江苏省南京市创新能力竞赛2023-2024学年六年级下学期英语试题A卷

2024 年创新能力测评 A卷 ----------科技周主题日活动 一．单项填空(每题 1 分，共 14 分) 从下面各题所给的 A、B、C三个选项中，选择可以填入空白处的最佳选项。 1. —David, what time do you have breakfast every day? —We have breakfast ________ 6:30. A. on B. at C. for 2. —Grandma’s birthday is soon. What can we buy for her? —_________. A. Let me think about it B. That’s a good idea C. That’s all right 3. —I like eating fruit and vegetables because they’re ________. A. boring B. healthy C. difficult D. interesting 4. —What about this pair of shoes? It’s only $28. —OK. I’ll ________ it. A. wash B. sell C. make D. take 5. —You ________ stop at the red lights when you cross the road. A. can B. would C. may D.must 6. My friend Jack ______ Chinese for two years. He’s more interested in Chinese culture now. A. learns B. was learning C. has learned D. will learn 7. Which of the following is correct for the word “grand”? A. /gra:nd/ B. /greind/ C. /graɪd/ D. /grænd/ 8. Dr Sun Yat-sen’s Mausoleum is quite famous, ________ I haven’t visited it before. A. for B. but C. or D. so 9. It is 11: 30 now. It’s time ________. —OK. Let’s go. A. to lunch B. for lunch C. have lunch D. eat lunch 10. They felt so bored in the room that they wanted to have ________ to read. A. something interesting B. something interested C. anything interesting D. anything interested 11. I want to know . A. when we should arrive at the airport B. when should we arrive at the airport C. when the airport we should arrive at D.when the airport should we arrive at 12. —What about visiting Harbin during this winter holiday? —That’s wonderful! Could you tell me ________? A. how long will we stay there B. if we went to Ice and Snow World C. that we will feed tigers there D. what we should wear to keep warm 13. —I think advertisements are really boring. —______. I know some creative ones. A. Not exactly B. Take it easy C. I agree with you D. That’s a good idea 14. The saying “________” tells us that you won’t be a hero if you can’t get over difficulties and achieve success. A. Practice makes perfect. B. B. Amiss is as good as a mile. C. Actions speak louder than words. D. D. He who has never been to the Great Wall is not a true man. 二．完形填空（共 8分，每小题 1分） 阅读下面的短文，掌握其大意，然后从短文后各题所给的 A、B、C、D四个选项中，选择 最佳选项。 I was breathing hard after finishing my 400-meter race. I tried my best but only got the third place. I was walking slowly to catch my breath and relax my legs when my coach (教练) rushed over, looking. ___15___. “Susan, could you please run the last leg of the relay race (接力比赛)? Tracy hurt herself in the long jump.” “You want me to run another 400 meters?” I asked in surprise. “A 400-meter race is really ___16___ and I have just finished one!” “We have been training hard all the season. Without you or Tracy, we have to give up this time. But if you join in, we’ll have the chance to win a place.” I nodded and followed her to the starting line. Amanda, the first leg runner, tried to give me a ___17___, but I could tell that she wasn’t sure we could make it. Racers of other teams all seemed to have ___18___ legs as I had seen none of them in the 400-meter race before. When it was my turn, the three girls in my team had made it six meters ahead. As the baton (接力棒) got into my hand, I wished I could shoot out, but my legs felt like jelly. I could hear screams around “Go, Susan, go!” I ___19__ the first before the last turn. Then my arms and legs were out of order. My breath became difficult. One runner passed me. I kept my balance (平衡). And then the second. I was almost knocked down by the wind of her passing. Then just at the finish line, I tried to ___20___ myself across it, headfirst. Our relay team finished third. My teammates held me up. I thought they might be angry with me for not keeping the first place. However, to my surprise, they hugged me and ___21__ me for trying my best. ___22___ isn’t everything. Done is better than perfect, especially when it is for the whole team. 15 A. cool B. happy C. worried D. relaxed 16. A. exciting B. interesting C. boring D. tiring 17. A. smile B. hand C. flower D. call 18. A. long B. short C. fresh D. old 19. A. passed B. stayed C. became D. helped 20. A. kick B. hand C. lift D. throw 21. A. thanked B. asked C. excused D. questioned 22. A. Trying B.Winning C. Practicing D. Joining 三．在短文的空格内填入适当的词，使其内容通顺，每空格限填一词，首字母 已给。（每空 1分，共 6 分） Do you know how to use phones politely? Here are some t___23___ for you. Don’t phone before 7:00 a.m. and after 9:00 p.m. Also don’t call people d___24__ meals, work, and school. People don’t expect you to visit at these times, either. Make sure that the number you have is correct. If you dial the wrong number then you should say , “I’m so sorry! I have the wrong number!” DO NOT just h___25___ up. Likewise, if a person with a wrong number phoned you, politely point out that they have called the wrong number. Check your voice! W___26___ talking on the phone in a public space, keep in mind that everything you say is no longer just your news. People around you may not want to know your own personal things and it makes them embarrassed (尴尬) to have to listen to your stories. They will feel comfortable if you keep your voice at “indoor voice” level, or low. Don’t spend an hour (or hours) c___27___ on the phone. Maybe other people are busy and it may waste their time. And they will not want to talk to you again. Turn off your phone in the theater. People can’t h___28___ what the actors and actresses are saying. People may feel angry because of the sound of your telephone when they are watching the play attentively. 四．阅读理解(每题 2分，共 22分) 阅读下列短文，根据短文内容，从短文后各题所给的 A、B、C三个选项中选择 最佳选项。 A What makes the best friend? Posted 10/15/23 6:53 PM My name is Steve and I’m from New York. My best friend is in my class, so we can see each other every day. I like him because he’s fun and he always plays baseball with me. Posted 10/15/23 7:25 PM I’m Linda and I’m from London. My best friend lives on the other side of town, so we don’t meet often. We have the same hobby (爱好). We both like dancing. Posted 10/16/23 7:20 PM I’m David and I’m from Sydney. My best friend is Eric. We go to the same basketball club every weekend. He’s very clever and often comes to my house and helps me with my maths. Posted 10/16/23 7:46 PM My name is Linling and I’m from Shanghai. My best friends are Yangyang and Fangfang. They live near my house. We are in the same class. We do many things together. We all like painting best. 29. Steve comes from ________. A. New York B. London C. Sydney 30. ________ often helps David learn maths. A. Yangyang B. Linda C. Eric 31. Linling and her friends like ________ best. A. playing basketball B. painting C. dancing B We all have trouble, and often make mistakes. However, many of us find it hard to admit（承 认）them to others. So most of us would keep the problems to ourselves. We believe that our trouble and mistakes show our weakness, and we are afraid to let others see us as not good enough. The good news is that our worries about the negative evaluations（负面评价）from others may not seem as serious as we imagine. A research suggested that we saw our act of showing weakness more negatively than others did, and researchers called this the “beautiful mess effect （效应）”. In other words, we may not be such a mess as we think. This effect can stop us from sharing our true feelings and needs, which can actually have many advantages. For example, studies show that sharing personal information about oneself may help build closeness and trust, while saying sorry sincerely could repair a fractured relationship. Therefore, researchers wanted to know how we could get over the “beautiful mess effect”. Their new experiments suggest that being self-compassionate（自我同情）can be very helpful when we want to find beauty in the mess of our own weakness. In the study, researchers invited 340 university students to take part in four experiments. In one of them, students were asked to imagine themselves or another person admitting to their boss that they’d made a huge mistake on a project. Then, students needed to evaluate this act: Did they see it as an act of showing one’s courage or weakness? Finally, researchers evaluated how self-compassionate the students were. The study showed that students with low self-compassion evaluated their own act more negatively than when they imagined others admitting the same mistake. Highly self-compassionate students, on the other hand, were not much influenced by the “beautiful mess effect”. In other words, self-compassion helps us evaluate our act of showing weakness more fairly, stopping us from being too hard on ourselves. Luckily, our level of self-compassion is not fixed and can be raised if we want to. With a kind and caring attitude towards ourselves, we can become more comfortable with showing our weakness. This practice, in turn, can improve our relationships. 32.Why do people keep their problems to themselves according to the passage? A. To make as few mistakes as possible. B. To protect their personal information. C. To build nice relationships with others. D. To stay away from negative evaluations. 33. The word “fractured” in Paragraph 3 probably means “________”. A. beautiful B. possible C. healthy D. broken 34. The writer probably agrees that ________. A. we have more advantages than we think B. others don’t think we are a mess as we do C. it’s easy to share our weakness with others D. we can’t get over the “beautiful mess effect” 35.What is the writer’s main purpose in writing this passage? A. To discuss some ways to get over weakness. B. To encourage people to be self-compassionate. C. To invite people to share their worries every day. D. To introduce the risks of the “beautiful mess effect”. C In a recent study in the U. S. and U. K., Van Tilburg and his team asked people through online surveys to describe the characteristics of a boring person according to someone they knew. Being dull and quiet, having no interests, no opinions and lacking（缺乏）a sense of humor are often mentioned. The researchers then followed up with additional surveys. The results clearly suggest that being considered boring is a negative（负面的）personality characteristic, and is often tied to introversion（内向）. So why are introverts sometimes seen as boring? Maybe because quiet people value their privacy and avoid sharing their everyday life. Their behavior is the opposite of the preference in a culture towards extroversion（外向） . This preference leads to a fixed idea that “quiet” means “boring”, and it reflects a push toward uncontrolled extroversion—just think about people crazily posting nearly everything on social media of their life and activities to attract attention. Another research argued that it might be problematic to overvalue extroversion as more socially preferred than introversion. This wrong idea might start from teenage years when we think having the most friends and being the best-liked means being popular. This type of everyone-agreed popularity may make quiet people see their lack of extroversion as a deficit. In fact, introverts tend to have the “quiet ego（自我）”, which allows them to have the ability to put themselves in other people’s shoes and understand situations from a bigger picture. According to researchers Bauer and Wayment, the quiet ego is a way of explaining the self that goes beyond being “self-centered” by considering both self and others. The quiet ego helps introverts to balance self-focused values, like power and achievement, and other-focused values, such as kindness and care for others. Balancing both values can lead to psychological well-being and life satisfaction. Generalizing introverted people with negative characteristics is false and harmful because introversion can carry many positive influences. In fact, an introverted style can be a strength. This is because introverts are likely to be truer to themselves than extroverts. Moreover, accepting their introversion as a benefit would in turn improve their sense of happiness. There can be a joy to being “boring” that can go along with a quiet, introverted personality. 36. Introverted people are often seen as boring because ________. A. they have no interest in pleasing others B. they refuse to express their ideas in public C. their sense of humor is often difficult to get D. their behavior goes against cultural preference 37. The word “deficit” in Paragraph 4 probably means “________”. A.mistake B. weakness C. symbol D. talent 38. The writer would probably agree that ________. A. extroversion is more socially beneficial B. introversion usually leads to unhappiness C. being extroverted makes people truer to others D. introverted people are likely to get life satisfaction 39.What is the writer’s main purpose in writing this passage? A. To correct a false idea about introversion. B. To discuss different causes of introversion. C. To explain why introverted people are quieter. D. To compare self-focused and other-focused values. 五．阅读短文，根据短文内容回答问题。（每空 2分，共 10 分） The traditional Chinese lunar calendar（农历）divides a year into 24 solar terms （节气）. In the ancient day , they were important instructions for the farming production as well as people’s daily lives. Here are four solar terms and some details about them. Spring Equinox It starts around March 21st. During this time, swallows fly back to the north. It is also a good time for people to fly kites and eat spring vegetables. Summer Solstice It begins around June 21st. During Summer Solstice, people often give colored fans to each other because fans can help them cool down. Autumn Equinox It starts around September 23rd. From Autumn Equinox, most of the areas in China will enter the cool autumn. It is a season for people to eat carbs and enjoy chrysanthemums（菊花）. Winter Solstice It begins around December 23rd. It marks the arrival of the coldest season in the year. People usually make and eat dumplings with their family members. 40. How many solar terms are there in a year in the traditional Chinese lunar calendar? ____________________________________________________ 41.What do people do during Spring Equinox? ____________________________________________________ 42.Why do people give colored fans to each other during Summer Solstice? ____________________________________________________ 43.When does Winter Solstice begin? ____________________________________________________ 44.What is the passage mainly about? ____________________________________________________ 2024 年创新能力测评 A卷 ----------科技周主题日活动 第一部分 外语素养（60 分） 一．单项填空(每题 1 分，共 14 分) 第 1 题 第 2 题 第 3 题 第 4 题 第 5 题 第 6 题 第 7 题 B A B D D C D 第 8 题 第 9 题 第 10 题 第 11 题 第 12 题 第 13 题 第 14 题 B B A A D A D 二．完形填空（共 8分，每小题 1分） 第 15 题 第 16 题 第 17 题 第 18 题 C D A C 第 19 题 第 20 题 第 21 题 第 22 题 B D A B 三．在短文的空格内填入适当的词，使其内容通顺，每空格限填一词，首字母已 给。（每空 1分，共 6分） 23. tips 24.during 25.hang 26.When/While 27. chatting 28. hear 四．阅读理解(每题 2分，共 22 分) 第 29 题 第 30 题 第 31 题 第 32 题 第 33 题 第 34 题 A C B D D B 第 35 题 第 36 题 第 37 题 第 38 题 第 39 题 B D B D A 五．阅读短文，根据短文内容回答问题。（每空 2 分，共 10 分，错一个单词扣 0.5 分） 40. 24 solar terms. . 41. It is also a good time for people to fly kites and eat spring vegetables. . 42. Because fans can help them cool down. . 43. It begins around December 23rd. . 44. Four solar terms and some details about them. .