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第二南开学校2026 — 2027学年度第一学期
高一年级英语学科期中质量调查
温馨提示：本试卷包括第Ⅰ卷（选择题）和第Ⅱ卷（非选择题）两部分，共100分，考试时间100分钟。祝同学们考试顺利！
第Ⅰ卷（选择题 共75分）
注意事项：
1．答第Ⅰ卷前，考生务必将自己的姓名、准考号涂写在答题卡上。
2．每小题选出答案后，用铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案标号。答在试卷上的无效。
I．听力（满分15分）
第一节（共5小题；每小题1分，满分5分）
听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听完每段对话后，你将有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。
1. What does the woman probably want to do?
A. Write a paper. B. Attend a class. C. Get some sleep.
2. When will the man see his parents?
A. At 11:00. B. At 10:00. C. At 9:00.
3. Why didn’t the man see the woman at breakfast time?
A. She went for a long walk.
B. She finished her breakfast early.
C. She didn’t go to the dining hall.
4. What does the woman think of the new art museum?
A. It is nice inside.
B. It looks attractive outside.
C. It has no attraction for her.
5. What did the woman do with the report?
A. She made suggestions on it.
B. She asked the man to rewrite it.
C. She got someone else to read it.
第二节（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
听下面3段材料。每段材料有几个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听每段材料前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟；听完后，各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段材料读两遍。
听下面一段对话，回答第6至第8小题。
6. Where does the conversation take place?
A. On a plane. B. In a car. C. In a restaurant.
7. What will the man have?
A. Bean salad and beer.
B. Bean salad and water.
C. Baked chicken and coffee.
8. Why doesn’t the man have a diet soda?
A. It is expensive.
B. It is unhealthy.
C. It is not available.
听下面一段对话，回答第9至第11小题。
9. What is the relationship between Stefan and the man?
A. Workmates. B. Former schoolmates. C. Teacher and student.
10. Where did Stefan and the man go first?
A. A restaurant. B. The riverside. C. A shopping mall.
11. What was by the river in the past?
A. Factories. B. Gardens. C. A sports center.
听下面一段独白，回答第12至第15小题。
12. When will the swim classes begin?
A. On May 1st. B. On April 30th. C. On April 29th.
13. How many swim classes are being offered?
A. 10. B. 15. C. 20.
14. Who must come to show their swim skill on April 29th or 30th?
A. Those who have no Level 3 certificates.
B. Those who want to pass the skill level test quickly.
C. Those who have never attended Community Pool classes.
15. Who will rate the students’ skill level?
A. The speaker. B. The instructors. C. The local community.
II．单项选择（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
1. —It will take me at least two hours to finish this task.
—Oh, ________! I can do it in 20 minutes.
A. hurry up B. it doesn’t matter C. don’t mention it D. come on
【答案】D
【解析】
【分析】
【详解】考查情景交际和习惯表达。句意：——完成这项任务至少要花我两个小时。——哦,加油! 我20分钟就能搞定。A. hurry up赶快；赶紧；B. it doesn’t matter没关系；C. don’t mention it不用谢；别提了；D. come on加油；来吧。前者“It will take me at least two hours to finish this task(完成这项任务至少要花我两个小时。)”提及自己做任务的速度慢，花费时间长；后者“I can do it in 20 minutes(我20分钟就能搞定)”则提及自己花费时间短，因此“Oh, ________!”应是表达后者对前者的鼓励。“come on”可意为“加油”，有鼓励含义，符合语境分析。故选D项。
2. ________ payment online is safe, people will be more likely to link their bank cards to Alipay or Wechat.
A. Even if B. As if C. Unless D. As long as
【答案】D
【解析】
【详解】句意：只要在线支付是安全的，人们就更有可能将他们的银行卡绑定到支付宝或微信。A. Even if即使；B. As if好像；C. Unless除非；D. As long as只要。 结合句意，空格处引导条件状语从句，表示“只要”，用As long as引导。
3. I got ________ by his ________ speech last night.
A. impression; impressed B. impressive; impression
C. impressed; impressive D. impressed; impression
【答案】C
【解析】
【详解】考查形容词和名词。句意：我被他昨晚那场令人印象深刻的演讲打动了。A. impression 印象； impressed 感到印象深刻的；B. impressive 令人印象深刻的；impression 印象；C. impressed 感到印象深刻的； impressive 令人印象深刻的； D. impressed 感到印象深刻的； impression 印象。根据第一个空前主语“I”和动词“got”可知，第一个空应用形容词作表语来描述人的感受，故用impressed “感到印象深刻的”，根据第二个空前的形容词性物主代词“his”和空后的名词“speech”可知，第二个空应用修饰物的形容词作定语修饰speech，故用 impressive “令人印象深刻的”。故选C。
4. There are so many new words in this article that I can’t get along without ________ the dictionary.
A. sticking to B. referring to C. looking up D. consulting to
【答案】B
【解析】
【详解】考查动词短语辨析。句意：在这篇文章中有那么多新单词以致于不查阅字典我不能读它。A. sticking to坚持；B. referring to查阅；C. looking up仰望；D. consulting to咨询。根据后文“the dictionary”指查阅字典，应用refer to。故选B。
5. —Is there anything else ________ that you’d like to share with us?
—The most important advice I’d give is that “Be a rainbow in somebody else’s cloud”.
A. in panic B. in brief C. in advance D. in particular
【答案】D
【解析】
【详解】考查介词短语辨析。句意：——你还有什么特别想和我们分享的吗？——我给的最重要的建议是“成为别人云里的彩虹”。A. in panic惊慌地；B. in brief 简而言之；C. in advance提前；D. in particular特别。根据句意可知，此处为介词短语in particular“特别”，满足句意要求。故选D项。
6. English is a language shared by several diverse cultures, _________ uses it differently.
A. all of which B. each of which C. all of them D. each of them
【答案】B
【解析】
【详解】本题考查定语从句。解题步骤：1. 确定从句：从空格到句末是定语从句。排除CD项，这两项并不是定语从句。2. 确定成分：从句_________ uses it differently.缺少主语，根据前一句可知，先行词是several diverse cultures，在定语从句里使用which指代先行词作为介词of的宾语。3. 确定选项：A项在定语从句中作主语的时候，谓语动词要使用复数形式，定语从句中的uses说明A项是错误的。B项中的each作主语，谓语动词使用单数形式。句意：英语是一个被很多不同的文化共同使用的语言，每一种文化使用英语的方法都是不一样的。故选B。
7. The final score of the basketball match was 83-84. We were only ________ beaten.
A. obviously B. enormously C. narrowly D. actually
【答案】C
【解析】
【详解】考查副词词义辨析。句意：这场篮球赛的最后比分是83比84。我们只是勉强输了。A.obviously明显地；B.enormously巨大地；C.narrowly勉强地；D.actually实际上。由“The final score of the basketball match was 83-84”可知，最后比分是83比84，所以我们只是勉强输了，因此空格处是“勉强地”，故选C。
8. —Have you seen Professor Smith?
—He ______in the lab since yesterday. He doesn’t allow anyone to interrupt him.
A. has been working B. worked C. has been worked D. was working
【答案】A
【解析】
【详解】考查时态。句意：——你见过史密斯教授吗？——他从昨天起就一直在实验室工作。他不允许任何人打扰他。根据句意和句中“since yesterday”可知，“work”这一动作开始于过去，持续到现在，并将继续持续下去，由此可知，句子应用现在完成进行时have/has been doing，又因主语是第三人称单数代词，所以助动词用has。故选A项。
9. ______ us prepare for the exam, the teacher suggested reading through our notes.
A. To help B. Helped C. Helping D. Being helped
【答案】A
【解析】
【详解】
考查非谓语动词。句意:为了帮助我们准备考试，老师建议通读我们的笔记。分析句子结构可知，老师建议我们诵读笔记是”为了“帮助我们准备考试。故表目的，应用动词不定式。故选A。
10. —How about having a party this weekend?
—That _______ me fine. I’m coming.
A. suits B. fits C. matches D. agrees
【答案】A
【解析】
【详解】考查动词义词辨析。句意：——这个周末开个派对怎么样？——对我很合适。我会来的。fit 指大小、形状的合适，引申为吻合、协调；suit 指合乎时间安排，需要、口味、条件、地位，以及花色、款式等与某人的皮肤、气质、身材或身份相称；match 多指大小、色调、形状、性质等的搭配；agree是“同意，赞同”之意。本句指时间适合，要用suit 。故选A。
III．完型（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）
I decided to do 50 good things to celebrate my upcoming 60th birthday. So I’ve gone back to school. Since____11____to teaching, I’ve found myself extremely busy. This evening I have some reflection time. I’m____12____that I used not to be____13____enough as a teacher. But now I____14____to do better. The world is moving fast and I’ve changed a lot, too. One thing that hasn’t___15___ is that kids will be kids. Yes, they are super____16____and continue to encourage me with their achievements and____17____.
At school, there are so many people who need help, so I have the____18____and the awareness to spread kindness like the kids by returning used____19____dishes to the kitchen, picking up litter, and trying to make students feel seen through_____20_____greetings. Besides, I also have the chance to deliver packages of tomatoes and apples in_____21_____as I don’t want to be known and_____22_____.
What I am most excited about is a_____23_____that I get to make on Friday to a charity. A dear friend found an organization accepting donations for_____24_____the upcoming people from the earthquake-stricken area. They will need so much_____25_____when they arrive and I’m_____26_____to be in a situation where I can offer service even just a little bit.
Another good deed I have done is for my wife. She_____27_____me to make a delicious dessert that she had been____28____. I agreed to her request. I promised I would make it, but probably not until this weekend. However, I_____29_____her and made the dessert this night. She was really thrilled! I believe I can_____30_____in the world if I want to give.
11. A. subscribing B. adding C. preferring D. returning
12. A. possessing B. predicting C. thinking D. applying
13. A. direct B. good C. ridiculous D. stubborn
14. A. forget B. hate C. attempt D. reject
15. A. missed B. changed C. improved D. left
16. A. inspiring B. discouraging C. boring D. frightening
17. A. loads B. failure C. conditions D. kindness
18. A. right B. opportunity C. reputation D. excuse
19. A. dirty B. advanced C. broken D. clean
20. A. casual B. confusing C. abnormal D. purposeful
21. A. public B. secret C. relief D. sorrow
22. A. blamed B. transformed C. appreciated D. suspected
23. A. delivery B. document C. trade D. mistake
24. A. defeating B. treating C. absorbing D. assisting
25. A. enquiry B. infection C. support D. movement
26. A. fortunate B. reliable C. embarrassed D. ashamed
27. A. directed B. asked C. advised D. persuaded
28. A. dealing with B. going through C. suffering from D. longing for
29. A. scared B. upset C. surprised D. praised
30. A. make a difference B. take it easy C. feel down D. break away
【答案】11. D 12. C 13. B 14. C 15. B 16. A 17. D 18. B 19. A 20. D 21. B 22. C 23. A 24. D 25. C 26. A 27. B 28. D 29. C 30. A
【解析】
【导语】这是一篇记叙文。文章讲述了作者决定做50件好事来庆祝自己即将到来的60岁生日，在做好事的过程中，他体会到自己如果愿意付出就会对世界产生影响。
【11题详解】
考查动词词义辨析。句意：自从重返教学岗位后，我发现自己非常忙碌。A. subscribing定期订阅；B. adding增加；C. preferring更喜欢；D. returning返回。根据“So I’ve gone back to school.”可知，作者重返教学岗位。故选D。
【12题详解】
考查动词词义辨析。句意：我在想，我以前当老师不够好。A. possessing拥有；B. predicting预测；C. thinking认为；D. applying申请，应用。根据“This evening I have some reflection time.”可知，作者在晚上进行反思。故选C。
【13题详解】
考查形容词词义辨析。句意同上。A. direct直接的；B. good好的；C. ridiculous荒唐的；D. stubborn顽固的。根据“But now I____4____to do better.”可知，作者认为自己过去不是一个好老师。故选B。
【14题详解】
考查动词词义辨析。句意：但现在我想做得更好。A. forget忘记；B. hate讨厌；C. attempt尝试；D. reject排斥，抵制。根据“I used not to be____3____enough as a teacher.”和“But”可知，作者过去不是一个好老师，现在想做的更好。故选C。
【15题详解】
考查动词词义辨析。句意：有一件事没有改变，那就是孩子还是孩子。A. missed错过，思念；B. changed改变；C. improved提高；D. left离开。根据“that kids will be kids”可知，作者认为这件事是没有发生变化的。故选B。
【16题详解】
考查形容词词义辨析。句意：是的，他们非常鼓舞人心，并继续用他们的成就和善良鼓励我。A. inspiring鼓舞人心的；B. discouraging令人沮丧的；C. boring无聊的；D. frightening令人害怕的。根据“continue to encourage me”可知，这些孩子是鼓舞人心的。故选A。
【17题详解】
考查名词词义辨析。句意同上。A. loads路；B. failure失败；C. conditions条件；D. kindness善良。根据“to spread kindness like the kids”可知，此处是信息词kindness的词汇复现。故选D。
【18题详解】
考查名词词义辨析。句意：在学校，有太多人需要帮助，所以我有机会和意识像孩子们一样传播善意，把用过的脏盘子送回厨房，捡起垃圾，并试图通过有目的的问候让学生感觉被看到。A. right权利；B. opportunity机会；C. reputation名声，名誉；D. excuse借口。根据“At school, there are so many people who need help”可知，因为由许多人需要帮助，作者有机会去传播孩子们的善良。故选B。
【19题详解】
考查形容词词义辨析。句意同上。A. dirty脏的；B. advanced先进的；C. broken破坏的；D. clean干净的。根据“used”可知，此处表示使用过的脏盘子。故选A。
【20题详解】
考查形容词词义辨析。句意同上。A. casual随意的；B. confusing令人困惑的；C. abnormal不正常的；D. purposeful有目的的。此处表示作者试图通过有目的的问候让学生们感到被看到。故选D。
【21题详解】
考查名词词义辨析。句意：除此之外，我也有机会秘密运送一包包西红柿和苹果，因为我不想被人知道和感激。A. public民众；B. secret秘密，暗自的；C. relief宽慰；D. sorrow悲伤。根据“I don’t want to be known”可知，作者秘密递送包裹。故选B。
【22题详解】
考查动词词义辨析。句意同上。A. blamed责备；B. transformed转换，转变；C. appreciated感激；D. suspected怀疑。根据“I don’t want to be known”可知，作者不想被别人知道自己做的事情，让别人来感激自己。故选C。
【23题详解】
考查名词词义辨析。句意：最让我兴奋的是周五我要给一个慈善机构送去礼物。A. delivery递送；B. document文件；C. trade贸易；D. mistake错误。根据“I get to make on Friday to a charity.”可知，作者要给一个慈善机构送去礼物。故选A。
【24题详解】
考查动词词义辨析。句意：一个朋友发现了一个组织，接受捐款来帮助即将从地震灾区来的人们。A. defeating打败；B. treating对待；C. absorbing吸收；D. assisting帮助。根据“from the earthquake-stricken area.”可知，此处表示帮助受灾地区的人们。故选D。
【25题详解】
考查名词词义辨析。句意：当他们到达的时候，他们会需要很多的支持，我很幸运，我可以提供哪怕是一点点的服务。A. enquiry查询，调查；B. infection感染，传染；C. support支持；D. movement移动，活动。根据“A dear friend found an organization accepting donations for____14____the upcoming people from the earthquake-stricken area.”可知，当受灾地区的人们到达的时候，他们会需要很多的支持。故选C。
【26题详解】
考查形容词词义辨析。句意同上。A. fortunate幸运的；B. reliable可信赖的；C. embarrassed尴尬的；D. ashamed羞耻的。根据“I can offer service even just a little bit.”可知，作者能够对灾区人民提供一点帮助，因此感觉自己很幸运。故选A。
【27题详解】
考查动词词义辨析。句意：她要我做一道她一直想吃的美味甜点。A. directed指导，指示；B. asked问；C. advised建议；D. persuaded劝说。根据“I agreed to her request.”可知，妻子要求自己为她做美食。ask sb. to do sth.为固定短语，意为“要求某人做某事”。故选B。
【28题详解】
考查动词短语辨析。句意同上。A. dealing with处理；B. going through经历；C. suffering from遭受；D. longing for渴望。根据“I promised I would make it, but probably not until this weekend.”可知，这个甜品是妻子一直想吃的。故选D。
【29题详解】
考查动词词义辨析。句意：然而，我给了她一个惊喜，今天晚上做了甜点。A. scared害怕，恐惧；B. upset使烦恼；C. surprised使惊讶；D. praised赞美。根据“However”和“made the dessert this night.”可知，作者给了妻子一个惊喜。故选C。
【30题详解】
考查动词短语辨析。句意：我相信，如果我愿意付出，我可以让世界有所不同。A. make a difference有关系，有影响；B. take it easy放轻松；C. feel down感到沮丧；D. break away逃脱，脱离。作者相信自己如果愿意付出就会对世界产生影响。故选A。
IV．阅读理解（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）
A
Homestay provides English language students with the opportunity to speak English outside the classroom and the experience of being part of a British home.
What to Expect
The host will provide accommodation and meals. Rooms will be cleaned and bedcovers changed at least once a week.You will be given the house key and the host is there to offer help and advice as well as to take an interest in your physical and mental health.
Accommodation Zones
Homestays are located in London mainly in Zones 2, 3 and 4 of the transport system.Most hosts do not live in the town centre as much of central London is commercial and not residential(居住的). Zones 3 and 4 often offer larger accommodation in a less crowded area. It is very convenient to travel in London by Underground.
Meal Plans Available
◇ Continental Breakfast
◇ Breakfast and Dinner
◇ Breakfast, Packed Lunch and Dinner
It's important to note that few English families still provide a traditional cooked breakfast.Your accommodation includes Continental Breakfast which normally consists of fruit juice, cereal (谷物类食品), bread and tea or coffee. Cheese, fruit and cold meat are not normally part of a Continental Breakfast in England. Dinners usually consist of meat or fish with vegetables followed by dessert, fruit and coffee.
Friends
If you wish to invite a friend over to visit, you must first ask your host's permission.You have no right to entertain friends in a family home as some families feel it is an invasion of their privacy.
SelfCatering Accommodation in Private Homes
Accommodation on a roomonly basis includes shared kitchen and bathroom facilities and often a main living room. This kind of accommodation offers an independent lifestyle and is more suitable for the longstay student. However, it does not provide the same family atmosphere as an ordinary homestay and may not benefit those who need to practise English at home quite as much.
31. The passage is probably written for ________.
A. hosts willing to receive foreign students
B. foreigners hoping to build British culture
C. travelers planning to visit families in London
D. English learners applying to live in English homes
32. Which of the following will the host provide?
A. Room cleaning. B. Medical care.
C. Free transport. D. Physical training.
33. According to the passage, what does Continental Breakfast include?
A. Dessert and coffee. B. Fruit and vegetables.
C. Bread and fruit juice. D. Cereal and cold meat.
【答案】31. D 32. A 33. C
【解析】
【分析】本文属于应用文，寄宿家庭为英语语言专业的学生提供在课外说英语的机会以及作为英国家庭一份子的经历，短文介绍了英国的寄宿家庭的特点以及具体的信息。
【31题详解】
推理判断题。根据文章第一段“Homestay provides English language students with the opportunity to speak English outside the classroom and the experience of being part of a British home.”寄宿家庭为英语语言专业的学生提供在课外说英语的机会以及作为英国家庭一份子的经历。由此判断出，短文是写给申请住在英语家庭的英语学习者。故D正确。
【32题详解】
细节理解题。根据文章第二段第一句“Rooms will be cleaned and bedcovers changed at least once a week.”每周至少一次打扫房间和更换床罩，可知打扫房间是对方提供的服务之一。故A正确。
【33题详解】
细节理解题。根据“Your accommodation includes Continental Breakfast which normally consists of fruit juice, cereal, bread and tea or coffee.”您的住宿包括欧式早餐，通常包括果汁、麦片、面包和茶或咖啡。可知面包和果汁是传统的英国早餐的内容。故C正确。
B
When I was a kid, a tree grew in front of my home. At the age of 10, I was just tall enough to reach its lowest branch and lift myself into its embrace. I wasn’t the only climber.
Sometimes two or three of my friends would join me in the sycamore (无花果树), or in the maple down the street. Climbing trees allowed us to enter another world. In fact, it was a world with in a world: We took our imaginations with us into those heights, which by turns were a fortress, a pirate ship, a spaceship, or a mountain castle.
In my small Maine town there are some lovely maples, lindens, and oaks. Their branches spread wide, and they are strong enough for people to climb. But I have not yet seen a climber. Perhaps computer games have replaced tree climbing, or maybe the activity went the way of monkey bars (攀爬架), which came to be viewed as too risky and have largely disappeared from playgrounds.
It is a sad loss. I have always believed that, since low-hanging branches provide no benefit to the tree, they must be meant for the child. Robert Frost understood this when he wrote: When I see birches bend to left and right, I like to think some boy’s been swinging (摇摆，摆动) them. My only disagreement with Frost is his idea that tree climbing is an undertaking only for boys. Both boys and girls have what it takes to make a joyful ascent.
The campus of the university where I teach is lovingly landscaped with all sorts of trees. During a recent walk, I grabbed a branch and a moment later I was sitting on it. Then the memories came flooding back: The old friends, the long view of my neighborhood, and finally, the reluctance to return to earth when the parental call to supper came.
I was so lost in my thoughts that I didn’t hear the student calling to me from below. He asked what I was doing. I didn’t waste time on explanations. “Come on up,” I said. “The air’s fine.” But he only laughed, and waved me off. He didn’t know what he was missing.
34. What did the author and his friends benefit from climbing trees?
A. They were inspired to become astronauts.
B. They escaped the heavy burden of learning.
C. They became more flexible like monkeys.
D. They had greatly expanded their imagination.
35. What does Robert’s poem prove?
A. Only boys like to swing the branches of birches.
B. The low-hanging branches are for children to play with.
C. The low-hanging branches are trees’ important parts.
D. Climbing trees can be replaced by computer games.
36. What does the underlined word in the 4th paragraph probably mean?
A. Climbing B. Playing C. Returning. D. Jumping
37. What did the author think his student missed in the last paragraph?
A. The good memories of childhood. B. The chance to breathe fresh air.
C. The fun of climbing trees. D. The safety sense on earth.
【答案】34. D 35. B 36. A 37. C
【解析】
【导语】本文讲述作者回忆了童年时爬树的美好经历，感叹如今孩子们不再爬树的现象，认为低处的树枝是为孩子准备的，并在大学校园中重温爬树乐趣时感慨学生错过了这种快乐。
【34题详解】
细节理解题。根据第二段中“Climbing trees allowed us to enter another world... We took our imaginations with us into those heights, which by turns were a fortress, a pirate ship, a spaceship, or a mountain castle. (爬树让我们进入了另一个世界……我们把想象力带到了那些高处，那里依次变成了堡垒、海盗船、宇宙飞船或山间城堡。)”可知，作者和朋友们通过爬树大大拓展了想象力。
【35题详解】
推理判断题。根据第四段中“I have always believed that, since low-hanging branches provide no benefit to the tree, they must be meant for the child. Robert Frost understood this when he wrote: When I see birches bend to left and right, I like to think some boy's been swinging(摇摆，摆动) them. (我一直认为，低矮的树枝对树木本身并无益处，它们本就是留给孩子的。罗伯特・弗罗斯特深谙此理，他这样写道：当我看见白桦树左右弯折，我总愿意猜想，是哪个男孩在上面荡来荡去)”可知，弗罗斯特的诗证明了低垂的树枝是供孩子们玩耍的。
【36题详解】
词句猜测题。根据第四段中“My only disagreement with Frost is his idea that tree climbing is an undertaking only for boys. Both boys and girls have what it takes to make a joyful ascent. (我唯一不同意弗罗斯特的是他认为爬树只是男孩的事情。男孩和女孩都有能力进行一次快乐的 。)”可知，爬树不只是男孩的事情，男孩和女孩都有能力进行一次快乐的攀爬。“ascent”在此处意为“攀登、爬树”，与“Climbing”意思相近。
【37题详解】
推理判断题。根据最后一段“I was so lost in my thoughts that I didn’t hear the student calling to me from below. He asked what I was doing. I didn’t waste time on explanations. “Come on up,” I said. “The air’s fine.” But he only laughed, and waved me off. He didn’t know what he was missing.(我沉浸在思绪中，没有听到下面那个学生在叫我。他问我在做什么。我没有浪费时间解释。“上来吧”我说，“空气很好”， 但他只是哈哈大笑，挥手示意我离开。他不知道自己错过了什么)”可知，作者认为他的学生错过了爬树的乐趣。
C
Across northern Australia, a great number of freshwater crocodiles are dying, with some populations down by 70%. That’s because the animals are eating a kind of super-poisonous toad (蟾蜍) that humans brought to the continent decades ago.
Georgia Ward-Fear, an ecologist at Macquarie University in Sydney, has witnessed the death of the crocodiles first-hand. The loss of so many crocodiles is a problem because they sit atop the food web. “When they decline,” Ward-Fear says, “we see this huge hole in the ecosystem.”
When about a hundred cane toads were first brought from Hawaii to Australia in 1935, people had high hopes that the toads would feast on the beetles damaging the local sugarcane crop. But the toads were a total failure. “They didn’t control the beetles,” says Ward-Fear. “Instead, they started spreading across Australia.” Today, an estimated 200 million cane toads are hopping around the continent.
She says that at first, no one really noticed the invasive toads’ spread. But then a whole range of animals started dying — including lizards, snakes, a furry cat-size marsupial called a quoll and lots of freshwater crocodiles. The cause of death was a potent brew of toxins (一种强效毒素混合物) that the cane toads produce and store in their bodies.
A crocodile’s first encounter with a toad is always deadly, so the animal has no chance of learning. But Ward-Fear and her colleagues wondered whether there might be a way to warn the crocodiles somehow.
To teach the crocodiles, the team members needed bait (诱饵). But they couldn’t use a full cane toad loaded up with poisons. “So we cut off the top half of their body,” says Ward-Fear, “so that crocodiles are still getting the smell and the taste, but we’ve taken the most poisonous parts off. We injected something that makes the crocodiles feel sick. It’s essentially food poisoning.”
In a study published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Ward-Fear and her colleagues report that they’ve managed to reduce crocodile death rates by as much as 95% — by feeding the animals dead cane toads that have been changed to cause food poisoning. The crocodiles came to associate the toads with a temporarily unpleasant feeling, making them less willing to eat a deadly toad in the future.
38. What would be a suitable title for the text?
A. Scientists Find a Way to Save Crocodiles in Danger.
B. Cane Toads Present a Great Threat to Crocodiles.
C. Crocodiles Are Suffering from Food Poisoning.
D. Scientists Try to Control the Number of Cane Toads.
39. Why can’t crocodiles learn to avoid cane toads naturally?
A. They are not smart enough to recognize dangers.
B. Toxins from toads are hard to detect.
C. Cane toads spread too quickly across Australia.
D. Their first contact with toads is always deadly.
40. What result did Ward-Fear’s study achieve?
A. Crocodiles completely stopped eating cane toads.
B. The number of cane toads decreased by 95%.
C. Crocodile death rates dropped sharply.
D. The ecosystem in northern Australia recovered.
41. We can infer from the text that cane toads ________.
A. were originally introduced to Australia to protect local animals
B. have become a threat to multiple species in Australia
C. are now mainly distributed in southern Australia
D. produce toxins only when they are attacked
【答案】38. A 39. D 40. C 41. B
【解析】
【导语】文章主要介绍了蟾蜍入侵澳洲的危害及科学家教鳄鱼避开它的方法。
【38题详解】
主旨大意题。通读全文，结合第一段中“Across northern Australia, a great number of freshwater crocodiles are dying, with some populations down by 70%. That’s because the animals are eating a kind of super-poisonous toad (蟾蜍) that humans brought to the continent decades ago. (在澳大利亚北部，大量淡水鳄正在死亡，部分种群数量下降了70%。这是因为这些动物吃了一种人类几十年前带到这片大陆的剧毒蟾蜍。)”可知，文章前两段写淡水鳄因吞食蟾蜍大量死亡，第三、四段交代蟾蜍的引入与扩散及其对多种动物的危害，而第五、六、七段重点介绍Ward-Fear团队的做法——把去毒的蟾蜍尸体注入催吐物质当作“诱饵”，使鳄鱼把蟾蜍与难受的感觉联系起来，从而成功将鳄鱼死亡率降低多达 95%，核心内容是科学家找到方法拯救濒危的淡水鳄鱼。A项“科学家找到拯救濒危鳄鱼的方法”能概括文章主旨，最适合作为标题。
【39题详解】
细节理解题。根据第五段中“A crocodile’s first encounter with a toad is always deadly, so the animal has no chance of learning. (鳄鱼第一次遇到蟾蜍必然是致命的，因此这种动物没有机会去学习。)”可知，鳄鱼无法自然学会避开蟾蜍，是因为它们与蟾蜍的第一次接触就已经致命。
【40题详解】
细节理解题。根据最后一段中“In a study published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Ward-Fear and her colleagues report that they’ve managed to reduce crocodile death rates by as much as 95% — by feeding the animals dead cane toads that have been changed to cause food poisoning.(在发表于《英国皇家学会学报B辑》的一项研究中，Ward-Fear及其同事报告称，他们通过给鳄鱼投喂经过处理、会引发食物中毒的死蟾蜍，成功将鳄鱼死亡率降低多达95%。)”可知，该研究取得的成果是使得鳄鱼的死亡率急剧下降。
【41题详解】
推理判断题。根据第四段中“But then a whole range of animals started dying — including lizards, snakes, a furry cat-size marsupial called a quoll and lots of freshwater crocodiles. (但随后一整系列的动物开始死亡——包括蜥蜴、蛇、一种像猫一样大、毛茸茸的叫袋鼬的有袋动物，以及大量淡水鳄。)”可知，蟾蜍已成为澳大利亚多种生物的威胁。
D
Laws that would have ensured pupils from 5 to 16 to receive a full financial education got lost in the ‘wash up’. An application is calling on the next government to bring it back.
At school the children are taught to add up and subtract(减法) but, extraordinarily, are not routinely shown how to open a bank account — let alone how to manage their finances in an increasingly complex and demanding world.
Today the parenting website Mumsnet and the consumer campaigner Martin Lewis have joined forces to launch an online application to make financial education a compulsory element of the school curriculum in England. Children from 5 to 16 should be taught about everything from pocket money to pensions, they say. And that was exactly the plan preserved in the Children, Schools and Families bill that was shelved by the government in the so-called “wash-up” earlier this month — the rush to legislation before parliament was dismissed. Consumer and parent groups believe financial education has always been one of the most frustrating omissions of the curriculum.
As the Personal Finance Education Group (Pfeg) points out, the good habits of young children do not last long. Over 75% of seven- to-eleven-year-olds are savers but by the time they get to 17, over half of them are in debt to family and friends. By this age, 26% see a credit card or overdraft(透支) as a way of extending their spending power. Pfeg predicts that these young people will “find it much harder to avoid the serious unexpected dangers that have befallen many of their parents' generation unless they receive good quality financial education while at school.”
The UK has been in the worst financial recession(衰退)for generations. It does seem odd that — unless parents step in — young people are left in the dark until they are cruelly introduced to the world of debt when they turn up at university. In a recent poll of over 8,000 people, 97% supported financial education in schools, while 3% said it was a job for parents.
42. The passage is mainly about _____________.
A. how to manage school lessons
B. how to deal with the financial crisis
C. teaching young people about money
D. teaching students how to study effectively
43. It can be inferred from the first two paragraphs that __________.
A. the author complains about the school education
B. pupils should not be taught to add up and subtract
C. students have been taught to manage their finances
D. laws on financial education have been effectively carried out
44. The website and the consumer campaigner joined to _________.
A. instruct the pupils to donate their pocket money
B. promote the connection of schools and families
C. ask the government to dismiss the parliament
D. appeal for the curriculum of financial education
45. A poll is mentioned to ___________.
A. stress the necessity of the curriculum reform
B. show the seriousness of the financial recession
C. make the readers aware of burden of the parents
D. illustrate some people are strongly against the proposal
【答案】42. C 43. A 44. D 45. A
【解析】
【导语】本文主要是关于青少年理财的一些介绍。作者抱怨学校的教育，强调课程改革的重要性。
【42题详解】
主旨大意题。根据文章第一段“Laws that would have ensured pupils from five to 16 received a full financial education got lost in the ‘wash up’. An application is calling on the next government to bring it back.(本应确保5至16岁的学生接受全面金融教育的法律在“洗刷”中失去了意义。一份申请要求下届政府将其收回)”可知，本文主要是关于青少年理财的一些介绍。
【43题详解】
推理判断题。根据文章第二段“At school the children are taught to add up and subtract but, extraordinarily, are not routinely shown how to open a bank account — let alone how to manage their finances in an increasingly complex and demanding world.(在学校里，孩子们学的是加减法，但特别的是，他们并没有在日常生活中学习如何开立银行账户，更不用说在一个越来越复杂、要求越来越高的世界里如何理财了)”可知，阅读前两段，从第二段就可以看出作者的态度是抱怨学校的教育。
【44题详解】
细节理解题。根据文章第三段“Today the parenting website Mumsnet and the consumer campaigner Martin Lewis have joined forces to launch an online application to make financial education a compulsory element of the school curriculum in England.(今天，育儿网站Mumsnet和消费者活动家Martin Lewis联合推出了一项在线申请，使金融教育成为英国学校课程的必修课)”可知，网站和消费活动人士联合起来是呼吁理财教育的课程。
【45题详解】
细节理解题。根据文章最后一段“In a recent poll of over 8,000 people, 97% supported financial education in schools, while 3% said it was a job for parents.(在最近一项对8000多人的调查中，97%的人支持学校的金融教育，而3%的人认为这是父母的工作)”可知，民意调查被提及以强调课程改革的必要性。
第II卷（非选择题 共25分）
注意事项：
1．用黑色钢笔或签字笔直接答在答题卡上，答在本试卷上的无效。
V．阅读表达（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）
阅读下面短文，并按照题目要求用英语回答问题。
One day in early 2009, my friend and I were on the road near Cape Town, South Africa. Then a disaster happened! My car began to make strange noises, slowed down and died. The place where it broke down was not the safest area. We sat there, and my friend was trying to start the car until the battery (电池) gave out.
Drivers behind us were shouting. I had to get out and push the heavy car out of the way of traffic. Although I tried my best, the car was going nowhere. Then an elderly man covered in tattoos (纹身) walked towards us and helped push the car. My friend looked up into the rear-view mirror when she found she was moving and saw the blue-inked face of our assistant, screaming in shock.
When we were safely in a lay-by (临时停车处) near the traffic lights, the tattooed man melted away into a thick bush at the side of the road. I phoned the AAA (American automobile Association) for help and was told that there would be an hour-long wait.
I got out of the car for some fresh air. Unexpectedly, the tattooed man appeared at my side. “Is someone coming to help you?” he asked. My first thought was to lie, “Yes, my husband is a policeman, and his six friends at the police station will be here in seconds?” But there was kindness in his expression that made me tell him the truth. For the next hour, he sat with us on the side of the road, chatting with us. The hour flashed by.
When the AAA arrived, he stood aside until he was satisfied that we really were mobile again, and then he stepped forward to say goodbye. As we drove away, I realized I made a right decision not to judge a book by its cover.
46. What was wrong with the author’s car?（no more than 10 words）
_____________________________________________________________
47. What did the tattooed man do to help the author?（no more than 10 words）
_____________________________________________________________
48. What does the underlined word in Para. 3 mean? （1 word）
_____________________________________________________________
49. Why did the author tell the tattooed man the truth after a. moment’s hesitation? （no more than 10 words）
_____________________________________________________________
50. What can you learn from the author’s experience? Explain it its your own words. （no more than 20 words）
_____________________________________________________________
【答案】46. Her car broke down and couldn’t be restarted.
47. He helped the author to push the car.
48. Disappeared.
49. Because there was kindness in the tattooed man’s expression.
50. Open. E.g.We should never judge or make a negative comment on anyone merely on the basis of their looks.
【解析】
【导语】本文是一篇记叙文。主要讲述作者在南非自驾时车辆抛锚，被一位纹身老人帮助后感悟不能以貌取人的故事。
【46题详解】
考查细节理解。根据第一段中的“My car began to make strange noises, slowed down and died.(我的车开始发出奇怪的声音，慢慢停下来，然后熄火了。)”以及“We sat there, and my friend was trying to start the car until the battery gave out.(我们坐在那里，我的朋友一直试图发动汽车，直到电池耗尽。)”可知，作者的车抛锚了且无法重新启动。故填Her car broke down and couldn’t be restarted.
【47题详解】
考查细节理解。根据第二段中的“Then an elderly man covered in tattoos walked towards us and helped push the car.(然后一位满身纹身的老人朝我们走来，帮忙推汽车。)”可知，纹身老人的帮助行为是帮作者推汽车。故填He helped the author to push the car.
【48题详解】
考查词义猜测。根据第三段中的“When we were safely in a lay-by near the traffic lights, the tattooed man melted away into a thick bush at the side of the road.(当我们安全到达红绿灯附近的临时停车处时，这位纹身老人melted away路边茂密的灌木丛中。)”可知，作者一行人到安全处后，老人便走进灌木丛没了踪影，因此“melted away”的意思为“消失”，故填Disappeared.
【49题详解】
考查细节理解。根据第四段中的“But there was kindness in his expression that made me tell him the truth.(但他的表情里透着善意，这让我告诉了他真相。)”可知，作者说出真相的原因是纹身老人的表情里有善意，故填Because there was kindness in the tattooed man’s expression.
【50题详解】
开放性试题。根据最后一段中的“As we drove away, I realized I made a right decision not to judge a book by its cover.(当我们开车离开时，我意识到我做了一个正确的决定——不要以貌取人。)”可知，文章的核心感悟是不能以貌取人。故填Open. E.g. We should never judge or make a negative comment on anyone merely on the basis of their looks.
VI．书面表达（满分15分）
51. 假设你是晨光中学学生李津。你的英国朋友Chris在最近的一封邮件中提到，他想在新的一年里制定一个自我提升计划，成为更好的自己。请你根据以下要点给他回信：
(1)分享你自己正在制定的一年自我提升计划中的一项主要目标；
(2)说明你制定该目标的原因及它对你现阶段生活的影响(至少2条原因)；
(3)描述你为实现该目标打算采取的具体行动，并表达你对他计划的支持。
注意：
(1)词数不少于100；
(2)可适当加入细节，使内容充实、行文连贯；
(3)开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。
Dear Chris,
Great to hear about your self-improvement plan!
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Yours sincerely,
Li Jin
【答案】(One possible version:)
Dear Chris,
Great to hear about your self-improvement plan! I’m also making one, and my main goal is to develop a regular reading habit, which I believe will benefit me a lot.
Firstly, reading widely can enrich my knowledge and broaden my horizons, helping me keep up with the world. Besides, it can improve my writing skills and calm my mind when I feel stressed from study. To achieve this goal, I plan to set aside half an hour every day to read and choose books covering different fields. What’s more, I will share my reading insights with my friends regularly.
I firmly support your plan and believe that with small steps, we will surely become better versions of ourselves.
Yours sincerely
Li Jin
【解析】
【导语】本篇书面表达属于应用文。要求考生以李津的身份给英国朋友Chris写一封回信，分享自己的自我提升计划、原因、具体行动，并表达对朋友计划的支持。
【详解】1.词汇积累
目标：goal → objective
开阔眼界：broaden horizons → widen one’s vision
平静：calm → soothe
支持：support → be in favor of
2.句式拓展
同义句转换
原句：Firstly, reading widely can enrich my knowledge and broaden my horizons, helping me keep up with the world.
拓展句：Firstly, reading widely can enrich my knowledge and broaden my horizons, which helps me keep up with the world.
【点睛】【高分句型1】I’m also making one, and my main goal is to develop a regular reading habit, which I believe will benefit me a lot. (运用了which引导的非限制性定语从句)
【高分句型2】Firstly, reading widely can enrich my knowledge and broaden my horizons, helping me keep up with the world. (运用了现在分词短语“helping me keep up with the world”作状语)
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高一年级英语学科期中质量调查
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第Ⅰ卷（选择题 共75分）
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1．答第Ⅰ卷前，考生务必将自己的姓名、准考号涂写在答题卡上。
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I．听力（满分15分）
第一节（共5小题；每小题1分，满分5分）
听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听完每段对话后，你将有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。
1. What does the woman probably want to do?
A. Write a paper. B. Attend a class. C. Get some sleep.
2. When will the man see his parents?
A. At 11:00. B. At 10:00. C. At 9:00.
3. Why didn’t the man see the woman at breakfast time?
A. She went for a long walk.
B. She finished her breakfast early.
C. She didn’t go to the dining hall.
4. What does the woman think of the new art museum?
A. It is nice inside.
B. It looks attractive outside.
C. It has no attraction for her.
5. What did the woman do with the report?
A. She made suggestions on it.
B. She asked the man to rewrite it.
C. She got someone else to read it.
第二节（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
听下面3段材料。每段材料有几个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听每段材料前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟；听完后，各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段材料读两遍。
听下面一段对话，回答第6至第8小题。
6. Where does the conversation take place?
A. On a plane. B. In a car. C. In a restaurant.
7. What will the man have?
A. Bean salad and beer.
B. Bean salad and water.
C. Baked chicken and coffee.
8. Why doesn’t the man have a diet soda?
A. It is expensive.
B. It is unhealthy.
C. It is not available.
听下面一段对话，回答第9至第11小题。
9. What is the relationship between Stefan and the man?
A. Workmates. B. Former schoolmates. C. Teacher and student.
10. Where did Stefan and the man go first?
A. A restaurant. B. The riverside. C. A shopping mall.
11. What was by the river in the past?
A. Factories. B. Gardens. C. A sports center.
听下面一段独白，回答第12至第15小题。
12. When will the swim classes begin?
A. On May 1st. B. On April 30th. C. On April 29th.
13. How many swim classes are being offered?
A. 10. B. 15. C. 20.
14. Who must come to show their swim skill on April 29th or 30th?
A. Those who have no Level 3 certificates.
B. Those who want to pass the skill level test quickly.
C. Those who have never attended Community Pool classes.
15. Who will rate the students’ skill level?
A. The speaker. B. The instructors. C. The local community.
II．单项选择（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
1. —It will take me at least two hours to finish this task.
—Oh, ________! I can do it in 20 minutes.
A. hurry up B. it doesn’t matter C. don’t mention it D. come on
2. ________ payment online is safe, people will be more likely to link their bank cards to Alipay or Wechat.
A. Even if B. As if C. Unless D. As long as
3. I got ________ by his ________ speech last night.
A. impression; impressed B. impressive; impression
C. impressed; impressive D. impressed; impression
4. There are so many new words in this article that I can’t get along without ________ the dictionary.
A. sticking to B. referring to C. looking up D. consulting to
5. —Is there anything else ________ that you’d like to share with us?
—The most important advice I’d give is that “Be a rainbow in somebody else’s cloud”.
A. in panic B. in brief C. in advance D. in particular
6. English is a language shared by several diverse cultures, _________ uses it differently.
A. all of which B. each of which C. all of them D. each of them
7. The final score of the basketball match was 83-84. We were only ________ beaten.
A. obviously B. enormously C. narrowly D. actually
8. —Have you seen Professor Smith?
—He ______in the lab since yesterday. He doesn’t allow anyone to interrupt him.
A. has been working B. worked C. has been worked D. was working
9. ______ us prepare for the exam, the teacher suggested reading through our notes.
A. To help B. Helped C. Helping D. Being helped
10. —How about having a party this weekend?
—That _______ me fine. I’m coming.
A. suits B. fits C. matches D. agrees
III．完型（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）
I decided to do 50 good things to celebrate my upcoming 60th birthday. So I’ve gone back to school. Since____11____to teaching, I’ve found myself extremely busy. This evening I have some reflection time. I’m____12____that I used not to be____13____enough as a teacher. But now I____14____to do better. The world is moving fast and I’ve changed a lot, too. One thing that hasn’t___15___ is that kids will be kids. Yes, they are super____16____and continue to encourage me with their achievements and____17____.
At school, there are so many people who need help, so I have the____18____and the awareness to spread kindness like the kids by returning used____19____dishes to the kitchen, picking up litter, and trying to make students feel seen through_____20_____greetings. Besides, I also have the chance to deliver packages of tomatoes and apples in_____21_____as I don’t want to be known and_____22_____.
What I am most excited about is a_____23_____that I get to make on Friday to a charity. A dear friend found an organization accepting donations for_____24_____the upcoming people from the earthquake-stricken area. They will need so much_____25_____when they arrive and I’m_____26_____to be in a situation where I can offer service even just a little bit.
Another good deed I have done is for my wife. She_____27_____me to make a delicious dessert that she had been____28____. I agreed to her request. I promised I would make it, but probably not until this weekend. However, I_____29_____her and made the dessert this night. She was really thrilled! I believe I can_____30_____in the world if I want to give.
11. A. subscribing B. adding C. preferring D. returning
12. A. possessing B. predicting C. thinking D. applying
13. A. direct B. good C. ridiculous D. stubborn
14. A. forget B. hate C. attempt D. reject
15. A. missed B. changed C. improved D. left
16. A. inspiring B. discouraging C. boring D. frightening
17. A. loads B. failure C. conditions D. kindness
18. A. right B. opportunity C. reputation D. excuse
19. A. dirty B. advanced C. broken D. clean
20. A. casual B. confusing C. abnormal D. purposeful
21. A. public B. secret C. relief D. sorrow
22. A. blamed B. transformed C. appreciated D. suspected
23. A. delivery B. document C. trade D. mistake
24. A. defeating B. treating C. absorbing D. assisting
25. A. enquiry B. infection C. support D. movement
26. A. fortunate B. reliable C. embarrassed D. ashamed
27. A. directed B. asked C. advised D. persuaded
28. A. dealing with B. going through C. suffering from D. longing for
29. A. scared B. upset C. surprised D. praised
30. A. make a difference B. take it easy C. feel down D. break away
IV．阅读理解（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）
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Homestay provides English language students with the opportunity to speak English outside the classroom and the experience of being part of a British home.
What to Expect
The host will provide accommodation and meals. Rooms will be cleaned and bedcovers changed at least once a week.You will be given the house key and the host is there to offer help and advice as well as to take an interest in your physical and mental health.
Accommodation Zones
Homestays are located in London mainly in Zones 2, 3 and 4 of the transport system.Most hosts do not live in the town centre as much of central London is commercial and not residential(居住的). Zones 3 and 4 often offer larger accommodation in a less crowded area. It is very convenient to travel in London by Underground.
Meal Plans Available
◇ Continental Breakfast
◇ Breakfast and Dinner
◇ Breakfast, Packed Lunch and Dinner
It's important to note that few English families still provide a traditional cooked breakfast.Your accommodation includes Continental Breakfast which normally consists of fruit juice, cereal (谷物类食品), bread and tea or coffee. Cheese, fruit and cold meat are not normally part of a Continental Breakfast in England. Dinners usually consist of meat or fish with vegetables followed by dessert, fruit and coffee.
Friends
If you wish to invite a friend over to visit, you must first ask your host's permission.You have no right to entertain friends in a family home as some families feel it is an invasion of their privacy.
SelfCatering Accommodation in Private Homes
Accommodation on a roomonly basis includes shared kitchen and bathroom facilities and often a main living room. This kind of accommodation offers an independent lifestyle and is more suitable for the longstay student. However, it does not provide the same family atmosphere as an ordinary homestay and may not benefit those who need to practise English at home quite as much.
31. The passage is probably written for ________.
A. hosts willing to receive foreign students
B. foreigners hoping to build British culture
C. travelers planning to visit families in London
D. English learners applying to live in English homes
32. Which of the following will the host provide?
A. Room cleaning. B. Medical care.
C. Free transport. D. Physical training.
33. According to the passage, what does Continental Breakfast include?
A. Dessert and coffee. B. Fruit and vegetables.
C. Bread and fruit juice. D. Cereal and cold meat.
B
When I was a kid, a tree grew in front of my home. At the age of 10, I was just tall enough to reach its lowest branch and lift myself into its embrace. I wasn’t the only climber.
Sometimes two or three of my friends would join me in the sycamore (无花果树), or in the maple down the street. Climbing trees allowed us to enter another world. In fact, it was a world with in a world: We took our imaginations with us into those heights, which by turns were a fortress, a pirate ship, a spaceship, or a mountain castle.
In my small Maine town there are some lovely maples, lindens, and oaks. Their branches spread wide, and they are strong enough for people to climb. But I have not yet seen a climber. Perhaps computer games have replaced tree climbing, or maybe the activity went the way of monkey bars (攀爬架), which came to be viewed as too risky and have largely disappeared from playgrounds.
It is a sad loss. I have always believed that, since low-hanging branches provide no benefit to the tree, they must be meant for the child. Robert Frost understood this when he wrote: When I see birches bend to left and right, I like to think some boy’s been swinging (摇摆，摆动) them. My only disagreement with Frost is his idea that tree climbing is an undertaking only for boys. Both boys and girls have what it takes to make a joyful ascent.
The campus of the university where I teach is lovingly landscaped with all sorts of trees. During a recent walk, I grabbed a branch and a moment later I was sitting on it. Then the memories came flooding back: The old friends, the long view of my neighborhood, and finally, the reluctance to return to earth when the parental call to supper came.
I was so lost in my thoughts that I didn’t hear the student calling to me from below. He asked what I was doing. I didn’t waste time on explanations. “Come on up,” I said. “The air’s fine.” But he only laughed, and waved me off. He didn’t know what he was missing.
34. What did the author and his friends benefit from climbing trees?
A. They were inspired to become astronauts.
B. They escaped the heavy burden of learning.
C. They became more flexible like monkeys.
D. They had greatly expanded their imagination.
35. What does Robert’s poem prove?
A. Only boys like to swing the branches of birches.
B. The low-hanging branches are for children to play with.
C. The low-hanging branches are trees’ important parts.
D. Climbing trees can be replaced by computer games.
36. What does the underlined word in the 4th paragraph probably mean?
A. Climbing B. Playing C. Returning. D. Jumping
37. What did the author think his student missed in the last paragraph?
A. The good memories of childhood. B. The chance to breathe fresh air.
C. The fun of climbing trees. D. The safety sense on earth.
C
Across northern Australia, a great number of freshwater crocodiles are dying, with some populations down by 70%. That’s because the animals are eating a kind of super-poisonous toad (蟾蜍) that humans brought to the continent decades ago.
Georgia Ward-Fear, an ecologist at Macquarie University in Sydney, has witnessed the death of the crocodiles first-hand. The loss of so many crocodiles is a problem because they sit atop the food web. “When they decline,” Ward-Fear says, “we see this huge hole in the ecosystem.”
When about a hundred cane toads were first brought from Hawaii to Australia in 1935, people had high hopes that the toads would feast on the beetles damaging the local sugarcane crop. But the toads were a total failure. “They didn’t control the beetles,” says Ward-Fear. “Instead, they started spreading across Australia.” Today, an estimated 200 million cane toads are hopping around the continent.
She says that at first, no one really noticed the invasive toads’ spread. But then a whole range of animals started dying — including lizards, snakes, a furry cat-size marsupial called a quoll and lots of freshwater crocodiles. The cause of death was a potent brew of toxins (一种强效毒素混合物) that the cane toads produce and store in their bodies.
A crocodile’s first encounter with a toad is always deadly, so the animal has no chance of learning. But Ward-Fear and her colleagues wondered whether there might be a way to warn the crocodiles somehow.
To teach the crocodiles, the team members needed bait (诱饵). But they couldn’t use a full cane toad loaded up with poisons. “So we cut off the top half of their body,” says Ward-Fear, “so that crocodiles are still getting the smell and the taste, but we’ve taken the most poisonous parts off. We injected something that makes the crocodiles feel sick. It’s essentially food poisoning.”
In a study published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Ward-Fear and her colleagues report that they’ve managed to reduce crocodile death rates by as much as 95% — by feeding the animals dead cane toads that have been changed to cause food poisoning. The crocodiles came to associate the toads with a temporarily unpleasant feeling, making them less willing to eat a deadly toad in the future.
38. What would be a suitable title for the text?
A. Scientists Find a Way to Save Crocodiles in Danger.
B. Cane Toads Present a Great Threat to Crocodiles.
C. Crocodiles Are Suffering from Food Poisoning.
D. Scientists Try to Control the Number of Cane Toads.
39. Why can’t crocodiles learn to avoid cane toads naturally?
A. They are not smart enough to recognize dangers.
B. Toxins from toads are hard to detect.
C. Cane toads spread too quickly across Australia.
D. Their first contact with toads is always deadly.
40. What result did Ward-Fear’s study achieve?
A. Crocodiles completely stopped eating cane toads.
B. The number of cane toads decreased by 95%.
C. Crocodile death rates dropped sharply.
D. The ecosystem in northern Australia recovered.
41. We can infer from the text that cane toads ________.
A. were originally introduced to Australia to protect local animals
B. have become a threat to multiple species in Australia
C. are now mainly distributed in southern Australia
D. produce toxins only when they are attacked
D
Laws that would have ensured pupils from 5 to 16 to receive a full financial education got lost in the ‘wash up’. An application is calling on the next government to bring it back.
At school the children are taught to add up and subtract(减法) but, extraordinarily, are not routinely shown how to open a bank account — let alone how to manage their finances in an increasingly complex and demanding world.
Today the parenting website Mumsnet and the consumer campaigner Martin Lewis have joined forces to launch an online application to make financial education a compulsory element of the school curriculum in England. Children from 5 to 16 should be taught about everything from pocket money to pensions, they say. And that was exactly the plan preserved in the Children, Schools and Families bill that was shelved by the government in the so-called “wash-up” earlier this month — the rush to legislation before parliament was dismissed. Consumer and parent groups believe financial education has always been one of the most frustrating omissions of the curriculum.
As the Personal Finance Education Group (Pfeg) points out, the good habits of young children do not last long. Over 75% of seven- to-eleven-year-olds are savers but by the time they get to 17, over half of them are in debt to family and friends. By this age, 26% see a credit card or overdraft(透支) as a way of extending their spending power. Pfeg predicts that these young people will “find it much harder to avoid the serious unexpected dangers that have befallen many of their parents' generation unless they receive good quality financial education while at school.”
The UK has been in the worst financial recession(衰退)for generations. It does seem odd that — unless parents step in — young people are left in the dark until they are cruelly introduced to the world of debt when they turn up at university. In a recent poll of over 8,000 people, 97% supported financial education in schools, while 3% said it was a job for parents.
42. The passage is mainly about _____________.
A. how to manage school lessons
B. how to deal with the financial crisis
C. teaching young people about money
D. teaching students how to study effectively
43. It can be inferred from the first two paragraphs that __________.
A. the author complains about the school education
B. pupils should not be taught to add up and subtract
C. students have been taught to manage their finances
D. laws on financial education have been effectively carried out
44. The website and the consumer campaigner joined to _________.
A. instruct the pupils to donate their pocket money
B. promote the connection of schools and families
C. ask the government to dismiss the parliament
D. appeal for the curriculum of financial education
45. A poll is mentioned to ___________.
A. stress the necessity of the curriculum reform
B. show the seriousness of the financial recession
C. make the readers aware of burden of the parents
D. illustrate some people are strongly against the proposal
第II卷（非选择题 共25分）
注意事项：
1．用黑色钢笔或签字笔直接答在答题卡上，答在本试卷上的无效。
V．阅读表达（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）
阅读下面短文，并按照题目要求用英语回答问题。
One day in early 2009, my friend and I were on the road near Cape Town, South Africa. Then a disaster happened! My car began to make strange noises, slowed down and died. The place where it broke down was not the safest area. We sat there, and my friend was trying to start the car until the battery (电池) gave out.
Drivers behind us were shouting. I had to get out and push the heavy car out of the way of traffic. Although I tried my best, the car was going nowhere. Then an elderly man covered in tattoos (纹身) walked towards us and helped push the car. My friend looked up into the rear-view mirror when she found she was moving and saw the blue-inked face of our assistant, screaming in shock.
When we were safely in a lay-by (临时停车处) near the traffic lights, the tattooed man melted away into a thick bush at the side of the road. I phoned the AAA (American automobile Association) for help and was told that there would be an hour-long wait.
I got out of the car for some fresh air. Unexpectedly, the tattooed man appeared at my side. “Is someone coming to help you?” he asked. My first thought was to lie, “Yes, my husband is a policeman, and his six friends at the police station will be here in seconds?” But there was kindness in his expression that made me tell him the truth. For the next hour, he sat with us on the side of the road, chatting with us. The hour flashed by.
When the AAA arrived, he stood aside until he was satisfied that we really were mobile again, and then he stepped forward to say goodbye. As we drove away, I realized I made a right decision not to judge a book by its cover.
46. What was wrong with the author’s car?（no more than 10 words）
_____________________________________________________________
47. What did the tattooed man do to help the author?（no more than 10 words）
_____________________________________________________________
48. What does the underlined word in Para. 3 mean? （1 word）
_____________________________________________________________
49. Why did the author tell the tattooed man the truth after a. moment’s hesitation? （no more than 10 words）
_____________________________________________________________
50. What can you learn from the author’s experience? Explain it its your own words. （no more than 20 words）
_____________________________________________________________
VI．书面表达（满分15分）
51. 假设你是晨光中学学生李津。你的英国朋友Chris在最近的一封邮件中提到，他想在新的一年里制定一个自我提升计划，成为更好的自己。请你根据以下要点给他回信：
(1)分享你自己正在制定的一年自我提升计划中的一项主要目标；
(2)说明你制定该目标的原因及它对你现阶段生活的影响(至少2条原因)；
(3)描述你为实现该目标打算采取的具体行动，并表达你对他计划的支持。
注意：
(1)词数不少于100；
(2)可适当加入细节，使内容充实、行文连贯；
(3)开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。
Dear Chris,
Great to hear about your self-improvement plan!
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Yours sincerely,
Li Jin
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