appreciated his work and all the efforts he made.
B. Because the violence in Syria is not serious enough to make the world care.
C. Because however hard he tried, nobody seemed to care about the situation in Syria.
D. Because he had great difficulty videotaping the effects of bombing.
65. What is implied in paragraph in 6 and 7?
A. The space project of SpaceX cost the government too much money.
B. Addressing problems of violence, poverty and diseases should be our top priority.
C. Space programs are a waste of money that cannot be justified.
D. It kills the fun to question the justification of the pursuit of space programs.
66. What does the writer mainly want to tell us?
A. We should pay equal attention to space projects and solving social problems.
B. No private companies should be allowed to spend money in rocketry experiments.
C. The successful launch of SpaceX has distracted the world from more important things.
D. The money and resources used in space projects could have been used to deal with various
social problems.
Section C
Directions: Complete the following passage by using the sentences in the box. Each sentence can
only be used once. Note that there are two sentences more than you need.
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Think of Spider-Man, Iron Man and Ant-Man. Think of Black Panther, the Mighty Thor and
the X-Men. Think of the Incredible Hulk, the Fantastic Four and all the other superheroes that
have stimulated the popular imagination. 67 . From a small office in
Manhattan in the 1960s, he helped create a lineup of fictional heroes that have crossed from
page to screen in a series of TV and movie adaptations and changed the face of popular culture.
For many, he was the face of Marvel, if not comic books in general, witnessing the
company’s rise to become an international media giant. As a writer, editor, publisher and
Hollywood executive, he played a critical role in what comic fans call one of the medium’s golden
ages.
68 . Lee gave the heroes flaws and insecurities, as well as an
awareness of trends, social causes and a sense of humor, trying to “make them real flesh-and-
blood characters with personality,” he told The Washington Post in 1992. “That’s what any story
should have, but comics didn’t have it until that point. They were all cardboard figures.”
69 . Iron Man, for example, could join forces with the Fantastic Four,
and Captain America could find himself a wedding guest alongside Doctor Strange. Lee created a
fictional universe for readers to explore — one that made readers buy multiple series to get the
whole story.
“I used to think what I did was not very important,” Lee told the Chicago Tribune in 2014.
“People are building bridges and participating in medical research, and here I was working on
stories about fictional people who do crazy things and wear costumes. But I suppose I have come
to realize that entertainment is not easily dismissed.”
Stan Lee was as extraordinary as the characters he created, said Disney chairman and CEO
Bob Iger. Indeed, Lee worked tirelessly his whole life creating great characters for the world to
enjoy. 70 . His legacy will outlive us all.
IV. Summary Writing (71)
Directions: Read the following passage. Summarize the main idea and the main point(s) of the
passage in no more than 60 words. Use your own words as far as possible.
Standing desks have been praised for their positive effects on physical health, reducing
sitting time and lowering certain health risks linked to a sedentary( 久坐的) lifestyle. But could
standing desks have positive mental effects?
A. He inspired our imagination and hoped we could use it to make the world a better place.
B. If all these entertainment products can be traced to one person, it would be Stan Lee, who
died last November at the age of 95.
C. Lee also appeared in a number of Marvel movies, watering his lawn, delivering the mail, and
so on.
D. In order to keep multiple stories going at the same time, Lee wove them together into a
seamless(无缝的) fictional world.
E. Under Lee, Marvel transformed the comic book world by humanizing its characters.
F. Through the honesty of guys like Spider-Man, we learn about different aspects of human
nature.
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New research suggests that students may think best when they are on their feet. It offers
some of the first evidence of mental benefits of standing desks in classrooms.
Testing was done on high school freshmen who used standing desks, evaluating them at the
beginning and end of the school year. Dr. Ranjana Mehta, an assistant professor at the Texas
A&M School of Public Health, led the experiments aiming to assess standing desks’ mental
benefits.
Through computerized tests, students’ executive functions were evaluated. Executive
functions are the cognitive skills used to analyze tasks and break them into steps, and are directly
related to academic needs like time management, memorizing facts and solving multi-step
problems. These functions are largely controlled by frontal(前额的) brain regions, so researchers
used a portable brain-imaging device to examine any related changes.
“Test results indicated that continued use of standing desks was associated with significant
improvements in executive functions and working memory abilities,” Mehta said. “Changes in
corresponding brain activation patterns were also observed.”
“Interestingly, our research showed the use of standing desks improved mental function,
which is consistent with results from previous studies on school-based exercise programs,”
Mehta noted.
Policymakers, public health professionals and school administrators should consider the
positive effects of standing desks and make some simple changes in classrooms that will have the
potential to increase energy expenditure and develop cognitive skills. That would be a valuable
contribution to the educational world.
V. Translation
Directions: Translate the following sentences into English, using the words given in the brackets.
72. 有些家长从来没有意识到，替孩子们做所有事情其实对孩子们的成长弊大于利。（It）
73. 专家认为 2019 冠状病毒病（COVID-19)的疫苗可能需要 12 至 18 个月才能成功研发出来。（take）
74. 各种在线学习课程会把你的时间表排满，所以你得抽出充足的时间去放松或运动，正如
你在校园学习时一样。（set aside)
75. 当被要求居家隔离并保持社交距离时，很多人用各种活动自娱自乐，以乐观心态应对这
场危机。(entertain)
VI. Guided Writing
Directions: Write an English composition in 120 -150 words according to the instructions given
below in Chinese.
最近新冠病毒肆虐的特殊时期，全国各地大中小学都在组织学生在家上网课，学生利用
电脑、手机以及各种 App 学习。 经历了两个多月的网上学习体验，请把居家上网课和在学
校课堂学习做一个比较，并说明你更喜欢哪一种方式及理由。
