精品解析：上海市闵行第三中学2024-2025学年高三上学期第一次月考英语试题

闵行三中2024学年第一学期高三英语检测 I．Listening Comprehension Section A Directions: In Section A, you will hear ten short conversations between two speakers. At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. The conversations and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a conversation and the question about it, read the four possible answers on your paper, and decide which one is the best answer to the question you have heard. 1．A．She is inferior to him in maths. B．She doesn’t work hard in maths. C．She is good at maths. D．She didn’t do well in this test. 2．A．The woman has lent her computer to somebody. B．The computers in the library are not working. C．The man needs his computer all afternoon. D．The library will be closed later this afternoon 3．A．Going to the opera is time-consuming. B．There is no time left to book opera tickets. C．She would like to go with the man to the opera. D．She will help the man pay for the opera tickets. 4．A．Worth the price. B．Expensive. C．Mysterious D．Good for health. 5．A．After 2:00 p. m. B．At 12:00 p. m. C．before 1:00 p. m. D．Around 11:00 a. m. 6．A．The housework should be done by the roommate B．Either the woman or her roommate should move out. C．The roommate shouldn’t spend so much time on the phone. D．The woman does not clean her apartment often enough. 7．A．She also thinks the lecture interesting. B．She was too tired to enjoy the lecture. C．She missed the lecture this morning. D．She did not finish the reading before the lecture. 8．A．Her work experience. B．The courses she has taken. C．Her knowledge of the graduate school. D．The description of her academic performance. 9．A．The woman does not like to drink coffee in the afternoon. B．It was not the woman’s coat that the man spilled coffee on. C．The woman just had her coat cleaned. D．The woman is not angry with the man. 10．A．She hopes to get into art school. B．She is working as a commercial artist. C．She cannot decide upon a career. D．She has talents other than drawing. Section B Directions: In Section B, you will hear several longer conversation (s) and short passage (s), and you will be asked several questions on each of the conversation (s) and the passage (s). The conversation (s) and the passage (s) 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 talk. 11．A．What a country does to promote punctuality. B．How businesses in Ecuador have been developing. C．What people from different areas think of punctuality. D．How Ecuador responds to Citizens’ Participation’s appeal. 12．A．It has caused many public events to be cancelled. B．It is more common among government officials. C．It has cost Ecuador much money every year. D．It is a tradition with a long history in Ecuador. 13．A．They work hard to protest against it. B．They are in favour of it. C．They hold meetings to discuss it. D．They wait and see what will happen. Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage. 14．A．Why women need more gossip that men. B．How women’s conversations are different from men’s. C．What research finds about topics preferred by men and women. D．Whether men can concentrate on one matter more easily than women. 15．A．Health. B．Politics. C．Football. D．Education. 16．A．Women usually stick to one subject while talking with each other. B．Men are often good at dealing with several matters in a meeting. C．Men’s talk tends to cover only a small range of subjects. D．Women’s conversations are meant to exchange opinions. Questions 17 through 20 are based on the following conversation. 17．A．Her husband works there. B．She can speak Arabic. C．It is a beautiful city. D．She needs a rest. 18．A．She has been travelling around the city. B．She has been teaching children English. C．She has been learning drawing and painting. D．She has been looking for an Arabic teacher. 19．A．Reading. B．Grammar. C．Writing. D．Pronunciation. 20．A．She is generous and friendly. B．She loves Arabic music. C．She is good at dancing. D．She understands English culture. II．Grammar and Vocabulary Section A Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank. The MBTI Personality Test The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, or MBTI, is a widely ____1____ (recognize) personality test that aims to help individuals gain a deeper understanding of themselves and their personality traits. Taking the MBTI test is fairly straightforward. For 15-20 minutes, you answer a series of questions ____2____ delve into your preferences and behaviors. These questions are designed to measure four key dimensions of your personality: Extraversion (E) vs. Introversion (I) This dimension assesses whether you are ____3____ (outgoing) and energized by social interactions (Extraversion) or you tend ____4____ (recharge) through alone time and introspection (Introversion). Sensing (S) vs. Intuition (N) This looks at how you gather information. Sensing types rely on facts, details, and practicality, ____5____ Intuitive types focus on possibilities, patterns, and big-picture thinking. Thinking (T) vs. Feeling (F) This dimension examines how you make decisions. Thinking types prioritize logic and objectivity, and Feeling types consider values, emotions, and personal considerations. Judging (J) vs. Perceiving (P) This describes ____6____ you approach tasks and planning. Judging types prefer structure, organization, and closure, and Perceiving types are more flexible, spontaneous, and adaptable. Once you ____7____ (answer) all the questions, you receive a four-letter code that represents your personality type. For example, if you get “ENTJ,” it means you are an Extraverted, Intuitive, Thinking, and Judging individual. In that moment, you might feel that the test really captured who you are, or you might be surprised and want to think about your tendencies anew. According to ____8____ article from Forbes, some companies use these assessments to judge ____9____ a candidate’s personality aligns with a job role. This seems unwise. People are complex, and a simple four-letter code cannot fully express their potential. The MBTI has value as a tool for self-reflection and even fun. It can provide insights ____10____ your natural inclinations and help you understand your strengths and weaknesses. However, it should not be used to evaluate others in a serious way. People are multidimensional, and their skills and abilities cannot be captured by a personality test. Section B Directions: Complete the passage or sentences by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need. A．reveals B．forthcoming C．recipient D．acceptable E．engage F．commit G．ingredient H．objective I．tricks J．chew K．massive How to Make Your Resolution Stick You know the old goal-setting proverb: Don’t bite off more than you can ____11____ (especially if your goal is to lose weight). But if that were all it took, you’d have nailed last year’s plan — and the year before last’s. New research is refining the art of goal-setting, offering some fresher, less obvious insight to make 2019 the year you finally do it. ·Start now The turn of another year ____12____ us into seeing the big picture, our slates wiped clean. Take advantage of it. People ____13____ themselves to their goals more fiercely after a major benchmark like New Year’s Day. Missed the 1st? Wait for a Monday. It’s the most popular day of the week for starting diets and stopping smoking, studies show. ·Make a plan How’s this for a terrible irony: the more you want your goal, the less you’re likely to plan for it, according to a(n) ____14____ paper in the journal Behavioral Science and Policy. That’s because we tend to think good intentions are enough, but an actual plan prevents procrastination (拖延). People with plans stick to their goals way more often than those who wing it. ·But don’t have a backup plan Backup plans backfire by zapping (打击) your desire to chase your main goal. In a series of new studies, people who were told to think up a Plan B were less likely to attain their main ____15____ .Researchers suspect that having backup goals may make failure feel somehow more ____16____ . ·Raise the stakes In a 2008 study, the most effective weight-loss plan was one in which people had to fork over cash if they didn’t meet their goal. After 16 weeks, those with financial incentives lost 6KG more than those who just weighed in. Try it at stickK.com, a site designed by behavioral economists who will gladly donate your cash to a(n) ____17____ of your choice if you fail. ·Chop it up You know how good it feels to tick off an item from your to-do list. Put that to work by hacking a(n) ____18____ goal (reading 24 books a year, for example) into parts (two per month). It’s more gratifying than working away at one big goal, says George Wu, professor at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business. ·Conserve your willpower Think of willpower as your greatest natural resource, but know that it’s also a finite one, some experts say. Every time you ____19____ your willpower for one task — saying no to a glass of wine, passing up the free cookies at work — you have less to resist other temptations. Since willpower is the secret ____20____ to meeting your goals, use it widely. III．Reading Comprehension Section A Directions: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context. Transition. It’s a pleasant word and a calming concept. It means going surely and sweetly from somewhere present to somewhere future. Unless, that is, it is newspapers’ ‘transition’ to the ___21___ world, an uncertain and highly uncomfortable process. Just look at the latest print circulation figures. The Daily Telegraph The Guardian and many of the rest are down overall between 8% and 10% year-on-year, but their websites go ever higher. All of that may well be true, depending on timing, geography and more. ___22___, everyone— from web academics to print analysis—says so. Yet pause for a while and count a few little things that don’t ___23___. One is the magazine world, both in the UK and in the US. It ought to be ___24___, wrecked by the move to the tablets which fit existing magazine page sizes so perfectly. But, in fact, the rate of decline in magazine purchasing is relatively small, with subscriptions holding up strongly and advertising remarkable ___25___. As for news and current affairs magazines — which you’d expect to find in the eye of the digital storm — they had a 8.4% increase to report. In short, on both sides of the Atlantic, although some magazine areas went down, many showed rapid growth. You can discover a ___26___ phenomenon when it comes to books, Kindle and similar e-readers are booming, with sales up massively this year. The apparent first step of transition couldn’t be ___27___. Yet, when booksellers examined the value of the physical books they sold over the last six months, they found it just 0.4% down. Screen or paper, then? It wasn’t one or the other: it was ___28___. So if sales in that area have fallen so little, perhaps the ___29___ mostly affects newspapers? Yet again, though, the messages are oddly ____30____. The latest survey of trends by the World Association of Newspapers shows that global circulation rose 1.1% last year (to 812 million copies a day). Sales in the West dropped back but Asia more than ____31____ the difference. Already 360 US papers—including most of the biggest and best — have built paywalls around their products. However, the best way of attracting a paying readership appears to be a deal that offers the print copy and digital access as some kind of ____32____ package. ____33____, print is also a crucial tool in selling internet subscriptions. And its advertising rates raise between nine and ten times more money than online. Of course this huge difference isn’t ____34____ news for newspaper companies, as maintaining both an active website and an active print edition is difficult, complex and expensive. But newspaper brands still have much of their high profile in print: a drift on the web, the job of just being ____35____ becomes far harder. 21. A. publishing B. online C. ideal D. unknown 22. A. On the other hand B. After all C. To begin with D. For instance 23 A. stop B. exist C. emerge D. fit 24. A. regulated B. advancing C. collapsing D. minimized 25. A. solid B. simple C. creative D. changeable 26. A. cultural B. common C. scientific D. similar 27. A. later B. harder C. clearer D. slower 28. A. all B. neither C. both D. either 29. A. service B. system C. crisis D. figure 30. A. right B. vague C. designed D. mixed 31. A. made up B. told apart C. took over D. held on 32. A. joint B. mysterious C. modern D. complex 33. A. In other words B. On the contrary C. What’s more D. Even so 34. A. new B. sad C. big D. good 35. A. spared B. updated C. noticed D. edited Section B Direction: 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) I was a graduate student in Manhattan having breakfast on my rooftop on Sept. 11, 2001, when I witnessed planes hit the Twin Towers. For months afterwards, I shook with anxiety every morning. Unwilling to medicate, I tried everything else. Mindfulness meditation (冥想) caused panic attacks. Hot yoga built muscle but did nothing for my anxiety. I went to talks by Buddhist monks and meditation teachers hoping to attain inner peace, but in vain. Finally, I attended a SKY Breath Meditation class, which involves a 20-minute breathing regimen (养生之道) in different postures and rhythms. Though I went in skeptical,I came out calm. Two decades later,I never missed a day of my breathing practice, not even when I gave birth. I’ve also devoted part of my research career to studying the benefits of breathing for mental health and well-being. Seven years after 9/11, I was working with veterans returning from war with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Traditional treatments had failed many of them, so my colleagues and I ran a randomized controlled trial to test the effects of SKY breathing. Compared with the control group, veterans practicing SKY every day for one week saw their anxiety drop to levels typical of the general population. Even though most did not continue to practice, they maintained the benefits a year later. Emotions influence your breathing patterns, and changing your breathing can change your emotions. For example, anxiety and anger correspond to an irregular, short, fast breath. Adopting the slower and more regular breathing pattern that corresponds to a calm feeling signals relaxation by activating the vagus nerve (交感神经), slowing heart rate, easing blood pressure, and settling you down. A simple exercise you can try is to close your eyes and breathe out for twice as long as you breathe in. Do this for five minutes in the morning, before a stressful meeting or as you transit from work to home. 36. Why did the author attend the SKY Breath Meditation class? A. To build up muscles. B. To relieve inner anxiety. C. To learn more about meditation. D. To quest for religious belief. 37. How did the author test the effects of SKY breathing? A. She worked with healthy veterans returning from war. B. She chose victims suffering PTSD in the 9/11 incident. C. She divided the veterans into two groups and compared results. D. She cooperated with researchers from mindfulness meditation classes. 38. What can we learn from the last paragraph? A. Breathing interacts with emotions. B. It is harmful to activate the vagus nerve. C. Breathing out as long as you breathe in is a simple way to follow. D. Breathing regimen should be carried out for five minutes every morning. 39. Which of the following is the best title for the text? A. PTSD: more awareness needed B. SKY: better well-being attained C. Meditation: an effective treatment D. Breath: detailed ways to conduct (B) If you have no difficulty in understanding what native English speakers say in daily life, there is a whole new world of brilliant podcast (播客) series to explore. If you aren’t sure where to start, have a look at these: The Joc Rogan Experience ★★★★★ The Joc Rogan Experience is a great learning device because of its interesting English conversations between Rogan and his guests. At the time of writing there have been over 1,660 episodes with subjects ranging from comedy and science to politics and sports. Rogan is also a famous stand-up comedian, so the show is full of cultural references and idioms. This American Life ★★★★★ This American Life is a great choice for English learners who want an insight into the culture of the USA. It is a mixture of journalism and storytelling, focusing on real-life tales from citizens of all regions of the country. The stories are new and varied. One episode was taped for 24 hours in an all-night restaurant; another interviewed workers on strike. The Writer's Voice ★★★★☆ The New Yorker is a famous American magazine, and every week it prints a new short story. In this podcast, the week's story is read aloud by its writer. The published work covers a wide range of life experiences across the United States and beyond. It's a great way to enjoy some of the best new fiction in the country. Overheard at National Geographic ★★★★★ National Geographic is a much-loved American magazine (and TV channel) famous for incredible stories and photography related to science and the environment. Overheard is about the discussions Nat Geo employees have had while taking breaks. Expect crazy stories from explorers, photographers, and scientists from around the world. 40. In order to fully enjoy these podcasts, you should________. A. have interaction with hosts B. have good English competence C. be interested in being a podcaster D. be familiar with American social life 41. Which podcast gives you more stories behind the scene? A. The Writer's Voice. B. This American Life. C. The Joe Rogan Experience. D. Overheard at National Geographic. 42. What do these podcasts have in common? A. They enjoy great popularity. B. Their stories are set in America. C. They are attached to magazines. D. Their works are updated weekly. (C) Everything we know suggests that the universe is unusual. It is flatter, smoother, larger and emptier than a “typical” universe predicted by the known laws of physics. If we reached into a hat filled with pieces of paper, each with the specifications of a possible universe written on it, it is unlikely that we would get a universe anything like ours in one pick—or even a billion. The challenge that cosmologists face is to make sense of this specialness. One approach to this question is inflation—the hypothesis (假设) that the early universe went through a stage of fast expansion. At first, inflation seemed to do the trick. A simple version of the idea gave correct predictions for the spectrum of fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background. But a closer look shows that we have just moved the problem further back in time. To make inflation happen at all requires us to fine-tune the initial conditions of the universe. And unless inflation is highly tuned, it leads to a runaway process of universe creation. As a result, some cosmologists (宇宙学家) suggest that there is not one universe, but an infinite number, with a huge variety of properties: the multiverse. There are an infinite number of universes in the collection that are like our universe and an infinite number that are not. But the proportion of infinity to infinity is undefined, and can be made into anything the theorist wants. Thus the multiverse theory has difficulty making any firm predictions and threatens to take us out of the area of science. These other universes are unobservable and because chance dictates the random distribution of properties across universes, suggesting the existence of a multiverse does not let us get to anything about our universe beyond what we already know. As attractive as the idea may seem, it is basically a sleight of hand, which turns an explanatory failure into an apparent explanatory success. The success is empty because anything that might be observed about our universe could be explained as something that must, by chance, happen somewhere in the multiverse. We started out trying to explain why the universe is so special, and we end up being asked to believe that our universe is one of an infinite number of universes with random properties. This makes me suspect that there is a basic but unexamined assumption about the laws of nature that must be overturned. Cosmology has new questions to answer. Not just what are the laws, but why are these laws the laws? How were they chosen? We can’t just hypothesise what the initial conditions were at the big bang, we need to explain those initial conditions. Thus we are in the position of a computer program asked to explain its inputs. It is clear that if we are to get anywhere, we need to invent new methods, and perhaps new kinds of laws, to gain a scientific description of the universe as a whole. 43. According to the passage, which of the following statements is true of our universe? A. There are several hypotheses about its early stage. B. There are more than one billion universes similar to ours. C. It is expanding at a greater speed that it did at the stage of the big bang. D. It is different from the predictions made according to the laws of physics. 44. What does the writer imply about the hypothesis of inflation? A. It hasn’t been challenged. B. It doesn’t make much sense. C. It is by far the most reasonable approach. D. It is the simple version of a complicated idea. 45. Which word in the passage is similar in meaning to the phrase “sleight of hand” (paragraph 4)? A. process B. prediction C. trick D. infinity 46. It can be inferred from the passage that the writer________. A. believes the idea of the multiverse will help us to understand our universe better B. argues there is a fixed proportion of universes like ours to those unlike ours C. holds computer programs can work better than humans in cosmology D. thinks some laws of nature that we take for granted may be false Section C Directions: Read the following passage. Fill in each blank with a proper sentence given below. Each sentence can be used only once. Note that there are two more sentences than you need. Do Wild Animals Get PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder)? Every few years, snowshoe hare numbers in northwestern Canada climb to a peak. As hare populations increase, so do those of their predators. Then the hare population falls suddenly and predators start to die off. The cycle is a famous phenomenon among ecologists. ____47____ Hare numbers decrease not just because predators eat too many of them. There's another factor: The long-term stress of living while being surrounded by killers. The trauma（创伤）of living through repeated predator chases triggers lasting changes in brain chemistry. Those changes keep the hares from reproducing at normal levels, even after their predators have died off. And it's not just snowshoe hares, as ecologists Liana Zanette and Michael Clinchy have shown. Zanette and Clinchy, both at the university of Western Ontario, study the ecology of fear. It combines the psychology of trauma with the behavioral ecology of fear in wild animals. ____48____ The off-springs of frightened song sparrows like those of stressed snowshoe hare, are less likely to survive to adulthood and succeed in reproducing. These findings add to a growing body of evidence which shows that fearful experiences can have long-lasting effects on wildlife. The work is also part of wider debate over whether PTSD is unique to humans. Studies of the ecology of fear started in the 1990s. Before then, scientists believed that the impact of a predator on an individual animal was either deadly or fleeting. ____49____ But research shows that fear can change the long-term behaviour and psychology of wild animals. The reasons to fear are clear. Recent studies have found that up to 25% of harbor porpoises in the southern North Sea have claw and bite marks from gray seals. Almost 100% of manta rays in some African waters bear multiple bite wounds from sharks. ____50____ Some of the most dramatic impacts of trauma have been observed in African elephants. Their populations have declined sharply due to poaching and habitat loss. Today, many surviving elephants have witnessed the cruel killing of their mothers and aunts. This has resulted in orphaned elephants running amok as they grow into adolescence. A. This fear is beneficial, because it keeps you alive to bred another day. B. In recent years, however, researchers have come to an unusual conclusion. C. These survivors may carry memories of terror along with their physical scars. D. If a zebra escaped the claws of a lion, it would move on and live its life as before. E. The same pattern has been shown in wild mice and in fish living with high levels of predator threat. F. They've found that fear of predators can cause other wild animals to bear and raise fewer young, too. IV．Summary Writing 51. 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. The Crucial Role of Early Childhood Environment The environment we are in affects our moods, ability to form relationships, effectiveness in work or play — even our health. In addition, the early childhood environment has a very crucial role in children’s learning and development for two important reasons. First, young children are in the process of rapid brain development. In the early years, the brain develops more synapses (神经元的突触) or connections than it can possibly use. Those that are used by the child form strong connections, while the synapses that are not used gradually disappear. Children’s experiences help to make this determination. The National Scientific Council of the Developing Child compares the development of the brain to constructing a house, stating, “Just as a lack of the right materials can result in blueprints that change, the lack of appropriate experiences can lead to alterations in genetic plans.” Because children’s experiences are limited by their surroundings, the environment we provide for them has a crucial impact on the way the child’s brain develops. The second reason that the early childhood environment has such a strong role in children’s development is because of the amount of time children spend in these environments. Many children spend a large portion of their wakeful hours in early childhood setting. For example, a baby beginning child care will spend up to 12,000 hours in the program. This is more time than he will spend in both elementary and secondary schools. Children will typically spend another 4,000 hours in kindergarten through third grade classrooms. Anita Rui Olds, a well-known environmental designer, believes that we should design our early childhood environments for miracles, not minimums. She states: “Children are miracles. Believing that every child is a miracle can transform the way we design for children’s care. When we invite a miracle into our lives, we prepare ourselves and the environment around us. We make it our job to create, with great respect and gratitude, a space that is worthy of a miracle! _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ V．Translation (3’+3’+4’+5’=15’) Directions: Translate the following sentences into English, using the words given in the brackets. 52. 是一瓶矿泉水帮助他在地震中活了下来。（It）(汉译英) _______________________________________________________________ 53. 无论是当地居民还是游客，拥堵都是一个令人头疼的问题。（alike）(汉译英) _______________________________________________________________ 54. 最近的两项研究表明，在所有行业中，女性使用ChatGPT的可能性比男性更低。（likely）(汉译英) _______________________________________________________________ 55. 制造商声称，这款即将发布电动汽车具有自动驾驶功能，可语音控制，一次充电仅需12分钟，就可以行驶600公里。(claim) (汉译英) _______________________________________________________________ VI．Guided Writing 56. Directions: Write an English composition in 120-150 words according to the instructions given below in Chinese. 假设你是明启中学高三学生李华，学校图书馆拟购入一批英语学习资料与读物，图书馆长周老师现向同学们征集意见。请写一封电子邮件，谈谈你的看法和建议，并说明理由。 ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 第1页/共1页 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $$ 闵行三中2024学年第一学期高三英语检测 I．Listening Comprehension Section A Directions: In Section A, you will hear ten short conversations between two speakers. At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. The conversations and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a conversation and the question about it, read the four possible answers on your paper, and decide which one is the best answer to the question you have heard. 1．A．She is inferior to him in maths. B．She doesn’t work hard in maths. C．She is good at maths. D．She didn’t do well in this test. 2．A．The woman has lent her computer to somebody. B．The computers in the library are not working. C．The man needs his computer all afternoon. D．The library will be closed later this afternoon 3．A．Going to the opera is time-consuming. B．There is no time left to book opera tickets. C．She would like to go with the man to the opera. D．She will help the man pay for the opera tickets. 4．A．Worth the price. B．Expensive. C．Mysterious D．Good for health. 5．A．After 2:00 p. m. B．At 12:00 p. m. C．before 1:00 p. m. D．Around 11:00 a. m. 6．A．The housework should be done by the roommate. B．Either the woman or her roommate should move out. C．The roommate shouldn’t spend so much time on the phone. D．The woman does not clean her apartment often enough. 7．A．She also thinks the lecture interesting. B．She was too tired to enjoy the lecture. C．She missed the lecture this morning. D．She did not finish the reading before the lecture. 8．A．Her work experience. B．The courses she has taken. C．Her knowledge of the graduate school. D．The description of her academic performance. 9．A．The woman does not like to drink coffee in the afternoon. B．It was not the woman’s coat that the man spilled coffee on. C．The woman just had her coat cleaned. D．The woman is not angry with the man. 10．A．She hopes to get into art school. B．She is working as a commercial artist. C．She cannot decide upon a career. D．She has talents other than drawing. Section B Directions: In Section B, you will hear several longer conversation (s) and short passage (s), and you will be asked several questions on each of the conversation (s) and the passage (s). The conversation (s) and the passage (s) 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 talk. 11．A．What a country does to promote punctuality. B．How businesses in Ecuador have been developing. C．What people from different areas think of punctuality. D．How Ecuador responds to Citizens’ Participation’s appeal. 12．A．It has caused many public events to be cancelled. B．It is more common among government officials. C．It has cost Ecuador much money every year. D．It is a tradition with a long history in Ecuador. 13．A．They work hard to protest against it. B．They are in favour of it. C．They hold meetings to discuss it. D．They wait and see what will happen. Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage. 14．A．Why women need more gossip that men. B．How women’s conversations are different from men’s. C．What research finds about topics preferred by men and women. D．Whether men can concentrate on one matter more easily than women. 15．A．Health. B．Politics. C．Football. D．Education. 16．A．Women usually stick to one subject while talking with each other. B．Men are often good at dealing with several matters in a meeting. C．Men’s talk tends to cover only a small range of subjects. D．Women’s conversations are meant to exchange opinions. Questions 17 through 20 are based on the following conversation. 17．A．Her husband works there. B．She can speak Arabic. C．It is a beautiful city. D．She needs a rest. 18．A．She has been travelling around the city. B．She has been teaching children English. C．She has been learning drawing and painting. D．She has been looking for an Arabic teacher. 19．A．Reading. B．Grammar. C．Writing. D．Pronunciation. 20．A．She is generous and friendly. B．She loves Arabic music. C．She is good at dancing. D．She understands English culture. II．Grammar and Vocabulary Section A Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank. The MBTI Personality Test The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, or MBTI, is a widely ____1____ (recognize) personality test that aims to help individuals gain a deeper understanding of themselves and their personality traits. Taking the MBTI test is fairly straightforward. For 15-20 minutes, you answer a series of questions ____2____ delve into your preferences and behaviors. These questions are designed to measure four key dimensions of your personality: Extraversion (E) vs. Introversion (I) This dimension assesses whether you are ____3____ (outgoing) and energized by social interactions (Extraversion) or you tend ____4____ (recharge) through alone time and introspection (Introversion). Sensing (S) vs. Intuition (N) This looks at how you gather information. Sensing types rely on facts, details, and practicality, ____5____ Intuitive types focus on possibilities, patterns, and big-picture thinking. Thinking (T) vs. Feeling (F) This dimension examines how you make decisions. Thinking types prioritize logic and objectivity, and Feeling types consider values, emotions, and personal considerations. Judging (J) vs. Perceiving (P) This describes ____6____ you approach tasks and planning. Judging types prefer structure, organization, and closure, and Perceiving types are more flexible, spontaneous, and adaptable. Once you ____7____ (answer) all the questions, you receive a four-letter code that represents your personality type. For example, if you get “ENTJ,” it means you are an Extraverted, Intuitive, Thinking, and Judging individual. In that moment, you might feel that the test really captured who you are, or you might be surprised and want to think about your tendencies anew. According to ____8____ article from Forbes, some companies use these assessments to judge ____9____ a candidate’s personality aligns with a job role. This seems unwise. People are complex, and a simple four-letter code cannot fully express their potential. The MBTI has value as a tool for self-reflection and even fun. It can provide insights ____10____ your natural inclinations and help you understand your strengths and weaknesses. However, it should not be used to evaluate others in a serious way. People are multidimensional, and their skills and abilities cannot be captured by a personality test. 【答案】1. recognized 2. that##which 3. more outgoing 4. to recharge 5. while 6. how 7. have answered##answer 8. an 9. whether##if 10. into 【解析】 【导语】本文是一篇说明文，主要介绍了迈尔斯-布里格斯类型指标（MBTI）这一广为人知的性格测试工具。 【1题详解】 考查形容词。句意：迈尔斯-布里格斯类型指标（Myers-Briggs Type Indicator，简称MBTI）是一种广为人知的性格测试工具，旨在帮助个人更深入地了解自己及其性格特征。空格处用形容词作定语，修饰personality test，recognize的形容词是recognized，意为“公认的”，故填recognized。 【2题详解】 考查定语从句。句意：在15到20分钟的时间里，你需要回答一系列问题，这些问题会深入探究你的偏好和行为模式。空格处引导的是限制性定语从句，从句中缺少主语，先行词questions是问题，因此用关系代词that/which引导定语从句，故填that/which。 【3题详解】 考查比较级。句意：这个维度评估你是更外向、更有活力（外向），还是更倾向于通过独处和自省来充电（内向）。由“and energized by social interactions”可知，句子表示“这个维度评估你是更外向、更有活力（外向），还是更倾向于通过独处和自省来充电（内向）”，空格处意为“更外向的”，用形容词作表语，是比较级more outgoing。故填more outgoing。 【4题详解】 考查不定式。句意：这个维度评估你是更外向、更有活力（外向），还是更倾向于通过独处和自省来充电（内向）。tend to do sth.是固定短语，意为“倾向于做某事”，因此空格处是不定式to recharge。故填to recharge。 【5题详解】 考查连词。句意：感知型依赖于事实、细节和实用性，而直觉型侧重于可能性、模式和大局思维。由“Sensing types rely on facts, details, and practicality”和“Intuitive types focus on possibilities, patterns, and big-picture thinking”可知，句子表示“感知型依赖于事实、细节和实用性，而直觉型侧重于可能性、模式和大局思维”，空格处意为“而”，用while表并列，故填while。 【6题详解】 考查宾语从句。句意：这描述了你如何处理任务和计划。空格处引导宾语从句，从句中不缺主语或宾语，句子表示“这描述了你如何处理任务和计划”，空格处意为“如何”，用how，故填how。 【7题详解】 考查时态和主谓一致。句意：一旦你回答了所有的问题，你就会收到一个代表你性格类型的四个字母的代码。Once引导的条件状语从句时态可用一般现在时，表经常性，习惯性动作，主语是you，因此可用answer；也可用现在完成时表示“一旦你已经回答了所有的问题”，主语是you，因此空格处也可用have answered。故填have answered/answer。 【8题详解】 考查冠词。句意：根据《福布斯》的一篇文章，一些公司利用这些评估来判断候选人的性格是否与工作角色相符。article是可数名词的单数形式，表泛指，前面要加不定冠词，article是元音音素开头，因此不定冠词用an，故填an。 【9题详解】 考查宾语从句。句意：根据《福布斯》的一篇文章，一些公司利用这些评估来判断候选人的性格是否与工作角色相符。空格处引导宾语从句，从句中不缺主语或宾语，句子表示“一些公司利用这些评估来判断候选人的性格是否与工作角色相符”，空格处意为“是否”，用whether/if引导宾语从句，故填whether/if。 【10题详解】 考查介词。句意：它可以洞察你的自然倾向，帮助你了解自己的长处和短处。provide insights into是固定短语，意为“提供对……的深入了解”，因此空格处用介词into，故填into。 Section B Directions: Complete the passage or sentences by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need. A．reveals B．forthcoming C．recipient D．acceptable E．engage F．commit G．ingredient H．objective I．tricks J．chew K．massive How to Make Your Resolution Stick You know the old goal-setting proverb: Don’t bite off more than you can ____11____ (especially if your goal is to lose weight). But if that were all it took, you’d have nailed last year’s plan — and the year before last’s. New research is refining the art of goal-setting, offering some fresher, less obvious insight to make 2019 the year you finally do it. ·Start now The turn of another year ____12____ us into seeing the big picture, our slates wiped clean. Take advantage of it. People ____13____ themselves to their goals more fiercely after a major benchmark like New Year’s Day. Missed the 1st? Wait for a Monday. It’s the most popular day of the week for starting diets and stopping smoking, studies show. ·Make a plan How’s this for a terrible irony: the more you want your goal, the less you’re likely to plan for it, according to a(n) ____14____ paper in the journal Behavioral Science and Policy. That’s because we tend to think good intentions are enough, but an actual plan prevents procrastination (拖延). People with plans stick to their goals way more often than those who wing it. ·But don’t have a backup plan Backup plans backfire by zapping (打击) your desire to chase your main goal. In a series of new studies, people who were told to think up a Plan B were less likely to attain their main ____15____ .Researchers suspect that having backup goals may make failure feel somehow more ____16____ . ·Raise the stakes In a 2008 study, the most effective weight-loss plan was one in which people had to fork over cash if they didn’t meet their goal. After 16 weeks, those with financial incentives lost 6KG more than those who just weighed in. Try it at stickK.com, a site designed by behavioral economists who will gladly donate your cash to a(n) ____17____ of your choice if you fail. ·Chop it up You know how good it feels to tick off an item from your to-do list. Put that to work by hacking a(n) ____18____ goal (reading 24 books a year, for example) into parts (two per month). It’s more gratifying than working away at one big goal, says George Wu, professor at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business. ·Conserve your willpower Think of willpower as your greatest natural resource, but know that it’s also a finite one, some experts say. Every time you ____19____ your willpower for one task — saying no to a glass of wine, passing up the free cookies at work — you have less to resist other temptations. Since willpower is the secret ____20____ to meeting your goals, use it widely. 【答案】11. J 12. I 13. F 14. B 15. H 16. D 17. C 18. K 19. E 20. G 【解析】 【导语】这是一篇说明文。文章主要就如何坚持决心提出了一些建议。 【11题详解】 考查动词。句意：你知道那句设定目标的谚语：不要贪多嚼不烂（尤其是如果你的目标是减肥的话）。根据“Don’t bite off more than you can”以及句意“嚼”可知应填动词chew，且can后跟动词原形。故选J。 【12题详解】 考查动词。句意：又一年的到来让我们看到了更大的图景，我们的记忆被抹去了。根据“us into seeing the big picture, our slates wiped clean”以及句意可知应填动词trick，作谓语，且陈述事实用一般现在时，主语为The turn of another year，谓语用三单形式。故选I。 【13题详解】 考查动词。句意：在元旦这样的重要日子过后，人们会更加坚定地致力于自己的目标。根据“themselves to their goals more fiercely”以及句意“致力于”可知应填动词commit，陈述事实用一般现在时，主语为People，谓语用原形。故选F。 【14题详解】 考查形容词。句意：根据即将发表在《行为科学与政策》杂志上的一篇论文，这是一个多么可怕的讽刺：你越想实现你的目标，你就越不可能为它做计划。根据“paper in the journal Behavioral Science and Policy”以及句意“即将发表的”可知应填形容词forthcoming，修饰名词paper。故选B。 【15题详解】 考查名词。句意：在一系列新的研究中，被告知要想一个B计划的人不太可能实现他们的主要目标。根据“people who were told to think up a Plan B were less likely to attain their main”以及句意“目标”可知应填名词objective，作宾语。故选H。 【16题详解】 考查形容词。句意：研究人员怀疑，有备用目标可能会让失败在某种程度上更容易被接受。根据“having backup goals may make failure feel somehow more”以及句意“可接受的”可知应填形容词acceptable，作表语。故选D。 【17题详解】 考查名词。句意：试试stickK.com吧，这是一个由行为经济学家设计的网站，如果你失败了，他们会很乐意把你的钱捐给你选择的接收者。根据“gladly donate your cash to”以及句意“接收者”可知应填名词recipient，作宾语。故选C。 【18题详解】 考查形容词。句意：将一个巨大的目标（比如一年读24本书）分成几个部分（每月两本）来实现。根据“(reading 24 books a year, for example) into parts (two per month)”以及句意“巨大的”可知应填形容词massive，修饰名词goal。故选K。 【19题详解】 考查动词。句意：每当你把意志力投入到一项任务上——拒绝一杯酒，拒绝工作时的免费饼干——你就会更少地抵制其他诱惑。根据“your willpower for one task”以及句意“投入”可知应填动词engage，作谓语，根据后文you have可知为一般现在时，主语为you，谓语用原形。故选E。 【20题详解】 考查名词。句意：既然意志力是实现目标的秘密要素，那就广泛运用它吧。根据“Since willpower is the secret”以及句意“要素”可知应填名词ingredient，作表语。故选G。 III．Reading Comprehension Section A Directions: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context. Transition. It’s a pleasant word and a calming concept. It means going surely and sweetly from somewhere present to somewhere future. Unless, that is, it is newspapers’ ‘transition’ to the ___21___ world, an uncertain and highly uncomfortable process. Just look at the latest print circulation figures. The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian and many of the rest are down overall between 8% and 10% year-on-year, but their websites go ever higher. All of that may well be true, depending on timing, geography and more. ___22___, everyone— from web academics to print analysis—says so. Yet pause for a while and count a few little things that don’t ___23___. One is the magazine world, both in the UK and in the US. It ought to be ___24___, wrecked by the move to the tablets which fit existing magazine page sizes so perfectly. But, in fact, the rate of decline in magazine purchasing is relatively small, with subscriptions holding up strongly and advertising remarkable ___25___. As for news and current affairs magazines — which you’d expect to find in the eye of the digital storm — they had a 8.4% increase to report. In short, on both sides of the Atlantic, although some magazine areas went down, many showed rapid growth. You can discover a ___26___ phenomenon when it comes to books, Kindle and similar e-readers are booming, with sales up massively this year. The apparent first step of transition couldn’t be ___27___. Yet, when booksellers examined the value of the physical books they sold over the last six months, they found it just 0.4% down. Screen or paper, then? It wasn’t one or the other: it was ___28___. So if sales in that area have fallen so little, perhaps the ___29___ mostly affects newspapers? Yet again, though, the messages are oddly ____30____. The latest survey of trends by the World Association of Newspapers shows that global circulation rose 1.1% last year (to 812 million copies a day). Sales in the West dropped back but Asia more than ____31____ the difference. Already 360 US papers—including most of the biggest and best — have built paywalls around their products. However, the best way of attracting a paying readership appears to be a deal that offers the print copy and digital access as some kind of ____32____ package. ____33____, print is also a crucial tool in selling internet subscriptions. And its advertising rates raise between nine and ten times more money than online. Of course this huge difference isn’t ____34____ news for newspaper companies as maintaining both an active website and an active print edition is difficult, complex and expensive. But newspaper brands still have much of their high profile in print: a drift on the web, the job of just being ____35____ becomes far harder. 21. A. publishing B. online C. ideal D. unknown 22. A. On the other hand B. After all C. To begin with D. For instance 23. A. stop B. exist C. emerge D. fit 24. A. regulated B. advancing C. collapsing D. minimized 25. A. solid B. simple C. creative D. changeable 26. A. cultural B. common C. scientific D. similar 27. A. later B. harder C. clearer D. slower 28. A. all B. neither C. both D. either 29. A. service B. system C. crisis D. figure 30. A. right B. vague C. designed D. mixed 31. A. made up B. told apart C. took over D. held on 32. A. joint B. mysterious C. modern D. complex 33. A. In other words B. On the contrary C. What’s more D. Even so 34. A. new B. sad C. big D. good 35. A. spared B. updated C. noticed D. edited 【答案】21. B 22. B 23. D 24. C 25. A 26. D 27. C 28. C 29. C 30. D 31. A 32. A 33. A 34. D 35. C 【解析】 【导语】本文是一篇说明文，介绍了在网络社会报纸向网上世界的“过渡”，这是一个不确定且非常不舒服的过程。同时保证印刷品也是销售互联网订阅的重要工具。是屏幕还是纸张？把二者结合才能共赢。 【21题详解】 考查形容词词义辨析。句意：除非，也就是说，这是报纸向网上世界的“过渡”，这是一个不确定且非常不舒服的过程。A. publishing出版的；B. online在线的；C. ideal理想的；D. unknown未知的。根据下文“The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian and many of the rest are down overall between 8% and 10% year-on-year, but their websites go ever higher.”可知这是报纸行业向网络世界的转变。故选B项。 【22题详解】 考查介词短语词义辨析。句意：毕竟，每个人——从网络学者到印刷分析——都这么说。A. On the other hand另一方面；B. After all毕竟；C. To begin with以……开头；D. For instance例如。根据前文“All of that may well be true, depending on timing, geography and more.”以及后文“everyone —from web academics to print analysis—says so.”可知此处应表达的意思是“毕竟”。故选B项。 【23题详解】 考查动词词义辨析。句意：但是，停顿片刻，数一数一些不合适的小事。A. stop停止；B. exist存在；C. emerge出现；D. fit适合。根据下文“It ought to be ___4___ , wrecked by the move to the tablets which fit existing magazine page sizes so perfectly.”可知此处原词fit再现。故选D项。 【24题详解】 考查动词词义辨析。句意：它快要垮了，因为平板电脑与现有杂志页面尺寸完美契合，所以受到了破坏。A. regulated调节；B. advancing前进；C. collapsing塌陷；D. minimized最小化。根据下文的“he move to the tablets which fit existing magazine page sizes so perfectly.”可知杂志快要垮掉了。故选C项。 【25题详解】 考查形容词词义辨析。句意：但事实上，杂志购买量的下降幅度相对较小，订阅量保持强劲，广告投放量稳定地增加。A. solid固体的，稳定的；B. simple简单的；C. creative创意的；D. changeable可变的。根据前文的“holding up strongly”可知广告凉的增加也是稳定地。故选A项。 【26题详解】 考查形容词词义辨析。句意：当涉及到书籍、Kindle和类似的电子阅读器时，你会发现一种类似的现象，今年销量大幅增长。A. cultural文化的；B. common普通的；C. scientific科学的；D. similar类似的。根据下文的“with sales up massively this year.”可知这种增长是类似的。故选D项。 【27题详解】 考查形容词词义辨析。句意：显然，过渡的第一步显而易见。A. later更晚的；B. harder较硬的；C. clearer更清晰的；D. slower更慢的。根据上文的“You can discover a 　　　　6　　　 phenomenon when it comes to books, Kindle and similar e-readers are booming, with sales up massively this year. ”可知这种改变是显而易见的。故选C项。 【28题详解】 考查代词词义辨析。句意：那么，是屏幕还是纸张？这不是一个或另一个：而是两者都是。A. all全部；B. neither都不是（两者）；C. both两个都是；D. either任何一个（两者中）。根据“It wasn’t one or the other”可知，两者都有，表示“两者都是”应使用both。故选C项。 【29题详解】 考查名词词义辨析。句意：那么，如果该地区的销售额下降如此之少，那么，也许是危机主要影响了报纸？A. service服务；B. system系统；C. crisis危机；D. figure图形。根据前文“if sales in that area have fallen so little”中的fall可知此处需要名词crisis。故选C项。 【30题详解】 考查形容词词义辨析。句意：然而，这些信息还是杂乱地混合在一起。A. right对的；B. vague模糊的；C. designed设计的；D. mixed混合的。根据前文“Screen or paper, then? It wasn’t one or the other: it was __8___”可知，如选择网络还是纸质，报纸销售下降的信息也是混合的。故选D项。 【31题详解】 考查动词词组辨析。句意：西方的销售额有所下降，但亚洲弥补了这一差距。A. made up组成；B. told apart辨别；C. took over接管；D. held on保持。根据前文“Sales in the West dropped back”可知在亚洲出现相反的现象，销售在亚洲得到弥补。故选A项。 【32题详解】 考查形容词词义辨析。句意：然而，吸引付费读者的最佳方式似乎是以某种形式提供打印副本和数字访问相结合的交易。A. joint联合的；B. mysterious神秘的；C. modern现代的；D. complex复杂的。根据前文“the print copy and digital access”可知这是两种方式的结合。故选A项。 【33题详解】 考查介词短语词义辨析。句意：换句话说，印刷品也是销售互联网订阅的重要工具。A. In other words换言之；B. On the contrary相反；C. What’s more此外； D. Even so即使如此。根据上文“AHowever, the best way of attracting a paying readership appears to be a deal that offers the print copy.”可知，换句话说，印刷品的重要性也是不可忽视的。故选A项。 【34题详解】 考查形容词词义辨析。句意：当然，这种巨大的差异对报业公司来说并不是好消息，因为维护活跃的网站和活跃的印刷版是困难、复杂和昂贵的。A. new新的；B. sad悲伤的；C. big大的；D. good好的。根据下文“as maintaining both an active website and an active print edition is difficult, complex and expensive.”可知，这种相对增加率对于报业公司来说不是好消息，因为要用大量的财力和物力。故选D项。 【35题详解】 考查动词词义辨析。句意：但报纸品牌在印刷品上仍有许多高知名度：在网络上漂泊，获得被关注的工作变得更加困难。A. spared抽出； B. updated更新； C. noticed注意； D. edited编辑。根据常识和“a drift on the web”可知，获得关注变得更加困难。要在网上获得知名度必须获得关注。故选C项。 Section B Direction: 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) I was a graduate student in Manhattan having breakfast on my rooftop on Sept. 11, 2001, when I witnessed planes hit the Twin Towers. For months afterwards, I shook with anxiety every morning. Unwilling to medicate, I tried everything else. Mindfulness meditation (冥想) caused panic attacks. Hot yoga built muscle but did nothing for my anxiety. I went to talks by Buddhist monks and meditation teachers hoping to attain inner peace, but in vain. Finally, I attended a SKY Breath Meditation class, which involves a 20-minute breathing regimen (养生之道) in different postures and rhythms. Though I went in skeptical,I came out calm. Two decades later,I never missed a day of my breathing practice, not even when I gave birth. I’ve also devoted part of my research career to studying the benefits of breathing for mental health and well-being. Seven years after 9/11, I was working with veterans returning from war with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Traditional treatments had failed many of them, so my colleagues and I ran a randomized controlled trial to test the effects of SKY breathing. Compared with the control group, veterans practicing SKY every day for one week saw their anxiety drop to levels typical of the general population. Even though most did not continue to practice, they maintained the benefits a year later. Emotions influence your breathing patterns, and changing your breathing can change your emotions. For example, anxiety and anger correspond to an irregular, short, fast breath. Adopting the slower and more regular breathing pattern that corresponds to a calm feeling signals relaxation by activating the vagus nerve (交感神经), slowing heart rate, easing blood pressure, and settling you down. A simple exercise you can try is to close your eyes and breathe out for twice as long as you breathe in. Do this for five minutes in the morning, before a stressful meeting or as you transit from work to home. 36. Why did the author attend the SKY Breath Meditation class? A. To build up muscles. B. To relieve inner anxiety. C. To learn more about meditation. D. To quest for religious belief. 37. How did the author test the effects of SKY breathing? A. She worked with healthy veterans returning from war. B. She chose victims suffering PTSD in the 9/11 incident. C. She divided the veterans into two groups and compared results. D. She cooperated with researchers from mindfulness meditation classes. 38. What can we learn from the last paragraph? A. Breathing interacts with emotions. B. It is harmful to activate the vagus nerve. C. Breathing out as long as you breathe in is a simple way to follow. D. Breathing regimen should be carried out for five minutes every morning. 39. Which of the following is the best title for the text? A. PTSD: more awareness needed B. SKY: better well-being attained C. Meditation: an effective treatment D. Breath: detailed ways to conduct 【答案】36 B 37. C 38. A 39. B 【解析】 【导语】本文是一篇记叙文。文章主要介绍了作者在亲眼目睹911事件后，患上了创伤后应激障碍，后来通过SKY疗法得到了治愈。 【36题详解】 推理判断题。根据文章第一段“For months afterwards, I shook with anxiety every morning. Unwilling to medicate, I tried everything else. Mindfulness meditation (冥想) caused panic attacks. Hot yoga built muscle but did nothing for my anxiety. I went to talks by Buddhist monks and meditation teachers hoping to attain inner peace, but in vain. Finally, I attended a SKY Breath Meditation class, which involves a 20-minute breathing regimen (养生之道) in different postures and rhythms.(在那之后的几个月里，我每天早上都焦虑得发抖。我不愿意吃药，于是尝试了所有其他方法。正念冥想会引起恐慌。高温瑜伽可以锻炼肌肉，但对我的焦虑没有任何帮助。我去听了佛教僧侣和冥想老师的讲座，希望获得内心的平静，但徒劳无功。最后，我参加了一个SKY呼吸冥想课程，包括20分钟的不同姿势和节奏的呼吸养生之道)”可知，作者参加SKY是为了缓解自己的焦虑。故选B。 【37题详解】 推理判断题。根据文章第二段“Traditional treatments had failed many of them, so my colleagues and I ran a randomized controlled trial to test the effects of SKY breathing. Compared with the control group, veterans practicing SKY every day for one week saw their anxiety drop to levels typical of the general population.(传统的治疗方法失败了很多，所以我和我的同事进行了一个随机对照试验来测试SKY呼吸的效果。与对照组相比，在一周内每天练习SKY的退伍军人的焦虑水平下降到一般人群的典型水平)”可推知，作者将退伍军人分成两组，其中一组每天练习SKY，最后比对结果从而得出结论。故选C。 【38题详解】 细节理解题。根据文章最后一段“Emotions influence your breathing patterns, and changing your breathing can change your emotions.(情绪会影响你的呼吸模式，改变呼吸也会改变你的情绪)”可知，情绪和呼吸息息相关，互相影响。故选A。 【39题详解】 主旨大意题。根据文章第一段“Finally, I attended a SKY Breath Meditation class, which involves a 20-minute breathing regimen (养生之道) in different postures and rhythms. Though I went in skeptical, I came out calm. Two decades later, I never missed a day of my breathing practice, not even when I gave birth.(最后，我参加了一个SKY呼吸冥想课程，包括20分钟的不同姿势和节奏的呼吸养生之道。虽然我满怀怀疑地进去了，但出来时却很平静。二十年后，我从未错过一天的呼吸练习，甚至在我生孩子的时候。)”以及第二段“Traditional treatments had failed many of them, so my colleagues and I ran a randomized controlled trial to test the effects of SKY breathing. Compared with the control group, veterans practicing SKY every day for one week saw their anxiety drop to levels typical of the general population.(传统的治疗方法失败了很多，所以我和我的同事进行了一个随机对照试验来测试SKY呼吸的效果。与对照组相比，在一周内每天练习SKY的退伍军人的焦虑水平下降到一般人群的典型水平)”可知，文章主要讲述了SKY疗法可以使人不那么焦虑，获得幸福。故选B。 (B) If you have no difficulty in understanding what native English speakers say in daily life, there is a whole new world of brilliant podcast (播客) series to explore. If you aren’t sure where to start, have a look at these: The Joc Rogan Experience ★★★★★ The Joc Rogan Experience is a great learning device because of its interesting English conversations between Rogan and his guests. At the time of writing there have been over 1660 episodes with subjects ranging from comedy and science to politics and sports. Rogan is also a famous stand-up comedian, so the show is full of cultural references and idioms. This American Life ★★★★★ This American Life is a great choice for English learners who want an insight into the culture of the USA. It is a mixture of journalism and storytelling, focusing on real-life tales from citizens of all regions of the country. The stories are new and varied. One episode was taped for 24 hours in an all-night restaurant; another interviewed workers on strike. The Writer's Voice ★★★★☆ The New Yorker is a famous American magazine, and every week it prints a new short story. In this podcast, the week's story is read aloud by its writer. The published work covers a wide range of life experiences across the United States and beyond. It's a great way to enjoy some of the best new fiction in the country. Overheard at National Geographic ★★★★★ National Geographic is a much-loved American magazine (and TV channel) famous for incredible stories and photography related to science and the environment. Overheard is about the discussions Nat Geo employees have had while taking breaks. Expect crazy stories from explorers, photographers, and scientists from around the world. 40. In order to fully enjoy these podcasts, you should________. A. have interaction with hosts B. have good English competence C. be interested in being a podcaster D. be familiar with American social life 41. Which podcast gives you more stories behind the scene? A. The Writer's Voice. B. This American Life. C. The Joe Rogan Experience. D. Overheard at National Geographic. 42. What do these podcasts have in common? A. They enjoy great popularity. B. Their stories are set in America. C. They are attached to magazines. D. Their works are updated weekly. 【答案】40. B 41. D 42. A 【解析】 【导语】本文是一篇应用文。文章主要向在日常生活中理解以英语为母语的人说的话没有困难的人介绍了全新的精彩播客系列。 【40题详解】 细节理解题。根据文章第一段第一句“If you have no difficulty in understanding what native English speakers say in daily life, there is a whole new world of brilliant podcast series to explore.(如果你在日常生活中理解以英语为母语的人说的话没有困难，还有一个全新的精彩播客系列等着你去探索)”可知，如果想要完全享受这些播客，首先你要有好的英语能力。故选B项。 【41题详解】 细节理解题。根据文章最后一段倒数第二句“Overheard is about the discussions Nat Geo employees have had while taking breaks.(偶然听到的是国家地理员工在休息时的讨论)”可知，Overheard at National Geographic可以让你听到更多的幕后故事。故选D项。 【42题详解】 推理判断题。根据第一个小标题下第二句“At the time of writing there have been over 1,660 episodes with subjects ranging from comedy and science to politics and sports.(到我写这篇文章的时候，已经有1660多集了，主题从喜剧、科学到政治和体育)”和其余三个小标题的第一句“This American Life is a great choice for English learners who want an insight into the culture of the USA.(《美国生活》对于想要深入了解美国文化的英语学习者来说是一个很好的选择)”“The New Yorker is a famous American magazine, and every week it prints a new short story.(《纽约客》是美国著名的杂志，它每周出版一篇新的短篇小说)”“National Geographic is a much-loved American magazine (and TV channel) famous for incredible stories and photography related to science and the environment.(《国家地理》是一本深受喜爱的美国杂志(和电视频道)，以与科学和环境有关的令人难以置信的故事和照片而闻名)”可知，这几个播客的共同点是它们都很受欢迎。故选A项。 (C) Everything we know suggests that the universe is unusual. It is flatter, smoother, larger and emptier than a “typical” universe predicted by the known laws of physics. If we reached into a hat filled with pieces of paper, each with the specifications of a possible universe written on it, it is unlikely that we would get a universe anything like ours in one pick—or even a billion. The challenge that cosmologists face is to make sense of this specialness. One approach to this question is inflation—the hypothesis (假设) that the early universe went through a stage of fast expansion. At first, inflation seemed to do the trick. A simple version of the idea gave correct predictions for the spectrum of fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background. But a closer look shows that we have just moved the problem further back in time. To make inflation happen at all requires us to fine-tune the initial conditions of the universe. And unless inflation is highly tuned, it leads to a runaway process of universe creation. As a result, some cosmologists (宇宙学家) suggest that there is not one universe, but an infinite number, with a huge variety of properties: the multiverse. There are an infinite number of universes in the collection that are like our universe and an infinite number that are not. But the proportion of infinity to infinity is undefined, and can be made into anything the theorist wants. Thus the multiverse theory has difficulty making any firm predictions and threatens to take us out of the area of science. These other universes are unobservable and because chance dictates the random distribution of properties across universes, suggesting the existence of a multiverse does not let us get to anything about our universe beyond what we already know. As attractive as the idea may seem, it is basically a sleight of hand, which turns an explanatory failure into an apparent explanatory success. The success is empty because anything that might be observed about our universe could be explained as something that must, by chance, happen somewhere in the multiverse. We started out trying to explain why the universe is so special, and we end up being asked to believe that our universe is one of an infinite number of universes with random properties. This makes me suspect that there is a basic but unexamined assumption about the laws of nature that must be overturned. Cosmology has new questions to answer. Not just what are the laws, but why are these laws the laws? How were they chosen? We can’t just hypothesise what the initial conditions were at the big bang, we need to explain those initial conditions. Thus we are in the position of a computer program asked to explain its inputs. It is clear that if we are to get anywhere, we need to invent new methods, and perhaps new kinds of laws, to gain a scientific description of the universe as a whole. 43. According to the passage, which of the following statements is true of our universe? A. There are several hypotheses about its early stage. B. There are more than one billion universes similar to ours. C. It is expanding at a greater speed that it did at the stage of the big bang. D. It is different from the predictions made according to the laws of physics. 44. What does the writer imply about the hypothesis of inflation? A. It hasn’t been challenged. B. It doesn’t make much sense. C. It is by far the most reasonable approach. D. It is the simple version of a complicated idea. 45. Which word in the passage is similar in meaning to the phrase “sleight of hand” (paragraph 4)? A. process B. prediction C. trick D. infinity 46. It can be inferred from the passage that the writer________. A. believes the idea of the multiverse will help us to understand our universe better B. argues there is a fixed proportion of universes like ours to those unlike ours C. holds computer programs can work better than humans in cosmology D. thinks some laws of nature that we take for granted may be false 【答案】43. D 44. B 45. C 46. D 【解析】 【导语】这是一篇议论文。文章主要论述了一些我们认为理所当然的自然法则一定是真实的吗？作者认为一些自然法则未必是真实的，一些未经检验的假设必须被推翻。 【43题详解】 细节理解题。根据第一段关键句“It is flatter, smoother, larger and emptier than a “typical” universe predicted by the known laws of physics.”（它比已知的物理定律所预测的“典型”宇宙更平坦、更光滑、更大、更空洞。）可知，真实的宇宙比已知的物理定律所预测的“典型”宇宙更平坦、更光滑、更大、更空洞，由此可知，我们的宇宙与根据物理学定律所作的预测不同。故选D项。 【44题详解】 推理判断题。根据第三段关键句“To make inflation happen at all requires us to fine-tune the initial conditions of the universe. And unless inflation is highly tuned, it leads to a runaway process of universe creation.”（要使膨胀发生，需要我们对宇宙的初始条件进行微调。除非膨胀得到高度调整，否则它会导致宇宙创造失控。）可知，作者认为，要想宇宙膨胀的假设成立，就需要我们对宇宙的初始条件进行微调，但除非膨胀得到高度调整，否则它会导致宇宙创造失控，在这种情况下，宇宙膨胀的假设并不成立，由此可知，作者认为膨胀假设是没什么意义的。故选B项。 【45题详解】 词义猜测题。根据画线短语句中“which turns an explanatory failure into an apparent explanatory success”（这将解释性失败转化为明显的解释性成功）和下文“The success is empty because anything that might be observed about our universe could be explained as something that must, by chance, happen somewhere in the multiverse.”（成功是空洞的，因为我们宇宙中可能观察到的任何东西都可以解释为在多元宇宙中偶然发生的事情。）可知，宇宙学家的这种想法将解释性失败转化为明显的解释性成功，但这种成功是空洞的，由此可知，这种想法基本上是一种巧妙的把戏，因为我们宇宙中可能观察到的任何东西都可以解释为在多元宇宙中偶然发生的事情，“trick”意为“把戏”，能够表达画线短语在句中所要表达的意思。故选C项。 【46题详解】 推理判断题。根据第一段关键句“It is flatter, smoother, larger and emptier than a “typical” universe predicted by the known laws of physics.”（它比已知的物理定律所预测的“典型”宇宙更平坦、更光滑、更大、更空洞。）和倒数第二段关键句“This makes me suspect that there is a basic but unexamined assumption about the laws of nature that must be overturned.”（这让我怀疑，关于自然法则，有一个基本但未经检验的假设必须被推翻。）可知，我们的宇宙比已知的物理定律所预测的“典型”宇宙更平坦、更光滑、更大、更空洞，作者认为一些自然法则未必是真实的，基本但未经检验的假设必须被推翻，由此可知，作者认为一些我们认为理所当然的自然法则可能是错误的，需要被推翻。故选D项。 Section C Directions: Read the following passage. Fill in each blank with a proper sentence given below. Each sentence can be used only once. Note that there are two more sentences than you need. Do Wild Animals Get PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder)? Every few years, snowshoe hare numbers in northwestern Canada climb to a peak. As hare populations increase, so do those of their predators. Then the hare population falls suddenly and predators start to die off. The cycle is a famous phenomenon among ecologists. ____47____ Hare numbers decrease not just because predators eat too many of them. There's another factor: The long-term stress of living while being surrounded by killers. The trauma（创伤）of living through repeated predator chases triggers lasting changes in brain chemistry. Those changes keep the hares from reproducing at normal levels, even after their predators have died off. And it's not just snowshoe hares, as ecologists Liana Zanette and Michael Clinchy have shown. Zanette and Clinchy, both at the university of Western Ontario, study the ecology of fear. It combines the psychology of trauma with the behavioral ecology of fear in wild animals. ____48____ The off-springs of frightened song sparrows like those of stressed snowshoe hare, are less likely to survive to adulthood and succeed in reproducing. These findings add to a growing body of evidence which shows that fearful experiences can have long-lasting effects on wildlife. The work is also part of wider debate over whether PTSD is unique to humans. Studies of the ecology of fear started in the 1990s. Before then, scientists believed that the impact of a predator on an individual animal was either deadly or fleeting. ____49____ But research shows that fear can change the long-term behaviour and psychology of wild animals. The reasons to fear are clear. Recent studies have found that up to 25% of harbor porpoises in the southern North Sea have claw and bite marks from gray seals. Almost 100% of manta rays in some African waters bear multiple bite wounds from sharks. ____50____ Some of the most dramatic impacts of trauma have been observed in African elephants. Their populations have declined sharply due to poaching and habitat loss. Today, many surviving elephants have witnessed the cruel killing of their mothers and aunts. This has resulted in orphaned elephants running amok as they grow into adolescence. A. This fear is beneficial, because it keeps you alive to bred another day. B. In recent years, however, researchers have come to an unusual conclusion. C. These survivors may carry memories of terror along with their physical scars. D. If a zebra escaped the claws of a lion, it would move on and live its life as before. E. The same pattern has been shown in wild mice and in fish living with high levels of predator threat. F. They've found that fear of predators can cause other wild animals to bear and raise fewer young, too. 【答案】47. B 48. F 49. D 50. C 【解析】 【分析】本文是一篇说明文。野生动物会得PTSD(创伤后应激障碍)吗? 研究表明,恐惧可以改变野生动物的长期行为和心理。幸存者可能会带着对恐怖的记忆，以及它们身体上的伤疤而生存。 【47题详解】 根据上文“As hare populations increase, so do those of their predators. Then the hare population falls suddenly and predators start to die off. The cycle is a famous phenomenon among ecologists.（随着野兔数量的增加,它们的捕食者也会增加。然后野兔的数量突然下降,捕食者开始消失。这个循环是生态学家中著名的现象）”和下文“Hare numbers decrease not just because predators eat too many of them. There's another factor: The long-term stress of living while being surrounded by killers.（兔子的数量减少不仅仅是因为捕食者吃得太多。还有另一个因素:被杀手包围时的长期生活压力）”可知，该空应与上文构成转折关系，且与下文保持一致的内容，所以，B项In recent years, however, researchers have come to an unusual conclusion.（然而,近年来,研究人员得出了一个不寻常的结论）切题。该项内容通过however与上文构成转折关系，an unusual conclusion 又与下文中的another factor相吻合。故选B。 【48题详解】 根据下文“The off-springs of frightened song sparrows like those of stressed snowshoe hare, are less likely to survive to adulthood and succeed in reproducing.（受到惊吓的歌雀的后代，就像受到压力的雪兔的后代一样，很难存活到成年并成功繁殖）”可知，空处应陈述受到惊吓的动物的生存和繁殖能力都不强。F项They've found that fear of predators can cause other wild animals to bear and raise fewer young, too.（他们发现,对捕食者的恐惧会导致其他野生动物承受并增加更少的幼崽）切题，上下文话题一致，下文是对该项内容的举例说明。故选F。 【49题详解】 根据上文“Studies of the ecology of fear started in the 1990s. Before then, scientists believed that the impact of a predator on an individual animal was either deadly or fleeting.（对恐惧生态学的研究始于20世纪90年代。在此之前,科学家们认为,捕食者对个体动物的影响要么是致命的,要么是转瞬即逝的）”可推知，下文应对上文陈述的两种影响进行举例。D项If a zebra escaped the claws of a lion, it would move on and live its life as before.（如果一只斑马逃脱了狮子的爪子,它就会继续前进,像以前一样生活）切题。该项是对上文“影响是转瞬即逝”的举例说明。故选D。 【50题详解】 根据下文“Some of the most dramatic impacts of trauma have been observed in African elephants. Their populations have declined sharply due to poaching and habitat loss. Today, many surviving elephants have witnessed the cruel killing of their mothers and aunts. This has resulted in orphaned elephants running amok as they grow into adolescence.（在非洲象身上观察到了创伤的一些最显著影响。由于偷猎和栖息地丧失，它们的数量急剧下降。今天,许多幸存的大象目睹了他们的妈妈和其他母象残忍的被杀害。这导致了孤儿大象在进入青春期时疯狂奔跑）”可知，幸存者带着恐惧的记忆生活，而非洲大象就是其中的一个例子。C项These survivors may carry memories of terror along with their physical scars.（这些幸存者可能会带着对恐怖的记忆,以及他们身体上的伤疤）切题。该项中的“carry memories of terror along with their physical scars ”与下文的“witnessed the cruel killing of their mothers and aunts”和“orphaned elephants running amok”相呼应。故选C。 IV．Summary Writing 51. 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. The Crucial Role of Early Childhood Environment The environment we are in affects our moods, ability to form relationships, effectiveness in work or play — even our health. In addition, the early childhood environment has a very crucial role in children’s learning and development for two important reasons. First, young children are in the process of rapid brain development. In the early years, the brain develops more synapses (神经元的突触) or connections than it can possibly use. Those that are used by the child form strong connections, while the synapses that are not used gradually disappear. Children’s experiences help to make this determination. The National Scientific Council of the Developing Child compares the development of the brain to constructing a house, stating, “Just as a lack of the right materials can result in blueprints that change, the lack of appropriate experiences can lead to alterations in genetic plans.” Because children’s experiences are limited by their surroundings, the environment we provide for them has a crucial impact on the way the child’s brain develops. The second reason that the early childhood environment has such a strong role in children’s development is because of the amount of time children spend in these environments. Many children spend a large portion of their wakeful hours in early childhood setting. For example, a baby beginning child care will spend up to 12,000 hours in the program. This is more time than he will spend in both elementary and secondary schools. Children will typically spend another 4,000 hours in kindergarten through third grade classrooms. Anita Rui Olds, a well-known environmental designer, believes that we should design our early childhood environments for miracles, not minimums. She states: “Children are miracles. Believing that every child is a miracle can transform the way we design for children’s care. When we invite a miracle into our lives, we prepare ourselves and the environment around us. We make it our job to create, with great respect and gratitude, a space that is worthy of a miracle! _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 【答案】There are two reasons why children’s learning and development depend on the early childhood environment. First, the environment where children get their experiences determines the way of children’s brain development. Second, compared to other periods, children spend more time in early childhood settings. So a better early childhood environment should be set for children’s brain development. 【解析】 【导语】本文是一篇说明文。文章主要讲述幼儿环境对儿童的学习和发展有着非常关键的两方面的作用。 【详解】1 要点摘录① In addition, the early childhood environment has a very crucial role in children’s learning and development for two important reasons.②First, young children are in the process of rapid brain development.③The second reason that the early childhood environment has such a strong role in children’s development is because of the amount of time children spend in these environments.④When we invite a miracle into our lives, we prepare ourselves and the environment around us. We make it our job to create, with great respect and gratitude, a space that is worthy of a miracle! 2.缜密构思全文是“总-分-总”的结构。以上四句话分别描述每一段的主旨大意，因此概括全文内容可以使用它们的组合。3.遣词造句①Because children’s developments are created by education, the environment we provide for them has a crucial impact on them.②Many people spend a large portion of their wakeful hours in playing mobile phones.③Believing that every effort will create a miracle can transform the way we understand ourselves. 【点睛】[高分句型1]：Those that are used by the child form strong connections, while the synapses that are not used gradually disappear. 其中两个that引导的定语从句，while连词功能连接两个有从句的分句，表示对比关系，该表达很高级。 [高分句型2]：The second reason that the early childhood environment has such a strong role in children’s development is because of the amount of time children spend in these environments.用that引导定语从句修饰reason并且在主句中作主语，且is后面接because of连接的名词性短语，表达非常高级。 V．Translation (3’+3’+4’+5’=15’) Directions: Translate the following sentences into English, using the words given in the brackets. 52. 一瓶矿泉水帮助他在地震中活了下来。（It）(汉译英) _______________________________________________________________ 【答案】It was a bottle of mineral water that helped him survive the earthquake. 【解析】 【详解】考查强调句、时态。表示“一瓶矿泉水”用a bottle of mineral water，在句中作主语；结合语境可知，句子描述的是过去发生的事情，所以时态用一般过去时，表示“帮助某人做某事”用help sb. (to) do sth.，谓语用过去式helped，宾语用him；表示“活下来”用survive，用省略to的不定式，作宾补；表示“地震”用the earthquake。本句使用强调句型“It is/was+被强调部分+that/who+其他部分”，本句中被强调部分是a bottle of mineral water，强调的是物，所以用that。故翻译为It was a bottle of mineral water that helped him survive the earthquake. 53. 无论是当地居民还是游客，拥堵都是一个令人头疼的问题。（alike）(汉译英) _______________________________________________________________ 【答案】Congestion is a headache for residents and tourists alike. 【解析】 【详解】考查名词、时态。表示“拥堵”用名词congestion，在句中作主语，句首单词，首字母大写；句子描述的是一般事实，所以时态用一般现在时，主语为第三人称单数，be动词用is；表示“一个令某人头疼的问题”用 a headache for sb.。表示“当地居民”用resident；表示“游客”用tourist；用复数形式，作for的宾语。表示“同样地”用alike，作状语。故翻译为Congestion is a headache for residents and tourists alike. 54. 最近的两项研究表明，在所有行业中，女性使用ChatGPT的可能性比男性更低。（likely）(汉译英) _______________________________________________________________ 【答案】According to two recent studies, across all professions, women were/are less likely to use ChatGPT than men who worked/work in the same industry. 【解析】 【详解】考查固定短语，时态，主谓一致和定语从句。“最近的两项研究表明”翻译为according to two recent studies，“在所有行业中”翻译为across all professions，“女性”是woman，要用复数，“……的可能性更低”是be less likely to do sth.，“使用ChatGPT”是use ChatGPT，“比男性”是than men who work in the same industry，其中who引导定语从句，修饰men，句子可理解为描述客观事实，时态用一般现在时，也可理解为描述过去的事情，时态用一般过去时，因此be less likely to do sth.中的be用were/are，work用worked/work，因此整句话翻译为“According to two recent studies, across all professions, women were/are less likely to use ChatGPT than men who worked/work in the same industry”。故答案为According to two recent studies, across all professions, women were/are less likely to use ChatGPT than men who worked/work in the same industry. 55. 制造商声称，这款即将发布的电动汽车具有自动驾驶功能，可语音控制，一次充电仅需12分钟，就可以行驶600公里。(claim) (汉译英) _______________________________________________________________ 【答案】The manufacturer claims that the EV to be launched features autonomous driving, voice control, and can travel 600 km on a single charge that takes only 12 minutes. 【解析】 【详解】考查宾语从句、定语从句、非谓语动词、名词、动词和形容词。句子在介绍当前的情况，时态宜用一般现在时，整个句子可处理为主从复合句；主句的主语“制造商”可用名词the manufacturer，谓语“声称”可用动词claim，后面为claim的具体内容，可用that引导宾语从句；宾语从句中主语“这款电动汽车”可用名词the EV，“即将发布的”可用不定式被动语态to be launched，作the EV的后置定语，第一个谓语“具有……功能”可用动词feature，“自动驾驶”可用名词短语autonomous driving，“语音控制”可用名词短语voice control，第二个谓语“可以行驶”可用情态动词can和动词travel搭配，“600公里”可用600 km，“一次充电”可用介词短语on a single charge，“仅需12分钟”是对“充电”的修饰，可用that引导限制性定语从句，修饰先行词a single charge；定语从句中that代替先行词作主语，“仅需12分钟”可用动词take和名词短语only 12 minutes搭配。故可译为The manufacturer claims that the EV to be launched features autonomous driving, voice control, and can travel 600 km on a single charge that takes only 12 minutes. VI．Guided Writing 56. Directions: 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高三学生李华，学校图书馆拟购入一批英语学习资料与读物，图书馆长周老师现向同学们征集意见。请写一封电子邮件，谈谈你的看法和建议，并说明理由。 ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 【答案】Dear Mr. Zhou, I am Li Hua, a student from Class 3, Grade 12. I am writing to offer some suggestions regarding the new batch of English learning materials and readings for the school library. Firstly, I suggest purchasing some classic English literature, such as works by Shakespeare, Jane Austen, and Charles Dickens. Secondly, it would be great to have a collection of contemporary English magazines and newspapers. These publications can help us stay updated with global issues and improve our reading skills. Moreover, I recommend adding some English language learning guides that focus on practical skills, such as speaking and writing. These resources can be particularly useful for students preparing for exams or aiming to enhance their communicative abilities. I believe that with these materials, the library will better support our English learning and foster a more engaging reading environment for all students. Thank you for considering my suggestions. Best regards, Li Hua 【解析】 【导语】本篇书面表达属于应用文。要求考生给学校图书馆长周老师写一封电子邮件，就购买英语学习资料与读物一事提建议。 【详解】1. 词汇积累 关于：regarding→concerning 另外：moreover→besides 提高：enhance→raise 考虑：consider→take...into consideration 2. 句式拓展 简单句变复合句 原句：These publications can help us stay updated with global issues and improve our reading skills. 拓展句：There is no doubt that these publications can help us stay updated with global issues and improve our reading skills 【点睛】【高分句型1】Moreover, I recommend adding some English language learning guides that focus on practical skills, such as speaking and writing.（运用了动名词作宾语和that引导的定语从句） 【高分句型2】I believe that with these materials, the library will better support our English learning and foster a more engaging reading environment for all students.（运用了that引导的宾语从句） 第1页/共1页 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $$