衡阳县第四中学2022-2023学年高二下学期期末考试模拟（一）英语试卷（含答案）

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衡阳县第四中学2022-2023学年高二下学期期末考试模拟（一）英语试卷
学校：___________姓名：___________班级：___________考号：___________

一、阅读理解
The first rule of popular science is to reveal the wonder and mystery of the world. For that reason, Sentient (Picador), written by photographer and wildlife film-maker Jackie Higgins, is my pick of the year. According to my interviews with many readers, I select other four newly-published books in 2022.
Delicious
This book describes how our ancestors hunted and consumed ancient animals such as mammoths, bison, giant camels and many more now-extinct species. The diet of the Clovis peoples of North America was a menu described as “a record of a lost world”. This book explains how our dinners robbed the world of so many large animals. It gives inspiration for how modern humans can be at peace with nature.
The New Climate War
In 1999, Mann published a graph showing the rapid post-industrial rise in global temperatures. Two decades later, his book The New Climate War remains convinced that we can prevent climate change. This book sets out a common-sense approach to carbon pricing and a revision of the Green New Deal. Of course, there are still many people who deny that climate change is even happening.
The Geodesic Dome
Physicist Kate Greene imagines that she spends four months in a geodesic dome in Hawaii, with five other people, to mimic living in a colony on another planet. The story describes the future of our Earth. Kate makes readers cherish the natural environment. “No sunshine on our skin, and no fresh air in our lungs,” Greene turns the frustrations into a moving story.
Florida Scrub-Jay
The birds were once common across the peninsula. But as development over the last 100 years reduced the habitats on which the bird depends, the species became endangered. Mark Walters travels the state to report on the natural history and the current situation of Florida’s flag ship birds. This book can raise people’s awareness of protecting the birds’ habitats.
1、What can we infer about the author from the text?
A. He’s a column journalist. B. He’s a scientist.
C. He’s a film-maker. D. He’s a photographer.
2、Which book might be science fiction?
A. Delicious. B. Florida Scrub-Jay.
C. The Geodesic Dome. D. The New Climate War.
3、What do the listed books have in common?
A. They have happy endings.
B. They record the natural history.
C. They face doubts from many scientists.
D. They involve the environmental protection.
In my childhood, my mother spent her evening hours doing something for someone else. Sometimes she knitted(编织) hats for babies, and at other times, she cooked chicken soup for sick neighbors. Therefore, I wasn’t surprised when one evening my mother announced she had undertaken a new project.
“I am going to telephone seniors,” said my mother. “Every night? But you don’t even know these people.” “It doesn’t matter,” she said, “What’s important is that I listen.”
I was sixteen years old and couldn’t understand why my mother was willing to spend her evenings talking to strangers. She had friends and my two older sisters to call if she felt lonely. “They will talk your ear off. Some people didn’t even stop to catch breath.” I said.
My attitude didn’t stop my mother’s enthusiasm for the project. That evening, she settled on the sofa and dialed. When she finished the call, I said, “Why do you care whether she had cookies or rice pudding for dessert?” My mother grasped one of my hands and said in a proud tune, “I’m the only person she talked to today.”
It took me more than thirty years to fully understand the meaning of that statement. Now, as my mother is near eighty, I find myself thinking about those nightly calls she used to make. I am often the only person who telephones my mother, and sometimes I’m the only person she speaks to all day. I ask her what she cooked for dinner, but mostly I just listen as she describes a walk she took, or how her dog Lucky stole foods from the refrigerator. I realize that my mother’s calls were life lines that ensured housebound seniors remained connected to the world. Without her, their world would have been empty.
4、What is the mother’s purpose of calling the seniors?
A.To improve their living conditions.
B.To inquire their eating habits.
C.To ease their loneliness.
D.To teach them surviving skills.
5、What does the underlined part in paragraph 3 probably mean?
A.Speak all the time. B.Blame others’ behaviours.
C.Miss important information. D.Hurt your hearing.
6、What can be inferred from the last paragraph?
A.The author started to telephone seniors as her mother.
B.The author realized the value of her mother’s efforts.
C.The author’s mother preferred to live alone.
D.The author’s mother remained connected to the world.
7、What is the suitable title for the passage?
A.Seniors’ comfort B.Mother’s evenings
C.Aging: my concern D.Nightly calls, lifeline calls
A 57-year-old Tonga man survived 27 hours at sea in the ocean after a tsunami wave swept him out to sea.
The incident (事件) happened after the huge eruption of a volcano in the island kingdom of Tonga. Lisala Folau said that he was painting his house when his brother told him a tsunami was moving toward the small island of Atata.
Folau is disabled and has difficulty walking. He said he climbed a tree to escape the first wave but when he got down, another big wave swept him away. “I could hear my son calling from land, but I didn’t want to answer him because I didn’t want him to swim out to rescue me,” said Folau.
Folau was swept out to sea at about 7 p. m. local time. Then, he said he swam another eight hours to a second island with no one living on it before finally swimming again to the main island of Tongatapu. The experience lasted more than 27 hours and covered 7.5 kilometers.
Folau said that he went underwater nine times. “On the eighth time I thought, ‘The next time I go underwater, my arms are the only things that are keeping me above water’,” said Folau. “So the ninth time I went under and came up and grabbed a log (原木). And that’s what kept me going.”
In an interview, Folau said he was frightened when the waves took him from land into the sea. “What came into my mind when I was helpless at sea was one thing,” he said. “That was my family.”
The amazing story of Folau’s survival was shared on the Internet. And people described him as a “real-life Aquaman (潜水侠)”.
8、Why does the author mention “27 hours at sea”?
A. To make his article out of the ordinary.
B. To give a description of a long journey.
C. To stress the difficulty of the survival.
D. To deepen readers’ impression of tsunami.
9、What does the underlined word “escape” in paragraph 3 probably mean?
A. Sit on something. B. Go after something.
C. Experience physical pain. D. Get away from danger.
10、What supported Folau when he wanted to give up?
A. A log. B. His Family.
C. His experience. D. A real-life Aquaman.
11、Where can we probably read the text?
A. A news website. B. A blog post.
C. A travel brochure. D. A science magazine.
If history is “a race between education and catastrophe”, education seemed until recently to be winning. In 1950 only about half of adults globally had any schooling; now at least 85% do. Between 2000 and 2018, the proportion(比例) of school-age children who were not enrolled(使加入) in classes fell from 26% to 17%. But the rapid rise in attendance masked an ugly truth: many pupils were spending years behind desks but learning almost nothing. In 2019 the World Bank started keeping count of the number of children who still cannot read by the time they finish primary school. It found that less than half of ten-year-olds in developing countries could read and understand a simple story.
Then the pandemic struck and millions of pupils were locked out of school. It should be noted that globally, the harm that school closures have done to children has vastly outweighed any benefits they may have had for public health. The World Bank says the share of ten-year-olds in middle-and low-income countries who cannot read and understand a simple story has risen from 57% in 2019 to roughly 70%. If they lack such elementary skills, they will struggle to earn a good living.
This should be seen for what it is: a global emergency. Nearly every problem that confronts humanity can be alleviated by good schooling. Better-educated people are more likely to work out a cleaner energy source, a cure for malaria or a smarter town plan. If the damage the pandemic has done to education is not reversed(逆转), all these goals will be harder to reach.
Politicians talk endlessly about the importance of schooling, but words are cheap and a fit-for-purpose education system is not. Spending has risen modestly in recent decades but fell in many countries during the pandemic. Apart from the money, the education system itself is in urgent need of change: Testing is a mess, leading governments to overestimate levels of literacy. New teachers have been hired but not trained properly. Teachers, who have come through the same education systems they are supposed to be improving, often struggle to teach.
The same energy that was once poured into building schools and filling up classrooms should now be used to improve the lessons that take place within them. No more children should stumble (蹒跚而行) through their school days without learning to read or add up.
12、What did the World Bank find out about pupils in 2019?
A. They could hardly concentrate in class.
B. Many of them had to drop out of school.
C. They had difficulty finishing primary school.
D. Many of them failed to acquire necessary knowledge.
13、What does the author say about school closures?
A. They could well protect children’s health.
B. They made matters worse for children.
C. They produced unexpected benefits for public health.
D. They made it hard for teachers to make a good living.
14、What does the underlined word “alleviated” in Paragraph 3 probably mean?
A. reduced B. caused C. described D. strengthened
15、What change needs to be made to the current education system?
A. Primary schools should only hire experienced teachers.
B. Teachers should be motivated to cooperate with each other.
C. A reliable system should be created to test pupils’ knowledge and ability.
D. Primary schools should spend more on improving facilities.
二、七选五
16、 Handwritten Chinese characters can be beautiful. Living in a digital era with smartphones and computers, most students sooner or later ask themselves this question: ①________
Knowing how to write Chinese characters by hand is just cool. It feels like magic when you write a few strokes(笔画) on paper that don’t normally make sense, but they suddenly come together and create a meaning. ②________
Handwriting characters trains your muscle memory, making characters stay longer in your memory and improving your reading and speaking skills. ③________ However, without knowing how to write characters by hand, you are very unlikely to reach a level above intermediate(中级的).
④________ Handwriting characters is a form of meditation. Once you learn how to stay focused, you will not only notice that your concentration skills improve, but you will also find yourself feeling calm and relaxed when writing characters.
Most people agree that we should learn to write last least some characters at some point as a student of Chinese, although not necessarily straight away and not necessarily all the characters that you can say. But unless you don’t care about written language at all, you should learn the basics of handwriting. ⑤________ You don’t need to be a calligraphy master, but you do need basic handwriting skills to do this. Simply looking at things is, as usual, a bad way of learning.
A. And amazingly, you can understand it.
B. Is it important to learn Chinese culture?
C. Handwriting characters trains your concentration.
D. Learning characters is a good idea for all students.
E. Without it, it will be very hard to understand characters.
F. Is it really necessary to learn how to write by hand in Chinese?
G. You can learn Chinese to a certain level without handwriting characters.
三、完形填空（15空）
One day, my uncle brought home a parrot. My cousin and I called it Mitthu. My family were so 1 strongly that they trimmed(剪掉) its wings. They said if it left home, it wouldn’t 2 outside without us.
As time went by, we grew and so did Mitthu. Its wings grew quite a lot. Mitthu wasn’t kept in a cage. I sometimes wondered why it didn’t 3 . Maybe it was quite attached to us and didn’t want to leave us, or it didn’t want to leave the luxurious life and 4 the harsh reality of life.
As I grew older, I 5 that Mitthu’s life wasn’t very different from mine. I was pampered(溺爱) and 6 carefully. I was prohibited from really 7 the outside world. My house became my whole world, which was like an invisible 8 that had bound my spirit.
Now I’m sent out to study and told that I have the whole sky to fly, but 9 , just as Mitthu, I am not able to do so. Mitthu and I might be two different beings but we are 10 in a similar situation. I am afraid of flying. I am afraid my behavior might hurt my parents’ feelings. These emotions and 11 will never really allow us to fly independently!
It’s good for parents to love and 12 their children, but, sometimes, over-protectiveness from parents might harm their children’s future and 13 children’s decisions. True 14 is to allow kids to grow freely and let them try 15 things. Thus, they will be brimming with confidence and courage.
17、A. primitive B. extensive C. aggressive D. possessive
18、A. survive B. escape C. appear D. change
19、A. come around B. fly away C. come back D. take shape
20、A. ignore B. represent C. shift D. face
21、A. realized B. expected C. dismissed D. convinced
22、A. evaluated B. educated C. tended D. exposed
23、A. keeping up with B. coming down to
C. breaking away from D. getting along with
24、A. bunch B. cage C. light D. cave
25、A. rarely B. gradually C. sadly D. violently
26、A. trapped B. frozen C. hatched D. stored
27、A. strength B. sympathy C. commitment D. attachment
28、A. adopt B. ban C. protect D. entertain
29、A. influence B. support C. forecast D. comprise
30、A. harmony B. love C. freedom D. equality
31、A. humble B. different C. unique D. intense
四、语法填空
32、 For Greek photographer George Doupas, Beijing is home now. During the past decade, he has been photographing the city, capturing its beauty ①_____ sharing these photos online and in exhibitions.
“This ②_____(true) represents Beijing—the old and the new, nicely mixing together,” Doupas said while showing his photograph of the Zhihua Temple, a delicate Ming Dynasty building. It ③_____(locate) in front of a modern office building, Galaxy SOHO, which features weaving bridges and interlocking passageways.
With rich historical heritage, Beijing ④_____(be)an important center of traditional Chinese culture since the Ming Dynasty. Doupas often gets ⑤_____(lose) in the city’s splendid ancient architecture. Meanwhile, he is also amazed by the modern city ⑥_____(combine) high-end businesses and various industries. “It is fascinating to see a rapidly-developing city that invests so much effort in preserving its past, which is ⑦_____ I decided to pursue my career here,” he said.
Doupas is determined to continue with his career in China, hoping to serve as ⑧_____ bridge between China and the West. The ⑨_____(display) that show his photos about Beijing have attracted a large audience in Greece and the Czech Republic.
“I call Beijing my home now,” he said, “I’ll keep sharing photos of China ⑩_____ the rest of the world.”
五、书面表达
33、假定你是李华，你的英国笔友Robin写信表示对中国的美食文化很感兴趣。请你给他写一封回信，内容包括：
1. 推荐一道美食；2. 说明理由。
注意：1. 写作词数应为80左右；
2. 请在答题卡的相应位置作答。
Dear Robin,
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Yours,
Li Hua
六、读后续写
34、阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。
The day was Thankful Thursday, our “chosen day” of service. It’s a weekly tradition that my two little girls and I began years ago. Thursday has become our day to go out in the world and make a positive contribution, however small it is. On this particular Thursday, we had no idea exactly what we were going to do, but we knew that something would present itself.
Driving along a busy Houston road, I prayed for guidance in our quest to fulfill our weekly Act of Kindness. Around the noon hour, my two little ones wasted no time in letting me know their hunger, chanting, “McDonald’s, McDonald’s, McDonald’s” as we drove along. And I began searching earnestly for the nearest McDonald’s. Suddenly I realized that almost every crossroad I passed through was occupied by a beggar. And then it hit me!
If my two little ones were hungry, then all these beggars must be hungry, too. Perfect! Our Act of Kindness had presented itself. We were going to buy lunch for the beggars. After finding a McDonald’s and ordering two Happy Meals for my girls, I ordered an additional 15 lunches and we set out to deliver them. It was exciting. We would pull alongside a beggar, make a contribution, and tell him or her that we hoped things would get better. Then we’d say, “Oh, by the way, here’s lunch.” And then we would head to the next crossroad.
It was the best way to give. There wasn’t enough time for us to introduce ourselves or explain what we were going to do, nor was there time for them to say anything back to us. The Act of Kindness was anonymous and empowering for each of us, and we loved what we saw in the rearview mirror: a surprised and delighted person holding up his lunch bag and just looking at us as we drove off. It was wonderful!
注意：
1. 续写词数应为150左右;
2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
Then at a crossroad stood a small woman, asking for change.
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She looked at me and added, “You know what, this is my daughter’s favorite.”
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参考答案
1、答案：A
解析：推理判断题。根据第一段中“According to my interviews with many readers, I select other four newly-published books in 2022.(根据我对许多读者的采访，我选择了其他四本2022年新出版的书)”可推断出，作者是一位专栏记者，故选A。
2、答案：C
解析：细节理解题。根据第四段中“Physicist Kate Greene imagines that she spends four months in a geodesic dome in Hawaii, with five other people, to mimice living in a colony on another planet. The story describes the future of our Earth.(物理学家凯特·格林想象她和另外五个人在夏威夷的一个测地线圆顶中度过四个月，以模拟在另一个星球上的殖民地生活。这个故事描述了我们地球的未来)”可知，Kate描绘的世界是虚拟的，想象了地球的未来，所以只有The Geodesic Dome是科幻小说，其他都是写的现实中真实存在的场景，故选C。
3、答案：D
解析：细节理解题。根据第二段中“It gives inspiration for how modern humans can be at peace with nature(它为现代人类如何与自然和平相处提供了灵感)”；第三段中“This book sets out a common-sense approach to carbon pricing and a revision of the Green New Deal.(这本书提出了碳定价的常识性方法，并对绿色新政进行了修订)”；第四段“Kate makes readers cherish the natural environment.(凯特让读者珍惜自然环境)”以及最后一段“This book can raise people’s awareness of protecting the birds’ habitats.(这本书可以提高人们保护鸟类栖息地的意识)”可知，所有的书都涉及到了环境保护，故选D。
4、答案：C
解析：目的意图题。根据第二段It doesn't matter," she said. "What's important is that I listen."("没关系,"她说。"重要的是我要倾听。")以及第三段I'm the only person she talked to today.(我是她今天唯一与之交谈的人。)可知,老年人几乎没有跟她交谈的人,作者的母亲给老年人打电话是为了让他们不那么孤独。故选C项。
5、答案：A
解析：词句猜测题。根据第二段They will talk your ear off. Some people didn't even stop to catch breath.(有些人甚至不会停下来喘口气。)可知,有些人会一直不停地说话,推测划线句子表示"他们会在电话里一直说话"。A.They will make you feel really satisfied他们会让你觉得满意；B.They will blame others' wrong doings他们会责怪别人的错误行为；C.They will be tired of listening to others他们厌烦了听别人说话；D.They will talk all the time on the phone他们会在电话里一直说话。故选D项。
6、答案：B
解析：推理判断题。根据最后一段I realize that my mother's calls were life lines that ensured housebound seniors remained connected to the world. Without her, their world would have been empty.(我意识到,母亲的电话是确保居家老人与世界保持联系的生命线。如果没有她,他们的世界将是空的。)可知,作者意识到母亲打电话这一行为的意义,发现了自己母亲所做的事情是值得的,所以改变了对母亲打电话的态度。故选B项。
7、答案：D
解析：标题归纳题。根据最后一段I realize that my mother's calls were life lines that ensured housebound seniors remained connected to the world.(我意识到,母亲的电话是确保居家老人与世界保持联系的生命线。)以及文章内容可知,文章主要讲述了母亲晚上与老人通电话,这成为了老人与世界保持联系的生命线,所以"夜间通话,生命线通话"可以作为文章标题。故选D项。
8、答案：C
解析：推理判断题。由第一段"A 57-year-old Tong a man survived 27 hours at sea in the ocean after a tsunami wave swept him out to sea.（一名57岁的汤加男子在海啸将他卷进大海后，在海上度过了27个小时）"和最后一段"The amazing story of Folau's survival was shared on the Internet. And people described him as a "real-life Aquaman(潜水侠）".(福劳幸存下来的惊人故事在互联网上被分享。人们把他描述为"现实生活中的潜水侠"）"可知，海啸把57岁的Folau卷入大海，在海中漂流27小时后幸存，这本身就是个奇迹。通过这一个数字更加映衬、突出了生还的不易。故选C项。
9、答案：D
解析：词句猜测题。由第三段"He said he climbed a tree to escape the first wave but when he got down, another big wave swept him away. "I could hear my son calling from land, but I didn't want to answer him because I didn't want him to swim out to rescue me," said Folau.(他说，他爬上一棵树是为了escape第一波海浪，但当他下来时，另一波大浪把他卷走了。福劳说："我能听到儿子从陆地上打来的呼唤，但我不想回答他，因为我不想让他游出来救我。") "可知，结合关键词swept和rescue可知，Folau是想爬到树上逃生。D项意为“远离危险”。故选D项。
10、答案：B
解析：细节理解题。由倒数第二段" "What came into my mind when I was helpless at sea was one thing, " he said. "That was my family. " ("当我在海上束手无策时，我脑海中浮现的是一件事，"他说。"那是我的家人。"）"可知，当福劳想要放弃时，是他的家人支撑着他坚持下来。故选B项。
11、答案：A
解析：推理判断题。由倒数第二段"In an interview, Folau said he was frightened when the waves took him from land into the sea.(在一次采访中，福劳说，当海浪把他从陆地带到海里时，他很害怕）"和全文可知，通篇看本文是新闻报道类文章。所以很有可能在新闻网站上看到本文。故选A项。
12、答案：D
解析：细节理解题。根据第一段最后两句“In 2019 the World Bank started keeping count of the number of children who still cannot read by the time they finish primary school. It found that less than half of ten-year-olds in developing countries could read and understand a simple story.(2019年，世界银行开始统计小学毕业时仍不能阅读的儿童人数。研究发现，发展中国家只有不到一半的10岁儿童能够阅读和理解一个简单的故事。)”可知，世界银行的统计发现发展中国家超过一半的十岁儿童还不能阅读和理解一个简单的故事，即许多学生未能获得必要的知识，缺乏基本的知识能力。故选D。
13、答案：B
解析：推理判断题。根据第二段“Then the pandemic struck and millions of pupils were locked out of school. It should be noted that globally, the harm that school closures have done to children has vastly outweighed any benefits they may have had for public health.(随后新冠疫情爆发，数百万学生被学校拒之门外。应该指出的是，在全球范围内，学校关闭对儿童造成的伤害远远超过了他们对公共健康可能带来的任何好处。)”以及第一段世界银行的统计结果可知，作者认为疫情导致学校关闭让孩子们的处境变得更糟。故选B。
14、答案：A
解析：词义猜测题。根据第三段中划线词所在句子后面的内容“Better-educated people are more likely to work out a cleaner energy source, a cure for malaria or a smarter town plan. If the damage the pandemic has done to education is not reversed(逆转), all these goals will be harder to reach.(受教育程度较高的人更有可能开发出更清洁的能源、治疗疟疾的方法或更明智的城镇规划。如果大流行对教育造成的损害得不到扭转，所有这些目标都将更难实现。)”可知，受教育程度较高的人更有可能找到解决问题的办法。由此可知，划线词所在句“Nearly every problem that confronts humanity can be alleviated by good schooling.(人类面临的几乎所有问题都可以通过良好的学校教育得到alleviated。)”表达的意思为良好的教育能够缓解人类遇到的几乎所有问题，划线词alleviated与reduce意思相近。故选A。
15、答案：C
解析：细节理解题。根据第四段“Apart from the money, the education system itself is in urgent need of change: Testing is a mess, leading governments to overestimate levels of literacy. New teachers have been hired but not trained properly. Teachers, who have come through the same education systems they are supposed to be improving, often struggle to teach.(除了钱，教育系统本身也迫切需要改变：考试是一团糟，导致政府高估识字水平。雇用了新教师，但没有得到适当的培训。教师来自他们应该改进的相同教育体系，但往往难以教学。)”可知，应该建立一个可靠的系统来测试学生的知识和能力。故选C。
16、答案：①-⑤FAGCE
解析：①上文“Handwritten Chinese characters can be beautiful. Living in a digital era with smartphones and computers, most students sooner or later ask themselves this question”(手写汉字很漂亮。生活在有着手机和电脑的数字化时代，大多数学生迟早都会问自己这问题)说明汉字很漂亮，但在数字化的时代里，学生们不经会问自己是否需要手写汉字，下文又在介绍手写汉字的重要性，F项表示否有必要学习如何手写汉字，符合题意。故选F项。
②上文“Knowing how to write Chinese characters by hand is just cool. It feels like magic when you write a few strokes(笔画) on paper that don’t normally make sense, but they suddenly come together and create a meaning.”(知道如何用手写汉字是一件很酷的事情。你在纸上写一些通常没有意义的笔画，但突然结合在一起产生了意义，这感觉就像魔法一样)说明手写汉字是一件很酷的事，它就像魔法一般，每一笔画结合在一起就有了意义。并且我们可以理解它的意义。这里是递进关系，有了意义，我们就能理解它。A项意思为：神奇的是，你可以理解它，符合题意。故选A项。
③下文“However, without knowing how to write characters by hand, you are very unlikely to reach a level above intermediate(中级的).”(然而，不知道如何用手写字的话，你很可能达不到中级水平)说明不会写汉字的话，我们的汉语达不到中级水平，这里转折了，说明不会写汉字的话我们的汉语水平只能停留在一定的水平上。G项说不会手写汉字的话你的汉语可以达到一定水平，但只能停留在这儿了，符合题意。故选G项。
④下文“Handwriting characters is a form of meditation. Once you learn how to stay focused, you will not only notice that your concentration skills improve, but you will also find yourself feeling calm and relaxed when writing characters.”(手写汉字是一种冥想。一旦学会了专注，你就会发现这不仅可以提高专注能力，还可以让你在写字的时候变得平静和轻松)说明写汉字可以提高我们的专注度，C项说手写汉字可以训练专注度，符合题意。故选C项。
⑤上文“But unless you don’t care about written language at all, you should learn the basics of handwriting.”(但是，除非你根本不在乎书写语言，否则你应该学习书写的基础)说明如果我们在乎书写语言，就应该学习书写的基础。从而可知，书写基础对于汉字的理解很重要。E项说没有手写汉字基础的话，汉字很难理解。其中it指的就是the basics of handwriting。故选E项。
17、答案：D
解析：考查形容词词义辨析。句意：我的家人占有欲太强，以至于他们剪掉了它的翅膀。A. primitive原始的；B. extensive广阔的，大量的；C. aggressive有侵略性的；D. possessive占有的，不愿分享的。根据下文“that they trimmed(剪掉) its wings”可知剪了它的翅膀，这样它就不会飞走了，所以我的家人应该是占有欲太强，故选D。
18、答案：A
解析：考查动词词义辨析。句意：他们说如果它离开家，没有我们它就无法生存。A. survive生存；B. escape逃跑；C. appear出现；D. change改变。根据上文“they trimmed (剪掉) its wings”可知鹦鹉被剪掉了翅膀，所以说离开我们家它就不能生存，故选A。
19、答案：B
解析：考查动词短语辨析。句意：我有时想知道它为什么不飞走。A. come around苏醒；B. fly away飞走；C. come back回来；D. take shape成形。根据上文“Mitthu wasn’t kept in a cage.”可知鹦鹉没有被关进笼子里，所以我想知道它为什么不飞走，故选B。
20、答案：D
解析：考查动词词义辨析。句意：也许它对我们很依恋，不想离开我们，也许它不想离开安逸的生活，不想面对残酷的现实。A. ignore忽视；B. represent代表；C. shift转移；D. face面对。同上文“it didn’t want to leave the luxurious life”并列，可知应该是不愿面对残酷的现实，故选D。
21、答案：A
解析：考查动词词义辨析。句意：随着年龄的增长，我意识到Mitthu的生活和我的并没有太大的不同。A. realized意识；B. expected期盼；C. dismissed解雇；D. convinced使相信。根据下文“I was pampered(溺爱) and ______ carefully.”可知是随着年龄的增长，我意识到自己的情况和Mitthu差不多，故选A。
22、答案：C
解析：考查动词词义辨析。句意：我被溺爱和细心照顾着。A. evaluated评估；B. educated教育；C. tended照顾；D. exposed暴露。根据上文“I was pampered(溺爱)”可知我也被细心地照顾着，故选C。
23、答案：D
解析：考查动词短语辨析。句意：我被禁止与外界真正相处。A. keeping up with保持；B. coming down to下来，坍塌；C. breaking away from放弃，逃跑；D. getting along with与……相处。根据下文“My house became my whole world”可知我被禁止与外界真正相处，故选D。
24、答案：B
解析：考查名词词义辨析。句意：我的家成了我的整个世界，它就像一个看不见的笼子，束缚着我的精神。A. bunch一束；B. cage笼子；C. light光；D. cave洞穴。根据上文“Mitthu’s life wasn’t very different from mine”可知我和Mitthu一样被困在一个看不见的笼子里，故选B。
25、答案：C
解析：考查副词词义辨析。句意：现在我被送出去学习并且被告知有整个天空让我飞翔，但是悲伤的是，就像Mitthu，我不能这么做。A. rarely罕见地；B. gradually逐渐地；C. sadly悲伤地；D. violently暴力地。根据下文“I am afraid of flying. I am afraid my behavior might hurt my parents’ feelings.”此空的情绪应该是负面的，故选C。
26、答案：A
解析：考查动词词义辨析。句意：我们是不同的物种，但我们被相似的环境所困。A. trapped使陷入困境；B. frozen结冰；C. hatched孵出；D. stored储存。根据上下文语境和“in a similar situation”可知我和Mitthu有着同样的境遇，都一直呆在看不见的笼子里，所以应该是被相似的环境所困，故选A。
27、答案：D
解析：考查名词词义辨析。句意：这些情感和联系永远不会让我们真正地独立飞翔！ A. strength力量；B. sympathy同情；C. commitment忠诚；D. attachment联系。根据上文“I am afraid of flying. I am afraid my behavior might hurt my parents’ feelings.”可知一方面是我害怕飞行，另一方面我害怕伤了父母的心，对应本句一个是emotions，一个是attachment联系，与父母的联系。故选D。
28、答案：C
解析：考查动词词义辨析。句意：父母爱和保护孩子是好的，但是，有时候，父母的过度保护可能会伤害孩子的未来，影响孩子的决定。A. adopt领养；B. ban禁止；C. protect保护；D. entertain娱乐。根据上文“love”和下文“over-protectiveness”可知应是protect保护，故选C。
29、答案：A
解析：考查动词词义辨析。句意：同上。A. influence影响；B. support支持；C. forecast预测；D. comprise包含。根据上文“over-protectiveness from parents might harm their children’s future”可知父母的过度保护可能会伤害孩子的未来，影响孩子的决定，故选A。
30、答案：B
解析：考查名词词义辨析。句意：真正的爱是让孩子自由成长，让他们尝试不同的事物。A. harmony和谐；B. love爱；C. freedom自由；D. equality平等。根据上文“sometimes, over-protectiveness from parents might harm their children’s future and _____ children’s decisions.”可知说明真正的爱是什么样的，故选B。
31、答案：B
解析：考查形容词词义辨析。句意：同上。A. humble谦逊的；B. different不同的；C. unique独特的；D. intense强烈的。根据上文“to allow kids to grow freely”可知真正的爱是让孩子自由成长，所以应该允许尝试不同的事物，而不是不与外界接触，故选B。
32、答案：①and②truly③is located④has been⑤lost⑥combining⑦why⑧a⑨displays⑩with
解析：①考查连词。句意:在过去的十年里,他一直在拍摄这座城市,捕捉它的美丽,并在网上和展览中分享这些照片。根据句意和空格后的sharing分析句子可知,sharing和上文的photographing以及capturing是并列关系,所以空格处应该填入并列连词and。故填and。
②考查副词。句意:“这真正代表了北京—旧与新,完美地融合在一起,”杜帕斯在展示他拍摄的智化寺的照片时说,智化寺是一座精致的明代建筑。根据句意和所给形容词true分析句子可知,空格处应该填入形容词true的副词形式truly作状语,修饰后面的动词represent。故填truly。
③考查时态、固定搭配和主谓一致。句意:它位于现代办公大楼银河SOHO的前面,以编织的桥梁和环环相扣的通道为特色。根据句意和所给动词locate分析句子可知,此处是考查动词locate的用法be located in+地点(坐落于……);根据句意和后面从句的时态是一般现在时可知,主句也应该用一般现在时;再由主语it可知,谓语动词应该用单数形式。故填is located。
④考查时态和主谓一致。句意:北京拥有丰富的历史遗产,自明朝以来一直是中国传统文化的重要中心。根据句意分析句子可知,空格处是该句子的谓语部分,由时间状语since the Ming Dynasty可知,句子应该用现在完成时;再由主语Beijing可知,谓语动词应该用单数形式。故填has been。
⑤考查形容词。句意:杜帕斯经常在这座城市辉煌的古建筑中迷路。根据句意和所给动词lose以及空格前的get分析句子可知,空格处应该填入形容词lost作表语。故填lost。
⑥考查现在分词。句意:同时,他也惊叹于这座融合了高端商业和各行业的现代化城市。根据句意和所给动词combine分析句子可知,空格处应该填入combine的非谓语形式作定语,修饰前面的名词city,因为名词city和动词combine之间是主动关系,所以应该用现在分词combining作定语。故填combining。
⑦考查连接副词。句意:他说:“看到一座快速发展的城市投入如此大的精力来保护它的过去,这是令人着迷的,这就是我决定在这里追求事业的原因。”根据句意分析句子可知,空格后的部分是一个表语从句,空格处应该填入一个连接词引导表语从句,且意义为“为什么”,所以应该用连接副词why。故填why。
⑧考查冠词。句意:杜帕斯决心在中国继续他的职业生涯,希望成为中国和西方之间的桥梁。根据句意和空格后的单数可数名词bridge分析句子可知,空格处应该填入一个不定冠词,表泛指,因为bridge的发音是辅音音素开头,所以应该用不定冠词a。故填a。
⑨考查可数名词单复数。句意:展览展示了他关于北京的照片,吸引了希腊和捷克共和国的大量观众。根据句意和所给可数名词display分析句子可知,空格处是该句子的主语,由句中的助动词have可知,句子的主语应该是复数形式displays。故填displays。
⑩考查介词。句意:“我现在把北京当成我的家,”他说,“我会继续把中国的照片分享给世界其他地方。”根据句意和句中的动词share分析句子,此处是考查动词share和介词with的搭配:share something with somebody(和某人分享某物)。故填with。
33、答案：
Dear Robin,
I’m more than delighted to know that you’re interested in Chinese food. It has a long history with distinct cuisine types in different areas. As a food lover, here I highly recommend Kung Pao Chicken.
Cooked with chicken breast, roasted peanuts and small pieces of dried tofu, Kung Pao Chicken not only tastes delicious but does good to your health as well. Also, this dish is quite easy to make and can be adapted to individual tastes.
If you’re in the mood for something healthy, this is a great choice!
Yours,
Li Hua
解析：本篇书面表达属于应用文，要求考生给对中国美食文化很感兴趣的英国笔友Robin写一封回信，内容包括：推荐一道美食；说明理由。
解析：1.词汇积累
高兴的：delighted→happy/glad
对……感兴趣：be interested in→have an interest in
不同的：distinct→different
美味的：delicious→palatable
2.句式拓展
简单句变复合句
原句：As a food lover, here I highly recommend Kung Pao Chicken.
拓展句：As a food lover, here I highly recommend a dish which is called Kung Pao Chicken.
34、答案：Then at a crossroad stood a small woman, asking for change. As usual, we told her things would get better and my two little girls handed out our final lunch bag. But as we drove off, what I saw from the rearview mirror confused me a lot. Instead of enjoying the lunch, she just took a deep sniff of the burger and gently put it away in her pocket. Strong curiosity drove us back to ask her, “Do you enjoy the lunch?” “The lunch is perfect, but I’m not going to eat it.” the woman said with sincere gratitude in her eyes.
She looked at me and added, “You know what, this is my daughter’s favorite.” Then I learned that she had a little girl of her own at home and she just liked McDonald’s as my two little ones. With a smile on her face she continued, “Tonight she is going to have McDonald’s!” So many times I had questioned whether our Acts of Kindness were too small or insignificant to really make any change. Yet in that moment, I recognized the meaning of Mother Teresa’s words, “We cannot do great things — only small things with great love.”