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2024—2025学年高一下学期第一次月考英语试卷 (试卷满分150分，考试时间120分钟) 注意事项： 1.答卷前，考生务必将自己的姓名、考生号等填写在答题卡上。 2.回答选择题时，选出每小题答案后，用铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案标号。回答非选择题时，将答案写在答题卡上，写在本试卷上无效。 第一部分 听力 (共两节，满分30分) 做题时，先将答案标在试卷上。录音内容结束后，你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的答案转涂到答题卡上。 第一节 (共5小题;每小题1.5分，满分7.5分) 听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。 1. What program is on? A. A basketball match. B. A fashion show. C. A new film. 2. Why did the man fail to watch a movie last night? A. He wasn’t invited. B. He worked overtime. C. He went to Mike’s home. 3. Which part of the woman’s body still hurts? A. Her legs. B. Her shoulder. C. Her back. 4. When did the woman wake up? A. At 10:15. B. At 9:45. C. At 9:00. 5. What does the woman mean? A. She just has$10. B. She’ll pay the parking fee. C. She doesn’t have any change now. 第二节 (共15小题;每小题1.5分，满分22.5分) 听下面5段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟;听完后，各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。 听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。 6. What are the speakers mainly talking about? A. A new movie. B. The woman’s friend. C. Tips of riding a horse. 7. What does Jason probably think of riding a horse? A. It is tiring. B. It is terrible. C. It is enjoyable. 听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。 8. What is the relationship between the speakers? A. Old schoolmates. B. Fellow workers. C. Work partners. 9. What is Linda? A. A college teacher. B. A store owner. C. A medical student. 听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。 10. Where does the conversation take place? A. At a furniture store. B. At a house agency. C. At an apartment. 11. What did the woman just buy? A. A house. B. An air conditioner. C. A washer and dryer. 12. How much will the man pay for full payment? A.$4,500. B.$4,800. C.$5,000. 听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。 13. What is the man’s computer mainly used for? A. Editing photographs. B. Writing his paper. C. Sending e-mails. 14. Why did the man’s uncle give him the laptop? A. For his hobby. B. For his birthday. C. For his future work. 15. Where are the speakers? A. In a computer shop. B. At the man’s home. C. In a cafe. 16. What does the man like doing? A. Taking photos. B. Surfing the Internet. C. Watching films online. 听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。 17. What do we know about Severance? A. It has 100 centimeters of snowfall a year. B. It doesn’t belong to Colorado. C. It is in the south of Denver. 18. What is illegal in Severance? A. Cutting down trees. B. Kicking at the stones. C. Having snowball fights. 19. Who wants to suggest removing the ban? A. Dane. B. Kyle. C. Dane’s parents. 20. How old is Dane? A.9. B.7. C.4. 第二部分 阅读 (共两节，满分50分) 第一节 (共15小题;每小题2.5分，满分37.5分) 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。 A Teen Confidence Workshop At Outstanding Youth, we’re committed to boosting teenagers’ confidence, which is key to their future success. 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But I was still wondering about that. I’ve always enjoyed writing but didn’t know how to make a career out of it. After researching my options, such as journalism, I thought Professional Communications could improve my writing skills and lead me to a career in business. With that, I sent in my application, was accepted and started preparing for my first term of university. When course intentions rolled around, I began looking at the list of minors. Marketing caught my attention. It would complement (补充) my communications degree while providing me with the necessary business courses that were outside of the program. Without hesitation, I scheduled marketing into my studies, with the goal of using that newfound knowledge to accompany the technical skills that my major would provide me with. My school year began in a pretty typical way: the orientation week (迎新周), joining clubs and meeting new people. As time went on, I found myself enjoying the marketing courses more than the communications courses, and it was then that I first began to consider making a change. Finally, I spoke with a friend who had switched to a different major, and his words of encouragement were the final push I needed to go through with the decision. A few days later, I sent in my application, and soon I received my acceptance letter. I’ve now been gifted with a wonderful start to the year, and I couldn’t be happier about making the change. I feel less pressured to “find myself” and can put 110% effort into my studies. A note to high school students: University brings with it a load of new beginnings and self-reflection. It’s perfectly fine to come into university thinking you want one thing and finding out along the way that it might not be the right path for you. 4. Why was the author at a loss after high school? A. She suffered from a lack of confidence. B. She fell behind her peers in performance. C. She was afraid to choose a wrong university. D. She struggled to decide a future direction. 5. Which aspect of marketing attracted the author? A. Its business courses. B. Its exciting career opportunities. C. Its stress on technical skills. D. Its courses related to writing. 6. What led the author to think about changing her major? A. The active encouragement from a friend. B. Reduced interest in communications. C. The growing passion for marketing courses. D. Access to numerous new opportunities. 7. What does the author advise high school students to do? A. Think twice about major selection. B. Be open to changing academic paths. C. Concentrate all their efforts on study. D. Engage in self-reflection consistently. C My son is 3 years old and likes doing things repeatedly. There was a period of time last summer when all he wanted to watch was a video about farming machines. He watched it so often that my brain started to shut down when I heard the boring background music, but the little guy’s enthusiasm for the video was unwavering. As annoying as such repeated tasks might be to us parents, repetition “has many functions” in childhood development, says Rebecca Parlakian from the nonprofit ZERO TO THREE. One of them is “Small children are truly the most persistent (执着的) humans,” says Parlakian. “They are just driven to master the world around them, and they do that through repetition.” “There’s a neurological (神经学的) basis for this,” she adds. “Learning requires building connections between neurons, and repetition enables that process. When a group of neurons need to work together to perform a specific function or process information, they must be activated repeatedly. The more often they are activated, the stronger their connections become,” says Harvard neuroscientist Charles Nelson. “We often say ‘practice makes perfect’, but when it comes to brain development, practice makes permanent (永久的),” says Parlakian. “As children learn things by doing things over and over,” she says, “they also start to take some comfort.” That’s especially obvious during my son’s nighttime routine, which involves my husband or me reading his favorite book about construction vehicles over and over again. Now I understand that this routine has not only taught him about different types of trucks, but brought him the comfort and safety of knowing that once we’re done reading, he will fall asleep with his head resting on my shoulder. So, if you find yourself feeling annoyed at your child’s repeated jokes, games or stories, know that they are just hard at work practicing and mastering their newfound knowledge and skills, and building the architecture of their brains in the process. 8. What does the underlined word “unwavering” in paragraph 1 mean? A. Obvious. B. Natural. C. Steady. D. Different. 9. How does repetition enable learning? A. By strengthening the neural connections. B. By activating the specific areas in the brain. C. By increasing the information processing speed. D. By forming permanent information-function bonds. 10. Why does the author’s son get comfort from the nighttime routine? A. He can stay together with his parents. B. He can learn about different trucks. C. He can predict the unfolding of things. D. He can enjoy a peaceful night’s sleep. 11. What should parents do with kids’ repetitive behaviors? A. Get annoyed and shout at the kids. B. Discuss their functions with the kids. C. Turn a blind eye to them. D. Appreciate their role in personal growth. D People’s voices frighten wildlife even more than the snarls (低吼) of lions, suggesting that we are the scariest animals. Giraffes, elephants, and more than a dozen other species of animals in a South African wildlife reserve ran away from loudspeakers twice as often when they heard the sounds of humans compared with those of lions, found by a study led by Michael Clinchy at the University of Western Ontario in Canada. “This is a protected area, so these animals should not be fearful of us,” he says. “But whether you’re a wildlife tourist, or a poacher (盗猎者), or whatever, you’re all going to be seen as the same thing. The presence of the human is equally dangerous, regardless of what type of human you are.” Clinchy and his colleagues had already discovered that the fear of predators (捕食者) can cause species to decline in number. Wanting to find out which was the most feared, the team decided to test humans against lions often seen as the world’s most fearsome predator on land, says Clinchy. They set up loudspeakers and cameras on trees 10 meters away from animal paths near 21 waterholes in Greater Kruger National Park, South Africa, which hosts one of the largest remaining lion populations in the world. When animals approached the waterholes, the speakers immediately played back one of four kinds of recordings, all at the same volume. These included men and women speaking calmly in local languages, lions snarling, gun shots with or without barking dogs and the calls of regional birds. The researchers captured 15,000 videos of 19 species of animals reacting to their recordings. They found that wildlife except lions ran around in response to human voices more than to any other sounds, and were also 40 percent quicker to escape. The findings highlight the damaging impact that our presence could potentially be having significant ecological (生态的) results. Even so, the findings could lead to positive outcomes as well. Human voices might prevent wildlife from entering crop fields or farms. 12. Why are some animals fearful of human beings? A. Human beings are the strongest. B. Human beings make them out of water. C. Human beings may have caused great damage. D. Human beings can make the loudest voice in the world. 13. What can be inferred about Greater Kruger National Park? A. There are many lions there. B. There are 21 waterholes there. C. It is easy to set up loudspeakers there. D It is easy to record the local people’s activities. 14. Which animal responded to human voices least? A. Elephants. B. Giraffes. C. Lions. D. Dogs. 15. What is the main idea of the last paragraph? A. The advantages of human voices to animals. B. The damaging impact of human presence. C. The significant ecological results of human voices. D. The impact and possible application of human voices. 第二节 (共5小题;每小题2.5分，满分12.5分) 阅读下面短文，从短文后的选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。 People hate packaging. And, yes, there’s a lot of bad and wasteful packaging out there. ___16___ When it comes to protecting and dispensing (分发) food, the right package can greatly reduce waste. Here are a few examples. Packaging keeps the meat fresh. We throw away a fifth of the beef we buy — the equivalent (等量) of 8 million cows each year — often because it goes bad before we cook it. The solution? ___17___ Case-ready packaging can lengthen that shelf life to up to 21 days. If the meat you bought isn’t going to be eaten within a few days, case-ready packaging is the better choice for the environment. ___18___ This dairy waste can be avoided with packaging technology such as Tetra Pak (利乐包装纸盒), which is commonly used in Europe and Asia to keep milk from spoiling, even without refrigeration. Recycled or not, Tetra Pak is a good environmental bet because it can lengthen the shelf life of milk up to nine months. ___19___ Once again, the environmental benefit of the food-protection technology outweighs the harmful impact of the packaging itself. Packaging Fixes Sticky Situations. ___20___ One example of waste-reducing packaging is the concept project shown from designer Drew Stanley. He designed a peanut butter jar made of a soft material which can be turned inside out and scraped (刮掉) clean, avoiding sticky food sticking to your fingers. A. Packaging protects milk. B. Using Tetra Pak packaging. C. But packaging isn’t always the enemy. D. We should pay attention to the rubbish produced by packaging. E. Scientists have developed packaging that can keep refrigerated meat fresh for weeks. F. It can reduce the need for refrigeration and the amount of milk that goes wasted. G. Food left behind in jars and bottles makes up a surprising amount of waste. 第三部分 语言运用 (共两节，满分30分) 第一节 (共15小题;每小题1分，满分15分) 阅读下面短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。 When I was a kid, I really wanted to be a ___21___. But I was ___22___ because in art class, my paintings were never the most beautiful. One time, a project was to create a portrait (肖像画). After we were done, we ___23___ our portraits. I remember looking at other portraits thinking, “Why does others’ look so ___24___ and mine looks so amateur (业余的)?” Despite this, I still really enjoyed painting because it’s a forgiving art. If I don’t like what I’ve put on paper, I can ___25___ it. I can free some creative juices and use what has inspired me to free myself in a way I may not have ___26___. Throughout school, teachers taught us about Picasso, van Gogh and da Vinci. They were ___27___ painting white people or green pastures (牧场) with cows, whatever was in front of them and around them. ___28___ that’s not what I saw around me, I never saw myself or my art in their work. Then I learned about the Black artists during the Harlem Renaissance and Jean-Michel Basquiat, and I felt more seen. They inspired me to paint abstract (抽象的) pictures. I take a piece of ___29___ and use it as the central point of my picture. I paint when I’m moved, and I’m often moved by what’s natural — emotions, nature and other forms of art, ____30____ creative writing. I’m also very moved by pain. I had a ____31____ with an activist in St. Louis named Spook, and I explained to her this feeling and she told me, “Pain is ____32____. You have to learn how to direct that towards something productive.” So sometimes I ____33____ that pain into art, into a painting. Even if the picture doesn’t turn out aesthetically (在审美方面) pleasing, it’s still beautiful that I am able to ____34____ something. My paintings may not be a masterpiece, but they’re mine. I ____35____ them anyway. 21. A. painter B. photographer C. teacher D. leader 22. A. delighted B. discouraged C. crazy D. excellent 23. A. presented B. burnt C. canceled D. sold 24. A. funny B. enjoyable C. colorful D. professional 25. A. step over B. knock over C. bend over D. paint over 26. A. believed B. liked C. mastered D. imagined 27. A. sometimes B. never C. always D. usually 28. A. Since B. But C. Even D. Unless 29. A. inspiration B. question C. operation D. function 30. A. carefully B. absolutely C. especially D. obviously 31. A. deal B. conversation C. favor D. play 32. A. answer B. crime C. energy D. mirror 33. A. look B. get C. break D. change 34. A. create B. speak C. organize D. test 35. A. copy B. throw C. apply D. love 第二节 (共10小题;每小题1.5分，满分15分) 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。 On Tuesday, the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded in Sweden, and ____36____ (go) to John Hopfield, a professor at Princeton University, and Geoffrey Hinton, a computer scientist at the University of Toronto, ____37____ discoveries in machine learning paved the way (为……创造条件) for how artificial intelligence is used today. Hopfield and Hinton were praised for laying the base for machine learning that allows for many of today’s AI-based ____38____ (product). Hinton thinks the influence AI will have ____39____ our societies is huge. “It will be comparable with the Industrial Revolution, but instead of outperforming people in physical ____40____ (strong), it’s going to outperform people in intellectual ability. We have no experience of what it’s like to have things ____41____ (smart) and more powerful than us,” says Hinton. The technology of machine learning using artificial neural (神经的) networks, developed by Hopfield and Hinton, ____42____ (base) on the structure of the brain. ____43____ (develop) stronger connections between the networks’ units enables us to train an artificial neural network, just like we train the brain. Just as we can search our brains for a particular word ____44____ a special fact we rarely use, an artificial neural network can also search through the patterns it has saved _____45_____ (find) the target information. 第四部分 写作 (共两节，满分40分) 第一节 (满分15分) 46. 上周六你班去了科技馆(Science and Technology Museum)研学，请你为校英语园地写一篇短文，介绍这次经历，内容包括： (1)所见所闻； (2)你的感受。 注意： (1)写作词数应为80个左右； (2)请按如下格式在答题纸的相应位置作答。 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 第二节 (满分25分) 47. 阅读下面材料, 根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段, 使之构成一篇完整的短文。 Years ago, back in the middle 2010s, I moved to a hillside house and drove down to work every morning at about eight o’clock and came home at around five thirty. Each time I drove by, I would see a young boy at about age 15 and a large dog walking along the road. When cars would pass him on the other side, he made eye contact and waved with a toothy smile. I saw him almost every day, walking along the road and waving at cars. Amazing? On a rainy day, I saw him, along with his dog, sitting at the roadside. I stopped my car and got out to ask what had happened to him. “Nothing. I just want to take a break,” the boy responded. I then asked if he could need a ride. The young boy, Kevin, said, “I’m not really going anywhere, just walking, thank you anyway, sir.” I used to enjoy walking in the countryside myself, so I thought it wasn’t too odd. “In case of some emergency, or if you ever need a ride or help,” I told Kevin, “flag me down and I’ll do whatever I can.” Kevin thanked me and went on his way. Over the following days, each time we met, I would stop for a while and have a quick talk with Kevin, and his sweet dog Randy. One afternoon, I suddenly felt a voice inside my mind: “Go back home now!” There was still one hour for work. But I asked for an early leave and drove back faster than usual. Again, I saw Kevin walking along the road. But this time he didn’t have his usual smile and was pacing rather than walking. When he saw my car, he violently flagged me down. As I got closer, I could see he was crying. “What’s wrong, Kevin?” I asked. 注意: 1. 续写词数应为150左右； 2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。 “We were just walking but Randy somehow dropped,” Kevin said in tears. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ As I drove to the animal hospital Kevin sat in the back and kept talking to the dog. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2024—2025学年高一下学期第一次月考英语试卷 (试卷满分150分，考试时间120分钟) 注意事项： 1.答卷前，考生务必将自己的姓名、考生号等填写在答题卡上。 2.回答选择题时，选出每小题答案后，用铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案标号。回答非选择题时，将答案写在答题卡上，写在本试卷上无效。 第一部分 听力 (共两节，满分30分) 做题时，先将答案标在试卷上。录音内容结束后，你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的答案转涂到答题卡上。 第一节 (共5小题;每小题1.5分，满分7.5分) 听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。 1. What program is on? A. A basketball match. B. A fashion show. C. A new film. 2. Why did the man fail to watch a movie last night? A. He wasn’t invited. B. He worked overtime. C. He went to Mike’s home. 3. Which part of the woman’s body still hurts? A. Her legs. B. Her shoulder. C. Her back. 4 When did the woman wake up? A. At 10:15. B. At 9:45. C. At 9:00. 5. What does the woman mean? A. She just has$10. B. She’ll pay the parking fee. C. She doesn’t have any change now. 第二节 (共15小题;每小题1.5分，满分22.5分) 听下面5段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟;听完后，各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。 听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。 6. What are the speakers mainly talking about? A A new movie. B. The woman’s friend. C. Tips of riding a horse. 7. What does Jason probably think of riding a horse? A. It is tiring. B. It is terrible. C. It is enjoyable. 听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。 8. What is the relationship between the speakers? A. Old schoolmates. B. Fellow workers. C. Work partners. 9. What is Linda? A. A college teacher. B. A store owner. C. A medical student. 听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。 10. Where does the conversation take place? A. At a furniture store. B. At a house agency. C. At an apartment. 11. What did the woman just buy? A. A house. B. An air conditioner. C. A washer and dryer. 12. How much will the man pay for full payment? A.$4,500. B.$4,800. C.$5,000. 听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。 13. What is the man’s computer mainly used for? A. Editing photographs. B. Writing his paper. C. Sending e-mails. 14. Why did the man’s uncle give him the laptop? A. For his hobby. B. For his birthday. C. For his future work. 15. Where are the speakers? A. In a computer shop. B. At the man’s home. C. In a cafe. 16. What does the man like doing? A. Taking photos. B. Surfing the Internet. C. Watching films online. 听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。 17. What do we know about Severance? A. It has 100 centimeters of snowfall a year. B. It doesn’t belong to Colorado. C. It is in the south of Denver. 18. What is illegal in Severance? A. Cutting down trees. B. Kicking at the stones. C. Having snowball fights. 19. Who wants to suggest removing the ban? A. Dane. B. Kyle. C. Dane’s parents. 20. How old is Dane? A.9. B.7. C.4. 第二部分 阅读 (共两节，满分50分) 第一节 (共15小题;每小题2.5分，满分37.5分) 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。 A 【1~3题答案】 【答案】1. A 2. C 3. B B 【4~7题答案】 【答案】4. D 5. A 6. C 7. B C 【8~11题答案】 【答案】8. C 9. A 10. C 11. D D 【12~15题答案】 【答案】12. C 13. A 14. C 15. D 第二节 (共5小题;每小题2.5分，满分12.5分) 阅读下面短文，从短文后的选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。 【16~20题答案】 【答案】16. C 17. E 18. A 19. F 20. G 第三部分 语言运用 (共两节，满分30分) 第一节 (共15小题;每小题1分，满分15分) 阅读下面短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。 【21~35题答案】 【答案】21. A 22. B 23. A 24. D 25. D 26. D 27. C 28. B 29. A 30. C 31. B 32. C 33. D 34. A 35. D 第二节 (共10小题;每小题1.5分，满分15分) 【36~45题答案】 【答案】36. went 37. whose 38. products 39. on##upon 40. strength 41. smarter 42. is based 43. Developing 44. or 45. to find 第四部分 写作 (共两节，满分40分) 第一节 (满分15分) 【46题答案】 【答案】 Last Saturday, our class visited the Science and Technology Museum. We explored various exhibitions, including robots, space technology models and AI applications. But the one fascinating me most was the virtual reality (VR) exhibit. We wore VR headsets and were transported to different worlds — from the deep ocean to outer space. Additionally, we participated in a robotics workshop and programmed simple robots to perform tasks. Another highlight was the interactive physics exhibit, where we experimented with different forces and motion. These cutting-edge technologies broaden my horizons. What impresses me most was that technology has greatly changed our perception of the world. 第二节 (满分25分) 【47题答案】 【答案】“We were just walking but Randy somehow dropped,” Kevin said in tears. “Where is it now?” I asked. “Just at my house,” he answered. We quickly got into the car and drove to his house. It was a small old farmhouse. As we approached, I saw Randy just lying outside the doorway. We hurried to have a close look at it. “He’s still alive!” Kevin cried, “We need a vet!” We two quickly carried Randy into the car. As I drove to the animal hospital, Kevin sat in the back and kept talking to the dog. Luckily, Randy was saved in time. “Randy! You’ve come back to me!” Kevin said in a choked voice. Then he turned to me and said gratefully “If you hadn’t come earlier, Randy would have gone! Thank you very much...” Tears welled up in his eyes. “It’s nothing, Kevin.” I patted him on the shoulder. Just at that moment, I realized: There is always a whispered urging in our heart and mind to do something good. 第1页/共1页 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $$