第一部分? 聽力(共兩節(jié),滿分30分)
第一節(jié) (共5小題;每小題1.5分,滿分7.5分)
聽下面5段對(duì)話。每段對(duì)話后有一個(gè)小題,從題中所給的A、B、C三個(gè)選項(xiàng)中選出最佳選項(xiàng),并標(biāo)在試卷的相應(yīng)位置。聽完每段對(duì)話后,你都有10秒鐘的時(shí)間來回答有關(guān)小題和閱讀下一小題。每段對(duì)話僅讀一遍。
1. What are the speakers talking about?
A. Inviting friends to dinner. B. The work of their friends. C. The plan for the weekend.
2. What will the man do?
A. Go home in Alice’s car. B. Wait for Alice to take him home.
C. Ask someone else for help.
3. What does the woman think of the food in Hawaii?
A. Wonderful. B. Cheap. C. Expensive.
4. When will the man come?
A. At 7:00. B. At 9:00. C. At 10:00.
5. What’s wrong with the car?
A. It’s out of gas. B. It’s broken. C. Its oil has frozen.
第二節(jié) (共15小題;每小題1.5分,滿分22.5分)
聽下面5段對(duì)話或獨(dú)白。每段對(duì)話或獨(dú)白后有幾個(gè)小題,從題中所給的A、B、C三個(gè)選項(xiàng)中選出最佳選項(xiàng),并標(biāo)在試卷的相應(yīng)位置。聽每段對(duì)話或獨(dú)白前,你將有時(shí)間閱讀各個(gè)小題,每小題5秒鐘;聽完后,各小題將給出5秒鐘的作答時(shí)間。每段對(duì)話或獨(dú)白讀兩遍。
聽第6段材料,回答第6至7題。
6. What is the probable relationship between the speakers?
A. Mother and son. B. Teacher and student. C. Classmates.
7. How long do the students stay in school every day?
A. Five hours. B. Seven hours. C. Nine hours.
聽第7段材料,回答第8至10題。
8. How many guests will have breakfast tomorrow?
A. Ten. B. Thirty. C. Thirteen.
9. What time will the breakfast be ready?
A. At 9:00. B. At 7:00. C. At 7:30.
10. Who will take the guests to the bus stop?
A. The man. B. The woman. C. The man’s brother.
聽第8段材料,回答第11至13題。
11. What made the man get the idea of traveling by bike?
A. An accident. B. A website. C. A trip to Spain.
12. What does the man do?
A. A teacher. B. A writer. C. A bookseller.
13. What will the man do next summer?
A. Travel the country again. B. Travel around the world. C. Ask more people to join him.
聽第9段材料,回答第14至17題。
14. Who did Mrs Black quarrel with last night?
A. The man. B. Her husband. C. Her son.
15. What does Mrs Black want her son to do?
A. Go to China for further education. B. Work in her bar.
C. Settle down in China.
16. How long will it take the son to study medicine?
A. Two years. B. Three years. C. Four years.
17. What does the man advise Mrs Black to do?
A. Open a snack bar in China.? B. Let her son get married. C. Sell the bar.
聽第10段材料,回答第18至20題。
18. What is the county’s population?
A. 9,000.? ? B. 90,000. C. 900,000.
19. How many students were there in the first school?
A. Five. B. Fifteen. C. Fifty.
20. What subject was taught in the old schools?
A. Science. B. Drawing. C. Writing.
第二部分? 閱讀理解(共兩節(jié),滿分40分)
第一節(jié) (共15小題;每小題2分,滿分30分)
閱讀下列短文,從每題所給的A、B、C和D四個(gè)選項(xiàng)中,選出最佳選項(xiàng)。
A
Children’s Books that Teach Empathy (同情) and Kindness
Little Blue Truck
By Alice Schertle
Little ones are introduced to Blue, a little pickup truck that gets stuck pushing a dump truck out of the mud in this board book. Thankfully, Blue made a group of animal friends along the way that are happy to do whatever they can to help him get back on the road. The main themes are kindness and the benefits of helping others.
Most People
By Michael Leannah
The book is an amazing lesson for kids that want to do good in the world and that there are plenty of good people out there. Told in the third person, the book tells the story of two pairs of siblings (兄弟姐妹) and the people they meet.
If You Plant a Seed (種子)
By Kadir Nelson
A mouse and a rabbit teach children how to plant and grow food, while also passing along some valuable lessons. After learning that a carrot seed will grow a carrot, and a cabbage seed will result in a cabbage, children also learn the value of thoughtfulness and how a seed of kindness can bear sweet fruit.
Save Me a Seat
By Sarah Weeks and Gita Varadarajan
Joe lived in the same town all his life and felt perfectly pleased until his best friend moved away. Ravi’s family recently moved from India to the US and he’s struggling to find where he belongs. Even though Joe and Ravi at first believe that they don’t have much in common, they both realize they have a common enemy—the biggest bully (恃強(qiáng)凌弱者) in their class. Save Me a Seat is a story about the true meaning of friendship and understanding.
21. What does Little Blue Truck mainly talk about?
A. Happiness from helping others. B. Importance of protecting animals.
C. Ways of dealing with trouble in mud. D. Friendship between friends.
22. Which book is mainly about food?
A. If You Plant a Seed. B. Little Blue Truck.
C. Save Me a Seat. D. Most People.
23. What can we infer about Ravi and Joe?
A. Ravi lived happily till Joe left. B. Joe was regarded as a bully by Ravi.
C. They had nothing in common. D. They became friends at last.
B
I looked at my beautiful Christmas tree and sighed. The New Year was a week old and my tree still stood in the corner of our room. I’d procrastinated (拖延) long enough.
I got up, went to the garage and dragged the boxes into the room. I prepared the boxes and carefully placed the decorations of the tree in their protective packaging, pausing every few minutes to admire a favorite. “Hey, little Santa!” I held the Santa from my childhood, “thanks for being my friend for almost fifty years.” He was a little old and torn but still gives me a flood of wonderful memories. “Until next year, my dear friend.”
A few hours after I started, the filled boxes were back in the garage. The room seemed so empty. It took me two days of work to assemble (組裝) and decorate my tree, but only a few hours to take it apart.
My tree is like a good marriage or a great friendship. They take a long time to assemble and decorate with memories, but can be torn down quickly. All it takes is an unkind word or a thoughtless act, and what once stood proudly in the glow of love comes falling down.
Every year I have to put my tree away, but not my marriage or friendships. I take great care of those. They get to glow in the corner of my life for as long as I live. I get to analyze my tree and find memories for a few weeks every year. I can do the same with the loves in my life every day. When I held the Santa, a flood of wonderful memories returned. The same happens when I hold my wife or see the smile of a friend across the room.
Take great care of your friendships and your marriage. Once they come down, they aren’t as easy to put back together as a Christmas tree, if at all. Stand them in that special spot in the corner of your heart and admire their glow.
24. How did the author feel while he was packing up the Christmas tree?
A. Casual. B. Uncaring. C. Content. D. Unwilling.
25. To the author, a Christmas tree is similar to a good marriage in that both ____ .
A. take time to build but fall apart easily B. remind him of bittersweet memories
C. need to be admired for some time D. get less attractive over the years
26. What is the author’s advice on marriage and friendship?
A. Put them in the first place. B. Treat them with great care.
C. Take them as they come. D. Treasure them at all costs.
27. How does the author express his opinion about marriage and friendship?
A. By quoting. B. By comparing. C. By describing. D. By illustrating.
C
Whenever we’re introduced to strangers, we make quick decisions without careful thought about them according to our first impressions. Are they attractive? Or how much do they earn?
For most Brits, simply asking someone how much he or she is worth financially is considered very impolite. Thankfully, most people are kind enough to drop several hints (暗示) about their relative wealth or successful careers. They always post on social media about flying to a meeting for work. They’re always wearing clothes with labels big enough to silently scream about how rich they are and how well they’re doing.
It’s a worrying trend, and I’m not immune to it. I’ve felt the warm happiness of knowing I earn more than somebody, and the baseless anger of knowing that I earn less than another. I’ve checked into places while I know full well that anybody reading it will get jealous (忌妒的).
It seems as though self-worth is increasingly being tied to the careers we choose and the money we earn. A study in 2020, for example, found that nearly 17% of unemployed Americans were depressed compared to almost 6% of those who had a permanent job. We need to stop placing so much value on what a person earns. Don’t get me wrong—being ambitious is not a fault, and achievements should always be celebrated. But when people use their success to judge you negatively, it becomes a problem.
If you want to know what you’re really worth, here’s a tip: It doesn’t have anything to do with your bank account. It’s about how many times you’ve been there for your friends. It’s about how many times you’ve been kind to a stranger. It’s every time you did something unselfish, or told your partner you loved him/her, or treated someone with respect no matter where he or she was in his or her own life.
28. Paragraph 2 mainly tells us most Brits ____ .
A. are polite in some way B. are wealthy and successful
C. tend to show off their wealth or career D. love asking others about wealth
29. What does the underlined word “immune” in Paragraph 3 probably mean?
A. Used. B. Unaffected. C. Addicted. D. Attracted.
30. What does the study suggest in Paragraph 4?
A. Self-value isn’t tied to wealth or career. B. Wealth and career reflect self-value.
C. Depression can lead to unemployment. D. Too much value is placed on career.
31. What can be the best title of the text?
A. What Self-value Lies In B. How to Choose Careers.
C. Why We Show off Wealth D. How We Deal with Wealth and Career
D
In life, we’re often torn between the person we want to be and the person we ought to be. Yet, while many hesitate to take the risks of becoming their “ideal self”, a new study shows that people regret not running after their passion (熱情).
Inspired by research published in the 1990s, psychologist Thomas Gilovich along with his colleague built upon his original study, which proved that regrets came from what people hadn’t done, by looking into the content of people’s most enduring (持久的) regrets grown from not living up to our “ideal self”, as opposed to not living according to our “ought self”.
Researchers began by explaining the difference between regrets concerning the “ideal self” and the “ought self”, before asking participants to list their regrets. Across the six different studies conducted as part of this project, participants said they experienced regrets concerning their ideal self more often. They also mentioned more ideal-self regrets than ought-self regrets when asked to list their regrets in life so far.
“Our work is the first to show that people’s biggest life regrets more often involve failures to live up to their ideal self than their ought self,” the researchers said. They advise that people go on with caution, as the best way to live depends on how much weight you place on your ought self and your ideal self. If you care more about your ought self, you’ll be wise to minimize your regrets by thinking twice before going ahead and seizing the moment.
Despite this research, however, knowing what you want and pursuing (追求) that passion are two different things. Maybe you’ll be encouraged by a quote from Mark Twain, “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor, and catch the trade winds in your sails.”
32. What did people tend to do according to Thomas’ original study?
A. Take a risk in life. B. Live up to their ideal self.
C. Regret what they hadn’t done. D. Regret pursuing their passion.
33. How was the researchers’ new study carried out?
A. By analyzing six different studies. B. By analyzing people’s various responses.
C. By explaining the difference among regrets. D. By comparing ideal-self and ought-self regrets.
34. What did the researchers advise people to do?
A. Think twice about their ideal life. B. Care more about their own life.
C. Live according to their choice. D. Look back now and then.
35. What do Mark Twain’s words tell people to do?
A. Stop from getting disappointed. B. Stick to their goals.
C. Make full use of their surroundings. D. Live up to their ought self.
第二節(jié) (共5小題;每小題2分,滿分10分)
根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容,從短文后的選項(xiàng)中選出能填入空白處的最佳選項(xiàng)。選項(xiàng)中有兩項(xiàng)為多余選項(xiàng)。
Everybody yawns—from unborn babies to great-grandparents. But why, exactly, do we yawn? 36
One theory is that when we are bored or tired, we just don’t breathe as deeply as we usually do. 37 Therefore, yawning helps us bring more oxygen into the blood and move more carbon dioxide out of the blood.
Yawning, then, would be an involuntary reflex (反射動(dòng)作) to help us control our oxygen and carbon dioxide levels. Sounds good, but other studies have shown that breathing more oxygen does not make us yawn less. 38 Hmmm. Now what?
39 Stretching (伸展) and yawning may be a way to flex (活動(dòng)) muscles and joints, increase heart rate, and feel more awake.
Other people believe that yawning is a protective reflex to redistribute the oil-like substance called surfactant that helps keep lungs from drying up and caving in. So, if we didn’t yawn, according to this theory, taking a deep breath would become harder and harder—and that would not be good!
But there is one idea about yawning that everyone knows to be true: 40 If you yawn in class, you’ll probably notice a few other people will start yawning, too. Even thinking about yawning can get you yawning. How many times have you yawned while reading this article? We hope not many!
A. It seems to spread.
B. Yawning seems to be common.
C. Another theory is that yawning stretches the lung.
D. No one knows for sure, but there are many theories.
E. This theory indicates yawning, like a deep breath, helps us feel fresh.
F. Likewise, breathing more carbon dioxide does not increase yawning.
G. As this theory goes, our bodies take in less oxygen because our breathing has slowed.
36. ______? 37. ______? 38. ______? 39. ______? 40. ______
第三部分? 語言知識(shí)運(yùn)用(共兩節(jié),滿分45分)
第一節(jié) (共20小題;每小題1.5分,滿分30分)
閱讀下面短文,從短文后各題所給的A、B、C和D四個(gè)選項(xiàng)中,選出可以填入空白處的最佳選項(xiàng)。
Saying thank you can have positive effects on your health and the well-being of others.
I once witnessed kindness from complete 41 last year and it really impressed me. It was a sunny afternoon. It 42 me at first that my partner fall unconscious on the ground suddenly on our way to the office. Soon I 43 that I had to calm down and call emergency services. Within minutes, a police car and an ambulance arrived 44 with police and nursing staff. My partner was rushed to the 45 where he received the 46 that he needed.
A few days later, my partner got better, and I wrote thank-you notes to those 47 police and nursing staff and baked for them. When I took the cakes to them the next day, they 48 me for the gifts. Thanked me? All I’d done was 49 , but they’d saved a life. I drove away feeling relaxed and 50 partly because I’d done a good deed, but 51 because I was amazed that there are so many 52 people. They do a lot of great things; 53 , they expect nothing in return.
Research has shown that sharing thoughts of gratitude (感恩) and performing acts of kindness can 54 your mood and health condition. I think it is probably 55 I felt happier than usual then.
“We know from studies in the literature that gratitude does have a good 56 on how you feel, and that it 57 life satisfaction.” says Willibald Ruch, a psychology professor at the University of Zurich who researches the effects of character strengths 58 gratitude and humour. “It’s among the top five causes of happiness,” he adds.
You can 59 positive changes in your own 60 by choosing to embrace (欣然接受) gratitude.
41. A. friends B. colleagues C. strangers D. students
42. A. attracted B. panicked C. pleased D. confused
43. A. decided B. insisted C. realized D. believed
44. A. shared B. begun C. covered D. filled
45. A. hospital B. factory C. company D. office
46. A. comfort B. care C. prize D. offer
47. A. busy B. helpful C. interesting D. wealthy
48. A. praised B. asked C. thanked D. hugged
49. A. waiting B. looking C. baking D. writing
50. A. anxious B. embarrassed C. astonished D. happy
51. A. mostly B. finally C. necessarily D. similarly
52. A. poor B. selfless C. energetic D. smart
53. A. moreover B. otherwise C. thus D. therefore
54. A. destroy B. discover C. improve D. explain
55. A. whether B. when C. where D. why
56. A. influence B. hope C. impression D. balance
57. A. wastes B. expects C. increases D. reduces
58. A. instead of B. such as C. due to D. except for
59. A. supply B. make C. avoid D. demand
60. A. life B. study C. career D. society
第二節(jié) (共10小題;每小題1.5分,滿分15分)
閱讀下面短文,在空白處填入1個(gè)適當(dāng)?shù)膯卧~或括號(hào)內(nèi)單詞的正確形式。
A young and? ? 61? ? (success) manager was traveling down a neighborhood street,? ? 62? ? (go) a bit too fast in his new Jaguar,? ? 63? ? a brick hit the door of his Jaguar.
He jumped out of the car,? ? 64? ? (seize) one kid and pushed him up against the parked car, shouting, “That’s a new car and that brick you threw is going to cost a lot of money. Why did you do it?” “I’m sorry. I didn’t know what else? ? 65? ? (do)?” begged the young boy.
“It’s my brother,” he said. “He fell out of his wheelchair and I can’t lift him up.” Sobbing (啜泣), the boy asked the manager, “Would you please help me get him back into his wheelchair? He? ? 66? ? (hurt), and he’s too heavy? ? 67? ? me.”
68? ? (move) beyond words, he lifted the young man back into the wheelchair and took out his handkerchief and wiped scrapes (刮痕) and cuts, checking to see that everything? ? 69? ? (be) going to be okay.
“Thank you, sir. And God bless you,” the grateful child said to him? ? 70? ? then pushed his brother down the sidewalk toward their home.
61. ______? 62. ______? 63. ______? 64. ______? 65. ______
66. ______? 67. ______? 68. ______? 69. ______? 70. ______
第四部分? 寫作(共兩節(jié),滿分35分)
第一節(jié) 短文改錯(cuò)(共10小題;每小題1分,滿分10分)
假定英語課上老師要求同桌之間交換修改作文,請(qǐng)你修改同桌寫的以下作文。文中共有10處語言錯(cuò)誤,每句中最多有兩處。每處錯(cuò)誤僅涉及一個(gè)單詞的增加、刪除或修改。
增加:在缺詞處加一個(gè)漏字符號(hào)(∧),并在其下面寫出該加的詞。
刪除:把多余的詞用斜線(\)劃掉。
修改:在錯(cuò)的詞下劃一橫線,并在該詞下面寫出修改后的詞。
注意:1.? 每處錯(cuò)誤及其修改均僅限一詞;
2.? 只允許修改10處,多者(從第11處起)不計(jì)分。
It is known to all that we students of today has to fix our attention on our lessons, so we knew little of society. A holiday is the best time and the best chance to make up for that. Take a part-time job is a good form of social practice. That we have learned in books and in class can’t have such an important effect on us what we have learned through personal practice. In social practice, we can surely make a progress in both knowledge or practical ability. Beside, when we take part-time jobs, we may get paid more or less to help their family. Thus, I will say senior school students should take part-time jobs in their holidays, if possibly.
第二節(jié) 書面表達(dá)(滿分25分)
假定你是李明,你的筆友Tom發(fā)來電子郵件,說班里有一個(gè)同學(xué)總是挑他的缺點(diǎn),這使他非常苦惱。請(qǐng)用英語給他回一封郵件,談?wù)勀銓?duì)此的看法。內(nèi)容包括:
1.? 同學(xué)間應(yīng)和睦相處;
2.? 如何對(duì)待同學(xué)指出的缺點(diǎn);
3.? 對(duì)筆友的祝愿。
注意:
1.? 詞數(shù)100左右(郵件的開頭與落款已為你寫好,不計(jì)入總詞數(shù));
2.? 可以適當(dāng)增加細(xì)節(jié),以使行文連貫。
Dear Tom,
I’m glad you trust me and tell me about your trouble.
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Yours,
Li Ming