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厦门双十中学2024-2025学年第一学期期中考试 高三英语试题 试卷满分：150分 考试时间：120分钟 第一部分 听力理解（共两节，满分30分） 第一节（共5小题；每小题1.5分，满分7.5分） 听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一个小题。每段对话仅读一遍。 1. What did the woman do yesterday? A. She played football. B. She watched a game. C. She worked in the lab. 2. What are the speakers talking about? A. A tiger in the zoo. B. A storybook. C. A tourist attraction. 3. What are the speakers doing? A. Conducting a reading. B. Reading a letter. C. Collecting money. 4. What is the man likely to be? A. A police officer. B. A cleaner. C. A construction worker. 5. When will David hand in the paper? A. On April 21st. B. On April 22nd. C. On April 23rd. 第二节（共15小题；每小题1.5分，满分22.5分） 听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。 6. Why is the man calling the woman? A. To confirm her daily arrangements. B. To remind her of an appointment. C. To reschedule a physical exam. 7. What will the woman do on Friday? A. Attend a meeting. B. Take a business trip. C. Have a checkup. 听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。 8. Where would Phil rather live? A. In the city centre. B. In the west suburbs. C. In the cast of the city. 9. What do we know about the first flat? A It's far from the station. B. It's well-equipped. C. It may be noisy. 10. What is a disadvantage of the second flat? A. It's too expensive. B. 1t lacks a shower. C. It has a small living room. 所第8段材料，回答第11至13题。 11. Why are the speakers waiting? A. To attend a class. B. To give a concert. C. To buy tickets. 12. Where does the woman work now? A. In Chicago. B. In Seattle. C. In Los Angeles. 13. Who is Susan? A. The man's wife. B. The man's colleague. C. The man's doctor. 听第9段材料，回答第14至17题。 14. What are the special boards used for? A. Producing energy. B. Covering buildings. C. Keeping sunshine out. 15. Where are the gardens? A. On the roofs. B. In the backyards. C. Next to the workstations. 16. How will Molly go home today? A. By bike. B. By bus. C. By car. 17. What does Molly say about BedZED? A. There's plenty of parking space. B. It is really environment-friendly. C. 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CONTENT CREATION ACCURACY REVIEW EXPERT INPUT TRACKED ANDUPDATED Articles are created by our team of trained writers and our community of how- to and DIY enthusiasts. Article submissions are reviewed by Content Managers to ensure they are well- researched. Articles are expanded and reviewed by an appropriate expert. Articles are tracked and updated based on data analysis and feedback from readers and the community. 1. What is the primary focus of wikiHow? A. To provide systematic schooling. B. To give detailed and practical advice. C. To make comments on current affairs. D. To share true stories of different people. 2. If you intend to open a souvenir store, which expert might be most helpful? A. Chloe Carmichael. B. Brian Bourquin. C. Joy Cho. D. Dedra Allen. 3. What is a shared responsibility of Content Managers and experts at wikiHow? A. Writing articles for wikiHow. B. Training writers for w íkiHow. C. Ensuring the credibility of articles. D. Reviewing the originality of articles. 【答案】1. B 2. C 3. C 【解析】 【导语】本文是一篇应用文。文章介绍了wikiHow网站的功能和文章编辑过程。 【1题详解】 细节理解题。由文章第一段“For 18 years, we’ve committed to our step-by-step teaching model and continue to create the best how-to experience on the Internet. We’ve helped millions of people solve problems, learn new skills, and feel supported in the ordinary and complex moments of life.( 18年来，我们一直致力于循序渐进的教学模式，并继续创造最好的互联网体验。我们已经帮助数百万人解决问题，学习新技能，并在生活中的普通和复杂时刻感受到支持。)”可知，该网站的主要目标是为读者提供解决问题的具体指导和建议。故选B。 【2题详解】 细节理解题。根据 DIY, Joy Cho, Founder & Creative Director部分中“Founder and Creative Director of lifestyle brand and design studio. Authored three books and consulted for creative businesses around the world.(生活方式品牌及设计工作室创始人及创意总监。撰写了三本书，并为世界各地的创意企业提供咨询。)”可知，Joy Cho为创意性商业提供咨询，如果你打算开一个纪念品店，或许是最有帮助的。故选C。 【3题详解】 推理判断题。根据第二段中“Our Expert Team wikiHow partners with over 1,000 experts from a wide range of fields to ensure our content is accurate and based on well- established research.( 我们的专家团队与来自广泛领域的1000多名专家合作，以确保我们的内容准确无误，并基于完善的研究。)”；表格中ACCURACY REVIEW部分中“Article submissions are reviewed by Content Managers to ensure they are well- researched.(文章提交由内容管理人员审查，以确保它们经过充分研究。)”以及表格中EXPERT INPUT部分中“Articles are expanded and reviewed by an appropriate expert.( 文章由合适的专家进行扩展和审查。)”可知，内容经理和专家的共同责任是确保文章的可信度。故选C。 B For many, the term “orienteering” might bring back images of school trips. The reality of it can be very different, though, and it’s a sport with strong links to athletics. Kris Jones, a British international on the track, was also a silver medalist at the 2022 World Orienteering Championships. This July, I decided to explore the sport by joining in the Edinburgh “sprint orienteering” running through the famous city streets. The aim of the sport is to navigate between checkpoints marked on a special orienteering map. There is no set route so the skill and fun come from trying to find the best way to go, with the ultimate goal being to complete the course in the quickest time. As someone who is used to the convenience of using my phone for navigation, the idea of relying on a traditional map-and-compass approach felt daunting. However, once I got into the swing of things — and learned to hold a map the correct way — the excitement of navigating from one checkpoint to the next quickly got me moving. The unpredictable nature of the race and not knowing the whereabouts of other competitors, really does keep the rush of excitement flowing. You have no idea where you are going or what you are going to see until you pick up the map. I think the sport taking place in an open field of play is really exciting for people to watch. People can stand and watch athletes running across their doorstep. Different athletes will be following different routes. It’s never like a marathon where you might see one athlete a minute ahead in front and you know they are going to win. For orienteering to grow as a sport, it needs greater visibility in top class events. A distant past argument is that it is not an audience-friendly sport, but modem technology now shakes that belief. With the use of mobile phones, drones and body cameras, orienteering can be enjoyed by a much wider audience. 4. Why does the author mention Kris Jones in paragraph 1? A. To prove orienteering is very popular. B. To show orienteering is professionally competitive. C. To introduce the achievement of the athlete. D. To emphasize the benefits of taking up orienteering. 5. What do we know about orienteering? A. Participants navigate the race using phones. B. Participants can track other competitors’ position. C. Participants try to finish the set course in the quickest time. D. Participants design the best route based on a map and compass. 6. What makes orienteering different from a marathon to the audience? A. The phone for navigation. B. The uncertainty of the result. C. The set routine through a city. D. The visibility of runners’ positions. 7. What does the last paragraph imply? A. The running routes should be designed to vary. B. Orienteering is bound to be a world-class event. C. Orienteering presents clear vision. D. Using Technology can help popularize the game. 【答案】4. B 5. D 6. B 7. D 【解析】 【导语】本文是一篇说明文。文章中讲述作者通过亲自参与爱丁堡的“城市定向越野赛”体验了这一运动的魅力，包括其比赛规则、比赛过程中的乐趣以及该运动的发展前景，主要介绍了定向越野运动。 【4题详解】 推理判断题。根据第一段中“The reality of it can be very different, though, and it’s a sport with strong links to athletics. Kris Jones, a British international on the track, was also a silver medalist at the 2022 World Orienteering Championships.(然而，它的现实可能非常不同，它是一项与田径运动密切相关的运动。Kris Jones是英国国际定向运动员，也是2022年世界定向锦标赛的银牌得主。)”可知，此处提到了Kris Jones是英国国际定向运动员，也是2022年世界定向锦标赛的银牌得主，其目的是为了说明定向越野活动是一项具有专业竞争力的运动；Kris Jones作为一位在国际田径赛场上表现出色的英国运动员，同时也是2022年世界定向越野锦标赛的银牌得主，他的例子能够很好地证明定向越野的专业性和竞技性。故选B。 【5题详解】 细节理解题。根据第二段中“The aim of the sport is to navigate between checkpoints marked on a special orienteering map. There is no set route so the skill and fun come from trying to find the best way to go, with the ultimate goal being to complete the course in the quickest time.(这项运动的目的是在一个特殊的定向地图上标记的检查站之间导航。没有固定的路线，所以技巧和乐趣来自于试图找到最好的路线，最终目标是在最快的时间内完成进程。)”以及第三段“As someone who is used to the convenience of using my phone for navigation, the idea of relying on a traditional map-and-compass approach felt daunting. However, once I got into the swing of things — and learned to hold a map the correct way — the excitement of navigating from one checkpoint to the next quickly got me moving.(作为一个习惯于使用手机导航的人，依靠传统地图和指南针方法的想法让人望而生畏。然而，一旦我熟悉了一切，学会了正确地拿着地图，从一个检查点导航到下一个检查点的兴奋感就会让我迅速行动起来。)”可知，该项运动是没有固定路线的，所有的技巧和乐趣来自于参与者参与者根据地图和指南针设计最佳路线。故选D。 【6题详解】 推理判断题。根据倒数第二段中“People can stand and watch athletes running across their doorstep. Different athletes will be following different routes. It’s never like a marathon where you might see one athlete a minute ahead in front and you know they are going to win.(人们可以站着观看运动员从家门口跑过。不同的运动员将遵循不同的路线。它从来不像马拉松那样，你可能会看到一个运动员领先一分钟，你就知道他们会赢。)”可知，在定向越野中，不同的运动员会采取不同的路线，观众无法提前知道谁会赢，这增加了比赛的悬念和观赏性。而在马拉松比赛中，观众往往可以通过观察运动员的领先情况和速度来预测最终的胜者，即对于观众来说，定向越野与马拉松的不同之处在于比赛结果的不确定性。故选B。 【7题详解】 推理判断题。根据最后一段“A distant past argument is that it is not an audience-friendly sport, but modem technology now shakes that belief. With the use of mobile phones, drones and body cameras, orienteering can be enjoyed by a much wider audience.(很久以前就有人认为它不是一项对观众友好的运动，但现代技术现在动摇了这种观点。随着手机、无人机和随身相机的使用，定向运动可以被更多的观众享受。)”可知，随着手机、无人机和随身摄像头等现代技术的使用，定向越野能够吸引更广泛的观众群体。这些技术不仅提高了比赛的可见性和观赏性，还为定向越野运动的发展提供了更多的可能性。即最后一段暗示了使用技术可以帮助推广定向越野这项运动。故选D。 C Who are your best friends on campus? Are they the ones you encountered most often in class? Are you’re your fellows in drama club or debate society? A number of studies have demonstrated the effects of proximity on who become friends. One was conducted at MIT in the 1940s. The students were randomly assigned to 17 ten-unit apartment buildings isolated from other residential areas, and few of them knew one another beforehand. The investigators asked each resident to name the three people in the student housing project with whom they socialized most often. The effect of proximity was striking: two-thirds of those listed as friends lived in the same building as the respondent, even though those in the same building represented only 5 percent of the target residents. More striking was the pattern of friendships within each building. Even though the physical distance between apartments was quite small-19 feet between the doorways of neighboring apartments and 89 feet between those at the ends of each hallway-41 percent of those living in neighboring apartments listed each other as friends, compared with only 10 percent of those living at opposite ends of the hallway. Proximity leads to friendship because it facilitates chance encounters. If so, then pure physical distance should matter less than functional distance-the influence of an architectural layout to influence contact between people. The MIT study shows how important it is. As the following Figure indicates, the stairs are positioned such that upstairs residents will encounter the occupants of apartments at the turn of the stairs much more often than the occupants of the middle apartments. In fact, the residents of the two stair-end apartment formed twice as many friendships with their upstairs neighbors as those living in the middle apartments. Thus, it’s functional distance more than physical distance that is decisive. Proximity promotes friendship because it brings people together. Actually, in later studies involving more diverse populations, the largest effects of proximity on friendship formation have been found between people of different races, ages, or social classes. 8. What does the underlined word “proximity” probably mean? A. possibility B. closeness C. attraction D. interest 9. What method did the MIT researchers employ in their study? A. Survey analysis. B. Literature Review. C. In-lab observation. D. Online questionnaire. 10. Which apartment’s residents in the Figure above may make most friends in the building? A. Apartment 1. B. Apartment 2. C. Apartment 6. D. Apartment 8. 11. What do we know about the later studies? A. Their samples are not representative enough. B. Physical distance does not affect friendship. C. They further confirmed the MIT study’s finding. D. Population diversity influences friendship formation. 【答案】8. B 9. A 10. A 11. C 【解析】 【导语】本文是一篇说明文。本文主要讲述了距离对友谊形成的影响。文章指出，多项研究表明，人们在空间上越接近，就越有可能成为朋友。同时，在后续的研究中，研究者还发现，不同种族、年龄或社会阶层的人之间，距离的接近对友谊形成的影响最大。 【8题详解】 词义猜测题。根据第三段中“ two-thirds of those listed as friends lived in the same building as the respondent, even though those in the same building represented only 5 percent of the target residents. More striking was the pattern of friendships within each building. Even though the physical distance between apartments was quite small-19 feet between the doorways of neighboring apartments and 89 feet between those at the ends of each hallway-41 percent of those living in neighboring apartments listed each other as friends, compared with only 10 percent of those living at opposite ends of the hallway.( 被列为朋友的人中有三分之二与被调查者住在同一栋楼里，尽管住在同一栋楼里的人只占目标居民的5%。更引人注目的是每栋楼里的友谊模式。尽管公寓之间的物理距离非常小，相邻公寓门口之间的距离为19英尺，走廊两端之间的距离为89英尺，但住在相邻公寓的人中有41%的人把彼此列为朋友，而住在走廊两端的人中只有10%的人这样做。)”可知，该研究探讨的是“接近度”如何影响友谊形成的详细解释，因此大量的研究证明的事“接近度”对成为朋友所产生的影响，故划线词指的是人与人之间的亲密或接近程度，与B选项“closeness(亲近度)”意思相同。故选B。 【9题详解】 推理判断题。根据文章第三段中“The investigators asked each resident to name the three people in the student housing project with whom they socialized most often.( 调查人员要求每位居民说出在学生宿舍项目中与他们交往最频繁的三个人)”可知，研究人员通过向居民发放调查问卷，收集并分析了他们的回答。研究者们采用的是调查分析的研究方法。故选A。 【10题详解】 推理判断题。由文章第四段中“As the following Figure indicates, the stairs are positioned such that upstairs residents will encounter the occupants of apartments at the turn of the stairs much more often than the occupants of the middle apartments. In fact, the residents of the two stair-end apartment formed twice as many friendships with their upstairs neighbors as those living in the middle apartments. (如下图所示，楼梯的位置使得楼上的住户在楼梯拐弯处遇到公寓住户的次数要比中间公寓的住户多得多。事实上，住在两层楼上公寓的人与楼上邻居的友谊是住在中间公寓的人的两倍。)”可以推断出，住在1号公寓的居民可能在公寓里交到最多的朋友，因为他们在楼梯转弯处更容易遇到其他公寓的居民。故选A。 【11题详解】 推理判断题。根据文章最后一段，“Actually, in later studies involving more diverse populations, the largest effects of proximity on friendship formation have been found between people of different races, ages, or social classes.(实际上，在后续涉及更多样化人群的研究中，发现接近度对友谊形成的影响最大的是在不同种族、年龄或社会阶层的人之间。)”可知，后续的研究进一步证实了MIT研究的发现，即接近度对友谊形成有重要影响。故选C。 D Some graduate students in London were recently tasked with outwitting a large language model (LLM),a type of AI designed to hold useful conversations. LLMs are often programmed with guardrails to stop them giving harmful replies: instructions on making bombs in a bathtub, for instance. The aim of the task was to break those guardrails. Some results were merely stupid. One participant got the chatbot to claim ducks could be used as indicators of air quality. But the most successful efforts were those that made the machine produce the titles and publication dates of non-existent academic articles. AI bas the potential to be a big benefit to science. But it comes with downsides, too. Start with the simplest problem: academic misconduct. Some researchers use LLMs to help write papers. Guillaume Cabanac, a computer scientist, has uncovered dozens of papers that contain phrases such as “regenerate response”-the text of a button in ChatGPT that commands the program to rewrite its most recent answer, probably copied into the manuscript (原稿) by mistake. Another problem arises when Al models are trained on AI-generated data. LLMs are trained on text from the Internet. As they produce more such text ,the risk of LLMs taking in their own outputs-grows. That can cause “model collapse’. In 2023 llia Shumailov, a computer scientist, co-authored a paper in which a model was fed handwritten digits and asked to generate digits of its own, which were fed back to it in turn. After a few cycles, the computer’s numbers became more or less incomprehensible. Some worry that computer-generated insights might come from models whose inner workings are not understood. Inexplainable models are not useless, says David Leslie at an Al-research outfit in London, but their outputs will need rigorous testing in the real world. That is perhaps less unnerving than it sounds. Checking models against reality is what science is supposed to be about, after all. For now, at least, questions outnumber answers. The threats that machines pose to the scientific method are, at the end of the day, the same ones posed by humans. AI could accelerate the production of nonsense just as much as it accelerates good science. As the Royal Society has it, nullius in verba: take nobody’s word for it. No thing’s, either. 12. The result of the task conducted in London shows that . A. LLMs give away useful information B. the guardrails turn out to be ineffective C. AI’s influence will potentially be decreased D. the effort put into the study of AI hardly pays off 13. What does “model collapse" indicate? A. The readability of the models’ output is underestimated. B. The diverse sources of information confuse the models. C. Training on regenerated data stops models working well. D. The data becomes reliable after feeding on its own digits. 14. What is David Leslie’s attitude towards inexplainable models? A. Dismissive. B. Objective. C. Favorable. D. Ambiguous. 15. What would be the best title for the passage? A. Faster Nonsense: AI Could Also Go Wrong B. Imperfect Models: How Will AI Make Advances? C. The Rise of LLMs: AI Could Still Be Promising D. Bigger Threats: AI Will Be Uncontrollable 【答案】12. B 13. C 14. B 15. A 【解析】 【导语】本文是一篇说明文。文章介绍了大型语言模型（LLM）等人工智能技术虽对科学有益，但也带来了学术不端、模型崩溃、输出结果难以解释等问题，对科学方法构成了威胁，需要谨慎对待。 【12题详解】 细节理解题。根据第一段中“ LLMs are often programmed with guardrails to stop them giving harmful replies: instructions on making bombs in a bathtub, for instance. The aim of the task was to break those guardrails. Some results were merely stupid. One participant got the chatbot to claim ducks could be used as indicators of air quality.(大型语言模型（LLM）通常被设置了“护栏”以防止它们给出有害的回复：例如，禁止提供在浴缸里制造炸弹的指令。这项任务的目标是打破这些“护栏”。一些结果只是愚蠢的尝试。有一名参与者让聊天机器人声称鸭子可以用来作为空气质量的指示器)”可知，伦敦进行的任务结果表明，原本旨在防止大型语言模型（LLM）给出有害回复的“网络护栏”实际上并不有效。故选B。 【13题详解】 细节理解题。根据第三段中“In 2023 llia Shumailov, a computer scientist, co-authored a paper in which a model was fed handwritten digits and asked to generate digits of its own, which were fed back to it in turn. After a few cycles, the computer’s numbers became more or less incomprehensible.(2023年，计算机科学家llia Shumailov与人合著了一篇论文，在论文中，一个模型被输入手写数字，并被要求生成自己的数字，这些数字依次被反馈给它。经过几个周期后，计算机的数字多少变得难以理解了)”可知，model collapse指的是在模型被训练在再生数据上时，模型会吸收自己的输出，导致模型崩溃，无法正常工作。故选C。 【14题详解】 推理判断题。根据第四段中“Inexplainable models are not useless, says David Leslie at an Al-research outfit in London, but their outputs will need rigorous testing in the real world.(伦敦一家人工智能研究机构的David Leslie说，无法解释的模型并非毫无用处，但它们的结果需要在现实世界中进行严格的测试)”可知，David Leslie认为这些模型并非无用，但它们的输出需要在现实世界中经过严格的测试。这表明他既看到了这些模型的潜力，也认识到了它们的局限性，因此他的态度是客观的。故选B。 【15题详解】 主旨大意题。根据最后一段中“The threats that machines pose to the scientific method are, at the end of the day, the same ones posed by humans. AI could accelerate the production of nonsense just as much as it accelerates good science. (说到底，机器对科学方法构成的威胁与人类构成的威胁是一样的。人工智能可以加速废话的产生，就像它可以加速好的科学一样)”以及通读全文可知，文章主要讨论了大型语言模型（LLM）等人工智能技术的潜在好处和缺点，特别是它们可能对科学方法构成的威胁。虽然AI可以加速好的科学的产生，但同样也可能加速无意义的废话的产生。因此，文章强调AI也可能出错。选项A“Faster Nonsense: AI Could Also Go Wrong(更快的废话：AI也可能出错)”准确地概括了文章的主旨，适合作本文最佳标题。故选A。 第二节（共5小题；每小题2.5分，满分12.5分） 根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。 Pursue Your Dreams Today, Not Tomorrow Stop waiting until tomorrow to start pursuing your dreams. There’s no reason to wait when you can take the first step toward your goals today. Remember, you’re allowed to start small.____16____Instead, you can take minute but necessary steps toward a brighter future. And you can start right now. ____17____If you never try, you’re always going to wonder how your life would have turned out if you actually took a chance on yourself. Don’t let your future self be disappointed by your present self. It doesn’t matter how old you are or how many people have warned you that you’re never going to succeed. Even the most successful people have had their hesitations about whether they could make it in their field.____18____Ignore the haters who are only bringing you down to feel better about themselves. At the end of the day, you need to carve out a path that will lead to the most satisfaction. Never allow your fear to get the best of you.____19____It’s what you would encourage your friends to do, so why aren’t you giving yourself that same push? Sometimes, following your dreams means carving out a little bit of time to pursue your passion each day. It may require making slight adjustments to your schedule. But you don’t have to sacrifice everything. Try to balance your current life with your dreams.____20____Pursue your dreams now, even though that means you might need to break out of your comfort zone, and oven though it means entering the unknown. A. You owe it to yourself to go after your dreams. B. Have you ever daydreamed about your dreams? C. New opportunities may lead to personal growth. D. You don’t have to take a huge, life-changing leap. E. If things go well, you can gradually make further shifts. F. You need to move past your insecurities and explore your full potential. G. Hard as it is, it’s crucial to wave off the doubts in the back of your mind. 【答案】16. D 17. A 18. G 19. F 20. E 【解析】 【导语】本文是一篇说明文。文章讲述的是就如何追求自己的梦想提出了一些建议。要立即着手追求自己的梦想，不要等待明天，即使路途艰难也要勇敢迈出第一步，不要因外界因素而放弃，并努力实现梦想与生活的平衡。 【16题详解】 根据前文“Remember, you’re allowed to start small.( 记住，你可以从小处开始。)”可知，此处强调从小事做起。D选项“You don’t have to take a huge, life-changing leap.( 你不需要做出巨大的、改变人生的飞跃。)”与前文呼应，说明追求梦想不必一步到位，而是可以逐步进行，符合语境。故选D。 【17题详解】 根据下文“If you never try, you’re always going to wonder how your life would have turned out if you actually took a chance on yourself. Don’t let your future self be disappointed by your present self.. (如果你从不尝试，你就会被你的遗憾压垮。你总是想知道，如果你真的给自己一个机会，你的生活会变成什么样子。不要让未来的自己被现在的自己失望)”可知，本段的主旨是给自己一个改变生活的机会，即建议去追求自己的梦想。A选项“You owe it to yourself to go after your dreams. (你应该为自己去追求你的梦想)”能概括本段主旨，符合语境。故选A。 【18题详解】 根据前文“Even the most successful people have had their hesitations about whether they could make it in their field.( 即使是最成功的人也会犹豫是否能在自己的领域取得成功。)”可知，即便是最成功的人也会由于是否能在自己的领域中取得成功。G选项“Hard as it is, it’s crucial to wave off the doubts in the back of your mind. (尽管困难重重，但摆脱心中的疑虑是至关重要的)”与前文形成呼应，说明成功的人也会有疑虑，但关键是要挥去这些疑虑，符合语境。故选G。 【19题详解】 根据上文“Never allow your fear to get the best of you.( 永远不要让恐惧打败你。)”可知，此处强调不要让恐惧打败自己。F选项“You need to move past your insecurities and explore your full potential. (你需要克服你的不安全感，发掘你的全部潜力)” 强调了要克服恐惧，发掘自己的潜力，符合语境。故选F。 【20题详解】 根据上文“Sometimes, following your dreams means carving out a little bit of time to pursue your passion each day. It may require making slight adjustments to your schedule. But you don’t have to sacrifice everything. Try to balance your current life with your dreams. (有时候，追随你的梦想意味着每天挤出一点时间来追求你的激情。这可能需要稍微调整一下你的日程安排。但你不必牺牲一切。试着平衡你现在的生活和你的梦想。)”可知，上文提到了在你现在的生活和你的梦想之间取得平衡。E选项“If things go well, you can gradually make further shifts. (如果一切顺利，你可以逐渐做出进一步的改变)” 说明在追求梦想的同时，要试着平衡现在的生活，并根据情况做出调整，如果一切顺利的话，可以逐渐的做出进一步的改变来实现生活和梦想的平衡，该选项符合语境。故选E。 第三部分 语言知识运用（共两节，满分30分） 第一节 完形填空（共15题，每题1分，满分15分） As a writer, I miss rejection slips. Not that I enjoyed receiving those pre-printed slips of paper, but at least when I got one, I was pretty sure that a flesh-and-blood____21____had put it in the envelope. And there was always the chance I might see a handwritten sentence on the bottom,____22____ the piece almost made it. When an editor at Me Call’s wrote, “ I’m afraid I have to say no on this ____23____piece, but try me again on another, would you ?”, it was almost as ____24____ to me as if she had said, “We’ll ____25____ it and here is an advance for you.”. Nowadays, rejection slips seem to have disappeared with the use of online submissions. Most editors don’t feel it a must to ____26____ they have received, read, or considered your work because they receive so many ____27____each day. For me, there are three ____28____ of rejection slip pain. The first is____29____ brought on by finding a flat “no” on a _____30_____ piece of paper, then followed by anger (how could they _____31_____ a piece that is obviously so much_____32_____than most of the stuff they print), and, finally, rebirth: I will live to _____33_____a new piece another day. Learning to _____34_____ rejection seems like part of growing up as a writer. Despite the many letters of acceptance I have received my folder of “ Noteworthy Rejection Slips “is far _____35_____ than that of “Noteworthy Acceptances”, which indicates to me the fact: I still have some growing up to do. 21. A. writer B. reader C. mailman D. editor 22. A. demanding B. suspecting C. indicating D. arguing 23. A. boring B. novel C. lengthy D. particular 24. A. upsetting B. thrilling C. embarrassing D. amusing 25. A. buy B. reject C. check D. substitute 26. A. prove B. determine C. explain D. acknowledge 27. A. proposals B. drafts C. contributionis D. instructions 28. A. stages B. wonders C. meanings D. rewards 29. A. relief B. frustration C. anger D. hesitation 30. A. valueless B. expensive C. characterless D. shiny 31. A. make up B. put away C. turn down D. take over 32. A. easier B. better C. shorter D. longer 33. A. print B. revise C. download D. submit 34. A. accept B. criticize C. judge D. evaluate 35. A. thinner B. newer C. older D. fatter 【答案】21. D 22. C 23. D 24. B 25. A 26. D 27. C 28. A 29. B 30. C 31. C 32. B 33. D 34. A 35. D 【解析】 【导语】本文是一篇夹叙夹议文。本文讲述了作家对退稿信的怀念，过去退稿信意味着作品被真实审阅，现在随着在线投稿普及，退稿信消失，编辑也无需确认作品情况。作者认为退稿信带来失望、愤怒和重生三种痛苦，学会接受退稿是作家成长的一部分，作者收到的退稿信比录用信多，仍有成长空间。 【21题详解】 考查名词词义辨析。句意：并不是说我喜欢收到那些预先打印好的纸条，但至少当我收到一张纸条时，我很确定是一个有血有肉的编辑放在信封里的。A. writer作家；B. reader读者；C. mailman邮递员；D. editor编辑。根据下文“When an editor at Me Call’s wrote,”可知，此处指的是作者收到一名编辑的来信。故选D。 【22题详解】 考查动词词义辨析。句意：我总是有可能在底部看到一个手写的句子，表明这篇文章几乎成功了。A. demanding要求；B. suspecting怀疑；C. indicating表明；D. arguing争论。根据前文“And there was always the chance I might see a handwritten sentence on the bottom”可知，编辑留下的句子表明这篇文章几乎快要成功了。故选C。 【23题详解】 考查形容词词义辨析。句意：Me Call的一位编辑写道：“恐怕我不得不拒绝这篇特殊的文章，但请再试一试另一篇，好吗？”A. boring无聊的；B. novel新颖的；C. lengthy冗长的；D. particular特殊的。根据下文“but try me again on another, would you?”可知，这是对于拒绝投稿的委婉的说法，赞扬文章很特别，但是不得不拒绝。故选D。 【24题详解】 考查形容词词义辨析。句意：这几乎让我感到激动，就好像她在说：“我们将要买它，这是给你的预付款。”A. upsetting令人苦恼的；B. thrilling令人激动的；C. embarrassing令人尴尬的；D. amusing引人发笑的。根据后文““We’ll ____5____ it and here is an advance for you.””可知，因为就像是提前支付预付款，所以激动。故选B。 【25题详解】 考查动词词义辨析。句意：同上。A. buy买；B. reject拒绝接受；C. check检查，查看；D. substitute代替。根据后文“here is an advance for you”可知，此处表示将要购买。故选A。 【26题详解】 考查动词词义辨析。句意：大多数编辑并不觉得必须承认他们已经收到、阅读或考虑过你的作品，因为他们每天都会收到如此多的投稿。A. prove证明；B. determine决定；C. explain解释；D. acknowledge承认。根据前文“Nowadays, rejection slips seem to have disappeared with the use of online submissions.”可知，如今，由于网上投稿的使用，退稿单似乎已经消失了，大多数编辑并不觉得必须承认他们已经收到、阅读或考虑过你的作品。故选D。 【27题详解】 考查名词词义辨析。句意：同上。A. proposals提议；B. drafts草稿；C. contributions投稿；D. instructions指导。根据前文“Most editors don’t feel it a must to ____6____ they have received, read, or considered your work”可知，此处对应的是work，指的是每天收到很多投稿作品。故选C。 【28题详解】 考查名词词义辨析。句意：对我来说，被拒绝的痛苦有三个阶段。A. stages阶段；B. wonders奇迹；C. meanings意义；D. rewards奖励。根据后文的“The first”，“then”和“finally”可知，此处指被拒绝后的痛苦有三个阶段。故选A。 【29题详解】 考查名词词义辨析。句意：首先是在一张毫无特色的纸上发现一个“不”字所带来的挫败感，然后是愤怒（他们怎么能拒绝一份明显比他们印刷的大多数东西都要好得多的作品），最后是重生：我将在另一天提交一份新作品。A. relief宽慰；B. frustration受挫；C. anger生气；D. hesitation犹豫。根据后文“by finding a flat “no””可知，发现被拒绝首先应该感受到的是挫败感。故选B。 【30题详解】 考查形容词词义辨析。句意：同上。A. valueless没有价值的；B. expensive昂贵的；C. characterless无个性的；D. shiny发光的。根据“because they receive so many ____7____each day.”可知，编辑每天收到很多投稿，拒绝投稿的纸条应该是没有个性的，千篇一律的。故选C。 【31题详解】 考查动词短语辨析。句意：同上。A. make up组成，编造；B. put away把……收起来；C. turn down拒绝；D. take over接管。根据前文“then followed by anger”可知，此处表示他们怎么能拒绝一份明显比他们印刷的大多数东西都要好得多的作品，由此作者感到很生气。故选C。 【32题详解】 考查形容词词义辨析。句意：同上。A. easier更容易的；B. better更好的；C. shorter更短的；D. longer更长的。根据后文“than most of the stuff they print”可知，作者认为自己的投稿明显比他们印刷的大多数东西都要好得多。故选B。 【33题详解】 考查动词词义辨析。句意：同上。A. print打印；B. revise修改；C. download下载；D. submit提交。根据后文“a new piece another day”可知，此处表示重新提交一份新的作品。故选D。 【34题详解】 考查动词词义辨析。句意：学会接受拒绝似乎是作家成长的一部分。A. accept接受；B. criticize批评；C. judge评判；D. evaluate评估。根据后文“seems like part of growing up as a writer”可知，作者认为学会接受拒绝是作为作家成长的一部分。故选A。 【35题详解】 考查形容词词义辨析。句意：尽管我收到了很多（稿件的）录用通知书，但我的“值得注意的拒绝通知书”文件夹比“值得注意的录取通知书”文件夹要厚得多，这告诉我一个事实：我还有很长的路要走。A. thinner更瘦的；B. newer更新的；C. older更老的；D. fatter更厚的。根据后文“which indicates to me the fact: I still have some growing up to do.”可知，作者“值得注意的拒绝通知书”文件夹比“值得注意的录取通知书”文件夹要厚得多。故选D。 第二节 语法填空（共10小空，每空1.5分，满分15分） 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。 Smart shelves are a big change in retail.____36____ (combine) new technology with regular shelves, smart shelves can make managing inventory(存货清单)and talking with customers much ____37____(easy).These shelves have sensors, RFID tags, and screens that show information, making ____38____ smart system that tells us right away about products, ____39____ they’re selling, and what customers like. With the world going ____40____ (digit) and customers wanting more, smart shelves help stores work better and make shopping cooler. Smart shelves started with using RFID in the early 2000s for tracking inventory and preventing theft. Recently, they ____41____ (become) more advanced with better sensors, connections, and data analysis. Smart shelves keep track of inventory levels in real-time. When noticing that they are running low ____42____ a product, they will tell the store’s system ____43____ (automatic). This system then orders more of that product so the shelves stay ____44____ (fill) and customers can always find what they need. This helps stores avoid running out of products _____45_____ having too many of them. 【答案】36. Combining 37. easier 38. a 39. how 40. digital 41. have become 42. on 43. automatically 44. filled 45. or 【解析】 【导语】本文是一篇说明文。本文简述了智能货架在零售业中的应用及其优势。 【36题详解】 考查非谓语动词。句意：将新技术与常规货架相结合，智能货架可以使库存管理和与客户交谈变得更加容易。句中can make为谓语动词，设空处使用非谓语动词，此处smart shelves与combine之间是主动关系，故使用现在分词作状语。同时该空置于句首，开头单词首字母大写。故填Combining。 【37题详解】 考查形容词比较级。句意：同上。设空处使用形容词作宾补结构，空前的much修饰比较级；表示“更简单”用easy的比较级easier。故填easier。 【38题详解】 考查冠词。句意：这些货架上有传感器、RFID标签和显示信息的屏幕，形成一个智能系统，可以立即告诉我们产品的情况、销售情况以及客户的喜好。句中system为可数名词，此处表示泛指，给设空处应该使用不定冠词。同时其前面修饰词smart首字母为辅音音素。故填a。 【39题详解】 考查宾语从句。句意：同上。设空处引导的是宾语从句与后文的what customers like构成并列，此处表示“产品销售的方式”用how。故填how。 【40题详解】 考查形容词。句意：随着世界走向数字化，消费者想要更多，智能货架帮助商店更好地工作，让购物更酷。此处表示“走向数字化”应该使用digit的形容词digital。故填digital。 【41题详解】 考查动词时态。句意：最近，它们变得更加先进，有了更好的传感器、连接和数据分析。设空处使用动词作谓语，句中recently为现在完成时时间标志。故填have become。 【42题详解】 考查固定短语。句意：当他们注意到产品快用完时，他们会自动告诉商店的系统。句中短语run low on为固定短语，意为“某物的供应几乎用尽”。 故填on。 【43题详解】 考查副词。句意：同上。设空处使用副词作状语修饰动词will tell。故填automatically。 【44题详解】 考查形容词。句意：然后，这个系统会订购更多的产品，这样货架上就会摆满商品，顾客总能找到他们需要的东西。这可以帮助商店避免产品售罄或库存过多。空前stay系动词，设空处使用fill的形容词filled作表语，意为“被填满的”。故填stilled。 【45题详解】 考查连词。句意：这可以帮助商店避免产品售罄或库存过多。设空处使用连词连接running和having，此处表示选择关系，意为“或者”。故填or。 第四部分 写作（共两节，满分40分） 第一节（满分15分） 46. 假设你是李华，你朋友Tom对你校即将举办的职业生涯规划系列讲座（Career Planning for Future）很感兴趣，请你写封回信告知他，内容包括： （1）讲座的时间、地点； （2）讲座内容。 注意：（1）写作词数应为80左右；（2）请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。 Dear Tom, ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Yours, Li Hua 【答案】Dear Tom, Knowing that you are interested in our school’s upcoming lecture series, Career Planning for future, I am delighted to share some information with you. The lectures will take place in the main auditorium every Friday at 3 p.m. over the next month. Each session will kick off with an introduction to career choices and goal setting, after which experienced professionals will share insights on building essential skills for different career paths. The series will end up with an interactive Q&A session, allowing students to gain valuable preparation for their future careers. This is undoubtedly a rewarding activity that you shouldn’t miss out on. Start planning your career early to open doors to new opportunities! Looking forward to attending it together! Yours, Li Hua 【解析】 【导语】本篇书面表达属于应用文。朋友Tom对学校即将举办的职业生涯规划系列讲座（Career Planning for Future）很感兴趣，要求考生写封回信告知他相关内容。 【详解】1.词汇积累 即将到来的：upcoming→forthcoming 愉快的：delighted →pleased 观点：insight→viewpoint 毫无疑问地：undoubtedly→definitely 2.句式拓展 同义句替换 原句：Knowing that you are interested in our school’s upcoming lecture series, Career Planning for future, I am delighted to share some information with you. 拓展句：Because I know that you are interested in our school’s upcoming lecture series, Career Planning for future, I am delighted to share some information with you. 【点睛】【高分句型1】 Each session will kick off with an introduction to career choices and goal setting, after which experienced professionals will share insights on building essential skills for different career paths. （运用了介词+关系代词引导的非限制定语从句） 【高分句型2】The series will end up with an interactive Q&A session, allowing students to gain valuable preparation for their future careers.（运用了现在分词作状语的结构） 第二节 读后续写（满分25分） 47. 阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。 As a mountain, 1, 642 feet Squaw Peak isn’t particularly challenging. But its inviting views of western Massachusetts have tricked hikers to its steep and slippery cliffs, resulting in countless injuries and even deaths. Henry Grant, a freshman at Ithaca College, was well aware of the danger of Squaw Peak. Thus, he stayed ten feet from the edge while waiting for his mother to catch up to him one day in August 2019. He watched some hikers enjoy the remarkable view; among these hikers, one woman, around 60 years old and dressed in pink, was admiring the view over the lip of the cliff with her husband. When Grant’s mother rejoined him, the two turned to continue on their way. Suddenly, be heard a tumbling (摔倒), and a thump (撞击声). Then he heard something frightening：“Paula！Paula!”, a man yelled desperately. Grant turned around. The woman in pink was nowhere to be seen. Obviously, she’d fallen off the side of the mountain. Several hikers immediately started looking for her, but their view was blocked by trees. Grant told his mother, “I hate to say this, but they’re probably going to find a body.” Uncertain whether they could help, Grant and his mother headed down the trail. But when he saw hikers still searching, he decided to lend a hand. After assuring his mother that he would be safe, he made his way down the mountain alone, hoping he wasn’t too late. After 15 minutes of pushing past the brush and slipping down the trail, Grant spotted a figure about 25 feet above him. She was dressed in pink, in a kneeling position on a small stick-out rock. The woman had fallen about 75 feet. Amazingly, she was alive. “Paula!” Grant shouted. “Paula! Is that you?” The woman barely responded. She was hurt and her mind was not so clear. She kept trying to move, and every time she moved, she slipped a little more. 注意： 1．续写调数应为150左右； 2．请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。 Paragraph 1: With his heart racing, Grant was afraid that she might fall off the rock. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Paragraph 2: About 45 minutes later,first rescuers climbed down from the top with a stretcher (担架)． ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 【答案】 With his heart racing, Grant was afraid that she might fall off the rock. Grant knew that he had to act fast before things turned for the worse. Without hesitation, getting on all fours, Grant crawled up a steep path, digging into the dirt with his fingers and feet. Luckily, it didn’t take long before he reached Paula. Having checked Paula’s conditions, Grant reached for his cellphone and dialed the rescue team to report their position. Nervous as he was while waiting for the rescue, he comforted the woman in gentle voice to kindle a glimmer of hope in her mind. About 45 minutes later, first rescuers climbed down from the top with a stretcher (担架). Breathing a sigh of relief, Grant felt it was a blessing to see rescue team emerge in time. With a swift motion, Grant secured Paula to the stretcher. Though shaken and slightly bruised, she was carefully lifted to the top and rushed to the hospital with her husband. Cautiously and steadily, he navigated his way through the bush to rejoin his mum, who was relieved to see his son with only a few scratches. Grant’s quick thinking and bravery were widely praised, and the experience. 【解析】 【导语】本文以人物为线索展开，讲述了一名叫亨利·格兰特的大学生在登山时遇到一名老妇人坠崖，他勇敢地前去救援，并在救援队到达前稳定了老妇人的情况，最终老妇人获救，格兰特的勇敢行为也受到广泛称赞。 【详解】1.段落续写： ①由第一段首句内容“格兰特的心怦怦直跳，他担心她会从岩石上掉下来。”可知，第一段可描写格兰特具体救助Paula的过程，同时对其进行安慰，同时给救助团队打电话求助。 ②由第二段首句内容“大约45分钟后，第一批救援人员用担架从顶部爬了下来。”可知，第二段可描写Paula及时得到救助团队的救助，并且在格兰特的帮助下急忙的送到了医院，在整个拯救过程中，体现了格兰特的勇敢和思维敏捷。 2.续写线索： 开始采取行动寻找Paula——发现Paula进行安慰并电话求助救援团队——Paula被送往医院——格兰特回答妈妈身边——格兰特的敏捷思维和勇敢值得称赞 3.词汇激活 行为类 ①.检查：check/examine ②.拨打电话：dial/call/phone ③.燃起： kindle/brighten up 情绪类 ①.紧张的：nervous/tense ②.感到欣慰的：relieved/gratified 【点睛】[高分句型1]. Having checked Paula’s conditions, Grant reached for his cellphone and dialed the rescue team to report their position. （运用了由现在分词的完成式结构作状语） [高分句型2]. Cautiously and steadily, he navigated his way through the bush to rejoin his mum, who was relieved to see his son with only a few scratches. （运用了由who引导的非限制性定语从句） 1-5 CCAAB 6-10 BCBCA 11-15 CBAAA 16-20 BBACB 第1页/共1页 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $$ 厦门双十中学2024-2025学年第一学期期中考试 高三英语试题 试卷满分：150分 考试时间：120分钟 第一部分 听力理解（共两节，满分30分） 第一节（共5小题；每小题1.5分，满分7.5分） 听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一个小题。每段对话仅读一遍。 1. What did the woman do yesterday? A. She played football. B. She watched a game. C. She worked in the lab. 2. What are the speakers talking about? A. A tiger in the zoo. B. A storybook. C. A tourist attraction. 3. What are the speakers doing? A. Conducting a reading. B. Reading a letter. C. Collecting money. 4. What is the man likely to be? A. A police officer. B. A cleaner. C. A construction worker. 5. When will David hand in the paper? A. On April 21st. B. On April 22nd. C. On April 23rd. 第二节（共15小题；每小题1.5分，满分22.5分） 听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。 6. Why is the man calling the woman? A. To confirm her daily arrangements. B. 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Dedra Allen. 3. What is a shared responsibility of Content Managers and experts at wikiHow? A. Writing articles for wikiHow. B. Training writers for w íkiHow. C. Ensuring the credibility of articles. D. Reviewing the originality of articles. B For many, the term “orienteering” might bring back images of school trips. The reality of it can be very different, though, and it’s a sport with strong links to athletics. Kris Jones, a British international on the track, was also a silver medalist at the 2022 World Orienteering Championships. This July, I decided to explore the sport by joining in the Edinburgh “sprint orienteering” running through the famous city streets. The aim of the sport is to navigate between checkpoints marked on a special orienteering map. There is no set route so the skill and fun come from trying to find the best way to go, with the ultimate goal being to complete the course in the quickest time. As someone who is used to the convenience of using my phone for navigation, the idea of relying on a traditional map-and-compass approach felt daunting. However, once I got into the swing of things — and learned to hold a map the correct way — the excitement of navigating from one checkpoint to the next quickly got me moving. The unpredictable nature of the race and not knowing the whereabouts of other competitors, really does keep the rush of excitement flowing. You have no idea where you are going or what you are going to see until you pick up the map. I think the sport taking place in an open field of play is really exciting for people to watch. People can stand and watch athletes running across their doorstep. Different athletes will be following different routes. It’s never like a marathon where you might see one athlete a minute ahead in front and you know they are going to win. For orienteering to grow as a sport, it needs greater visibility in top class events. A distant past argument is that it is not an audience-friendly sport, but modem technology now shakes that belief. With the use of mobile phones, drones and body cameras, orienteering can be enjoyed by a much wider audience. 4. Why does the author mention Kris Jones in paragraph 1? A. To prove orienteering is very popular. B. To show orienteering is professionally competitive. C. To introduce the achievement of the athlete. D. To emphasize the benefits of taking up orienteering. 5. What do we know about orienteering? A. Participants navigate the race using phones. B. Participants can track other competitors’ position. C. Participants try to finish the set course in the quickest time. D. Participants design the best route based on a map and compass. 6. What makes orienteering different from a marathon to the audience? A. The phone for navigation. B. The uncertainty of the result. C. The set routine through a city. D. The visibility of runners’ positions. 7. What does the last paragraph imply? A. The running routes should be designed to vary. B. Orienteering is bound to be a world-class event. C. Orienteering presents clear vision. D. Using Technology can help popularize the game. C Who are your best friends on campus? Are they the ones you encountered most often in class? Are you’re your fellows in drama club or debate society? A number of studies have demonstrated the effects of proximity on who become friends. One was conducted at MIT in the 1940s. The students were randomly assigned to 17 ten-unit apartment buildings isolated from other residential areas, and few of them knew one another beforehand. The investigators asked each resident to name the three people in the student housing project with whom they socialized most often. The effect of proximity was striking: two-thirds of those listed as friends lived in the same building as the respondent, even though those in the same building represented only 5 percent of the target residents. More striking was the pattern of friendships within each building. Even though the physical distance between apartments was quite small-19 feet between the doorways of neighboring apartments and 89 feet between those at the ends of each hallway-41 percent of those living in neighboring apartments listed each other as friends, compared with only 10 percent of those living at opposite ends of the hallway. Proximity leads to friendship because it facilitates chance encounters. If so, then pure physical distance should matter less than functional distance-the influence of an architectural layout to influence contact between people. The MIT study shows how important it is. As the following Figure indicates, the stairs are positioned such that upstairs residents will encounter the occupants of apartments at the turn of the stairs much more often than the occupants of the middle apartments. In fact, the residents of the two stair-end apartment formed twice as many friendships with their upstairs neighbors as those living in the middle apartments. Thus, it’s functional distance more than physical distance that is decisive. Proximity promotes friendship because it brings people together. Actually, in later studies involving more diverse populations, the largest effects of proximity on friendship formation have been found between people of different races, ages, or social classes. 8. What does the underlined word “proximity” probably mean? A. possibility B. closeness C. attraction D. interest 9. What method did the MIT researchers employ in their study? A. Survey analysis. B. Literature Review. C. In-lab observation. D. Online questionnaire. 10. Which apartment’s residents in the Figure above may make most friends in the building? A. Apartment 1. B. Apartment 2. C. Apartment 6. D. Apartment 8. 11. What do we know about the later studies? A. Their samples are not representative enough. B. Physical distance does not affect friendship. C. They further confirmed the MIT study’s finding. D. Population diversity influences friendship formation. D Some graduate students in London were recently tasked with outwitting a large language model (LLM),a type of AI designed to hold useful conversations. LLMs are often programmed with guardrails to stop them giving harmful replies: instructions on making bombs in a bathtub, for instance. The aim of the task was to break those guardrails. Some results were merely stupid. One participant got the chatbot to claim ducks could be used as indicators of air quality. But the most successful efforts were those that made the machine produce the titles and publication dates of non-existent academic articles. AI bas the potential to be a big benefit to science. But it comes with downsides, too. Start with the simplest problem: academic misconduct. Some researchers use LLMs to help write papers. Guillaume Cabanac, a computer scientist, has uncovered dozens of papers that contain phrases such as “regenerate response”-the text of a button in ChatGPT that commands the program to rewrite its most recent answer, probably copied into the manuscript (原稿) by mistake. Another problem arises when Al models are trained on AI-generated data. LLMs are trained on text from the Internet. As they produce more such text ,the risk of LLMs taking in their own outputs-grows. That can cause “model collapse’. In 2023 llia Shumailov, a computer scientist, co-authored a paper in which a model was fed handwritten digits and asked to generate digits of its own, which were fed back to it in turn. After a few cycles, the computer’s numbers became more or less incomprehensible. Some worry that computer-generated insights might come from models whose inner workings are not understood. Inexplainable models are not useless, says David Leslie at an Al-research outfit in London, but their outputs will need rigorous testing in the real world. That is perhaps less unnerving than it sounds. Checking models against reality is what science is supposed to be about, after all. For now, at least, questions outnumber answers. The threats that machines pose to the scientific method are, at the end of the day, the same ones posed by humans. AI could accelerate the production of nonsense just as much as it accelerates good science. As the Royal Society has it, nullius in verba: take nobody’s word for it. No thing’s, either. 12. The result of the task conducted in London shows that . A. LLMs give away useful information B. the guardrails turn out to be ineffective C. AI’s influence will potentially be decreased D. the effort put into the study of AI hardly pays off 13. What does “model collapse" indicate? A. The readability of the models’ output is underestimated. B. The diverse sources of information confuse the models. C. Training on regenerated data stops models working well. D. The data becomes reliable after feeding on its own digits. 14. What is David Leslie’s attitude towards inexplainable models? A. Dismissive. B. Objective. C. Favorable. D. Ambiguous. 15. What would be the best title for the passage? A. Faster Nonsense: AI Could Also Go Wrong B. Imperfect Models: How Will AI Make Advances? C The Rise of LLMs: AI Could Still Be Promising D. Bigger Threats: AI Will Be Uncontrollable 第二节（共5小题；每小题2.5分，满分12.5分） 根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。 Pursue Your Dreams Today, Not Tomorrow Stop waiting until tomorrow to start pursuing your dreams. There’s no reason to wait when you can take the first step toward your goals today. Remember, you’re allowed to start small.____16____Instead, you can take minute but necessary steps toward a brighter future. And you can start right now. ____17____If you never try, you’re always going to wonder how your life would have turned out if you actually took a chance on yourself. Don’t let your future self be disappointed by your present self. It doesn’t matter how old you are or how many people have warned you that you’re never going to succeed. Even the most successful people have had their hesitations about whether they could make it in their field.____18____Ignore the haters who are only bringing you down to feel better about themselves. At the end of the day, you need to carve out a path that will lead to the most satisfaction. Never allow your fear to get the best of you.____19____It’s what you would encourage your friends to do, so why aren’t you giving yourself that same push? Sometimes, following your dreams means carving out a little bit of time to pursue your passion each day. It may require making slight adjustments to your schedule. But you don’t have to sacrifice everything. Try to balance your current life with your dreams.____20____Pursue your dreams now, even though that means you might need to break out of your comfort zone, and oven though it means entering the unknown. A. You owe it to yourself to go after your dreams. B. Have you ever daydreamed about your dreams? C. New opportunities may lead to personal growth. D. You don’t have to take a huge, life-changing leap. E. If things go well, you can gradually make further shifts. F. You need to move past your insecurities and explore your full potential. G. Hard as it is, it’s crucial to wave off the doubts in the back of your mind. 第三部分 语言知识运用（共两节，满分30分） 第一节 完形填空（共15题，每题1分，满分15分） As a writer, I miss rejection slips. Not that I enjoyed receiving those pre-printed slips of paper, but at least when I got one, I was pretty sure that a flesh-and-blood____21____had put it in the envelope. And there was always the chance I might see a handwritten sentence on the bottom,____22____ the piece almost made it. When an editor at Me Call’s wrote, “ I’m afraid I have to say no on this ____23____piece, but try me again on another, would you ?”, it was almost as ____24____ to me as if she had said, “We’ll ____25____ it and here is an advance for you.”. Nowadays, rejection slips seem to have disappeared with the use of online submissions. Most editors don’t feel it a must to ____26____ they have received, read, or considered your work because they receive so many ____27____each day. For me, there are three ____28____ of rejection slip pain. The first is____29____ brought on by finding a flat “no” on a _____30_____ piece of paper, then followed by anger (how could they _____31_____ a piece that is obviously so much_____32_____than most of the stuff they print), and, finally, rebirth: I will live to _____33_____a new piece another day. Learning to _____34_____ rejection seems like part of growing up as a writer. Despite the many letters of acceptance I have received, my folder of “ Noteworthy Rejection Slips “is far _____35_____ than that of “Noteworthy Acceptances”, which indicates to me the fact: I still have some growing up to do. 21. A. writer B. reader C. mailman D. editor 22. A. demanding B. suspecting C. indicating D. arguing 23. A. boring B. novel C. lengthy D. particular 24. A. upsetting B. thrilling C. embarrassing D. amusing 25. A. buy B. reject C. check D. substitute 26. A. prove B. determine C. explain D. acknowledge 27. A. proposals B. drafts C. contributionis D. instructions 28. A. stages B. wonders C. meanings D. rewards 29. A. relief B. frustration C. anger D. hesitation 30. A. valueless B. expensive C. characterless D. shiny 31. A. make up B. put away C. turn down D. take over 32. A. easier B. better C. shorter D. longer 33. A. print B. revise C. download D. submit 34. A. accept B. criticize C. judge D. evaluate 35. A. thinner B. newer C. older D. fatter 第二节 语法填空（共10小空，每空1.5分，满分15分） 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。 Smart shelves are a big change in retail.____36____ (combine) new technology with regular shelves, smart shelves can make managing inventory(存货清单)and talking with customers much ____37____(easy).These shelves have sensors, RFID tags, and screens that show information, making ____38____ smart system that tells us right away about products, ____39____ they’re selling, and what customers like. With the world going ____40____ (digit) and customers wanting more, smart shelves help stores work better and make shopping cooler. Smart shelves started with using RFID in the early 2000s for tracking inventory and preventing theft. Recently, they ____41____ (become) more advanced with better sensors, connections, and data analysis. Smart shelves keep track of inventory levels in real-time. When noticing that they are running low ____42____ a product, they will tell the store’s system ____43____ (automatic). This system then orders more of that product so the shelves stay ____44____ (fill) and customers can always find what they need. This helps stores avoid running out of products _____45_____ having too many of them. 第四部分 写作（共两节，满分40分） 第一节（满分15分） 46. 假设你是李华，你的朋友Tom对你校即将举办的职业生涯规划系列讲座（Career Planning for Future）很感兴趣，请你写封回信告知他，内容包括： （1）讲座的时间、地点； （2）讲座内容。 注意：（1）写作词数应为80左右；（2）请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。 Dear Tom, ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Yours, Li Hua 第二节 读后续写（满分25分） 47. 阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。 As a mountain, 1, 642 feet Squaw Peak isn’t particularly challenging. But its inviting views of western Massachusetts have tricked hikers to its steep and slippery cliffs, resulting in countless injuries and even deaths. Henry Grant, a freshman at Ithaca College, was well aware of the danger of Squaw Peak. Thus, he stayed ten feet from the edge while waiting for his mother to catch up to him one day in August 2019. He watched some hikers enjoy the remarkable view; among these hikers, one woman, around 60 years old and dressed in pink, was admiring the view over the lip of the cliff with her husband. When Grant’s mother rejoined him, the two turned to continue on their way. Suddenly, be heard a tumbling (摔倒), and a thump (撞击声). Then he heard something frightening：“Paula！Paula!”, a man yelled desperately. Grant turned around. The woman in pink was nowhere to be seen. Obviously, she’d fallen off the side of the mountain. Several hikers immediately started looking for her, but their view was blocked by trees. Grant told his mother, “I hate to say this, but they’re probably going to find a body.” Uncertain whether they could help, Grant and his mother headed down the trail. But when he saw hikers still searching, he decided to lend a hand. After assuring his mother that he would be safe, he made his way down the mountain alone, hoping he wasn’t too late. After 15 minutes of pushing past the brush and slipping down the trail, Grant spotted a figure about 25 feet above him. She was dressed in pink, in a kneeling position on a small stick-out rock. The woman had fallen about 75 feet. Amazingly, she was alive. “Paula!” Grant shouted. “Paula! Is that you?” The woman barely responded. She was hurt and her mind was not so clear. She kept trying to move, and every time she moved, she slipped a little more. 注意： 1．续写调数应为150左右； 2．请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。 Paragraph 1: With his heart racing, Grant was afraid that she might fall off the rock. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Paragraph 2: About 45 minutes later,first rescuers climbed down from the top with a stretcher (担架)． ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 1-5 CCAAB 6-10 BCBCA 11-15 CBAAA 16-20 BBACB 第1页/共1页 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $$