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辛集市2023—2024学年度第一学期期末教学质量监测 高三英语试卷 注意事项： 1. 本试卷满分150分。考试用时120分钟，另附加卷面分5分。 2. 答卷前，考生务必将自己的姓名、考生号等填写在答题卡和试卷指定位置上。 3. 回答选择题时，选出每小题答案后，用铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案标号。 4. 考生必须保证答题卡的整洁。考试结束后，请将答题卡交回，试卷由考生保留。 第一部分 听力（共两节，满分30分） 做题时，先将答案标在试卷上。录音内容结束后，你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的答案转涂到答题纸上。 第一节（共5 小题；每小题 1.5分，满分7.5分） 听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的 A 、B 、C 三个选项中选出最佳选项。听完每段对话你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。 1. 【此处可播放相关音频，请去附件查看】 What will Joe do? A. Leave his company. B. Work in Paris. C. Move house. 【答案】B 【解析】 【原文】W: Hey, forgot to tell you .. Joe and Anna are moving to Paris! M: Really? Isn't that a bit sudden? How did that happen? W: His company offered him a job out there. They're going for at least a couple of years. 2. 【此处可播放相关音频，请去附件查看】 Why is the man making the call? A. To remind the woman of a rainstorm. B. To make work arrangements. C. To have his house repaired. 【答案】C 【解析】 【原文】M: Hello, I’m calling to ask whether you can send someone to take a look at our ceiling. It’s been leaking since last night’s rainstorm. W: Hi, Mr. Stevenson. I’m afraid we’re already booked up for this week. But I think we can make it next Monday. 3. 【此处可播放相关音频，请去附件查看】 What does the man think of the training? A. Disappointing. B. Satisfying. C. Worrying. 【答案】B 【解析】 【原文】W: How was the training? M: The training was a great challenge. I learned a lot. W: I’m glad you see it that way. Not a lot of people take a positive attitude towards training. M: Anyway, I’m glad I went. 4. 【此处可播放相关音频，请去附件查看】 Where does the conversation most probably take place? A. In the man’s office. B. In a meeting room. C. At home. 【答案】A 【解析】 【原文】M: Have you seen my blue sweater? It was on the back of my chair before I went to the meeting, but now it’s disappeared. W: Are you sure you left it there? When I came in the office to remind you about the meeting I didn’t see it. 5. 【此处可播放相关音频，请去附件查看】 What are the speakers talking about ? A. An open-minded politician. B. Public opinion. C. An outstanding teacher. 【答案】A 【解析】 【原文】M: Listen to this. The Education Minister is now saying that teachers deserve a pay rise. That's a complete change of opinion! W: I'm glad to hear it. He's been listening to public opinion, obviously. 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。 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。【此处可播放相关音频，请去附件查看】 6. What’s the relationship between the two speakers? A. Colleagues. B. A receptionist and a visitor. C. The boss and the secretary. 7. What does the woman give the man? A. A guidebook. B. A city map. C. A schedule. 【答案】6. B 7. A 【解析】 【原文】M: Hi, my name is Tom Smith. I saw a sign that said all visitors need to sign in here. W: That’s correct. May I ask your reason for visiting City Hall today? M: Actually, I’d like to take a tour. I’m interested in historic buildings. W: Is that so? We’ve had more visitors ever since the regional museum opened. M: Oh, I was just there. Do you have any idea where I should start? W: Here, take this brochure. It has some information about the building’s history and shows you where the points of interest are. Let me know if you have any questions. 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。【此处可播放相关音频，请去附件查看】 8. When did the woman first see Mr. Wang? A. On Monday. B. On Tuesday. C. On Friday. 9. What did Mr. Wang impress the woman with? A. His personality. B. His approach. C. His enthusiasm. 10. What will Mr. Wang do on Tuesday? A. Chair a meeting. B. Propose a strategy. C. Report the profits. 【答案】8. C 9. B 10. A 【解析】 【原文】M: Have you met our new marketing manager? I heard he came from our Chicago branch and started work here last Monday. W: Yes, I saw Mr. Wang in the staff meeting on Friday for the first time. He looked very energetic and organized. In particular, I liked the way he devcloped our new marketing strategies. He encouraged participants to share their ideas in an informal and inviting way. M: It sounds like he has a constructive approach. I hope he will bring us more enthusiasm and help us increase our profits in the end. W: That’s exactly what I want from him. By the way, there is another meeting that he is supposed to chair on Tuesday. You’ll be there, won’t you? 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。【此处可播放相关音频，请去附件查看】 11. Where does the woman work? A. At a dental clinic. B. At a travel agency. C. At a restaurant. 12. When did the man make the reservation? A. One week ago. B. Two weeks ago. C. Three weeks ago. 13. What will the man try to do at 3:00? A. Visit his client. B. Reschedule a meeting. C. Keep an appointment. 【答案】11. A 12. B 13. C 【解析】 【原文】W: Good morning. You have reached Dr. Henry’s office. This is Laura. How may I help you? M: Hi, this is Joel Phillips. I’d like to reschedule my appointment today at three o’clock to another time tomorrow. Is that possible? W: I’m afraid the appointments are already fully booked for this week. Mr. Phillips, you’ve already waited two weeks to make this reservation and you really should have your teeth examined. Is there any way you can come today as arranged? M: I know, but I am at an urgent meeting with my client right now and I might not make it to the three o’clock appointment. Well, I’ll try to conclude everything quickly in the meeting so that I can arrive at your clinic on time. Thank you. 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。【此处可播放相关音频，请去附件查看】 14. What did Adriana create? A. A bicycle. B. A computer. C. A generator. 15. How did Adriana get the idea of her project? A. From the Internet. B. From her father. C. From a designer. 16. What was the only problem Adriana faced? A. She lacked fund. B. She was in need of support. C. She couldn’t find suitable materials. 【答案】14. C 15. A 16. A 【解析】 【原文】M: Today I’m talking with 15-year-old Adriana Brown. She built her own bicycle generator. Adriana, can you tell us about your project? How did you get started? W: Well, I’ve helped my dad with some of his projects. But I decided I wanted to do my own project this time. So I researched ideas on the Internet. I decided on a bicycle generator because it’s really useful. I can use it to power my computer. M: So, how did you build it? W: First, I found plans for generators. I chose a simple design and made a first draft of the project. Then, my dad made some suggestions and I made another draft. After that, I started to look for materials. The only problem was that I didn’t have a lot of money, so it was difficult! M: So, what did you do? W: Well, I went to a bicycle shop and a car repair shop. I told them about my project. They gave me some extra parts. M: Oh, that was nice. W: Yeah, it really was ... When I got all the materials, I was ready to put it all together. M: Well, I think it’s great. Very impressive! 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。【此处可播放相关音频，请去附件查看】 17. Who is the speaker talking to? A. Librarians. B. Freshmen. C. Teachers. 18. What is scheduled in the first week? A. Some tours. B. Some training. C. Some talks. 19. What do we know about the library computers? A. They are connected to printers. B. There are only a limited number. C. They have access to the Internet all the time. 20. Who can help to find things in the library? A. The Section Manager. B. The Cataloguing Assistant. C. The Training Supervisor. 【答案】17. B 18. C 19. C 20. B 【解析】 【原文】M: OK, are you all settled? Well, first of all, welcome to Cardiff University. I'm here to explain what we can offer you. Now, as a new student at the university, you will probably need some sort of guidance to help you to use the library effectively to study and research. Some of you have asked about a guided tour but we find this rather confuses people. So, in this first week, we run a series of talks which focus on different aspects of the library and its resources. OK, now let me give you an outline of what's available to you. You'll find that the computers are increasingly used as a research tool. Many students do most of their research on the Internet and the library computers are permanently online. Having found what you need, you'll find you can readily save texts on your personal computer space to print off when you need. Naturally we do still have the full range of classic reference books for you to use and there arc several copies of each one. This is because some of you may prefer to borrow a book rather than sit in the library. There is a restricted loan time on these so that they are not missing from the shelves for too long. Although there is a Section Manager for each part of the library, they are very busy and so, if you do get stuck looking for things, you should ask the relevant Cataloguing Assistant. As your Training Supervisor, I just oversee your work for a week and will not be around after this initial week. 第二部分：阅读理解（共两节，满分50分） 第一节（共15个小题；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，并在答题卡上将项涂黑。 A Theatres and Entertainment St David’s Hall St David’s Hall is the award winning National Concert Hall of Wales standing at the very heart of Cardiff’s entertainment centre. With an impressive 2,000-seat concert hall, St David’s Hall is home to the annual Welsh Proms Cardiff. It presents live entertainment, including pop, rock, folk, jazz, musicals, dance, world music, films and classical music. The Hayes, Cardiff CF10 1AH www.stdavidshallcardiff.co.uk The Glee Club Every weekend this is “Wales” premier comedy club where having a great time is the order for both audiences and comedy stars alike. It is hard to name a comedy star who hasn’t been on the stage here. If you are looking for the best comedies on tour and brilliant live music, you should start here. Mermaid Quay, Cardiff Bay, Cardiff CF10 5BZ www.glee.co.uk/cardiff Sherman Cymru Sherman Cymru’s theatre in the Cathays area of Cardiff reopened in February 2012. This special building is a place in which theatre is made and where children, artists, writers and anyone else have the opportunity (机会) to do creative things. Sherman Cymru is excited to present a packed programme of the very best theatre, dance, family shows and music from Wales and the rest of the world. Senghennydd Road, Cardiff CF24 4YE www.shermancymru.co.uk New Theatre The New Theatre has been the home of quality drama, musicals, dance and children’s shows for more than 100 years. Presenting the best of the West End along with the pick of the UK’s touring shows, the New Theatre is Cardiff’s oldest surviving traditional theatre. Be sure to pay a visit as part of your stay in the city. Park Place, Cardiff CF10 3LN www.newtheatrecardiff.co.uk 21. Where is the Welsh Proms Cardiff hosted? A. At the New Theatre. B. At the Glee Club. C. At Sherman Cymru. D. At St David’s Hall. 22. What can people do at the Glee Club? A. Watch musicals. B. Enjoy comedies. C. See family shows. D. Do creative things. 23. Which website can you visit to learn about Cardiff’s oldest surviving theatre? A. www.newtheatrecardiff.co.uk B. www.shermancymru.co.uk C. www.glee.co.uk/cardiff D. www.stdavidshallcardiff.co.uk 【答案】21. D 22. B 23. A 【解析】 【导语】这是一篇应用文。文章主要介绍了Cardiff当地的一些剧院和娱乐场所。 【21题详解】 细节理解题。根据“St David’s Hall”部分中的“With an impressive 2,000-seat concert hall, St David’s Hall is home to the annual Welsh Proms Cardiff.”(With an impressive 2,000-seat concert hall, St David’s Hall is home to the annual Welsh Proms Cardiff.”(圣大卫音乐厅拥有令人印象深刻的2000个座位的音乐厅，每年的卡迪夫威尔士逍遥音乐节都在这里举行。)可知，卡迪夫威尔士逍遥音乐节在圣大卫音乐厅举行。故选D。 【22题详解】 细节理解题。根据“The Glee Club”部分中的“If you are looking for the best comedies on tour and brilliant live music, you should start here.”(如果你正在寻找巡回演出中最好的喜剧和精彩的现场音乐，你应该从这里开始。)可知，人们可以在欢乐合唱团欣赏喜剧。故选B。 【23题详解】 细节理解题。根据“New Theatre”部分中的“Presenting the best of the West End along with the pick of the UK’s touring shows, the New Theatre is Cardiff’s oldest surviving traditional theatre.”(新剧院是加的夫现存最古老的传统剧院，它展示了西区的精华以及英国巡回演出的精选。)和“www.newtheatrecardiff.co.uk”可知，可以登陆网页“www.newtheatrecardiff.co.uk”了解加的夫现存最古老的剧院。故选A。 【点睛】 B A British woman who won a S1 million prize after she was named the World's Best Teacher will use the cash to bring inspirational figures into UK schools. Andria Zafirakou,a north London secondary school teacher, said she wanted to bring about a classroom revolution (变革). “We are going to make a change, ”she said.“I’ve started a project to promote the teaching of the arts in our schools.” The project results from the difficulties many schools have in getting artists of any sort - whether an up-and-coming local musician or a major movie star - into schools to work with and inspire children. Zafirakou began the project at Alperton Community School, her place of work for the past twelve years. “I've seen those magic moments when children are talking to someone they are inspired by - their eyes are shining and their faces light up,” she said. “We need artists . more than ever in our schools." Artist Michael Craig-Martin said: “Andria's brilliant project to bring artists from all fields into direct contact with children is particularly welcome at a time when the arts are being downgraded in schools." It was a mistake to see the arts as unnecessary, he added. Historian Sir Simon Schama is also a supporter of the project. He said that arts education in schools was not just an add-on. “It is absolutely necessary. The future depends on creativity and creativity depends on the young. What will remain of us when artificial intelligence takes over will be our creativity, and it is our creative spirit, our visionary sense of freshness,that has been our strength for centuries." 24. What will Zafirakou do with her prize money? A. Make a movie. B. Build new schools. C. Run a project. D. Help local musicians. 25. What does Craig-Martin think of the teaching of the arts in UK schools? A. It is particularly difficult. B. It increases artists' income. C. It opens children's mind. D. It deserves greater attention. 26. What should be stressed in school education according to Schama? A. Moral principles. B. Interpersonal skills. C. Creative abilities. D. Positive worldviews. 27. Which of the following is a suitable title for the text? A. Bring Artists to Schools B. When Historians Meet Artists C. Arts Education in Britain D. The World's Best Arts Teacher 【答案】24. C 25. D 26. C 27. A 【解析】 【分析】这是一篇记叙文。文章讲述了英国一名女子在被评为世界最佳教师后获得了100万英镑的奖金，她将用这笔奖金发起一个项目，让艺术家进入学校。 【24题详解】 细节理解题。根据文章第二段“Andria Zafirakou,a north London secondary school teacher, said she wanted to bring about a classroom revolution. “We are going to make a change,” she said. “I’ve started a project to promote the teaching of the arts in our schools.”（伦敦北部中学教师安德里亚·扎菲拉库(Andria Zafirakou)表示，她想掀起一场课堂革命。“我们将做出改变，”她说。“我已经启动了一个项目，以促进我们学校的艺术教学。”）”可知，Zafirakou打算用自己的奖金运行一个项目。故选C。 【25题详解】 推理判断题。根据文章第五段Craig-Martin 说的话“Andria's brilliant project to bring artists from all fields into direct contact with children is particularly welcome at a time when the arts are being downgraded in schools." It was a mistake to see the arts as unnecessary, he added.（Andria的把各个领域的艺术学家请到学校教学这个聪明的项目很受学生欢迎，在学校忽视艺术教育的时期。把艺术看出不必要是错误的。）”可知，Craig-Martin认为，英国学校的艺术教学不应该被忽视，而应该被重视。故选D。 【26题详解】 细节理解题。根据文章最后一段“It is absolutely necessary. The future depends on creativity and creativity depends on the young.（这是绝对必要的。未来取决于创造力，而创造力取决于年轻人。）”可知，Schama认为学校教育应该强调创造力。故选C。 【27题详解】 主旨大意题。根据文章第二段“Andria Zafirakou, a north London secondary school teacher, said she wanted to bring about a classroom revolution. “We are going to make a change,”she said.“I’ve started a project to promote the teaching of the arts in our schools.”（伦敦北部中学教师安德里亚·扎菲拉库(Andria Zafirakou)表示，她想掀起一场课堂革命。“我们将做出改变，”她说。“我已经启动了一个项目，以促进我们学校的艺术教学。”）”可知，文章讲述了Andria Zafirakou用自己的奖金启动了一个项目，将艺术家带进学校，促进艺术教学。故选A。 C Can a small group of drones (无人机) guarantee the safety and reliability of railways and, at the same time, help railway operators save billions of euros each year? That is the very likely future of applying today’s “eyes in the sky” technology to make sure that the millions of kilometres of rail tracks and infrastructure (基础设施) worldwide are safe for trains on a 24/7 basis. Drones are already being used to examine high-tension electrical lines. They could do precisely the same thing to inspect railway lines and other vital aspects of rail infrastructure such as the correct position of railway tracks and switching points. The more regularly they can be inspected, the more railway safety, reliability and on-time performance will be improved. Costs would be cut and operations would be more efficient (高效) across the board. That includes huge savings in maintenance costs and better protection of railway personnel safety. It is calculated that European railways alone spend approximately 20 billion euros a year on maintenance, including sending maintenance staff, often at night, to inspect and repair the rail infrastructure. That can be dangerous work that could be avoided with drones assisting the crews’ efforts. By using the latest technologies, drones could also start providing higher-value services for railways, detecting faults in the rail or switches, before they can cause any safety problems. To perform these tasks, drones for rail don’t need to be flying overhead. Engineers are now working on a new concept: the rail drones of the future. They will be moving on the track ahead of the train, and programmed to run autonomously. Very small drones with advanced sensors and AI and travelling ahead of the train could guide it like a co-pilot. With their ability to see ahead, they could signal any problem, so that fast-moving trains would be able to react in time. 28. What makes the application of drones to rail lines possible? A. The use of drones in checking on power lines. B. Drones’ ability to work at high altitudes. C. The reduction of cost in designing drones. D. Drones’ reliable performance in remote areas. 29. What does “maintenance” underlined in paragraph 3 refer to? A. Personnel safety. B. Assistance from drones. C. Inspection and repair. D. Construction of infrastructure. 30. What function is expected of the rail drones? A. To provide early warning. B. To make trains run automatically. C. To earn profits for the crews. D. To accelerate transportation. 31. Which is the most suitable title for the text? A. What Faults Can Be Detected with Drones B. How Production of Drones Can Be Expanded C. What Difficulty Drone Development Will Face D. How Drones Will Change the Future of Railways 【答案】28. A 29. C 30. A 31. D 【解析】 【导语】本文是一篇说明文。应用今天的“空中之眼”的技术，无人机能在保证铁路安全可靠的同时又能帮助铁路运营商每年节省数十亿欧元。 【28题详解】 推理判断题。根据文章第二段“Drones are already being used to examine high-tension electrical lines. They could do precisely the same thing to inspect railway lines and other vital aspects of rail infrastructure such as the correct position of railway tracks and switching points.(无人机已经被用于检查高压电线。他们完全可以做同样的事情来检查铁路线路和铁路基础设施的其他重要方面，如铁路轨道和换乘点的正确位置)”可推知，无人机在高压电线检测中的应用，为其应用到铁路线路提供了可行性。故选A。 【29题详解】 词句猜测题。根据后文“It is calculated that European railways alone spend approximately 20 billion euros a year on maintenance, including sending maintenance staff, often at night, to inspect and repair the rail infrastructure. (据统计，仅欧洲铁路公司每年在铁路维护上的花费就约为200亿欧元，其中包括经常在夜间派遣维修人员检查和维修铁路基础设施)”可知，花在maintenance上的费用是用于“inspect and repair the rail infrastructure （检查和维修铁路基础设施”。由此可知“That includes huge savings in maintenance costs and better protection of railway personnel safety”是指大幅节省检修成本和更好地保护铁路人员安全，划线词和 C项：Inspection and repair(检修)含义相近。故选C。 【30题详解】 推理判断题。根据最后一段 “Very small drones with advanced sensors and AI and travelling ahead of the train could guide it like a co-pilot. With their ability to see ahead, they could signal any problem, so that fast-moving trains would be able to react in time.(带有先进传感器和人工智能的非常小的无人机可以像副驾驶一样在火车前面行驶。凭借它们的预见能力，它们可以发出任何问题的信号，以便快速行驶的火车能够及时做出反应)”可推知，对于无人机期待的功能是提前发现问题。故选A。 【31题详解】 主旨大意题。根据第一段“Can a small group of drones(无人机)guarantee the safety and reliability of railways and, at the same time, help railway operators save billions of euros each year? That is the very likely future of applying today’s “eyes in the sky” technology to make sure that the millions of kilometers of rail tracks and infrastructure(基础设施)worldwide are safe for trains on a24/7 basis.(一小群无人机能否在保证铁路安全可靠的同时，帮助铁路运营商每年节省数十亿欧元？这很可能是应用今天的“空中之眼”技术的未来，以确保全球数百万公里的铁路轨道和基础设施全天候安全运行。)”以及后文第二段讲到了使用无人机检查电力线路使无人机应用于铁路线路成为可能;第三段讲到了使用无人机大幅节省维护成本和更好地保护铁路人员安全；第四段讲到了通过使用最新的技术，无人机还可以开始为铁路提供更高的价值，可知文章主要讲述了无人机将如何改变铁路的未来，所以D项“无人机将如何改变铁路的未来。”符合文章中心思想，适合作为本文的最佳标题。故选D。 【点睛】 D Would you BET on the future of this man? He is 53 years old. Most of his adult life has been a losing struggle against debt and misfortune. A war injury has made his left hand stop functioning, and he has often been in prison. Driven by heaven-knows-what motives, he deter-mines to write a book. The book turns out to be one that has appealed to the world for more than 350 years. That former prisoner was Cervantes, and the book was Don Quixote (《堂吉诃德》). And the story poses an interesting question: why do some people discover new vitality and creativity to the end of their days, while others go to seed long before? We’ve all known people who run out of steam before they reach life’s halfway mark. I’m not talking about those who fail to get to the top. We can’t all get there. I’m talking about people who have stopped learning on growing because they have adopted the fixed attitudes and opinions that all too often come with passing years. Most of us, in fact, progressively narrow the variety of our lives. We succeed in our field of specialization and then become trapped in it. Nothing surprises us. We lose our sense of wonder. But, if we are willing to learn, the opportunities are everywhere. The things we learn in maturity seldom involve information and skills. We learn to bear with the things we can’t change. We learn to avoid self-pity. We learn that however much we try to please, some people are never going to love us——an idea that troubles at first but is eventually relaxing. With high motivation and enthusiasm, we can keep on learning. Then we will know how important it is to have meaning in our life. However, we can achieve meaning only if we have made a commitment to something larger than our own little egos (自我), whether to loved ones, to fellow humans, to work, or to some moral concept. Many of us equate (视……等同于) “commitment” with such “caring” occupations as teaching and nursing. But doing any ordinary job as well as one can is in itself an admirable commitment. People who work toward such excellence whether they are driving a truck, or running a store———make the world better just by being the kind of people they are. They’ve learned life’s most valuable lesson. 32. The passage starts with the story of Cervantes to show that ________. A. loss of freedom stimulates one’s creativity B. age is not a barrier to achieving one’s goal C. misery inspires a man to fight against his fate D. disability cannot stop a man´s pursuit of success 33. What could be inferred from Paragraph 4? A. Those who dare to try often get themselves trapped. B. Those who tend to think back can hardly go ahead. C. Opportunity favors those with a curious mind. D. Opportunity awaits those with a cautious mind. 34. What does the author intend to tell us in Paragraph 5? A. A tough man can tolerate suffering. B. A wise man can live without self-pity. C. A man should try to satisfy people around him. D. A man should learn suitable ways to deal with life. 35. What is the author’s purpose in writing the passage? A. To provide guidance on leading a meaningful adult life. B. To stress the need of shouldering responsibilities at work. C. To state the importance of generating motivation for learning. D. To suggest a way of pursuing excellence in our lifelong career. 【答案】32. B 33. C 34. D 35. A 【解析】 【导语】本文是一篇议论文。文章以名著《堂吉诃德》的作者Cervantes的事迹为例，讲述了想要成功，就要不断地学习，这样人生才有意义。 【32题详解】 推理判断题。根据第一段“He is 53 years old. Most of his adult life has been a losing struggle against debt and misfortune. A war injury has made his left hand stop functioning, and he has often been in prison. Driven by heaven-knows-what motives, he deter-mines to write a book. (他今年53岁。他成年后的大部分时间都在与债务和不幸作着失败的斗争。一次战争受伤使他的左手失去了功能，他经常被关进监狱。不知出于什么动机，他决定写一本书。)”可知，Cervantes已经53岁，不再年轻，前半生一直生活在不幸中，但即便这样，他还是决定写一本书；根据第二段“The book turns out to be one that has appealed to the world for more than 350 years. (事实证明，这本书350多年来一直受到全世界的欢迎。)”可知，他最终实现了目标，并取得了巨大成功。由此推知，文章用Cervantes的故事作为开始，是为了告诉读者年龄不是实现目标的障碍。故选B。 【33题详解】 推理判断题。根据第四段“Nothing surprises us. We lose our sense of wonder. But, if we are willing to learn, the opportunities are everywhere. (没什么让我们惊讶的。我们失去了惊奇感。但是，如果我们愿意学习，机会无处不在。)”可知，从第4段可以推断出机会垂青于有好奇心的人。故选C。 【34题详解】 推理判断题。根据第五段“We learn to bear with the things we can’t change. We learn to avoid self-pity. We learn that however much we try to please, some people are never going to love us——an idea that troubles at first but is eventually relaxing. (我们学会忍受我们无法改变的事情。我们学会避免自怜。我们知道，无论我们多么努力地取悦别人，有些人永远不会爱我们——这个想法一开始会让人烦恼，但最终会让人放松。)”可推知，作者是想告诉我们，要学会用恰当的方式来对待生活。故选D。 【35题详解】 推理判断题。通读全文，尤其是第六段“With high motivation and enthusiasm, we can keep on learning. Then we will know how important it is to have meaning in our life. However, we can achieve meaning only if we have made a commitment to something larger than our own little egos (自我), whether to loved ones, to fellow humans, to work, or to some moral concept. (有了高度的动力和热情，我们就能继续学习。然后我们就会知道在我们的生活中有意义是多么重要。然而，只有当我们对比我们的小我更重要的事情做出承诺时，我们才能获得意义，无论是对所爱的人，对人类同胞，对工作，还是对某些道德观念。)”可知，作者的目的是为了给人们指导人们如何过上有意义的成年生活。故选A。 第二节（共5 小题；每小题2.5分，满分12.5分） 阅读下面短文，从短文后的选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。 It’s a joyful and stressful time of year in the United States for students and their families as they make decisions about where to attend college. Families often turn to rankings systems to help make a decision. ____36____ When I talk to families as a scholar of higher education, they’re often surprised that teaching excellence is not counted in rankings. ____37____ Emerging research suggests that courses in lower-ranked universities, on average, scored higher on teaching than courses in higher-ranked universities. ____38____ The absence of teaching excellence from the rankings is surprising given the link between high-quality teaching and student success. Quality teaching is one of the most important predictors of a wide range of college outcomes. Rankings, however, are only one reason why a low value is placed on teaching in higher education. Administrators often don’t view teaching excellence as a way to increase enrolment (注册) or funding. ____39____ Research shows that the more time instructors spend on teaching, the lower their salary. What is the result? Many instructors continue to teach using traditional lectures, which lead to lower success rates. ____40____ Nevertheless, not much will change until schools with high-quality teaching are rewarded with more resources, higher rankings and increased enrolments. In the long term, universities, organisations that rank schools, and others should work to make teaching a valued, core part of the mission. What should students and their families do? They should give strong consideration to universities where high-quality teaching is valued, even though the schools may be ranked lower. A. Higher education has achieved its true potential. B. Therefore, it’s not highly valued in hiring or promotion. C. Quality teaching has been an important reputation-building factor. D. However, the rankings ignore a critical factor: the quality of teaching. E. Efforts to improve teaching at the university level have recently emerged. F. They’re even more surprised at how teaching is undervalued by universities. G. In fact, universities often shift emphasis from teaching to other ranking factors. 【答案】36. D 37. F 38. G 39. B 40. E 【解析】 【导语】本文是一篇说明文。文章主要就如何选择高校提供了一些建议。 【36题详解】 根据空前内容“It’s a joyful and stressful time of year in the United States for students and their families as they make decisions about where to attend college. Families often turn to rankings systems to help make a decision.(对于美国的学生和他们的家人来说，这是一年中既快乐又紧张的时刻，因为他们要决定去哪里上大学。家庭经常求助于排名系统来帮助做决定。)”可知，美国的学生和家人们在决定去哪儿上大学时，经常求助于排名系统。而根据下文第三段“Emerging research suggests that courses in lower-ranked universities, on average, scored higher on teaching than courses in higher-ranked universities. (最新的研究表明，排名较低的大学的课程在教学方面的平均得分高于排名较高的大学的课程。)”可推断出，本文主要讲述的是排名方面出现的问题。选项D“However, the rankings ignore a critical factor: the quality of teaching.(然而，排名忽略了一个关键因素：教学质量。)”延续上文内容，指出大学排名存在的问题；而根据下文内容也可以推断，排名中存在的问题是教学质量被忽略。故选D。 【37题详解】 根据空前内容“When I talk to families as a scholar of higher education, they’re often surprised that teaching excellence is not counted in rankings.(作为一名研究高等教育的学者，当我与一些家庭交谈时，他们常常惊讶地发现，优秀的教学水平并没有被纳入排名。)”可知，大学排名中优秀的教学水平并没有被纳入排名让人们觉得很惊讶。选项F“They’re even more surprised at how teaching is undervalued by universities.(更让他们惊讶的是，大学竟然低估了教学的价值。)”延续上文内容，指的都是大学排名忽略教学质量。其中“more surprised”和上文的“surprised”保持一致。故选F。 【38题详解】 空前内容“Emerging research suggests that courses in lower-ranked universities, on average, scored higher on teaching than courses in higher-ranked universities.(最新的研究表明，排名较低的大学的课程在教学方面的平均得分高于排名较高的大学的课程。)”以及空后内容“The absence of teaching excellence from the rankings is surprising given the link between high-quality teaching and student success. Quality teaching is one of the most important predictors of a wide range of college outcomes.(考虑到高质量教学与学生成功之间的联系，排名中没有优秀教学令人惊讶。优质教学是衡量大学成绩的最重要因素之一。)”讲述的都是大学排名中没有考虑到教学。选项G“In fact, universities often shift emphasis from teaching to other ranking factors.(事实上，大学经常把重点从教学转移到其他排名因素上。)”与上下文内容相一致，故选G。 【39题详解】 根据空前内容“Rankings, however, are only one reason why a low value is placed on teaching in higher education. Administrators often don’t view teaching excellence as a way to increase enrolment (注册) or funding.(然而，排名只是高等教育中对教学重视程度较低的一个原因。管理者通常不会将卓越的教学视为增加入学率或资金的一种方式。)”可知，上文分析了教学不被纳入排名的原因，该空应该讲其后果。选项B“Therefore, it’s not highly valued in hiring or promotion.(因此，它在招聘或晋升中不受重视。)”是上文内容的延续，正因为管理人员通常不把卓越的教学视为增加入学率或增加资金的一种方式，所以教学在招聘和晋升中不受重视。故选B。 【40题详解】 根据下文内容“Nevertheless, not much will change until schools with high-quality teaching are rewarded with more resources, higher rankings and increased enrolments. In the long term, universities, organisations that rank schools, and others should work to make teaching a valued, core part of the mission.(尽管如此，在拥有高质量教学的学校获得更多资源、更高排名和增加入学人数之前，不会有太大变化。从长远来看，大学、学校排名组织和其他机构应该努力使教学成为使命的一个有价值的核心部分。)”可知，此处算是站在大学的角度，提出如何把教学当成他们的首要核心任务。根据“Nevertheless”可知，空处内容和下文内容存在转折关系。选项E“Efforts to improve teaching at the university level have recently emerged.(在最近，努力改进教学水平的现象已经出现了。)”与下文形成转折，旨在说明，促使教学成为核心任务的艰巨性和重要性。故选E。 【点睛】 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） Like many young people, Jessica wants to travel the globe. Unlike most of them, this 25-year-old is doing it ___41___ . She and her husband have spent the last two years traveling the world, stopping everywhere from Paris to Singapore. It might sound like one long, expensive ___42___ , but the couple has an unusual way to make their travel ___43___ . They’re part of a new form of the ___44___ economy: an online group of house sitters. Throughout their no-cost stays in ___45___ homes, they feed pets and water plants in the homeowner’s ___46___ . It’s not all sightseeing. The two travelers carefully ___47___ their trips, scheduling their days around the pets that are sometimes difficult to ___48___ . But house sitting also offers a level of ___49___ they can’t find in a hotel. “It’s like ____50____ at a friend’s house,” Jessica says. The couple has a high ____51____ rate in getting accepted as house sitters and they always go beyond the homeowner’s ____52____ . For Jessica, that means ____53____ plenty of pictures of happy pets, keeping the house ____54____ and leaving a nice small gift before heading to the next house. “You want to make the homeowner feel that they made the right ____55____ ,” she says. 41. A. indoors B. online C. single-handed D. full-time 42. A. game B. service C. vacation D. procedure 43. A. safe B. busy C. helpful D. affordable 44. A. local B. private C. sharing D. agricultural 45. A. strangers’ B. parents’ C. co-workers’ D. neighbors’ 46. A. favor B. defense C. honor D. absence 47. A. plan B. explain C. compare D. complete 48. A. buy B. transport C. choose D. please 49. A. support B. comfort C. control D. attention 50. A. cooking B. staying C. waiting D. studying 51. A. success B. survival C. growth D. unemployment 52. A. budget B. abilities C. expectations D. understanding 53. A. admiring B. donating C. sending D. borrowing 54. A. clean B. open C. simple D. empty 55. A. guess B. decision C. response D. impression 【答案】41. D 42. C 43. D 44. C 45. A 46. D 47. A 48. D 49. B 50. B 51. A 52. C 53. C 54. A 55. B 【解析】 【导语】这是一篇记叙文。主要介绍了Jessica和丈夫通过当看房人来环球旅行的事情。在他们免费住在陌生人家里的过程中，他们会在房主不在的时候喂宠物、给植物浇水。这对夫妇被接受为看房人的成功率很高，他们总是超出房主的预期。 【41题详解】 考查形容词词义辨析。句意：与他们中的大多数人不同，这位25岁的年轻人全职从事这项工作。A. indoors室内；B. online在线的；C. single-handed单手的；D. full-time全职的。根据后文“She and her husband have spent the last two years traveling the world, stopping everywhere from Paris to Singapore.(在过去的两年里，她和她的丈夫周游世界，从巴黎到新加坡都在这里停留)”可知，这位25岁的年轻人全职从事这项工作。故选D。 【42题详解】 考查名词词义辨析。句意：这听起来像是一个漫长而昂贵的假期，但这对夫妇有一种不同寻常的方式让他们的旅行负担得起。A. game游戏；B. service服务；C. vacation假期；D. procedure手续。结合上文可知Jessica在环球旅行，所以是假期。故选C。 【43题详解】 考查形容词词义辨析。句意：这听起来像是一个漫长而昂贵的假期，但这对夫妇有一种不同寻常的方式让他们的旅行负担得起。A. safe安全的；B. busy忙碌的；C. helpful有帮助的；D. affordable买的起的。对应上文“It might sound like one long, expensive”指听起来昂贵，但这对夫妇有一种不同寻常的方式让他们的旅行负担得起。故选D。 【44题详解】 考查形容词词义辨析。句意：他们是共享经济新形式的一部分：在线看房者。A. local当地的；B. private私人的；C. sharing分享；D. agricultural农业的。根据后文“economy: an online group of house sitters”以及提到他们免费住在陌生人家里，可见是共享经济，故选C。 【45题详解】 考查名词词义辨析。句意：在他们免费住在陌生人家里的过程中，他们会在房主不在的时候喂宠物、给植物浇水。A. strangers’陌生人的；B. parents’父母的；C. co-workers’同事的；D. neighbors’邻居的。根据上文可知他们在环球旅行，所以是住在陌生人的家里。故选A。 【46题详解】 考查名词词义辨析。句意：在他们免费住在陌生人家里的过程中，他们会在房主不在的时候喂宠物、给植物浇水。A. favor帮助；B. defense防御；C. honor荣誉；D. absence缺席。根据上文“they feed pets and water plants in the homeowner’s”指在房主不在的时候喂宠物、给植物浇水。故选D。 【47题详解】 考查动词词义辨析。句意：这两位旅行者仔细地计划他们的旅行，围绕着有时很难取悦的宠物安排他们的日子。A. plan计划；B. explain解释；C. compare比较；D. complete完成。根据宾语“their trips”指计划旅行，应用plan。故选A。 【48题详解】 考查动词词义辨析。句意：这两位旅行者仔细地计划他们的旅行，围绕着有时很难取悦的宠物安排他们的日子。A. buy购买；B. transport运输；C. choose选择；D. please取悦。根据上文“the pets that are sometimes difficult to”指某些宠物很难照管，故选D。 【49题详解】 考查名词词义辨析。句意：但照看房子也能提供一种在酒店里找不到的舒适感。A. support支持；B. comfort舒适，安慰；C. control控制；D. attention注意力。结合后文提到像住在朋友家，可见照看房子也能提供一种在酒店里找不到的舒适感。故选B。 【50题详解】 考查动词词义辨析。句意：“这就像住在朋友家一样，”Jessica说。A. cooking烹饪；B. staying停留；C. waiting等待；D. studying学习。根据后文“at a friend’s house”指像呆在朋友家，应用stay at。故选B。 【51题详解】 考查名词词义辨析。句意：这对夫妇被接受为看房人的成功率很高，他们总是超出房主的预期。A. success成功；B. survival存活；C. growth生长；D. unemployment失业。根据后文“rate in getting accepted as house sitters”可知此处指他们被接受为看房人的成功率，应用success。故选A。 【52题详解】 考查名词词义辨析。句意：这对夫妇被接受为看房人的成功率很高，他们总是超出房主的预期。A. budget预算；B. abilities能力；C. expectations期待；D. understanding理解。上文提到这对夫妇被接受为看房人的成功率很高，是因为他们总是超出房主的预期，所以成功率才高。故选C。 【53题详解】 考查动词词义辨析。句意：对杰西卡来说，这意味着发送大量快乐宠物的照片，保持房子的清洁，在去下一个房子之前留下一份漂亮的小礼物。A. admiring钦佩；B. donating捐赠；C. sending发送；D. borrowing借来。根据后文“plenty of pictures of happy pets”指给房主发送宠物的照片。故选C。 【54题详解】 考查形容词词义辨析。句意：对杰西卡来说，这意味着发送大量快乐宠物的照片，保持房子的清洁，在去下一个房子之前留下一份漂亮的小礼物。A. clean干净的；B. open开放的；C. simple简单的；D. empty空的。根据上文可知，他们的职责就是照看房子，所以要保持房子的清洁。故选A。 【55题详解】 考查名词词义辨析。句意：“你要让房主觉得他们做了正确的决定，”她说。A. guess猜测；B. decision决定；C. response反应；D. impression印象。是房主选择了他们当看房人，所以是房主做了正确的决定，故选B。 第二节 （共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分 15分） 阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。 To understand a painting, we’re taught to look for color, composition, and light. But how can a painting ____56____ (appreciate)by someone who’s blind? Through touch, the one thing gallery signs tell you not ____57____ (do). John Olson, a former ____58____ (photograph)and his team turn paintings into fully textured 3D models. The tactile(可触知的)paintings work as a way to show art to ____59____ blind because we don’t see with just Our eyes: We see with our brains. Research in the field of neuroplasticity-the brain’s adaptability-shows that the visual cortex(大脑皮层)is made active by touch. Blind people recognize shapes with their ____60____ (exist) senses, in a way similar to that of ____61____ (sight )people, says Ella Striem-Amit, a Harvard scientist. Luc Gandarias, who’s now thirteen, went blind suddenly ____62____ age seven. When he felt a 3D version of Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa” he ____63____ (notice)her smile right away. ”I can actually feel what you see when you look at it,” he said. For Luc, this means ____64____ (independent). "The feeling of being able to see it _____65_____ to form my opinion is like breaking down another wall as a blind person.” 【答案】56. be appreciated 57. to do 58. photographer 59. the 60. existing 61. sighted 62. at 63. noticed 64. independence 65. and 【解析】 【导语】这是一篇说明文。短文介绍了触觉画是向盲人展示艺术的一种方式。 【56题详解】 考查含有情态动词的被动语态。句意：但是一个盲人怎么能欣赏一幅画呢？主语a painting与谓语appreciate为被动关系，且置于情态动词can 之后，所以本句为含有情态动词的被动语态。 故填be appreciated。 【57题详解】 考查不定式。句意：通过触摸，这是画廊招牌告诉你不要做的一件事。tell sb not to do sth“告诉某人不要做某事”为固定短语。故填to do。 【58题详解】 考查名词。句意：约翰·奥尔森是一位前摄影师，他和他的团队将绘画转化为全纹理3D模型。单数名词做主语，根据句意表示“摄影师”，此处为单数概念，故填photographer。 【59题详解】 考查冠词。句意：触觉画是向盲人展示艺术的一种方式，因为我们不仅仅用眼睛看；我们用大脑看。the blind“盲人”，the+形容词表示一类人。故填the。 【60题详解】 考查形容词。句意：哈佛大学的科学家埃拉·斯特里姆-阿米特(Ella Striem-Amit)说，盲人用他们现有的感官识别形状，在某种程度上与正常人相似。形容词existing作定语，修饰sense。故填existing。 【61题详解】 考查形容词。句意：哈佛大学的科学家埃拉·斯特里姆-阿米特(Ella Striem-Amit)说，盲人用他们现有的感官识别形状，在某种程度上与正常人相似。形容词sighted作定语修饰名词people，表示“能看见的、不盲的”。故填sighted。 【62题详解】 考查介词。句意：Luc Gandarias今年13岁，7岁时突然失明。表示在多大年龄时，用介词at。故填at。 【63题详解】 考查时态。句意：当他触摸到莱昂纳多·达·芬奇的3D版《蒙娜丽莎》时，他立刻注意到了她的微笑。根据“he felt”可知，本句为一般过去时。故填noticed。 【64题详解】 考查名词。句意：对卢克来说，这意味着独立。不可数名词independence作mean的宾语。 故填independence。 【65题详解】 考查连词。句意：能够看到它并形成我的观点的感觉就像盲人推倒了另一堵墙。根据句意可知，前后为并列关系，所以用and来连接。故填and。 第四部分 写作（共两节，满分40分） 第一节（满分15分） 66. 假设你是红星中学高三学生李华。你的英国好友Jim正在策划一次以“绿色北京”为主题的社团活动，他发来邮件询问你的建议。请你用英文给他回复，内容包括： (1)活动形式； (2)活动内容。 注意：(1)词数100左右； (2)开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。 Dear Jim， ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Yours， Li Hua 【答案】Dear Jim, Hearing that you are planning a club activity with the theme of “Green Beijing” and need my help, I am writing to offer you my suggestions. I think you can carry out this activity in an interactive and experiential manner, which means students can participate and have a better understanding of “Green Beijing” through getting involved in different activities by themselves. You can showcase garbage classification on site, plant trees and publicize sharing economy, which will all fit into the theme of “Green Beijing”. Hopefully, you will get some inspiration from my suggestions. Wish you success. Yours, Li Hua 【解析】 【导语】本篇书面表达属于应用文。要求考生给好友Jim策划的“绿色北京”社团活动给出一些建议。 【详解】1.词汇积累 建议：suggestion→tip 提供：offer→provide 开展：carry out→conduct 主题：theme→topic 2.句式拓展 同义句转换 原句：Hearing that you are planning a club activity with the theme of “Green Beijing” and need my d help, I am writing to offer you my suggestions. 拓展句：Since you are planning a club activity with the theme of “Green Beijing” and need my help, I am writing to offer you my suggestions. 【点睛】[高分句型1] Hearing that you are planning a club activity with the theme of “Green Beijing” and need my help, I am writing to offer you my suggestions. (运用了that引导宾语从句) [高分句型2] I think you can carry out this activity in an interactive and experiential manner, which means students can participate and have a better understanding of “Green Beijing” through getting involved in different activities by themselves. (运用了which引导非限制性定语从句) 第二节（满分25分） 67. 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。 My husband and I enjoy seeing life through the eyes of our children. It’s amazing to watch as they discover their world. While we were outdoors last summer enjoying the sunshine, our oldest daughter, Kaytlin, called me to the doorway. Beneath the steps was a baby red squirrel. We watched it from a distance, not wanting to disturb it or scare off its mother. But after a long wait—and looking all around our house for signs of a nest or a mother—we realized the tiny squirrel was lost. Shaking terribly, he was weak, thin, and hungry. We tried to find an expert to help, but the Inland Fisheries and Wildlife website showed that there were no wildlife experts in our area. After some quick research, we concluded that the best way to give the squirrel a fighting chance was to care for him ourselves. So a trip to the local store for milk and supplies was in order. More research taught us how much to feed him, how to estimate his age, how and when to wean (断奶) him, and that we should let him go as soon as he could survive on his own. Our daughters and I took turns in feeding “Squirt.” Kaytlin took on the most responsibility. She taught him to eat from a bottle, and she woke in the night for his feeds. To our relief, Squirt soon became healthy and strong. Within a few weeks he became more active. He would chatter (吱吱叫) for his next meal, playfully go around the girls, and lie down on them for sleep. It wasn’t long before he was weaned onto solid food and reintroduced to the wild. His first few visits to the great outdoors were funny. Just like a child, he would play in the grass some and then run back to Kaytlin for safety. Soon she had him climbing trees and finding nest material. 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。 One day in the trees, Squirt met up with a family of gray squirrels. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ One night, Squirt didn’t come back to our house and it rained hard. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 【答案】 One day in the trees, Squirt met up with a family of gray squirrels. But the family was none too happy about his visit. They scolded and swatted at him. At first Squirt was so unhappy that he avoided them. And then he quickly learned some social skills. He would take some snacks to meet them. For several days he played all day in the trees surrounding our house but came down at bedtime. One night, Squirt didn’t come back to our house and it rained hard. Our girls fretted. They wanted to seek Squirt. We prevented them because it was too dangerous. But when the sun rose the next day, there was Squirt, begging for food. And that remained the pattern for weeks. The experience was entertaining and heartwarming for our family. In the wild and somewhat silly moments of raising an orphaned baby squirrel, our children learned to value and appreciate life. 【解析】 【导语】本文以人物为线索展开，讲述了作者一家一天看到一只幼小的迷路的松鼠，他们决定收养它，看着这只小松鼠从瘦弱幼小，慢慢变的健康活泼，让作者一家感觉既有趣又温暖。 【详解】1. 段落续写： ①由第一段首句内容“一天，在树林里，Squirt遇到了一个灰色松鼠家庭。”可知，第一段可描写Squirt遇到这一家灰松鼠的情况，Squirt如何与灰松鼠一家交往。 ②由第二段首句内容“一天晚上，Squirt没有回到我们家，下起了大雨。”可知，第二段可描写作者一家的担心，和最后的结果，以及作者的感悟。 2. 续写线索：遇到灰松鼠——与灰松鼠一家交往——没有回家，担心它——感悟 3. 词汇激活 行为类 ①责骂：scold/blame/rebuke ②拍打：swat/slap/hit ③寻找：seek/find/look for/search for ④阻止：prevent/put a stop to/head off 情绪类 ①高兴的：happy/delighted ②有趣的：entertaining/delightful/engrossing 【点睛】[高分句型1]At first Squirt was so unhappy that he avoided them.(so...that引导的结果状语从句) [高分句型2]But when the sun rose the next day, there was Squirt, begging for food.(when引导的时间状语从句和现在分词作状语) 第1页/共1页 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $ 辛集市2023—2024学年度第一学期期末教学质量监测 高三英语试卷 注意事项： 1. 本试卷满分150分。考试用时120分钟，另附加卷面分5分。 2. 答卷前，考生务必将自己的姓名、考生号等填写在答题卡和试卷指定位置上。 3. 回答选择题时，选出每小题答案后，用铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案标号。 4. 考生必须保证答题卡的整洁。考试结束后，请将答题卡交回，试卷由考生保留。 第一部分 听力（共两节，满分30分） 做题时，先将答案标在试卷上。录音内容结束后，你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的答案转涂到答题纸上。 第一节（共5 小题；每小题 1.5分，满分7.5分） 听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的 A 、B 、C 三个选项中选出最佳选项。听完每段对话你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。 1. 【此处可播放相关音频，请去附件查看】 What will Joe do? A. Leave his company. B. Work in Paris. C. Move house. 2. 【此处可播放相关音频，请去附件查看】 Why is the man making the call? A. To remind the woman of a rainstorm. B. To make work arrangements. C. To have his house repaired. 3. 【此处可播放相关音频，请去附件查看】 What does the man think of the training? A. Disappointing. B. Satisfying. C. Worrying. 4. 【此处可播放相关音频，请去附件查看】 Where does the conversation most probably take place? A. In the man’s office. B. In a meeting room. C. At home. 5. 【此处可播放相关音频，请去附件查看】 What are the speakers talking about ? A. An open-minded politician. B. Public opinion. C. An outstanding teacher. 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。 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。【此处可播放相关音频，请去附件查看】 6. What’s the relationship between the two speakers? A. Colleagues. B. A receptionist and a visitor. C. The boss and the secretary. 7. What does the woman give the man? A. A guidebook. B. A city map. C. A schedule. 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。【此处可播放相关音频，请去附件查看】 8. When did the woman first see Mr. Wang? A. On Monday. B. On Tuesday. C. On Friday. 9. What did Mr. Wang impress the woman with? A. His personality. B. His approach. C. His enthusiasm. 10. What will Mr. Wang do on Tuesday? A. Chair a meeting. B. Propose a strategy. C. Report the profits. 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。【此处可播放相关音频，请去附件查看】 11. Where does the woman work? A. At a dental clinic. B. At a travel agency. C. At a restaurant. 12. When did the man make the reservation? A. One week ago. B. Two weeks ago. C. Three weeks ago. 13. What will the man try to do at 3:00? A. Visit his client. B. Reschedule a meeting. C. Keep an appointment. 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。【此处可播放相关音频，请去附件查看】 14. What did Adriana create? A. A bicycle. B. A computer. C. A generator. 15. How did Adriana get the idea of her project? A. From the Internet. B. From her father. C. From a designer. 16. What was the only problem Adriana faced? A. She lacked fund. B. She was in need of support. C. She couldn’t find suitable materials. 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。【此处可播放相关音频，请去附件查看】 17. Who is the speaker talking to? A. Librarians. B. Freshmen. C. Teachers. 18. What is scheduled in the first week? A. Some tours. B. Some training. C. Some talks. 19. What do we know about the library computers? A. They are connected to printers. B. There are only a limited number. C. They have access to the Internet all the time. 20. Who can help to find things in the library? A. The Section Manager. B. The Cataloguing Assistant. C. The Training Supervisor. 第二部分：阅读理解（共两节，满分50分） 第一节（共15个小题；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，并在答题卡上将项涂黑。 A Theatres and Entertainment St David’s Hall St David’s Hall is the award winning National Concert Hall of Wales standing at the very heart of Cardiff’s entertainment centre. With an impressive 2,000-seat concert hall, St David’s Hall is home to the annual Welsh Proms Cardiff. It presents live entertainment, including pop, rock, folk, jazz, musicals, dance, world music, films and classical music. The Hayes, Cardiff CF10 1AH www.stdavidshallcardiff.co.uk The Glee Club Every weekend this is “Wales” premier comedy club where having a great time is the order for both audiences and comedy stars alike. It is hard to name a comedy star who hasn’t been on the stage here. If you are looking for the best comedies on tour and brilliant live music, you should start here. Mermaid Quay, Cardiff Bay, Cardiff CF10 5BZ www.glee.co.uk/cardiff Sherman Cymru Sherman Cymru’s theatre in the Cathays area of Cardiff reopened in February 2012. This special building is a place in which theatre is made and where children, artists, writers and anyone else have the opportunity (机会) to do creative things. Sherman Cymru is excited to present a packed programme of the very best theatre, dance, family shows and music from Wales and the rest of the world. Senghennydd Road, Cardiff CF24 4YE www.shermancymru.co.uk New Theatre The New Theatre has been the home of quality drama, musicals, dance and children’s shows for more than 100 years. Presenting the best of the West End along with the pick of the UK’s touring shows, the New Theatre is Cardiff’s oldest surviving traditional theatre. Be sure to pay a visit as part of your stay in the city. Park Place, Cardiff CF10 3LN www.newtheatrecardiff.co.uk 21. Where is the Welsh Proms Cardiff hosted? A. At the New Theatre. B. At the Glee Club. C. At Sherman Cymru. D. At St David’s Hall. 22. What can people do at the Glee Club? A. Watch musicals. B. Enjoy comedies. C. See family shows. D. Do creative things. 23. Which website can you visit to learn about Cardiff’s oldest surviving theatre? A. www.newtheatrecardiff.co.uk B. www.shermancymru.co.uk C. www.glee.co.uk/cardiff D. www.stdavidshallcardiff.co.uk B A British woman who won a S1 million prize after she was named the World's Best Teacher will use the cash to bring inspirational figures into UK schools. Andria Zafirakou,a north London secondary school teacher, said she wanted to bring about a classroom revolution (变革). “We are going to make a change, ”she said.“I’ve started a project to promote the teaching of the arts in our schools.” The project results from the difficulties many schools have in getting artists of any sort - whether an up-and-coming local musician or a major movie star - into schools to work with and inspire children. Zafirakou began the project at Alperton Community School, her place of work for the past twelve years. “I've seen those magic moments when children are talking to someone they are inspired by - their eyes are shining and their faces light up,” she said. “We need artists . more than ever in our schools." Artist Michael Craig-Martin said: “Andria's brilliant project to bring artists from all fields into direct contact with children is particularly welcome at a time when the arts are being downgraded in schools." It was a mistake to see the arts as unnecessary, he added. Historian Sir Simon Schama is also a supporter of the project. He said that arts education in schools was not just an add-on. “It is absolutely necessary. The future depends on creativity and creativity depends on the young. What will remain of us when artificial intelligence takes over will be our creativity, and it is our creative spirit, our visionary sense of freshness,that has been our strength for centuries." 24. What will Zafirakou do with her prize money? A. Make a movie. B. Build new schools. C. Run a project. D. Help local musicians. 25. What does Craig-Martin think of the teaching of the arts in UK schools? A. It is particularly difficult. B. It increases artists' income. C. It opens children's mind. D. It deserves greater attention. 26. What should be stressed in school education according to Schama? A. Moral principles. B. Interpersonal skills. C. Creative abilities. D. Positive worldviews. 27. Which of the following is a suitable title for the text? A. Bring Artists to Schools B. When Historians Meet Artists C. Arts Education in Britain D. The World's Best Arts Teacher C Can a small group of drones (无人机) guarantee the safety and reliability of railways and, at the same time, help railway operators save billions of euros each year? That is the very likely future of applying today’s “eyes in the sky” technology to make sure that the millions of kilometres of rail tracks and infrastructure (基础设施) worldwide are safe for trains on a 24/7 basis. Drones are already being used to examine high-tension electrical lines. They could do precisely the same thing to inspect railway lines and other vital aspects of rail infrastructure such as the correct position of railway tracks and switching points. The more regularly they can be inspected, the more railway safety, reliability and on-time performance will be improved. Costs would be cut and operations would be more efficient (高效) across the board. That includes huge savings in maintenance costs and better protection of railway personnel safety. It is calculated that European railways alone spend approximately 20 billion euros a year on maintenance, including sending maintenance staff, often at night, to inspect and repair the rail infrastructure. That can be dangerous work that could be avoided with drones assisting the crews’ efforts. By using the latest technologies, drones could also start providing higher-value services for railways, detecting faults in the rail or switches, before they can cause any safety problems. To perform these tasks, drones for rail don’t need to be flying overhead. Engineers are now working on a new concept: the rail drones of the future. They will be moving on the track ahead of the train, and programmed to run autonomously. Very small drones with advanced sensors and AI and travelling ahead of the train could guide it like a co-pilot. With their ability to see ahead, they could signal any problem, so that fast-moving trains would be able to react in time. 28. What makes the application of drones to rail lines possible? A. The use of drones in checking on power lines. B. Drones’ ability to work at high altitudes. C. The reduction of cost in designing drones. D. Drones’ reliable performance in remote areas. 29. What does “maintenance” underlined in paragraph 3 refer to? A. Personnel safety. B. Assistance from drones. C. Inspection and repair. D. Construction of infrastructure. 30. What function is expected of the rail drones? A. To provide early warning. B. To make trains run automatically. C. To earn profits for the crews. D. To accelerate transportation. 31. Which is the most suitable title for the text? A. What Faults Can Be Detected with Drones B. How Production of Drones Can Be Expanded C. What Difficulty Drone Development Will Face D. How Drones Will Change the Future of Railways D Would you BET on the future of this man? He is 53 years old. Most of his adult life has been a losing struggle against debt and misfortune. A war injury has made his left hand stop functioning, and he has often been in prison. Driven by heaven-knows-what motives, he deter-mines to write a book. The book turns out to be one that has appealed to the world for more than 350 years. That former prisoner was Cervantes, and the book was Don Quixote (《堂吉诃德》). And the story poses an interesting question: why do some people discover new vitality and creativity to the end of their days, while others go to seed long before? We’ve all known people who run out of steam before they reach life’s halfway mark. I’m not talking about those who fail to get to the top. We can’t all get there. I’m talking about people who have stopped learning on growing because they have adopted the fixed attitudes and opinions that all too often come with passing years. Most of us, in fact, progressively narrow the variety of our lives. We succeed in our field of specialization and then become trapped in it. Nothing surprises us. We lose our sense of wonder. But, if we are willing to learn, the opportunities are everywhere. The things we learn in maturity seldom involve information and skills. We learn to bear with the things we can’t change. We learn to avoid self-pity. We learn that however much we try to please, some people are never going to love us——an idea that troubles at first but is eventually relaxing. With high motivation and enthusiasm, we can keep on learning. Then we will know how important it is to have meaning in our life. However, we can achieve meaning only if we have made a commitment to something larger than our own little egos (自我), whether to loved ones, to fellow humans, to work, or to some moral concept. Many of us equate (视……等同于) “commitment” with such “caring” occupations as teaching and nursing. But doing any ordinary job as well as one can is in itself an admirable commitment. People who work toward such excellence whether they are driving a truck, or running a store———make the world better just by being the kind of people they are. They’ve learned life’s most valuable lesson. 32. The passage starts with the story of Cervantes to show that ________. A. loss of freedom stimulates one’s creativity B. age is not a barrier to achieving one’s goal C. misery inspires a man to fight against his fate D. disability cannot stop a man´s pursuit of success 33. What could be inferred from Paragraph 4? A. Those who dare to try often get themselves trapped. B. Those who tend to think back can hardly go ahead. C. Opportunity favors those with a curious mind. D. Opportunity awaits those with a cautious mind. 34. What does the author intend to tell us in Paragraph 5? A. A tough man can tolerate suffering. B. A wise man can live without self-pity. C. A man should try to satisfy people around him. D. A man should learn suitable ways to deal with life. 35. What is the author’s purpose in writing the passage? A. To provide guidance on leading a meaningful adult life. B. To stress the need of shouldering responsibilities at work. C. To state the importance of generating motivation for learning. D. To suggest a way of pursuing excellence in our lifelong career. 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。 It’s a joyful and stressful time of year in the United States for students and their families as they make decisions about where to attend college. Families often turn to rankings systems to help make a decision. ____36____ When I talk to families as a scholar of higher education, they’re often surprised that teaching excellence is not counted in rankings. ____37____ Emerging research suggests that courses in lower-ranked universities, on average, scored higher on teaching than courses in higher-ranked universities. ____38____ The absence of teaching excellence from the rankings is surprising given the link between high-quality teaching and student success. Quality teaching is one of the most important predictors of a wide range of college outcomes. Rankings, however, are only one reason why a low value is placed on teaching in higher education. Administrators often don’t view teaching excellence as a way to increase enrolment (注册) or funding. ____39____ Research shows that the more time instructors spend on teaching, the lower their salary. What is the result? Many instructors continue to teach using traditional lectures, which lead to lower success rates. ____40____ Nevertheless, not much will change until schools with high-quality teaching are rewarded with more resources, higher rankings and increased enrolments. In the long term, universities, organisations that rank schools, and others should work to make teaching a valued, core part of the mission. What should students and their families do? They should give strong consideration to universities where high-quality teaching is valued, even though the schools may be ranked lower. A. Higher education has achieved its true potential. B. Therefore, it’s not highly valued in hiring or promotion. C. Quality teaching has been an important reputation-building factor. D. However, the rankings ignore a critical factor: the quality of teaching. E. Efforts to improve teaching at the university level have recently emerged. F. They’re even more surprised at how teaching is undervalued by universities. G. In fact, universities often shift emphasis from teaching to other ranking factors. 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） Like many young people, Jessica wants to travel the globe. Unlike most of them, this 25-year-old is doing it ___41___ . She and her husband have spent the last two years traveling the world, stopping everywhere from Paris to Singapore. It might sound like one long, expensive ___42___ , but the couple has an unusual way to make their travel ___43___ . They’re part of a new form of the ___44___ economy: an online group of house sitters. Throughout their no-cost stays in ___45___ homes, they feed pets and water plants in the homeowner’s ___46___ . It’s not all sightseeing. The two travelers carefully ___47___ their trips, scheduling their days around the pets that are sometimes difficult to ___48___ . But house sitting also offers a level of ___49___ they can’t find in a hotel. “It’s like ____50____ at a friend’s house,” Jessica says. The couple has a high ____51____ rate in getting accepted as house sitters and they always go beyond the homeowner’s ____52____ . For Jessica, that means ____53____ plenty of pictures of happy pets, keeping the house ____54____ and leaving a nice small gift before heading to the next house. “You want to make the homeowner feel that they made the right ____55____ ,” she says. 41. A. indoors B. online C. single-handed D. full-time 42. A. game B. service C. vacation D. procedure 43. A. safe B. busy C. helpful D. affordable 44. A. local B. private C. sharing D. agricultural 45. A. strangers’ B. parents’ C. co-workers’ D. neighbors’ 46. A. favor B. defense C. honor D. absence 47. A. plan B. explain C. compare D. complete 48. A. buy B. transport C. choose D. please 49. A. support B. comfort C. control D. attention 50. A. cooking B. staying C. waiting D. studying 51. A. success B. survival C. growth D. unemployment 52. A. budget B. abilities C. expectations D. understanding 53. A. admiring B. donating C. sending D. borrowing 54. A. clean B. open C. simple D. empty 55. A. guess B. decision C. response D. impression 第二节 （共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分 15分） 阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。 To understand a painting, we’re taught to look for color, composition, and light. But how can a painting ____56____ (appreciate)by someone who’s blind? Through touch, the one thing gallery signs tell you not ____57____ (do). John Olson, a former ____58____ (photograph)and his team turn paintings into fully textured 3D models. The tactile(可触知的)paintings work as a way to show art to ____59____ blind because we don’t see with just Our eyes: We see with our brains. Research in the field of neuroplasticity-the brain’s adaptability-shows that the visual cortex(大脑皮层)is made active by touch. Blind people recognize shapes with their ____60____ (exist) senses, in a way similar to that of ____61____ (sight )people, says Ella Striem-Amit, a Harvard scientist. Luc Gandarias, who’s now thirteen, went blind suddenly ____62____ age seven. When he felt a 3D version of Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa” he ____63____ (notice)her smile right away. ”I can actually feel what you see when you look at it,” he said. For Luc, this means ____64____ (independent). "The feeling of being able to see it _____65_____ to form my opinion is like breaking down another wall as a blind person.” 第四部分 写作（共两节，满分40分） 第一节（满分15分） 66. 假设你是红星中学高三学生李华。你的英国好友Jim正在策划一次以“绿色北京”为主题的社团活动，他发来邮件询问你的建议。请你用英文给他回复，内容包括： (1)活动形式； (2)活动内容。 注意：(1)词数100左右； (2)开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。 Dear Jim， ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Yours， Li Hua 第二节（满分25分） 67. 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。 My husband and I enjoy seeing life through the eyes of our children. It’s amazing to watch as they discover their world. While we were outdoors last summer enjoying the sunshine, our oldest daughter, Kaytlin, called me to the doorway. Beneath the steps was a baby red squirrel. We watched it from a distance, not wanting to disturb it or scare off its mother. But after a long wait—and looking all around our house for signs of a nest or a mother—we realized the tiny squirrel was lost. Shaking terribly, he was weak, thin, and hungry. We tried to find an expert to help, but the Inland Fisheries and Wildlife website showed that there were no wildlife experts in our area. After some quick research, we concluded that the best way to give the squirrel a fighting chance was to care for him ourselves. So a trip to the local store for milk and supplies was in order. More research taught us how much to feed him, how to estimate his age, how and when to wean (断奶) him, and that we should let him go as soon as he could survive on his own. Our daughters and I took turns in feeding “Squirt.” Kaytlin took on the most responsibility. She taught him to eat from a bottle, and she woke in the night for his feeds. To our relief, Squirt soon became healthy and strong. Within a few weeks he became more active. He would chatter (吱吱叫) for his next meal, playfully go around the girls, and lie down on them for sleep. It wasn’t long before he was weaned onto solid food and reintroduced to the wild. His first few visits to the great outdoors were funny. Just like a child, he would play in the grass some and then run back to Kaytlin for safety. Soon she had him climbing trees and finding nest material. 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。 One day in the trees, Squirt met up with a family of gray squirrels. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ One night, Squirt didn’t come back to our house and it rained hard. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 第1页/共1页 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $请看听力部分第一节，第一节听下面5段对话，每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的ABC3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。例如现在你有5秒钟的时间看试卷上的例题。你将听到以下内容。excuse me, can you tell me how much . the shirt? Yes, it's nine fifteen. 你将有5秒钟的时间将正确答案标在试卷上。衬衫的价格为九磅，15便是，所以你选择C项并将其划在试卷上。现在你有5秒钟的时间阅读第一小题的有关内容。Hey, forgot to tell you, john and anna are moving to paris. really. Isn't that a bit sudden? How did that happen? His company offered him a job out there. They're going for at least a couple of years. Hello, i'm calling to ask whether you can send someone to take a look at our ceiling. It's been leaking since last night's rainstorm. Hi, mr. Stevenson. I'm afraid we are already booked up for this week, but I think we can make IT next monday. How was the training? The training was a great chAllenge. I learned a lot. I'm glad you see IT that way. Not a lot of people take a positive attitude towards training anyway. I'm glad I went. Have you seen my blue sweater? IT was on the back of my chair before I went to the meeting, but now it's disappeared. Are you sure you left IT there? When I came in the office to remind you about the meeting, I didn't see IT. Listen to this. The education minister is now saying that teachers deserve a pay rise. That's a complete change. Your opinion? I'm glad to hear IT. He's been listening to public opinion, obviously. 第一节到此结束，第二节听下面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ABC3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。听下面一段对话，回答第六和第7两个小题。现在你有10秒钟的时间阅读这两个小题。Hi, my name is tom smith. I saw a sign that said, all visitors need sign in here. That's correct. May I ask your reason for visiting city hall today? Actually, i'd like to take a tour. I'm interested in historic buildings. Is that so we've had more visitors ever since the regional . museum opened. Oh, I was just there. What do you have? Any idea where . I should start here? Take this pressure. IT has some information about the building's history, can shows you where the points of interest star. Let me know if you have any questions. Hi, my name is tom smith. I saw a sign that said, all visitors need sign in here. That's correct. May I ask your reason for visiting city hall today? Actually, i'd like to take a tour. I'm interested in historic buildings. Is that? So we've had more visitors ever since the regional . museum opened. Oh, I was just there. What do you have? Any idea where . I should start here? Take this pressure? IT has some information about the building's history, can shows you where the points of interest star. Let me know if you have any questions. 听下面一段对话，回答第八至第13个小题。现在你有15秒钟的时间阅读这三个小题。Have you met our new marketing manager? I heard he came from a chicago branch and started to work here last monday. Yes, I saw mr. Wrong in the staff meeting on friday. For the first time, he looked very energetic and organized. In particular, I liked the way he developed our new marketing strategies. He encouraged participants to share their ideas in an informal landon fighting way. IT sounds like he has a constructive approach. I hope he will bring a more enthusiasm and help us increase our profits. In the end. that's exactly what I want from him. By the way, there is another meeting that he is supposed to chair on tuesday. You'll be there, won't you? Have you met our new marketing manager? I heard he came from a chicago branch and started to work here last monday. Yes, I saw master wong in the staff meeting on friday. For the first time, he looked very energetic and organized. In particular, I liked the way he developed our new marketing strategies. He encouraged participants to share their ideas in an informal lin fighting way. IT sounds like he has a constructive approach. I hope he will bring us more enthusiasm and help us increase our profits. In the end. that's exactly what I want from him. By the way, there is another meeting that he is supposed to cheer on tuesday. You'll be, sir, won't you? 听下面一段对话，回答第11至第13 3个小题。现在你有15秒钟的时间阅读这三个小题。Good morning. You have reached doctor Henry's office. This is Laura. How may I help you? Hi, this is joe phillips. I'd like to we schedule my appointment today at three o'clock to another time tomorrow. Is that possible? I'm afraid the appointments are already fully booked for this week. mr. Philips, you've already waited two weeks to make this reservation, and you really should have your teeth examined. Is there any way you can come today is arranged. I know, but I am at an urgent meeting with my client right now, and I might not make IT to the three o'clock appointment. Well, i'll try to conclude everything quickly in the meeting so that I can arrive every clinic on time. Thank you. Good morning. You have reached doctor Henry's office. This is Lauren. How may I help you? Hi, this is joe phillips. I'd like to be schedule my appointment today at three o'clock to another time tomorrow. Is that possible? I'm afraid the appointments are already fully booked for this week. mr. Philips, you've already waited two weeks to make this reservation, and you really should have your teeth examined. Is there any way you can come today is arranged. I know, but I am at an urgent meeting with my client right now, and I might not make IT to the three o'clock appointment. Well, i'll try to conclude everything quickly in the meeting so that I can arrive at a clinic on time. Thank you. 听下面一段对话，回答第14至第16 3个小题。现在你有15秒钟的时间阅读这三个小题。Today i'm talking with fifteen year old Adriana Brown. SHE built her own bicycle generator. Adriana, can you tell us about your project? How did you . get started? Well, i've helped my dad with some of his projects, but I decided I wanted to do my own project this time. So I researched ideas on the internet. I decided on a bicycle generator because it's really useful. I can use IT to power my computer. So how did you build IT? first? I found plans for generators. I chose a simple design and made the first draft of the project. Then my dad made some suggestions, and I ve made another draft. After that, I started to look for materials. The only problem was that I didn't have a lot of money, so IT was difficult. So what did you do? Well. I went to a bicycle shop and a car repair shop. I told them about my project. They gave . me some extra parts. Oh. that was nice. Yeah, really was. When I got all materials, I was ready to put IT all together. Well, I think it's great. Very impressive. Today i'm talking with fifteen year old Adriana Brown. SHE built her own bicycle generator. Adriana, can you tell us about your project? How did you get started? Well, i've helped my dad with some of his projects, but I decided I wanted to do my own project this time. So I researched the ideas on the internet. I decided on a bicycle generator because it's really useful. I can use IT to power my computer. So how did you build IT? First, I found plans for generators. I chose a simple design and made the first draft of the project. Then my dad made some suggestions and die mayed another draft. After that, I started to look for materials. The only problem was that I didn't have a lot of money, so IT was difficult. So what did you do? Well. I went to a bicycle shop and a car repair shop. I told them about my project. They gave me some extra parts. Oh, that was nice. Yeah. really was. When I got over materials, I was ready to put IT all together. Well, I think it's great. Very impressive. 听下面一段独白，回答第17至第24个小题。现在你有20秒钟的时间阅读这四个小题。okay. Are you all settled? Well, first of all, welcome to cardiff university. I'm here to explain what we can offer you. Now as a new student at the university, you will probably need some sort of guidance to help you to use the library effectively to study and research. Some of you have asked about a guided tour, but we find this rather confuses people. So in this first week, we run a series of talks, which focus on different aspects of the library and its resources. okay. Now let me give you an outline of what's available to you. You'll find that the computers are increasingly used as a research tool. Many students do most of their research on the internet, and the library computers are permanently online. Having found what you need, you'll find you can readily save texts on your personal computer space to print off when you need. Naturally, we do still have the full range of classic reference books for you to use, and there are several copies of each one. This is because some of you may prefer to borrow book rather than sit in the library. There is a restricted loan time on these so that they are not missing from the shelves for too long. Although there is a section manager for each part of the library, they're very busy. And so if you do get stuck looking for things, you should ask the relevant catalog ging assistant as your training supervisor. I just oversee your work for a week and will not be around after this in the show week. okay. Are you all settled? Well, first of all, welcome to cardiff university. I'm here to explain what we can offer you now as a new student at the university, you will probably need some sort of guidance to help you to use the library effectively to study and research. Some of you have asked about a guided tour, but we find this rather confuses people. So in this first week, we run a series of talks, which focus on different aspects of the library and its resources. okay. Now let me give you an outline of what's available to you. You'll find that the computers are increasingly used as a research tool. Many students do most of their research on the internet and the library computers are permanently online. Having found what you need, you'll find you can readily save texts on your personal computer space to print off when you need. Naturally, we do still have the full range of classic reference books for you to use, and there are several copies of each one. This is because some of you may prefer to borrow book rather than sit in the library. There is a restricted loan time on these so that they are not missing from the shelves for too long. Although there is a section manager for each part of the library, they're very busy, and so if you do get stuck looking for things, you should ask the relevant cataloging assistant as your training supervisor. I just oversee your work for a week and will not be around after this in the show week. 第二节到此结束，现在你有两分钟的时间将试卷上的答案转涂到客观题答题卡上。听力部分到此结束。