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上海市大同中学2025学年第一学期高三英语(2025.9) I. Listening Comprehension Section A Directions: In Section A, you will hear ten short conversations between two speakers. At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. The conversations and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a conversation and the question about it, read the four possible answers on your paper, and decide which one is the best answer to the question you have heard. 1. 【此处可播放相关音频，请去附件查看】 A. Professor and student. B. Employer and employee. C. Interviewer and interviewee. D. Salesperson and client. 2. 【此处可播放相关音频，请去附件查看】 A. It was a very special production. B. It was a little disappointing. C. It was full of exciting action. D. It was as exceptional as expected. 3. 【此处可播放相关音频，请去附件查看】 A. He doesn’t like the view. B. He doesn’t trust elevators. C. He is afraid of heights. D. He feels isolated on bridges. 4. 【此处可播放相关音频，请去附件查看】 A. This Sunday. B. Next Thursday. C. Next Monday. D. The Monday after next. 5. 【此处可播放相关音频，请去附件查看】 A. The contract contains too many sticky points. B. The budget is limited for the planned project. C. Neither side is willing to initiate the project. D. The two sides can’t agree on the budget. 6. 【此处可播放相关音频，请去附件查看】 A. Sorry. B. Puzzled. C. Impatient. D. Angry. 7. 【此处可播放相关音频，请去附件查看】 A. It was seriously damaged. B. It was badly flooded. C. It crashed on a bridge. D. It was beyond repair. 8. 【此处可播放相关音频，请去附件查看】 A. Make one cake at a time. B. Follow the step-by-step guide. C. Ignore the complicated procedure. D. Memorize the instructions. 9. 【此处可播放相关音频，请去附件查看】 A. He will go to a gym after work. B. He is unlikely to exercise regularly. C. He is not allowed to exercise in the office. D. He will definitely change his schedule. 10. 【此处可播放相关音频，请去附件查看】 A. Jason deserves to be punished. B. Jason has lost control of the situation. C. Jason is sure to accomplish the assignment. D. Jason needs to improve his performance. Section B Directions: In Section B, you will hear two short passages and one longer conversation, and you will be asked several 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. 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。【此处可播放相关音频，请去附件查看】 11. A. To make it stand out among the exhibits. B. To give the impression of discolouration. C. To make it look like the original piece. D. To showcase the artistic style of the artist. 12. A. It was sold for a record one million pounds. B. It was restored to its original state. C. It was partially damaged by accident. D. It was thrown away on purpose. 13. A. Accidents caused by lack of security in museums. B. Impacts of damaged artworks on the public. C. Challenges of guarding the artworks in museums. D. Incidents of artworks falling victim to human errors. 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。【此处可播放相关音频，请去附件查看】 14. A. Launching an anti-smoking campaign. B. Presenting three health-related videos. C. Introducing a public service video. D. Proposing ideas for the video content. 15. A. He smokes three cigarettes before getting to school. B. He tends to avoid sports both in and out of school. C. He smokes secretively when he can’t concentrate. D. His parents have stopped giving him pocket money. 16. A. It emphasizes the value of physical activities. B. It has a question in the end to arouse interest. C. It follows the daily lives of a group of teenagers. D. It shows the effects of smoking on a teenager. 听下面一段对话，回答以下小题【此处可播放相关音频，请去附件查看】 17. A. To make a huge profit. B. To build a customer base. C. To attract new investors. D. To defeat old brands. 18. A. Organizing contests in the stores. B. Inviting celebrities to hand out free samples. C. Introducing it on the official website. D. Featuring it on some TV channels. 19. A. Exposure on another brand’s website is impractical. B. Offline promotions are forbidden these days. C Doing so doesn’t require a huge investment. D. Social media presence is vital for promotion. 20. A. The pricing and marketing strategies. B. The company’s development obstacles. C. The action plan of setting a reasonable price. D. The factors in expanding the market. II. Grammar and Vocabulary Section A (10%) Directions: After reading the passages below, fill in the blanks to make the passages 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. Tween bots are human-dependent cardboard robots that navigate the city with the help of pedestrians they encounter. Rolling at a constant speed, in a straight line, Tween bots have a destination ____21____ (display) on a flag and rely on passers-by they come across to read this flag and to aim them in the right direction to reach their goal. I walked out to Washington Square Park on a sunny summer day, ____22____ (place) my first Tweenbot on the sidewalk, and walked away. From a distance, I observed as the Tweenbot — a smiling 10-inch tall cardboard missionary — bumped along towards its inevitable fate. It was incredible. ____23____ a Tweenbot got caught under a park bench, ground futilely (徒劳地) against a curb, or became trapped in a pothole (坑洼), some passer - by would always rescue it and send it toward its goal. Never once was a Tween bot lost or damaged. Often, people ____24____ ignore the instructions to aim the Tween bot in the “right” direction, if that direction meant ____25____ (send) the robot into a dangerous situation. One man turned the robot back in the direction ____26____ which it had just come, saying out loud to the Tween bot, “You can’t go that way; it’s toward the road.” The Tween bot’s unexpected presence in the city created an unfolding narrative that speaks to the power of a simple technological object to create a complex network powered by human intelligence and asynchronous (非同时发生的) interactions. The journey ____27____ take becomes a story of people’s willingness ____28____ (engage) with a creature that mirrors human characteristics of being easily harmed, of being lost, and of having intention ____29____ the means of achieving the goal alone. _____30_____ each encounter with an empathetic pedestrian takes a Tween bot one step closer to reaching its destination, the significance of our random discoveries and individual actions builds up into a story about a vast space made small by an even smaller robot. Section B (10%) 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. wrestle B. precision C. lengthy D. communicate E. opposite F. core G. chaotic H. otherwise I. shoulder J. obligation K. disagree Using English as the Language of Science English is the international language of science, but most of the world’s scientists speak it as a second language. We ____31____ an extra career challenge: Not only must we gain command of our science, but we must also be able to write to professional standards in a foreign language to ____32____ that science. To me, English is suitable as an international language in a number of ways. On the surface, it’s easy enough to convey basic meanings when conducting trade, business and tourism, as well as on news sites and social media. In most contexts, it doesn’t matter if you misuse “the” or “ing”, or get the word order wrong. Plurals are generally straightforward; and, although the spelling is ____33____ once you get a feel for the typical pattern, it’s not too hard. But when meanings are complex and technical, ____34____ is a must. Then, English becomes a difficult beast to ____35____ with. The Australian poet Clive James once called English “big and baggy”. I can’t ____36____. The vocabulary is gigantic (巨大的). Furthermore, the grammar is extraordinarily flexible, leaving us with an often-confusing collection of nuanced (有细微差别的) choices. Therein lies the problem: the expanse of the language makes it easy to produce ____37____ writings of questionable quality. Worse still, we outsiders to English are likely to have been taught to use elaborate wording and long sentences to show our authority on a topic. Ironically (讽刺地), English is the ____38____ : The language is at its most elegant when plain and simple. But simplicity is hard English! Another shock to my Hebrew (希伯来语) hard-wiring was the importance English speakers place on front-ending their message. In many languages, you might expect readers to feel a(n) ____39____ to stay with the text throughout. In English, however, I’ve developed a healthy fear that my readers will skim-read unless I state the essence at the opening of a section or paragraph, then walk backwards while explaining it. My language mentor (导师) says that working with me makes him reflect on English in ways he wouldn’t ____40____— I teach him, he says. Full disclosure: he nipped and tucked (改造) this piece and made a few helpful suggestions. II. Reading Comprehension (45%) Section A (15%) 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. Instead of cruising in on a hover-board, I rode my bike to the office today. The bicycle was invented in the 19th century. Instead of taking a pill for breakfast, I had a bacon roll, cooked using gas. Science fiction has ____41____ to us. Making predictions is ____42____, especially about the future, as physicist Niels Bohr said. In science fiction, you can’t escape that challenge, ____43____. Since its birth in the 19th century, writers have ____44____ imagined the things to come: devices that humankind will invent to make life easier. But in so many instances, those promises have not come to pas. The biggest ____45____ are in travel- jet packs, hover-boards and flying cars are yet to fill the skies. Air travel has become significantly cheaper and wide-reaching, but only using ____46____ 20th —century technology; commercial aeroplanes are much the same as they were 50 years ago. Automation is what science fiction frequently delivers, but its arrival in the real world has been ____47____. Domestic robots with a degree of intelligence are yet to ____48____, though robotic vacuum cleaners are commercially available — even if they are fairly hopeless. Video calls have now arrived— ____49____ -—but conferencing on Skype is still dissatisfying. In mobiles, video call technology is now available, so when your dad rings to update you on his vegetable patch, he’ll be able to _____50_____ your look of boredom. The truth is that we quickly forget the astonishment of invention: our wonderment soon _____51_____, replaced with the feeling of nothing new. We should try to stay in that period of amazement. It is _____52_____ that the contents of every book ever written can be stored in a small box. Or that you can carry 10,000 albums on an object kept in your pocket. Or that almost all the information in the world can be accessed almost anywhere at any time. All these actions are dependent on the appearance of the microchip and its place in computers. Yet sci-fi didn’t predict the _____53_____ of the computer in running our lives. But the real area where reality far _____54_____ predictions is medicine. Sure, fiction would describe humans as “disease-free” but without going into detail. “Disease-free” humans are still absent, but the progress made in maintaining life is breathtaking. With relative _____55_____, we can sequence anyone’s genome(基因组), giving a read-out of our entire genetic code. This means we can find out the underlying genetic cause of thousands of diseases in minutes. While the invention of science fiction can show great ideas we’d like to happen, nothing outperforms the inventiveness of people in the real world. 41. A. appealed B. predicted C. turned D. lied 42. A. tricky B. impractical C. inadvisable D. vital 43. A. either B. though C. instead D. therefore 44. A. effortlessly B. tirelessly C. meaninglessly D. restlessly 45. A. innovations B. advancements C. disappointments D. imaginations 46. A. awkwardly B. critically C. distinctly D. exclusively 47. A. unexpected B. ineffective C. irreversible D. unpredictable 48. A. authorize B. materialize C. standardize D. globalize 49. A. sort of B. in time C. beyond expectation D. never before 50. A. ignore B. remove C. see D. imagine 51. A. picks up B. works out C. sets in D. wears off 52. A. typical B. reasonable C. convenient D. astonishing 53. A. replacement B. dominance C. emergence D. consequence 54. A. overtakes B. underlines C. underestimates D. overdoes 55. A. help B. ease C. relief D. passion Section B (22%) 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) When asked in 1993 to comment on accusations that the movie In the Name of the Father distorts （曲解） contemporary British and Irish history, female lead Emma Thompson responded that she couldn't care less. Even since the premiere （首映） in 1915 of The Birth of a Nation, filmmakers have rewritten history to create top-dollar entertainment. The films are very persuasive: well-made movies hold your interest continuously, drawing your attention to “what happens next,” and pulling you forward with no time to reflect on individual scenes until the final credits roll. The result: you don't remember much about a movie after watching it for the first time. For this reason, movies have extraordinary power - unmatched by any other medium - to leave you with a strong sense of what is right and what is wrong, who is bad and who is good, even though critical details presented in the movies may be false. Well, so what? They're just movies. In fact they're not just movies. Millions of Americans are devoted history lovers, and they pack theatres every time new movies about historical figures or events come to town. Saving private Ryan and Titanic drew viewers and cash for months. Many high school teachers screen movies in the classroom. Clearly countless Americans get most of their history from television and the big screen. Some of the industry's finest historical and period films premiered during the past decades. But the 1960s also saw a number of politically charged history-based movies full of factual distortions and, occasionally, outright lies. Today the trend continues on a larger scale: many movies released in the 1990s and the first decade of the 21*t century reflect lack of respect for solid, reliable history. History Goes to the Movies is a source of information and, it is hoped, entertainment for everyone interested in the actual history behind a wide selection of movies grouped into twelve sections--11 covering historical periods and events and twelfth containing biographies and period films. Each movie review includes an essay on the history covered in one or more movies, and a brief plot summary. Star ratings (five stars: don't miss it) reflect each movie's historical accuracy and - to a much lesser extent --- its power to amuse. Obviously, expecting textbook accuracy from movies would be ridiculous-and producers have delivered a remarkable number of historically faithful movies. But some of them get too much of their history wrong. History Goes to the Movies is a guide, however imperfect, for readers and viewers aiming to get it right. 56. Emma Thompson said ________ that In the Name of the Father was historically inaccurate. A. it didn't matter. B. it was upsetting. C. It aroused her attention. D. it wasn't obvious. 57. By “in fact they're not just movies” (in paragraph 2), the author means that________. A. some movies are much more profitable than others B. movies serve more purposes than entertaining views C. movies tend to provide viewers with false details D. the movies about historical figures attract history lovers 58. Which of the following is true of History Goes to the Movies? A. It is aimed at those who take interest in biographies. B. It rates a movie mainly according to how amusing it is. C. It introduces a movie's story as well as its related history. D. It focuses on the movies that presented history in a funny way. 59. The passage is mainly intended to ________. A. criticize the film industry's favoring entertainment over truth B. point out which films presented history in a wrong way. 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Enjoy Wearing SQ Jeans TM. 60. In Fabric & Styles, which item leaves you with the least personal choice? A. Fabric. B. Fly Style. C. Pocket Style. D. Thread Color 61. According to the passage, which of the following statements is True? A. The tailor will meet all the requirements on your jeans on condition that you state every detail clearly in your order. B. If the order with wrong measurements has already been processed, nothing can be done to fix the situation. C. Before payment, you can check your order in detail and feel free to make modifications multiple times. D. The tailor will make an identical copy of your favorite jeans if you follow the instructions in “Copy A Jeans” section. 62. If you place an overseas order with full payments by PayPal on October 12, you will receive your jeans no later than________. A. Oct.21 B. Nov.11 C. Nov.16 D. Nov.20 (C) There are few spectacles more unpleasant than a television presenter trying to hang on to a job. When one of the presenters of the BBC program Crimewatch resigned recently, rather than suffer the inevitable indignity of being unfinished and replaced by a younger version, he made the usual hurt noises about his masters' overemphasis on youth. People in the media listened sympathetically before he slid from view to join the ranks of television's has-beens. The presenter's argument, that the views don't care how old you are so long as you can “do the job,” unfortunately is not backed up by the evidence. When you're on TV, viewers are always thinking about whether you're losing your hair or your figure and, lately, whether you've had cosmetic work done. This is what they're actually doing when you think they're listening to the wise things you say. Viewers actually don't understand much of what the job involves, they just see you sitting there looking the part. Like the ability to pet one's head while rubbing one's stomach, TV presenting is just one of those sills. Some of those who possess this skill can hit the big name, inevitably as they become more attached to the lifestyle this brings, however, the more likely they are to overstate the skill. In reality, if somebody is paying you a lot of money to do a job, it's often on the tacit （心照不宣的） understanding that you may be fired suddenly-it's part of the deal. Unlike football managers, TV presenters pretend not to understand this. If they've had many years being paid silly sums to read a script from an autocue （ 自动题词机），it's difficult for them to accept that they've been the beneficiary of good fortune rather than anything else; even harder to face the fact that an editor could all too easily send them to the shopping channels. Something similar eventually awaits all the people who are currently making fortunes that would have been unimaginable to earlier generations of presenters. One day we'll decide that their face no longer fits and they'll be dragged away complaining about the same ageist policy from which they no doubt previously profited. Show business is a brutal （残忍的） business. The one thing it reliably punishes is age, particularly among women. That's why, at the age of fifty, female TV presenters become female radio presenters and why girl bands planning to re-form need to get it done before they're forty, after which it will get too hard for everyone to suspend their collective disbelief. 63. What does the writer imply about the Crimewatch presenter he mentions in the first paragraph? A. He was unwise to resign when he did. B. He will soon be forgotten by the viewers. C. He may well have had a valid point to make. D. He was treated insensitively by his employers. 64. The underlined pronoun “this” in paragraph 2 refers to________. A. a public image B. a level of success C. an overstatement D. a common misunderstanding 65. Why does the writer mention football managers in paragraph 3? A. To support his view that presenters are overpaid. B. To stress how important luck is in certain occupations. C. To show how relatively secure TV presents are in their jobs. D. To illustrate a general rule that applies to certain types of job. 66. According to the writer, TV personalities who may worry about ageism ________. A should look for work in other forms of broadcasting B. may have benefited from it themselves at some point C. are less well respected than presenters of the past D. are being unfair to up-and-coming younger colleagues Section C (8%) Directions: Read the following passage. Fill in each blank with a proper sentence given in the box. Each sentence can be used only once. Note that there are two more sentences than you need. When we talk about healthy brain ageing we are really discussing one of two things: how to minimize ongoing damage to the hardware of the brain, mostly by keeping its blood supply as good as possible; or how to improve the operation of the brain's software. ____67____ There is currently no magic bullet to protect the brain, but one area that has been best researched, and about which we can say with reasonable confidence, “this will help”, is mental activity. There is plenty of evidence that older people who stay mentally active, by learning a new language, doing crosswords or taking part in other intellectually challenging activities, preserve full cognitive function for longer. They have spent more time doing cognitively demanding activities over a lifetime, and they are, to some extent, buffered from the physical effects of brain ageing and degenerative diseases. We cal this buffer “cognitive reserve” - a back-up reservoir of brain function that can protect from the consequences of brain damage, allowing us to continue to perform well. For example, people with a higher IQ, longer education or cognitively challenging employment have been found to have a lower risk of developing dementia. ____68____ In fact, studies have found that people with higher cognitive, reserve who do get dementia exhibit less severe symptoms even when they have more brain damage than those with lower cognitive reserve. ____69____ The more we understand about its role in protecting our brain and how to boost our reserve, the more effective we will be3 in designing interventions to keep the human brain healthier for longer. ____70____ We think it can be built up throughout life for everyone. Therefore, taking part in cognitively challenging activities, learning new skills and continuing to “use it or lose it” probably applies no matter how old you are. Crucially, it's never to late to start. A. Many ways of doing this have been suggested, but few have scientific weight behind them. B. Though there is not enough scientific research about it, many suggestions have been put forward. C. Cognitive reserve isn't exclusive to those who have the IQ of a genius or who've devoted their life to theoretical physics. D. Yet there's still much to discover about the potential of cognitive reserve for optimizing the brain's resilience. E. This is despite the fact that their brains actually show normal amounts of age- and disease-related damage. F. However, studies about the potential of cognitive reserve for optimizing the brain's resilience leave much to be desired. 51. III. Summary Writing (10%) 71. 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. Where Arts Should Get Its Funding? Few people would contest the value of arts in a civilized society. Great art enriches people’s lives by providing pleasure, stimulation and an escape from the pressure of everyday life. However, it is also true that many of the arts, such as classical music, the ballet, and the visual arts have always attracted a minority audience. The question is whether the arts should be publicly funded, or whether it is the consumers who should pay. It is my view that the government should subsidize the arts, for a number of reasons. First of all, without subsidies, many artists would undoubtedly be unable to survive financially. Government grants can enable them to work with artistic freedom, while if they worked independently or relied on private subsidies they might be subject to market pressures and the need to make a profit. Secondly, the arts contribute to a nation’s cultural heritage and can create a sense of social identity. They can also play an important role in education, community regeneration and even crime prevention. However, the main argument for public funding of the arts is not social usefulness, but rather because they are important for their own sake. Of course, there are those who argue that public money would be better spent on meeting the needs of the poorer members of society, rather than catering for the interests of an elite. However, I believe that a healthy society is one in which art and creativity are valued alongside these basic needs. Indeed, a civilized society ought to make the arts accessible to everyone, regardless of their background or income. In conclusion, the arts should be funded across a broad range of activities, for example, by supporting community or school theatre projects, or bringling sculptures and art installations to public places. IV. Translation (15%) Directions: Translate the sentences into English, using the words given in the brackets. 72. 环保主义者们为了这片森林免遭人类活动的破坏煞费苦心。（take）（汉译英） 73. 许多政府官员意识到了这些问题，但各种利益冲突妨碍了问题的解决。(way) （汉译英） 74. 所有与会者都对Malala，这位为了女性教育权利斗争的诺贝尔和平奖获得者，表示了敬意。（present）（汉译英） 75. 无论是向银行申请贷款还是向亲朋好友借钱，他都难以开展该项目。(put) （汉译英） V. Guided writing (25%) 76. Directions: Write an English composition in 120-150 words according to the instructions given below in Chinese. There is an old saying “All big things come from small beginnings”. 写一篇短文：1. 简要描述这段格言所表达的含义；2. 结合自己生活中的具体事例加以说明。 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 第1页/共1页 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $ 上海市大同中学2025学年第一学期高三英语(2025.9) I. Listening Comprehension Section A Directions: In Section A, you will hear ten short conversations between two speakers. At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. The conversations and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a conversation and the question about it, read the four possible answers on your paper, and decide which one is the best answer to the question you have heard. 1. 此处可播放相关音频，请去附件查看】 A. Professor and student. B. Employer and employee. C. Interviewer and interviewee. D. Salesperson and client. 【答案】C 【解析】 【原文】W: Do you by chance have any letters of recommendation with you? M: Yes, Ms. Yang. I have one from my professor and one from my last employer. Q: What is the probable relationship between the two speakers? 2. 【此处可播放相关音频，请去附件查看】 A. It was a very special production. B. It was a little disappointing. C. It was full of exciting action. D. It was as exceptional as expected. 【答案】B 【解析】 【原文】W: Jack, did you go to see the movie yesterday? M: Yes, but it wasn’t exceptional. It lacked the action and special effects I was expecting. Q: What did Jack think of the movie? 3. 【此处可播放相关音频，请去附件查看】 A. He doesn’t like the view. B. He doesn’t trust elevators. C. He is afraid of heights. D. He feels isolated on bridges. 【答案】C 【解析】 【原文】W: Let’s walk across the bridge and enjoy the view. M: Sorry, Jane, but I can’t do that. I get nervous when I’m high above things. I can’t even take a glass elevator. Q: What is the man’s problem? 4. 【此处可播放相关音频，请去附件查看】 A. This Sunday. B. Next Thursday. C. Next Monday. D. The Monday after next. 【答案】B 【解析】 【原文】M: Can you start to work next Monday right after this weekend? W: On Monday? Oh, no. Could you possibly postpone my start date for a week or at least until next Thursday? Q: What is the earliest start date for the woman? 5. 【此处可播放相关音频，请去附件查看】 A. The contract contains too many sticky points. B. The budget is limited for the planned project. C. Neither side is willing to initiate the project. D The two sides can’t agree on the budget. 【答案】D 【解析】 【原文】W: Why haven’t you signed the contract? M: Well, the budget needed for the project is a sticking point between the two sides. Q: What can we learn from the conversation? 6. 【此处可播放相关音频，请去附件查看】 A. Sorry. B. Puzzled. C. Impatient. D. Angry. 【答案】D 【解析】 【原文】M: Sorry! I had to finish some paperwork at the office. Then the traffic was heavy. W: You could have called me. The dinner is cold now. Q: How does the woman feel? 7. 【此处可播放相关音频，请去附件查看】 A. It was seriously damaged. B. It was badly flooded. C. It crashed on a bridge. D. It was beyond repair. 【答案】A 【解析】 【原文】W: I am really sorry about crashing your car. M: No problem. It’s fixed now so it’s water under the bridge. Q: What happened to the man’s car? 8. 【此处可播放相关音频，请去附件查看】 A. Make one cake at a time. B. Follow the step-by-step guide. C. Ignore the complicated procedure. D. Memorize the instructions. 【答案】B 【解析】 【原文】M: The procedure for cake making seems quite complicated. W: Don’t panic. All you need to do is to follow the instructions one step at a time. Q: What should the man do according to the woman? 9. 【此处可播放相关音频，请去附件查看】 A. He will go to a gym after work. B. He is unlikely to exercise regularly. C. He is not allowed to exercise in the office. D. He will definitely change his schedule. 【答案】B 【解析】 【原文】W: Sitting around all day isn’t good for your body. You’ve definitely got to find time to exercise outside of work. M: Oh, I wish I could. But I just don’t have time in my schedule to fit in a workout. Q: What does the man mean? 10. 【此处可播放相关音频，请去附件查看】 A. Jason deserves to be punished. B. Jason has lost control of the situation. C. Jason is sure to accomplish the assignment. D. Jason needs to improve his performance. 【答案】D 【解析】 【原文】W: Jason didn’t hand in the year-end report as required. M: Well, he is on a slippery slope to failure if he keeps missing the deadlines for his assignment. Q: What does the man mean? Section B Directions: In Section B, you will hear two short passages and one longer conversation, and you will be asked several 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. 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。【此处可播放相关音频，请去附件查看】 11. A. To make it stand out among the exhibits. B. To give the impression of discolouration. C. To make it look like the original piece. D. To showcase the artistic style of the artist. 12. A. It was sold for a record one million pounds. B. It was restored to its original state. C. It was partially damaged by accident. D. It was thrown away on purpose. 13. A. Accidents caused by lack of security in museums. B. Impacts of damaged artworks on the public. C. Challenges of guarding the artworks in museums. D. Incidents of artworks falling victim to human errors. 【答案】11. B 12. C 13. D 【解析】 【原文】A cleaner accidentally destroyed a piece of installation art valued at more than $600,000. While working on the exhibition floor, the hardworking cleaner removed a dirty mark from a plastic bowl. Unfortunately, the bowl was part of a work of art which was being exhibited at a museum in Dortmund in Germany. Entitled When It Starts Dripping from the Ceilings, the piece consisted of a tower of wooden boards with a plastic bowl at the bottom. The bowl had been painted brown to give the impression of discolouration caused by the water. “It is now impossible to return it to its original state,” a museum spokeswoman said. The work of art was by the late artist Martin Kippenberger. Earlier this year, one of his sculptures was sold at the Christie’s sale in London for more than one million pounds. The Dortmund incident isn’t the first time a piece of art has fallen victim to a cleaner. In 2004, a cleaner at the Tate Gallery of British Art threw away part of a work by artist Gustav Metzger as rubbish. The artist was well known to place emphasis on action over creation of the art object, inviting viewers to interact with some of his work to heighten their impact. Questions 11. Why was there a dirty mark on the plastic bowl? 12. What happened to the artwork at the Tate Gallery of British Art in 2004? 13. What does the speaker mainly talk about? 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。【此处可播放相关音频，请去附件查看】 14. A. Launching an anti-smoking campaign. B. Presenting three health-related videos. C. Introducing a public service video. D. Proposing ideas for the video content. 15. A. He smokes three cigarettes before getting to school. B. He tends to avoid sports both in and out of school. C. He smokes secretively when he can’t concentrate. D. His parents have stopped giving him pocket money. 16. A. It emphasizes the value of physical activities. B. It has a question in the end to arouse interest. C. It follows the daily lives of a group of teenagers. D. It shows the effects of smoking on a teenager. 【答案】14. C 15. B 16. D 【解析】 【原文】Hi, I’m Melanie and I’m here to present our ideas for an antismoking public service video called “Kick it in!” This video forms part of the government’s “Healthy Living” campaign, which aims to promote a more active lifestyle amongst teenagers. This video is the first in a series of three, the other two being healthy eating and responsible drinking. The video itself follows a few days in the life of an unhealthy teenager. Basically, we want to get across the idea that there’s a cost associated with smoking – a cost in terms of money, friends and your health. The video starts off with the teen waking up at home and lighting up a cigarette before he’s even had breakfast. After breakfast, he leaves home with another cigarette. As he’s walking down the road, he sees the bus ahead arriving at the stop. He runs to catch it, but has to stop, short of breath. Then we see him at school. He’s looking pale. He can’t concentrate because he’s feeling sick. During a break at school, his friends are running around playing football and volleyball while he slips out for a cigarette. After school, he borrows money so he can buy some cigarettes. At the weekend, he stays inside playing computer games and smoking while his friends are playing tennis, cycling and having fun together. By the end of the weekend he’s looking pretty bad. As the screen fades away, the words slowly appear, “Give it up! You’ll feel a whole lot better!” OK, has anybody got any questions? Questions: 14. What is Melanie doing? 15. Which best describes the teenager in the video? 16. What can we learn about the video based on Melanie’s description? 听下面一段对话，回答以下小题。【此处可播放相关音频，请去附件查看】 17. A. To make a huge profit. B. To build a customer base. C. To attract new investors. D. To defeat old brands. 18. A. Organizing contests in the stores. B. Inviting celebrities to hand out free samples. C. Introducing it on the official website. D. Featuring it on some TV channels. 19. A. Exposure on another brand’s website is impractical. B. Offline promotions are forbidden these days. C. Doing so doesn’t require a huge investment. D. Social media presence is vital for promotion. 20. A. The pricing and marketing strategies. B. The company’s development obstacles. C. The action plan of setting a reasonable price. D. The factors in expanding the market. 【答案】17. B 18. C 19. D 20. A 【解析】 【原文】W: Let’s talk about the pricing strategy for our new peach-flavored drink. M: There is a wide range of factors to consider here. W: Yes. Let’s first talk about our goal. Do we want to start making a profit right away or focus on attracting customers with lower prices? M: I think our biggest priority is gaining exposure. We need to first get our brand’s name out there and gain a loyal customer base. Then we can focus on profits. W: That’s definitely important for newcomers like us. By the way, what do you have in mind for the special pricing for opening weekend? M: I think we could do a buy-one-get-one-free event. People love it. W: That sounds perfect. Now that we’ve figured out a good pricing strategy, let’s talk about marketing. M: How about having contests where we give away free prizes in the stores across the city? If we invite some celebrities, we will get more media attention. W: I think under the current situations, promotions at physical stores had better be avoided just to be safe. We should invest heavily in building a strong network of online platforms instead. M: Yes, it’s very important in this day and age to have a strong social media presence. W: I think in addition to our website, we should also be sure to develop an app where customers and fans can view and buy our products. M: We can also invite celebrities to introduce our drinks through some live streaming platforms. W: That’s a good idea. We should also consider a few other less common channels, as well. For example, if we get featured on another brand’s social media, we will get exposure to their customer and fan base. M: That is really creative. Questions: 17. What is the primary goal in terms of the pricing strategy? 18. How are they going to promote the new drink? 19. Why do they decide to build a strong network of online platforms? 20. What do the two speakers mainly talk about? II. Grammar and Vocabulary Section A (10%) Directions: After reading the passages below, fill in the blanks to make the passages 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. Tween bots are human-dependent cardboard robots that navigate the city with the help of pedestrians they encounter. Rolling at a constant speed, in a straight line, Tween bots have a destination ____21____ (display) on a flag and rely on passers-by they come across to read this flag and to aim them in the right direction to reach their goal. I walked out to Washington Square Park on a sunny summer day, ____22____ (place) my first Tweenbot on the sidewalk, and walked away. From a distance, I observed as the Tweenbot — a smiling 10-inch tall cardboard missionary — bumped along towards its inevitable fate. It was incredible. ____23____ a Tweenbot got caught under a park bench, ground futilely (徒劳地) against a curb, or became trapped in a pothole (坑洼), some passer - by would always rescue it and send it toward its goal. Never once was a Tween bot lost or damaged. Often, people ____24____ ignore the instructions to aim the Tween bot in the “right” direction, if that direction meant ____25____ (send) the robot into a dangerous situation. One man turned the robot back in the direction ____26____ which it had just come, saying out loud to the Tween bot, “You can’t go that way; it’s toward the road.” The Tween bot’s unexpected presence in the city created an unfolding narrative that speaks to the power of a simple technological object to create a complex network powered by human intelligence and asynchronous (非同时发生的) interactions. The journey ____27____ take becomes a story of people’s willingness ____28____ (engage) with a creature that mirrors human characteristics of being easily harmed, of being lost, and of having intention ____29____ the means of achieving the goal alone. _____30_____ each encounter with an empathetic pedestrian takes a Tween bot one step closer to reaching its destination, the significance of our random discoveries and individual actions builds up into a story about a vast space made small by an even smaller robot. 【答案】21. displayed 22. placed 23. Each time##Every time 24. would 25. sending 26. from 27. they 28. to engage 29. without 30. As 【解析】 【导语】本文是一篇夹叙夹议文。文章主要讲述了作者在华盛顿广场公园进行的Tween bot实验，展示了简单科技物体如何通过人类互动创建复杂网络，强调了人类善意和个体行动的重要性。 【21题详解】 考查非谓语动词。句意：Tween bots以恒定的速度直线滚动，它们的旗帜上显示着目的地，依靠遇到的行人来读取旗帜并指引它们朝正确的方向前进以到达目的地。‌“have sth. done”是固定结构，意为“使某事被做”，其中过去分词作宾语补足语，表示被动和完成的动作。所以这里用display的过去分词displayed，表示“目的地被显示在旗帜上”。故填displayed。 【22题详解】 考查时态。句意：在一个阳光明媚的夏日，我走到华盛顿广场公园，把我的第一个Tween bot放在人行道上，然后走开了。‌“and”连接三个并列的动作，根据‌“walked out”和‌“walked away”可知，句子时态是一般过去时，所以这里用place的过去式placed作谓语。故填placed。 【23题详解】 考查状语从句。句意：每次Tween bot被卡在公园长椅下，徒劳地撞在路缘上，或者掉进坑洞里时，总会有过路人把它救出来，送它朝目标前进。‌“_____ a Tweenbot got caught under a park bench”是时间状语从句，结合句意，表示“每次……的时候”，用each time或者every time引导该从句，且句首单词首字母大写。故填Each time/Every time。 【24题详解】 考查情态动词。句意：人们常常会无视把Tween bot指向“正确”方向的指示，如果那个方向意味着把机器人送入危险的境地的话。‌“if that direction meant _____ (send) the robot into a dangerous situation”是条件状语从句，结合句意，表示“人们过去常常无视指示”，用情态动词would表示过去的习惯性动作。故填would。 【25题详解】 考查非谓语动词。句意：人们常常会无视把Tween bot指向“正确”方向的指示，如果那个方向意味着把机器人送入危险的境地的话。‌“meant”是谓语动词，空格处用非谓语动词作宾语，mean doing sth.是固定用法，意为“意味着做某事”，所以这里用send的动名词形式sending作宾语。故填sending。 【26题详解】 考查介词。句意：一个人把机器人转回它刚来的方向，大声对Tween bot说：“你不能走那条路，那是通向马路的。”‌“the direction _____ which it had just come”是定语从句，修饰先行词direction，结合句意，表示“它刚来的方向”，用‌“from which”引导定语从句，from表示“从……”，符合语境。故填from。 【27题详解】 考查代词。句意：他们所走的旅程变成了一个关于人们愿意与一个容易受到伤害、容易迷路、有意图但没有实现目标手段的生物互动的故事。“_____ take”是省略关系代词的限制定语从句，空格处单词作定语从句中的主语，指代上文提到的‌“Tween bots”，用人称代词they作主语。故填they。 【28题详解】 考查非谓语动词。句意：他们所走的旅程变成了一个关于人们愿意与一个容易受到伤害、容易迷路、有意图但没有实现目标手段的生物互动的故事。‌“willingness”是名词，后面通常接不定式作后置定语，表示“愿意做某事”，所以这里用to engage作后置定语，修饰willingness。故填to engage。 【29题详解】 考查介词。句意：他们所走的旅程变成了一个关于人们愿意与一个容易受到伤害、容易迷路、有意图但没有实现目标手段的生物互动的故事。根据句意和空格后的‌“the means of achieving the goal alone”可知，这里表示“没有实现目标的手段”，用介词without表示“没有”。故填without。 【30题详解】 考查状语从句。句意：随着每次与有同情心的行人的相遇，Tween bot离到达目的地又近了一步，我们随机发现和个体行动的意义汇聚成了一个关于一个更小的机器人使广阔空间变小的故事。‌“_____ each encounter with an empathetic pedestrian takes a Tween bot one step closer to reaching its destination”是时间状语从句，结合句意，表示“随着……”，用as引导该从句，且句首单词首字母大写。故填As。 Section B (10%) 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. wrestle B. precision C. lengthy D. communicate E. opposite F. core G. chaotic H. otherwise I. shoulder J. obligation K. disagree Using English as the Language of Science English is the international language of science, but most of the world’s scientists speak it as a second language. We ____31____ an extra career challenge: Not only must we gain command of our science, but we must also be able to write to professional standards in a foreign language to ____32____ that science. To me, English is suitable as an international language in a number of ways. On the surface, it’s easy enough to convey basic meanings when conducting trade, business and tourism, as well as on news sites and social media. In most contexts, it doesn’t matter if you misuse “the” or “ing”, or get the word order wrong. Plurals are generally straightforward; and, although the spelling is ____33____ once you get a feel for the typical pattern, it’s not too hard. But when meanings are complex and technical, ____34____ is a must. Then, English becomes a difficult beast to ____35____ with. The Australian poet Clive James once called English “big and baggy”. I can’t ____36____. The vocabulary is gigantic (巨大的). Furthermore, the grammar is extraordinarily flexible, leaving us with an often-confusing collection of nuanced (有细微差别的) choices. Therein lies the problem: the expanse of the language makes it easy to produce ____37____ writings of questionable quality. Worse still, we outsiders to English are likely to have been taught to use elaborate wording and long sentences to show our authority on a topic. Ironically (讽刺地), English is the ____38____ : The language is at its most elegant when plain and simple. But simplicity is hard English! Another shock to my Hebrew (希伯来语) hard-wiring was the importance English speakers place on front-ending their message. In many languages, you might expect readers to feel a(n) ____39____ to stay with the text throughout. In English, however, I’ve developed a healthy fear that my readers will skim-read unless I state the essence at the opening of a section or paragraph, then walk backwards while explaining it. My language mentor (导师) says that working with me makes him reflect on English in ways he wouldn’t ____40____— I teach him, he says. Full disclosure: he nipped and tucked (改造) this piece and made a few helpful suggestions. 【答案】31. I 32. D 33. G 34. B 35. A 36. K 37. C 38. E 39. J 40. H 【解析】 【导语】这是一篇说明文。文章指出英语是科学领域通用语，但多数科学家将其作为第二语言，分析了英语作为通用语的优缺点，及非母语者使用时的挑战。 【31题详解】 考查动词。句意：我们肩负着一项额外的职业挑战：我们不仅必须精通自己的科学领域，还必须能够用外语以专业水准写作来传播这一科学知识。空处作句子谓语动词，结合空后an extra career challenge（一项额外的职业挑战）可知，此处指“肩负挑战”，动词shoulder“肩负”符合题意；句子主语为 We，时态为一般现在时，动词用原形。故选I。 【32题详解】 考查动词。句意：我们不仅必须精通自己的科学领域，还必须能够用外语以专业水准写作来传播这一科学知识。空处应填动词原形和to构成不定式，作目的状语，结合空后that science可知，此处指“传播这一科学”，动词communicate“传播”符合题意。故选D。 【33题详解】 考查形容词。句意：复数形式通常很简单；而且，尽管拼写一开始可能混乱且复杂，但一旦你掌握了典型的规律，就不算太难。空处作表语，结合下文once you get a feel for the typical pattern, it’s not too hard.（一旦你掌握了典型的规律，就不算太难）可知，此处指拼写一开始可能比较混乱，形容词chaotic“混乱的”符合题意。故选G。 【34题详解】 考查名词。句意：但当含义复杂且涉及专业术语时，精确性是必需的。空处作主句主语，结合meanings are complex and technical（含义复杂且专业）可知，可知，此处指“精确”是必需的，名词precision“精确”符合题意，为不可数名词。故选B。 【35题详解】 考查动词。句意：届时，英语就成了一种难以驾驭的“猛兽”。空格需填入与with搭配的动词，结合句意体现 “应对、驾驭”的含义。 wrestle“艰难对付”符合题意，与with搭配意为“努力应对”，to wrestle with作后置定语修饰beast。故选A。 【36题详解】 考查动词。句意：我对此表示赞同（无法反驳）。前文“The Australian poet Clive James once called English “big and baggy””引用诗人对英语的评价庞大而松散，后文“The vocabulary is gigantic (巨大的).”描述英语词汇庞大、语法灵活，可见作者认同该观点，动词disagree “不同意”，can’t disagree“无法不同意”（即赞同）符合语境；can’t后接动词原形。故选K。 【37题详解】 考查形容。句意：问题就在于此：语言的广泛性使得人们很容易写出质量存疑的冗长文章。the expanse of the language（语言的广泛性）是原因，writings of questionable quality（质量存疑的文章）是结果，需填入体现文章“难以理解”的形容词，lengthy“冗长的”符合语境，修饰名词 “writings”，语法正确。故选C。 【38题详解】 考查名词。句意：具有讽刺意味的是，英语恰恰相反：语言最优雅的时候是简洁明了的。前文“we outsiders to English are likely to have been taught to use elaborate wording and long sentences to show our authority on a topic”提到人们被教导用复杂措辞体现权威，后文“The language is at its most elegant when plain and simple.”转折，指出英语优雅在于简洁，即一种独立的情况，名词opposite“对立面”符合对比语境，the opposite作表语。故选E。 【39题详解】 考查名词。句意：在许多语言中，你可能会认为读者有义务通读全文。结合a(n)可知，空处应填名词单数与feel搭配，结合下文“In English, however, I’ve developed a healthy fear that my readers will skim-read unless I state the essence at the opening of a section or paragraph, then walk backwards while explaining it.(然而，在英语中，我有一种健康的恐惧，我担心我的读者会略读，除非我在一个部分或段落的开头陈述要点，然后在解释时倒着走)”可知，人们认为读者有通读全文的义务，名词obligation“义务”符合题意。故选J。 【40题详解】 考查副词。句意：我的语言导师说，和我一起工作让他以一种原本不会有的方式反思英语 —— 他说，我教会了他东西。结合句意可知，此处指原本不会使用的方式，wouldn’t otherwise“原本不会”符合语境；otherwise为副词，修饰省略的动词reflect。故选H。 II. Reading Comprehension (45%) Section A (15%) 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. Instead of cruising in on a hover-board, I rode my bike to the office today. The bicycle was invented in the 19th century. Instead of taking a pill for breakfast, I had a bacon roll, cooked using gas. Science fiction has ____41____ to us. Making predictions is ____42____, especially about the future, as physicist Niels Bohr said. In science fiction, you can’t escape that challenge, ____43____. Since its birth in the 19th century, writers have ____44____ imagined the things to come: devices that humankind will invent to make life easier. But in so many instances, those promises have not come to pas. The biggest ____45____ are in travel- jet packs, hover-boards and flying cars are yet to fill the skies. Air travel has become significantly cheaper and wide-reaching, but only using ____46____ 20th —century technology; commercial aeroplanes are much the same as they were 50 years ago. Automation is what science fiction frequently delivers, but its arrival in the real world has been ____47____. Domestic robots with a degree of intelligence are yet to ____48____, though robotic vacuum cleaners are commercially available — even if they are fairly hopeless. Video calls have now arrived— ____49____ -—but conferencing on Skype is still dissatisfying. In mobiles, video call technology is now available, so when your dad rings to update you on his vegetable patch, he’ll be able to _____50_____ your look of boredom. The truth is that we quickly forget the astonishment of invention: our wonderment soon _____51_____, replaced with the feeling of nothing new. We should try to stay in that period of amazement. It is _____52_____ that the contents of every book ever written can be stored in a small box. Or that you can carry 10,000 albums on an object kept in your pocket. Or that almost all the information in the world can be accessed almost anywhere at any time. All these actions are dependent on the appearance of the microchip and its place in computers. Yet sci-fi didn’t predict the _____53_____ of the computer in running our lives. But the real area where reality far _____54_____ predictions is medicine. Sure, fiction would describe humans as “disease-free” but without going into detail. “Disease-free” humans are still absent, but the progress made in maintaining life is breathtaking. With relative _____55_____, we can sequence anyone’s genome(基因组), giving a read-out of our entire genetic code. This means we can find out the underlying genetic cause of thousands of diseases in minutes. While the invention of science fiction can show great ideas we’d like to happen, nothing outperforms the inventiveness of people in the real world. 41. A. appealed B. predicted C. turned D. lied 42. A. tricky B. impractical C. inadvisable D. vital 43. A. either B. though C. instead D. therefore 44. A. effortlessly B. tirelessly C. meaninglessly D. restlessly 45. A. innovations B. advancements C. disappointments D. imaginations 46. A. awkwardly B. critically C. distinctly D. exclusively 47. A. unexpected B. ineffective C. irreversible D. unpredictable 48. A. authorize B. materialize C. standardize D. globalize 49 A. sort of B. in time C. beyond expectation D. never before 50. A. ignore B. remove C. see D. imagine 51. A. picks up B. works out C. sets in D. wears off 52. A. typical B. reasonable C. convenient D. astonishing 53. A. replacement B. dominance C. emergence D. consequence 54. A. overtakes B. underlines C. underestimates D. overdoes 55. A. help B. ease C. relief D. passion 【答案】41. D 42. A 43. B 44. B 45. C 46. C 47. D 48. B 49. A 50. C 51. D 52. D 53. B 54. A 55. B 【解析】 【导语】这是一篇议论文。文章主要讲述了作者对科幻小说的预测感到失望，但现实生活中人们的创造力还是令人期待的，在某些方面人们的创造力比科幻小说的预测更加优越。 【41题详解】 考查动词词义辨析。句意：科幻小说骗了我们。A.appealed呼吁；B.predicted预测；C.turned转动；D.lied欺骗。根据上文“Instead of cruising in on a hover-board, I rode my bike to the office today. The bicycle was invented in the 19th century. Instead of taking a pill for breakfast, I had a bacon roll, cooked using gas.（今天我没有骑悬浮滑板，而是骑自行车去了办公室。自行车是19世纪发明的。我早餐没有吃药，而是吃了一个熏肉卷，用煤气做的。）”可知作者说早上骑车去的办公室，而不是骑悬浮板，吃的是煤气做的熏肉卷，而不是药片，悬浮板和代替食物的药片都是科幻小说里面出现的事物，故作者想表达现实和科幻小说是不一样的，科幻小说欺骗了我们；故选D项。 【42题详解】 考查形容词词义辨析。句意：正如物理学家Niels Bohr所说，做预测是很棘手的，尤其是关于未来。A.tricky棘手的；B.impractical不切实际的；C.inadvisable不可取的；D.vital至关重要的。由下文“In science fiction, you can’t escape that challenge”提到科幻小说无法避免那种挑战，结合前一句分析可知那种挑战指的是预测，既然是挑战，那必然很难，故“Making predictions is____, especially about the future,”表述的是预测很棘手，尤其是预测未来；故选A项。 【43题详解】 考查副词词义辨析。句意：不过在科幻小说中，你无法逃避这种挑战。A.either也；B.though不过；C.instead反而；D.therefore因此。由本句“In science fiction, you can’t escape that challenge,____”可知在科幻小说中无法避免这个挑战，结合前一句“Making predictions is ____, especially about the future,”分析可知这个挑战是预测，由常识可知科幻小说是靠幻想和预测构成的小说，肯定是不能避免预测的，故空处用though在句末补充说明使语气减弱，译为“不过”，符合题意；故选B项。 【44题详解】 考查副词词义辨析。句意：自19世纪科幻小说诞生以来，作家们不知疲倦地想象着未来事情：人类将发明一些设备来使生活变得更容易。A.effortlessly毫不费力地；B.tirelessly不知疲倦地；C.meaninglessly无意义地；D.restlessly焦虑地。由本句“Since its birth in the 19th century, writers have ___imagined the things to come: devices that humankind will invent to make life easier.”可知自科幻小说诞生以来，作家们就一直在想未来的事情，本处强调的是自科幻小说诞生以来就一直在想，因此空处用tirelessly“不知疲倦地”符合题意；故选B项。 【45题详解】 考查名词词义辨析。句意：最令人失望的是旅行喷气背包、悬浮滑板和飞行汽车还没有充满天空。A.innovations新事物；B.advancements进展；C.disappointments失望；D.imaginations想象力。由上句“But in so many instances, those promises have not come to pas.”可知但在许多情况下，这些承诺并未兑现；由本句“The biggest____are in travel- jet packs, hover-boards and flying cars are yet to fill the skies.”可知并没有出现科幻小说中描述的旅行喷气背包、悬浮滑板和飞行汽车充满天空的情景，即未兑现，推知人们很失望；故选C项。 【46题详解】 考查副词词义辨析。句意：航空旅行已经显著变得便宜和广泛，但明显使用的是20世纪的技术；商用飞机与50年前大致相同。A.awkwardly不舒服地；B.critically批评性地；C.distinctly明显地；D.exclusively专门地。由本句“Air travel has become significantly cheaper and wide-reaching, but only using____20th -century technology; commercial aeroplanes are much the same as they were 50 years ago.”可知航空旅行已经变得便宜和广泛，商用飞机也是50年前的样子，即是以前的技术，分析可知分号前后两个句子构成排比，表示相同感情色彩的内容，故推知“only using____20th -century technology”表述的是明显使用的是20世纪的技术，与商用飞机还是50年前的样子性质一样，即都是老技术了，没有一点发展；故选C项。 【47题详解】 考查形容词词义辨析。句意：自动化是科幻小说中经常出现的场景，但它在现实世界中的到来是不可预测的。A.unexpected意想不到的；B.ineffective无效果的；C.irreversible不可逆转的；D.unpredictable不可预测的。由下文“Domestic robots with a degree of intelligence are yet to___ , though robotic vacuum cleaners are commercially available - even if they are fairly hopeless.”可知尽管能买到机器人真空吸尘器，但具有一定智能的家用机器人还是无望的，这个都无望，那更别谈什么自动化了；故推知在现实生活中自动化是不可预测的；故选D项。 【48题详解】 考查动词词义辨析。句意：具有一定智能的家用机器人还没有出现，尽管机器人真空吸尘器可以在市场上买到——即使它们相当无望。A.authorize批准；B.materialize出现；C.standardize使标准化；D.globalize使全球化。由本句“Domestic robots with a degree of intelligence are yet to __ , though robotic vacuum cleaners are commercially available —even if they are fairly hopeless.”可知尽管能买到机器人真空吸尘器，但具有一定智能的家用机器人还是相当无望的，既然无望，那就是还未出现；故选B项。 【49题详解】 考查介词短语词义辨析。句意：视频电话现在已经到来——有点像——但是Skype上的会议仍然不能令人满意。A. sort of有点像；B.in time及时；C.beyond expectation出乎意料；D.never before从未。由上文“even if they are fairly hopeless.”可知提到具有一定智能的家用机器人相当无望；而本句“Video calls have now arrived— ___”提到视频电话，这个其实就是有点像人工智能应用于家用方面，故用sort of“有点像”符合题意；故选A项。 【50题详解】 考查动词词义辨析。句意：在手机领域，视频通话技术现在已经可以使用了，所以当你爸爸打电话告诉你他的蔬菜地的最新情况时，他会看到你无聊的样子。A.ignore忽略；B.remove移开；C.see看见；D.imagine想象。由本句“In mobiles, video call technology is now available, so when your dad rings to update you on his vegetable patch, he’ll be able to ___your look of boredom.”可知提到视频通话技术，既然是视频那是可以看到对方的，故推知本处讲的是当你的父亲跟你视频电话的时候能看到你无聊的样子；故选C项。 【51题详解】 考查动词短语词义辨析。句意：事实上，我们很快就会忘记发明带来的惊奇：我们的惊奇很快就会消失，取而代之的是没有新东西的感觉。A.picks up捡起；B.works out做出；C.sets in开始；D.wears off消失。由本句“The truth is that we quickly forget the astonishment of invention: our wonderment soon __ , replaced with the feeling of nothing new.”可知事实是我们很快就会忘记发明带来的惊奇，取而代之的是没有新东西的感觉，即惊奇消失了，因为我们忘记了发明所带来的新奇，现在只有一种没有新东西的感觉；故选D项。 【52题详解】 考查形容词词义辨析。句意：令人惊讶的是，每本书的内容都可以储存在一个小盒子里。A.typical典型的；B.reasonable合理的；C.convenient方便的；D.astonishing令人惊讶的。由上文“We should try to stay in that period of amazement.”可知提到我们应该保持惊讶，由本句和下句“It is____that the contents of every book ever written can be stored in a small box. Or that you can carry 10,000 albums on an object kept in your pocket.”可知讲到每本书的内容都可以储存在一个小盒子里，或者可以把10000张专辑放在你口袋里的一个东西上，这些都是令人惊讶的事物，推知空处表达的是“令人惊讶的”，承接上句“我们应该保持惊讶”的内容；故选D项。 【53题详解】 考查名词词义辨析。句意：然而，科幻小说并没有预测到计算机在我们生活中的主导优势。A. replacement代替；B.dominance优势；C.emergence出现；D.consequence结果。由上文“All these actions are dependent on the appearance of the microchip and its place in computers.”可知所有这些行动都取决于微芯片的外观及其在计算机中的位置，可知所有这些提到的令人惊讶的事物都与计算机密不可分，这相当于传统的办法而言是非常具有优势的；故推知“Yet sci-fi didn’t predict the ___ of the computer in running our lives.”讲述的是科幻小说没有预测到计算机在我们生活中的主导优势；故选B项。 【54题详解】 考查动词词义辨析。句意：但现实远远超过预测的真正领域是医学。A.overtakes超过；B.underlines强调；C.underestimates低估；D.overdoes用药过量。由下文“Sure, fiction would describe humans as “disease-free” but without going into detail. “Disease-free” humans are still absent, but the progress made in maintaining life is breathtaking.”可知科幻小说会把人类描述成“无疾病的”，但是也未详细描述，可知科幻小说在医学领域的预测并不是那么超前，虽然“无疾病”的人类未出现，但是现实中人们在维持生命方面取得的进展是惊人的，故推知现实远远超过预测的真正领域是医学；故选A项。 【55题详解】 考查名词词义辨析。句意：相对容易，我们可以对任何人的基因组进行测序，从而读出我们的整个遗传密码。A.help帮助；B.ease容易；C.relief轻松；D.passion激情。由本句“With relative ____ , we can sequence anyone’s genome(基因组), giving a read-out of our entire genetic code.”可知我们可以通过对任何人的基因进行测试，从而能读出遗传密码，读出遗传密码在以前看来是不可能实现的事情，但是现在却可以通过基因测试来实现，故推知空处表示“容易”，意在强调基因测试这个技术的伟大；故选B项。 Section B (22%) 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) When asked in 1993 to comment on accusations that the movie In the Name of the Father distorts （曲解） contemporary British and Irish history, female lead Emma Thompson responded that she couldn't care less. Even since the premiere （首映） in 1915 of The Birth of a Nation, filmmakers have rewritten history to create top-dollar entertainment. The films are very persuasive: well-made movies hold your interest continuously, drawing your attention to “what happens next,” and pulling you forward with no time to reflect on individual scenes until the final credits roll. The result: you don't remember much about a movie after watching it for the first time. For this reason, movies have extraordinary power - unmatched by any other medium - to leave you with a strong sense of what is right and what is wrong, who is bad and who is good, even though critical details presented in the movies may be false. Well, so what? They're just movies. In fact they're not just movies. Millions of Americans are devoted history lovers, and they pack theatres every time new movies about historical figures or events come to town. Saving private Ryan and Titanic drew viewers and cash for months. Many high school teachers screen movies in the classroom. Clearly countless Americans get most of their history from television and the big screen. Some of the industry's finest historical and period films premiered during the past decades. But the 1960s also saw a number of politically charged history-based movies full of factual distortions and, occasionally, outright lies. Today the trend continues on a larger scale: many movies released in the 1990s and the first decade of the 21*t century reflect lack of respect for solid, reliable history. History Goes to the Movies is a source of information and, it is hoped, entertainment for everyone interested in the actual history behind a wide selection of movies grouped into twelve sections--11 covering historical periods and events and twelfth containing biographies and period films. Each movie review includes an essay on the history covered in one or more movies, and a brief plot summary. Star ratings (five stars: don't miss it) reflect each movie's historical accuracy and - to a much lesser extent --- its power to amuse. Obviously expecting textbook accuracy from movies would be ridiculous-and producers have delivered a remarkable number of historically faithful movies. But some of them get too much of their history wrong. History Goes to the Movies is a guide, however imperfect, for readers and viewers aiming to get it right. 56. Emma Thompson said ________ that In the Name of the Father was historically inaccurate. A. it didn't matter. B. it was upsetting. C. It aroused her attention. D. it wasn't obvious. 57. By “in fact they're not just movies” (in paragraph 2), the author means that________. A. some movies are much more profitable than others B. movies serve more purposes than entertaining views C. movies tend to provide viewers with false details D. the movies about historical figures attract history lovers 58. Which of the following is true of History Goes to the Movies? A. It is aimed at those who take interest in biographies. B. It rates a movie mainly according to how amusing it is. C. It introduces a movie's story as well as its related history. D. It focuses on the movies that presented history in a funny way. 59. The passage is mainly intended to ________. A. criticize the film industry's favoring entertainment over truth B. point out which films presented history in a wrong way. C. call on film directors to show respect for history D. introduce a book involving history-based films 【答案】56. A 57. B 58. C 59. D 【解析】 【分析】本文是一篇说明文，主要介绍的是《History Goes to the Movies》这本书。 【56题详解】 细节理解题。根据第一段的“When asked in 1993 to comment on accusations that the movie In the Name of the Father distorts （曲解） contemporary British and Irish history, female lead Emma Thompson responded that she couldn't care less”（1993年，当被问及对电影《以圣父之名》扭曲当代英国和爱尔兰历史的指责有何评论时，女主角艾玛·汤普森回答说，她根本不在乎）可知，艾玛·汤普森说《以圣父之名》在历史上是不准确的，这并不重要。故选A。 【57题详解】 词句猜测题。根据第二段的“Millions of Americans are devoted history lovers, and they pack theatres every time new movies about historical figures or events come to town. Saving private Ryan and Titanic drew viewers and cash for months. Many high school teachers screen movies in the classroom. Clearly countless Americans get most of their history from television and the big screen”（数以百万计的美国人是忠实的历史爱好者，每当有关于历史人物或历史事件的新电影上映时，影院里就挤满了人。《拯救大兵瑞恩》和《泰坦尼克号》吸引了观众和现金好几个月。许多高中教师在教室里放映电影。显然，无数的美国人从电视和大屏幕上获得了他们大部分的历史）可知，电影不光是电影，还有教育意义，因此通过“事实上，它们不仅仅是电影”，作者的意思是电影有更多的目的而不止是娱乐的观点，故选B。 【58题详解】 细节理解题。根据倒数第二段的“History Goes to the Movies is a source of information and, it is hoped, entertainment for everyone interested in the actual history behind a wide selection of movies grouped into twelve sections--11 covering historical periods and events and twelfth containing biographies and period films. Each movie review includes an essay on the history covered in one or more movies, and a brief plot summary”（《History Goes to the Movies》是一个信息来源，希望它能娱乐那些对真实历史感兴趣的人，这些电影被分为12个部分——11个涉及历史时期和事件，第12个包含传记和时代电影。每一篇电影评论包括一篇关于一部或多部电影所涉及的历史的文章，以及一个简短的情节总结）可知，History Goes to the Movies介绍了电影的故事以及相关的历史，故选C。 【59题详解】 推理判断题。通读全文尤其是最后两段对History Goes to the Movies这本书的介绍可知，本文写作的目的是介绍一本涉及历史题材电影的书，故选D。 (B) How to place an Order of Custom Jeans Select the Fabric & Styles →Fabric （布料）—Select the Fabric from our large collection of Denim Fabric Samples. →Special Wash—Select your favorite special wash treatment to make your jeans look stylish. →Thread Color—Select the thread color you want. You can select secondary thread color also, which can be used at certain stitches. Also, you can specify where you want to use the secondary thread under special not at the end of measurements. →Pocket Style - Select the front pocket & back pocket style. If you want your own styled front & back pocket, select my own design & send us the photo of the pocket style you want. If you are going with our default （默认） pocket style, we will make your jeans with basic 5-pocket pattern, which is universal style for jeans in all countries in the world. →Fly Style - Select the fly style you want, the Zip Fly or the Button Fly. Measurements Select one option from “Make My Jeans” & “Copy A Jeans” →Make My Jeans - First Select ftting type according to what type of ftting you want for your jeans. Give your exact body measurements as described & shown in the photos. We will leave extra loosing as described in “Fitting Guide Table”. So refer to table first & then decide your fitting type. →Copy A Jeans - If you already have a perfect jeans and you like it the most, then you can send us all the measurements to us by following the instructions in “Copy A Jeans” section. We will make the perfect copy of your favorite jeans. Please note we can copy only the measurements, not the fabric and accessories. The measurements written in the measurements box by you will be the final measurements for your order processing. To change or modify it, contact us by E- mail or by phone and we will inform you about your order status and we will tell you what modification we are able to do at that stage. Confirm Your Order By pressing PROCEED tab, you will be redirected to “Confirm Order” page. On this page, you will see all the details you selected during order, you can again modify order by clicking edit tab. After confirming your order, press PROCEED tab. Make Payment You can make payments in different ways. We provide PayPal (direct pay by PayPal & by your credit card), net-banking, cheque or cash deposit and send a demand draft options. Delivery After confirmation of your payment, we will start the jeans making process for you, and we will deliver your jeans within 30 days. After dispatching from here, it will take 3-5 days to deliver in India and 6-9 days to deliver out of India. Enjoy Wearing SQ Jeans TM. 60. In Fabric & Styles, which item leaves you with the least personal choice? A. Fabric. B. Fly Style. C. Pocket Style. D. Thread Color 61. According to the passage, which of the following statements is True? A. The tailor will meet all the requirements on your jeans on condition that you state every detail clearly in your order. B. If the order with wrong measurements has already been processed, nothing can be done to fix the situation. C. Before payment, you can check your order in detail and feel free to make modifications multiple times. D. The tailor will make an identical copy of your favorite jeans if you follow the instructions in “Copy A Jeans” section. 62. If you place an overseas order with full payments by PayPal on October 12, you will receive your jeans no later than________. A. Oct.21 B. Nov.11 C. Nov.16 D. Nov.20 【答案】60. B 61. C 62. D 【解析】 【分析】本文是一篇应用文，主要讲的是如何订购定制牛仔裤. 【60题详解】 细节理解题。根据Select the Fabric & Styles部分的Fabric （布料）—Select the Fabric from our large collection of Denim Fabric Samples（面料-从我们大量的牛仔面料样品中选择面料）；Fly Style - Select the fly style you want, the Zip Fly or the Button Fly（飞行风格-选择你想要的飞行风格，Zip飞行或按钮飞行）；Pocket Style - Select the front pocket & back pocket style. If you want your own styled front & back pocket, select my own design & send us the photo of the pocket style you want. If you are going with our default （默认） pocket style, we will make your jeans with basic 5-pocket pattern（口袋风格-选择前口袋和后口袋风格。如果你想要你自己风格的前和后口袋，选择我自己的设计和发送你想要的我们的照片口袋风格。如果你使用我们默认的口袋样式，我们会为你制作基本的5口袋样式的牛仔裤）；Thread Color—Select the thread color you want. You can select secondary thread color also, which can be used at certain stitches. Also, you can specify where you want to use the secondary thread under special not at the end of measurements（线的颜色选择你想要的线的颜色。你也可以选择次要的线色，可以用于某些针脚。此外，你还可以在特殊情况下(不是在测量结束时)指定要使用辅助线程的位置）可知，飞行风格的选择最少，只有两种可选。故选B。 【61题详解】 细节理解题。根据Confirm Your Order部分的“On this page, you will see all the details you selected during order, you can again modify order by clicking edit tab.After confirming your order, press PROCEED tab.”（在此页面上，您将看到您在订单期间选择的所有详细信息，您可以通过单击编辑选项卡再次修改订单）可知，在付款之前，您可以检查您的订单的细节，并自由地进行多次修改。故选C。 【62题详解】 细节理解题。根据Delivery部分的“we will deliver your jeans within 30 days. After dispatching from here, it will take 3-5 days to deliver in India and 6-9 days to deliver out of India”（将在30天内交货。从这里发货，到印度需要3-5天，从印度需要6-9天）可知，如果你在10月12日下海外订单，那么将在30天之内发货，从印度寄出海外需6-9天，因此收货时长为36-39天，即最晚不超过11月20日可以收货。故选D。 (C) There are few spectacles more unpleasant than a television presenter trying to hang on to a job. When one of the presenters of the BBC program Crimewatch resigned recently, rather than suffer the inevitable indignity of being unfinished and replaced by a younger version, he made the usual hurt noises about his masters' overemphasis on youth. People in the media listened sympathetically before he slid from view to join the ranks of television's has-beens. The presenter's argument, that the views don't care how old you are so long as you can “do the job,” unfortunately is not backed up by the evidence. When you're on TV, viewers are always thinking about whether you're losing your hair or your figure and, lately, whether you've had cosmetic work done. This is what they're actually doing when you think they're listening to the wise things you say. Viewers actually don't understand much of what the job involves, they just see you sitting there looking the part. Like the ability to pet one's head while rubbing one's stomach, TV presenting is just one of those sills. Some of those who possess this skill can hit the big name, inevitably as they become more attached to the lifestyle this brings, however, the more likely they are to overstate the skill. In reality, if somebody is paying you a lot of money to do a job, it's often on the tacit （心照不宣的） understanding that you may be fired suddenly-it's part of the deal. Unlike football managers, TV presenters pretend not to understand this. If they've had many years being paid silly sums to read a script from an autocue （ 自动题词机），it's difficult for them to accept that they've been the beneficiary of good fortune rather than anything else; even harder to face the fact that an editor could all too easily send them to the shopping channels. Something similar eventually awaits all the people who are currently making fortunes that would have been unimaginable to earlier generations of presenters. One day we'll decide that their face no longer fits and they'll be dragged away complaining about the same ageist policy from which they no doubt previously profited. Show business is a brutal （残忍的） business. The one thing it reliably punishes is age, particularly among women. That's why, at the age of fifty, female TV presenters become female radio presenters and why girl bands planning to re-form need to get it done before they're forty, after which it will get too hard for everyone to suspend their collective disbelief. 63. What does the writer imply about the Crimewatch presenter he mentions in the first paragraph? A. He was unwise to resign when he did. B. He will soon be forgotten by the viewers. C. He may well have had a valid point to make. D. He was treated insensitively by his employers. 64. The underlined pronoun “this” in paragraph 2 refers to________. A. a public image B. a level of success C. an overstatement D. a common misunderstanding 65. Why does the writer mention football managers in paragraph 3? A. To support his view that presenters are overpaid. B. To stress how important luck is in certain occupations. C. To show how relatively secure TV presents are in their jobs. D. To illustrate a general rule that applies to certain types of job. 66. According to the writer, TV personalities who may worry about ageism ________. A. should look for work in other forms of broadcasting B. may have benefited from it themselves at some point C. are less well respected than presenters of the past D. are being unfair to up-and-coming younger colleagues 【答案】63. B 64. B 65. D 66. B 【解析】 【分析】这是一篇说明文。短文介绍了因年龄问题，电视主持人不断被淘汰，成为了“过气”的名人。 【63题详解】 推理判断题。根据第一段“People in the media listened sympathetically before he slid from view to join the ranks of television's has-beens.”（媒体中的人们同情地听着他的陈述，直到他从人们的视线中消失，加入了电视界的“过气人物”行列。）由此可知，作者提到的《犯罪观察》的主持人旨在表明观众很快就会忘记他。故选B项。 【64题详解】 词句猜测题。根据第二段“Some of those who possess this skill can hit the big name, inevitably as they become more attached to the lifestyle this brings”（有些拥有这种技能的人可能会名声大噪，这是不可避免的，因为他们变得更加依恋it带来这种生活方式）由此判断出，this指的是前文的“一定程度的成功”。故选B项。 【65题详解】 推理判断题。根据第三段“In reality, if somebody is paying you a lot of money to do a job, it's often on the tacit understanding that you may be fired suddenly-it's part of the deal. Unlike football managers, TV presenters pretend not to understand this.”（事实上，如果有人付给你很多钱来做一份工作，通常是在默认的情况下，你可能会突然被解雇，这是交易的一部分。与足球经理不同，电视节目主持人假装不明白这一点）由此判断出，作者在第三段提到足球经理是为了举例说明适用于某些类型工作的一般规则。故选D项。 【66题详解】 细节理解题。根据最后一段“One day we'll decide that their face no longer fits and they'll be dragged away complaining about the same ageist policy from which they no doubt previously profited.”（总有一天，我们会发现他们的脸不再合适，他们会抱怨同样的年龄歧视政策，毫无疑问，他们曾从中获利）由此可知，根据作者的说法，那些担心年龄歧视的电视名人可能在某种程度上也从中受益过，故选B项。 Section C (8%) Directions: Read the following passage. Fill in each blank with a proper sentence given in the box. Each sentence can be used only once. Note that there are two more sentences than you need. When we talk about healthy brain ageing we are really discussing one of two things: how to minimize ongoing damage to the hardware of the brain, mostly by keeping its blood supply as good as possible; or how to improve the operation of the brain's software. ____67____ There is currently no magic bullet to protect the brain, but one area that has been best researched, and about which we can say with reasonable confidence, “this will help”, is mental activity. There is plenty of evidence that older people who stay mentally active, by learning a new language, doing crosswords or taking part in other intellectually challenging activities, preserve full cognitive function for longer. They have spent more time doing cognitively demanding activities over a lifetime, and they are, to some extent, buffered from the physical effects of brain ageing and degenerative diseases. We cal this buffer “cognitive reserve” - a back-up reservoir of brain function that can protect from the consequences of brain damage, allowing us to continue to perform well. For example, people with a higher IQ, longer education or cognitively challenging employment have been found to have a lower risk of developing dementia. ____68____ In fact, studies have found that people with higher cognitive, reserve who do get dementia exhibit less severe symptoms even when they have more brain damage than those with lower cognitive reserve. ____69____ The more we understand about its role in protecting our brain and how to boost our reserve, the more effective we will be3 in designing interventions to keep the human brain healthier for longer. ____70____ We think it can be built up throughout life for everyone. Therefore, taking part in cognitively challenging activities, learning new skills and continuing to “use it or lose it” probably applies no matter how old you are. Crucially, it's never to late to start. A. Many ways of doing this have been suggested, but few have scientific weight behind them. B. Though there is not enough scientific research about it, many suggestions have been put forward. C. Cognitive reserve isn't exclusive to those who have the IQ of a genius or who've devoted their life to theoretical physics. D. Yet there's still much to discover about the potential of cognitive reserve for optimizing the brain's resilience. E. This is despite the fact that their brains actually show normal amounts of age- and disease-related damage. F. However, studies about the potential of cognitive reserve for optimizing the brain's resilience leave much to be desired. 【答案】67. A 68. E 69. D 70. C 【解析】 【分析】本文是一篇说明文。文章主要讲述一项关于认知储备的研究，可以保护我们免受脑损伤的影响，让我们继续表现良好。 【67题详解】 根据上文“or how to improve the operation of the brain's software.（或者如何改进大脑软件的运行。） ”和下文“There is currently no magic bullet to protect the brain, but one area that has been best researched（目前还没有保护大脑的灵丹妙药，但有一个领域已经得到了最好的研究）”由此可推断，设空处说应该是没有什么改善大脑的方法，A选项“人们已经提出了许多方法，但很少有科学依据支持它们。”符合题意，并且呼应下文的有一个领域有了最好的研究，故选A。 【68题详解】 根据上文“For example, people with a higher IQ, longer education or cognitively challenging employment have been found to have a lower risk of developing dementia.（例如，人们发现，智商高、受教育时间长或工作有认知挑战的人患痴呆症的风险更低。）”以及下文“In fact, studies have found that people with higher cognitive, reserve who do get dementia exhibit less severe symptoms even when they have more brain damage than those with lower cognitive reserve.（事实上，研究发现，认知储备较高的人确实患有痴呆症，即使他们的大脑受损更严重，也比认知储备较低的人表现出更轻的症状。）”由此可推断，设空处说的是认知储备较高的人的大脑也有患痴呆症的表现。故E选项“尽管他们的大脑实际上显示出了与年龄和疾病相关的正常数量的损伤。”和上下文紧密连接，故选E。 【69题详解】 根据下文“The more we understand about its role in protecting our brain and how to boost our reserve, the more effective we will be3 in designing interventions to keep the human brain healthier for longer.（我们对大脑在保护大脑方面的作用以及如何增加大脑储备了解得越多，就越能有效地设计干预措施，使人脑在更长时间内保持健康。）”由此可推断，上文应该说的是继续了解如何增加大脑的储备，选项D“然而，认知储备在优化大脑弹性方面的潜力仍有很多有待发现的地方。”符合题意，故选D。 【70题详解】 根据下文“We think it can be built up throughout life for everyone.（我们认为它可以在每个人的一生中建立。）”由此推断上文说的是认知储备是每个人都可以建立的，而不是一些人所特有的，C选项“认知储备并不是那些拥有天才般的智商或毕生致力于理论物理学的人所独有的。”符合语境，故选C。 51. III. Summary Writing (10%) 71. 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. Where Arts Should Get Its Funding? Few people would contest the value of arts in a civilized society. Great art enriches people’s lives by providing pleasure, stimulation and an escape from the pressure of everyday life. However, it is also true that many of the arts, such as classical music, the ballet, and the visual arts have always attracted a minority audience. The question is whether the arts should be publicly funded, or whether it is the consumers who should pay. It is my view that the government should subsidize the arts, for a number of reasons. First of all, without subsidies, many artists would undoubtedly be unable to survive financially. Government grants can enable them to work with artistic freedom, while if they worked independently or relied on private subsidies they might be subject to market pressures and the need to make a profit. Secondly, the arts contribute to a nation’s cultural heritage and can create a sense of social identity. They can also play an important role in education, community regeneration and even crime prevention. However, the main argument for public funding of the arts is not social usefulness, but rather because they are important for their own sake. Of course, there are those who argue that public money would be better spent on meeting the needs of the poorer members of society, rather than catering for the interests of an elite. However, I believe that a healthy society is one in which art and creativity are valued alongside these basic needs. Indeed, a civilized society ought to make the arts accessible to everyone, regardless of their background or income. In conclusion, the arts should be funded across a broad range of activities, for example, by supporting community or school theatre projects, or bringling sculptures and art installations to public places. 【答案】As we all know, arts have great value, but should they be publicly funded or paid by consumers? I hold the view that that arts should be funded by governments because they play an important role in many aspects. Most importantly, the society sould make the arts accessible to everyone. In short, arts should be funded in a wide range of forms. 【解析】 【详解】本文是一篇议论文。文章介绍说众所周知，艺术具有巨大的价值，但它们应该由公共资金还是由消费者支付？作者认为艺术应该由政府资助，因为它们在许多方面都发挥着重要作用。 ①Few people would contest the value of arts in a civilized society. ②The question is whether the arts should be publicly funded, or whether it is the consumers who should pay. ③It is my view that the government should subsidize the arts, for a number of reasons. ④Indeed, a civilized society ought to make the arts accessible to everyone, regardless of their background or income. ⑤In conclusion, the arts should be funded across a broad range of activities. 2. 缜密构思 将1、2点进行重组，作为总说，将第3、4要点进行整合，作为分说，将第5要点作为总结。 3. 遣词造句 As we all know, arts have great value, but should they be publicly funded or paid by consumers? I hold   the view that that arts should be funded by governments because they play an important role in many aspects.   In short, arts should be funded in a wide range of forms. 【点睛】 【高分句型1】As we all know, arts have great value, but should they be publicly funded or paid by consumers? (运用了As引导的非限定性定语从句和一般疑问句对第一段进行了总结） 【高分句型2】I hold  the view that that arts should be funded by governments because they play an important role in many aspects. (运用了that引导的同位语从句和because引导的原因状语从句对第二段内容进行了概括并表明了观点） IV. Translation (15%) Directions: Translate the sentences into English, using the words given in the brackets. 72. 环保主义者们为了这片森林免遭人类活动的破坏煞费苦心。（take）（汉译英） 【答案】Environmentalists have taken great pains to protect the forest from human activity. 【解析】 【分析】 【详解】考查固定短语和时态。结合句意表示“环保主义者”应用复数名词environmentalist，作主语；表示“煞费苦心”短语为take great pain to do sth.，此处应用现在完成时；表示“免遭……”短语为protect sth. from；表示“人类活动”短语为human activity。故翻译为Environmentalists have taken great pains to protect the forest from human activity. 73. 许多政府官员意识到了这些问题，但各种利益冲突妨碍了问题的解决。(way) （汉译英） 【答案】Many government officials are aware of these problems, but various conflicts of interest are in the way. 【解析】 【详解】考查动词时态，名词和短语。分析句子可知，为but连接的并列句，上下文是转折关系。根据句意，用一般现在时，前一分句主语many government officials“许多政府官员”，谓语be aware of“意识到”，主语是复数，用are aware of，宾语these problems“这些问题”；后一分句主语various conflicts of interest“各种利益冲突”，是系表结构，be in the way“妨碍；挡道”，故翻译为Many government officials are aware of these problems, but various conflicts of interest are in the way. 74. 所有与会者都对Malala，这位为了女性教育权利斗争的诺贝尔和平奖获得者，表示了敬意。（present）（汉译英） 【答案】All the people present at the meeting showed respect for Malala, the Nobel Peace Prize winner who fought for women’s rights to education. 【解析】 【详解】考查定语从句和时态。结合句意表示“所有与会者”短语为all the people present at the meeting；表示“对……表示敬意”短语为show respect for；表示“诺贝尔和平奖获得者”短语为the Nobel Peace Prize winner，后跟who引导的定语从句；表示“为了……斗争”短语为fight for；表示“女性教育权利”短语为women’s rights to education。句子应用一般过去时。故翻译为All the people present at the meeting showed respect for Malala, the Nobel Peace Prize winner who fought for women’s rights to education. 75. 无论是向银行申请贷款还是向亲朋好友借钱，他都难以开展该项目。(put) （汉译英） 【答案】It is difficult for him to put the project off the ground, either by applying for a loan from a bank or borrowing money from relatives and friends. 【解析】 【详解】考查时态、固定句型和动词短语。“做某事很难”用固定句型it is diffifult for somebody to do，“开展”put ...off the ground；“工程”是project；“无论是......还是”用either...or，“向银行申请贷款“apply for a loan from a bank；”向亲朋好友借钱“borrow money from relatives and friends.，"通过做"by doing，故翻译为It was difficult for him to put the project off the ground, either by applying for a loan from a bank or borrowing money from relatives and friends.。 V. Guided writing (25%) 76. Directions: Write an English composition in 120-150 words according to the instructions given below in Chinese. There is an old saying “All big things come from small beginnings”. 写一篇短文：1. 简要描述这段格言所表达的含义；2. 结合自己生活中的具体事例加以说明。 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 【答案】 The proverb “All big things come from small beginnings” emphasizes that monumental achievements often originate from humble and incremental efforts. It suggests that patience, persistence, and attention to minor details lay the foundation for success. I experienced this truth when learning calligraphy. Initially, my strokes were shaky, and my characters looked unbalanced. Frustrated, I almost quit. However, my teacher advised me to focus on perfecting basic strokes — horizontal, vertical, and curved lines — before attempting complex characters. For months, I practiced these fundamentals daily, gradually refining my control. Eventually, my calligraphy improved significantly, and I even won a school competition. This experience taught me that small and consistent steps build competence and confidence, transforming seemingly insignificant efforts into remarkable outcomes. In conclusion, the proverb reminds us to value the process over the result, as every great achievement begins with a single and determined step. 【解析】 【导语】本篇书面表达属于一篇开放性作文。要求考生就格言“All big things come from small beginnings (伟大始于渺小)”介绍其表达的含义并且结合自己生活中的具体事例加以说明。 【详解】1.词汇积累 重视：emphasize → stress 复杂的：complex → complicated 沮丧的：frustrated → depressed 显著的：significantly→ remarkably 2.句式拓展 简单句变复合句 原句： I experienced this truth when learning calligraphy. 拓展句： I experienced this truth when I was learning calligraphy. 【点睛】【高分句型1】It suggests that patience, persistence, and attention to minor details lay the foundation for success. （运用了that连接的宾语从句） 【高分句型2】In conclusion, the proverb reminds us to value the process over the result, as every great achievement begins with a single and determined step.（运用了as引导的原因状语从句） 第1页/共1页 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $杨浦区2020学年度第一学期高三模拟质量调研高3英语听力one listening comprehension . section a directions in section a，you will hear ten short conversations between two speakers. At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said, the conversations and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a conversation and the question about IT, read the four possible answers on your paper and decide which one is the best answer to the question you have heard one, do you, by chance, have any letters of recommendation with you? Yes, miss yang, I have one for my professor and one for my last employer question. What is the probable relationship between the two speakers? Two, jack, did you go to see the movie yesterday? Yes, but IT wasn't exceptional. IT lacked the action and special effects. I was expecting . question, what did jack think of the movie? Three, let's walk across the bridge and enjoy the view. Sorry, jane, but I can do that. I get nervous when i'm high above things. I can't even take a glass elevator question. What is the man's problem? Four, can you start to work next monday, right after this weekend. on monday? Oh, no. Could you possibly postpone my start date for a week, or at least until next thursday? Question, what is the earliest start date for the woman? Five, why haven't you signed the contract? Well, the budget . needed for the project is a sticking point between the two sides. Question, what can we learn from the conversation? Six. sorry. I had to finish some paperwork at the office. Then the traffic was heavy. You could have called me, the dinner is cold. Now question. how does the woman feel? Seven, i'm really sorry about crashing your car. No problem. It's fixed now. So it's water under the . bridge question. What happened to the man's car? Eight, the procedure for cake making seems quite complicated. Don't panic. All you need to do is to follow the instructions one step at a time. Question, what should the man do according to the woman? Nine, sitting around all day isn't good for your body. You've definitely got to find time to exercise outside of work. Oh, I wish I could, but I just don't have time in my schedule to get in a workout question. What does the man mean? Ten, Jason didn't hand in the year and report as required. Well, he is honour. Slippy sloped to failure. If he keeps missing the deadlines for his assignment question. what does the man mean? Section b directions in section b, you'll hear two short passages and one longer conversation, and you will be asked several 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 eleven through thirteen are based on the . following passage. A cleaner accidentally destroyed a piece of installation art valued at more than six hundred thousand dollars. While working on the exhibition floor, the hard working cleaner removed a dirty mark from a plastic ball. Unfortunately, the ball was part of a work of art which was being exhibited at a museum endorsement in germany entitled, when IT starts dripping from the ceilings, the peace consisted of a tower of wooden boards with a plastic ball at the bottom. The ball had been painted Brown to give the impression of discoloration caused by the water. IT is now impossible to return IT to its original state, a museum spokeswoman said. The work of art was by the late artist Martin kip in burger. Earlier this year, one of his sculptures was sold at the Christie sale in london for more than one million pounds. The dormant incident isn't the first time a piece of art has fAllen victim to a cleaner. In two thousand four, a cleaner at the tate gallery of british art threw away part of a work by artist gu stove mesa r as rubbish. The artist was well known to place emphasis on action over creation of the art object, inviting viewers to interact with some of his work to heighten their impact. Now listen again, please. A cleaner accidentally destroyed a piece of installation are value that more than six hundred thousand dollars. While working on the exhibition floor, the hard working cleaner removed the dirty mark from a plastic ball. Unfortunately, the ball was part of a work of art which was being exhibited at the museum and dartmouth, germany, entitled when IT starts dropping from the ceilings, the peace consisted of a tower of wooden boards with the plastic ball at the bottom. The ball had been painted Brown to give the impression of declaration caused by the water. IT is now impossible to return IT to its original state, a museum spokeswoman said. The work of art was by the late artist Martin kipping burger. Earlier this year, one of his sculptures was sold at the Christies sale in london for more than one million pounds. The darkman incident isn't the first time a piece of art has fAllen victim to a cleaner. In two thousand four, a cleaner at the tate gallery of british art throw away part of a work by artist gu stop mescher as rubbish. The artist was well known to place emphasis on action over creation of the art object, inviting viewers to interact with some of his work to heighten their impact. Questions eleven, why was there a dirty mark on the plastic ball? Twelve, what happened to the artwork, the tate gallery of british art in two thousand four? Thirteen, what does the speaker mainly talk about? Questions fourteen through sixteen are based on the following passage. Hi, i'm melanie, and i'm here to present our ideas for an anti smoking public service video called kick IT. In this video forms part of the government's healthy living campaign, which aims to promote a more active lifestyle amongst teenagers. This video is the first in a series of three, the other two being healthy eating and responsible drinking. The video itself follows a few days in the life of an unhealthy teenager. Basically, we want to get across the idea that there is a cost associated with smoking, a cost in terms of money, friends in your health. The video starts off with the teen waking up at home and lighting up a cigarette before he's even had breakfast. After breakfast, he leaves home with another cigarette. As he's walking down the road, he sees the bus ahead. Arriving at the stop, he runs to catch IT, but has to stop short of breath. Then we see him at school. He's looking pale. He can't concentrate because he's feeling sick. During a break at school, his friends are running around playing football and volleyball while he slipped out for a cigarette. After school, he borrows money so he can buy some cigarettes. At the weekend, he stays inside playing computer games in smoking, while his friends are playing tennis, cycling and having fun together. By the end of the weekend, he's looking pretty bad. As the screen fades away, the words slowly appear. Give IT up, you'll feel a whole lot Better. okay. Has anybody got any questions? Now listen again, please. Hi, i'm melanie, and i'm here to present our ideas for an anti smoking public service video called kick IT. In this video forms part of the government's healthy living campaign, which aims to promote a more active lifestyle among teenagers. This video is the first in a series of three, the other two being healthy eating and responsible drinking. The video itself follows a few days in the life of an unhealthy teenager. Basically, we want to get across the idea that there is a cost associated with smoking, a cost in terms of money, friends in your health. The video starts off with the teen waking up at home and lighting up a cigarette before he's even had breakfast. After breakfast, he leaves home with another cigarette as he's walking down the road. He sees the bus ahead, arriving at the stop. He runs to catch IT, but has to stop short of breath. Then we see him at school. He's looking pale. He can't concentrate because he's feeling sick. During a break at school, his friends are running around playing football and volleyball while he slipped out for a cigarette te. After school, he borrows money so he can buy some cigarettes. At the weekend, he stays inside playing computer games in smoking, while his friends are playing tennis, cycling and having fun together. By the end of the weekend, he's looking pretty bad. As the screen fades away, the words slowly appear. Give IT up, you'll feel a whole lot Better. Okay, has anybody got any questions? Questions fourteen, what is melani doing? Fifteen, which best describes the teenager in the video. Sixteen, what can we learn about the video based on melanie description? Question seventeen through twenty are based on the following conversation. Let's talk about the pricing strategy for our new peach flavor drink. There is a wide range of factors to consider here. yes. Let's first talk about our goal. Do we want to start making a profit right away or focus on attracting customers with lower Prices? I think our biggest priority is gaining exposure. We need to first keep our brand's name out there and gain a loyal customer base, then we can focus on profits. That's definitely important for newco as like us, by the way, what do you have in mind for the special pricing for a opening weekend? I think we could do a buy one, get one free event. People love IT. That sounds perfect. Now that we figured out a good pricing strategy, let's talk about marketing. How about having contest where we give away free Prices in the stores across the city? If we invite some celebrities, we will get more immediate attention. I think under the current situations, promotions at physical stores had Better be avoided. Just to be safe, we should invest heavily in building a strong network of online platforms instead. Yes, it's very important in this day and age to have a strong social media presence. I think in addition to our website, we should also be sure to develop an APP where customers and fans can view and buyer products. We can also invite celebrities to introduce our drinks through some live streaming platforms . that a good idea. We should also consider a few other less common channels as well. For example, if we get featured on another brands, social media, we will get exposure to their customer and fan . is that is really creative. Now listen again, please. Let's talk about the pricing strategy for our new peach flavor drink. There is a wide range of factors to consider here. yes. Let's first talk about our goal. Do we want to start making a profit right away or focus on attracting customers with lower Prices? I think our biggest priority is gaining exposure. We need to first get our brand's name out there and gain a loyal customer base, then we can focus on profits. That's definitely important for newco as like us. By the way, what do you have in mind for the special pricing for our opening weekend? I think we could do a buy one, get one free event. People love IT. That sounds perfect. Now that we figured out a good pricing strategy, let's talk about marketing. How about having contest where we give away free Prices in the stores across the city? If we invite some celebrities, we will get more immediate attention. I think under the current situations, promotions at physical stores had Better be avoided. Just to be safe, we should invest heavily in building a strong network of online platforms instead. Yes, it's very important in this day in age to have a strong social media presence. I think in addition to our website, we should also be sure to develop an APP where customers and fans can view and buyer products. We can also invite celebrities to introduce our drinks through some live streaming platforms. That's a good idea. We should also consider a few other less common channels as well. For example, if we get featured on another brands, social media, we will get exposure to their customer and fan. Is that is really creative . questions. Seventeen, what is the primary goal in terms of the pricing strategy? Eighteen, how are they going to promote the new drink? Nineteen, why do they decide to build a strong network of online platforms? Twenty, what do the two speakers mainly talk about?