上海市宜川中学2024-2025学年高二下学期阶段测试二英语试题

宜川中学2024学年第二学期阶段测试 高二英语 试卷 2025.5 考生注意： 1.本考试设试卷和答题纸，答案写在答题纸上，写在试卷上无效。 2.答题前，考生务必在答题纸上清楚填涂班级、姓名和准考证号。 3.本试卷共9页，考试时间120分钟，试卷满分150分。 I. Listening Comprehension Section A Short Conversations 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 agrees with the man. B. She doesn’t know the book. C. She likes the book very much. D. She doesn’t know what to do. 2. A. She has a lot to do today. B. She’s almost as busy as he is. C. She might be finished by noon. D. She can go with him this afternoon. 3. A. The man should buy a meal ticket each month. B. Individuals eat different amounts for each meal. C. Buying the meal ticket won’t save the man money. D. The price of a meal varies from month to month. 4. A. The application isn’t available at the office. B. The woman should mail a copy of her application. C The photocopy machine isn’t there anymore. D. The woman can make copies at the post office. 5. A. He doesn’t expect to meet to her at the seashore. B. He wants to see how her experiment is going on. C. He wants to know when she’s coming. D. He isn’t interested in watching her. 6. A. Pay less rent. B. Pay several bills. C. Phone the electric company. D. Make fewer telephone calls. 7. A. Become a musician. B. Wait and take the class next year. C. Give his presentation without a plan. D. Discuss the presentation with the professor. 8. A. He’s sure the new cook is better. B. He wonders whether the new cook is an improvement. C. He hopes the new cook will stay longer than the old one did. D. He’s going to see the new cook tonight. 9. A. Cathy dances a lot in her spare time. B. Cathy isn’t the person dancing. C. Cathy does indeed dance well. D. Cathy doesn’t dance better than her. 13. A. They would see better from a different row. B. He’ll switch places with the woman. C. He would rather not leave his place. D. It isn’t hard to see from his seat. Section B Directions: In Section B, you will hear two short passages and one longer conversation, and you will be asked three questions on each of the passages and the conversation. The passages and the conversation will be read twice, but the questions will be spoken only once. When you hear a question, read the four possible answers on your paper and decide which one would be the best answer to the question you have heard. Questions 11 through 13 are based on the following passage. 11. A. During the first week of classes. B. During the second week of classes. C. After the second week of classes. D. Just before the final exam. 12. A. The mind can be completely understood through scientific observation. B. The mind and the brain have the same chemical and physical functions. C. The mind is too complex to be considered part of the “vital force”. D. The mind may well function separately from the brain. 13. A. Decide whether they are mechanists or vitalists. B. Take an article home and read it. C. Transfer to the introductory class. D. Write an essay about vitalism and mechanism. Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage. 14. A. A painter’s development. B. A new painting technique. C. A famous watercolor painting. D. A painter’s achievement. 15 A He recorded its progress. B. He established its position in art. C. He changed the way people painted it. D. He created a way of visual analysis for it. 16. A. It shows a sense of unity. B. It reflects fishermen’s hard life. C. It uses blue as its dominant color. D. It is painted on an unusual type of paper. Questions 17 through 20 are based on the following conversation. 17. A. The name of an art school. B. The differences between two kinds of paint. C. Information about a course. D. Locations about a course. 18. A. They are easy to find in stores. B. They dry in a short time. C. They come in many unusual colors. D. They feel pleasant to the touch. 19 A. Experiment with textures in painting. B. Learn to mix their own paints. C. Learn to appreciate abstract designs. D. Copy the works of master painters. 20. A. See the woman’s work. B. Ask his roommate for advice. C. Order some supplies. D. Sign up for a painting class. 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 problems of public speaking For most people, one of the biggest fears in life is having to make a speech, whether at school, at a wedding, or in our business lives. There are several good reasons for this, not least among them the fear that no-one will have the slightest interest in ____1____ you are saying. If you are on stage, ____2____ is often the case with such speeches, there’s no problem. Fortunately, it is not possible for you to see the audience, ____3____ the lights blind you the moment you step up. The only area of the stage that may have no light is the lectern (讲台) ___4___ you put your notes—it will be in total darkness. There are times, however, when you probably realise that you ____5____ (leave) your glasses at home. Despite having spent ages preparing it, you now have to improvise (即兴) a 40-minute speech ____6____ (base) on those few words of your notes you can actually see. It’s then ____7____ the technical faults start to come into play. First, if you need any, your slides and illustrations won’t work. If it’s in your hands, you’ll accidentally push the wrong button and show everything upside down. If professionals are ____8____ charge, they will show the wrong picture at the wrong time, and even jump a couple. If you’re lucky, the lights will fail at this point and the speech will have to be abandoned! It’s a good thing that the technical support is excellent, ____9____ (allow) you to make a good and lasting impression. It’s important to start well. To fight nerves, it’s a good idea to hold the lectern with both hands, but not too tightly, because they have been known ______10______ (collapse)! Section B Directions: Complete the following passage 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. comparison B. distinguishing C. effective D. flight E. forcefully F. landing G. lighten H. precisely I. scales J. stable K. support If birds in a truck fly, does it get lighter? It’s a question that had US TV show Mythbusters filling a truck with pigeons and weighing it while getting them to fly. Now it seems there’s some truth to the idea that a truck driver carrying birds can ____11____ the load by making the birds fly — but it also makes it heavier. So says David Lentink of Stanford University in California, whose team has designed a system for measuring the forces created by a bird in____12____. Weighing a bird on the wing isn’t easy, says Lentink. As it moves its wings, it pushes on the air both above and below, meaning its ____13____weight changes. To make things harder, the way it moves the air changes several times a second. “Your bathroom____14____will take a few seconds to determine your weight,” he says. “We needed a system that was super-fast in ____15____.” What they came up with is essentially a box with pressure pads on all of its interior walls that ____16____measure changes in air pressure 100 times each second. By filming parrots taking off and ____17____ inside the box, and measuring the forces the birds created, Lentink’s team found they create almost no vertical force on the wing’s upstroke — making them weightless. On the downstroke, though, they push on the air so ____18____ that they create a vertical force of up to twice their bodyweight. “So if the birds in the truck all move their wings at the same time, then the truck would have to ____19____ twice the weight of the birds during the downstroke — and none of their weight during the upstroke,” says Lentink. In reality, birds tend to move their wings at different times, meaning the truck will, on average, maintain a(n) ____20____ weight. 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. In European terms, it’s barely a baby — but Boston is one of the oldest cities in the US. It has gnarled streets, a slow, rumbly subway and red-brick buildings that date back to the revolution. But behind the history is a modern approach to city management that’s making life easier for its citizens — and it’s all thanks to ____21____. Earlier this week, Uber, a successful car-booking platform, announced that it would ____22____ its data with Boston, making it the first city in the US to receive data from the firm. Starting in two weeks, then updated every quarter, Boston will get zip codes in which Uber rides begin and end, the timing of rides and the distance travelled. Jascha Franklin-Hodge, the city’s chief information officer, says Uber’s data will help his team assess the impact of city development on residential ____23____, measuring commute (通勤) and travel times between different neighbourhoods. The Uber data set will ____24____ a wide range of others in Boston’s store. Like cities around the world, it has collected data from its public transport system, cellphones and taxi records to quietly transform and ____25____ itself. For example, it is already using data from the public transport system to understand the impact removing an overpass in south Boston is having on local residents. “Cities have used data forever really,” says Alan Wiig of Temple University in Philadelphia. “What’s ____26____ now, what this announcement signifies, is the speeding up of how quickly cities can use data.” Other cities are also seeing the advantage in pooling data to make life ____27____ for residents, says John Polak of Imperial College London. ____28____, data from London’s transport system helped the city prepare for the arrival of the large number of visitors during the 2012 Olympics. ____29____ solutions can make residents’ lives easier, but they can also give managers new insights (洞察) into their cities. Chris Osgood of the Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanics in Boston says wiring 320 downtown parking spots with occupancy sensors _____30_____ not just by letting drivers find open spots through an app called Parking but by helping the city managers see where they needed to change their policies. Osgood and his team _____31_____ a number of spaces that were constantly occupied, and reduced their maximum occupancy time from 4 hours to 2 hours. Other spots were underused, and had their maximum times bumped up _____32_____. “We have trash cans throughout the city that are _____33_____ sensors,” Franklin-Hodge says. “They can inform us in real time when they are getting full. As we analyse that data over time, it lets us _____34_____ where to put resources to collect trash.” Franklin-Hodge says he expects more private companies to join Uber. “The city can’t just look inwards at its own databases,” he says. “It has to recognise that consumer services are generating (生成) data that’s valuable to us. The Uber _____35_____ is the tip of the iceberg.” 21. A. app B. companies C. data D. advances 22. A. assist B. provide C. impress D. share 23. A. community B. mobility C. landscape D. quality 24. A. enhance B. assess C. collect D. join 25. A. create B. locate C. improve D. control 26. A. new B. good C. wrong D. old 27. A. smoother B. tougher C. quicker D. slower 28. A. In addition B. For example C. As a result D. On the contrary 29. A. Traditional B. General C. Potential D. Technological 30. A. took on B. put aside C. made up D. paid off 31. A. cancelled B. identified C. emptied D. enlarged 32. A. accordingly B. distinctively C. sensitively D. analytically 33. A. equipped with B. devoted to C. occupied by D. involved in 34. A. remember B. ignore C. plan D. ask 35. A. service B. agreement C. advantage D. requirement Section B Directions: Read the following three passages. Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D.(Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage you have just read. (A) Think back to when you were a child building cities with your friends out of Lego, effortlessly solving engineering problems. Now marvel at how different the resulting bridges, towers or skyscrapers were, even when you all started out with the same blocks. Building Caribbean colonies from nothing in the 16th century must have been similar. How European colonists met the challenges of island life and economy varied greatly, depending largely on the political and social structures they imported from home. But there was one major difference. Almost no one would have knocked down your childhood creations. In the Caribbean, however, there were hurricanes. What happens when they hit, when economies, societies and people are affected, torn apart or lost entirely, is the subject of Stuart Schwartz’s Sea of Storms. Hurricanes were completely outside the European experience. So when 16th-century Spanish colonists were faced with winds that carried church bells and weapons kilometres inland, sank ships and destroyed whole towns, they considered them mysterious evil forces. Later British, French, Dutch and Danish arrivals could only agree. Using the written material sent home by plantation owners, sea captains and civil and military administrators, Schwartz shows how this point of view gradually changed. Curiosity crept out from under the cover of religion. Barometers and thermometers became available — and the culture of scientific quantification and explanation became acceptable. Schwartz details the lives and achievements of scientists such as William Reid and William Redfield. Together, Reid and Redfield worked through the evidence to discover how hurricanes work. Shortly after, Benito Vines used this knowledge and the newly invented telegraph to create the first Caribbean-wide storm-warning service. There was also the delicate act of balancing what the Crown wanted against what the settlers considered their due, what creditors insisted on and what the slave population threatened. Hurricanes regularly broke this balance, and Schwartz explores how this brought out the best and worst in people at all levels of society. 36. What does the phrase “one major difference” (in paragraph 3) refer to? A. Our childhood creations varied a lot. B. Caribbean colonies could be destroyed. C. European social structures were different. D. Engineering problems used to be unsolvable. 37. According to the passage, why did 16th-century Spanish colonists consider hurricanes something evil? A. They were loyal followers of some religion. B. They were among the first to arrive in America. C. They had never met with any hurricanes before. D. They had been warned against hurricanes by locals. 38. According to Schwartz, how did people’s attitudes towards hurricanes change? A. People were not curious about them any longer. B. People tended to understand them in a scientific way. C. People turned to religion to find out how they occurred. D. People thought they were not as destructive as before. 39. What does Schwartz include in his book Sea of Storms? A. How Reid and Redfield issued the first Caribbean-wide storm warning. B. How hurricanes got people to show their otherwise hidden behaviour. C. How Benito Vines discovered the way hurricanes work. D. How hurricanes helped establish a new balance. (B) Meat is a one-stop-shop for essential amino acids (氨基酸) — the ones the body needs to build proteins but can’t make on its own. It is also a rich source of vitamin B12, iron and protein, all of which are often lacking in plant-based foods. But the types of meat we eat, and how much, matter. We are now eating meat in large quantities, and demand is growing, especially in developing nations. The kinds of meat we consume are also changing. In the UK, we are buying less fresh meat and more eat in the form of pre-prepared meals, which might contain added sugar, fat, salt and preservatives. While there’s little indication that white meats like poultry, or fish, are a health concern, the evidence for red processed meats like bacon, salami and ham is not encouraging. All this raises concerns for our health and the environment. However, eating the right kinds of meat can be beneficial for both. As well as vitamins and the like, meat contains a lot of protein for its calorie content, so although other foods give us protein too, meat is the most efficient source. Avoiding it could make it harder to get a healthy, balanced diet. 40. Which of the following is the writer most likely to agree with? A. Plant-based foods do more good to modern people than most types of meat. B. We should make a wise decision on the type and amount of meat we eat. C. Developing countries should consume more meat than they do now. D. Meat may not be such nourishing food as we previously thought. 41. Which sentence best fits the blank numbered 61? A. It is high time to give up meat for the sake of our environment. B. Meat is not so cost efficient that we had better avoid it in our diet. C. It seems not that possible to include a new type of meat in our diet. D. The greediest animals to farm are also the poorest meat producers. 42. According to the part titled “Processed Versus Fresh”, which statement is true? A. Either processed meat or fresh meat may cause cancer. B. Processed meat have the same nutritional value as fresh meat. C. Unprocessed meat is proved to be unrelated to heart problems. D. Neither processed meat nor fresh meat causes serious health problems. (C) The United States contribution to coastal plastic pollution world-wide is significantly larger than previously thought, possibly by as much as five times, according to a study published Friday. According to the research, published in Science Advances, two factors contributed to the sharp increase: Americans are using more plastic than ever and the current study included pollution produced by United States exports of plastic waste, while the earlier one did not. The United States, which does not have sufficient infrastructure (基础建设) to handle its recycling demands at home, exports about half of its recyclable waste. Of the total exported, about 88 percent ends up in countries considered to have inadequate waste management. “When you consider how much of our plastic waste isn’t actually recyclable because it is low-value, polluted or difficult to process, it’s not surprising that a lot of it ends up polluting the environment,” said the study’s lead author, Kara Lavender Law, research professor of oceanography at Sea Education Association, in a statement. The study estimates that in 2016, the United States contributed between 1.1 and 2.5 million tons of plastic waste to the oceans through a combination of littering, dumping and mismanaged exports. At a minimum, that’s almost double the total estimated waste in the team’s previous study. At the high end, it would be a fivefold increase over the earlier estimate. The ranges are wide partly because “there’s no real standard for being able to provide good quality data on collection and disposal of waste in general,” said Ted Siegler, a resource economist at DSM Environmental Solutions, a consulting firm, and an author of the study. Mr. Siegler said the researchers had evaluated waste-disposal practices in countries around the world and used their “best professional judgment” to determine the lowest and highest amounts of plastic waste likely to escape into the environment. They settled on a range of 25 percent to 75 percent. Tony Walker, an associate professor at the Dalhousie University School for Resource and Environmental Studies in Halifax, Nova Scotia, said that analyzing waste data can amount to a “data minefield (危机四伏的局面)” because there are no data standards across municipalities. Moreover, once plastic waste is shipped overseas, he said, data is often not recorded at all. Nonetheless, Dr. Walker, who was not involved in the study, said it could offer a more accurate accounting of plastic pollution than the previous study, which likely underestimated the United States’ contribution. “They’ve put their best estimate, as accurate as they can be with this data,” he said, and used ranges, which underscores that the figures are estimates. 43. According to the research, what has made the US contribution to coastal plastic pollution higher than thought? A. More unrecyclable plastic waste has been produced. B. Some once excluded data is now included in the study. C. Americans have begun to export plastic waste recently. D. People have no device at home to dispose of plastic waste. 44. The total estimated plastic waste was according to the team’s previous study. A. about 0.26 million tons B. about 0.55 million tons C. about 1.1 million tons D. about 2.2 million tons 45. Why is there a wide range in the team’s estimate? A. Countries around the world vary a lot in the amount of plastic waste. B. More plastic waste has escaped into the environment than before. C. No such data-related standard is widely acknowledged. D. The team hopes to give a possible prospect. 46. It can be inferred from the passage that Tony Walker . A. doesn’t think the team’s estimates are that accurate B. underestimates the US contribution to plastic waste C. doesn’t think that the team should provide such estimates D. feels regretful that he hasn’t been involved in the study Section C Directions: Complete the following passage by using the sentences given below. Each sentence can be used only once. Note that there are two more sentences than you need. Funny Feet My running shoes have a thick sole and cushioned heel (厚底与加软垫的鞋跟). ____47____ Soon after that, reports began appearing of injuries sustained by runners who had adopted these shoes. Now the maximally cushioned or “fat” shoe is back in fashion, and suddenly my old shoes look high-tech again. ____48____ Surprisingly, we are only beginning to discover what a normal human foot looks like, how it should move, and the role that shoes play. Recent research, inspired in part by the fallout from barefoot running, reveals enormous diversity in healthy feet. What’s more, the average Western foot turns out to be an outlier, deformed with respect to our ancestors’ feet and those of our barefoot contemporaries. Much of this is down to shoes, which have taken over some of the work our feet had to do. “We assume that the people around us are normal, but from an evolutionary perspective, they’re not,” says evolutionary biologist Daniel Lieberman at Harvard University. Foot shape is the product of gene-environment interactions, but how do they play out? Until recently, the few studies there had focused almost exclusively on Westerners — which, in practice, meant people who had worn shoes since they could walk. ____49____ In a study published in 2010, they found that Kenyan endurance runners who had grown up without shoes landed more often on their toes than on their heels as 80 per cent of shoe-wearing distance runners do. ____50____ But Lieberman points out that the sample size was small and that the results didn’t support many of the claims later made for barefoot running, such as the idea that it reduces the risk of injury. However, the hint that wearing shoes could have such a big impact on how we use our feet was appealing, and Lieberman and others have pursued its implications. A. Is all this simply a matter of fashion, I wonder, or is it telling us something more? B. The shoe-using Indians had narrower feet and a less even pressure distribution. C. I bought them five years ago, before the “barefoot” craze for minimalist shoes that would allow people to run like our ancestors. D. They measured the feet of 70 Indians who didn’t wear shoes. E. The work helped to inspire the barefoot running craze. F. Lieberman and his colleagues were among the first to cast their net more widely. IV. Summary Writing 51. Directions: Read the following passage. Summarize in no more than 60 words the main idea of the passage and how it is illustrated. Use your own words as far as possible. Solving the World’s Food Shortage Crisis There is no doubt that a global food shortage crisis currently exists. With the prices of staple grains such as wheat, rice, and corn rising from year to year, more people continue to go hungry. In order to prevent this problem from growing any worse and potentially ruining economies around the world, it is crucial that sound solutions are sought and implemented. According to experts, one solution is for scientists to develop new tools to increase crop production. Researchers around the world are studying ways to improve crops and farming techniques. Two such places that are making important discoveries are the International Rice Research Institute in the Philippines and the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center in Mexico. Scientists there are growing staple crops that are more pest resistant and weed resistant. The new and improved crops are also more nutrient-rich and yield higher quantities. Helping farmers safeguard against bad weather conditions is another possible solution to the global food shortage crisis. Unprepared farmers and unpredictable weather have proven to be a recipe for disaster. For example, droughts in Australia have left hundreds of farms bare and even more people without food. A farm pond to store rainwater is one preventative method scientists have developed to fight against the threat of droughts. Governments and farmers aren’t the only groups that must work towards a solution to the global food shortage crisis. Consumers also bear the responsibility of helping decrease shortage. One very simple thing that all consumers can do is purchase and eat less meat. Cows, chickens, and pigs are all fed with feed made from corn and other important grains. The large amount of food that is used to feed them could easily be redirected for human consumption if the demand for such meats decreased. There is no doubt that the global food shortage problem needs to be addressed immediately. The only way to prevent further worldwide hunger and malnutrition is for all parties to work together towards a solution. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ V. Translation Directions: Translate the following sentences into English, using the words given in the brackets. 52. 我一定是把钥匙落在姐姐家了。(must) (汉译英) ________________________________________________________________________ 53. 5年前推出的新口味冰激凌一炮打响。（launch）（汉译英） ________________________________________________________________________ 54. 人们的衣着可以在一定程度上体现他们的身份及他们在社会上的作用。(What) (汉译英) ________________________________________________________________________ 55. 除了每天在店内看到的新面孔外，他也欣喜地看到越来越多的学校活动让青少年了解这项运动。(introduce) (汉译英) ________________________________________________________________________ VI. Guided Writing 56. Directions: Write an English composition in 120 - 150 words according to the instructions given below in Chinese. 你的英国朋友Jim所在的学校要组织来中国进行主题夏令营活动，每个学生可以从以下三个主题营中选择一个参加： 1.唐诗(Tang poems)学习夏令营;2.乒乓球训练营 ;3. 剪纸(paper-cutting)学习夏令营。Jim来信希望你能给他推荐一个。请你给他回信，内容包括：1.你的建议; 2. 你的理由。 ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 宜川中学2024学年第二学期阶段测试 高二英语 试卷 2025.5 考生注意： 1.本考试设试卷和答题纸，答案写在答题纸上，写在试卷上无效。 2.答题前，考生务必在答题纸上清楚填涂班级、姓名和准考证号。 3.本试卷共9页，考试时间120分钟，试卷满分150分。 I. Listening Comprehension Section A Short Conversations 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 agrees with the man. B. She doesn’t know the book. C. She likes the book very much. D. She doesn’t know what to do. 2. A. She has a lot to do today. B. She’s almost as busy as he is. C. She might be finished by noon. D. She can go with him this afternoon. 3. A. The man should buy a meal ticket each month. B. Individuals eat different amounts for each meal. C. Buying the meal ticket won’t save the man money. D. The price of a meal varies from month to month. 4. A. The application isn’t available at the office. B. The woman should mail a copy of her application. C. The photocopy machine isn’t there anymore. D. The woman can make copies at the post office. 5. A. He doesn’t expect to meet to her at the seashore. B. He wants to see how her experiment is going on. C. He wants to know when she’s coming. D. He isn’t interested in watching her. 6. A. Pay less rent. B. Pay several bills. C. Phone the electric company. D. Make fewer telephone calls. 7. A. Become a musician. B. Wait and take the class next year. C. Give his presentation without a plan. D. Discuss the presentation with the professor. 8. A. He’s sure the new cook is better. B. He wonders whether the new cook is an improvement. C. He hopes the new cook will stay longer than the old one did. D. He’s going to see the new cook tonight. 9. A. Cathy dances a lot in her spare time. B. Cathy isn’t the person dancing. C. Cathy does indeed dance well. D. Cathy doesn’t dance better than her. 13. A. They would see better from a different row. B. He’ll switch places with the woman. C. He would rather not leave his place. D. It isn’t hard to see from his seat. Section B Directions: In Section B, you will hear two short passages and one longer conversation, and you will be asked three questions on each of the passages and the conversation. The passages and the conversation will be read twice, but the questions will be spoken only once. When you hear a question, read the four possible answers on your paper and decide which one would be the best answer to the question you have heard. Questions 11 through 13 are based on the following passage. 11. A. During the first week of classes. B. During the second week of classes. C. After the second week of classes. D. Just before the final exam. 12. A. The mind can be completely understood through scientific observation. B. The mind and the brain have the same chemical and physical functions. C. The mind is too complex to be considered part of the “vital force”. D. The mind may well function separately from the brain. 13. A. Decide whether they are mechanists or vitalists. B. Take an article home and read it. C. Transfer to the introductory class. D. Write an essay about vitalism and mechanism. Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage. 14. A. A painter’s development. B. A new painting technique. C. A famous watercolor painting. D. A painter’s achievement. 15 A. He recorded its progress. B. He established its position in art. C. He changed the way people painted it. D. He created a way of visual analysis for it. 16. A. It shows a sense of unity. B. It reflects fishermen’s hard life. C It uses blue as its dominant color. D. It is painted on an unusual type of paper. Questions 17 through 20 are based on the following conversation. 17. A. The name of an art school. B. The differences between two kinds of paint. C. Information about a course. D. Locations about a course. 18. A. They are easy to find in stores. B. They dry in a short time. C. They come in many unusual colors. D. They feel pleasant to the touch. 19. A. Experiment with textures in painting. B. Learn to mix their own paints. C. Learn to appreciate abstract designs. D. Copy the works of master painters. 20. A. See the woman’s work. B. Ask his roommate for advice. C. Order some supplies. D. Sign up for a painting class. Ⅱ. Grammar and Vocabulary Section A 【1~10题答案】 【答案】1. what 2. as 3. because 4. where 5. have left 6. based 7. that 8. in 9. allowing 10. to collapse Section B 【11~20题答案】 【答案】11. G 12. D 13. C 14. I 15. A 16. H 17 F 18. E 19. K 20. J 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. 【21~35题答案】 【答案】21. C 22. D 23. B 24. D 25. C 26. A 27. A 28. B 29. D 30. D 31. B 32. A 33. A 34. C 35. B Section B Directions: Read the following three passages. Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D.(Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage you have just read. (A) 【36~39题答案】 【答案】36. B 37. C 38. B 39. B (B) 【40~42题答案】 【答案】40. B 41. D 42. A (C) 【43~46题答案】 【答案】43. B 44. B 45. C 46. A Section C Directions: Complete the following passage by using the sentences given below. Each sentence can be used only once. Note that there are two more sentences than you need. 【47~50题答案】 【答案】47. C 48. A 49. F 50. E IV. Summary Writing 【51题答案】 【答案】 The world faces a critical food shortage crisis, with staple grain prices rising and more people going hungry. Key solutions include scientists developing pest-resistant, high-yield crops, helping farmers build water storage to tackle droughts, and consumers reducing meat intake to redirect grain for human use. Immediate joint action is vital to combat hunger and malnutrition globally. V. Translation Directions: Translate the following sentences into English, using the words given in the brackets. 【52题答案】 【答案】I must have left my keys at my sister’s home. 【53题答案】 【答案】The new flavor ice cream, launched five years ago, became an instant hit. 【54题答案】 【答案】What people wear can reflect their identities and their roles in society to a certain extent. 【55题答案】 【答案】Besides the new faces he sees in the store every day, he is also delighted to see that more and more school activities are introducing teenagers to this sport. VI. Guided Writing 【56题答案】 【答案】Dear Jim, I am glad that you are going to take part in summer camps in China. Of the three themes, I suggest that you should choose to learn to play table tennis. My reasons are as follows. In the beginning, it is easy to learn table tennis. Table tennis can help you build up your strength and make you become more energetic. What’s more, table tennis is popular among Chinese people. By participating in this table tennis training class, not only can you make some friends with the same interest but also you can get some professional guidance and improve your skills. I hope you will enjoy your summer camp. I am looking forward to meeting you in China. 第1页/共1页 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $