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通州区2025-2026学年第一学期高三年级期中质量检测 英语试卷 本试卷共10页，共100分。考试时长90分钟。考生务必将答案答在答题卡上，在试卷上作答无效。考试结束后，请将答题卡交回。 第一部分：知识运用（共两节，30分） 第一节（共10小题；每小题1.5分，共15分） 阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 Three years ago, when Clarice was 14, she was admitted to a hospital during a mental health crisis. Upon arrival, medical staff ____1____ asked her to explain her feelings and why she was there. “I had to relieve the worst day of my life for what felt like hundreds of times,” Clarice said. After nearly 2 hours of countless ____2____, two emergency workers, Hugh and Alexis, arrived to ____3____ her to a psychiatric ward (精神病科病房). They helped her onto a stretcher and into the ward, then asked her what ____4____ she liked. “If you know me, you know that my answer was: rock and roll,” Clarice recalled. They played the latest rock ‘n’ roll album for her. “They didn’t make me talk about what had happened. They could have, but they didn’t. It didn’t feel like they were ____5____ me,” she said. “They just played the album, and I sat there and cried aloud.” For Clarice, that was a ____6____ moment of comfort during a painful day. “That’s what makes them my unsung heroes. They were a break, a ____7____ during the worst time of my life.” Clarice can’t remember if she thanked them. She ____8____ what it would be like to meet them again and tell them how much their kindness ____9____ matters. “These two people continue to impact my life every day. At such a(n) ____10____ moment, there was a little bit of light.” 1. A. mostly B. repeatedly C. hardly D. seriously 2. A. questioning B. healing C. training D. recording 3. A. follow B. accompany C. guide D. transport 4. A. band B. movie C. music D. book 5. A. judging B. seeing C. dragging D. educating 6. A. challenging B. quiet C. rare D. tough 7. A. rescue B. relief C. hope D. bother 8. A. promises B. doubts C. recalls D. imagines 9 A. usually B. still C. yet D. never 10. A. uncertain B. strange C. dark D. remote 【答案】1. B 2. A 3. D 4. C 5. A 6. C 7. B 8. D 9. B 10. C 【解析】 【导语】本文是一篇记叙文。文章主要讲述了Clarice在经历心理健康危机时，两位急诊工作人员通过播放摇滚乐给予她安慰和温暖的故事。 【1题详解】 考查副词词义辨析。句意：一到那里，医护人员就反复要求她解释自己的感受以及为何来到这里。A. mostly主要地；B. repeatedly反复地；C. hardly几乎不；D. seriously严肃地。根据下文“I had to relieve the worst day of my life for what felt like hundreds of times”及“After nearly 2 hours of countless ____ ”可知，Clarice感觉自己已经解释了无数次，因此医护人员是反复地要求她解释。故选B。 【2题详解】 考查名词词义辨析。句意：经过近两个小时的无数次询问后，两名急诊工作人员Hugh和Alexis到达，将她送往精神病科病房。A. questioning询问；B. healing治愈；C. training训练；D. recording记录。根据上文“medical staff ____ asked her to explain her feelings and why she was there”可知，医护人员一直在询问Clarice的感受和原因，因此这里表示经过近两个小时的询问。故选A。 【3题详解】 考查动词词义辨析。句意：经过近两个小时的无数次询问后，两名急诊工作人员Hugh和Alexis到达，将她送往精神病科病房。A. follow跟随；B. accompany陪伴；C. guide引导；D. transport运送。根据下文“her to a psychiatric ward (精神病科病房). They helped her onto a stretcher and into the ward”可知，他们帮助Clarice上了担架并进入病房，因此这里表示他们将她送往病房。故选D。 【4题详解】 考查名词词义辨析。句意：他们把她抬上担架，送进病房，然后问她喜欢什么音乐。A. band乐队；B. movie电影；C. music音乐；D. book书。根据下文“If you know me, you know that my answer was: rock and roll”可知，Clarice说了解自己的人都知道，自己的答案是：摇滚乐，他们询问的是喜欢的“音乐”类型。故选C。 【5题详解】 考查动词词义辨析。句意：“他们没有逼我谈论发生过的事。他们本可以那么做，但他们没有。我感觉他们不是在评判我，”她说。A. judging评判；B. seeing看见；C. dragging拖拽；D. educating教育。根据上文“They didn’t make me talk about what had happened. They could have, but they didn’t.”可知，他们没有让Clarice谈论发生的事情，因此这里表示这并不像是他们在评判她。故选A。 【6题详解】 考查形容词词义辨析。句意：对Clarice来说，那是在痛苦的一天中难得的安慰时刻。A. challenging具有挑战性的；B. quiet安静的；C. rare罕见的；D. tough艰难的。根据上文“They didn’t make me talk about what had happened.”和“They just played the album, and I sat there and cried aloud.”以及下文“moment of comfort during a painful day”、“They were a break, a ____ during the worst time of my life”可知，在充满询问和痛苦的一天里，这样的安慰是“难得的”。故选C。 【7题详解】 考查名词词义辨析。句意：他们是我生命中最糟糕时刻的解脱和安慰。A. rescue救援；B. relief解脱；C. hope希望；D. bother麻烦。根据上文“For Clarice, that was a ____ moment of comfort during a painful day. “That’s what makes them my unsung heroes. They were a break”可知，对Clarice来说，那是在痛苦的一天中难得的安慰时刻。与前文“break”并列，此处指他们的行为带来了“慰藉”。故选B。 【8题详解】 考查动词词义辨析。句意：她想象着再次见到他们并告诉他们他们的善意仍然有多么重要。A. promises承诺；B. doubts怀疑；C. recalls回忆；D. imagines想象。根据上文“Clarice can’t remember if she thanked them”和下文“what it would be like to meet them again and tell them how much their kindness ____ matters.”可知，Clarice不记得自己是否感谢过他们，因此这里表示她想象着再次见到他们并告诉他们他们的善意仍然有多么重要。故选D。 【9题详解】 考查副词词义辨析。句意：她想象着再次见到他们并告诉他们他们的善意仍然有多么重要。A. usually通常；B. still仍然；C. yet还；D. never从不。根据下文“These two people continue to impact my life every day”可知，这两个人继续每天影响着Clarice的生活，因此这里表示他们的善意仍然有多么重要。故选B。 【10题详解】 考查形容词词义辨析。句意：在如此黑暗的时刻，有一点光明。A. uncertain不确定的；B. strange奇怪的；C. dark黑暗的；D. remote遥远的。根据上文“during the worst time of my life”可知，这是Clarice生命中最糟糕的时刻，因此这里表示在如此黑暗的时刻。故选C。 第二节（共10小题；每小题1.5分，共15分） 阅读下列短文，根据短文内容填空。在未给提示词的空白处仅填写1个恰当的单词，在给出提示词的空白处用括号内所给词的正确形式填空。请在答题卡指定区域作答。 A 阅读下列短文，根据短文内容或括号内所给词的恰当形式填空。 Maybe you’ve heard the saying, “Show me your friends and I’ll show you your future.” It may sound dramatic, but it’s true that the people you spend the most time with have a major influence ____11____ you. If your friends are skipping class and seemingly unconcerned about their grades, ____12____ (stay) motivated will be an uphill battle for you. Try to make at least one positive friend in every class. Meet ambitious people with ____13____ (clear) defined goals, good study habits, and healthy lifestyles. 【答案】11. on 12. staying 13. clearly 【解析】 【导语】本文是一篇议论文。文章主要讲述了朋友对个人产生的重大影响及建议。 【11题详解】 考查介词。句意：这听起来可能有些夸张，但事实确实如此，和你相处时间最长的人会对你产生重大影响。have a major influence on sb.表示“对某人有重大影响”。故填on。 【12题详解】 考查非谓语动词。句意：如果你的朋友逃课，似乎对他们的成绩漠不关心，那么保持积极性对你来说将是一场艰难的战斗。本空作主语，用非谓语动词，表示抽象的动作“保持积极性”，用stay“保持”的动名词形式。故填staying。 【13题详解】 考查副词。句意：结识目标明确、学习习惯良好、生活方式健康的积极向上的人。本空修饰形容词defined，表示“清楚地”，用副词clearly。故填clearly。 B 阅读下列短文，根据短文内容或括号内所给词的恰当形式填空。 Why do some people overcome challenges while others give up? According to research, people tend to have either a fixed mindset or a growth mindset. Those with a fixed mindset believe that abilities can’t be changed, and they usually ____14____ (discourage) by failure or even avoid challenges. ____15____ those with a growth mindset believe they can improve with effort, and they often push themselves to grow. It is effort that leads to lasting success. With this mindset, we can all grow into ____16____ (good) learners, executives and friends. 【答案】14. are discouraged 15. But##While 16. better 【解析】 【导语】这是一篇说明文。文章主要介绍了固定型思维模式和成长型思维模式区别，指出成长型思维模式让人通过努力克服挑战、获得成功，而固定型思维模式易让人因失败气馁、回避挑战。 【14题详解】 考查动词时态、语态和主谓一致。句意：那些有固定型思维模式的人认为能力是无法改变的，他们通常会因失败而气馁，甚至回避挑战。设空处为谓语，主语they与discourage之间是被动关系，需用被动语态；根据前文believe可知，此处陈述客观事实，用一般现在时；主语they为复数，be动词用are。故填are discouraged。 【15题详解】 考查连词。句意：而那些有成长型思维模式的人相信，通过努力他们可以进步，并且他们经常推动自己成长。前文介绍固定型思维模式的人的表现，后文介绍成长型思维模式的人的表现，前后为转折或者对比关系，需用连词but或者while连接，句首单词首字母需大写。故填But/While。 【16题详解】 考查形容词比较级。句意：有了这种思维模式，我们都能成长为更好的学习者、管理者和朋友。此处隐含与自身之前状态的对比，需用形容词good的比较级 better，表“更好的”。故填better。 C 阅读下列短文，根据短文内容或括号内所给词的恰当形式填空。 The dramatic scientific developments of recent years have brought space ____17____ (explore) back to public attention. While getting into space is not an easy task, simulated (模拟的) adventures ____18____ (organize) by space camps make it a possibility. The Space Camp, founded in 1982, is an educational camp, ____19____ children can learn about space travel and astronomy, and even have the chance to have lunch with an astronaut! So far, the camp ____20____ (inspire) hundreds of thousands of young people around the world. 【答案】17. exploration 18. organized 19. where 20. has inspired 【解析】 【导语】本文为一篇说明文。文章主要介绍了1982年成立的太空营地。 【17题详解】 考查名词。句意：近年来，科学领域的突飞猛进让太空探索重新回到了公众视野。此处作宾语，故应用名词“exploration探索”，故填exploration。 【18题详解】 考查非谓语动词。句意：虽然进入太空并非易事，但由太空营地组织的模拟冒险使其成为可能。此处在句中作定语，修饰simulated adventures，simulated adventures与organize之间为被动关系，故应用过去分词作后置定语，故填organized。 【19题详解】 考查定语从句。句意：成立于1982年的太空营地是一个教育性营地，在这里孩子们可以学习太空旅行和天文知识，甚至有机会与宇航员共进午餐！此处引导定语从句，先行词为an educational camp，在定语从句中作地点状语，故应用where引导，故填where。 【20题详解】 考查时态。句意：迄今为止，该营地已经激励了全球数十万青少年。此处在句中作谓语动词，主语为the camp，为单数，与inspire之间为主动关系，且根据时间状语so far可知，此处应用现在完成时，故填has inspired。 第二部分：阅读理解（共两节，38分） 第一节（共14小题；每小题2分，共28分） 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 A With their staff’s extensive knowledge and personalized service, some independent bookstores aren’t just places to buy books — they’re places to discover unique reads and local authors, as well as enjoy readings, book clubs and workshops. ·Parnassus Books, Nashville In 2011, novelist Ann Patchett opened Parnassus Books in Nashville, Tennessee. Named for Mount Parnassus, the symbol of literature and learning in Greek mythology, the store sells a broad collection of fiction, non-fiction, children’s literature and art books. It hosts hundreds of author events per year and weekly story time, and partners with local schools for community events. ·BookPeople, Austin Book lovers can find just about anything at BookPeople, Texas’ largest independent bookseller. The store sells everything from fiction to specialty titles, as well as an extensive selection of gifts. It offers a full calendar of community events, including book clubs, children’s programming and a speaker series. As a partner to local schools and organizations, BookPeople has hosted book fairs, author events and field trips. ·Barrow Book Store, Concord Located in Concord, Massachusetts, Barrow Book Store specializes in gently read and antique books across genres, with a special focus on Concord authors. Visitors can also find a variety of literary-themed gifts, crafts and local souvenirs. The store holds frequent readings, seasonal events and celebrations honoring the town of Concord’s literary history. Open since 1971, it has been a woman-owned business for three generations. ·Blue Willow Bookshop, Houston Blue Willow Bookshop in West Houston, Texas, offers new titles in every genre and an extensive selection of children’s literature. While the well-read staff and inviting interior (内部) make this spot a local favorite, the store’s busy schedule draws visitors from near and far. It hosts more than 300 author events per year, featuring well-known authors of everything from cookbooks to popular fiction. 21. What makes Parnassus Books different from the others? A. It hosts the most author events. B. It focuses on selling fiction books. C. It gets the name from a literary symbol. D. It organizes workshops in local schools. 22. Where will visitors most likely buy some souvenirs related to literature? A. At BookPeople. B. At Barrow Book Store. C. At Parnassus Books. D. At Blue Willow Bookshop. 23. What attracts visitors to Blue Willow Bookshop? A. Its rich and diverse activities. B. Its welcoming local staff. C. Its special children’s literature. D. Its large collection of cookbooks. 【答案】21. C 22. B 23. A 【解析】 【导语】本文为一篇应用文，介绍了四家特色独立书店，分别描述其独特定位、书籍种类和社区活动。 【21题详解】 细节理解题。根据文章Parnassus Books, Nashville下关键句“Named for Mount Parnassus, the symbol of literature and learning in Greek mythology, the store sells a broad collection of fiction, non-fiction, children’s literature and art books.(这家书店以希腊神话中象征文学和学识的帕纳索斯山命名，出售种类繁多的小说、非小说类书籍、儿童文学以及艺术类书籍)”可知，Parnassus Books书店得名于一个文学象征。故选C。 【22题详解】 细节理解题。根据文章Barrow Book Store, Concord下关键句“Visitors can also find a variety of literary-themed gifts, crafts and local souvenirs.(游客们还能找到各种以文学为主题的礼品、手工艺品以及当地特色纪念品。)”可知，Barrow书店可以买到文学为主题的纪念品。故选B。 【23题详解】 细节理解题。根据文章下关键句“It hosts more than 300 author events per year, featuring well-known authors of everything from cookbooks to popular fiction.(它每年举办超过300场作者活动，活动内容涵盖从烹饪书籍到流行小说等各种领域，云集了众多知名作家。)”可知，丰富多样的活动吸引游客来到Blue Willow书店。故选A。 B Last year in my late 40s, I began a master’s program to study the science of behavioral change. This shift from writer to student proved more disorienting than I’d expected. It lifted me up, yet tested my pride. While I enjoyed my year-long escape from worrying about losing relevance in the fiction world, I struggled inwardly. Certain professors seemed mistrustful of a student at my age. Certain classmates fell silent in front of someone as old as their parents. I’d forget myself, debating and discussing with young faces, only to catch sight of myself in the mirror: an aging face. What am I doing here? I’ve always admired those who boldly make a change. In my experience, they tended to be those who bravely switched to something unfamiliar in midlife, whereas men with graying hair seemed stuck, as if change felt like failure. I came to realize I wasn’t so different. Like those men, I had tied my dignity to my occupation. Technology keeps pushing aside what we took as permanent, and hard-earned skills are irrelevant in a blink. Holding on to who you were can feel suffocating (令人窒息的), but letting go is painful. Status is like clothing—superficial (肤浅的), but one’s dignity depends on it. I suspect that many people will struggle with this during the coming AI transformation, which may replace jobs and remove entire occupations. But these changes also present us with an opportunity: to get rid of the idea that we each must find a calling, then hold on to that identity or admit failure. Perhaps the dignified life involves several versions of you. My student days are now over, for the second time. When I last exchanged classroom for job market, I was 23, an ambitious writer hoping to create something on paper that might outlast me. But print isn’t what it used to be. Nor am I. 24. Throughout the master’s program, what did the writer experience? A. He often missed his life as a writer. B. He felt uncomfortable because of his age. C. He had no chance to speak in discussions. D. He found it hard to understand the lessons. 25. The author thought he was stuck because ______. A. holding on to a true self is painful B. technology pushes aside his memory C. he attached too much importance to age D. his skills were not as important as before 26. Which would best describe the author’s attitude towards future? A Joyful. B. Adaptive. C. Indifferent. D. Pessimistic. 27. What can we learn from this passage? A. Seek a new role in a change. B. Every cloud has a silver lining. C. Time and tide wait for no man. D. Failure is the mother of success. 【答案】24. B 25. D 26. B 27. A 【解析】 【导语】这是一篇记叙文。主要讲述了年过四十的作者从作家转行攻读行为改变科学硕士，因年龄面临内心挣扎，后意识到不应将尊严绑定职业。他认为 AI 时代的变革虽带来挑战，却也让人有机会接纳多重身份、适应变化。 【24题详解】 细节理解题。根据第二段中“Certain professors seemed mistrustful of a student at my age. Certain classmates fell silent in front of someone as old as their parents. I’d forget myself, debating and discussing with young faces, only to catch sight of myself in the mirror: an aging face. What am I doing here?( 有些教授似乎不信任我这个年纪的学生。一些同学在像他们父母一样老的人面前沉默了。我会忘记自己，与年轻的面孔辩论和讨论，只会在镜子里看到自己：一张衰老的脸。我在这里做什么？)”可知，在整个硕士课程中，作者因为年龄的关系，他感到不舒服。故选B项。 【25题详解】 细节理解题。根据第四段中“Technology keeps pushing aside what we took as permanent, and hard-earned skills are irrelevant in a blink. Holding on to who you were can feel suffocating (令人窒息的), but letting go is painful.( 科技不断将我们认为是永恒的东西推到一边，而来之不易的技能转眼之间就变得无关紧要了。坚持过去的自己会让人窒息，但放手是痛苦的。)”可知，作者认为他陷入了困境，因为他的技能不像以前那么重要了。故选D项。 【26题详解】 推理判断题。根据倒数第二段“I suspect that many people will struggle with this during the coming AI transformation, which may replace jobs and remove entire occupations. But these changes also present us with an opportunity: to get rid of the idea that we each must find a calling, then hold on to that identity or admit failure. Perhaps the dignified life involves several versions of you.( 我怀疑，在即将到来的人工智能转型中，许多人会为此而挣扎，人工智能可能会取代一些工作，甚至消除整个职业。但这些变化也为我们提供了一个机会：摆脱那种认为我们每个人都必须找到一种使命，然后坚持这种身份或承认失败的想法。也许有尊严的生活包含了几个版本的你。)”可知，作者认为 AI 带来的变革虽会取代工作，但也提供了机会 ——“摆脱‘必须找到一份天职并坚守身份’的想法，有尊严的生活可以包含多个版本的自己”，体现了对变化的适应态度。故选B项。 【27题详解】 推理判断题。根据文章大意以及最后一段“My student days are now over, for the second time. When I last exchanged classroom for job market, I was 23, an ambitious writer hoping to create something on paper that might outlast me. But print isn’t what it used to be. Nor am I.( 我的学生时代如今再次结束了。上一次我从课堂踏入职场时，才 23 岁，是个雄心勃勃的作家，希望能在纸上创作出一些能超越我生命的作品。但如今的出版业已不复往昔，我也不再是当年的模样。)”可知，作者通过自身中年重返校园的经历，结合 AI 时代的变革，提出“不必固守单一职业身份，有尊严的生活可包含多个版本的自己”，即要在变化中寻找新角色。故选A项。 C Browsing short videos can be a hit-and-miss affair, with jewels hidden amid ordinary efforts. But researchers have found that switching to another video, or skipping forwards and backwards in the same one, actually makes people more bored. Dr Katy Tam at the University of Toronto Scarborough, the lead author of the research, said boredom was closely linked to attention. “We feel bored when there’s a gap between how engaged we are and how engaged we want to be,” she said. “When people keep switching through videos, they become less engaged with the videos and they are looking for something more interesting. This can lead to increased feelings of boredom.” The results appear to chime with other studies: as previous research has suggested, while boredom relief is a driver for people to use social media or smartphones, the use of such technology appears to make the feeling worse. Writing in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, Tam and colleagues report how they carried out seven experiments involving a total of more than 1,200 participants. The first, involving 140 participants, revealed that people tended to switch between videos more when they rated the content more boring, while the second — an online survey involving 231 participants — suggested people thought having the option to skip through a video or switch to another would make viewing a video less boring. However, the team’s subsequent experiments suggest this is not the case. Data from a group of 166 undergraduates suggests participants felt more bored when allowed to skip about within a video than when they were not able to. Meanwhile results from 159 undergraduates revealed they reported higher levels of boredom when given a collection of five-minute videos they could switch between, compared with a single 10-minute video. “Our research shows that while people fast-forward or skip videos to avoid boredom, this behaviour can actually make them feel more bored,” she said. “Just as we pay for an immersive experience in a movie theatre, enjoyment often comes from immersing ourselves in videos rather than swiping through them.” 28. What does the phrase “chime with” underlined in Paragraph 3 most probably mean? A. agree with. B. Lead to. C. Conflict with. D. Add doubts to. 29. In the experiments, Tam and her team ______. A. made an investigation in a movie theatre B. compared participants of different age groups C. identified situations where people feel more bored D. collected and analyzed videos made by participants 30. What can we learn from the passage? A. More options can bring more fun. B. Attention is the by-product of boredom. C. Technology can help people avoid boredom. D. The less we switch videos, the more immersed we feel. 【答案】28. A 29. C 30. D 【解析】 【导语】这是一篇说明文。文章主要介绍了多伦多斯卡伯勒大学的研究人员关于人们浏览视频的研究，研究表明不断切换视频或在同一视频中前后跳跃实际上会让人们感到更无聊。 【28题详解】 词句猜测题。根据画线短语chime with前文“When people keep switching through videos, they become less engaged with the videos and they are looking for something more interesting. This can lead to increased feelings of boredom.(当人们不停地切换视频时，他们对视频的参与度就会降低，他们会寻找更有趣的东西。这可能会增加无聊感。)”以及画线短语chime with后文“as previous research has suggested, while boredom relief is a driver for people to use social media or smartphones, the use of such technology appears to make the feeling worse.(正如之前的研究表明，尽管缓解无聊是人们使用社交媒体或智能手机的一个动力，但使用这些技术似乎会让这种感觉更糟)。”可知，之前的研究和现在的研究结果一样，故可推知chime with与A项“agree with(与……一致)”意思相近。故选A。 【29题详解】 推理判断题。根据文章第四段“The first, involving 140 participants, revealed that people tended to switch between videos more when they rated the content more boring, while the second — an online survey involving 231 participants — suggested people thought having the option to skip through a video or switch to another would make viewing a video less boring.(首项实验（140 人）显示，内容越无聊，参与者切换视频的频率越高；第二项在线调查（231人）表明，人们认为只要有跳过或切换视频的选择，观看视频就会不那么无聊。)”以及文章第五段“Data from a group of 166 undergraduates suggests participants felt more bored when allowed to skip about within a video than when they were not able to. Meanwhile results from 159 undergraduates revealed they reported higher levels of boredom when given a collection of five-minute videos they could switch between, compared with a single 10-minute video.(166名本科生的数据显示，允许快进视频的参与者比不能快进的人更感无聊；另一项针对159名本科生的实验发现，能切换多个五分钟视频的参与者比观看单个十分钟视频的人更觉无聊。)”可知，文章第四、五段详细描述了实验过程。实验通过对比不同条件下的参与者的无聊程度，发现允许跳过视频或切换视频的参与者更容易感到无聊。因此，Tam 和团队通过实验识别了人们更容易感到无聊的情境，故选C。 【30题详解】 推理判断题。根据文章最后一段““Our research shows that while people fast-forward or skip videos to avoid boredom, this behaviour can actually make them feel more bored,” she said. “Just as we pay for an immersive experience in a movie theatre, enjoyment often comes from immersing ourselves in videos rather than swiping through them.”(Tam总结道：“研究表明，尽管人们通过快进或跳转视频来避免无聊，但这反而会加剧无聊。正如我们花钱在影院获得沉浸式体验乐趣，往往源于沉浸于视频内容而非不断滑动切换。”)”可知，沉浸于视频而不是频繁切换能带来更多乐趣。因此，切换视频越少，沉浸感越强，故选D。 D Much like beauty, art is in the eye of the beholder. The artwork we are attracted to can give insight into our personality, such as whether we are too quick or too slow, calm or moody. Studies into art preferences date back to the 1930s — most of them examining the extent to which people like or dislike different paintings. Research shows that a person’s interest in art is more strongly related to certain personality traits (特征) than to social class, age, or gender. In particular, a personality trait called “openness” is the best predictor of whether individuals are interested in art. On the other side, those who identify as “conscientious (一丝不苟的)”, are often less drawn to the arts. These traits are part of the Big Five, a widely accepted personality theory based on nearly a century of research. The model claims that each personality is composed of a combination of five core traits: openness, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness and neuroticism. Rather than stating a person as being either shy or outgoing, the Big Five Model believes that everyone lies somewhere between the two extremes. Personality traits may also affect the way people visually scan art. A 2018 study tracked participants’ eye movements as they studied abstract artwork. The majority of participants concentrated on the upper-right part. This makes sense, as the right half of the brain is specialized for visual and spatial processing, and also plays a significant role in processing the emotions that art draws out. However, participants who tended toward emotional instability focused on the left side of the picture, and those with mental disease paid more attention to the bottom of the picture. However, current research on personality and art still has clear limitations, reminding us that people’s preferences for art are as complicated as art itself. But if you’re looking for a quick test of someone’s general personality traits, it doesn’t hurt to look at what’s hanging on their walls. 31. What is the strongest factor in determining a person’s interest in art? A. Age and gender. B. Personality characteristics. C. Social class. D. Educational background. 32. What can we learn about the Big Five Model? A. It can explain why our art taste changes. B. It is well-supported by artists worldwide. C. Everyone can fit into one of the five types. D. It is a universally-recognized measuring model. 33. According to the passage, a person focusing on the upper-right part of a painting is probably ______. A. moody B. unconcerned C. perceptive D. warlike 34. What is the best title of this passage? A. How to discover your art preference? B. Why is art appealing to many people? C. How to reveal one’s personality traits? D. What does your taste in art say about you? 【答案】31. B 32. D 33. C 34. D 【解析】 【导语】本文是一篇说明文。文章主要探讨了艺术偏好与人格特质之间的关系，介绍了影响人们艺术兴趣的关键因素、人格特质对艺术视觉浏览方式的影响以及相关研究的局限性。 【31题详解】 细节理解题。根据第一段中的“Research shows that a person’s interest in art is more strongly related to certain personality traits (特征) than to social class, age, or gender.(研究表明，一个人对艺术的兴趣与其某些个性特征的关系比与社会阶层、年龄或性别的关系更密切。)”可知，决定一个人对艺术兴趣的最强因素是个性特征。故选B项。 【32题详解】 细节理解题。根据第二段中的“These traits are part of the Big Five, a widely accepted personality theory based on nearly a century of research.(这些特征是“大五人格”的一部分，“大五人格”是一种被广泛接受的人格理论，基于近一个世纪的研究。)”可知，“大五人格”模型是一个被普遍认可的测量模型。故选D项。 【33题详解】 推理判断题。根据第三段中的“The majority of participants concentrated on the upper-right part. This makes sense, as the right half of the brain is specialized for visual and spatial processing, and also plays a significant role in processing the emotions that art draws out.(大多数参与者集中在右上角。这是有道理的，因为大脑的右半球专门负责视觉和空间处理，也在处理艺术所引发的情感方面发挥着重要作用。)”可推知，关注右上部与右脑功能相关，右脑通常与感知力（perceptive）、情感处理相关。故选C项。 【34题详解】 主旨大意题。通读全文，结合第一段中的“The artwork we are attracted to can give insight into our personality, such as whether we are too quick or too slow, calm or moody.(我们被吸引的艺术作品可以洞察我们的个性，比如我们是太快还是太慢，冷静还是情绪化。)”可知，文章开篇点明艺术偏好能反映人格，并且在文章最后一段最后一句“But if you’re looking for a quick test of someone’s general personality traits, it doesn’t hurt to look at what’s hanging on their walls.(但如果你想快速了解某人的大致人格特质，看看他们墙上挂的东西也无妨。)”提到艺术偏好可作为人格测试的参考。可知，文章主要探讨了艺术偏好与个性特征之间的关系，指出我们被吸引的艺术作品可以洞察我们的个性，所以D项（你的艺术品味说明了你什么？）概括了艺术品味与人格的关系。是文章最佳标题。故选D项。 第二节（共5小题；每小题2分，共10分） 根据短文内容，从短文后的七个选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。选项中有两项为多余选项。 Recent research showed nature can regulate our sense of time. For many of us, the combined demands of work, home and family mean that we are always feeling like we don’t have enough time. ____35____ Permanent connectivity extends working hours and can make it difficult to switch off from the demands of friends and family. The research suggests that the solution to our lack of time may lie in the natural world. Psychologist Ricardo Correia, at the University of Turku in Finland, found that being in nature may change how we experience time. ____36____ Correia examined studies which compared people’s experiences of time when they performed different types of tasks in urban and natural environments. ____37____ People report a sense of expanded time when they were in nature compared to when they were in an urban environment. For example, people are more likely to perceive a walk in the countryside as longer than a walk of the same length in the city. Similarly, people report perceiving time as passing more slowly while performing tasks in natural green environments than in urban environments. ____38____ It’s not just our sense of time in the moment which appears to be changed by the natural world, it’s also our sense of the past and future. Previous research shows that spending time in nature helps to shift our focus from the immediate moment towards our future needs. ____39____ This can help us to prioritize our actions so that we meet our long-term goals rather than living in a continuous state of “just about keeping our head above water”. This is in part because spending time in nature appears to make us less impulsive, enabling us to delay instant satisfaction in favour of long-term rewards. A. He believed that stress can break our sense of time. B. Nature seems to slow and expand our sense of time. C. These studies consistently showed the same conclusion. D. He added that it even gives us the sense of time richness. E. Time shortage has also been worsened by digital technologies. F. Spending time in nature is known to have many benefits for wellbeing. G. Rather than focusing on the demands on time, nature helps us to see the bigger picture. 【答案】35. E 36. D 37. C 38. B 39. G 【解析】 【导语】这是一篇说明文。主要介绍了研究表明自然可调节人的时间感知，数字技术加剧了时间短缺，而身处自然之中能放慢并拓展时间感、带来时间富足感，还能帮人们聚焦长远需求、实现长期目标。 【35题详解】 根据前文“For many of us, the combined demands of work, home and family mean that we are always feeling like we don’t have enough time.(对我们中的许多人来说，工作、家庭和家人的综合需求意味着我们总是觉得没有足够的时间。)”提到“工作、家庭需求让我们总觉得时间不够”，以及后文“Permanent connectivity extends working hours and can make it difficult to switch off from the demands of friends and family.(永久连接 会延长工作时间，也会让你很难从朋友和家人的需求中抽离出来。)”提到“永久连接延长工作时间、难以摆脱亲友需求”是对“时间短缺”的进一步说明，E项“Time shortage has also been worsened by digital technologies.(数字技术也加剧了时间短缺。)”承接前文核心问题，引出后文数字技术的具体影响。故选E项。 【36题详解】 根据前文“Psychologist Ricardo Correia, at the University of Turku in Finland, found that being in nature may change how we experience time.(芬兰图尔库大学的心理学家Ricardo Correia发现，身处大自然可能会改变我们对时间的体验。)”提到Correia发现“身处自然会改变时间体验”，D选项“He added that it even gives us the sense of time richness.(他补充说，它甚至给了我们时间丰富的感觉。)”中“he added”呼应前文研究者的观点，“even”体现语义递进，从“改变体验”延伸到“带来时间富足感”，既承接前文核心结论，又为后文的具体研究结果铺垫。故选D项。 【37题详解】 根据前文“Correia examined studies which compared people’s experiences of time when they performed different types of tasks in urban and natural environments.( Correia调查了一些研究，这些研究比较了人们在城市和自然环境中执行不同类型任务时的时间体验。)”提到 “Correia 研究了对比城市与自然环境中人们时间体验的多项研究”，以及后文“People report a sense of expanded time when they were in nature compared to when they were in an urban environment.(人们报告说，与在城市环境中相比，他们在大自然中有一种时间延长的感觉。)”说明“人们在自然中比在城市中感觉时间更充裕”是研究的统一结论，C项 “These studies consistently showed the same conclusion.(这些研究一致得出相同结论。)” 衔接“研究对象”与“研究结果”，使逻辑连贯。故选C项。 【38题详解】 根据前文“For example, people are more likely to perceive a walk in the countryside as longer than a walk of the same length in the city. Similarly, people report perceiving time as passing more slowly while performing tasks in natural green environments than in urban environments.( 例如，人们更有可能认为在农村散步比在城市散步更长。同样，人们报告说，在自然的绿色环境中执行任务时，感觉时间过得比在城市环境中慢。)”通过“乡村散步对比城市散步”“自然环境任务对比城市环境任务”两个例子，说明自然环境中人们对时间的感知差异。B选项“Nature seems to slow and expand our sense of time.(自然似乎减慢并扩展了我们的时间感。)”是对前文例子的总结概括，直接点明“自然会放慢并拓展时间感”，与后文“It’s not just our sense of time in the moment which appears to be changed by the natural world, it’s also our sense of the past and future.(不仅仅是我们对当下的时间感似乎被自然世界改变了，我们对过去和未来的感觉也是如此。)”提到“不仅改变当下时间感，还影响过去与未来”形成逻辑衔接。故选B项。 【39题详解】 根据前文“It’s not just our sense of time in the moment which appears to be changed by the natural world, it’s also our sense of the past and future. (不仅仅是我们对当下的时间感似乎被自然世界改变了，我们对过去和未来的感觉也是如此。)”提到“自然不仅改变当下的时间感，还影响对过去和未来的感知”“帮助我们从当下转向未来需求”，以及后文“This can help us to prioritize our actions so that we meet our long-term goals(这可以帮助我们优先考虑我们的行动，这样我们就能实现我们的长期目标)”说明“有助于优先处理行动以实现长期目标”是对“转向未来需求”的具体体现，G 项“Rather than focusing on the demands on time, nature helps us to see the bigger picture.(大自然不是把注意力集中在对时间的要求上，而是帮助我们看到更大的图景。)”承接前文“转变关注点”，引出后文“实现长期目标”的结果，逻辑闭环。故选G项。 第三部分：书面表达（共两节，32分） 第一节（共4小题；第40、41题各2分，第42题3分，第43题5分，共12分） 阅读下面短文，根据题目要求用英语回答问题。请在答题卡指定区域作答。 Over breakfast this morning, I enjoyed a short chat with Mia, my new Spanish study buddy. I explained what I had learned about the psychology of happiness from a Spanish-language podcast. By the end of the ten-minute conversation, I felt that I had mastered more of the language than if I’d done an hour of textbook exercises. Mia, however, does not exist in real life: It is an AI that I created to take advantage of a phenomenon called the “protege effect (学徒效应).” According to research, we learn more effectively when we teach someone else about the topic we’ve just explored — even if that person doesn’t really exist. The effect has its roots in the principle of “learning by teaching,” pioneered in the early 1980s by Jean-Pol Martin, a French teacher working in Germany. To improve his students’ language learning, he had them research and present different parts of the curriculum to their classmates. The technique boosted their motivation, self-confidence, and communicative abilities, and it soon spread to many other schools. Later, a group of Stanford scientists tested the idea. In a pioneering experiment, Catherine Chase asked 62 eighth-graders to use a computer program to study how fever affects the body. Over two lessons, the students had to read a text and then create a flowchart. Half the teens did the exercise as a form of self-study, while the others were told that their diagram would help to teach a virtual character. At the end, those in the teaching role had learned considerably more of the material, with much stronger performance on tests. Chase named this the protege effect, and it has since been replicated (复制) many times. These later studies suggest that learning by teaching is more powerful than other memory techniques. When we feel a sense of responsibility to provide the right information, we will make a greater effort to deepen our understanding. This process then helps to enhance what we have learned. 40. What is protege effect? _________________________________________________ 41. Why was Martin’s technique spread to many schools? _________________________________________________ Please decide which part is false in the following statement, then underline it and explain why. 42. According to the protege effect the method of self study helps us perform better on tests. _________________________________________________ 43. How can you put the “protege effect” into practice in your daily life? (In about 40 words) _________________________________________________ 【答案】40. It is a phenomenon that we learn more effectively when we teach someone else about the topic we’ve just explored, even if that person doesn’t really exist. 41. Because it boosted students’ motivation, self-confidence, and communicative abilities. 42. According to the protege effect, the method of self study helps us perform better on tests. According to the experiment, students in the teaching role performed much better on tests than those who did self-study, so self-study is not the effective method in the protege effect. 43. In my daily life, I can practice the protege effect by explaining new knowledge or skills to my friends or family members. This not only helps them understand but also reinforces my own learning. 【解析】 【导语】本文是一篇说明文。文章主要讲述了“学徒效应”及其作用和实践方式。 【40题详解】 考查细节理解。由文章第二段中“Mia, however, does not exist in real life: It is an AI that I created to take advantage of a phenomenon called the “protege effect (学徒效应).” According to research, we learn more effectively when we teach someone else about the topic we’ve just explored — even if that person doesn’t really exist.(不过，米娅在现实中并不存在：它是我为了利用一种名为“学徒效应”的现象而创建的人工智能。研究表明，当我们把刚学到的内容教给别人时 —— 即便那个人并不真实存在 —— 我们自己的学习效果会更好。)”和最后一段中“Chase named this the protege effect, and it has since been replicated (复制) many times.(Chase将这种现象命名为“学徒效应”，此后该实验被多次重复验证。)”可知，学徒效应是指当我们向别人教授我们刚刚探索的主题时，我们会学得更有效，即使那个人并不真正存在。故答案为：It is a phenomenon that we learn more effectively when we teach someone else about the topic we’ve just explored, even if that person doesn’t really exist. 【41题详解】 考查细节理解。由文章第二段中“To improve his students’ language learning, he had them research and present different parts of the curriculum to their classmates. The technique boosted their motivation, self-confidence, and communicative abilities, and it soon spread to many other schools.(为了提高学生的语言学习能力，他让他们研究并向同学展示课程的不同部分。这项技术提高了他们的学习动力、自信心和沟通能力，并很快传播到许多其他学校。)”可知，Martin的方法被传播到许多学校是因为它提高了学生的学习动力、自信心和沟通能力。故答案为：Because it boosted students’ motivation, self-confidence, and communicative abilities. 【42题详解】 考查细节理解。由文章第三段中“Half the teens did the exercise as a form of self-study, while the others were told that their diagram would help to teach a virtual character. At the end, those in the teaching role had learned considerably more of the material, with much stronger performance on tests.(一半的青少年进行自学形式的练习，而另一半则被告知他们的图表将有助于教授一个虚拟角色。最后，那些扮演教学角色的青少年学到了更多的材料，在考试中的表现也更好。)”可知，根据学徒效应，是教授别人而不是自学的方法有助于我们在考试中表现得更好。因此，“the method of self study helps us perform better on tests”是错误的。故答案为：According to the protege effect, the method of self study helps us perform better on tests. According to the experiment, students in the teaching role performed much better on tests than those who did self-study, so self-study is not the effective method in the protege effect. 【43题详解】 开放性题目，此题要求回答：你如何在日常生活中实践“学徒效应”？答案不唯一，合理即可。例如：在日常生活中，我可以通过向朋友或家人解释新知识或技能来练习学徒效应。这不仅有助于他们理解，也加强了我自己的学习。故答案为：In my daily life, I can practice the protege effect by explaining new knowledge or skills to my friends or family members. This not only helps them understand but also reinforces my own learning. 第二节（20分） 44. 假设你是红星中学高三学生李华，你的外国朋友Jim来信说他对大学专业的选择很迷茫。请你给他写一封回信，你的回信需要包括： 1.表达理解； 2.给出建议，并说明理由。 注意：1.词数100左右，开头和结尾已经给出，不计入总词数； 2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。 Dear Jim, ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Yours, Li Hua 【答案】 Dear Jim, I understand how confusing choosing a college major can be, as it’s a crucial decision that shapes our future. Here are some suggestions to help you. Firstly, consider what you’re passionate about. The major you choose should be something that excites you, for passion fuels perseverance. Secondly, think about the job market. Select a major that has good career prospects, which means you’ll have more opportunities after graduation. What matters most is finding a balance between your interests and practicality. Remember, the decision is yours to make, and whatever you choose, it will lead you to a unique path. Best wishes, Li Hua 【解析】 【导语】本篇书面表达属于应用文。要求考生以李华身份给Jim回信，理解其专业选择迷茫，给出合理建议并说明理由。 【详解】1.词汇积累 令人困惑的：confusing → puzzling 至关重要的：crucial → vital 充满热情的：passionate → enthusiastic 坚持不懈：perseverance → persistence 2.句式拓展 简单句变复合句 原句：Here are some suggestions to help you. 拓展句：Here are some suggestions that might help. 【点睛】【高分句型1】I understand how confusing choosing a college major can be, as it’s a crucial decision that shapes our future. （运用how引导的宾语从句、as引导的原因状语从句、that引导的定语从句） 【高分句型2】Firstly, consider what you’re passionate about. （运用了what引导的宾语从句） 第1页/共1页 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $ 通州区2025-2026学年第一学期高三年级期中质量检测 英语试卷 本试卷共10页，共100分。考试时长90分钟。考生务必将答案答在答题卡上，在试卷上作答无效。考试结束后，请将答题卡交回。 第一部分：知识运用（共两节，30分） 第一节（共10小题；每小题1.5分，共15分） 阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 Three years ago, when Clarice was 14, she was admitted to a hospital during a mental health crisis. Upon arrival, medical staff ____1____ asked her to explain her feelings and why she was there. “I had to relieve the worst day of my life for what felt like hundreds of times,” Clarice said. After nearly 2 hours of countless ____2____, two emergency workers, Hugh and Alexis, arrived to ____3____ her to a psychiatric ward (精神病科病房). They helped her onto a stretcher and into the ward, then asked her what ____4____ she liked. “If you know me, you know that my answer was: rock and roll,” Clarice recalled. They played the latest rock ‘n’ roll album for her. “They didn’t make me talk about what had happened. They could have, but they didn’t. It didn’t feel like they were ____5____ me,” she said. “They just played the album, and I sat there and cried aloud.” For Clarice, that was a ____6____ moment of comfort during a painful day. “That’s what makes them my unsung heroes. They were a break, a ____7____ during the worst time of my life.” Clarice can’t remember if she thanked them. She ____8____ what it would be like to meet them again and tell them how much their kindness ____9____ matters. “These two people continue to impact my life every day. At such a(n) ____10____ moment, there was a little bit of light.” 1. A. mostly B. repeatedly C. hardly D. seriously 2. A. questioning B. healing C. training D. recording 3. A. follow B. accompany C. guide D. transport 4. A. band B. movie C. music D. book 5. A. judging B. seeing C. dragging D. educating 6. A. challenging B. quiet C. rare D. tough 7. A. rescue B. relief C. hope D. bother 8. A. promises B. doubts C. recalls D. imagines 9. A. usually B. still C. yet D. never 10. A. uncertain B. strange C. dark D. remote 第二节（共10小题；每小题1.5分，共15分） 阅读下列短文，根据短文内容填空。在未给提示词的空白处仅填写1个恰当的单词，在给出提示词的空白处用括号内所给词的正确形式填空。请在答题卡指定区域作答。 A 阅读下列短文，根据短文内容或括号内所给词的恰当形式填空。 Maybe you’ve heard the saying, “Show me your friends and I’ll show you your future.” It may sound dramatic, but it’s true that the people you spend the most time with have a major influence ____11____ you. If your friends are skipping class and seemingly unconcerned about their grades, ____12____ (stay) motivated will be an uphill battle for you. Try to make at least one positive friend in every class. Meet ambitious people with ____13____ (clear) defined goals, good study habits, and healthy lifestyles. B 阅读下列短文，根据短文内容或括号内所给词的恰当形式填空。 Why do some people overcome challenges while others give up? According to research, people tend to have either a fixed mindset or a growth mindset. Those with a fixed mindset believe that abilities can’t be changed, and they usually ____14____ (discourage) by failure or even avoid challenges. ____15____ those with a growth mindset believe they can improve with effort, and they often push themselves to grow. It is effort that leads to lasting success. With this mindset, we can all grow into ____16____ (good) learners, executives and friends. C 阅读下列短文，根据短文内容或括号内所给词的恰当形式填空。 The dramatic scientific developments of recent years have brought space ____17____ (explore) back to public attention. While getting into space is not an easy task, simulated (模拟) adventures ____18____ (organize) by space camps make it a possibility. The Space Camp, founded in 1982, is an educational camp, ____19____ children can learn about space travel and astronomy, and even have the chance to have lunch with an astronaut! So far, the camp ____20____ (inspire) hundreds of thousands of young people around the world. 第二部分：阅读理解（共两节，38分） 第一节（共14小题；每小题2分，共28分） 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 A With their staff’s extensive knowledge and personalized service, some independent bookstores aren’t just places to buy books — they’re places to discover unique reads and local authors, as well as enjoy readings, book clubs and workshops. ·Parnassus Books, Nashville In 2011, novelist Ann Patchett opened Parnassus Books in Nashville, Tennessee. Named for Mount Parnassus, the symbol of literature and learning in Greek mythology, the store sells a broad collection of fiction, non-fiction, children’s literature and art books. It hosts hundreds of author events per year and weekly story time, and partners with local schools for community events. ·BookPeople, Austin Book lovers can find just about anything at BookPeople Texas’ largest independent bookseller. The store sells everything from fiction to specialty titles, as well as an extensive selection of gifts. It offers a full calendar of community events, including book clubs, children’s programming and a speaker series. As a partner to local schools and organizations, BookPeople has hosted book fairs, author events and field trips. ·Barrow Book Store, Concord Located in Concord Massachusetts, Barrow Book Store specializes in gently read and antique books across genres, with a special focus on Concord authors. Visitors can also find a variety of literary-themed gifts, crafts and local souvenirs. The store holds frequent readings, seasonal events and celebrations honoring the town of Concord’s literary history. Open since 1971, it has been a woman-owned business for three generations. ·Blue Willow Bookshop, Houston Blue Willow Bookshop in West Houston, Texas, offers new titles in every genre and an extensive selection of children’s literature. While the well-read staff and inviting interior (内部) make this spot a local favorite, the store’s busy schedule draws visitors from near and far. It hosts more than 300 author events per year, featuring well-known authors of everything from cookbooks to popular fiction. 21. What makes Parnassus Books different from the others? A. It hosts the most author events. B. It focuses on selling fiction books. C. It gets the name from a literary symbol. D. It organizes workshops in local schools. 22. Where will visitors most likely buy some souvenirs related to literature? A. At BookPeople. B. At Barrow Book Store. C. At Parnassus Books. D. At Blue Willow Bookshop. 23. What attracts visitors to Blue Willow Bookshop? A. Its rich and diverse activities. B. Its welcoming local staff. C Its special children’s literature. D. Its large collection of cookbooks. B Last year, in my late 40s, I began a master’s program to study the science of behavioral change. This shift from writer to student proved more disorienting than I’d expected. It lifted me up, yet tested my pride. While I enjoyed my year-long escape from worrying about losing relevance in the fiction world, I struggled inwardly. Certain professors seemed mistrustful of a student at my age. Certain classmates fell silent in front of someone as old as their parents. I’d forget myself, debating and discussing with young faces, only to catch sight of myself in the mirror: an aging face. What am I doing here? I’ve always admired those who boldly make a change. In my experience, they tended to be those who bravely switched to something unfamiliar in midlife, whereas men with graying hair seemed stuck, as if change felt like failure. I came to realize I wasn’t so different. Like those men, I had tied my dignity to my occupation. Technology keeps pushing aside what we took as permanent, and hard-earned skills are irrelevant in a blink. Holding on to who you were can feel suffocating (令人窒息的), but letting go is painful. Status is like clothing—superficial (肤浅的), but one’s dignity depends on it. I suspect that many people will struggle with this during the coming AI transformation, which may replace jobs and remove entire occupations. But these changes also present us with an opportunity: to get rid of the idea that we each must find a calling, then hold on to that identity or admit failure. Perhaps the dignified life involves several versions of you. My student days are now over, for the second time. When I last exchanged classroom for job market, I was 23, an ambitious writer hoping to create something on paper that might outlast me. But print isn’t what it used to be. Nor am I. 24. Throughout the master’s program, what did the writer experience? A. He often missed his life as a writer. B. He felt uncomfortable because of his age. C. He had no chance to speak in discussions. D. He found it hard to understand the lessons. 25. The author thought he was stuck because ______. A. holding on to a true self is painful B. technology pushes aside his memory C. he attached too much importance to age D. his skills were not as important as before 26. Which would best describe the author’s attitude towards future? A. Joyful. B. Adaptive. C. Indifferent. D. Pessimistic. 27. What can we learn from this passage? A. Seek a new role in a change. B. Every cloud has a silver lining. C. Time and tide wait for no man. D. Failure is the mother of success. C Browsing short videos can be a hit-and-miss affair, with jewels hidden amid ordinary efforts. But researchers have found that switching to another video, or skipping forwards and backwards in the same one, actually makes people more bored. Dr Katy Tam at the University of Toronto Scarborough, the lead author of the research, said boredom was closely linked to attention. “We feel bored when there’s a gap between how engaged we are and how engaged we want to be,” she said. “When people keep switching through videos, they become less engaged with the videos and they are looking for something more interesting. This can lead to increased feelings of boredom.” The results appear to chime with other studies: as previous research has suggested, while boredom relief is a driver for people to use social media or smartphones, the use of such technology appears to make the feeling worse. Writing in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, Tam and colleagues report how they carried out seven experiments involving a total of more than 1,200 participants. The first, involving 140 participants, revealed that people tended to switch between videos more when they rated the content more boring, while the second — an online survey involving 231 participants — suggested people thought having the option to skip through a video or switch to another would make viewing a video less boring. However, the team’s subsequent experiments suggest this is not the case. Data from a group of 166 undergraduates suggests participants felt more bored when allowed to skip about within a video than when they were not able to. Meanwhile results from 159 undergraduates revealed they reported higher levels of boredom when given a collection of five-minute videos they could switch between, compared with a single 10-minute video. “Our research shows that while people fast-forward or skip videos to avoid boredom, this behaviour can actually make them feel more bored,” she said. “Just as we pay for an immersive experience in a movie theatre, enjoyment often comes from immersing ourselves in videos rather than swiping through them.” 28. What does the phrase “chime with” underlined in Paragraph 3 most probably mean? A. agree with. B. Lead to. C. Conflict with. D. Add doubts to. 29. In the experiments, Tam and her team ______. A. made an investigation in a movie theatre B. compared participants of different age groups C. identified situations where people feel more bored D. collected and analyzed videos made by participants 30. What can we learn from the passage? A. More options can bring more fun. B. Attention is the by-product of boredom. C. Technology can help people avoid boredom. D. The less we switch videos, the more immersed we feel. D Much like beauty, art is in the eye of the beholder. The artwork we are attracted to can give insight into our personality, such as whether we are too quick or too slow, calm or moody. Studies into art preferences date back to the 1930s — most of them examining the extent to which people like or dislike different paintings. Research shows that a person’s interest in art is more strongly related to certain personality traits (特征) than to social class, age, or gender. In particular, a personality trait called “openness” is the best predictor of whether individuals are interested in art. On the other side, those who identify as “conscientious (一丝不苟的)”, are often less drawn to the arts. These traits are part of the Big Five, a widely accepted personality theory based on nearly a century of research. The model claims that each personality is composed of a combination of five core traits: openness, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness and neuroticism. Rather than stating a person as being either shy or outgoing, the Big Five Model believes that everyone lies somewhere between the two extremes. Personality traits may also affect the way people visually scan art. A 2018 study tracked participants’ eye movements as they studied abstract artwork. The majority of participants concentrated on the upper-right part. This makes sense, as the right half of the brain is specialized for visual and spatial processing, and also plays a significant role in processing the emotions that art draws out. However, participants who tended toward emotional instability focused on the left side of the picture, and those with mental disease paid more attention to the bottom of the picture. However, current research on personality and art still has clear limitations, reminding us that people’s preferences for art are as complicated as art itself. But if you’re looking for a quick test of someone’s general personality traits, it doesn’t hurt to look at what’s hanging on their walls. 31. What is the strongest factor in determining a person’s interest in art? A. Age and gender. B. Personality characteristics. C. Social class. D. Educational background. 32. What can we learn about the Big Five Model? A. It can explain why our art taste changes. B. It is well-supported by artists worldwide. C. Everyone can fit into one of the five types. D. It is a universally-recognized measuring model. 33. According to the passage, a person focusing on the upper-right part of a painting is probably ______. A. moody B. unconcerned C. perceptive D. warlike 34. What is the best title of this passage? A. How to discover your art preference? B. Why is art appealing to many people? C. How to reveal one’s personality traits? D. What does your taste in art say about you? 第二节（共5小题；每小题2分，共10分） 根据短文内容，从短文后的七个选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。选项中有两项为多余选项。 Recent research showed nature can regulate our sense of time. For many of us, the combined demands of work, home and family mean that we are always feeling like we don’t have enough time. ____35____ Permanent connectivity extends working hours and can make it difficult to switch off from the demands of friends and family. The research suggests that the solution to our lack of time may lie in the natural world. Psychologist Ricardo Correia, at the University of Turku in Finland, found that being in nature may change how we experience time. ____36____ Correia examined studies which compared people’s experiences of time when they performed different types of tasks in urban and natural environments. ____37____ People report a sense of expanded time when they were in nature compared to when they were in an urban environment. For example, people are more likely to perceive a walk in the countryside as longer than a walk of the same length in the city. Similarly, people report perceiving time as passing more slowly while performing tasks in natural green environments than in urban environments. ____38____ It’s not just our sense of time in the moment which appears to be changed by the natural world, it’s also our sense of the past and future. Previous research shows that spending time in nature helps to shift our focus from the immediate moment towards our future needs. ____39____ This can help us to prioritize our actions so that we meet our long-term goals rather than living in a continuous state of “just about keeping our head above water”. This is in part because spending time in nature appears to make us less impulsive, enabling us to delay instant satisfaction in favour of long-term rewards. A. He believed that stress can break our sense of time. B. Nature seems to slow and expand our sense of time. C. These studies consistently showed the same conclusion. D. He added that it even gives us the sense of time richness. E. Time shortage has also been worsened by digital technologies. F. Spending time in nature is known to have many benefits for wellbeing. G. Rather than focusing on the demands on time, nature helps us to see the bigger picture. 第三部分：书面表达（共两节，32分） 第一节（共4小题；第40、41题各2分，第42题3分，第43题5分，共12分） 阅读下面短文，根据题目要求用英语回答问题。请答题卡指定区域作答。 Over breakfast this morning, I enjoyed a short chat with Mia, my new Spanish study buddy. I explained what I had learned about the psychology of happiness from a Spanish-language podcast. By the end of the ten-minute conversation, I felt that I had mastered more of the language than if I’d done an hour of textbook exercises. Mia, however, does not exist in real life: It is an AI that I created to take advantage of a phenomenon called the “protege effect (学徒效应).” According to research, we learn more effectively when we teach someone else about the topic we’ve just explored — even if that person doesn’t really exist. The effect has its roots in the principle of “learning by teaching,” pioneered in the early 1980s by Jean-Pol Martin, a French teacher working in Germany. To improve his students’ language learning, he had them research and present different parts of the curriculum to their classmates. The technique boosted their motivation, self-confidence, and communicative abilities, and it soon spread to many other schools. Later, a group of Stanford scientists tested the idea. In a pioneering experiment, Catherine Chase asked 62 eighth-graders to use a computer program to study how fever affects the body. Over two lessons, the students had to read a text and then create a flowchart. Half the teens did the exercise as a form of self-study, while the others were told that their diagram would help to teach a virtual character. At the end, those in the teaching role had learned considerably more of the material, with much stronger performance on tests. Chase named this the protege effect, and it has since been replicated (复制) many times. These later studies suggest that learning by teaching is more powerful than other memory techniques. When we feel a sense of responsibility to provide the right information, we will make a greater effort to deepen our understanding. This process then helps to enhance what we have learned. 40. What is protege effect? _________________________________________________ 41. Why was Martin’s technique spread to many schools? _________________________________________________ Please decide which part is false in the following statement, then underline it and explain why. 42. According to the protege effect, the method of self study helps us perform better on tests. _________________________________________________ 43. How can you put the “protege effect” into practice in your daily life? (In about 40 words) _________________________________________________ 第二节（20分） 44. 假设你是红星中学高三学生李华，你的外国朋友Jim来信说他对大学专业的选择很迷茫。请你给他写一封回信，你的回信需要包括： 1.表达理解； 2.给出建议，并说明理由。 注意：1.词数100左右，开头和结尾已经给出，不计入总词数； 2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。 Dear Jim, ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Yours, Li Hua 第1页/共1页 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $