高二英语期中模拟卷（上教版2020，选择性必修一 Units 1～4）-学易金卷：2024-2025学年高中上学期期中模拟考试

绝密★考试结束前 2024-2025学年高二英语上学期期中模拟卷 （考试时间：120分钟 试卷满分：140分） 注意事项： 1．答卷前，考生务必将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在答题卡上。 2．回答选择题时，选出每小题答案后，用2B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。回答非选择题时，将答案写在答题卡上。写在本试卷上无效。 3．测试范围：选择性必修一 Units 1~4（上教版2020）。 4．难度系数：0.65。 5．考试结束后，将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。 I. Listening Comprehension （25分） 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．7:00. B．7:10. C．9:10. D．9:00. 2． A．Doubtful. B．Excited. C．Frustrated. D．Indifferent. 3． A．Waiter and guest. B．Husband and wife. C．Mother and son. D．Boss and employee. 4． A．At an art gallery. B．In a work shop. C．At a gas station. D．In a department store. 5． A．He had a worthy trip. B．He didn’t enjoy the trip. C．The trip was too exhausting. D．The trip took him by surprise. 6． A．Press the button of every floor. B．Take another lift down to the 7th floor. C．Ask the woman which floor she’s going to. D．Stay in the same lift to go down to his floor. 7． A．The size of the electric vehicle market. B．A new trend in the car making industry. C．The very profitable business of making cakes. D．How manufacturers profit from making electric cars. 8． A．The woman was a new customer of the garage. B．The woman called to make a complaint about the garage’s service. C．The woman hadn’t expected the maintenance service to take so long. D．The woman was satisfied with the improvement in the garage’s service 9． A．The man didn’t intend to make the woman unhappy. B．The man thought the woman was being unreasonable. C．The man believed the woman had misunderstood him. D．The man wanted to say something upsetting to the woman. 10． A．The man may need to re-evaluate his priorities. B．The man should deal with the urgent matters first. C．The man has failed to take care of the urgent matters. D．The man should keep track of everything using a to-do list. Section B Directions: In Section B. you will hear two passages and one longer conversation. After each passage or conversation, you will be asked several questions. The passages and conversation 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 through 13 are based on the following passage. 11．A．To make sure the spelling and grammar are all correct. B．To improve the overall effectiveness of the writing. C．To ensure the main idea is clear to the reader. D．To add more specific details and examples. 12．A．By the end of the term. B．After some major repair. C．Two weeks before the final due date. D．After the student finishes the course. 13．A．To review material covered in an earlier lecture. B．To change students’ approach to writing. C．To point out an example of good writing. D．To give an assignment for the next class. Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage 14．A．Experiment on the future pizza. B．Taste a specially-made pizza. C．Travel to a future restaurant. D．Meet with a group of futurists. 15．A．They aimed to show people how to cultivate food in a lab. B．They were curious to know what the future would look like. C．They intended to promote the environmentally-friendly food. D．They wanted to highlight the role of science in sustainable living. 16．A．It is three times the size of a normal pizza. B．All the ingredients come from an indoor lab. C．Part of it has been 3D-printed by a robot chef. D．It’s quite different from the traditional pizza except for the appearance. Questions 17 through 20 are based on the following conversation. 17．A．Nervous. B．Excited. C．Sleepless. D．Frustrated. 18．A．High requirements. B．Flexible schedules. C．High frequency. D．Opposite rules. 19．A．The man held a childhood dream of being a professional player. B．The man had taken it for granted that he would be a basketball star sooner or later. C．The man felt uncomfortable when he first received so much attention from others. D．The man relieved himself by adjusting the focus of his attention in time. 20．A．We should not take it seriously. B．We should compete with each other. C．We should enjoy ourselves in it. D．We should never miss a game. II. Grammar and Vocabulary (20分) 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. Indoor vs outdoor exercising: Which is more productive? People tend to lean heavily on the gym when it comes to exercise. The gym is just an easy concept: you go and the machines are right there. You get the workout done and you leave. But maybe that’s the problem. Is it better for your body, health and fitness goals to work out in the open air 21 conditions vary? It depends on so many factors, but the short answer is yes: Science says it is, in fact, better to exercise outdoors. Take running, for example. In a study 22 (look) at runners who covered the same distance on a treadmill (跑步机) and outdoors, the group that ran inside were said 23 (consume) less energy than the outside group. This is because of terrain changes and wind speed, which you don’t face in the controlled climate of gym. Your body 24 ______ work harder, and thus you burn more calories. Another consideration that 25 (make) exercising outside tougher, specifically in warmer months, is temperature. In most gyms, the air conditioners are blowing during the open hours to keep a cool and comfortable environment, meaning you’re consuming less energy and sweating less than you would if you were doing the same activity in the great outdoors. In addition, a systematic study on the effects of physical activity outside in a natural environment versus indoors revealed the fact 26 among people doing the same activity, the outdoor exercises showed “greater feelings of refreshment and positive engagement; decreases in tension, confusion, anger and depression; and 27 (increase) energy” afterward. 28 many advantages, working outside has its limitations. From changeable weather to safety concerns, it’s not always 29 option. The bottom line? Switch up your workout and get outside as much as you can, but don’t bother about it if the gym is a 30 (practical) choice for you. Doing any workout is amazing for your body and health. Section B Directions: Fill in each blank with a proper word chosen from the box. Each word can be used only once. Note that there is one word more than you need. A．elevating         B．context        C． implications         D．vitality        E. afraid F. deep-rooted       G. routine        H. running          I. interpreted       J. altered     K. frozen Unlocking the Secrets of Your Night Most people do not realize that dreams take up about 25% of the night’s sleep, and each dream period lasts from 5 to 20 minutes. There is no doubt that dreams play an important role in our lives. If they can be correctly 31 —and that is a big “if”—we can come to understand ourselves better. Here, we look at three common dreams and what they potentially symbolize. Dream 1: I can see their laughing faces laughing at me. But they aren’t as smart. If they were, they’d be up here flying with me! This dream has both positive and negative 32 . On the positive side, the dream may express a strong desire to travel and get away from everyday 33 . It may also symbolize a powerful desire to achieve. On the other hand, this dream can mean the person has a problem or is 34 of something and they wish to escape. The dream could represent feelings of inferiority, which the dreamer attempts to get rid of by literally and physically 35 themselves above others. Dream 2: I’m moving fast now, but it’s still behind me. It doesn’t matter how fast I go. I still can’t escape. Although this is a traditional symbol of health and 36 , it can suggest the dreamer is trying to escape from danger. Usually, fear is the dominant emotion. By 37 hard, the dreamer can possibly escape the threat. However, they can also stop moving. This makes the fear even more terrifying. One possible explanation is that the person is under pressure in their everyday life. Dream 3: I’m sweating and my heart is beating. I’m trapped. Trapped in my own bed. This symbol is associated with fear and embarrassment: suddenly the dreamer loses all power of movement. They try hard to move their arms and legs, but they simply cannot; 38 in’ a terrifying situation with no escape, they become more and more terrified as the seconds go by. Another frequent 39 for this dream is failing to do something in public, often something that you are normally very good at, such as your job. Not only is this extremely embarrassing, but it also shows a(n) 40 fear of losing a job and a livelihood. III. Reading Comprehension (45分) 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 What’s so bad about processed foods? Processed foods like chips, soda and frozen pizzas are full of salt, sugar and fat. Now scientists are trying to understand if there is something else about such foods that may be bad for humans. Already, the spread of cheap, 41 foods has been linked to rising obesity rates around the world. Three recent studies offer more 42 on how our increasingly industrialized food supply may be affecting our health. What does processed food 43 ? The researchers came up with a system that groups foods into four categories. The system says highly processed foods are made 44 of industrialized ingredients and additives. Sodas, instant noodles and chicken nuggets are some examples of highly processed foods. But also included are products that can 45 beneficial to health, such as morning cereals, energy bars and some kinds of yogurt. What’s wrong with processed foods? Researchers at the National Institutes of Health conducted a four-week study involving 20 people. They found that people eat about 500 more calories a day when 46 mostly processed food. That is compared with when the same people were given 47 processed foods. The researchers permitted the 20 participants to eat as much or as little as they wanted. They were taken to a medical center so their health and behavior could be 48 . In another study, researchers in France found people who ate more processed foods were more likely to have heart disease. A similar study in Spain linked eating more processed foods to a higher risk of death 49 . What is it about processed foods? When given less processed foods, people in the study 50 more of a hormones that suppressed appetite, and less of a hormone that causes hunger. The reason for the 51 is not clear. The scientists also found that people ate processed foods faster. Kevin Hall is one of the researchers who led the study. He told the AP that processed foods 52 be softer and easier to chew and swallow. Hall noted the source of nutrients might 53 . Fiber from whole fruits and vegetables, for instance, may be better for making people feel full than the types of fiber added to packaged foods such as energy bars and yogurt. What should you eat? Limiting processed foods can be hard, especially for people with limited time and energy. “What 54 me is when the message is, ‘Change the way we eat,’ without thinking about why people eat the way they eat,” said Sarah Bowen, a professor who studies food and inequality. Another challenge is the broad range of processed foods, and 55 which ones might be better or worse as companies continually re-engineer products to mislead consumers. So while the newest studies may give us more reasons to avoid industrialized foods, they also underlie the difficulty of coming up with solutions. 41．A．organic B．delicious C．packaged D．fast 42．A．examples B．clues C．contributors D．signals 43．A．provide B．suggest C．mean D．infer 44．A．specially B．mostly C．naturally D．technically 45．A．remain B．taste C．become D．seem 46．A．consumed B．forced C．deprived D．fed 47．A．minimally B．moderately C．maximally D．adequately 48．A．explained B．monitored C．cured D．guaranteed 49．A．in general B．in particular C．in nature D．in advance 50．A．preferred B．produced C．compared D．processed 51．A．hunger B．procedure C．reaction D．psychology 52．A．attempt to B．intend to C．tend to D．mean to 53．A．strike a balance B．run a risk C．pose a threat D．make a difference 54．A．frustrates B．entertains C．puzzles D．inspires 55．A．predicting B．imagining C．assuming D．distinguishing 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 One day, a mime (哑巴) is visiting the zoo and tries to earn some money as a street performer. As soon as he starts to draw a crowd, a zookeeper pulls him into his office. The zookeeper explains that the zoo’s most popular attraction, a gorilla, has died suddenly and the keeper fears that attendance at the zoo will fall off. He offers the mime a job to dress up as the gorilla, so the mime accepts. The next morning the mime puts on the gorilla suit and enters the cage before the crowd comes. He soon discovers he can sleep, play and make fun of people and he draws bigger crowds than he ever did as a mime — he feels the job funny. However, with days going by, he begins to notice that the people are paying more attention to the lion in the cage next to his. Wanting to win back his audience, he climbs to the top of his cage, crawls across a partition (隔墙), and dangles (摇晃地悬挂着) from the top to the lion’s cage first. The lion gets angry at this. The scene is a fuel to the crowd. At the end of the day he is given a raise for being such a good attraction — well, this continues for some time. The crowds grow larger, and the mime’s pay keeps going up. Then one day when he is hanging over the lion he slides and falls. The mime is terrified. He starts screaming “Help me!”, but the lion is quick. The mime soon finds himself flat on his back looking up at the angry lion and the lion says, “Shut up you fool! Do you want to get us both fired?” 56．Why does the mime accepts the zookeeper’s offer? A．Because he wants to make some money. B．Because the zoo is popular with people. C．Because he doesn’t like being a mime. D．Because he likes performing at the zoo. 57．How does the mime first find the job dressing up as the gorilla? A．Hard and tiring. B．Dangerous but exciting. C．Boring but well-paid. D．Easy and funny. 58．The underlined words “a fuel” in paragraph 3 can be replaced by __________. A．frightening B．disappointing C．familiar D．exciting 59．What can we infer from the passage? A．The lion fell onto the ground. B．The mime was bitten by the lion. C．The lion was played by a person. D．The mime was fired by the zoo. B Day Trips out of New York City: Fun for Kids and Families in Summer. These four fun and easy day trips out of New York City will add pleasure to your family’s summer. Take a picnic and drive to any of these kid-friendly destinations. Weir Farm National Historic Site and Art Center 735 Nod Hill Rd., Wilton, CT 06897 1 hour 30 minutes from NYC Weir Farm is a 68-acre United States national park for art. At the beginning of the 20th century, the farm was the summer home of American Impressionist Julian Alden Weir. Weir and artists in his time painted the landscape’s hills, forests and gardens, changing the beautiful countryside setting into Impressionist masterpieces. The farm is open from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm daily. Storm King Art Center 1 Museum Rd., New Windsor, NY 12553 1 hour 40 minutes from NYC Founded in 1960, Storm King is a 500-acre outdoor museum located in New York’s Hudson Valley. Here, visitors can experience sculpture (雕塑) amid grasslands, hills, and under the open sky. Spend an afternoon picnicking and enjoying the center’s special combination of art and nature. The site is open from 10:00 am to 5:30 pm every day except Tuesday. Historic Huguenot Street 81 Huguenot St., New Paltz, NY 12561 1 hour 45 minutes from NYC Historic Huguenot Street is a 10-acre National Historic Landmark District. The Huguenot settlement changed over time, and the site helps visitors understand the historic forces that have changed America by teaching about Native and enslaved African peoples as well as Dutch and French settlers. The Historic Huguenot Street’s Museum Shop is open Thursday through Sunday from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm. Brookhollow’s Barnyard 301 Rockaway Valley Rd., Boonton, NJ 07005 1 hour from NYC Brookhollow’s Barnyard, a family New Jersey petting zoo, offers walk-through and drive-through farm experiences to families. Pigs, horses, goats and more as you walk or drive through the farmyard. Walk-through tickets are available from Wednesday through Saturday. The drive-through experience is available on Sunday. 60．How long does it take you to drive to Storm King Art Center from NYC? A．1 hour. B．1 hour 30 minutes. C．1 hour 40 minutes. D．1 hour 45 minutes. 61．Which place should you go to if you are interested in American history? A．Weir Farm National Historic Site and Art Center. B．Historic Huguenot Street C．Brookhollow’s Barnyard. D．Storm King Art Center. 62．When can you have a walk-through experience at Brookhollow’s Barnyard? A．On Tuesday. B．On Monday. C．On Sunday. D．On Thursday. C Imagine if your clothes could pick up the sounds of everything going on around you. Scientists have created a fibre (纤维) which can pick up sounds and could be used as a hearing aid, to monitor heartbeats or even in spacecraft. The new fibre works like a microphone. It picks up sounds and turns them into vibrations (震动) and then electrical signals, in a similar way to how ears work. When woven (编织) into a shirt, the researchers say the fibre can even detect a wearer’s heartbeat. The fibre can hear sounds as low as those in a quiet library to louder sounds like heavy road traffic. It can even accurately tell the direction of sudden sounds like handclaps. The fibre was created by engineers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and researchers at Rhode Island School of Design. “Wearing a piece of clothing that can hear, you might talk through it to answer phone calls and communicate with others,” said lead author Yet Wan, who created the technology at MIT. Once they had created the fibre, the team wove it into a more traditional piece of clothing which was much more flexible. When it was woven into the back of a shirt it was able to pick up the sound of people clapping, even picking up the direction the clapping was coming from. When woven into the shirt’s inner lining (内衬) it could pick up the person’s heartbeat, which the researchers think could be used in a pregnant woman’s clothes to monitor a baby’s heartbeat. As well as wearable hearing aids, and clothes that track your heartbeat, the team says there are possibilities beyond clothing. “It can be integrated with spacecraft skin to listen to space dust, or embedded into (嵌入) buildings to detect cracks or strains,” Yet suggests. “It can even be woven into a smart net to monitor fish in the ocean.” 63．What is the scientists’ new invention? A．A lightweight fibre. B．A new spacecraft skin. C．A fibre that can hear. D．A microphone that can talk. 64．What can we learn about the new material? A．It is easily distracted by loud sounds.   B．It can even pick up faint sounds. C．It works more accurately than human ears. D．It fails to recognise the direction of sounds. 65．What did the team do after creating the new material? A．They wove it into babies’ clothes. B．They turned it into a fishnet. C．They put it into mass production. D．They tested its performance. 66．What do Yet’s words in the last paragraph suggest? A．The fibre has a wide range of applications. B．The fibre can bring in a big profit. C．The fibre needs to be improved. D．The fibre is less flexible than traditional clothes. Section C Directions: Read the passage carefully. Fill in each blank with a proper sentence given in the box. Each sentence can be used only once. Note that there are two more sentences than you need. The Rise of Pop-up Chefs Jeremy Baras remembers the first time he ever saw a pop-up a restaurant. The 26-year-old entrepreneur was on vacation in England four years ago and had to look up at the London Eye Ferries wheel to see it. 67 “I thought that was the coolest thing ever”, he says. Baras, who founded PopUpRepublic. com in 2012 to promote the idea of pop-up restaurants in USA, has been studying them ever since. Pop-ups, which have been around since the early 2000s, are open anywhere from a few hours to several months, but their defining feature is that they are temporary. They may be only a tiny part of the $709 billion U.S. restaurant industry, but popups have gotten a boost in recent years as a lower-cost, lower-risk way for entrepreneurs to test the waters. 68 And some struggling cities, like Oakland, Calif., have turned to them to help revitalize local economies affected by the economic downturn. The concept has been especially popular with up-and-coming chefs who want to test-drive as a menu concept without investing a fortune in a permanent space. “Your cooks and chefs are really talented. 69 Ours, quite the contrary.” says Zach Kupperman, chief businessman officer and co-founder of Dinner Lab. Pop-ups’ temporary nature also allows restaurateurs to charge extra. Dinner Lab, for instance, charges diners an annual membership fee of $125 to $175, depending on where they live, plus $50 to $85 a head for each meal. “It’s the fear of missing out,” explains Zach. 70 There is no guarantee that diners won’t grow tired of the concept. Some entrepreneurs have resorted to even a weirder location — in a former limestone mine, say, or at the top of a crane — to keep customers interested. A．Some restaurant owners see them as a way to renew interest in existing locations. B．It’s not quite part of the mainstream economy yet. C．However, they’ re stuck in the back of somebody else’s kitchen cooking somebody else’s menu. D．Of course, trends in the food industry come and go quickly. E．Nevertheless, they are here today and gone tomorrow. F．Hanging above him was a capsule full of diners who were served a new course each time a revolution was made. IV. Summary Writing （10分） 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. How to Be a Successful Team Leader? Every well-organized team needs to have an outstanding leader with specific skills. Sometimes the leader’s abilities can come to affect the whole team. Although we students are still young, it’s never too early to cultivate leadership skills. A team consists of both leaders and followers. Neither side can exist and work effectively without the other. What is essential to the role of leader is the ability to unite the whole team. A great leader enables their team to achieve a common goal through the giving of clear directions and support. Meanwhile, everyone on a team also desires personal success, so a balance can be hard to strike. If a leader doesn’t have fierce determination, the followers will lose their confidence and things will not be done well. What’s more, a successful and charming leader ought to be able to handle interpersonal relationships well. They should be honest, fair, objective and impartial (公正的) when it comes to both rewards and punishments. These kinds of leaders are trustworthy, and thus, the working atmosphere will only come to be improved. They are role models who can have a strong influence on the whole team. To become a powerful leader at school, students have to take the initiative in connecting with their fellow students. Good communication skills allow people to build good relationships, which is an essential part of being a good leader. If you find it hard to express your ideas clearly to those who you collaborate with, it may be rather difficult for you to be a good leader. It’s a well-known fact that, whatever field you wish to work in, leadership skills are necessary for anyone who desires to have a successful career. So it’s never too early to train yourselves as promising future leaders. 71.______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ V. Translation （15分） Directions: Translate the following sentences into English, using the words given in the brackets. 72．由这部小说改编的电影在上世纪九十年代受到年轻人的追捧。(adapt) 73．如今，越来越多的老人热衷于锻炼身体，即使刮风下雨，(keen) 74．这是一本如此好的小说，不同的读者可以和里面不同的人物产生共鸣。(such) 75．许多学校已将剪纸之类的民间艺术引入课堂，这不但培养了学生的动手能力，也提高了他们的艺术鉴赏力。(not only…) VI. Guided Writing （25分） Direction: Write an English composition in 120-150 words according to the instructions given below in Chinese. 假设你是明启中学的学生王磊。你校拟开设上海话选修课 (Optional Course of Shanghai Dialect)，并在校园网上公布了该消息，征求师生意见。请你写一封邮件给负责的李老师，内容包括： 1. 你是否赞成开设此课程； 2. 你的理由。 ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 原创精品资源学科网独家享有版权，侵权必究！14 原创精品资源学科网独家享有版权，侵权必究！13 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $$ ( ………………○………………外………………○………………装………………○………………订………………○……………… 线 ………………○……………… ) ( ………………○………………内………………○………………装………………○………………订………………○……………… 线 ………………○……………… ) ( 此卷只装订 不密封 ) ( ………………○……………… 内 ………………○………………装………………○………………订………………○……………… 线 ………………○……………… ………………○………………外………………○………………装………………○………………订………………○……………… 线 ………………○……………… … 学校： ______________ 姓名： _____________ 班级： _______________ 考号： ______________________ ) 绝密★考试结束前 2024-2025学年高二英语上学期期中模拟卷 （考试时间：120分钟 试卷满分：140分） 注意事项： 1．答卷前，考生务必将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在答题卡上。 2．回答选择题时，选出每小题答案后，用2B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。回答非选择题时，将答案写在答题卡上。写在本试卷上无效。 3．测试范围：选择性必修一 Units 1~4（上教版2020）。 4．难度系数：0.65。 5．考试结束后，将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。 I. Listening Comprehension （25分） 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．7:00. B．7:10. C．9:10. D．9:00. 2． A．Doubtful. B．Excited. C．Frustrated. D．Indifferent. 3． A．Waiter and guest. B．Husband and wife. C．Mother and son. D．Boss and employee. 4． A．At an art gallery. B．In a work shop. C．At a gas station. D．In a department store. 5． A．He had a worthy trip. B．He didn’t enjoy the trip. C．The trip was too exhausting. D．The trip took him by surprise. 6． A．Press the button of every floor. B．Take another lift down to the 7th floor. C．Ask the woman which floor she’s going to. D．Stay in the same lift to go down to his floor. 7． A．The size of the electric vehicle market. B．A new trend in the car making industry. C．The very profitable business of making cakes. D．How manufacturers profit from making electric cars. 8． A．The woman was a new customer of the garage. B．The woman called to make a complaint about the garage’s service. C．The woman hadn’t expected the maintenance service to take so long. D．The woman was satisfied with the improvement in the garage’s service 9． A．The man didn’t intend to make the woman unhappy. B．The man thought the woman was being unreasonable. C．The man believed the woman had misunderstood him. D．The man wanted to say something upsetting to the woman. 10． A．The man may need to re-evaluate his priorities. B．The man should deal with the urgent matters first. C．The man has failed to take care of the urgent matters. D．The man should keep track of everything using a to-do list. Section B Directions: In Section B. you will hear two passages and one longer conversation. After each passage or conversation, you will be asked several questions. The passages and conversation 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 through 13 are based on the following passage. 11．A．To make sure the spelling and grammar are all correct. B．To improve the overall effectiveness of the writing. C．To ensure the main idea is clear to the reader. D．To add more specific details and examples. 12．A．By the end of the term. B．After some major repair. C．Two weeks before the final due date. D．After the student finishes the course. 13．A．To review material covered in an earlier lecture. B．To change students’ approach to writing. C．To point out an example of good writing. D．To give an assignment for the next class. Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage 14．A．Experiment on the future pizza. B．Taste a specially-made pizza. C．Travel to a future restaurant. D．Meet with a group of futurists. 15．A．They aimed to show people how to cultivate food in a lab. B．They were curious to know what the future would look like. C．They intended to promote the environmentally-friendly food. D．They wanted to highlight the role of science in sustainable living. 16．A．It is three times the size of a normal pizza. B．All the ingredients come from an indoor lab. C．Part of it has been 3D-printed by a robot chef. D．It’s quite different from the traditional pizza except for the appearance. Questions 17 through 20 are based on the following conversation. 17．A．Nervous. B．Excited. C．Sleepless. D．Frustrated. 18．A．High requirements. B．Flexible schedules. C．High frequency. D．Opposite rules. 19．A．The man held a childhood dream of being a professional player. B．The man had taken it for granted that he would be a basketball star sooner or later. C．The man felt uncomfortable when he first received so much attention from others. D．The man relieved himself by adjusting the focus of his attention in time. 20．A．We should not take it seriously. B．We should compete with each other. C．We should enjoy ourselves in it. D．We should never miss a game. II. Grammar and Vocabulary (20分) 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. Indoor vs outdoor exercising: Which is more productive? People tend to lean heavily on the gym when it comes to exercise. The gym is just an easy concept: you go and the machines are right there. You get the workout done and you leave. But maybe that’s the problem. Is it better for your body, health and fitness goals to work out in the open air 21 conditions vary? It depends on so many factors, but the short answer is yes: Science says it is, in fact, better to exercise outdoors. Take running, for example. In a study 22 (look) at runners who covered the same distance on a treadmill (跑步机) and outdoors, the group that ran inside were said 23 (consume) less energy than the outside group. This is because of terrain changes and wind speed, which you don’t face in the controlled climate of gym. Your body 24 ______ work harder, and thus you burn more calories. Another consideration that 25 (make) exercising outside tougher, specifically in warmer months, is temperature. In most gyms, the air conditioners are blowing during the open hours to keep a cool and comfortable environment, meaning you’re consuming less energy and sweating less than you would if you were doing the same activity in the great outdoors. In addition, a systematic study on the effects of physical activity outside in a natural environment versus indoors revealed the fact 26 among people doing the same activity, the outdoor exercises showed “greater feelings of refreshment and positive engagement; decreases in tension, confusion, anger and depression; and 27 (increase) energy” afterward. 28 many advantages, working outside has its limitations. From changeable weather to safety concerns, it’s not always 29 option. The bottom line? Switch up your workout and get outside as much as you can, but don’t bother about it if the gym is a 30 (practical) choice for you. Doing any workout is amazing for your body and health. Section B Directions: Fill in each blank with a proper word chosen from the box. Each word can be used only once. Note that there is one word more than you need. A．elevating         B．context        C． implications         D．vitality        E. afraid F. deep-rooted       G. routine        H. running          I. interpreted       J. altered     K. frozen Unlocking the Secrets of Your Night Most people do not realize that dreams take up about 25% of the night’s sleep, and each dream period lasts from 5 to 20 minutes. There is no doubt that dreams play an important role in our lives. If they can be correctly 31 —and that is a big “if”—we can come to understand ourselves better. Here, we look at three common dreams and what they potentially symbolize. Dream 1: I can see their laughing faces laughing at me. But they aren’t as smart. If they were, they’d be up here flying with me! This dream has both positive and negative 32 . On the positive side, the dream may express a strong desire to travel and get away from everyday 33 . It may also symbolize a powerful desire to achieve. On the other hand, this dream can mean the person has a problem or is 34 of something and they wish to escape. The dream could represent feelings of inferiority, which the dreamer attempts to get rid of by literally and physically 35 themselves above others. Dream 2: I’m moving fast now, but it’s still behind me. It doesn’t matter how fast I go. I still can’t escape. Although this is a traditional symbol of health and 36 , it can suggest the dreamer is trying to escape from danger. Usually, fear is the dominant emotion. By 37 hard, the dreamer can possibly escape the threat. However, they can also stop moving. This makes the fear even more terrifying. One possible explanation is that the person is under pressure in their everyday life. Dream 3: I’m sweating and my heart is beating. I’m trapped. Trapped in my own bed. This symbol is associated with fear and embarrassment: suddenly the dreamer loses all power of movement. They try hard to move their arms and legs, but they simply cannot; 38 in’ a terrifying situation with no escape, they become more and more terrified as the seconds go by. Another frequent 39 for this dream is failing to do something in public, often something that you are normally very good at, such as your job. Not only is this extremely embarrassing, but it also shows a(n) 40 fear of losing a job and a livelihood. III. Reading Comprehension (45分) 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 What’s so bad about processed foods? Processed foods like chips, soda and frozen pizzas are full of salt, sugar and fat. Now scientists are trying to understand if there is something else about such foods that may be bad for humans. Already, the spread of cheap, 41 foods has been linked to rising obesity rates around the world. Three recent studies offer more 42 on how our increasingly industrialized food supply may be affecting our health. What does processed food 43 ? The researchers came up with a system that groups foods into four categories. The system says highly processed foods are made 44 of industrialized ingredients and additives. Sodas, instant noodles and chicken nuggets are some examples of highly processed foods. But also included are products that can 45 beneficial to health, such as morning cereals, energy bars and some kinds of yogurt. What’s wrong with processed foods? Researchers at the National Institutes of Health conducted a four-week study involving 20 people. They found that people eat about 500 more calories a day when 46 mostly processed food. That is compared with when the same people were given 47 processed foods. The researchers permitted the 20 participants to eat as much or as little as they wanted. They were taken to a medical center so their health and behavior could be 48 . In another study, researchers in France found people who ate more processed foods were more likely to have heart disease. A similar study in Spain linked eating more processed foods to a higher risk of death 49 . What is it about processed foods? When given less processed foods, people in the study 50 more of a hormones that suppressed appetite, and less of a hormone that causes hunger. The reason for the 51 is not clear. The scientists also found that people ate processed foods faster. Kevin Hall is one of the researchers who led the study. He told the AP that processed foods 52 be softer and easier to chew and swallow. Hall noted the source of nutrients might 53 . Fiber from whole fruits and vegetables, for instance, may be better for making people feel full than the types of fiber added to packaged foods such as energy bars and yogurt. What should you eat? Limiting processed foods can be hard, especially for people with limited time and energy. “What 54 me is when the message is, ‘Change the way we eat,’ without thinking about why people eat the way they eat,” said Sarah Bowen, a professor who studies food and inequality. Another challenge is the broad range of processed foods, and 55 which ones might be better or worse as companies continually re-engineer products to mislead consumers. So while the newest studies may give us more reasons to avoid industrialized foods, they also underlie the difficulty of coming up with solutions. 41．A．organic B．delicious C．packaged D．fast 42．A．examples B．clues C．contributors D．signals 43．A．provide B．suggest C．mean D．infer 44．A．specially B．mostly C．naturally D．technically 45．A．remain B．taste C．become D．seem 46．A．consumed B．forced C．deprived D．fed 47．A．minimally B．moderately C．maximally D．adequately 48．A．explained B．monitored C．cured D．guaranteed 49．A．in general B．in particular C．in nature D．in advance 50．A．preferred B．produced C．compared D．processed 51．A．hunger B．procedure C．reaction D．psychology 52．A．attempt to B．intend to C．tend to D．mean to 53．A．strike a balance B．run a risk C．pose a threat D．make a difference 54．A．frustrates B．entertains C．puzzles D．inspires 55．A．predicting B．imagining C．assuming D．distinguishing 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 One day, a mime (哑巴) is visiting the zoo and tries to earn some money as a street performer. As soon as he starts to draw a crowd, a zookeeper pulls him into his office. The zookeeper explains that the zoo’s most popular attraction, a gorilla, has died suddenly and the keeper fears that attendance at the zoo will fall off. He offers the mime a job to dress up as the gorilla, so the mime accepts. The next morning the mime puts on the gorilla suit and enters the cage before the crowd comes. He soon discovers he can sleep, play and make fun of people and he draws bigger crowds than he ever did as a mime — he feels the job funny. However, with days going by, he begins to notice that the people are paying more attention to the lion in the cage next to his. Wanting to win back his audience, he climbs to the top of his cage, crawls across a partition (隔墙), and dangles (摇晃地悬挂着) from the top to the lion’s cage first. The lion gets angry at this. The scene is a fuel to the crowd. At the end of the day he is given a raise for being such a good attraction — well, this continues for some time. The crowds grow larger, and the mime’s pay keeps going up. Then one day when he is hanging over the lion he slides and falls. The mime is terrified. He starts screaming “Help me!”, but the lion is quick. The mime soon finds himself flat on his back looking up at the angry lion and the lion says, “Shut up you fool! Do you want to get us both fired?” 56．Why does the mime accepts the zookeeper’s offer? A．Because he wants to make some money. B．Because the zoo is popular with people. C．Because he doesn’t like being a mime. D．Because he likes performing at the zoo. 57．How does the mime first find the job dressing up as the gorilla? A．Hard and tiring. B．Dangerous but exciting. C．Boring but well-paid. D．Easy and funny. 58．The underlined words “a fuel” in paragraph 3 can be replaced by __________. A．frightening B．disappointing C．familiar D．exciting 59．What can we infer from the passage? A．The lion fell onto the ground. B．The mime was bitten by the lion. C．The lion was played by a person. D．The mime was fired by the zoo. B Day Trips out of New York City: Fun for Kids and Families in Summer. These four fun and easy day trips out of New York City will add pleasure to your family’s summer. Take a picnic and drive to any of these kid-friendly destinations. Weir Farm National Historic Site and Art Center 735 Nod Hill Rd., Wilton, CT 06897 1 hour 30 minutes from NYC Weir Farm is a 68-acre United States national park for art. At the beginning of the 20th century, the farm was the summer home of American Impressionist Julian Alden Weir. Weir and artists in his time painted the landscape’s hills, forests and gardens, changing the beautiful countryside setting into Impressionist masterpieces. The farm is open from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm daily. Storm King Art Center 1 Museum Rd., New Windsor, NY 12553 1 hour 40 minutes from NYC Founded in 1960, Storm King is a 500-acre outdoor museum located in New York’s Hudson Valley. Here, visitors can experience sculpture (雕塑) amid grasslands, hills, and under the open sky. Spend an afternoon picnicking and enjoying the center’s special combination of art and nature. The site is open from 10:00 am to 5:30 pm every day except Tuesday. Historic Huguenot Street 81 Huguenot St., New Paltz, NY 12561 1 hour 45 minutes from NYC Historic Huguenot Street is a 10-acre National Historic Landmark District. The Huguenot settlement changed over time, and the site helps visitors understand the historic forces that have changed America by teaching about Native and enslaved African peoples as well as Dutch and French settlers. The Historic Huguenot Street’s Museum Shop is open Thursday through Sunday from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm. Brookhollow’s Barnyard 301 Rockaway Valley Rd., Boonton, NJ 07005 1 hour from NYC Brookhollow’s Barnyard, a family New Jersey petting zoo, offers walk-through and drive-through farm experiences to families. Pigs, horses, goats and more as you walk or drive through the farmyard. Walk-through tickets are available from Wednesday through Saturday. The drive-through experience is available on Sunday. 60．How long does it take you to drive to Storm King Art Center from NYC? A．1 hour. B．1 hour 30 minutes. C．1 hour 40 minutes. D．1 hour 45 minutes. 61．Which place should you go to if you are interested in American history? A．Weir Farm National Historic Site and Art Center. B．Historic Huguenot Street C．Brookhollow’s Barnyard. D．Storm King Art Center. 62．When can you have a walk-through experience at Brookhollow’s Barnyard? A．On Tuesday. B．On Monday. C．On Sunday. D．On Thursday. C Imagine if your clothes could pick up the sounds of everything going on around you. Scientists have created a fibre (纤维) which can pick up sounds and could be used as a hearing aid, to monitor heartbeats or even in spacecraft. The new fibre works like a microphone. It picks up sounds and turns them into vibrations (震动) and then electrical signals, in a similar way to how ears work. When woven (编织) into a shirt, the researchers say the fibre can even detect a wearer’s heartbeat. The fibre can hear sounds as low as those in a quiet library to louder sounds like heavy road traffic. It can even accurately tell the direction of sudden sounds like handclaps. The fibre was created by engineers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and researchers at Rhode Island School of Design. “Wearing a piece of clothing that can hear, you might talk through it to answer phone calls and communicate with others,” said lead author Yet Wan, who created the technology at MIT. Once they had created the fibre, the team wove it into a more traditional piece of clothing which was much more flexible. When it was woven into the back of a shirt it was able to pick up the sound of people clapping, even picking up the direction the clapping was coming from. When woven into the shirt’s inner lining (内衬) it could pick up the person’s heartbeat, which the researchers think could be used in a pregnant woman’s clothes to monitor a baby’s heartbeat. As well as wearable hearing aids, and clothes that track your heartbeat, the team says there are possibilities beyond clothing. “It can be integrated with spacecraft skin to listen to space dust, or embedded into (嵌入) buildings to detect cracks or strains,” Yet suggests. “It can even be woven into a smart net to monitor fish in the ocean.” 63．What is the scientists’ new invention? A．A lightweight fibre. B．A new spacecraft skin. C．A fibre that can hear. D．A microphone that can talk. 64．What can we learn about the new material? A．It is easily distracted by loud sounds.   B．It can even pick up faint sounds. C．It works more accurately than human ears. D．It fails to recognise the direction of sounds. 65．What did the team do after creating the new material? A．They wove it into babies’ clothes. B．They turned it into a fishnet. C．They put it into mass production. D．They tested its performance. 66．What do Yet’s words in the last paragraph suggest? A．The fibre has a wide range of applications. B．The fibre can bring in a big profit. C．The fibre needs to be improved. D．The fibre is less flexible than traditional clothes. Section C Directions: Read the passage carefully. Fill in each blank with a proper sentence given in the box. Each sentence can be used only once. Note that there are two more sentences than you need. The Rise of Pop-up Chefs Jeremy Baras remembers the first time he ever saw a pop-up a restaurant. The 26-year-old entrepreneur was on vacation in England four years ago and had to look up at the London Eye Ferries wheel to see it. 67 “I thought that was the coolest thing ever”, he says. Baras, who founded PopUpRepublic. com in 2012 to promote the idea of pop-up restaurants in USA, has been studying them ever since. Pop-ups, which have been around since the early 2000s, are open anywhere from a few hours to several months, but their defining feature is that they are temporary. They may be only a tiny part of the $709 billion U.S. restaurant industry, but popups have gotten a boost in recent years as a lower-cost, lower-risk way for entrepreneurs to test the waters. 68 And some struggling cities, like Oakland, Calif., have turned to them to help revitalize local economies affected by the economic downturn. The concept has been especially popular with up-and-coming chefs who want to test-drive as a menu concept without investing a fortune in a permanent space. “Your cooks and chefs are really talented. 69 Ours, quite the contrary.” says Zach Kupperman, chief businessman officer and co-founder of Dinner Lab. Pop-ups’ temporary nature also allows restaurateurs to charge extra. Dinner Lab, for instance, charges diners an annual membership fee of $125 to $175, depending on where they live, plus $50 to $85 a head for each meal. “It’s the fear of missing out,” explains Zach. 70 There is no guarantee that diners won’t grow tired of the concept. Some entrepreneurs have resorted to even a weirder location — in a former limestone mine, say, or at the top of a crane — to keep customers interested. A．Some restaurant owners see them as a way to renew interest in existing locations. B．It’s not quite part of the mainstream economy yet. C．However, they’ re stuck in the back of somebody else’s kitchen cooking somebody else’s menu. D．Of course, trends in the food industry come and go quickly. E．Nevertheless, they are here today and gone tomorrow. F．Hanging above him was a capsule full of diners who were served a new course each time a revolution was made. IV. Summary Writing （10分） 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. How to Be a Successful Team Leader? Every well-organized team needs to have an outstanding leader with specific skills. Sometimes the leader’s abilities can come to affect the whole team. Although we students are still young, it’s never too early to cultivate leadership skills. A team consists of both leaders and followers. Neither side can exist and work effectively without the other. What is essential to the role of leader is the ability to unite the whole team. A great leader enables their team to achieve a common goal through the giving of clear directions and support. Meanwhile, everyone on a team also desires personal success, so a balance can be hard to strike. If a leader doesn’t have fierce determination, the followers will lose their confidence and things will not be done well. What’s more, a successful and charming leader ought to be able to handle interpersonal relationships well. They should be honest, fair, objective and impartial (公正的) when it comes to both rewards and punishments. These kinds of leaders are trustworthy, and thus, the working atmosphere will only come to be improved. They are role models who can have a strong influence on the whole team. To become a powerful leader at school, students have to take the initiative in connecting with their fellow students. Good communication skills allow people to build good relationships, which is an essential part of being a good leader. If you find it hard to express your ideas clearly to those who you collaborate with, it may be rather difficult for you to be a good leader. It’s a well-known fact that, whatever field you wish to work in, leadership skills are necessary for anyone who desires to have a successful career. So it’s never too early to train yourselves as promising future leaders. 71._______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ V. Translation （15分） Directions: Translate the following sentences into English, using the words given in the brackets. 72．由这部小说改编的电影在上世纪九十年代受到年轻人的追捧。(adapt) 73．如今，越来越多的老人热衷于锻炼身体，即使刮风下雨，(keen) 74．这是一本如此好的小说，不同的读者可以和里面不同的人物产生共鸣。(such) 75．许多学校已将剪纸之类的民间艺术引入课堂，这不但培养了学生的动手能力，也提高了他们的艺术鉴赏力。(not only…) VI. Guided Writing （25分） Direction: Write an English composition in 120-150 words according to the instructions given below in Chinese. 假设你是明启中学的学生王磊。你校拟开设上海话选修课 (Optional Course of Shanghai Dialect)，并在校园网上公布了该消息，征求师生意见。请你写一封邮件给负责的李老师，内容包括： 1. 你是否赞成开设此课程； 2. 你的理由。 ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 试题 第11页（共12页） 试题 第12页（共12页） 试题 第9页（共12页） 试题 第10页（共12页） 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $$ 绝密★考试结束前 2024-2025学年高二英语上学期期中模拟卷 （考试时间：120分钟 试卷满分：140分） 注意事项： 1．答卷前，考生务必将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在答题卡上。 2．回答选择题时，选出每小题答案后，用2B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。回答非选择题时，将答案写在答题卡上。写在本试卷上无效。 3．测试范围：选择性必修一 Units 1~4（上教版2020）。 4．难度系数：0.65。 5．考试结束后，将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。 I. Listening Comprehension （25分） 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．7:00. B．7:10. C．9:10. D．9:00. 【答案】C 【原文】W: Could you tell me the starting time for both performances? M: The first begins at 7: 00 o’clock, and it lasts two hours. The second follows immediately after a ten-minute break. Q: At what time does the second show start? 2． A．Doubtful. B．Excited. C．Frustrated. D．Indifferent. 【答案】D 【原文】M: Great news! The deadline has been postponed for a week. W: Well, I’d still like to lift this burden from my shoulders sooner rather than later. Q: How does the woman feel about the news? 3． A．Waiter and guest. B．Husband and wife. C．Mother and son. D．Boss and employee. 【答案】C 【原文】W: How are you getting on with your study, dear Tom? M: I make rapid progress in English as well as Chinese and Maths. Question: What’s the probable relationship between the two speakers? 4． A．At an art gallery. B．In a work shop. C．At a gas station. D．In a department store. 【答案】A 【原文】M: Excuse me, can you tell me the title of this oil painting? W: Sorry, I don’t know for sure.But I guess it’s an early 18th century work. Let me look it up in the catalogue. Q: Where does the conversation most probably take place? 5． A．He had a worthy trip. B．He didn’t enjoy the trip. C．The trip was too exhausting. D．The trip took him by surprise. 【答案】A 【原文】W: How do you feel now that you’re back from your trip? M: My legs are the sorest they’ve ever been, but it feels like I have renewed perspective. Q: What does the man mean? 6． A．Press the button of every floor. B．Take another lift down to the 7th floor. C．Ask the woman which floor she’s going to. D．Stay in the same lift to go down to his floor. 【答案】D 【原文】M: Oh no, I forgot to press the button. I should’ve gotten off at the 7th floor. W: Don’t worry. One more floor and you will be going down. Q: What is the man probably going to do next? 7． A．The size of the electric vehicle market. B．A new trend in the car making industry. C．The very profitable business of making cakes. D．How manufacturers profit from making electric cars. 【答案】B 【原文】W: Why does everyone seem to be joining the electric vehicle race? M: Honestly, I’m not surprised. It’s just too big a cake to pass up. Q: What are the two speakers talking about? 8． A．The woman was a new customer of the garage. B．The woman called to make a complaint about the garage’s service. C．The woman hadn’t expected the maintenance service to take so long. D．The woman was satisfied with the improvement in the garage’s service 【答案】C 【原文】M: Good morning, I’m with Road Buddy Garage. Were you satisfied with our service yesterday, Ma’am? W: I’m afraid there’s much room for improvement. Five hours for some regular maintenance was not reasonable. Q: What do we learn from the conversation? 9． A．The man didn’t intend to make the woman unhappy. B．The man thought the woman was being unreasonable. C．The man believed the woman had misunderstood him. D．The man wanted to say something upsetting to the woman. 【答案】A 【原文】W: It’s not a very good feeling when your tolerance has been taken for granted again and again. M: I’m sorry that I’ve made you feel that way. The last thing I want to do is to upset you. Q: What do we learn from the conversation? 10． A．The man may need to re-evaluate his priorities. B．The man should deal with the urgent matters first. C．The man has failed to take care of the urgent matters. D．The man should keep track of everything using a to-do list. 【答案】A 【原文】 M: I’m so tired of always feeling so rushed. W: Maybe the problem is that you’ve mistaken what’s urgent for what’s important. Q: What does the woman imply? Section B Directions: In Section B. you will hear two passages and one longer conversation. After each passage or conversation, you will be asked several questions. The passages and conversation 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 through 13 are based on the following passage. 11．A．To make sure the spelling and grammar are all correct. B．To improve the overall effectiveness of the writing. C．To ensure the main idea is clear to the reader. D．To add more specific details and examples. 12．A．By the end of the term. B．After some major repair. C．Two weeks before the final due date. D．After the student finishes the course. 13．A．To review material covered in an earlier lecture. B．To change students’ approach to writing. C．To point out an example of good writing. D．To give an assignment for the next class. 【答案】11．B 12．C 13．B 【原文】 By the end of the term, I hope you’ll be convinced that formal writing always requires revision. Sometimes it requires a fairly major rewriting of the paper. Some students may have the mistaken idea that revision means simply making corrections in spelling and grammar. I call that proof-reading. What I expect you to do as you revise is to value and improve the overall effectiveness of your paper. But how can you tell if your paper is effective? Well, for example, start by asking yourself these questions: Is the topic restricted enough to be fully discussed within the given links? Are the main ideas clear? Are they supported by the specific details in the examples? Do they move smoothly from one idea to the next? You’ll need enough time for a possible major repair, that is, you may have to make a lot of changes before your paper becomes really clear to the reader. So I’ll expect a draft of each paper two weeks before the final due date. That way I can criticize it and get it back in time for you to revise it. Then you can turn in a final draft for grading. This process may seem like a great deal of trouble at first but I think you will find it valuable. In fact after you finish this course I doubt that you will ever turn in a term paper without first revising it carefully. Questions: 11. What should the students’ aim be when they revise their work? 12. When should the first draft be turned in? 13. What is the purpose of the talk? Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage 14．A．Experiment on the future pizza. B．Taste a specially-made pizza. C．Travel to a future restaurant. D．Meet with a group of futurists. 15．A．They aimed to show people how to cultivate food in a lab. B．They were curious to know what the future would look like. C．They intended to promote the environmentally-friendly food. D．They wanted to highlight the role of science in sustainable living. 16．A．It is three times the size of a normal pizza. B．All the ingredients come from an indoor lab. C．Part of it has been 3D-printed by a robot chef. D．It’s quite different from the traditional pizza except for the appearance. 【答案】14．B 15．D 16．D 【原文】 On 11 February 2020, visitors to the 2039 Pizza Restaurant in Peckham, London, were able to try a pizza from the year 2039. The pizza hadn’t actually travelled back in time, but was made by people looking ahead to the future. An organization of Young Scientists called The Big Bang UK Fair challenged a futurist called Jackson, to design the pizza of the future, in order to show how science can help us make food more sustainably. Despite looking like a normal pizza, it was made with some unusual ingredients. The ingredients actually include tomatoes grown in an indoor lab with no soil, flour made from ground-up insects, and cheese made from tree nuts. Tomatoes grown indoors use less water than outdoor tomatoes and making cheese from nut milk instead of cow’s milk means we could rely less on dairy cows. Dairy cows are bad for the environment because of the poisonous gases they release. Making flour out of smashed insects might sound horrible, but they are rich in proteins and take far fewer resources to farm than wheat, which we use to make flour bases. Looking ahead to 2069, Jackson predicts, “Your future pizza might be made from ingredients that have never seen the Sun, or eaten grass in a field. And it might be 3D-printed by a robot chef. This is truly just a taste of what the future holds.” Questions: 14. What were visitors able to do in the 2039 Pizza Restaurant? 15. Why did the young UK scientists ask Jackson to design the pizza of the future? 16. What can we learn about the pizza of the future? Questions 17 through 20 are based on the following conversation. 17．A．Nervous. B．Excited. C．Sleepless. D．Frustrated. 18．A．High requirements. B．Flexible schedules. C．High frequency. D．Opposite rules. 19．A．The man held a childhood dream of being a professional player. B．The man had taken it for granted that he would be a basketball star sooner or later. C．The man felt uncomfortable when he first received so much attention from others. D．The man relieved himself by adjusting the focus of his attention in time. 20．A．We should not take it seriously. B．We should compete with each other. C．We should enjoy ourselves in it. D．We should never miss a game. 【答案】17．B 18．C 19．B 20．C 【原文】W: Hello everyone, I’m Susan. We are here today with NBA star Jeremy. Welcome, Jeremy. M: Thanks for having me. W: Jeremy, how did you feel the first time you stepped on the NBA court as a professional basketball player? M: I just remember the cheers and I just went into the game following the adrenaline. Wow, it’s been a long time and I finally made it. I remember that night after the game I had a hard time falling asleep just because I had had all that excitement. W: Please tell me, what’s the biggest difference between playing college basketball and professional basketball? M: I would say the biggest difference is the schedule. You play 82 games in a season in the NBA and you only play about 30 in college. And also the talents and the level of athletic speed also make them just two different worlds. W: It seems you’ve settled well into professional game. Have you ever imagined you would be so successful?   M: Growing up I always dreamed about playing in the NBA, but honestly it didn’t seem likely to become a reality until my senior year in college. That’s when I began to think I had a chance to enter. So when I finally made it, I just remember it was a long journey and a long path. And I was really thankful that I was finally here. W: How do you deal with the pressure from the success? M: At the beginning of the season, I was struggling with that just because there were a lot of attention from the media and from the fans. But once I learned to let go of any expectations of others and start to play for myself, not other people, I began to really enjoy the game and have that passion come back. W: You have a lot of fans. Do you have any advice for them? M: To enjoy playing basketball and remember it is a game, and if you are not having fun playing basketball, then in my opinion, there is no point in playing. I just want to remind everyone just make sure you have fun, you smile and you enjoy every time you are on the court. Questions: 17. How did the man feel during his first game? 18. What distinguishes professional basketball from college basketball? 19. Which statement is WRONG according to the conversation? 20. What is the man’s attitude toward this game? II. Grammar and Vocabulary (20分) 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. Indoor vs outdoor exercising: Which is more productive? People tend to lean heavily on the gym when it comes to exercise. The gym is just an easy concept: you go and the machines are right there. You get the workout done and you leave. But maybe that’s the problem. Is it better for your body, health and fitness goals to work out in the open air 21 conditions vary? It depends on so many factors, but the short answer is yes: Science says it is, in fact, better to exercise outdoors. Take running, for example. In a study 22 (look) at runners who covered the same distance on a treadmill (跑步机) and outdoors, the group that ran inside were said 23 (consume) less energy than the outside group. This is because of terrain changes and wind speed, which you don’t face in the controlled climate of gym. Your body 24 ______ work harder, and thus you burn more calories. Another consideration that 25 (make) exercising outside tougher, specifically in warmer months, is temperature. In most gyms, the air conditioners are blowing during the open hours to keep a cool and comfortable environment, meaning you’re consuming less energy and sweating less than you would if you were doing the same activity in the great outdoors. In addition, a systematic study on the effects of physical activity outside in a natural environment versus indoors revealed the fact 26 among people doing the same activity, the outdoor exercises showed “greater feelings of refreshment and positive engagement; decreases in tension, confusion, anger and depression; and 27 (increase) energy” afterward. 28 many advantages, working outside has its limitations. From changeable weather to safety concerns, it’s not always 29 option. The bottom line? Switch up your workout and get outside as much as you can, but don’t bother about it if the gym is a 30 (practical) choice for you. Doing any workout is amazing for your body and health. 【答案】 21．where 22．looking 23．to have consumed 24．has to 25．makes 26．that 27．increased 28．Despite 29．an 30．more practical 【导语】这是一篇议论文。文章针对室内锻炼以及室外锻炼哪种形式更有益于健康的问题，旗帜鲜明地提出了观点：室内锻炼更有益于健康。 21．考查定语从句。句意：在条件不同的户外锻炼对你的身体、健康和健身目标更好吗？分析句子结构，这是一个包含定语从句的复合句，先行词为：the open air，因先行词在从句中作状语指地点，使用关系副词where引导定语从句，故填where。 22．考查非谓语动词。句意：在一项针对在跑步机上和户外跑同样距离的跑步者的研究中，据说在室内跑步的那一组比在室外跑步的那组消耗的能量更少。分析句子结构，空白处在句子中作定语，因与其逻辑主语study之间为逻辑上的主谓关系，使用现在分词，故填looking。 23．考查非谓语动词。句意：同上。分析句子结构，be said to do为固定短语，含义为“据说……”，因动词不定式表示的动作在主句谓语动词之前发生，使用动词不定式的完成式，故填to have consumed。 24．考查情态动词。句意：你的身体必须更加努力地工作，从而燃烧更多的卡路里。根据上文“This is because of terrain changes and wind speed, which you don’t face in the controlled climate of gym.(这是因为地形变化和风速，而在健身房的受控气候下，你不会面临这些变化。)”可知，在户外锻炼的时候，身体不得不要应对这些条件，可推理出空白处应填表示“不得不”含义的情态动词，又因主语为单数第三人称，谓语动词使用单数第三人称形式，故填has to。 25．考查时态。句意：另一个让户外锻炼更困难的因素是温度，尤其是在温暖的月份。分析句子结构，这是一个包含定语从句的复合句，空白处在定语从句中作谓语，因句子表示的是一个客观情况，从句谓语动词使用一般现在时，又因定语从句的主语that指的是先行词another consideration，为单数，从句谓语动词使用单数第三人称形式，故填makes。 26．考查同位语从句。句意：此外，一项关于自然环境下户外体育活动与室内体育活动效果的系统研究表明，在进行同样活动的人中，户外运动表现出“更大的提神和积极参与感；紧张、困惑、愤怒和抑郁情绪减轻；能量增加”。分析句子结构，这是一个包含同位语从句的复合句，先行词为：fact，因先行词在同位语从句中不做成分，使用连接代词that引导同位语从句，故填that。 27．考查非谓语动词。句意：同上。分析句子结构，空白处在句子中作定语使用非谓语动词，因与其逻辑主语energy之间为逻辑上的动宾关系，使用过去分词，故填increased。 28．考查介词。句意：尽管有很多优点，但在外锻炼也有其局限性。根据上文“many advantages(很多优点)”以及下文“working outside has its limitations(在外锻炼也有其局限性)”可知上下文之间为转折关系，空白处应填表示“尽管”含义的介词，单词位于句首，首字母大写。故填Despite。 29．考查冠词。句意：从多变的天气到安全问题，这并不总是一种选择。分析句子结构，因空白处后面有名词，根据冠词的用法，名词前需使用不定冠词表示“一个”含义，因空白处后面词的第一个发音音素为元音，故填an。 30．考查形容词的比较级。句意：改变你的锻炼方式，尽可能多地外出，但如果健身房对你来说是一个更实用的选择，就不要为此烦恼。根据上文“the gym(健身房)”可知此处是要把室内锻炼和室外锻炼进行比较，空白处应填形容词的比较级，故填more practical。 Section B Directions: Fill in each blank with a proper word chosen from the box. Each word can be used only once. Note that there is one word more than you need. A．elevating         B．context        C． implications         D．vitality        E. afraid F. deep-rooted       G. routine        H. running          I. interpreted       J. altered     K. frozen Unlocking the Secrets of Your Night Most people do not realize that dreams take up about 25% of the night’s sleep, and each dream period lasts from 5 to 20 minutes. There is no doubt that dreams play an important role in our lives. If they can be correctly 31 —and that is a big “if”—we can come to understand ourselves better. Here, we look at three common dreams and what they potentially symbolize. Dream 1: I can see their laughing faces laughing at me. But they aren’t as smart. If they were, they’d be up here flying with me! This dream has both positive and negative 32 . On the positive side, the dream may express a strong desire to travel and get away from everyday 33 . It may also symbolize a powerful desire to achieve. On the other hand, this dream can mean the person has a problem or is 34 of something and they wish to escape. The dream could represent feelings of inferiority, which the dreamer attempts to get rid of by literally and physically 35 themselves above others. Dream 2: I’m moving fast now, but it’s still behind me. It doesn’t matter how fast I go. I still can’t escape. Although this is a traditional symbol of health and 36 , it can suggest the dreamer is trying to escape from danger. Usually, fear is the dominant emotion. By 37 hard, the dreamer can possibly escape the threat. However, they can also stop moving. This makes the fear even more terrifying. One possible explanation is that the person is under pressure in their everyday life. Dream 3: I’m sweating and my heart is beating. I’m trapped. Trapped in my own bed. This symbol is associated with fear and embarrassment: suddenly the dreamer loses all power of movement. They try hard to move their arms and legs, but they simply cannot; 38 in’ a terrifying situation with no escape, they become more and more terrified as the seconds go by. Another frequent 39 for this dream is failing to do something in public, often something that you are normally very good at, such as your job. Not only is this extremely embarrassing, but it also shows a(n) 40 fear of losing a job and a livelihood. 【答案】 31．I 32．C 33．G 34．E 35．A 36．D 37．H 38．K 39．B 40．F 【导语】这是一篇说明文，文章主要解读了三种常见的梦的含义。 31．考查动词。句意：如果它们能被正确地解释——这是一个很大的“如果”——我们就能更好地了解自己。根据下文“Here, we look at three common dreams and what they potentially symbolize.”可知，下文是解释梦的含义，所以此处指“如果梦能被正确地解读”，动词interpret，解释，符合语境，结合“can be”可知，此处需填过去分词形式interpreted。故选I。 32．考查名词。句意：这个梦既有积极的含义，也有消极的含义。根据下文“On the positive side, the dream may express a strong desire to travel and get away from everyday 　　33　　”可知，此处在解释梦的含义，C项implications“含义，暗示”符合语境，在句中作宾语。故选C。 33．考查名词。句意：从积极的方面来看，这个梦可能表达了一种强烈的旅行欲望，摆脱日常生活常规的束缚。根据“the dream may express a strong desire to travel”可知，此处指想要摆脱日常生活常规的束缚。routine，常规，名词作宾语。故选G。 34．考查形容词。句意：另一方面，这个梦可能意味着这个人有问题或害怕某事，他们希望逃避。根据“this dream can mean the person has a problem”可知，此处表示害怕某事，空处需填形容词作表语，be afraid of为固定搭配，意为“害怕”。故选E。 35．考查非谓语动词。句意：这个梦可能代表着自卑感，做梦者试图通过从字面上和身体上抬高自己来摆脱这种自卑感。根据“The dream could represent feelings of inferiority”可知，做梦者试图通过从字面上和身体上抬高自己来摆脱这种自卑感，elevate，动词，抬高，介词by后面接动名词作宾语。故选A。 36．考查名词。句意：虽然这是健康和活力的传统象征，但它可能暗示梦者正在试图逃离危险。根据上文“I’m moving fast now, but it’s still behind me. It doesn’t matter how fast I go. I still can’t escape.”可知，这样的梦是健康和活力的传统象征，空处和名词“health”并列，vitality，活力，名词。故选D。 37．考查非谓语动词。句意：通过努力奔跑，做梦的人可能会逃离威胁。根据“the dreamer can possibly escape the threat.”可知，努力奔跑，可能会逃离威胁，run，动词，跑，位于介词by后面，需用动名词running，作宾语。故选H。 38．考查非谓语动词。句意：他们被困在一个可怕的环境中，无处可逃，随着时间的流逝，他们变得越来越害怕。根据“They try hard to move their arms and legs, but they simply cannot”可知，此处表示停止在一个可怕的环境中，freeze，动词，（因害怕）停住不动，they和freeze为被动关系，需用过去分词形式作状语。故选K。 39．考查名词。句意：这种梦的另一个常见情境是在公共场合做某事失败，通常是你通常非常擅长的事情，比如你的工作。根据“failing to do something in public”可知，此处描述的是一个情境，context，情境，名词作主语。故选B。 40．考查形容词。句意：这不仅非常尴尬，而且还显示出对失去工作和生计的根深蒂固的恐惧。根据“fear of losing a job and a livelihood”可知，对失去工作和生计的根深蒂固的恐惧，deep-rooted，根深蒂固的，形容词作定语，修饰名词fear。故选F。 III. Reading Comprehension (45分) 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 What’s so bad about processed foods? Processed foods like chips, soda and frozen pizzas are full of salt, sugar and fat. Now scientists are trying to understand if there is something else about such foods that may be bad for humans. Already, the spread of cheap, 41 foods has been linked to rising obesity rates around the world. Three recent studies offer more 42 on how our increasingly industrialized food supply may be affecting our health. What does processed food 43 ? The researchers came up with a system that groups foods into four categories. The system says highly processed foods are made 44 of industrialized ingredients and additives. Sodas, instant noodles and chicken nuggets are some examples of highly processed foods. But also included are products that can 45 beneficial to health, such as morning cereals, energy bars and some kinds of yogurt. What’s wrong with processed foods? Researchers at the National Institutes of Health conducted a four-week study involving 20 people. They found that people eat about 500 more calories a day when 46 mostly processed food. That is compared with when the same people were given 47 processed foods. The researchers permitted the 20 participants to eat as much or as little as they wanted. They were taken to a medical center so their health and behavior could be 48 . In another study, researchers in France found people who ate more processed foods were more likely to have heart disease. A similar study in Spain linked eating more processed foods to a higher risk of death 49 . What is it about processed foods? When given less processed foods, people in the study 50 more of a hormones that suppressed appetite, and less of a hormone that causes hunger. The reason for the 51 is not clear. The scientists also found that people ate processed foods faster. Kevin Hall is one of the researchers who led the study. He told the AP that processed foods 52 be softer and easier to chew and swallow. Hall noted the source of nutrients might 53 . Fiber from whole fruits and vegetables, for instance, may be better for making people feel full than the types of fiber added to packaged foods such as energy bars and yogurt. What should you eat? Limiting processed foods can be hard, especially for people with limited time and energy. “What 54 me is when the message is, ‘Change the way we eat,’ without thinking about why people eat the way they eat,” said Sarah Bowen, a professor who studies food and inequality. Another challenge is the broad range of processed foods, and 55 which ones might be better or worse as companies continually re-engineer products to mislead consumers. So while the newest studies may give us more reasons to avoid industrialized foods, they also underlie the difficulty of coming up with solutions. 41．A．organic B．delicious C．packaged D．fast 42．A．examples B．clues C．contributors D．signals 43．A．provide B．suggest C．mean D．infer 44．A．specially B．mostly C．naturally D．technically 45．A．remain B．taste C．become D．seem 46．A．consumed B．forced C．deprived D．fed 47．A．minimally B．moderately C．maximally D．adequately 48．A．explained B．monitored C．cured D．guaranteed 49．A．in general B．in particular C．in nature D．in advance 50．A．preferred B．produced C．compared D．processed 51．A．hunger B．procedure C．reaction D．psychology 52．A．attempt to B．intend to C．tend to D．mean to 53．A．strike a balance B．run a risk C．pose a threat D．make a difference 54．A．frustrates B．entertains C．puzzles D．inspires 55．A．predicting B．imagining C．assuming D．distinguishing 【答案】 41．C 42．B 43．C 44．B 45．D 46．D 47．A 48．B 49．A 50．B 51．C 52．C 53．D 54．A 55．D 【导语】本文是一篇说明文。文章指出廉价包装食品的普及与全球肥胖率的上升有关，并根据最近的三项研究，向读者介绍了什么是加工食品，加工食品有什么问题，加工食品与什么有关，以及人们应该吃什么。 41．考查形容词词义辨析。句意：廉价包装食品的普及已经与全球肥胖率的上升联系在一起。A. organic有机的；B. delicious美味的；C. packaged包装过的；D. fast快速的。根据上文“Processed foods like chips, soda and frozen pizzas are full of salt, sugar and fat.”可知，此处指那些加工食品，加工食品通常都是包装好来售卖的。故选C。 42．考查名词词义辨析。句意：最近的三项研究为我们日益工业化的食品供应如何影响我们的健康提供了更多线索。A. examples例子；B. clues线索；C. contributors促成因素；D. signals信号。根据下文的四个小标题可知，下文主要根据这些研究为读者普及加工食品的相关知识，因此是为了解如何影响提供了更多线索。故选B。 43．考查动词词义辨析。句意：加工食品是什么？A. provide提供；B. suggest建议；C. mean意思是；D. infer推断。根据下文“The system says highly processed foods are made _______ of industrialized ingredients and additives.”可知，本段主要介绍加工食品是什么。故选C。 44．考查副词词义辨析。句意：该体系显示，高度加工的食品主要由工业化成分和添加剂制成。A. specially特别地；B. mostly主要地；C. naturally自然地；D. technically技术上。根据上文“highly processed foods are made”和下文“of industrialized ingredients and additives”可推知，高度加工的食品的主要成分是工业化成分和添加剂。故选B。 45．考查动词词义辨析。句意：但也包括一些似乎对健康有益的产品，比如早餐麦片、能量棒和某些种类的酸奶。A. remain保持；B. taste尝起来；C. become变成；D. seem似乎。根据下文“morning cereals, energy bars and some kinds of yogurt”和生活常识可知，这些产品通常被认为是健康的，再结合上文的“But”可推知，此处有转折，表示这些产品只是似乎是健康的，实际上却属于高度加工的食品。故选D。 46．考查动词词义辨析。句意：他们发现，当人们主要食用加工食品时，他们每天会多摄入约500卡路里的热量。A. consumed消耗；B. forced强迫；C. deprived剥夺；D. fed为……提供食物。根据下文“That is compared with when the same people were given _______ processed foods.”可知，该实验是对比同一组人食用不同加工程度的食品的卡路里摄入情况，因此是主要食用加工食品时会摄入更多的热量。故选D。 47．考查副词词义辨析。句意：这是和只吃最小限度加工食品的同样的人比较得出的。A. minimally最小程度地；B. moderately适度地；C. maximally最大程度地；D. adequately充分地。根据上文“That is compared with”可知，该实验是对比同一组人食用不同加工程度的食品的卡路里摄入情况，再结合上文“mostly processed food”可推知，此处表示只吃最小限度加工的食品，minimally和mostly相对。故选A。 48．考查动词词义辨析。句意：他们被带到医疗中心，这样就可以监测他们的健康和行为。A. explained解释；B. monitored监测；C. cured治愈；D. guaranteed保证。根据上文“They were taken to a medical center so their health and behavior”可推知，参与者被带到医疗中心是为了被监测健康和行为，为研究提供数据。故选B。 49．考查介词短语辨析。句意：西班牙的一项类似研究表明，吃更多的加工食品通常会增加死亡风险。A. in general通常；B. in particular尤其；C. in nature本质上；D. in advance提前。根据上文“In another study, researchers in France found people who ate more processed foods were more likely to have heart disease.”和“A similar study”可知，法国的研究人员发现了食用加工食品和患心脏病之间的一般性联系，因此西班牙的这项类似研究表明的应该是通常会增加死亡风险。故选A。 50．考查动词词义辨析。句意：在研究中，当少吃加工食品时，人们产生的抑制食欲的激素更多，导致饥饿的激素更少。A. preferred更喜欢；B. produced产生；C. compared比较；D. processed加工。根据下文“more of a hormones that suppressed appetite, and less of a hormone that causes hunger”可推知，这两种激素都是人体自身产生的。故选B。 51．考查名词词义辨析。句意：这种反应的原因尚不清楚。A. hunger饥饿；B. procedure程序；C. reaction反应；D. psychology心理学。根据上文“When given less processed foods, people in the study ________ more of a hormones that suppressed appetite, and less of a hormone that causes hunger.”可知，此处指上文这种人体内的反应。故选C。 52．考查动词短语辨析。句意：他告诉美联社，加工食品往往更软，更容易咀嚼和吞咽。A. attempt to试图；B. intend to打算；C. tend to往往会；D. mean to打算。根据上文“The scientists also found that people ate processed foods faster.”可知，此处是解释人们吃加工食品的速度更快的原因，应该是因为这些食品往往更软，更容易咀嚼和吞咽。故选C。 53．考查动词短语辨析。句意：Hall指出，营养物质的来源可能会产生影响。A. strike a balance达到平衡；B. run a risk冒风险；C. pose a threat构成威胁；D. make a difference产生影响。根据下文“Fiber from whole fruits and vegetables, for instance, may be better for making people feel full than the types of fiber added to packaged foods such as energy bars and yogurt.”可知，来自整个水果和蔬菜的纤维和来自包装食品的纤维产生饱腹感的能力不同，因此营养物质的来源可能会产生影响。故选D。 54．考查动词词义辨析。句意：研究食物与不平等的教授Sarah Bowen说：“让我感到沮丧的是，当人们说‘改变我们的饮食方式’时，却没有考虑为什么人们会这样吃。”A. frustrates使沮丧；B. entertains使快乐；C. puzzles使困惑；D. inspires激励。根据下文“when the message is, ‘Change the way we eat,’ without thinking about why people eat the way they eat”可知，人们会忽略这样吃的原因，仅仅认为应该改变，这没有触及问题的核心，因此Sarah Bowen会感到沮丧。故选A。 55．考查动词词义辨析。句意：另一个挑战是加工食品的种类繁多，随着公司不断重新设计产品以误导消费者，要区分哪些可能更好，哪些可能更差。A. predicting预测；B. imagining想象；C. assuming假设；D. distinguishing区分。根据下文“companies continually re-engineer products to mislead consumers”可知，公司不断重新设计产品以误导消费者，因此是需要区分好坏。故选D。 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 One day, a mime (哑巴) is visiting the zoo and tries to earn some money as a street performer. As soon as he starts to draw a crowd, a zookeeper pulls him into his office. The zookeeper explains that the zoo’s most popular attraction, a gorilla, has died suddenly and the keeper fears that attendance at the zoo will fall off. He offers the mime a job to dress up as the gorilla, so the mime accepts. The next morning the mime puts on the gorilla suit and enters the cage before the crowd comes. He soon discovers he can sleep, play and make fun of people and he draws bigger crowds than he ever did as a mime — he feels the job funny. However, with days going by, he begins to notice that the people are paying more attention to the lion in the cage next to his. Wanting to win back his audience, he climbs to the top of his cage, crawls across a partition (隔墙), and dangles (摇晃地悬挂着) from the top to the lion’s cage first. The lion gets angry at this. The scene is a fuel to the crowd. At the end of the day he is given a raise for being such a good attraction — well, this continues for some time. The crowds grow larger, and the mime’s pay keeps going up. Then one day when he is hanging over the lion he slides and falls. The mime is terrified. He starts screaming “Help me!”, but the lion is quick. The mime soon finds himself flat on his back looking up at the angry lion and the lion says, “Shut up you fool! Do you want to get us both fired?” 56．Why does the mime accepts the zookeeper’s offer? A．Because he wants to make some money. B．Because the zoo is popular with people. C．Because he doesn’t like being a mime. D．Because he likes performing at the zoo. 57．How does the mime first find the job dressing up as the gorilla? A．Hard and tiring. B．Dangerous but exciting. C．Boring but well-paid. D．Easy and funny. 58．The underlined words “a fuel” in paragraph 3 can be replaced by __________. A．frightening B．disappointing C．familiar D．exciting 59．What can we infer from the passage? A．The lion fell onto the ground. B．The mime was bitten by the lion. C．The lion was played by a person. D．The mime was fired by the zoo. 【答案】56．A 57．D 58．D 59．C 【导语】本文是一篇记叙文。文章讲述了一个哑剧演员在动物园装扮成大猩猩表演的故事。由于大猩猩去世，动物园管理员请哑剧演员装扮成大猩猩来吸引游客，哑剧演员接受了这个工作，并且发现这份工作比他之前表演哑剧更能吸引观众，甚至为了赢得更多关注，他还尝试了一些危险的动作，最终引发了令人意外的结果。 56．细节理解题。根据文章第一段中的“he starts to draw a crowd, a zookeeper pulls him into his office. The zookeeper explains that the zoo’s most popular attraction, a gorilla, has died suddenly and the keeper fears that attendance at the zoo will fall off. He offers the mime a job to dress up as the gorilla, so the mime accepts.(他开始吸引人群时，管理员把他拉进办公室。管理员解释说，动物园最受欢迎的景点，一只大猩猩，突然死了，管理员担心动物园的游客会减少。他给哑剧演员提供了一份工作，让他打扮成大猩猩，哑剧演员接受了)”可知，哑剧演员接受动物园管理员的提议是因为他想通过扮演大猩猩来赚取一些钱。故选A项。 57．细节理解题。根据文章第二段中的“He soon discovers he can sleep, play and make fun of people and he draws bigger crowds than he ever did as a mime — he feels the job funny.(他很快发现他可以睡觉、玩耍、逗人们开心，并且他吸引了比他以前做哑剧时更多的观众——他觉得这份工作有趣)”结合选项，D选项“容易且有趣”符合文意。故选D项。 58．词句猜测题。根据上下文“Wanting to win back his audience, he climbs to the top of his cage, crawls across a partition (隔墙), and dangles (摇晃地悬挂着) from the top to the lion’s cage first. The lion gets angry at this(为了重新吸引观众，他爬到自己笼子的顶部，穿过一个隔墙，然后摇晃着悬挂到狮子的笼子上方。狮子对此感到愤怒)”及倒数第二段“At the end of the day he is  given a raise for being such a good attraction — well, this continues  for some time. The crowds grow larger, and the mime’s pay keeps going  up.(在一天结束的时候，他因为如此有吸引力而得到了加薪——这种情况持续了一段时间。观众越来越多，哑剧演员的报酬也在不断上涨)”可知，哑剧演员悬挂在狮子笼上方，狮子对此感到愤怒，而这一举动引起了观众更大的兴趣。由此可知，“a fuel”在此处的意思应为“令人兴奋的”，因为哑剧演员的行为让场面变得更加热闹，吸引了更多人的注意。故选D项。 59．推理判断题。根据文章最后一段，“The mime soon finds himself flat on his back looking up at the angry lion and the lion says, “Shut up you fool! Do you want to get us both fired?”(当哑剧演员从狮子笼上摔下来后，狮子说：“闭嘴，你这个傻瓜！你想让我们俩都失业吗？”)”可推知，这只狮子也是由人扮演的。故选C项。 B Day Trips out of New York City: Fun for Kids and Families in Summer. These four fun and easy day trips out of New York City will add pleasure to your family’s summer. Take a picnic and drive to any of these kid-friendly destinations. Weir Farm National Historic Site and Art Center 735 Nod Hill Rd., Wilton, CT 06897 1 hour 30 minutes from NYC Weir Farm is a 68-acre United States national park for art. At the beginning of the 20th century, the farm was the summer home of American Impressionist Julian Alden Weir. Weir and artists in his time painted the landscape’s hills, forests and gardens, changing the beautiful countryside setting into Impressionist masterpieces. The farm is open from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm daily. Storm King Art Center 1 Museum Rd., New Windsor, NY 12553 1 hour 40 minutes from NYC Founded in 1960, Storm King is a 500-acre outdoor museum located in New York’s Hudson Valley. Here, visitors can experience sculpture (雕塑) amid grasslands, hills, and under the open sky. Spend an afternoon picnicking and enjoying the center’s special combination of art and nature. The site is open from 10:00 am to 5:30 pm every day except Tuesday. Historic Huguenot Street 81 Huguenot St., New Paltz, NY 12561 1 hour 45 minutes from NYC Historic Huguenot Street is a 10-acre National Historic Landmark District. The Huguenot settlement changed over time, and the site helps visitors understand the historic forces that have changed America by teaching about Native and enslaved African peoples as well as Dutch and French settlers. The Historic Huguenot Street’s Museum Shop is open Thursday through Sunday from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm. Brookhollow’s Barnyard 301 Rockaway Valley Rd., Boonton, NJ 07005 1 hour from NYC Brookhollow’s Barnyard, a family New Jersey petting zoo, offers walk-through and drive-through farm experiences to families. Pigs, horses, goats and more as you walk or drive through the farmyard. Walk-through tickets are available from Wednesday through Saturday. The drive-through experience is available on Sunday. 60．How long does it take you to drive to Storm King Art Center from NYC? A．1 hour. B．1 hour 30 minutes. C．1 hour 40 minutes. D．1 hour 45 minutes. 61．Which place should you go to if you are interested in American history? A．Weir Farm National Historic Site and Art Center. B．Historic Huguenot Street C．Brookhollow’s Barnyard. D．Storm King Art Center. 62．When can you have a walk-through experience at Brookhollow’s Barnyard? A．On Tuesday. B．On Monday. C．On Sunday. D．On Thursday. 【答案】60．C 61．B 62．D 【导语】这是一篇应用文。文章介绍了从纽约市出发的四个适合家庭夏季出游的一日游目的地，包括Weir Farm国家历史遗址和艺术中心、Storm King艺术中心、历史性的Huguenot街和Brookhollow’s Barnyard。这些目的地都提供了与自然和艺术相结合的体验，以及教育和娱乐的机会，适合带小孩的家庭进行夏季游玩。 60．细节理解题。根据文章中关于Storm King Art Center的部分“1 hour 40 minutes from NYC (从纽约市出发1小时40分钟)”可知，从纽约市开车到Storm King Art Center需要1小时40分钟。故选C。 61．细节理解题。根据文章中关于Historic Huguenot Street的部分“Historic Huguenot Street is a 10-acre National Historic Landmark District. The Huguenot settlement changed over time, and the site helps visitors understand the historic forces that have changed America by teaching about Native and enslaved African peoples as well as Dutch and French settlers. (历史性的胡格诺街是一个占地10英亩的国家历史地标区。胡格诺定居点随着时间的推移而变化，该地点通过教授有关土著和被奴役的非洲人以及荷兰和法国定居者的知识，帮助游客了解改变美国的历史力量。)”可知，如果你对美国历史感兴趣，你应该去Historic Huguenot Street，因为它是一个国家历史地标区，可以帮助游客了解塑造美国的历史力量。故选B。 62．细节理解题。根据文章中关于Brookhollow’s Barnyard的部分“Walk-through tickets are available (可获得的) from Wednesday through Saturday. ( 步行体验票从周三到周六有售)”可知，你可以在周三至周六期间在Brookhollow’s Barnyard进行步行体验。故选D。 C Imagine if your clothes could pick up the sounds of everything going on around you. Scientists have created a fibre (纤维) which can pick up sounds and could be used as a hearing aid, to monitor heartbeats or even in spacecraft. The new fibre works like a microphone. It picks up sounds and turns them into vibrations (震动) and then electrical signals, in a similar way to how ears work. When woven (编织) into a shirt, the researchers say the fibre can even detect a wearer’s heartbeat. The fibre can hear sounds as low as those in a quiet library to louder sounds like heavy road traffic. It can even accurately tell the direction of sudden sounds like handclaps. The fibre was created by engineers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and researchers at Rhode Island School of Design. “Wearing a piece of clothing that can hear, you might talk through it to answer phone calls and communicate with others,” said lead author Yet Wan, who created the technology at MIT. Once they had created the fibre, the team wove it into a more traditional piece of clothing which was much more flexible. When it was woven into the back of a shirt it was able to pick up the sound of people clapping, even picking up the direction the clapping was coming from. When woven into the shirt’s inner lining (内衬) it could pick up the person’s heartbeat, which the researchers think could be used in a pregnant woman’s clothes to monitor a baby’s heartbeat. As well as wearable hearing aids, and clothes that track your heartbeat, the team says there are possibilities beyond clothing. “It can be integrated with spacecraft skin to listen to space dust, or embedded into (嵌入) buildings to detect cracks or strains,” Yet suggests. “It can even be woven into a smart net to monitor fish in the ocean.” 63．What is the scientists’ new invention? A．A lightweight fibre. B．A new spacecraft skin. C．A fibre that can hear. D．A microphone that can talk. 64．What can we learn about the new material? A．It is easily distracted by loud sounds.   B．It can even pick up faint sounds. C．It works more accurately than human ears. D．It fails to recognise the direction of sounds. 65．What did the team do after creating the new material? A．They wove it into babies’ clothes. B．They turned it into a fishnet. C．They put it into mass production. D．They tested its performance. 66．What do Yet’s words in the last paragraph suggest? A．The fibre has a wide range of applications. B．The fibre can bring in a big profit. C．The fibre needs to be improved. D．The fibre is less flexible than traditional clothes. 【答案】63．C 64．B 65．D 66．A 【导语】这是一篇说明文。文章讲述了科学家发明出能听到声音的纤维，这种纤维不仅能制成衣服监测心跳，还有望应用在更广泛的领域如太空飞船、建筑安全和海洋探索中。 63．细节理解题。根据文章第一段“Scientists have created a fibre (纤维) which can pick up sounds…(科学家发明了一种可以接收声音的纤维……)”可知，科学家的新发明是一种能听到声音的纤维。故选C。 64．细节理解题。根据文章第二段“The fibre can hear sounds as low as those in a quiet library to louder sounds like heavy road traffic.(这种纤维可以听到像安静的图书馆里那样低的声音，也可以听到像繁忙的道路交通那样大的声音。)”可知，这种新材料能听到微弱的声音。故选B。 65．推理判断题。根据文章倒数第二段“Once they had created the fibre, the team wove it into a more traditional piece of clothing which was much more flexible. When it was woven into the back of a shirt it was able to pick up the sound of people clapping, even picking up the direction the clapping was coming from. When woven into the shirt’s inner lining (内衬) it could pick up the person’s heartbeat, which the researchers think could be used in a pregnant woman’s clothes to monitor a baby’s heartbeat. (一旦他们制造出这种纤维，该团队就把它编织成一件更传统、更灵活的衣服。当它被编织到衬衫的后面时，它能够捕捉到人们鼓掌的声音，甚至可以识别出鼓掌的方向。当它被织进衬衫的内衬时，它可以捕捉到人的心跳，研究人员认为，这可以用在孕妇的衣服上，来监测婴儿的心跳。)”可知，科学家发明出这种材料之后就对其性能进行了测试。故选D。 66．推理判断题。根据文章最后一段“the team says there are possibilities beyond clothing. “It can be integrated with spacecraft skin to listen to space dust, or embedded into (嵌入) buildings to detect cracks or strains,” Yet suggests. “It can even be woven into a smart net to monitor fish in the ocean.”(该团队表示，除了服装之外，还有其他可能性。Yet建议:“它可以与航天器外壳集成以收听太空尘埃，或者嵌入建筑物以检测裂缝或应变。”“它甚至可以编织成一个智能网来监测海洋中的鱼类。”)”可知，这种材料除了制作成衣服之外还可能有更加广泛的用途。故选A。 Section C Directions: Read the passage carefully. Fill in each blank with a proper sentence given in the box. Each sentence can be used only once. Note that there are two more sentences than you need. The Rise of Pop-up Chefs Jeremy Baras remembers the first time he ever saw a pop-up a restaurant. The 26-year-old entrepreneur was on vacation in England four years ago and had to look up at the London Eye Ferries wheel to see it. 67 “I thought that was the coolest thing ever”, he says. Baras, who founded PopUpRepublic. com in 2012 to promote the idea of pop-up restaurants in USA, has been studying them ever since. Pop-ups, which have been around since the early 2000s, are open anywhere from a few hours to several months, but their defining feature is that they are temporary. They may be only a tiny part of the $709 billion U.S. restaurant industry, but popups have gotten a boost in recent years as a lower-cost, lower-risk way for entrepreneurs to test the waters. 68 And some struggling cities, like Oakland, Calif., have turned to them to help revitalize local economies affected by the economic downturn. The concept has been especially popular with up-and-coming chefs who want to test-drive as a menu concept without investing a fortune in a permanent space. “Your cooks and chefs are really talented. 69 Ours, quite the contrary.” says Zach Kupperman, chief businessman officer and co-founder of Dinner Lab. Pop-ups’ temporary nature also allows restaurateurs to charge extra. Dinner Lab, for instance, charges diners an annual membership fee of $125 to $175, depending on where they live, plus $50 to $85 a head for each meal. “It’s the fear of missing out,” explains Zach. 70 There is no guarantee that diners won’t grow tired of the concept. Some entrepreneurs have resorted to even a weirder location — in a former limestone mine, say, or at the top of a crane — to keep customers interested. A．Some restaurant owners see them as a way to renew interest in existing locations. B．It’s not quite part of the mainstream economy yet. C．However, they’ re stuck in the back of somebody else’s kitchen cooking somebody else’s menu. D．Of course, trends in the food industry come and go quickly. E．Nevertheless, they are here today and gone tomorrow. F．Hanging above him was a capsule full of diners who were served a new course each time a revolution was made. 【答案】67．F 68．A 69．C 70．D 【导语】本文为一篇说明文。文章介绍了现在快闪餐厅非常受欢迎，文章分析了这个现象的原因和快闪餐厅的好处。 67．根据上文“The 26-year-old entrepreneur was on vacation in England four years ago and had to look up at the London Eye Ferries wheel to see it. (这位26岁的企业家四年前在英国度假，不得不抬头看伦敦眼摩天轮。)”以及下文“ ‘I thought that was the coolest thing ever’, he says. (他说：“我认为这是有史以来最酷的事情。”)”可知，空格处应该说明的是一件事情。选项F. Hanging above him was a capsule full of diners who were served a new course each time a revolution was made. (看到上空摩天轮胶囊舱内坐满了食客，每次摩天轮开始旋转，就有服务人员上一道新菜。)陈述的是一件事情，“在他的头顶上挂着一个装满食客的胶囊舱”与上文中的“不得不抬头看伦敦眼摩天轮”相呼应；选项F与下文the coolest thing相呼应。所以选项F符合语境，能够承接上文，引出下文。故选F。 68．根据上文“They may be only a tiny part of the $709 billion U.S. restaurant industry, but popups have gotten a boost in recent years as a lower-cost, lower-risk way for entrepreneurs to test the waters. (在美国7,090亿美元的餐饮业中，“弹出式”可能只是很小的一部分，但近年来，作为一种成本更低、风险更低的创业试水方式，“弹出式”得到了蓬勃发展。)”以及下文“And some struggling cities, like Oakland, Calif., have turned to them to help revitalize local economies affected by the economic downturn. (且一些餐馆老板认为，这是一种重新唤起人们对现有餐厅兴趣的方式。)”可知，设空处应该说明的是快闪餐厅蓬勃发展以及对经济发展的作用。选项A. Some restaurant owners see them as a way to renew interest in existing locations. (一些餐馆老板认为，这是一种重新唤起人们对现有餐厅兴趣的方式。)承接上文，和下文并列；符合语境。故选A。 69．根据上文“Your cooks and chefs are really talented. (你们的厨师和主厨真的很有才华。)”以及下文“Ours, quite the contrary. (我们的恰恰相反。)”可知，空格处应该是与前文为转折关系。选项C. However, they’ re stuck in the back of somebody else’s kitchen cooking somebody else’s menu. (然而，他们却被困在别人的厨房里做别人的菜单。)与上文为转折关系，承接上文，符合语境。故选C。 70．根据下文“There is no guarantee that diners won’t grow tired of the concept. (谁也不能保证食客们不会厌倦这个概念。)”可知，空格处应该说明的是食品行业发展得快，所以下文就提到食客们会不会厌倦。选项D. Of course, trends in the food industry come and go quickly. (当然，食品行业的趋势来得快去得也快。)能够引出下文，作为本段的主旨句。故选D。 IV. Summary Writing （10分） 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. How to Be a Successful Team Leader? Every well-organized team needs to have an outstanding leader with specific skills. Sometimes the leader’s abilities can come to affect the whole team. Although we students are still young, it’s never too early to cultivate leadership skills. A team consists of both leaders and followers. Neither side can exist and work effectively without the other. What is essential to the role of leader is the ability to unite the whole team. A great leader enables their team to achieve a common goal through the giving of clear directions and support. Meanwhile, everyone on a team also desires personal success, so a balance can be hard to strike. If a leader doesn’t have fierce determination, the followers will lose their confidence and things will not be done well. What’s more, a successful and charming leader ought to be able to handle interpersonal relationships well. They should be honest, fair, objective and impartial (公正的) when it comes to both rewards and punishments. These kinds of leaders are trustworthy, and thus, the working atmosphere will only come to be improved. They are role models who can have a strong influence on the whole team. To become a powerful leader at school, students have to take the initiative in connecting with their fellow students. Good communication skills allow people to build good relationships, which is an essential part of being a good leader. If you find it hard to express your ideas clearly to those who you collaborate with, it may be rather difficult for you to be a good leader. It’s a well-known fact that, whatever field you wish to work in, leadership skills are necessary for anyone who desires to have a successful career. So it’s never too early to train yourselves as promising future leaders. 71._______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 【答案】It is essential to develop leadership skills when you’re young. Firstly, the ability to keep the team united and determination to accomplish the same goal are needed. Besides, honesty, fairness, and objective attitudes can win a leader trust and reliability in handling of interpersonal relationships. Moreover, skillful communication or staying connected with peers is significant for a promising leader. 【导语】本文是一篇说明文。文章主要讲述了如何成为一名成功的团队领导者。 【详解】1.要点摘录 ①Although we students are still young, it’s never too early to cultivate leadership skills. ②What is essential to the role of leader is the ability to unite the whole team. ③A great leader enables their team to achieve a common goal through the giving of clear directions and support. ④They should be honest, fair, objective and impartial (公正的) when it comes to both rewards and punishments. ⑤To become a powerful leader at school, students have to take the initiative in connecting with their fellow students. ⑥Good communication skills allow people to build good relationships, which is an essential part of being a good leader. 2.缜密构思 将第2、3两个要点进行整合，将第5、6两个要点进行重组 3.遣词造句 The ability to keep the team united and determination to accomplish the same goal are needed. Skillful communication or staying connected with peers is significant for a promising leader. 【点睛】[高分句型1] It is essential to develop leadership skills when you’re young.（运用了when引导时间状语从句对第一段内容进行概括） [高分句型2] Firstly, the ability to keep the team united and determination to accomplish the same goal are needed.（运用了动词不定式作后置定语对第二段的部分内容进行概括） V. Translation （15分） Directions: Translate the following sentences into English, using the words given in the brackets. 72．由这部小说改编的电影在上世纪九十年代受到年轻人的追捧。(adapt) 【答案】The film adapted from this novel was highly popular among young people in the 1990s. 【详解】考查动词。“电影”可以用名词“film”，句中特指“由这部小说改编的电影”，所以该名词用定冠词the修饰，在句中作主语。“由……改编”可以用动词短语“adapt from”，该动词短语在句中作主语的定语，所以需要非谓语动词的形式。adapt from和the film之间为被动关系，所以用过去分词作定语。“这部小说”可以翻译为“this novel”，“受到年轻人的追捧”可以翻译为“be highly popular among young people”。“在上世纪九十年”可以翻译为“in the 1990s”。根据该时间状语可知，句子为一般过去时态，主语为单数，be动词用was。故翻译为The film adapted from this novel was highly popular among young people in the 1990s. 73．如今，越来越多的老人热衷于锻炼身体，即使刮风下雨，(keen) 【答案】Nowadays, more and more old people are keen on practicing even if it is blowing and raining. 【详解】考查固定短语和状语从句。分析所给中文句子，“如今”译为“nowadays”，“越来越多的老人”用固定短语：more and more意为“越来越多的”，译为“more and more old people”，“热衷于”作谓语，根据题干要求，用固定短语：be keen on，根据“如今”可知，用一般现在时，“锻炼身体”作宾语，用动名词形式，译为“practicing”，“即使刮风下雨”可用even if引导的让步状语从句，译为“even if it is blowing and raining”。故译为：Nowadays, more and more old people are keen on practicing even if it is blowing and raining. 74．这是一本如此好的小说，不同的读者可以和里面不同的人物产生共鸣。(such) 【答案】Such a good novel is this that different readers can resonate with different characters in it. 【详解】考查固定句型和倒装句。表示“如此……以至于……”应用such…that…，位于句首应用部分倒装；表示“这是”应用this is；表示“一本好的小说”应用a good novel；that从句中，表示“不同的读者”为different readers；表示“产生共鸣”短语为resonate with，can后跟动原形；表示“里面不同的人物”翻译为different characters in it。为一般现在时。故翻译为Such a good novel is this that different readers can resonate with different characters in it. 75．许多学校已将剪纸之类的民间艺术引入课堂，这不但培养了学生的动手能力，也提高了他们的艺术鉴赏力。(not only…) 【答案】Many schools have introduced folk arts, such as paper-cut into classrooms, and that not only cultivates students’ practical ability, but also improves their artistic appreciation. 【详解】考查固定句式和时态。not only…but also...表示“不但……而且……”，“将剪纸之类的民间艺术引入课堂”发生在过去并对现在造成影响，应该用现在完成时，故翻译为：Many schools have introduced folk arts, such as paper-cut into classrooms, and that not only cultivates students’ practical ability, but also improves their artistic appreciation。 VI. Guided Writing （25分） Direction: Write an English composition in 120-150 words according to the instructions given below in Chinese. 假设你是明启中学的学生王磊。你校拟开设上海话选修课 (Optional Course of Shanghai Dialect)，并在校园网上公布了该消息，征求师生意见。请你写一封邮件给负责的李老师，内容包括： 1. 你是否赞成开设此课程； 2. 你的理由。 ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 【答案】Dear Teacher, How are things going? What a surprise it is to hear that you’ll develop an optional course next term! Therefore, our school is seeking suggestions from us students. As far as I’m concerned, most classmates really expect you to offer Optional Course of Shanghai Dialect. The reasons are as follows: Firstly, it enables us to know local culture well, through which we can have a better understanding of our roots. Secondly, learning Shanghai dialect provides us ready access to rich, fresh and practical language, which should further arouse our sense of belonging. In addition, we will learn what we can’t learn from the textbooks such as different cultures and customs. In this way, it will help to broaden our horizon and open our views. All in all, we will certainly benefit from this course greatly. We would be very grateful if our humble suggestion received your favorable consideration. Yours, WangLei 【导语】本篇书面表达属于应用文，要求考生写一封邮件给负责的李老师就你校拟开设上海话选修课发表意见。其内容包括：你是否赞成开设此课程以及你的理由。 【详解】1.词汇积累 惊讶：surprise →astonishment 因此：therefore→hence 期待：expect →anticipate 能：can→be able to 2.句式拓展 简单句变复合句 原句： All in all, we will certainly benefit from this course greatly. 拓展句：All in all, there is no doubt that we will certainly benefit from this course greatly. 【点睛】【高分句型1】 What a surprise it is to hear that you’ll develop an optional course next term!（运用了what引导的感叹句和that引导的宾语从句） 【高分句型2】 Secondly, learning Shanghai dialect provides us ready access to rich, fresh and practical language, which should further arouse our sense of belonging. （运用了which引导的非限制性定语从句） 原创精品资源学科网独家享有版权，侵权必究！24 原创精品资源学科网独家享有版权，侵权必究！23 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $$ 2024-2025学年高二英语上学期期中模拟卷 参考答案 （考试时间：120分钟 试卷满分：140分） I. Listening Comprehension (25分) 1-5. CDCAA 6-10. DBCAA 11-13 BCB 14-16. BDD 17-20.BCBC II. Grammar and vocabulary (20分) Section A 21．where 22．looking 23．to have consumed 24．has to 25．makes 26．that 27．increased 28．Despite 29．an 30．more practical Section B 31．I 32．C 33．G 34．E 35．A 36．D 37．H 38．K 39．B 40．F III. Reading Comprehension (45分) Section A 41．C 42．B 43．C 44．B 45．D 46．D 47．A 48．B 49．A 50．B 51．C 52．C 53．D 54．A 55．D Section B 56．A 57．D 58．D 59．C 60．C 61．B 62．D 63．C 64．B 65．D 66．A Section C 67．F 68．A 69．C 70．D IV. Samar y （10分） 71.【参考答案】It is essential to develop leadership skills when you’re young. Firstly, the ability to keep the team united and determination to accomplish the same goal are needed. Besides, honesty, fairness, and objective attitudes can win a leader trust and reliability in handling of interpersonal relationships. Moreover, skillful communication or staying connected with peers is significant for a promising leader. V. Translation （15分） 【72】The film adapted from this novel was highly popular among young people in the 1990s. 【73】Nowadays, more and more old people are keen on practicing even if it is blowing and raining. 【74】Such a good novel is this that different readers can resonate with different characters in it. 【75】Many schools have introduced folk arts, such as paper-cut into classrooms, and that not only cultivates students’ practical ability, but also improves their artistic appreciation. VI. Guided Writing （25分） 76.【参考答案】Dear Teacher, How are things going? What a surprise it is to hear that you’ll develop an optional course next term! Therefore, our school is seeking suggestions from us students. As far as I’m concerned, most classmates really expect you to offer Optional Course of Shanghai Dialect. The reasons are as follows: Firstly, it enables us to know local culture well, through which we can have a better understanding of our roots. Secondly, learning Shanghai dialect provides us ready access to rich, fresh and practical language, which should further arouse our sense of belonging. In addition, we will learn what we can’t learn from the textbooks such as different cultures and customs. In this way, it will help to broaden our horizon and open our views. All in all, we will certainly benefit from this course greatly. We would be very grateful if our humble suggestion received your favorable consideration. 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