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格致中学二〇二五学年度第二学期第一次测验 高一年级 英语试卷 (共12页) (测试100分钟内完成，总分100分，试后交答题卷) 友情提示：昨天，你既然经历了艰苦的学习，今天，你必将赢得可喜的收获！ 祝你：诚实守信，沉着冷静，细致踏实，自信自强，去迎接胜利！ I. Listening Comprehension (20%) Section A (10%) Directions: In Section A, you will hear ten short conversations between two speakers. At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. The conversations and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a conversation and the question about it, read the four possible answers on your paper, and decide which one is the best answer to the question you have heard. 1. A. At 12: 30. B. At 13: 00. C. At 13: 30. D. At 14: 00. 2. A. In a garage. B. In a hospital. C. In a post-office. D. In a police station. 3. A. Enjoy the tea. B. Wash clothes. C. Sit in the backyard. D. Clean the backyard. 4. A. He’d rather see the movie. B. He doesn’t want to watch TV tonight. C. He prefers to watch the baseball game. D. He hasn’t decided what to watch tonight. 5. A. How to assemble a computer. B. How to check computer files. C. How to write computer programs. D. How to apply for a computer course. 6. A. She doesn’t like either of the two books. B. She thinks either of the books will be Ok. C. She thinks it wrong to choose either of the books. D. She finds it difficult to choose one from the two books. 7. A. The man lacks the relevant experience. B. The man is not suitable for the position. C. The job has been offered to someone else. D. The application has been delayed for a week. 8. A. Aggressive. B. Ambitious. C. Considerate. D. Diligent. 9. A. She fails to behave herself. B. She is strict with discipline. C. She can’t give good lessons. D. She has missed some lessons. 10. A. He doesn’t think the employees should have the protest. B. He is doubtful about the effect of the employees’ action. C. Working conditions should be improved for the employees. D. The employees should be satisfied with the present working conditions. Section B (10%) 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 longer conversation. The passages and the longer conversation will be read twice, but the questions will be spoken only once. When you hear a question, read the four possible answers on your paper and decide which one would be the best answer to the question you have heard. Questions 11 through 13 are based on the following passage. 11. A. A parked truck. B. A jewelry shop. C. Shops in the City Mall. D. A driver in the parking lot. 12. A. Leave the truck together. B. Leave the truck without helmets. C. Run back to the truck separately. D. Run back to the truck without helmets. 13. A. The truck had no registration plate. B. The truck was originally painted white. C. The truck was covered with silver material. D. The truck disappeared from the parking lot. Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage. 14. A. In order to keep teamwork spirit. B. In order to maintain physical strength. C. In order to show beautiful shape of them. D. In order to protect the weak and old ones. 15. A. How the birds decide the route of the group. B. How the birds decide the order of the group. C. How the birds decide who takes charge of the group. D. How the birds decide the time of flying of the group. 16. A. Birds’ intention to migrate. B. Birds’ ability to keep order. C. Birds’ skills to tell directions. D. Birds’ flying pattern as a team. Questions 17 through 20 are based on the following longer conversation. 17. A. Cross-country skiing. B. Dangers of winter sports. C. Pain and pleasure in sports. D. Beautiful scenery in the countryside. 18. A. He can’t find good examples to illustrate his point. B. He can’t find a peaceful place to do the assignment. C. He can’t decide whether to include the effort part of skiing. D. He doesn’t know how to describe the beautiful country scenery. 19. A. It’s hard to find a proper topic. B. New ideas come up as you write. C. Much time is spent on collecting data. D. The writer’s point of view often changes. 20. A. How to polish your arguments in a paper. B. How to decide on relevant content for a paper. C. How to revise a paper in an academic manner. D. How to tell the main ideas in a paper effectively. II. Grammar and Vocabulary (20%) Section A (10%) Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank. Older Americans in Modern Society Last year’s US Census (人口普查) showed that the average age of American citizens is rising. ____1____ 1970 when the last American census was completed, the birth rate has continued to fall sharply in the United States, and the number of Americans over age 65 ____2____ (rise) by 28%. Experts believe continued medical progress will permit Americans in growing numbers ____3____ (live) longer in the years ahead and ____4____ the trend of population aging in the United States will keep going. This means as a group, older citizens will play ____5____ increasingly important part in American life. The influence of many of these older Americans already can be seen. Today, those over 65 are healthier, ____6____ (well-educated) and more active than at any other time in American history. And they are rapidly changing traditional beliefs ____7____ to be old is to be sick, or weak, or helpless. Today men in ____8____ seventies are competing in long distance running races. Motion picture films now have leading parts for actors and actresses in their eighties. Today’s older Americans are also spending large amounts of money on everything from study to long-distance travel. ____9____ is obvious is that more and more businesses now recognize their economic importance. Travel service, restaurants, stores and transportation systems are offering ____10____ (reduce) prices for those over 65. Special sports equipment and beauty products are being designed for older citizens. 【答案】1. Since 2. has risen 3. to live 4. that 5. an 6. better-educated 7. that 8. their 9. What 10. reduced 【解析】 【导语】本文是一篇说明文。文章主要讲述了美国人口老龄化趋势及老年公民在现代美国社会中的影响和地位。 【1题详解】 考查介词。句意：自1970年美国上一次人口普查完成以来，美国的出生率持续大幅下降，65岁以上的美国人口数量增长了28%。根据空后“1970 when the last American census was completed”及主句的现在完成时“has continued”可知，空处需用介词Since，意为“自……以来”，引导时间状语。故填Since。 【2题详解】 考查动词时态。句意：自1970年美国上一次人口普查完成以来，美国的出生率持续大幅下降，65岁以上的美国人口数量增长了28%。根据“has continued”可知，and连接并列句子，句子需用现在完成时，主语the number of Americans over age 65为单数，谓语动词需用第三人称单数形式。故填has risen。 【3题详解】 考查非谓语动词。句意：专家认为，持续的医疗进步将使越来越多的美国人在未来几年活得更长，并且美国的人口老龄化趋势将持续下去。permit sb. to do sth.为固定搭配，意为“允许某人做某事”，空处需用动词不定式作宾语补足语。故填to live。 【4题详解】 考查宾语从句引导词。句意：专家认为，持续的医疗进步将使越来越多的美国人在未来几年活得更长，并且美国的人口老龄化趋势将持续下去。believe后接两个并列的宾语从句，第二个宾语从句不缺成分且句意完整，空处需用that引导宾语从句，and连接两个并列的宾语从句，第二个that不能省略。故填that。 【5题详解】 考查冠词。句意：这意味着，作为一个群体，老年公民将在美国生活中扮演越来越重要的角色。play an important part in为固定搭配，意为“在……中扮演重要角色”，increasingly以元音音素开头，空处需用不定冠词an。故填an。 【6题详解】 考查形容词比较级。句意：如今，65岁以上的人比美国历史上任何时候都更健康、受教育程度更高、更活跃。根据空后“and more active”及“than”可知，空处需用形容词well-educated的比较级，其比较级为better-educated，意为“受教育程度更高的”。故填better-educated。 【7题详解】 考查同位语从句引导词。句意：他们正在迅速改变那种认为年老就意味着生病、虚弱或无助的传统观念。空后“to be old is to be sick, or weak, or helpless”是对“traditional beliefs”的解释说明，为同位语从句，从句不缺成分且句意完整，空处需用that引导同位语从句。故填that。 【8题详解】 考查代词。句意：如今，七十多岁的男性正在参加长跑比赛。in one’s seventies为固定搭配，意为“在某人七十多岁时”，此处指代前文提到的“men”，空处需用形容词性物主代词their。故填their。 【9题详解】 考查主语从句引导词。句意：显然，现在越来越多的企业认识到了他们的经济重要性。分析句子结构可知，空处引导主语从句，从句缺少主语，且指代“more and more businesses now recognize their economic importance”这一内容，需用What引导主语从句，句首首字母大写。故填What。 【10题详解】 考查形容词。句意：旅行社、餐馆、商店和交通系统都在为65岁以上的人提供优惠价格。根据空后名词“prices”可知，空处需用形容词作定语，reduce的形容词形式为reduced，意为“降低的，优惠的”。故填reduced。 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. abandoned B. alarming C. consequently D. decreasing E. diverse F. dominant G. erasing H. multiplying I. ranging J. significantly K. somehow Preserving Linguistic (语言的) Diversity in a Connected World The rapid pace of modernization has reshaped the world in ways previous generations could never have imagined. It has pushed nations into an era of great interconnectedness, where global markets and digital platforms are ____11____ old boundaries. This phenomenon has caused large-scale migration, with migrants moving across every continent in search of better opportunities and ____12____ the population structure of major cities has changed dramatically, transforming them into lively, multicultural centers where ____13____ communities coexist. However, this intense mixing of peoples and cultures brings with it a(n) ____14____ consequence: the gradual loss of linguistic diversity. Linguists predict that the number of spoken languages worldwide might halve by the end of this century. This potential extinction of native tongues is viewed by experts as a concerning trend. As ____15____ languages like English become essential for education and regular business communication, the use of local dialects is ____16____ rapidly. For many younger generations growing up in this environment, their ancestral mother tongue has become unfamiliar, ____17____ in favor of the practical benefits of a widely spoken language all too often. This creates a complex problem for modern society. While opportunities for international exchange continue ____18____, promoting economic growth and cross-cultural understanding, local knowledge and unique cultural identities are ____19____ being lost in the process. This linguistic crisis affects various communities, ____20____ from remote villages to urban centers. Undoubtedly, we face the challenge of balancing the undeniable benefits of a connected world with the critical need to preserve our heritage (遗产). Therefore, we must adopt various strategies, such as bilingual education, to ensure that the spread of global communication does not come at the cost of our rich cultural heritage. 【答案】11. G 12. C 13. E 14. B 15. F 16. D 17. A 18. H 19. K 20. I 【解析】 【导语】本文是一篇说明文。文章主要介绍了现代化与全球化进程中，语言多样性面临的危机。互联世界在促进交流与发展的同时，导致主导语言扩张，而当地方言使用减少、甚至被抛弃，文化遗产面临流失风险。 【11题详解】 考查动词。句意：它将各国推入一个高度互联的时代，全球市场和数字平台正在消除旧的边界。空处和are构成谓语，结合“global markets and digital platforms”和“old boundaries”可推知，G项erasing“消除，消灭”符合题意，表示“全球市场和数字平台正在消除旧的边界”。故选G。 【12题详解】 考查副词。句意：这一现象导致大规模移民，移民跨越各大洲寻找更好的机会，因此主要城市的人口结构发生剧变，将其转变为充满活力的多元文化中心，多样的社区在此共存。并列连词and连接前后两个完整的句子，空处修饰后一个句子，结合“这一现象导致大规模移民”和“主要城市的人口结构发生剧变”之间为因果关系可推知，C项consequently“因此，结果”符合题意，引出后面的结果。故选C。 【13题详解】 考查形容词。句意：这一现象导致大规模移民，移民跨越各大洲寻找更好的机会，因此主要城市的人口结构发生剧变，将其转变为充满活力的多元文化中心，多样的社区在此共存。空处作修饰communities的定语，结合“lively, multicultural centers”可推知，E项diverse“多种多样的”符合题意，表示“多样的社区”。故选E。 【14题详解】 考查形容词。句意：然而，这种密集的人口与文化交融随之带来一个令人担忧的后果：语言多样性逐渐丧失。空处作修饰consequence的定语，结合“the gradual loss of linguistic diversity”可推知，B项alarming“令人担忧的”符合题意，表示“一个令人担忧的后果”。故选B。 【15题详解】 考查形容词。句意：随着英语这样的主导性语言成为教育和日常商务交流的必备工具，当地方言的使用正在迅速减少。空处作修饰languages的定语，结合“like English”可推知，F项dominant“主导的”符合题意，表示“英语这样的主导性语言”。故选F。 【16题详解】 考查动词。句意：随着英语这样的主导性语言成为教育和日常商务交流的必备工具，当地方言的使用正在迅速减少。空处和is构成谓语，结合下一句中的“their ancestral mother tongue has become unfamiliar”可推知，D项decreasing“减少”符合题意，表示“正在迅速减少”。故选D。 【17题详解】 考查动词。句意：对于在这个环境中成长的许多年轻一代来说，他们的祖传母语已变得陌生，被抛弃以换取广泛使用语言的实际好处。句子主干成分完整，空处是非谓语，结合“their ancestral mother tongue”和“in favor of the practical benefits of a widely spoken language all too often”可推知，A项abandoned“抛弃”符合题意，和逻辑主语mother tongue之间是被动关系，作状语，表示“被抛弃以换取广泛使用语言的实际好处”。故选A。 【18题详解】 考查动词。句意：虽然国际交流的机会持续增加，促进了经济增长和跨文化理解，但本土知识和独特的文化身份不知怎么地在此过程中流失。空处作continue的宾语，结合“promoting economic growth and cross-cultural understanding”可推知，H项multiplying“大大增加”符合题意，表示“国际交流的机会持续增加”。故选H。 【19题详解】 考查副词。句意：虽然国际交流的机会持续增加，促进了经济增长和跨文化理解，但本土知识和独特的文化身份不知怎么地在此过程中流失。空处作修饰谓语being lost的状语，结合前一句“This creates a complex problem for modern society.”可推知，K项somehow“不知怎么地”符合题意，表示“不知怎么地在此过程中流失”。故选K。 【20题详解】 考查动词。句意：这场语言危机影响众多社区，范围从偏远村庄到城市中心。句子主干成分完整，空处是非谓语，结合“from remote villages to urban centers”可推知，I项ranging“（在一定范围内）变化”符合题意，构成短语range from A to B，表示“范围从偏远村庄到城市中心”。故选I。 III. 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. The word “cool” has been cool for a long time. ____21____ associated with temperature, by the 16th century, the term had evolved to describe an internal state of calm. And by the late 1800s, it began to describe a style and ____22____ some of the other meanings with which it is associated today. Now, cool is used as a synonym (同义词) for almost anything ____23____ . Music can be cool and so can restaurants. But not all expressions ____24____. In the 1940s, someone who dressed fashionably might be described as “spiffy.” These days, teenagers might use “on fleek.” Tell someone today that they look ____25____ and people will think you’re caught in a time warp (时间错位). Language is constantly ____26____. Certain words and phrases catch on while others die out. So what leads some expressions to become more successful than others? Why do some ____27____ the test of time while others die out? To study these questions, scientists turned to a database of more than five million books from the last 200 years. They tracked the ____28____ of thousands of expressions over time. Interestingly, they discovered that our ____29____ have a big impact on linguistic (语言的) success. In the 1800s, ____30____, people used “sudden increase” to refer to a quick rise in something. But “sharp increase” was introduced around 1900 and is now much more popular. Similarly, while people used to use “promising future” to suggest that good things would be coming, “bright future” soon ____31____ and now is used 2.4 times as frequently. Such sensory expressions are more successful because they’re more ____32____. Sensory expressions help express abstract concepts by ____33____ them to direct bodily experiences with the physical world. Calling an ____34____ person “cold,” for example, suggests that, like a bitter winter, he or she is not very popular. These findings help explain why some expressions live on. Just as natural selection influences finches’ beaks and giraffes’ necks, psychological processes of memory and transmission ____35____ language. This cultural selection determines what succeeds, and what fails. In this case, our senses may help explain why “cool” has been hot for so long. 21. A. Closely B. Definitely C. Eventually D. Originally 22. A. carry B. grasp C. know D. understand 23. A. calm B. fantastic C. ideal D. specific 24. A. change B. continue C. endure D. exist 25. A. cool B. fashionable C. spiffy D. terrific 26. A. enriching B. evolving C. expanding D. extending 27. A. mark B. set C. survive D. take 28. A. frequency B. popularity C. sources D. usage 29. A. brains B. cultures C. senses D. surroundings 30. A. in addition B. by comparison C. at first D. for instance 31. A. gave out B. got over C. took over D. wore out 32. A. characteristic B. familiar C. memorable D. visual 33. A. applying B. attaching C. committing D. linking 34. A. unapproachable B. unfamiliar C. unfortunate D. unsocial 35. A. improve B. master C. practice D. shape 【答案】21. D 22. A 23. B 24. C 25. C 26. B 27. C 28. A 29. C 30. D 31. C 32. C 33. D 34. A 35. D 【解析】 【导语】本文是一篇说明文。文章主要讲述了“cool”一词的演变，探讨语言的变化规律及感官表达更易流传的原因。 【21题详解】 考查副词词义辨析。句意：“cool”这个词长期以来一直很“酷”。起初它与温度有关，到16世纪，这个词已经演变为描述一种内心的平静状态。A. Closely紧密地；B. Definitely肯定地；C. Eventually最终；D. Originally起初，最初。根据后文“by the 16th century”和“by the late 1800s”的时间递进，此处指“cool”一词最初的含义。故选D。 【22题详解】 考查动词词义辨析。句意：到19世纪末，它开始描述一种风格，并承载了一些如今与之相关的其他含义。A. carry承载，携带；B. grasp抓住，理解；C. know知道；D. understand理解。结合后文“some of the other meanings with which it is associated today”可知，此处指“cool”一词承载了新的含义。故选A。 【23题详解】 考查形容词词义辨析。句意：现在，“cool”几乎被用作任何极好事物的同义词。音乐可以很“酷”，餐厅也可以。A. calm平静的；B. fantastic极好的，绝妙的；C. ideal理想的；D. specific具体的。根据后文“Music can be cool and so can restaurants”可知，“cool”可以用来表示很棒的事物。故选B。 【24题详解】 考查动词词义辨析。句意：但并非所有表达都能持久。A. change改变；B. continue继续；C. endure持续，持久；D. exist存在。根据后文“In the 1940s, someone who dressed fashionably might be described as “spiffy.” These days, teenagers might use “on fleek.””可知，有些表达会消失，不能持久。故选C。 【25题详解】 考查形容词词义辨析。句意：如今告诉别人他们看起来很“spiffy”，人们会认为你陷入了时间错位。A. cool酷的；B. fashionable时尚的；C. spiffy整洁漂亮的，时髦的；D. terrific极好的。结合前文“In the 1940s, someone who dressed fashionably might be described as ‘spiffy’”和后文“people will think you’re caught in a time warp (时间错位)”可知，“spiffy”是过去的表达，现在使用会显得过时。故选C。 【26题详解】 考查动词词义辨析。句意：语言在不断演变。A. enriching丰富；B. evolving演变，进化；C. expanding扩张；D. extending延伸。根据后文“Certain words and phrases catch on while others die out”可知，语言一直在变化、演变。故选B。 【27题详解】 考查动词词义辨析。句意：为什么有些能经受住时间的考验，而有些却会消失？A. mark标记；B. set设置；C. survive幸存，经受住；D. take拿，采取。结合后文“the test of time”和“others die out”可知，此处指有些表达能经受住时间考验，survive the test of time为固定搭配，意为“经受住时间的考验”。故选C。 【28题详解】 考查名词词义辨析。句意：他们追踪了成千上万个表达方式在不同时期的出现频率。A. frequency频率；B. popularity流行度；C. sources来源；D. usage使用，用法。结合前文“To study these questions, scientists turned to a database of more than five million books from the last 200 years.”和后文“thousands of expressions over time”以及“now is used 2.4 times as frequently”可知，此处指科学家统计某个词/某种表达方式在不同时期出现的次数与频率。故选A。 【29题详解】 考查名词词义辨析。句意：有趣的是，他们发现我们的感官对语言的成功有很大影响。A. brains大脑；B. cultures文化；C. senses感官；D. surroundings环境。根据后文“Such sensory expressions are more successful”可知，此处指感官的影响。故选C。 【30题详解】 考查介词短语辨析。句意：例如，在19世纪，人们用“sudden increase”来指某事物的快速增长。A. in addition此外；B. by comparison相比之下；C. at first起初；D. for instance例如。根据后文“people used “sudden increase” to refer to a quick rise in something. But “sharp increase” was introduced around 1900 and is now much more popular. Similarly, while people used to use “promising future” to suggest that good things would be coming, “bright future” soon ____ and now is used 2.4 times as frequently.”可知，举例说明感官表达的优势。故选D。 【31题详解】 考查动词短语辨析。句意：同样，虽然人们过去常用“promising future”表示好事即将到来，但“bright future”很快取代了它，现在的使用频率是它的2.4倍。A. gave out分发，耗尽；B. got over克服；C. took over取代，接管；D. wore out磨损，耗尽。结合后文“now is used 2.4 times as frequently”可知，“bright future”取代了“promising future”。故选C。 【32题详解】 考查形容词词义辨析。句意：这样的感官表达更成功，因为它们更容易被记住。A. characteristic典型的；B. familiar熟悉的；C. memorable易记住的；D. visual视觉的。结合后文“Sensory expressions help express abstract concepts”可知，感官表达更易被记住，所以更成功。故选C。 【33题详解】 考查动词词义辨析。句意：感官表达通过将抽象概念与对物理世界的直接身体体验联系起来，帮助表达抽象概念。A. applying应用；B. attaching附着；C. committing承诺；D. linking连接，联系。根据后文“them to direct bodily experiences with the physical world”可知，这里说的是将抽象概念与直接的身体体验相联系，link...to...为固定搭配，意为“将……与……联系起来”，符合语境。故选D。 【34题详解】 考查形容词词义辨析。句意：例如，称一个难以接近的人为“冷漠的（cold）”，意味着他或她就像寒冬一样，不太受欢迎。A. unapproachable难以接近的；B. unfamiliar不熟悉的；C. unfortunate不幸的；D. unsocial不合群的。结合后文“like a bitter winter, he or she is not very popular”可知，此处指难以接近的人。故选A。 【35题详解】 考查动词词义辨析。句意：正如自然选择影响雀类的喙和长颈鹿的脖子一样，记忆和传播的心理过程塑造了语言。A. improve改善；B. master掌握；C. practice练习；D. shape塑造。结合后文“This cultural selection determines what succeeds, and what fails”可知，心理过程促成了语言的塑造。故选D。 Section B (24%) 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) Roald Dahl — the author who entertained people with classics like Matilda, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and James and the Giant Peach — would have been100 years old this year. Roald Dahl is most famous for the books he wrote for children, but he also wrote novels and short stories for adults, screenplays, and non-fiction, too! Roald Dahl was born near Cardiff, in Wales in 1916. His parents were from Norway, and they named him after Roald Amundsen, the famous Norwegian explorer. Roald was sent off to boarding school when he was only nine years old. He was very homesick, and had a hard time obeying the strict teachers and the headmaster. In those days, teachers would sometimes hit their students with a cane (藤条) when they misbehaved. This naturally made a lot of children very afraid of their teachers! Later on, Roald integrated this fear and distrust of adults into many of his children’s books. During World War II, Roald joined the Royal Air Force and flew missions over Africa, the Mediterranean, and the Middle East. At one point, his plane crashed in the Libyan Desert. He was temporarily blinded, and stranded in the middle of nowhere with a cracked skull and a broken nose. Fortunately, he was rescued, and within a few months had made a complete recovery. After his injuries forced him to leave the Air Force, Roald began writing. His first published piece was a magazine article about his plane crash. During the 1950s, he became an accomplished writer of short stories for adults. These stories usually featured mystery, suspense, and a twist ending. In 1961, Roald published James and the Giant Peach, which tells the story of a young boy who attempts to escape from his two nasty, abusive aunts. The boy finally gets away by sailing across the ocean inside a magical giant peach and befriends the giant bugs that live inside it. James and the Giant Peach was inspired by the bedtime stories Roald would make up for his young daughters. He said that it was a challenge to keep them interested and attentive — he had to make his stories funny, exciting, and original. In 1964, he wrote his most famous book—Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, in which a poor boy wins a “golden ticket” to tour a mysterious world. 36. Many of Roald Dahl’s children’s stories were inspired by _________. A. his time in the military B. his relationship with his parents C. his time away at boarding school D. a vacation he took with his grandparents 37. How did Roald Dahl’s experiences in World War II influence his later writing? A. He was a pilot, and his first publication was about a plane crash. B. He was in Navy, and his first publication dealt with life aboard a ship. C. He was in the Army, and his first publication was set in Nazi-occupied Europe. D. He worked in a military factory, and his first publication was about factory life. 38. What led Roald Dahl to write James and the Giant Peach? A. His lifelong love of peaches. B. The insects he found in his garden. C. The bedtime stories he told his daughters. D. The cruelty he experienced at the hands of his aunts. 39. Which of these statements is an opinion about Roald Dahl? A. He published more than a dozen books for children. B. He was the greatest children’s author of the 20th century. C. Several of his books were adapted into successful movies. D. James and the Giant Peach was his first book for children. 【答案】36. C 37. A 38. C 39. B 【解析】 【导语】本文是一篇记叙文。文章主要讲述了罗尔德·达尔（Roald Dahl）的生平经历及其对儿童文学创作的深远影响。 【36题详解】 细节理解题。根据第二段“Roald was sent off to boarding school when he was only nine years old. He was very homesick, and had a hard time obeying the strict teachers and the headmaster. In those days, teachers would sometimes hit their students with a cane (藤条) when they misbehaved. This naturally made a lot of children very afraid of their teachers! Later on, Roald integrated this fear and distrust of adults into many of his children’s books.(罗尔德在九岁的时候就被送去了寄宿学校。他非常想家，而且很难听从那些严厉的老师和校长的命令。在那个时候，老师有时会用藤条抽打行为不端的学生。这自然让很多孩子对老师非常害怕！后来，罗尔德把对成年人的恐惧和不信任融入了他的许多儿童书籍中)”以及第三段中对他寄宿学校经历的描述可知，罗尔德·达尔的许多儿童故事灵感来源于他在寄宿学校的时光。故选C。 【37题详解】 细节理解题。根据第三段“During World War II, Roald joined the Royal Air Force and flew missions over Africa, the Mediterranean, and the Middle East. At one point, his plane crashed in the Libyan Desert...His first published piece was a magazine article about his plane crash.(二战期间，罗尔德加入了英国皇家空军，并在非洲、地中海和中东执行飞行任务。有一次，他的飞机在利比亚沙漠坠毁……他的第一篇发表作品是一篇关于他飞机失事的杂志文章)”可知，罗尔德·达尔在二战中的飞行员经历，尤其是他的第一次出版作品是关于飞机失事的，这对他后来的写作产生了影响。故选A。 【38题详解】 细节理解题。根据第四段“James and the Giant Peach was inspired by the bedtime stories Roald would make up for his young daughters.(《詹姆斯与大仙桃》的灵感来自罗尔德为他年幼的女儿们编造的睡前故事)”可知，是罗尔德给女儿们讲的睡前故事促使他写了《詹姆斯与大仙桃》。故选C。 【39题详解】 推理判断题。观点是主观判断，事实是客观存在的陈述。A项“他出版了十几本儿童书籍”、C项“他的几本书被改编成了成功的电影”、D项“《詹姆斯与大仙桃》是他的第一本儿童书籍”均为客观事实；B项“他是20世纪最伟大的儿童作家”是主观评价，属于观点。故选B。 (B) This month, bee researcher Prof Dave Goulson talks to Helen Pilcher about his bees. Where does your interest in insects come from? My earliest memories involve butterflies, bees and wildlife generally. I remember finding some cinnabar caterpillars (朱砂毛虫) when I was at primary school. I took them home in my lunchbox. When I was 12, we went on a family holiday to Sweden and saw all these elephant hawkmoth caterpillars (象天蛾毛虫) crossing the road and I spent most of the holiday picking them up and moving them to safety. How are bees doing these days? Not great. There are 270 species of bee in the UK, including 26 types of bumblebee and the one and only honeybee, but they’re mostly in decline. Loss of living space, disease and the use of insecticides are all to blame. There are seven or eight species of bumblebee that are now very hard to find and overall numbers are declining. And it matters because... ? A third of the food we eat is dependent on insect pollinators (授粉昆虫) . The danger is that bees decline to a point where it affects crop pollination. This is already happening in some places. In parts of the world, people have to paint pollen onto fruit trees by hand. Bees are also vitally important for wildflowers. What can we do to help the bees? There are lots of things we can do to help. Plant bee-friendly flowers like thyme. Stop using insecticides and put up bee hotels. These don’t need to be expensive; just some bamboo sticks or a fence post with a few holes drilled in will do. If we could persuade everyone with a garden to do this, it would make a massive difference. Where are you happiest? In my meadow in France. I have a little farm in the middle of nowhere that I have turned into a nature reserve. Every summer we go for a month and potter about. 40. What does Professor Dave Goulson imply about himself? A. He was born with a love for insects. B. He remembered being frightened by insects. C. He found some rare insects when on holiday. D. He kept some caterpillars as pets while young. 41. According to Dave Goulson, what would happen if there were no bees? A. There wouldn’t be more harmful insects. B. We would suffer from a shortage of food. C. There would be an increase in wildflowers. D. Crop pollination wouldn’t be done by hand. 42. What does Dave Goulson suggest we do to help bees? A. Turn farms into nature reserves. B. Build some living space for bees. C. Develop bee-friendly insecticides. D. Plant flowers that keep insects away. 【答案】40. A 41. B 42. B 【解析】 【导语】这是一篇访谈形式的说明文，主要讲述了蜜蜂研究员Dave Goulson与Helen Pilcher谈论关于蜜蜂的话题，包括他对昆虫兴趣的来源、蜜蜂目前的生存状况、没有蜜蜂的后果以及如何帮助蜜蜂等。 【40题详解】 推理判断题。根据文章第二段“My earliest memories involve butterflies, bees and wildlife generally. I remember finding some cinnabar caterpillars (朱砂毛虫) when I was at primary school. I took them home in my lunchbox. When I was 12, we went on a family holiday to Sweden and saw all these elephant hawkmoth caterpillars (象蛾毛虫) crossing the road and I spent most of the holiday picking them up and moving them to safety(我最早的记忆包括蝴蝶、蜜蜂和一般的野生动物。我记得上小学的时候发现了一些朱砂毛虫。我把它们放在午餐盒里带回家。当我12岁的时候，我们全家去瑞典度假，看到所有这些象蛾毛虫在过马路，我花了大部分假期把它们捡起来，转移到安全的地方)”可知，Dave Goulson从小就对昆虫有着浓厚的兴趣，他的记忆中充满了与昆虫相关的经历，可推理出他天生就对昆虫有喜爱之情。故选A项。 【41题详解】 推理判断题。根据文章第四段“A third of the food we eat is dependent on insect pollinators (授粉昆虫) . The danger is that bees decline to a point where it affects crop pollination. This is already happening in some places. In parts of the world, people have to paint pollen onto fruit trees by hand(我们吃的食物中有三分之一依赖于昆虫授粉。危险在于，蜜蜂数量减少到影响作物授粉的程度。这在一些地方已经发生了。在世界上的一些地方，人们不得不手工将花粉涂在果树上)”可知，我们吃的食物中有三分之一依赖于昆虫授粉，蜜蜂数量已经减少到影响作物授粉的程度了，可推理出如果没有蜜蜂，很多作物的授粉会受到影响，进而导致食物短缺。故选B项。 【42题详解】 细节理解题。根据文章第五段“There are lots of things we can do to help. Plant bee-friendly flowers like thyme. Stop using insecticides and put up bee hotels. These don’t need to be expensive; just some bamboo sticks or a fence post with a few holes drilled in will do(我们可以做很多事情来帮忙。种植蜜蜂喜欢的花，比如百里香。停止使用杀虫剂，建造蜜蜂旅馆。这些不需要很贵；只要一些竹竿或一根钻了几个洞的栅栏柱就可以了)”可知，Dave Goulson建议我们种植蜜蜂友好的花朵以及停止使用杀虫剂和建造蜜蜂旅馆等，由此可知Dave Goulson建议我们为蜜蜂建造一些生存空间，故选B项。 (C) I am peering deep into the universe. I can see bright lights shining in the distance — a faraway galaxy (星系). I click “smooth” when asked about its shape. I am an armchair astronomer, looking through telescope images to help researchers who are studying remote galaxies. There are more images from telescopes than researchers could ever analyze on their own. Since the Galaxy Zoo citizen science project was launched more than 10years ago, hundreds of thousands of people have helped identify more than a million galaxies of a wide variety of shapes and sizes as well as identifying previously undiscovered interstellar phenomena. This is exactly what happened to Dutch school teacher Hanny van Arkel in 2007, when working through images on Galaxy Zoo gathered by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. “She noticed ... that there was this sort of blue spot,” says Karen Masters at Haverford College in Pennsylvania, who is part of Galaxy Zoo’s science team. That blue spot turned out to be a big deal. Named Hanny’s Voorwerp (Hanny’s object in Dutch) after its discoverer, it was in fact an extremely hot cloud of gas which was being lit up by light from a quasar — a bright, energetic object powered by a supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy called IC 2497. Researchers have since discovered and analyzed more of these objects. Patterns in the light from them help us identify past changes in the galaxies that light them up. More than 60 scientific papers have been published by astronomers using Galaxy Zoo’s crowdsourced data so far. When the project first started, machine learning techniques weren’t good enough for analyzing galaxies. Nowadays, Galaxy Zoo relies on a mixture of machines and human interpretation — with some easy classifications now possible using artificial intelligence. Galaxy Zoo’s latest set of images comes from the Dark Energy Camera Legacy Survey, which is 10 times more sensitive to light than the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, allowing far more accurate observations of the galaxies. While you will see photos of these vast objects, there is much more to them. “When we look at a picture of a galaxy, it looks frozen in time, but these are actually very dynamic objects, everything is moving, there are giant collections of stars, gas and dust orbiting around the common center of mass,” says Masters. 43. What can be learned about the Galaxy Zoo project from the passage? A. It only started analyzing galaxies recently. B. It has involved many people in classifying galaxies. C. It relies merely on machine learning for galaxy analysis. D. The project is not well-regarded in the scientific community 44. Why is Hanny van Arkel mentioned in the passage? A. To discuss the role of scientific teams in Galaxy Zoo. B. To highlight an achievement of the Galaxy Zoo project. C. To illustrate the limitations of early Galaxy Zoo projects. D. To explain how schoolteachers contributed to Galaxy Zoo. 45. What can be learned about the Dark Energy Camera Legacy Survey from the passage? A. It enables a sharper view of galaxies. B. It was used in the early stages of the Galaxy Zoo project. C. It was developed after machine learning was good enough. D. It generates a larger collection of photos than previous surveys. 46. What is the main idea of the passage? A. The Galaxy Zoo project has discovered a new type of galaxy. B. Hanny van Arkel’s discovery led to the identification of a new galaxy. C. Amateur astronomers help researchers by analyzing telescope images. D. Machine learning is becoming the primary method used for galaxy analysis. 【答案】43. B 44. B 45. A 46. C 【解析】 【导语】本文是一篇说明文。文章主要讲述了“银河动物园”公民科学项目让众多普通人参与分析望远镜图像以助力天文学研究。 【43题详解】 细节理解题。根据第二段中“Since the Galaxy Zoo citizen science project was launched more than 10 years ago, hundreds of thousands of people have helped identify more than a million galaxies of a wide variety of shapes and sizes as well as identifying previously undiscovered interstellar phenomena.(自10多年前“银河动物园”公民科学项目启动以来，数十万人帮助识别了100多万种形状和大小各异的星系，并识别出了以前未被发现的星际现象)”可知，“银河动物园”项目让很多人参与对星系的分类。故选B。 【44题详解】 推理判断题。根据第三段“This is exactly what happened to Dutch school teacher Hanny van Arkel in 2007, when working through images on Galaxy Zoo gathered by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey.(这正是2007年荷兰学校教师哈尼·范·阿克尔（Hanny van Arkel）在研究斯隆数字巡天（Sloan Digital Sky Survey）收集的“银河动物园”图像时所发生的事情)”以及第四段“That blue spot turned out to be a big deal. Named Hanny’s Voorwerp (Hanny’s object in Dutch) after its discoverer, it was in fact an extremely hot cloud of gas which was being lit up by light from a quasar — a bright, energetic object powered by a supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy called IC 2497.(这个蓝色斑点后来被证明是一件大事。它以发现者的名字命名为哈尼天体（荷兰语中意为哈尼天体），实际上它是一团极热的气体云，被类星体发出的光照亮，类星体是一种明亮的、充满能量的天体，由一个名为IC 2497的星系中心的超大质量黑洞提供能量)”可知，文中提到哈尼·范·阿克尔是为了突出“银河动物园”项目的一项成就。故选B。 【45题详解】 细节理解题。根据倒数第三段中“Galaxy Zoo’s latest set of images comes from the Dark Energy Camera Legacy Survey, which is 10 times more sensitive to light than the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, allowing far more accurate observations of the galaxies.(“银河动物园”的最新一组图像来自暗能量相机遗产巡天项目，该项目对光的敏感度是斯隆数字巡天项目的10倍，可以对星系进行更精确的观察)”可知，暗能量相机遗产巡天项目能够更清晰地观察星系。故选A。 【46题详解】 主旨大意题。根据第一段中“I am peering deep into the universe. I can see bright lights shining in the distance — a faraway galaxy (星系).(我是一个业余天文学家，通过望远镜图像来帮助研究遥远星系的研究人员)”以及结合全文内容可知，文章主要讲述了“银河动物园”公民科学项目让众多普通人参与分析望远镜图像以助力天文学研究。故选C。 (D) On the occasional cold clear autumn night, I was hiking through the dark forest with my GMO wolf. Yes, my best friend is a genetically modified organism (转基因生物) , deliberate selection has produced the wonder that walks by my side. Our world is changing rapidly. In the last 5 decades, global population has fully doubled, with 3.7 billion hungry mouths added to our planet. During this same time span, the amount of land suitable for agriculture has increased by only 5%. Miraculously, this did not result in the great global famine (饥荒) one might have predicted. How do scientists modify a plant so that it makes more food than its parents did? We could treat each harvest like a litter of wolf pups and select only plants bearing the fattest, richest seeds for the next season. This was the method our ancestors used to engineer rice, corn and wheat from the wild grasses they encountered. During my childhood, advances in genetic technologies allowed scientists to identify and clone the genes responsible for repressing (抑制) stem growth, leading to shorter, stronger stalks that could bear more seed — the high-production crops that feed us today. The 21st century has brought with it a marvelous new set of high-tech tools with which to further quicken the process of artificial selection. Plant geneticists can now directly edit out or edit in sections of DNA using molecular scissors. We can minimize a plant’s weaknesses while adding to its strengths, and we don’t have to wait for seasons to pass to test the result. It is the transformative potential of these techniques to quickly supply the next-generation crops required for upcoming climate change that has led me to believe in the safety and function of GMO plants in agricultural products. We need more GMO research to feed the world that we are creating. I love the quiet forest that stands between my lab and my home. But I know that as a scientist, I am responsible first to humanity. We must feed, shelter and care for one another as our first priority, and to do so, we must take advantage of our best technologies, which have always included some type of genetic modification. We must continue as before, feeding the future as we feed ourselves, and each year plant only the very best of what we have collectively engineered. I keep the faith of my ancestors each night when I walk through the forest to my lab, and my GMO wolf does the same when she guards my way home. 47. Why does the author mention the wolf in the 1st paragraph? A. To advise people to keep wolves as pets. B. To change people’s attitude towards wolves. C. To persuade readers to welcome the new technology. D. To introduce a technology used to humans’ advantage. 48. Which of the following statements is NOT TRUE according to the passage? A. With GMO technology, famine has been ended. B. GMO technology will help weatherproof future crops. C. Artificial selections make high-production plants possible. D. The author believes technology should contribute to future generations. 49. What can be learned about modifying a plant? A. The general public show strong faith in GMO plants. B. One way for ancestors to change a plant was to clone some genes. C. It takes scientists seasons to know whether their selection is correct. D. Modern techniques help speed up the artificial selection by altering DNA. 50. By “I keep the faith of my ancestors” (last para.) , the author means _________. A. to trust that technology can handle future agricultural challenges B. to continue selecting the best seeds for the next season’s planting C. to preserve the forest paths while walking to the laboratory nightly D. to maintain the practice of keeping modified wolves as companions 51. Which of the following might be the best title of the passage? A. Engineered Food — To Be or Not To Be B. Engineered Food — Feeding Future Generations C. GMO Technology — A Driving Force in World Peace D. GMO Technology — Turning Wolves into the Best Pets 【答案】47. D 48. A 49. D 50. B 51. B 【解析】 【导语】本文是一篇议论文。文章主要讲述了作者结合转基因技术的发展，阐述其在农业中的作用，呼吁重视转基因研究以解决未来粮食问题。 【47题详解】 推理判断题。根据第一段中“Yes, my best friend is a genetically modified organism (转基因生物), deliberate selection has produced the wonder that walks by my side.(是的，我最好的朋友是一个转基因生物，经过刻意的选择，这个奇迹就走在我身边)”以及后文围绕转基因技术在农业中的应用展开可知，作者提及转基因狼是为了引出一种能为人类所用的技术（转基因技术）。故选D。 【48题详解】 细节理解题。根据第二段中“Miraculously, this did not result in the great global famine (饥荒) one might have predicted.(奇迹般地，这并没有导致人们可能预测的全球性大饥荒)”可知，转基因技术避免了全球性大饥荒，但并未说饥荒已被终结，A项表述错误。故选A。 【49题详解】 细节理解题。根据第四段中“The 21st century has brought with it a marvelous new set of high-tech tools with which to further quicken the process of artificial selection. Plant geneticists can now directly edit out or edit in sections of DNA using molecular scissors.(21世纪带来了一系列奇妙的高科技工具，进一步加快了人工选择的进程。植物遗传学家现在可以使用分子剪刀直接编辑或插入DNA片段)”可知，现代技术通过改变DNA加快了人工选择的速度。故选D。 【50题详解】 词句猜测题。根据最后一段中“We must continue as before, feeding the future as we feed ourselves, and each year plant only the very best of what we have collectively engineered.(我们必须像以前一样继续下去，在养活自己的同时养活未来，每年只种植我们共同培育出的最好的品种)”以及前文提及祖先通过选择优良种子培育作物可知，作者说“我坚守着祖先的信念”指的是继续为下一季种植选择最好的种子。故选B。 【51题详解】 主旨大意题。通读全文，作者围绕转基因技术展开，强调其在农业中的重要作用，结合第五段“We need more GMO research to feed the world that we are creating.(我们需要更多的转基因研究来养活我们正在创造的这个世界)”和最后一段“feeding the future as we feed ourselves(为未来提供食物，正如我们为自己提供食物一样)”可知，B项“Engineered Food — Feeding Future Generations(工程食品——哺育未来世代)”最能概括全文主旨，适合作为标题。故选B。 Section C (6%) Directions: Read the passage carefully. 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. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was born on May 22, 1859, in Edinburgh, as Arthur Doyle (he later used his middle name, Conan, as part of his surname) . His father, a civil servant and frustrated artist, became an alcoholic, and Arthur was sent to boarding school in England. He went on to study medicine at Edinburgh University, where one teacher, Dr. Joseph Bell, made a big impression on him. A weird character in his long coat and deerstalker hat, Bell had an unusual ability to diagnose patients purely by reasoning logically from their appearance. ____52____. While waiting for patients, he wrote fiction. It was many years before his first novel was published, introducing the detective Sherlock Holmes, who was clearly based on Dr. Bell. A series of Sherlock Holmes stories followed. Doyle grew tired of writing them. ____53____. So, Doyle had to bring him back to life. Doyle combined writing with a keen interest in sport; he played first class cricket and was goalkeeper for Portsmouth AFC. More surprising, given the ultra-rational character of Sherlock Holmes, was Doyle’s fascination with the supernatural. In 1893, Doyle’s father died, and his wife Louisa was given months to live. ____54____. Later, during World War I, he lost several family members, and he became especially desperate to make contact with his dead son. Doyle remarried after his first wife Louisa’s death. His second wife, Jean, became a medium, and Doyle devoted all the time to giving lectures and writing about supernatural phenomena. ____55____. He returned in pain and was bedridden until his death on July 7, 1930 (though shortly before he died he was found lying in the garden, clutching his heart with one hand and holding a flower in the other) . A. Conan Doyle’s first medical practice was slow to take off. B. The poor man was trying to comfort himself in these things. C. His resulting depression led Doyle to investigate spiritualism. D. But when he killed Sherlock off in one story, there was a huge public outcry. E. Despite heart problems, Conan Doyle went on a lecture tour of Europe in 1929. F. In his book, The Coming of the Fairies, he insisted that the photographs taken by two young girls, could not have been faked. 【答案】52. A 53. D 54. C 55. E 【解析】 【导语】本文是一篇记叙文。文章主要讲述了柯南·道尔的生平、职业、创作及晚年经历。 【52题详解】 上文“He went on to study medicine at Edinburgh University, where one teacher, Dr. Joseph Bell, made a big impression on him. A weird character in his long coat and deerstalker hat, Bell had an unusual ability to diagnose patients purely by reasoning logically from their appearance.(他继续在爱丁堡大学学习医学，在那里，一位名叫约瑟夫·贝尔博士的老师给他留下了深刻的印象。贝尔穿着长外套、戴着猎鹿帽，性格古怪，他有一种非凡的能力，仅凭从病人外表进行逻辑推理就能诊断病情)”介绍了柯南·道尔的学医经历及受影响的老师。空后“While waiting for patients, he wrote fiction.(在等待病人的时候，他开始写小说)”说明他有等待病人的场景，空处需衔接学医与写小说的过渡。选项A“Conan Doyle’s first medical practice was slow to take off.(柯南·道尔的第一次医疗实践进展缓慢)”解释了他有时间等待病人、进而写小说的原因，与上下文相呼应，符合语境。故选A。 【53题详解】 上文“Doyle grew tired of writing them.(道尔厌倦了写这些故事)”说明道尔不想再写福尔摩斯故事。空后“So, Doyle had to bring him back to life.(所以，道尔不得不让他复活)”说明道尔被迫让福尔摩斯回归，空处需说明他让福尔摩斯“消失”后引发的反应。选项D“But when he killed Sherlock off in one story, there was a huge public outcry.(但当他在一个故事中让福尔摩斯死去时，引起了公众的强烈抗议)”既承接前文“厌倦写作”，又解释了后文“让福尔摩斯复活”的原因，符合语境。故选D。 【54题详解】 上文“In 1893, Doyle’s father died, and his wife Louisa was given months to live.(1893年，道尔的父亲去世，他的妻子路易莎被诊断只有几个月的生命)”说明道尔遭遇家庭变故。空后“Later, during World War I, he lost several family members, and he became especially desperate to make contact with his dead son.(后来，在第一次世界大战期间，他失去了几个家庭成员，他变得特别渴望与死去的儿子取得联系)”说明他后续对超自然现象感兴趣的原因，空处需衔接家庭变故与后续行为。选项C“His resulting depression led Doyle to investigate spiritualism.(由此产生的抑郁让道尔开始研究唯灵论)”既承接前文家庭变故带来的影响，又为后文研究超自然现象做铺垫，符合语境。故选C。 【55题详解】 上文“His second wife, Jean, became a medium, and Doyle devoted all the time to giving lectures and writing about supernatural phenomena.(他的第二任妻子琼成为了一名灵媒，道尔则全身心地投入到演讲和撰写关于超自然现象的文章中)”介绍了道尔晚年的活动。空后“He returned in pain and was bedridden until his death on July 7, 1930(他痛苦地归来，一直卧床不起，直到1930年7月7日去世)”说明他去世前的状态，空处需说明他卧床前的活动。选项E“Despite heart problems, Conan Doyle went on a lecture tour of Europe in 1929.(尽管有心脏问题，柯南·道尔还是在1929年进行了一次欧洲巡回演讲)”既承接前文“演讲”的活动，又解释了后文“痛苦归来、卧床”的原因，符合语境。故选E。 IV. Translation (15%) Directions: Translate the following sentences into English, using the words given in the brackets. 56. 在一定程度上，全球化对本土传统及文化多样性构成了威胁。 (threaten) （汉译英） _____________________________________________________________________________ 【答案】To a certain extent, globalization threatens local traditions and cultural diversity. 【解析】 【详解】考查时态和主谓一致。表示“在一定程度上”用固定短语to a certain extent，置于句首，首字母大写；表示“全球化”用名词globalization，作主语；表示“对……构成威胁”用动词threaten，句子陈述事实，用一般现在时；表示“本土传统”用local traditions；表示“文化多样性”用cultural diversity，与local traditions并列，作threaten的宾语。故翻译为To a certain extent, globalization threatens local traditions and cultural diversity. 57. 这可能是因为文化间的相似性能够增进人们彼此的了解。 (possibility) （汉译英） _____________________________________________________________________________ 【答案】There is a possibility that the similarities between cultures can enhance people's understanding of each other. 【解析】 【详解】考查名词、情态动词和时态。句子陈述一种可能的原因，用一般现在时；“这可能是……”用There is a possibility that...来表达，possibility意为“可能性”，that引导同位语从句；“文化间的相似性”翻译为the similarities between cultures；“能够”用情态动词can；“增进”翻译为enhance；“人们彼此的了解”翻译为people's understanding of each other。故翻译为There is a possibility that the similarities between cultures can enhance people's understanding of each other. 58. 信息传播迅速，新闻报道便捷，数字通信已成大势所趋。 (cover, stay) （汉译英） _____________________________________________________________________________ 【答案】Information spreads fast, and the covering of news is convenient, so digital communication stays the prevailing trend. 【解析】 【详解】考查短语和时态。句子陈述事实，用一般现在时；表示“信息传播迅速”用 information spreads fast；“新闻报道”可处理为动名词短语作主语，用the covering of news来表达；“便捷”用convenient作表语，“新闻报道便捷”用the covering of news is convenient；用and连接两个并列的分句。用so引出结果，表示“数字通信”用digital communication；表示“普遍的、盛行的”用prevailing，表示“已成大势所趋”可以用stay the prevailing trend，谓语动词stay用第三人称单数形式。故翻译为Information spreads fast, and the covering of news is convenient, so digital communication stays the prevailing trend. 59. 这部小说的意义在于：与暂时的胜利相比，它更彰显了一种不朽的精神，即人可以被毁灭，但不能被打败。 (compare) （汉译英） _____________________________________________________________________________ 【答案】The significance of this novel lies in that compared with temporary victory, it highlights more an immortal spirit, that is, people can be destroyed but not defeated. 【解析】 【详解】考查非谓语动词和固定句型。表示“这部小说的意义”用the significance of this novel，表示“在于”用lies in，句子描述客观事实，时态用一般现在时，主语The significance of this novel为第三人称单数，谓语动词用第三人称单数形式lies；表示“与……相比”用固定短语be compared with...，去掉be动词，使用过去分词短语作状语；表示“暂时的胜利”用temporary victory；表示“它更彰显了”用it highlights more；表示“一种不朽的精神”用an immortal spirit；表示“即”用that is；表示“人可以被毁灭，但不能被打败”用people can be destroyed but not defeated，其中but连接两个并列的谓语结构can be destroyed和can not be defeated。句首单词首字母大写。故翻译为The significance of this novel lies in that compared with temporary victory, it highlights more an immortal spirit, that is, people can be destroyed but not defeated. 第1页/共1页 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $ 格致中学二〇二五学年度第二学期第一次测验 高一年级 英语试卷 (共12页) (测试100分钟内完成，总分100分，试后交答题卷) 友情提示：昨天，你既然经历了艰苦的学习，今天，你必将赢得可喜的收获！ 祝你：诚实守信，沉着冷静，细致踏实，自信自强，去迎接胜利！ I. Listening Comprehension (20%) Section A (10%) Directions: In Section A, you will hear ten short conversations between two speakers. At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. The conversations and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a conversation and the question about it, read the four possible answers on your paper, and decide which one is the best answer to the question you have heard. 1. A. At 12: 30. B. At 13: 00. C. At 13: 30. D. At 14: 00. 2. A. In a garage. B. In a hospital. C. In a post-office. D. In a police station. 3. A. Enjoy the tea. B. Wash clothes. C. Sit in the backyard. D. Clean the backyard. 4. A. He’d rather see the movie. B. He doesn’t want to watch TV tonight. C. He prefers to watch the baseball game. D. He hasn’t decided what to watch tonight. 5. A. How to assemble a computer. B. How to check computer files. C. How to write computer programs. D. How to apply for a computer course. 6. A. She doesn’t like either of the two books. B. She thinks either of the books will be Ok. C. She thinks it wrong to choose either of the books. D. She finds it difficult to choose one from the two books. 7. A. The man lacks the relevant experience. B. The man is not suitable for the position. C. The job has been offered to someone else. D. The application has been delayed for a week. 8. A. Aggressive. B. Ambitious. C. Considerate. D. Diligent. 9. A. She fails to behave herself. B. She is strict with discipline. C. She can’t give good lessons. D. She has missed some lessons. 10. A. He doesn’t think the employees should have the protest. B. He is doubtful about the effect of the employees’ action. C. Working conditions should be improved for the employees. D. The employees should be satisfied with the present working conditions. Section B (10%) 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 longer conversation. The passages and the longer conversation will be read twice, but the questions will be spoken only once. When you hear a question, read the four possible answers on your paper and decide which one would be the best answer to the question you have heard. Questions 11 through 13 are based on the following passage. 11. A. A parked truck. B. A jewelry shop. C. Shops in the City Mall. D. A driver in the parking lot. 12. A. Leave the truck together. B. Leave the truck without helmets. C. Run back to the truck separately. D. Run back to the truck without helmets. 13. A. The truck had no registration plate. B. The truck was originally painted white. C. The truck was covered with silver material. D. The truck disappeared from the parking lot. Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage. 14. A. In order to keep teamwork spirit. B. In order to maintain physical strength. C. In order to show beautiful shape of them. D. In order to protect the weak and old ones. 15. A. How the birds decide the route of the group. B. How the birds decide the order of the group. C. How the birds decide who takes charge of the group. D. How the birds decide the time of flying of the group. 16. A. Birds’ intention to migrate. B. Birds’ ability to keep order. C. Birds’ skills to tell directions. D. Birds’ flying pattern as a team. Questions 17 through 20 are based on the following longer conversation. 17. A. Cross-country skiing. B. Dangers of winter sports. C. Pain and pleasure in sports. D. Beautiful scenery in the countryside. 18. A. He can’t find good examples to illustrate his point. B. He can’t find a peaceful place to do the assignment. C. He can’t decide whether to include the effort part of skiing. D. He doesn’t know how to describe the beautiful country scenery. 19. A. It’s hard to find a proper topic. B. New ideas come up as you write. C. Much time is spent on collecting data. D. The writer’s point of view often changes. 20. A. How to polish your arguments in a paper. B. How to decide on relevant content for a paper. C. How to revise a paper in an academic manner. D. How to tell the main ideas in a paper effectively. II. Grammar and Vocabulary (20%) Section A (10%) Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank. Older Americans in Modern Society Last year’s US Census (人口普查) showed that the average age of American citizens is rising. ____1____ 1970 when the last American census was completed, the birth rate has continued to fall sharply in the United States, and the number of Americans over age 65 ____2____ (rise) by 28%. Experts believe continued medical progress will permit Americans in growing numbers ____3____ (live) longer in the years ahead and ____4____ the trend of population aging in the United States will keep going. This means as a group, older citizens will play ____5____ increasingly important part in American life. The influence of many of these older Americans already can be seen. Today, those over 65 are healthier, ____6____ (well-educated) and more active than at any other time in American history. And they are rapidly changing traditional beliefs ____7____ to be old is to be sick, or weak, or helpless. Today men in ____8____ seventies are competing in long distance running races. Motion picture films now have leading parts for actors and actresses in their eighties. Today’s older Americans are also spending large amounts of money on everything from study to long-distance travel. ____9____ is obvious is that more and more businesses now recognize their economic importance. Travel service, restaurants, stores and transportation systems are offering ____10____ (reduce) prices for those over 65. Special sports equipment and beauty products are being designed for older citizens. 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. abandoned B. alarming C. consequently D. decreasing E. diverse F. dominant G. erasing H. multiplying I. ranging J. significantly K. somehow Preserving Linguistic (语言的) Diversity in a Connected World The rapid pace of modernization has reshaped the world in ways previous generations could never have imagined. It has pushed nations into an era of great interconnectedness, where global markets and digital platforms are ____11____ old boundaries. This phenomenon has caused large-scale migration, with migrants moving across every continent in search of better opportunities and ____12____ the population structure of major cities has changed dramatically, transforming them into lively, multicultural centers where ____13____ communities coexist. However, this intense mixing of peoples and cultures brings with it a(n) ____14____ consequence: the gradual loss of linguistic diversity. Linguists predict that the number of spoken languages worldwide might halve by the end of this century. This potential extinction of native tongues is viewed by experts as a concerning trend. As ____15____ languages like English become essential for education and regular business communication, the use of local dialects is ____16____ rapidly. For many younger generations growing up in this environment, their ancestral mother tongue has become unfamiliar, ____17____ in favor of the practical benefits of a widely spoken language all too often. This creates a complex problem for modern society. While opportunities for international exchange continue ____18____, promoting economic growth and cross-cultural understanding, local knowledge and unique cultural identities are ____19____ being lost in the process. This linguistic crisis affects various communities, ____20____ from remote villages to urban centers. Undoubtedly, we face the challenge of balancing the undeniable benefits of a connected world with the critical need to preserve our heritage (遗产). Therefore, we must adopt various strategies, such as bilingual education, to ensure that the spread of global communication does not come at the cost of our rich cultural heritage. III. 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. The word “cool” has been cool for a long time. ____21____ associated with temperature, by the 16th century, the term had evolved to describe an internal state of calm. And by the late 1800s, it began to describe a style and ____22____ some of the other meanings with which it is associated today. Now, cool is used as a synonym (同义词) for almost anything ____23____ . Music can be cool and so can restaurants. But not all expressions ____24____. In the 1940s, someone who dressed fashionably might be described as “spiffy.” These days, teenagers might use “on fleek.” Tell someone today that they look ____25____ and people will think you’re caught in a time warp (时间错位). Language is constantly ____26____. Certain words and phrases catch on while others die out. So what leads some expressions to become more successful than others? Why do some ____27____ the test of time while others die out? To study these questions, scientists turned to a database of more than five million books from the last 200 years. They tracked the ____28____ of thousands of expressions over time. Interestingly, they discovered that our ____29____ have a big impact on linguistic (语言的) success. In the 1800s, ____30____, people used “sudden increase” to refer to a quick rise in something. But “sharp increase” was introduced around 1900 and is now much more popular. Similarly, while people used to use “promising future” to suggest that good things would be coming, “bright future” soon ____31____ and now is used 2.4 times as frequently. Such sensory expressions are more successful because they’re more ____32____. Sensory expressions help express abstract concepts by ____33____ them to direct bodily experiences with the physical world. Calling an ____34____ person “cold,” for example, suggests that, like a bitter winter, he or she is not very popular. These findings help explain why some expressions live on. Just as natural selection influences finches’ beaks and giraffes’ necks, psychological processes of memory and transmission ____35____ language. This cultural selection determines what succeeds, and what fails. In this case, our senses may help explain why “cool” has been hot for so long. 21. A. Closely B. Definitely C. Eventually D. Originally 22. A. carry B. grasp C. know D. understand 23. A. calm B. fantastic C. ideal D. specific 24. A. change B. continue C. endure D. exist 25. A. cool B. fashionable C. spiffy D. terrific 26. A. enriching B. evolving C. expanding D. extending 27. A. mark B. set C. survive D. take 28. A. frequency B. popularity C. sources D. usage 29. A. brains B. cultures C. senses D. surroundings 30. A. in addition B. by comparison C. at first D. for instance 31. A. gave out B. got over C. took over D. wore out 32. A. characteristic B. familiar C. memorable D. visual 33. A. applying B. attaching C. committing D. linking 34. A. unapproachable B. unfamiliar C. unfortunate D. unsocial 35. A. improve B. master C. practice D. shape Section B (24%) 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) Roald Dahl — the author who entertained people with classics like Matilda, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and James and the Giant Peach — would have been100 years old this year. Roald Dahl is most famous for the books he wrote for children, but he also wrote novels and short stories for adults, screenplays, and non-fiction, too! Roald Dahl was born near Cardiff, in Wales in 1916. His parents were from Norway, and they named him after Roald Amundsen, the famous Norwegian explorer. Roald was sent off to boarding school when he was only nine years old. He was very homesick, and had a hard time obeying the strict teachers and the headmaster. In those days, teachers would sometimes hit their students with a cane (藤条) when they misbehaved. This naturally made a lot of children very afraid of their teachers! Later on, Roald integrated this fear and distrust of adults into many of his children’s books. During World War II, Roald joined the Royal Air Force and flew missions over Africa, the Mediterranean, and the Middle East. At one point, his plane crashed in the Libyan Desert. He was temporarily blinded, and stranded in the middle of nowhere with a cracked skull and a broken nose. Fortunately, he was rescued, and within a few months had made a complete recovery. After his injuries forced him to leave the Air Force, Roald began writing. His first published piece was a magazine article about his plane crash. During the 1950s, he became an accomplished writer of short stories for adults. These stories usually featured mystery, suspense, and a twist ending. In 1961, Roald published James and the Giant Peach, which tells the story of a young boy who attempts to escape from his two nasty, abusive aunts. The boy finally gets away by sailing across the ocean inside a magical giant peach and befriends the giant bugs that live inside it. James and the Giant Peach was inspired by the bedtime stories Roald would make up for his young daughters. He said that it was a challenge to keep them interested and attentive — he had to make his stories funny, exciting, and original. In 1964, he wrote his most famous book—Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, in which a poor boy wins a “golden ticket” to tour a mysterious world. 36. Many of Roald Dahl’s children’s stories were inspired by _________. A. his time in the military B. his relationship with his parents C. his time away at boarding school D. a vacation he took with his grandparents 37. How did Roald Dahl’s experiences in World War II influence his later writing? A. He was a pilot, and his first publication was about a plane crash. B. He was in Navy, and his first publication dealt with life aboard a ship. C. He was in the Army, and his first publication was set in Nazi-occupied Europe. D. He worked in a military factory, and his first publication was about factory life. 38. What led Roald Dahl to write James and the Giant Peach? A. His lifelong love of peaches. B. The insects he found in his garden. C. The bedtime stories he told his daughters. D. The cruelty he experienced at the hands of his aunts. 39. Which of these statements is an opinion about Roald Dahl? A. He published more than a dozen books for children. B. He was the greatest children’s author of the 20th century. C. Several of his books were adapted into successful movies. D. James and the Giant Peach was his first book for children. (B) This month, bee researcher Prof Dave Goulson talks to Helen Pilcher about his bees. Where does your interest in insects come from? My earliest memories involve butterflies, bees and wildlife generally. I remember finding some cinnabar caterpillars (朱砂毛虫) when I was at primary school. I took them home in my lunchbox. When I was 12, we went on a family holiday to Sweden and saw all these elephant hawkmoth caterpillars (象天蛾毛虫) crossing the road and I spent most of the holiday picking them up and moving them to safety. How are bees doing these days? Not great. There are 270 species of bee in the UK, including 26 types of bumblebee and the one and only honeybee, but they’re mostly in decline. Loss of living space, disease and the use of insecticides are all to blame. There are seven or eight species of bumblebee that are now very hard to find and overall numbers are declining. And it matters because... ? A third of the food we eat is dependent on insect pollinators (授粉昆虫) . The danger is that bees decline to a point where it affects crop pollination. This is already happening in some places. In parts of the world, people have to paint pollen onto fruit trees by hand. Bees are also vitally important for wildflowers. What can we do to help the bees? There are lots of things we can do to help. Plant bee-friendly flowers like thyme. Stop using insecticides and put up bee hotels. These don’t need to be expensive; just some bamboo sticks or a fence post with a few holes drilled in will do. If we could persuade everyone with a garden to do this, it would make a massive difference. Where are you happiest? In my meadow in France. I have a little farm in the middle of nowhere that I have turned into a nature reserve. Every summer we go for a month and potter about. 40. What does Professor Dave Goulson imply about himself? A. He was born with a love for insects. B. He remembered being frightened by insects. C. He found some rare insects when on holiday. D. He kept some caterpillars as pets while young. 41. According to Dave Goulson, what would happen if there were no bees? A. There wouldn’t be more harmful insects. B. We would suffer from a shortage of food. C. There would be an increase in wildflowers. D. Crop pollination wouldn’t be done by hand. 42. What does Dave Goulson suggest we do to help bees? A. Turn farms into nature reserves. B. Build some living space for bees. C. Develop bee-friendly insecticides. D. Plant flowers that keep insects away. (C) I am peering deep into the universe. I can see bright lights shining in the distance — a faraway galaxy (星系). I click “smooth” when asked about its shape. I am an armchair astronomer, looking through telescope images to help researchers who are studying remote galaxies. There are more images from telescopes than researchers could ever analyze on their own. Since the Galaxy Zoo citizen science project was launched more than 10years ago, hundreds of thousands of people have helped identify more than a million galaxies of a wide variety of shapes and sizes as well as identifying previously undiscovered interstellar phenomena. This is exactly what happened to Dutch school teacher Hanny van Arkel in 2007, when working through images on Galaxy Zoo gathered by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. “She noticed ... that there was this sort of blue spot,” says Karen Masters at Haverford College in Pennsylvania, who is part of Galaxy Zoo’s science team. That blue spot turned out to be a big deal. Named Hanny’s Voorwerp (Hanny’s object in Dutch) after its discoverer, it was in fact an extremely hot cloud of gas which was being lit up by light from a quasar — a bright, energetic object powered by a supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy called IC 2497. Researchers have since discovered and analyzed more of these objects. Patterns in the light from them help us identify past changes in the galaxies that light them up. More than 60 scientific papers have been published by astronomers using Galaxy Zoo’s crowdsourced data so far. When the project first started, machine learning techniques weren’t good enough for analyzing galaxies. Nowadays, Galaxy Zoo relies on a mixture of machines and human interpretation — with some easy classifications now possible using artificial intelligence. Galaxy Zoo’s latest set of images comes from the Dark Energy Camera Legacy Survey, which is 10 times more sensitive to light than the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, allowing far more accurate observations of the galaxies. While you will see photos of these vast objects, there is much more to them. “When we look at a picture of a galaxy, it looks frozen in time, but these are actually very dynamic objects, everything is moving, there are giant collections of stars, gas and dust orbiting around the common center of mass,” says Masters. 43. What can be learned about the Galaxy Zoo project from the passage? A. It only started analyzing galaxies recently. B. It has involved many people in classifying galaxies. C. It relies merely on machine learning for galaxy analysis. D. The project is not well-regarded in the scientific community 44. Why is Hanny van Arkel mentioned in the passage? A. To discuss the role of scientific teams in Galaxy Zoo. B. To highlight an achievement of the Galaxy Zoo project. C. To illustrate the limitations of early Galaxy Zoo projects. D. To explain how schoolteachers contributed to Galaxy Zoo. 45. What can be learned about the Dark Energy Camera Legacy Survey from the passage? A. It enables a sharper view of galaxies. B. It was used in the early stages of the Galaxy Zoo project. C. It was developed after machine learning was good enough. D. It generates a larger collection of photos than previous surveys. 46. What is the main idea of the passage? A. The Galaxy Zoo project has discovered a new type of galaxy. B. Hanny van Arkel’s discovery led to the identification of a new galaxy. C. Amateur astronomers help researchers by analyzing telescope images. D. Machine learning is becoming the primary method used for galaxy analysis. (D) On the occasional cold clear autumn night, I was hiking through the dark forest with my GMO wolf. Yes, my best friend is a genetically modified organism (转基因生物) , deliberate selection has produced the wonder that walks by my side. Our world is changing rapidly. In the last 5 decades, global population has fully doubled, with 3.7 billion hungry mouths added to our planet. During this same time span, the amount of land suitable for agriculture has increased by only 5%. Miraculously, this did not result in the great global famine (饥荒) one might have predicted. How do scientists modify a plant so that it makes more food than its parents did? We could treat each harvest like a litter of wolf pups and select only plants bearing the fattest, richest seeds for the next season. This was the method our ancestors used to engineer rice, corn and wheat from the wild grasses they encountered. During my childhood, advances in genetic technologies allowed scientists to identify and clone the genes responsible for repressing (抑制) stem growth, leading to shorter, stronger stalks that could bear more seed — the high-production crops that feed us today. The 21st century has brought with it a marvelous new set of high-tech tools with which to further quicken the process of artificial selection. Plant geneticists can now directly edit out or edit in sections of DNA using molecular scissors. We can minimize a plant’s weaknesses while adding to its strengths, and we don’t have to wait for seasons to pass to test the result. It is the transformative potential of these techniques to quickly supply the next-generation crops required for upcoming climate change that has led me to believe in the safety and function of GMO plants in agricultural products. We need more GMO research to feed the world that we are creating. I love the quiet forest that stands between my lab and my home. But I know that as a scientist, I am responsible first to humanity. We must feed, shelter and care for one another as our first priority, and to do so, we must take advantage of our best technologies, which have always included some type of genetic modification. We must continue as before, feeding the future as we feed ourselves, and each year plant only the very best of what we have collectively engineered. I keep the faith of my ancestors each night when I walk through the forest to my lab, and my GMO wolf does the same when she guards my way home. 47. Why does the author mention the wolf in the 1st paragraph? A. To advise people to keep wolves as pets. B. To change people’s attitude towards wolves. C. To persuade readers to welcome the new technology. D. To introduce a technology used to humans’ advantage. 48. Which of the following statements is NOT TRUE according to the passage? A. With GMO technology, famine has been ended. B. GMO technology will help weatherproof future crops. C. Artificial selections make high-production plants possible. D. The author believes technology should contribute to future generations. 49. What can be learned about modifying a plant? A. The general public show strong faith in GMO plants. B. One way for ancestors to change a plant was to clone some genes. C. It takes scientists seasons to know whether their selection is correct. D. Modern techniques help speed up the artificial selection by altering DNA. 50. By “I keep the faith of my ancestors” (last para.) , the author means _________. A. to trust that technology can handle future agricultural challenges B. to continue selecting the best seeds for the next season’s planting C. to preserve the forest paths while walking to the laboratory nightly D. to maintain the practice of keeping modified wolves as companions 51. Which of the following might be the best title of the passage? A. Engineered Food — To Be or Not To Be B. Engineered Food — Feeding Future Generations C. GMO Technology — A Driving Force in World Peace D. GMO Technology — Turning Wolves into the Best Pets Section C (6%) Directions: Read the passage carefully. 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. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was born on May 22, 1859, in Edinburgh, as Arthur Doyle (he later used his middle name, Conan, as part of his surname) . His father, a civil servant and frustrated artist, became an alcoholic, and Arthur was sent to boarding school in England. He went on to study medicine at Edinburgh University, where one teacher, Dr. Joseph Bell, made a big impression on him. A weird character in his long coat and deerstalker hat, Bell had an unusual ability to diagnose patients purely by reasoning logically from their appearance. ____52____. While waiting for patients, he wrote fiction. It was many years before his first novel was published, introducing the detective Sherlock Holmes, who was clearly based on Dr. Bell. A series of Sherlock Holmes stories followed. Doyle grew tired of writing them. ____53____. So, Doyle had to bring him back to life. Doyle combined writing with a keen interest in sport; he played first class cricket and was goalkeeper for Portsmouth AFC. More surprising, given the ultra-rational character of Sherlock Holmes, was Doyle’s fascination with the supernatural. In 1893, Doyle’s father died, and his wife Louisa was given months to live. ____54____. Later, during World War I, he lost several family members, and he became especially desperate to make contact with his dead son. Doyle remarried after his first wife Louisa’s death. His second wife, Jean, became a medium, and Doyle devoted all the time to giving lectures and writing about supernatural phenomena. ____55____. He returned in pain and was bedridden until his death on July 7, 1930 (though shortly before he died he was found lying in the garden, clutching his heart with one hand and holding a flower in the other) . A. Conan Doyle’s first medical practice was slow to take off. B. The poor man was trying to comfort himself in these things. C. His resulting depression led Doyle to investigate spiritualism. D. But when he killed Sherlock off in one story, there was a huge public outcry. E. Despite heart problems, Conan Doyle went on a lecture tour of Europe in 1929. F. In his book, The Coming of the Fairies, he insisted that the photographs taken by two young girls, could not have been faked. IV. Translation (15%) Directions: Translate the following sentences into English, using the words given in the brackets. 56. 在一定程度上，全球化对本土传统及文化多样性构成了威胁。 (threaten) （汉译英） _____________________________________________________________________________ 57. 这可能是因为文化间的相似性能够增进人们彼此的了解。 (possibility) （汉译英） _____________________________________________________________________________ 58. 信息传播迅速，新闻报道便捷，数字通信已成大势所趋。 (cover, stay) （汉译英） _____________________________________________________________________________ 59. 这部小说的意义在于：与暂时的胜利相比，它更彰显了一种不朽的精神，即人可以被毁灭，但不能被打败。 (compare) （汉译英） _____________________________________________________________________________ 第1页/共1页 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $