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江西师大附中高一下学期英语期末考试 第一部分：听力 (共两节，满分30分) 第一节 (共5小题：每小题1.5分，满分7.5分) 听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项。听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。 1. What juice does the man want? A. Orange. B. Apple. C. Pear. 2. How did the woman buy the tickets? A. By phone. B. On the Internet. C. In person. 3. Who might collect the kids today? A. Their mother. B. Their father. C. Their grandmother. 4. What is the relationship between the speakers? A. Business partners. B. Colleagues. C Interviewer and interviewee. 5. What are the speakers mainly talking about? A. When to have a day out together. B. How to work to the deadline. C. Whether to go out today. 第二节 (共15小题；每小题1.5分，满分22.5分) 听下面5段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项。听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟；听完后，各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。 听下面一段对话，回答第6、7小题。 6. What will the speakers do tomorrow afternoon? A. Go sailing. B. Go water-skiing. C. Go windsurfing. 7. Where will the speakers meet? A. Outside the cafe. B. At the football field. C. At the water sports center. 听下面一段对话，回答第8、9小题。 8. What is Linda asked to do first? A. Meet Mr. Brown. B. Complete some forms. C. Hand in the recommendation letter. 9. What will Linda do in Room 201? A. Charge her phone. B. Have an interview. C. Read the email 听下面一段对话，回答第10至12小题。 10. What will the kids do with the egg in the workshop? A. Make a protective cover for it. B. Place it safely at a certain height. C. Learn the method of breaking it. 11. What is the competition about? A. Designing cars. B. Blowing up balloons. C. Building towers. 12. What does the man think of the activities? A. Hard. B. Special. C. Interesting. 听下面一段对话，回答第13至16小题。 13. How many days does the festival last? A. Three. B. Four. C. Six. 14. What will happen around 2:00 on the first day? A. The crowd will gather. B. The opening will begin. C. The performances will finish. 15. What event comes next after the speech? A. A short play. B. A firework display. C. A band performance. 16. Where is the best place to watch fireworks? A. The city theater. B. The park. C. The beach. 听下面一段独白，回答第17至20小题。 17. Where is the coatroom? A. Behind the reception. B. Next to the bathroom. C. Opposite the ticket office. 18. What is special about the Great Bath? A. It’s very imaginative. B. It’s the deepest. C. It’s the largest. 19. What is in the center of the site? A. The bath. B. The spring. C. The temple. 20. What do we know about the temple? A. It was poorly preserved. B. It was built a century ago. C It is the only Roman temple in Britain. 第二部分 阅读 (共两节。满分50分) 第一节 (共15题；每小题2.5分，满分37.5分) 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。 A The Guide to the Lively Arts Free Country Wednesday, June 21 at 7 pm Marine Band summer concerts are back now! Enjoy outdoor & live-streamed concerts around the DMV. This week Free Country takes the stage for a lineup of Motown, Classic Rock & the like. Check out full programs and the diverse schedule of performances for the summer online. No tickets required. Dance to the Music Friday, June 23 at 8 pm Friday night Concerts at the Capitol are back! This week, the pop/rock group, Downrange, presents a program of upbeat popular hits. Bring a chair or blanket and enjoy world-class music under Washington, DC skies. Price: $19-$39. Summer Concert Series Saturday, June 24 at 7 pm at National Harbor Tuesday, June 27 at 8 pm at the U. S. Capitol Steps Join the Concert Band for two FREE concerts in the Summer Concert Series on Saturday evening at the National Harbor Waterfront and Tuesday evening on the West Lawn at the steps of the U. S. Capitol. C. S. Lewis on Stage June 28 — 30 three shows only! Award-winning actor Max McLean’s outstanding performance captures C. S. Lewis’s charming personality and astonishing eloquence (口才) to create an onstage experience exploring deep into the soul of one of the most influential thinkers of the century. With McLean’s talent for humor, expect plenty of laughs in this show. Price: $79-$99. The Guide to the Lively Arts appears: ·Sunday in Arts. ·Monday — Thursday in Style. ·Friday in Weekend. ·Saturday in Culture. For information about advertising, call: Raymond Boyer 202-334-4174 To reach a representative, call: 202-334-7006| guidetoarts@washpost.com 1. What do Free Country and Dance to the Music have in common? A. They charge ticket fees. B. They are broadcast online. C. They feature classic music. D. They are performed outdoors. 2. Which show can you watch if you are interested in comedies? A. Free Country. B. C. S. Lewis on Stage. C. Dance to the Music. D. Summer Concert Series. 3. In which section of a Tuesday newspaper can you find the text? A. Arts. B. Style. C. Weekend. D. Culture. 【答案】1. D 2. B 3. B 【解析】 【导语】本文是一篇应用文，主要介绍了四个艺术类活动。 【1题详解】 细节理解题。由Free Country中的“Enjoy outdoor & live-streamed concerts around the DMV.(在DMV周围享受户外和直播音乐会。)”和Dance to the Music中的“Bring a chair or blanket and enjoy world-class music under Washington, DC skies.(带上椅子或毯子，在华盛顿特区的天空下欣赏世界级的音乐。)”可知，这两场音乐会均在户外举行。故选D。 【2题详解】 细节理解题。由C. S. Lewis on Stage部分的“Award-winning actor Max McLean’s outstanding performance(获奖演员Max McLean的出色表演)”和“With McLean’s talent for humor, expect plenty of laughs in this show.(凭借McLean的幽默天赋，这部剧将充满欢笑。)”可知，C. S. Lewis on Stage为喜剧演出，如果你对喜剧感兴趣，可以选择C. S. Lewis on Stage。故选B。 【3题详解】 细节理解题。由文章倒数第三句话“The Guide to the Lively Arts appears: ·Sunday in Arts. ·Monday — Thursday in Style. ·Friday in Weekend. ·Saturday in Culture.(The Guide to the Lively Arts出现在：·星期日——艺术。·周一至周四——时尚。·周五——周末。·周六——文化。)”可知，周二它出现在报纸的Style版面。故选B。 B When I got my first research project to work, I was so excited. Seeing research in action was enjoyable. My excitement, though, was soon cut short when my professor asked me to write a research paper on the project. My body tensed. Writing was the last thing I wanted to do; it’s one reason why I pursued science in the first place. I had hated writing since I was a little boy. But I couldn’t avoid it: writing classes were required in high school. For hours, I stared at blank pages, trying to turn my disorganised thoughts into fluent sentences. My teachers would return my papers littered with red, showing my paragraphs were out of order. I was frustrated to no end. How could I know what was good if there was no objectively right answer? Maybe I wasn’t cut out for writing. I studied engineering in college. A few years later, I joined a research lab. The professor assigned me an initial project to improve the efficiency of an inductor (电路感应器). I spent weeks setting up a test for a new design. When I got the results, though, the numbers weren’t good. I kept trying new designs, using the results to brainstorm ideas with a team of researchers. Finally, after dozens of designs, we had one that could work. I was overjoyed — until my professor told me to write that research paper. In panic, I asked a graduate student in my lab for help. I carefully wrote an outline. But when I asked him for feedback, I soon found the paper full of red marks. Before I could quit in defeat, though, the graduate student explained red didn’t mean I was a bad writer. Writing isn’t a one-and-done thing. It requires revising your work, often several times. Suddenly it occurred to me, “Hadn’t I done the same thing when I was designing my research project?” I kept improving my outline, eventually turning it into sentences and paragraphs, guided by feedback from others. Finally, I made it, and surprisingly, I was having fun. From then on, writing became one of my favourite parts of research, and it still is today. It’s a future I never could have imagined during my early struggles with writing classes. But I came around. 4. How did the author feel when asked to write a research paper? A. Regretful. B. Ashamed. C. Disappointed. D. Unwilling. 5. The author’s teacher returned his papers littered with red because ________. A. he handed in blank pages B. his sentences were smooth C his writing lacked organisation D. he combined science in his writing 6. Which word would best describe the author’s final research design? A. Hard-earned. B. Confusing. C. Well-known. D. Worrying. 7. What can we learn from this passage? A. A good beginning is half done. B. Actions speak louder than words. C. A bad workman always blames his tools. D. Trial and error opens the door to progress. 【答案】4. D 5. C 6. A 7. D 【解析】 【导语】本文是一篇记叙文。文章讲述了作者从最初对写作感到困扰和厌恶，到在科研过程中不得不面对写作挑战，最终在求助和不断修改中逐渐发现写作的乐趣，并将其转变为科研中最喜欢的部分之一的个人经历。 【4题详解】 细节理解题。根据文章第一段“My excitement, though, was soon cut short when my professor asked me to write a research paper on the project. My body tensed. Writing was the last thing I wanted to do; it’s one reason why I pursued science in the first place.(然而，我的兴奋劲儿很快就烟消云散了，因为我的教授要求我就这个项目写一篇研究论文。我顿时紧张起来。写作是我最不想做的事，这也是我当初选择投身科学领域的原因之一)”可知，得知教授要求他针对该项目写一篇研究论文时，作者身体变得紧绷，并且表明写作是他最不想做的事。由此推知，作者对于写研究论文这件事是很不情愿的态度。故选D。 【5题详解】 细节理解题。根据文章第二段“For hours, I stared at blank pages, trying to turn my disorganised thoughts into fluent sentences. My teachers would return my papers littered with red, showing my paragraphs were out of order.(好几个小时，我都盯着空白的纸张，试图把自己杂乱无章的想法转化成流畅的语句。老师们会把批改后满是红色标记的作文发还给我，指出我的段落条理不清)”可知，作者提到自己在高中时，花好几个小时盯着空白的纸张，努力将混乱的思绪转化为流畅的句子，并且老师会把满是红色标记的作文还给他，这些红色标记表明他的段落混乱无序。由此可知，老师在他的作文上做满红色标记是因为他的写作缺乏条理，也就是写作结构混乱。故选C。 【6题详解】 推理判断题。根据文章第三段“A few years later, I joined a research lab. The professor assigned me an initial project to improve the efficiency of an inductor (电路感应器). I spent weeks setting up a test for a new design. When I got the results, though, the numbers weren’t good. I kept trying new designs, using the results to brainstorm ideas with a team of researchers. Finally, after dozens of designs, we had one that could work.(几年后，我加入了一个研究实验室。教授给我分配了一个初步项目，旨在提高电路感应器的效率。我花了好几周时间为一种新设计搭建测试环境。不过，当我拿到测试结果时，数据并不理想。我不断尝试新的设计，利用测试结果和一组研究人员一起集思广益。终于，在尝试了几十种设计之后，我们有了一种可行的方案)”可知，作者接到提高电路感应器效率的项目后，花了数周时间搭建新设计的测试环境，可最初得到的结果并不理想，之后他不断尝试新的设计，经过几十次的尝试后，才终于有了一个可行的方案。可以看出这个最终的研究设计是作者付出了大量的时间、精力，经过反复尝试、不断努力才得来的。由此推知，A“Hard-earned(来之不易的，辛苦获得的)”很好地体现了这个最终设计是经过作者艰辛努力才得到的这一特点。故选A。 【7题详解】 推理判断题。根据文章第三段“A few years later, I joined a research lab. The professor assigned me an initial project to improve the efficiency of an inductor (电路感应器). I spent weeks setting up a test for a new design. When I got the results, though, the numbers weren’t good. I kept trying new designs, using the results to brainstorm ideas with a team of researchers. Finally, after dozens of designs, we had one that could work.(几年后，我加入了一个研究实验室。教授给我分配了一个初步项目，旨在提高电路感应器的效率。我花了好几周时间为一种新设计搭建测试环境。不过，当我拿到测试结果时，数据并不理想。我不断尝试新的设计，利用测试结果和一组研究人员一起集思广益。终于，在尝试了几十种设计之后，我们有了一种可行的方案)”以及文章第四段“I kept improving my outline, eventually turning it into sentences and paragraphs, guided by feedback from others. Finally, I made it, and surprisingly, I was having fun.(我不断完善我的大纲，最终在他人反馈意见的指导下，把大纲变成了一个个句子和段落。最后，我成功了，而且令人惊讶的是，我还从中体会到了乐趣)”可知，文章主要描述了作者在研究项目中的经历。作者接到提高电路感应器效率的任务后，一开始设计的测试结果不理想。但是他没有放弃，而是不断尝试新的设计，经过几十次的尝试，利用测试结果和同事一起讨论，最终得到了可行的设计。在写研究论文时，他也是在不断修改完善的过程中取得了成功。这整个过程体现了“Trial and error(反复试验)”的理念。作者通过不断地尝试新设计，从失败的结果中学习，从而打开了通往成功的大门。故选D。 C Around 40 million tons of electronic waste, known as e-waste, is produced every year. This includes electrical or electronic equipment that has been discarded. But where does it all go? In the US alone, 100 million mobile phones, 41 million computers and over 20 million televisions are thrown into landfills (垃圾填埋场) in a year. Even for standard waste this is a big headache, because any materials that are buried in the ground can’t be easily recovered and recycled. Recycling electronics can save energy and means that less of Earth’s natural resources need to be mined. Failing to recycle e-waste is extremely damaging the environment due to the nature of the materials used in modern devices. While heavy metals and chemicals improve a device’s safety and user experience, they become poisonous if they’re not dealt with properly. Your old phones, Gameboys, kettles, microwaves and more can end up in landfills, leaking their harmful contents into the soil, water and air. Not only does this kill wildlife and destroy ecosystems, but the accumulation (累积) of poison can impact human health too. As heavy metals and chemicals flow into lakes and rivers, drinking water becomes polluted. These poisons spread through the soil, impacting the health of crops and animals that people also rely on. In some western countries, e-waste isn’t hidden out of sight in landfills but is burnt in giant, open junkyards. They even ship waste electronics to other countries to deal with, and this often ends up in dumps across Africa and Asia. Workers in these places are exposed to polluted lands and chemical gas. It is urgent that we should reduce the damaging and unsustainable side of e-waste production. Rare earth metals, some plastics and chemicals can be fed into the next generation of electronics. The steps to proper recycling of e-waste are extensive and need large investment, but more and more countries around the world are turning to e-waste recycling. 8. What does the underlined word “discarded” in Paragraph 1 mean? A. Repaired. B. Protected. C. Used. D. Abandoned. 9. What can be learned from Paragraph 2? A. E-waste has a permanent effect on the environment. B. E-waste may do harm to both ecosystems and humans. C. Heavy metals and chemicals are poisonous to the users. D. Burying e-waste into landfills is an effective way to recycle. 10. How does the author describe the handling of e-waste in Western countries? A. By providing data. B. By asking questions. C. By listing examples. D. By offering a definition. 11. What might the author continue to talk about? A. Solutions to destroying e-waste. B. Ways to recycle e-waste properly. C. Applications of recycled materials. D. Investments in restoring ecosystems. 【答案】8. D 9. B 10. C 11. B 【解析】 【导语】本文是一篇说明文。文章主要介绍了电子垃圾的产生、危害以及处理现状，并强调了正确回收电子垃圾的紧迫性和重要性。 【8题详解】 词句猜测题。根据第一段“This includes electrical or electronic equipment that has been discarded. But where does it all go? In the US alone, 100 million mobile phones, 41 million computers and over 20 million televisions are thrown into landfills (垃圾填埋场) in a year. (这包括被discarded的电气或电子设备。但它们都去哪儿了呢？仅在美国，每年就有1亿部手机、4100万台电脑和2000多万台电视机被扔进垃圾填埋场)”可知，每年都有大量的电气或电子设备被扔进垃圾填埋场，这些设备都是被丢弃的，所以discarded意思是“丢弃”，与“Abandoned”意思相近。故选D。 【9题详解】 推理判断题。根据第二段“Failing to recycle e-waste is extremely damaging the environment due to the nature of the materials used in modem devices. While heavy metals and chemicals improve a device’s safety and user experience, they become poisonous if they’re not dealt with properly. Your old phones, Gameboys, kettles, microwaves and more can end up in landfills, leaking their harmful contents into the soil, water and air. Not only does this kill wildlife and destroy ecosystems, but the accumulation (累积) of poison can impact human health too. (由于现代设备所用材料的特性，未能回收电子垃圾对环境危害极大。虽然重金属和化学物质提高了设备的安全性和用户体验，但如果处理不当，它们就会变成有毒物质。你的旧手机、游戏机、水壶、微波炉等都可能被扔进垃圾填埋场，将有害物质泄漏到土壤、水和空气中。这不仅会杀死野生动物，破坏生态系统，而且毒物的积累也会影响人类健康)”可知，电子垃圾中的重金属和化学物质如果处理不当，会泄漏到土壤、水和空气中，不仅会杀死野生动物，破坏生态系统，还会影响人类健康，由此可知，电子垃圾可能对生态系统和人类都有害。故选B。 【10题详解】 推理判断题。根据第三段“In some western countries, e-waste isn’t hidden out of sight in landfills but is burnt in giant, open junkyards. They even ship waste electronics to other countries to deal with, and this often ends up in dumps across Africa and Asia. Workers in these places are exposed to polluted lands and chemical gas. (在一些西方国家，电子垃圾不会被隐藏在垃圾填埋场中，而是会在巨大的露天垃圾场被焚烧。他们甚至将电子垃圾运往其他国家处理，而这些垃圾最终往往会被运往非洲和亚洲的垃圾场。这些地方的工人暴露在被污染的土地和化学气体中)”可知，作者通过列举一些西方国家处理电子垃圾的方式，如在露天垃圾场焚烧、运往其他国家等，来描述西方国家处理电子垃圾的情况，由此可知，作者是通过举例来描述西方国家处理电子垃圾的情况的。故选C。 【11题详解】 推理判断题。根据最后一段“It is urgent that we should reduce the damaging and unsustainable side of e-waste production. Rare earth metals, some plastics and chemicals can be fed into the next generation of electronics. The steps to proper recycling of e-waste are extensive and need large investment, but more and more countries around the world are turning to e-waste recycling. (我们迫切需要减少电子垃圾生产所带来的破坏性和不可持续的一面。稀土金属、一些塑料和化学物质可以用于下一代电子产品。妥善回收电子垃圾的步骤繁多，需要大量投资，但世界上越来越多的国家正在转向电子垃圾回收)”可知，最后一段强调了妥善回收电子垃圾的紧迫性和重要性，并提到了一些回收电子垃圾所需的步骤和投资。由此可推测，作者接下来可能会继续谈论如何妥善回收电子垃圾。故选B。 D Fictional, computer-generated human faces are so convincing they can fool even trained observers. They can be easily downloaded online and used for Internet scams(诈骗)and fake social media profiles. Al programs called generative adversarial networks (生成对抗网络), or GANs, can learn to create fake images that are less and less distinguishable from real images, by competing two neural networks against each other. Nightingale and her colleague Hany Farid at the University of California, Berkeley, asked 315 participants, recruited on a crowdsourcing website, to say whether they could distinguish a selection of 400 fake photos from 400 photographs of real people. Each set consisted of 100 people from each of four ethnic groups: white, Black, East Asian and South Asian. This group had an accuracy rate of 48.2 percent—slightly worse than chance. A second group of 219 participants were given training to recognize computer-generated faces. This group had an accuracy rate of 59 percent, but this difference is negligible (可忽略的), says Nightingale. The researchers also asked a separate group of 223 participants to rate a selection of the same faces on their level of trustworthiness, on a scale of 1 to 7. They rated the fake faces as 8 percent more trustworthy, on average, than the real faces—a small yet significant difference, according to Nightingale. That might be because artificial faces look more like “average” human faces, and people are more likely to trust typical-looking faces, she says. Looking at the extremes, the four faces rated most untrustworthy were real, whereas the three most trustworthy faces were fake. “We need stricter ethical guidelines and more legal frameworks in place because, inevitably, there are going to be people out there who want to use these images to do harm, and that’s worrying,” says Nightingale. To reduce these risks, developers could add watermarks to their images to flag them as fake. she says. “In my opinion, this is bad enough. It’s just going to get worse if we don’t do something to stop it.” 12. What can we know about GANs? A. GANs can cheat trained observers. B. GANs should be used under strict legal frameworks. C. GANs can generate artificial pictures close to real ones. D. GANs-generated Images can not be distinguished from real ones. 13. Why did Nightingale and Farid carry out the research? A. To warn people the risk of online fraud. B. To train people to discover fake photos online. C. To see if people can distinguish fake faces from real ones. D. To test whether GANs can create fake faces to fool people. 14. What does Nightingale mean in the last paragraph? A. Stricter laws and regulations should be imposed. B. Effective ways are needed but not found yet. C. Watermarks are an effective way against fake images. D. Responsibility should be taken by developers to prevent misuse of fake images. 15. Which of the following is the best title for this passage? A. Development of Internet scams. B. Development of AI technology C. Will fake faces look more trustworthy? D. Legal frameworks for GANs 【答案】12. C 13. C 14. D 15. C 【解析】 【导语】本文是一篇说明文。文章主要介绍了一项研究发现，该研究主要探讨了生成对抗网络（GANs）如何创建出逼真的假人脸图像，这些图像能够欺骗观察者，甚至训练过的观察者，以及这些图像可能如何被用于网络诈骗和创建虚假的社交媒体账号。 【12题详解】 细节理解题。根据文章第二段“Al programs called generative adversarial networks(生成对抗网络), or GANs, can learn to create fake images that are less and less distinguishable from real images, by competing two neural networks against each other.(被称为生成对抗网络或GANs的人工智能程序，可以通过让两个神经网络相互竞争，学会创建与真实图像越来越难以区分的假图像。)”可知，GANs是一种人工智能程序，可以通过让两个神经网络相互竞争，学会创建与真实图像越来越难以区分的假图像。故选C。 【13题详解】 细节理解题。根据文章第三段“Nightingale and her colleague Hany Farid at the University of California, Berkeley, asked 315 participants, recruited on a crowdsourcing website, to say whether they could distinguish a selection of 400 fake photos from 400 photographs of real people.( Nightingale和她在加州大学伯克利分校的同事Hany Farid在一个众包网站上招募了315名参与者，让他们回答是否能分辨出400张假照片和400张真人照片。)”可知，Nightingale和Farid进行这项研究的目的是看看人们是否能分辨出假脸和真脸。故选C。 【14题详解】 推理判断题。根据文章倒数第二段““We need stricter ethical guidelines and more legal frameworks in place because, inevitably, there are going to be people out there who want to use these images to do harm, and that’s worrying,” says Nightingale. (Nightingale说：“我们需要更严格的道德准则和更多的法律框架，因为不可避免地会有人想要使用这些图像来造成伤害，这令人担忧。”)”以及最后一段“To reduce these risks, developers could add watermarks to their images to flag them as fake. she says. “In my opinion, this is bad enough. It’s just going to get worse if we don’t do something to stop it.”(为了降低这些风险，开发人员可以在图像上添加水印来标记它们是假的。她说。“在我看来，这已经够糟糕的了。如果我们不采取措施阻止它，情况只会变得更糟。”)”可知，Nightingale认为开发人员应该采取措施来标记假脸照片，以防止这些照片被用来对别人造成伤害。故选D。 【15题详解】 主旨大意题。根据文章第一段“Fictional, computer-generated human faces are so convincing they can fool even trained observers. They can be easily downloaded online and used for Internet scams(诈骗)and fake social media profiles.(计算机生成的虚构人脸非常逼真，甚至可以骗过训练有素的观察者。它们可以很容易地在网上下载并用于网络诈骗和伪造社交媒体资料。)”以及全文内容可知，文章主要聚焦于生成对抗网络（GANs）创建的假人脸图像如何逼真到足以欺骗观察者，以及这些图像可能如何被用于网络诈骗和创建虚假的社交媒体账号。文章还探讨了假人脸图像在信任度评价方面的影响，以及由此引发的对伦理和法律问题的关注。选项C“Will fake faces look more trustworthy? (假脸会看起来更可信吗？)” 最能概括文章的核心内容，即探讨假人脸图像的逼真性和其对人们信任度评价的影响。这个标题既体现了文章的核心讨论点，也具有一定的吸引力，能够引起读者的兴趣。故选C。 第二节 (共5题；每小题1.5分，满分12.5分) 阅读下列短文，从短文后的选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项. Cloud storage is a flexible and convenient way to store data with complete peace of mind. ____16____ This means you can store all your digital things remotely, without taking up space on your computer. There are two options available: public cloud storage allows you to share hosting space with other users; private cloud storage is the ideal choice for companies who want to have their data stored in their own environment. ____17____ Once you have registered and set up your account, you simply save your files via the internet using your username and password. This ensures your data remains secure and inaccessible to anyone else. Should you choose, you can put certain permissions in place, which makes it easy to share your data with your colleagues or your family. When you sign up to cloud storage, you can choose the amount of space you need. ____18____ You can store anything digital: all your files, videos and pictures. Whether you want to use this storage solution to store your family photographs or you want to use it to store your work documentation, you will find it quite convenient. Is it better than your computer or an external drive? The answer is a definite yes. Computers crash all the time. ____19____ External hard drives can still break, or fail. Here you also have the added risk of misplacing it or having it stolen. There are so many advantages to cloud computing, from the ability to access your data from wherever, whenever, to not needing expensive external storage devices. ____20____ A. You will find cloud storage very cheap. B. Cloud storage is very simple to use. C. It enables you to store your data on hosted servers. D. This is the most common cause of lost work and memories. E. Cloud storage providers offer multiple layers of data security. F. The only disadvantage, however, is that you need internet to access files. G. You can start with a small amount and increase the storage size later on. 【答案】16. C 17. B 18. G 19. D 20. F 【解析】 【导语】本文是一篇说明文。主要介绍了云存储的优势、使用方法、存储空间选择以及与传统存储方式的对比。 【16题详解】 根据上文“Cloud storage is a flexible and convenient way to store data with complete peace of mind. (云存储是一种灵活且方便的数据存储方式，可以让你完全放心。)”以及下文“This means you can store all your digital things remotely, without taking up space on your computer. (这意味着你可以远程存储所有数字内容，而不会占用电脑空间。)”可知，此处应是在解释云存储的工作原理，即如何存储数据。C选项“It enables you to store your data on hosted servers. (它允许你将数据存储在托管服务器上。)”中的“it”指代上文的“Cloud storage”，且与下文的“store all your digital things remotely”相呼应。故选C项。 【17题详解】 根据下文“Once you have registered and set up your account, you simply save your files via the internet using your username and password. This ensures your data remains secure and inaccessible to anyone else. (一旦你注册并设置了账户，你只需使用用户名和密码通过互联网保存文件。这确保了你的数据保持安全，其他人无法访问。)”可知，本段主要介绍了云存储的使用方法，强调其简单易用。B选项“Cloud storage is very simple to use. (云存储使用起来非常简单。)”概括了本段的主题，即云存储的易用性。故选B项。 【18题详解】 根据上文“When you sign up to cloud storage, you can choose the amount of space you need. (当你注册云存储时，你可以选择你需要空间大小。)”以及下文“You can store anything digital: all your files, videos and pictures. (你可以存储任何数字内容：所有文件、视频和图片。)”可知，此处应是在讨论云存储的空间选择及其灵活性。G选项“You can start with a small amount and increase the storage size later on. (你可以从少量开始，以后增加存储空间。)”，既承接了上文的“choose the amount of space you need”，又为下文的存储各种数字内容提供了空间上的灵活性。故选G项。 【19题详解】 根据上文“Is it better than your computer or an external drive? The answer is a definite yes. Computers crash all the time. (它比你的电脑或外部驱动器更好吗？答案是肯定的。电脑总是会崩溃。)”可知，此处是在比较云存储与传统存储方式（如电脑和外部驱动器）的优劣，并指出电脑容易崩溃的问题。D选项“This is the most common cause of lost work and memories. (这是工作和记忆丢失的最常见原因。)”进一步阐述了电脑崩溃的后果，即导致工作和记忆丢失，与上文紧密相连。故选D项。 【20题详解】 根据上文“There are so many advantages to cloud computing, from the ability to access your data from wherever, whenever, to not needing expensive external storage devices. (云计算有很多优点，比如无论何时何地都能访问你的数据，不需要昂贵的外部存储设备。)”可知，本段主要讨论了云存储的诸多优势。F选项“The only disadvantage, however, is that you need internet to access files. (然而，唯一的缺点是你需要互联网才能访问文件。)”指出了云存储的一个潜在缺点，即需要互联网连接才能访问文件，与上文的优势形成对比，使文章更加全面和客观。故选F项。 第三部分 语言运用 (共两节，满分30分) 第一节 (共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分) 阅读下面短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。 My fiancé (未婚夫) and I were excited about shopping for our first home. But our funds were ___21___, and none of the houses in our price range seemed satisfactory. One agent recommended a house in particular. Although her description sounded wonderful, the price was ___22___ our range, so we declined. But she kept urging us to have a look ___23___. We finally did and it was ___24___ at first sight. It was Our Home, small and charming, overlooking a quiet lake. Walking through the rooms and talking with the owners, a nice elderly couple, we felt the warmth and ___25___ of the marriage within that home. As perfect as it was, the price remained too high for us. But every day, we would sit by the lake, looking at the house and dreaming of what it would be like to live there. Days later, we made a(n) ___26___ far below the asking price. Surprisingly, they didn’t ___27___ us. They renewed their offer instead. It was also much more than we could afford, but far ___28___ than the original asking price. The next day, we got a ___29___ message that another buyer had offered a much higher price. Even so, we decided to talk with the ____30____ directly. We made our final offer, which ____31____ was thousands of dollars less than the other buyer’s bid. We knew it, ____32____ we had to try. “Sold!” said the owner. Then he explained: He’d seen us sitting by the lake all those times; he knew how much we loved the place and that we’d ____33____ the years of work they had put into their home; he realized he would take a loss by selling it to us, but it was worthwhile; we were the people they wanted to live there. He told us to consider the ____34____ in the price “an early wedding present”. That’s how we found our home and how I learned that when people are ____35____, they are not strangers, only friends we haven’t yet met. 21. A. needed B. limited C. enough D. large 22. A. below B. within C. beyond D. between 23. A. at least B. at most C. at times D. at hand 24. A. relief B. concern C. love D. curiosity 25. A. pride B. happiness C. challenge D. desire 26. A. effort B. offer C. promise D. profit 27. A. come across B. look after C. depend on D. laugh at 28. A. worse B. better C. less D. higher 29. A. relaxing B. disappointing C. pleasant D. regular 30. A. agents B. buyers C. managers D. owners 31. A. already B. still C. generally D. ever 32. A. so B. or C. for D. but 33. A. check B. analyze C. appreciate D. ignore 34. A. increase B. difference C. interest D. average 35. A. kind B. polite C. smart D. energetic 【答案】21. B 22. C 23. A 24. C 25. B 26. B 27. D 28. C 29. B 30. D 31. B 32. D 33. C 34. B 35. A 【解析】 【导语】本文是一篇记叙文。文章讲述了作者和未婚夫打算购买第一套房子，因为资金有限，他们一直找不到满意的房子。一位代理人推荐了一套房子，虽然价格高出承受范围，但他们被房子和主人的温暖吸引，决定提出低于要价的报价。通过和主人交谈，他们最终以低于其他买家报价的价格成功购得房子。主人深知他们对这个家的热爱，让他们将差价视为提前的结婚礼物，让他们成为新的居住者。 【21题详解】 考查形容词词义辨析。句意：但我们的资金有限，在我们的价格范围内的房子没有一套令人满意。A. needed需要的；B. limited有限的；C. enough足够的；D. large大的。根据下文“and none of the houses in our price range seemed satisfactory”可知，在他们价格范围内的房子没有一套令人满意，由此推知，他们买房的资金比较有限，选择比较少。故选B。 【22题详解】 考查介词词义辨析。句意：虽然她的描述听起来很好，但价格超出了我们的承受范围，所以我们拒绝了。A. below在……下方；B. within在……之内；C. beyond超出；D. between在……之间。根据下文“so we declined”可知，他们拒绝了，由此推知，这套房子的价格超出了他们的承受范围。故选C。 【23题详解】 考查介词短语辨析。句意：但她一直劝我们至少去看一看。A. at least至少；B. at most至多；C. at times有时候；D. at hand在手边。根据上文“so we declined”和“But she kept urging us to have a look”可推知，代理人会在他们拒绝之后，劝他们至少去看一下房子，希望改变他们的想法。故选A。 24题详解】 考查名词词义辨析。句意：我们最终去看了，而且是一见钟情。A. relief安慰；B. concern关注；C. love爱；D. curiosity好奇心。根据下文“It was Our Home, small and charming, overlooking a quiet lake.”可知，作者觉得这就是他们的家，对这套房子非常满意，因此是一见钟情，固定短语love at first sight意为“一见钟情”。故选C。 【25题详解】 考查名词词义辨析。句意：在房间里走来走去，和主人——一对和蔼的老夫妇——交谈，我们在那所房子里感受到婚姻的温暖和幸福。A. pride自豪；B. happiness幸福；C. challenge挑战；D. desire渴望。根据上文“a nice elderly couple”和“we felt the warmth”可推知，happiness“幸福”符合语境，可以和warmth并列，用于形容这对和蔼的老夫妇的房子洋溢着他们婚姻的温暖和幸福。故选B。 【26题详解】 考查名词词义辨析。句意：几天后，我们给出了远低于要价的报价。A. effort努力；B. offer报价；C. promise承诺；D. profit利润。根据作者他们是想购买房子的情境，以及下文“far below the asking price”可推知，作者他们是给出了报价，远低于房子主人的要价。故选B。 【27题详解】 考查动词短语辨析。句意：令人惊讶的是，他们没有嘲笑我们。A. come across遭遇；B. look after照顾；C. depend on依赖；D. laugh at嘲笑。根据上文“Days later, we made a(n) ___6___ far below the asking price.”和下文“They renewed their offer instead.”可知，作者他们给出的购房价格远低于要价，不过房子的主人考虑到作者他们的情况，更新了要价，因此此处指房子的主人没有嘲笑给出低价的作者他们。故选D。 【28题详解】 考查形容词词义辨析。句意：这也远远超出了我们的承受能力，但远低于最初的要价。A. worse更糟的；B. better更好的；C. less更少的；D. higher更高的。根据上文“It was also much more than we could afford”和表示转折的“but”可推知，虽然房子的主人重新给出的价格仍让超出作者他们的承受能力，但已经低于最初的要价了。故选C。 【29题详解】 考查形容词词义辨析。句意：第二天，我们得到了一个令人失望的消息，另一个买主出了更高的价格。A. relaxing放松的；B. disappointing令人失望的；C. pleasant愉快的；D. regular规则的。根据下文“another buyer had offered a much higher price”可知，另一个买主出了更高的价格，因此房子很可能会被卖给这位买主，这对于给出很低价格的作者他们来说是令人失望的消息。故选B。 【30题详解】 考查名词词义辨析。句意：尽管如此，我们还是决定直接和主人谈谈。A. agents代理人；B. buyers买家；C. managers经理；D. owners主人。根据下文““Sold!” said the owner.”可知，房子的主人决定把房子卖给作者他们了，由此推知，作者他们是决定直接和主人谈谈，争取买下这套房子。故选D。 【31题详解】 考查副词词义辨析。句意：我们提出了最后的报价，但仍比另一位买家的出价低了数千美元。A. already已经；B. still仍然；C. generally一般地；D. ever曾经。根据上文“another buyer had offered a much higher price”可知，另一个买主出了更高的价格，作者他们最初的报价低于他的价格，再结合下文“was thousands of dollars less than the other buyer’s bid”可推知，虽然作者他们上调了自己的报价，但仍然比那位买家的出价低。故选B。 【32题详解】 考查连词词义辨析。句意：我们知道，但我们必须尝试。A. so因此；B. or或者；C. for因为；D. but但是。根据上文“We knew it”和下文“we had to try”可知，作者他们知道自己的报价低于另一个买主，在购房中处于不利地位，但还是想尝试争取一下，上下文之间是转折关系。故选D。 【33题详解】 考查动词词义辨析。句意：他知道我们有多爱这个地方，也知道我们会感激他们多年来为这个房子所倾注的努力。A. check检查；B. analyze分析；C. appreciate感激；D. ignore忽视。根据上文“He’d seen us sitting by the lake all those times; he knew how much we loved the place”可知，房子的主人看到作者他们坐在湖边，知道他们很爱这个地方，因此也明白他们会感激自己过去这些年为这个房子倾注的努力。故选C。 【34题详解】 考查名词词义辨析。句意：他让我们把差价当作“提前的结婚礼物”。A. increase增加；B. difference差价；C. interest兴趣；D. average平均值。根据上文“We made our final offer, which ___11___ was thousands of dollars less than the other buyer’s bid.”可知，作者他们的最终报价仍然低于另一个买主，因此此处指两个报价之间的差价。故选B。 35题详解】 考查形容词词义辨析。句意：我们就是这样找到了家，我也由此明白，当人们给予善意的时候，他们不是陌生人，只是我们还没见过的朋友。A. kind友善的；B. polite有礼貌的；C. smart聪明的；D. energetic精力充沛的。根据上文叙述的房子的主人在作者他们第一次给出很低的报价时，没有嘲笑，而是调低了房子的售价，以及在另一位买家报价更高的情况下，依然因为作者他们对这个房子的热爱，把房子卖给了作者他们可推知，此处指房子的主人给予善意，友善对待作者他们。故选A。 第二节 (共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分) A阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。 People have always wanted to learn more about space. Before the mid-20th century, most people felt ____36____ (travel) into space was an impossible dream. However, ____37____ the help of scientists, people succeeded in realizing their dream____38____ (explore) space. On 4 October, 1975, the Sputnik 1 satellite ____39____ (launch) by the USSR. Hard ____40____ scientists try to make sure nothing goes wrong, accidents can still happen. These disasters made everyone ____41____ (disappoint), but people still believe in the importance of ____42____ (carry) on space exploration. In 2003, China became the third country to ____43____ (independent) send humans into space. Then Shenzhou 6 and 7 completed ____44____ second manned orbit and the first Chinese spacewalk. In spite of the difficulties, countless future ____45____ (discover) will not only enable us to understand the universe but also help us survive well into the future. 【答案】36. travelling##traveling 37. with 38. to explore 39. was launched 40. as##though 41. disappointed 42. carrying 43. independently 44. the 45. discoveries 【解析】 【导语】本文是一篇说明文。文章主要讲述了人类对太空探索的历程，包括早期的困难、重要的里程碑事件以及未来的展望。 【36题详解】 考查非谓语动词。句意：在20世纪中叶以前，大多数人都觉得进入太空是一个不可能实现的梦。felt 后接宾语从句，空处作宾语从句的主语，需用动名词形式。故填travelling/traveling。 【37题详解】 考查介词。句意：然而，在科学家的帮助下，人们成功地实现了探索太空的梦想。with the help of为固定短语，意为“在……的帮助下”。故填with。 【38题详解】 考查非谓语动词。句意：然而，在科学家的帮助下，人们成功地实现了探索太空的梦想。名词dream后需填动词不定式作后置定语。故填to explore。 【39题详解】 考查动词时态和语态。句意：1975年10月4日，苏联发射了斯普特尼克1号卫星。根据On 4 October, 1975可知，此处使用一般过去时，主语the Sputnik 1 satellite和launch为被动关系，需用被动语态，主语为单数名词，be动词用was。故填was launched。 【40题详解】 考查状语从句。句意：尽管科学家们努力确保不出差错，但事故仍有可能发生。此处引导让步状语从句，表示“尽管”，需用连词as/though引导，此处将副词置于句首，使用了倒装结构。故填as/though。 【41题详解】 考查形容词。句意：这些灾难让每个人都很失望，但人们仍然相信进行太空探索的重要性。make +宾语+宾语补足语，为固定用法，空处需填形容词作宾语补足语，此处表示“人的感受”，需用-ed结尾的形容词disappointed。故填disappointed。 【42题详解】 考查非谓语动词。句意：这些灾难让每个人都很失望，但人们仍然相信进行太空探索的重要性。of为介词，后面需加动名词作宾语。故填carrying。 【43题详解】 考查副词。句意：2003年，中国成为第三个独立将人类送入太空的国家。修饰动词send，需用副词independently，作状语。故填independently。 【44题详解】 考查冠词。句意：随后，神舟六号和七号完成了第二次载人轨道飞行和中国人首次太空行走。序数词second前需加定冠词the。故填the。 【45题详解】 考查名词。句意：尽管困难重重，但无数的未来发现不仅将使我们了解宇宙，而且将帮助我们在未来很好地生存下去。countless后需接可数名词复数形式，discover的名词形式为discovery，其复数为discoveries。故填discoveries。 第四部分 写作 (共两节，满分40分) 第一节 (满分15分) 46. 假定你是光明中学高二学生李华，得知市博物馆正在招募暑假期间做英文讲解的志愿者，向外国游客介绍汉代历史文物。请你用英文给相关负责人写一封申请信，内容包括： 1.自我介绍以及陈述申请意愿； 2.个人优势； 3.希望批准。 参考词汇：招募recruit;汉代历史文物Han Dynasty artifacts 注意：1.写作词数应为80个左右； 2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。 Dear Sir or Madam, ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Yours sincerely, Li Hua 【答案】Dear Sir or Madam, I’m Li Hua, a Senior 2 student in Guangming High School. Learning that the City Museum is recruiting volunteers to introduce the Han Dynasty artifacts in English during the summer vacation, I’m writing to apply for the position. First of all, I have a good command of spoken English, which enables me to communicate with foreigners fluently. Additionally, I’m outgoing and energetic, willing to help those in need. Most importantly, as a history lover, I have a deep understanding of Chinese history, particularly the Han Dynasty. I’m firmly convinced that I can spread Chinese culture to foreign friends effectively. I’d appreciate it if you could take my application into consideration. Looking forward to your reply. Yours sincerely, Li Hua 【解析】 【导语】本篇书面表达属于应用文。要求考生用英文给相关负责人写一封申请信，申请暑假期间做市博物馆英文讲解的志愿者，向外国游客介绍汉代历史文物。 【详解】1. 词汇积累 职位：position→post 流利地：fluently→with fluency 理解：understanding→comprehension 答复：reply→response 2. 句式拓展 简单句变复合句 原句：Learning that the City Museum is recruiting volunteers to introduce the Han Dynasty artifacts in English during the summer vacation, I’m writing to apply for the position. 拓展句：Because I learn that the City Museum is recruiting volunteers to introduce the Han Dynasty artifacts in English during the summer vacation, I’m writing to apply for the position. 【点睛】【高分句型1】First of all, I have a good command of spoken English, which enables me to communicate with foreigners fluently.（运用了which引导的非限制性定语从句） 【高分句型2】I’m firmly convinced that I can spread Chinese culture to foreign friends effectively.（运用了that引导的宾语从句） 第二节 (满分25分) 47. I met the Man of the Trees in summer ten years ago, when I was visiting Uncle Jita. Those were difficult times. People were cutting down our forest, and there was often flooding. Sometimes our water supply was dirty. When our pump(水泵)did have clean water, we had to wait in line for ages. When the pump wasn’t working, we had to walk five kilometres to the closest stream. But I was happy. I was going to see my favorite uncle. When the day finally arrived, Dad drove me to Uncle Jita’s house and left. Once he saw me, Uncle Jita announced, “Tomorrow we’re going to explore a magical place. Here is my camera, Amy. You can take photos of what you see.” The following day, we woke up and left early on a boat. The trip was exciting. But when we got off, there was ... nothing in front of us. “I don’t want to take pictures of this,” I complained. Uncle laughed,“Start walking, Amy. I promise you’ll be surprised.” After some time, I could see the outline of a forest in the distance. A little closer, there was a man waving to us. “That’s Kabir. The forest you see is his. He planted every single tree.” As we walked towards Kabir, Uncle explained that thirty years ago, the whole area was a wasteland. But one day Kabir decided to change all that and started planting trees. Thanks to him, part of the wasteland is now a paradise(天堂). Uncle introduced me to Kabir, who had gray hair and a determined face. “Jita told me you like animals. Are you ready to see some?” he asked. “Of course!” I replied. We continued walking and soon were under the trees. I turned my head and was amazed at the difference between the two places. All because of the efforts of one man. Like Uncle said, Kabir’s forest was magical. We saw deer, rhinos, and even tigers. During lunchtime, Kabir explained how, by planting trees, it was possible to stop the land from eroding(侵蚀). 注意： 1．续写词数应为150左右； 2．请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。 Hearing this, I turned to my uncle, “I think we can plant trees too ” ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ In the years that followed, people in our village worked hard to carry out our plan. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 【答案】Hearing this, I turned to my uncle, “I think we can plant trees too.” Grabbing the camera in my hand, I added with excitement. “I’ve got a plan! I’ll show them the photos of Kabir’s magical forest! ” Seeing Uncle and Kabir’s encouraging smile, I immediately set down to my work, busily pressing my shutter and capturing the amazing scenes in the forest. When Uncle and I went back to the village several days later and showed these wonderful pictures to my neighbour, they were stunned by the beauty of the forest. “It was the trees that turned the place into a paradise! ” We then explained our tree-planting plan to the villagers, which was quickly accepted by all of them. In the years that followed, people in our village worked hard to carry out our plan. Instead of cutting down our forest, we started to plant trees, which has eventually helped protect the soil and stopped the land from eroding. Thanks to the trees, the water has been purified and we finally have clean and stable water supply. With our joint efforts, our village is now surrounded by small thriving forests with blooming flowers, lively animals and crystal-clear streams running through. Witnessing the gradual change of our village, we came to realize that only when we live in harmony with nature can we have a brighter future. 【解析】 【导语】本文以人物为线索展开，讲述了十年前，吉塔叔叔带作者去探索一个神奇的地方。那里30年前一片荒地，卡比尔决定改变这一切，开始植树，最终变成了森林，并且带来生态环境改变的故事。 【详解】1.段落续写： ①由第一段首句内容“听了这话，我转向叔叔说：“我想我们也可以种树。””可知，第一段可描写作者通过宣传森林让更多人参与种树。 ②由第二段首句内容“在接下来的几年里，我们村里的人努力工作来实施我们的计划。”可知，第二段可描写植树给村庄带来的变化。 2.续写线索：想到计划——分享计划——接受计划——实施计划——环境改变 3词汇激活 行为类 ①.抓住：grab/ take hold of ②.返回：go back to/return ③.展示：show/display 情绪类 ①.鼓舞的：encouraging/inspiring ②.兴奋：excitement/ thrill 【点睛】[高分句型1]. We then explained our tree-planting plan to the villagers, which was quickly accepted by all of them.（运用了which引导的非限定性定语从句） [高分句型2]. Witnessing the gradual change of our village, we came to realize that only when we live in harmony with nature can we have a brighter future.（运用了现在分词作状语以及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 $$ 江西师大附中高一下学期英语期末考试 第一部分：听力 (共两节，满分30分) 第一节 (共5小题：每小题1.5分，满分7.5分) 听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项。听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。 1. What juice does the man want? A. Orange. B. Apple. C. Pear. 2. How did the woman buy the tickets? A. By phone. B. On the Internet. C. In person. 3. Who might collect the kids today? A. Their mother. B. Their father. C. Their grandmother. 4. What is the relationship between the speakers? A. Business partners. B. Colleagues. C Interviewer and interviewee. 5. What are the speakers mainly talking about? A. When to have a day out together. B. How to work to the deadline. C. Whether to go out today. 第二节 (共15小题；每小题1.5分，满分22.5分) 听下面5段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项。听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟；听完后，各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。 听下面一段对话，回答第6、7小题。 6. What will the speakers do tomorrow afternoon? A. Go sailing. B. Go water-skiing. C. Go windsurfing. 7. Where will the speakers meet? A. Outside the cafe. B. At the football field. C. At the water sports center. 听下面一段对话，回答第8、9小题。 8. What is Linda asked to do first? A. Meet Mr. Brown. B. Complete some forms. C. Hand in the recommendation letter. 9. What will Linda do in Room 201? A. Charge her phone. B. Have an interview. C. Read the email 听下面一段对话，回答第10至12小题。 10. What will the kids do with the egg in the workshop? A. Make a protective cover for it. B. Place it safely at a certain height. C. Learn the method of breaking it. 11. What is the competition about? A. Designing cars. B. Blowing up balloons. C. Building towers. 12. What does the man think of the activities? A. Hard. B. Special. C. Interesting. 听下面一段对话，回答第13至16小题。 13. How many days does the festival last? A. Three. B. Four. C. Six. 14. What will happen around 2:00 on the first day? A. The crowd will gather. B. The opening will begin. C. The performances will finish. 15. What event comes next after the speech? A. A short play. B. A firework display. C. A band performance. 16. Where is the best place to watch fireworks? A. The city theater. B. The park. C. The beach. 听下面一段独白，回答第17至20小题。 17. Where is the coatroom? A. Behind the reception. B. Next to the bathroom. C. Opposite the ticket office. 18. What is special about the Great Bath? A. It’s very imaginative. B. It’s the deepest. C. It’s the largest. 19. What is in the center of the site? A. The bath. B. The spring. C. The temple. 20. What do we know about the temple? A. It was poorly preserved. B. It was built a century ago. C It is the only Roman temple in Britain. 第二部分 阅读 (共两节。满分50分) 第一节 (共15题；每小题2.5分，满分37.5分) 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。 A The Guide to the Lively Arts Free Country Wednesday, June 21 at 7 pm Marine Band summer concerts are back now! Enjoy outdoor & live-streamed concerts around the DMV. This week Free Country takes the stage for a lineup of Motown, Classic Rock & the like. Check out full programs and the diverse schedule of performances for the summer online. No tickets required. Dance to the Music Friday, June 23 at 8 pm Friday night Concerts at the Capitol are back! This week, the pop/rock group, Downrange, presents a program of upbeat popular hits. Bring a chair or blanket and enjoy world-class music under Washington, DC skies. Price: $19-$39. Summer Concert Series Saturday, June 24 at 7 pm at National Harbor Tuesday, June 27 at 8 pm at the U. S. Capitol Steps Join the Concert Band for two FREE concerts in the Summer Concert Series on Saturday evening at the National Harbor Waterfront and Tuesday evening on the West Lawn at the steps of the U. S. Capitol. C. S. Lewis on Stage June 28 — 30 three shows only! Award-winning actor Max McLean’s outstanding performance captures C. S. Lewis’s charming personality and astonishing eloquence (口才) to create an onstage experience exploring deep into the soul of one of the most influential thinkers of the century. With McLean’s talent for humor, expect plenty of laughs in this show. Price: $79-$99. The Guide to the Lively Arts appears: ·Sunday in Arts. ·Monday — Thursday in Style. ·Friday in Weekend. ·Saturday in Culture. For information about advertising, call: Raymond Boyer 202-334-4174 To reach a representative, call: 202-334-7006| guidetoarts@washpost.com 1. What do Free Country and Dance to the Music have in common? A. They charge ticket fees. B. They are broadcast online. C. They feature classic music. D. They are performed outdoors. 2. Which show can you watch if you are interested in comedies? A. Free Country. B. C. S. Lewis on Stage. C. Dance to the Music. D. Summer Concert Series. 3. In which section of a Tuesday newspaper can you find the text? A. Arts. B. Style. C. Weekend. D. Culture. B When I got my first research project to work, I was so excited. Seeing research in action was enjoyable. My excitement, though, was soon cut short when my professor asked me to write a research paper on the project. My body tensed. Writing was the last thing I wanted to do; it’s one reason why I pursued science in the first place. I had hated writing since I was a little boy. But I couldn’t avoid it: writing classes were required in high school. For hours, I stared at blank pages, trying to turn my disorganised thoughts into fluent sentences. My teachers would return my papers littered with red, showing my paragraphs were out of order. I was frustrated to no end. How could I know what was good if there was no objectively right answer? Maybe I wasn’t cut out for writing. I studied engineering in college. A few years later, I joined a research lab. The professor assigned me an initial project to improve the efficiency of an inductor (电路感应器). I spent weeks setting up a test for a new design. When I got the results, though, the numbers weren’t good. I kept trying new designs, using the results to brainstorm ideas with a team of researchers. Finally, after dozens of designs, we had one that could work. I was overjoyed — until my professor told me to write that research paper. In panic, I asked a graduate student in my lab for help. I carefully wrote an outline. But when I asked him for feedback, I soon found the paper full of red marks. Before I could quit in defeat, though, the graduate student explained red didn’t mean I was a bad writer. Writing isn’t a one-and-done thing. It requires revising your work, often several times. Suddenly it occurred to me, “Hadn’t I done the same thing when I was designing my research project?” I kept improving my outline, eventually turning it into sentences and paragraphs, guided by feedback from others. Finally, I made it, and surprisingly, I was having fun. From then on, writing became one of my favourite parts of research, and it still is today. It’s a future I never could have imagined during my early struggles with writing classes. But I came around. 4. How did the author feel when asked to write a research paper? A. Regretful. B. Ashamed. C. Disappointed. D. Unwilling. 5. The author’s teacher returned his papers littered with red because ________. A. he handed in blank pages B. his sentences were smooth C. his writing lacked organisation D. he combined science in his writing 6. Which word would best describe the author’s final research design? A. Hard-earned. B. Confusing. C. Well-known. D. Worrying. 7. What can we learn from this passage? A. A good beginning is half done. B. Actions speak louder than words. C. A bad workman always blames his tools. D. Trial and error opens the door to progress. C Around 40 million tons of electronic waste, known as e-waste, is produced every year. This includes electrical or electronic equipment that has been discarded. But where does it all go? In the US alone, 100 million mobile phones, 41 million computers and over 20 million televisions are thrown into landfills (垃圾填埋场) in a year. Even for standard waste this is a big headache, because any materials that are buried in the ground can’t be easily recovered and recycled. Recycling electronics can save energy and means that less of Earth’s natural resources need to be mined. Failing to recycle e-waste is extremely damaging the environment due to the nature of the materials used in modern devices. While heavy metals and chemicals improve a device’s safety and user experience, they become poisonous if they’re not dealt with properly. Your old phones, Gameboys, kettles, microwaves and more can end up in landfills, leaking their harmful contents into the soil, water and air. Not only does this kill wildlife and destroy ecosystems, but the accumulation (累积) of poison can impact human health too. As heavy metals and chemicals flow into lakes and rivers, drinking water becomes polluted. These poisons spread through the soil, impacting the health of crops and animals that people also rely on. In some western countries, e-waste isn’t hidden out of sight in landfills but is burnt in giant, open junkyards. They even ship waste electronics to other countries to deal with, and this often ends up in dumps across Africa and Asia. Workers in these places are exposed to polluted lands and chemical gas. It is urgent that we should reduce the damaging and unsustainable side of e-waste production. Rare earth metals, some plastics and chemicals can be fed into the next generation of electronics. The steps to proper recycling of e-waste are extensive and need large investment, but more and more countries around the world are turning to e-waste recycling. 8. What does the underlined word “discarded” in Paragraph 1 mean? A. Repaired. B. Protected. C. Used. D. Abandoned. 9. What can be learned from Paragraph 2? A E-waste has a permanent effect on the environment. B. E-waste may do harm to both ecosystems and humans. C. Heavy metals and chemicals are poisonous to the users. D. Burying e-waste into landfills is an effective way to recycle. 10. How does the author describe the handling of e-waste in Western countries? A. By providing data. B. By asking questions. C. By listing examples. D. By offering a definition. 11. What might the author continue to talk about? A. Solutions to destroying e-waste. B. Ways to recycle e-waste properly. C. Applications of recycled materials. D. Investments in restoring ecosystems. D Fictional, computer-generated human faces are so convincing they can fool even trained observers. They can be easily downloaded online and used for Internet scams(诈骗)and fake social media profiles. Al programs called generative adversarial networks (生成对抗网络), or GANs, can learn to create fake images that are less and less distinguishable from real images, by competing two neural networks against each other. Nightingale and her colleague Hany Farid at the University of California, Berkeley, asked 315 participants, recruited on a crowdsourcing website, to say whether they could distinguish a selection of 400 fake photos from 400 photographs of real people. Each set consisted of 100 people from each of four ethnic groups: white, Black, East Asian and South Asian. This group had an accuracy rate of 48.2 percent—slightly worse than chance. A second group of 219 participants were given training to recognize computer-generated faces. This group had an accuracy rate of 59 percent, but this difference is negligible (可忽略的), says Nightingale. The researchers also asked a separate group of 223 participants to rate a selection of the same faces on their level of trustworthiness, on a scale of 1 to 7. They rated the fake faces as 8 percent more trustworthy, on average, than the real faces—a small yet significant difference, according to Nightingale. That might be because artificial faces look more like “average” human faces, and people are more likely to trust typical-looking faces, she says. Looking at the extremes, the four faces rated most untrustworthy were real, whereas the three most trustworthy faces were fake. “We need stricter ethical guidelines and more legal frameworks in place because, inevitably, there are going to be people out there who want to use these images to do harm, and that’s worrying,” says Nightingale. To reduce these risks, developers could add watermarks to their images to flag them as fake. she says. “In my opinion, this is bad enough. It’s just going to get worse if we don’t do something to stop it.” 12. What can we know about GANs? A. GANs can cheat trained observers. B. GANs should be used under strict legal frameworks. C. GANs can generate artificial pictures close to real ones. D. GANs-generated Images can not be distinguished from real ones. 13. Why did Nightingale and Farid carry out the research? A. To warn people the risk of online fraud. B. To train people to discover fake photos online. C. To see if people can distinguish fake faces from real ones. D To test whether GANs can create fake faces to fool people. 14. What does Nightingale mean in the last paragraph? A. Stricter laws and regulations should be imposed. B. Effective ways are needed but not found yet. C. Watermarks are an effective way against fake images. D. Responsibility should be taken by developers to prevent misuse of fake images. 15. Which of the following is the best title for this passage? A. Development of Internet scams. B. Development of AI technology C. Will fake faces look more trustworthy? D. Legal frameworks for GANs 第二节 (共5题；每小题1.5分，满分12.5分) 阅读下列短文，从短文后的选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项. Cloud storage is a flexible and convenient way to store data with complete peace of mind. ____16____ This means you can store all your digital things remotely, without taking up space on your computer. There are two options available: public cloud storage allows you to share hosting space with other users; private cloud storage is the ideal choice for companies who want to have their data stored in their own environment. ____17____ Once you have registered and set up your account, you simply save your files via the internet using your username and password. This ensures your data remains secure and inaccessible to anyone else. Should you choose, you can put certain permissions in place, which makes it easy to share your data with your colleagues or your family. When you sign up to cloud storage, you can choose the amount of space you need. ____18____ You can store anything digital: all your files, videos and pictures. Whether you want to use this storage solution to store your family photographs or you want to use it to store your work documentation, you will find it quite convenient. Is it better than your computer or an external drive? The answer is a definite yes. Computers crash all the time. ____19____ External hard drives can still break, or fail. Here you also have the added risk of misplacing it or having it stolen. There are so many advantages to cloud computing, from the ability to access your data from wherever, whenever, to not needing expensive external storage devices. ____20____ A. You will find cloud storage very cheap. B. Cloud storage is very simple to use. C. It enables you to store your data on hosted servers. D. This is the most common cause of lost work and memories. E. Cloud storage providers offer multiple layers of data security. F. The only disadvantage, however, is that you need internet to access files. G. You can start with a small amount and increase the storage size later on. 第三部分 语言运用 (共两节，满分30分) 第一节 (共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分) 阅读下面短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。 My fiancé (未婚夫) and I were excited about shopping for our first home. But our funds were ___21___, and none of the houses in our price range seemed satisfactory. One agent recommended a house in particular. Although her description sounded wonderful, the price was ___22___ our range, so we declined. But she kept urging us to have a look ___23___. We finally did and it was ___24___ at first sight. It was Our Home, small and charming, overlooking a quiet lake. Walking through the rooms and talking with the owners, a nice elderly couple, we felt the warmth and ___25___ of the marriage within that home. As perfect as it was, the price remained too high for us. But every day, we would sit by the lake, looking at the house and dreaming of what it would be like to live there. Days later, we made a(n) ___26___ far below the asking price. Surprisingly, they didn’t ___27___ us. They renewed their offer instead. It was also much more than we could afford, but far ___28___ than the original asking price. The next day, we got a ___29___ message that another buyer had offered a much higher price. Even so, we decided to talk with the ____30____ directly. We made our final offer, which ____31____ was thousands of dollars less than the other buyer’s bid. We knew it, ____32____ we had to try. “Sold!” said the owner. Then he explained: He’d seen us sitting by the lake all those times; he knew how much we loved the place and that we’d ____33____ the years of work they had put into their home; he realized he would take a loss by selling it to us, but it was worthwhile; we were the people they wanted to live there. He told us to consider the ____34____ in the price “an early wedding present”. That’s how we found our home and how I learned that when people are ____35____, they are not strangers, only friends we haven’t yet met. 21 A. needed B. limited C. enough D. large 22. A. below B. within C. beyond D. between 23. A. at least B. at most C. at times D. at hand 24. A. relief B. concern C. love D. curiosity 25. A. pride B. happiness C. challenge D. desire 26. A. effort B. offer C. promise D. profit 27. A. come across B. look after C. depend on D. laugh at 28. A. worse B. better C. less D. higher 29. A. relaxing B. disappointing C. pleasant D. regular 30. A. agents B. buyers C. managers D. owners 31. A. already B. still C. generally D. ever 32. A. so B. or C. for D. but 33 A. check B. analyze C. appreciate D. ignore 34. A. increase B. difference C. interest D. average 35. A. kind B. polite C. smart D. energetic 第二节 (共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分) A阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。 People have always wanted to learn more about space. Before the mid-20th century, most people felt ____36____ (travel) into space was an impossible dream. However, ____37____ the help of scientists, people succeeded in realizing their dream____38____ (explore) space. On 4 October, 1975, the Sputnik 1 satellite ____39____ (launch) by the USSR. Hard ____40____ scientists try to make sure nothing goes wrong, accidents can still happen. These disasters made everyone ____41____ (disappoint), but people still believe in the importance of ____42____ (carry) on space exploration. In 2003, China became the third country to ____43____ (independent) send humans into space. Then Shenzhou 6 and 7 completed ____44____ second manned orbit and the first Chinese spacewalk. In spite of the difficulties, countless future ____45____ (discover) will not only enable us to understand the universe but also help us survive well into the future. 第四部分 写作 (共两节，满分40分) 第一节 (满分15分) 46. 假定你是光明中学高二学生李华，得知市博物馆正在招募暑假期间做英文讲解的志愿者，向外国游客介绍汉代历史文物。请你用英文给相关负责人写一封申请信，内容包括： 1.自我介绍以及陈述申请意愿； 2个人优势； 3.希望批准。 参考词汇：招募recruit;汉代历史文物Han Dynasty artifacts 注意：1.写作词数应为80个左右； 2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。 Dear Sir or Madam, ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Yours sincerely, Li Hua 第二节 (满分25分) 47. I met the Man of the Trees in summer ten years ago, when I was visiting Uncle Jita. Those were difficult times. People were cutting down our forest, and there was often flooding. Sometimes our water supply was dirty. When our pump(水泵)did have clean water, we had to wait in line for ages. When the pump wasn’t working, we had to walk five kilometres to the closest stream. But I was happy. I was going to see my favorite uncle. When the day finally arrived, Dad drove me to Uncle Jita’s house and left. Once he saw me, Uncle Jita announced, “Tomorrow we’re going to explore a magical place. Here is my camera, Amy. You can take photos of what you see.” The following day, we woke up and left early on a boat. The trip was exciting. But when we got off, there was ... nothing in front of us. “I don’t want to take pictures of this,” I complained. Uncle laughed,“Start walking, Amy. I promise you’ll be surprised.” After some time, I could see the outline of a forest in the distance. A little closer, there was a man waving to us. “That’s Kabir. The forest you see is his. He planted every single tree.” As we walked towards Kabir, Uncle explained that thirty years ago, the whole area was a wasteland. But one day Kabir decided to change all that and started planting trees. Thanks to him, part of the wasteland is now a paradise(天堂). Uncle introduced me to Kabir, who had gray hair and a determined face. “Jita told me you like animals. Are you ready to see some?” he asked. “Of course!” I replied. We continued walking and soon were under the trees. I turned my head and was amazed at the difference between the two places. All because of the efforts of one man. Like Uncle said, Kabir’s forest was magical. We saw deer, rhinos, and even tigers. During lunchtime, Kabir explained how, by planting trees, it was possible to stop the land from eroding(侵蚀). 注意： 1．续写词数应为150左右； 2．请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。 Hearing this, I turned to my uncle, “I think we can plant trees too ” ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ In the years that followed, people in our village worked hard to carry out our plan. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 第1页/共1页 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $$