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这是一份北京市东城区2024届高三下学期5月二模试题英语Word版含答案，共9页。试卷主要包含了5分，共15分）， A等内容，欢迎下载使用。
本试卷共11页，共100分。考试时长90分钟。考生务必在答题卡指定区域作答，在试卷上作答无效。考试结束后，将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。
第一部分 知识运用（共两节，30分）
第一节 完形填空（共10小题；每小题1.5分，共15分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Steven tk his 7-year-ld sn Alex and 4-year-ld daughter Mia ut n his bat fr fishing and fun. But in the blink f an eye, things tk a terrifying 1 when a strng current suddenly swept thrugh, causing Mia t 2 her hld n the bat.
While Mia wre a life jacket, Alex did nt. But as the current pulled his sister away, Alex wasn’t ging t leave her alne. He, t, let g f the 3 and swam tward his sister.
Realizing the danger, Steven 4 jumped int the water and tried t help his kids. But the strng current made it difficult even fr him. S he tld Alex t swim t shre while he tried t rescue Mia.
“I tld them bth I lved them because I wasn’t sure what was ging t happen,” Steven recalled. “I tried t 5 Mia as lng as I culd. But finally I wre myself ut, and she drifted away（漂走） frm me.”
Alex fllwed his dad’s 6 and headed fr the shre. But it was n easy task. “The current was ging the ppsite way,” he explained.
This little by spent an hur 7 his way back t land. He swam mre than a mile. Once he finally made it t the shre, the by ran t the first huse he culd find and begged fr 8 . Frm there, Jacksnville authrities 9 and rescued Steven and his daughter.
Alex, the brave and 10 little by saved his sister and dad. If nt fr him, it wuld have been a different stry.
1. A. hit B. turn C. pause D. risk
2. A. release B. find C. escape D. regain
3. A. fish B. jacket C. bat D. current
4. A. unusually B. suddenly C. instantly D. unexpectedly
5. A. relate t B. wait fr C. cunt n D. stick with
6. A. explanatin B. ftsteps C. example D. instructins
7. A. clearing B. fighting C. picking D. changing
8. A. security B. understanding C. permissin D. help
9. A. cut in B. lked ut C. tk ver D. came arund
10. A. tugh B. humble C. hard-wrking D. cnfident
第二节 语法填空（共10小题；每小题1.5分，共15分）
阅读下列短文，根据短文内容填空。在未给提示词的空白处仅填写1个恰当的单词，在给出提示词的空白处用括号内所给词的正确形式填空。请在答题卡指定区域作答。
A
Have yu ever heard f the Ring f Fire? It might sund like smething straight ut f science fictin, 11 it is a real place. The Ring f Fire is the name used by scientists t describe an area 12 frequent vlcanic eruptins and earthquakes take place. In fact, mst f the wrld’s vlcanes are lcated there. The Ring f Fire is an arc-shaped regin that 13 （run） alng the cast f Nrth and Suth America, alng the eastern edge f Asia, acrss Alaska’s Aleutian Islands, and alng the cast f New Zealand.
B
At the mment, AI tls prvide results that are nt always crrect r apprpriate. That’s 14 cmpanies are lking fr peple t help train AI prgrams. These peple are called prmpt engineers, wh 15 （pay） six - figure salaries. Anna Bernstein, a prmpt engineer, writes prmpts and feeds them 16 AI tls. This helps the AI generate text with accurate infrmatin. She thinks prmpt engineering is nw ne f the httest tech jbs and she lves her jb.
C
When Lauren Schreder, a high schl student, 17 （shw） up t a cmmunity fd drive last year, she saw what peple there gt — just a lt f 18 （can） gds. She decided t becme the change she wanted t see.Schreder grew 7,000 punds f prduce and gave it all away t fd banks. Her wrk drew the attentin f Future Farmers f America, which gave her sme mney fr 19 （supply） and seeds. Her gal is 20 （dnate） 20,000 punds f vegetables by the time she graduates.
第一节（共14小题；每小题2分，共28分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A
21. Which rbts can wrk in the air?
A. Spt and Trail Blazers. B. Spt and Lightning Swarm.
C. Rster and Trail Blazers. D. Rster and Lightning Swarm.
22. What d these rbts have in cmmn?
A. They can send radi signals.
B. They are fitted with cameras.
C. They can help cnduct rescues.
D. They are mdelled after animals.
23. This passage is prbably frm ______.
A. a science magazine B. a test reprt
C. an perating handbk D. a mdern fictin
B
Mark Brwn. 57. had been making films fr 30 years, but he fund himself feeling tired f it. “I thught, things can nly g dwnhill.” Brwn knew he needed t d smething else — but what? A few years earlier, he had bught his childhd huse and mved in. While Brwn wndered abut a secnd care er in gardening, he heard a different internal vice. “That child wh used t lve drawing whispered t me dwn the years,” he said. Sme unacknwledged lnging in him was brught ut.
There was a great ak tree near his hme. It had std ut t his yung self as a “fantastical giant — a treasure hme t birds, insects and animals. There was a cave inside. We used t squeeze in thrugh this hle.” He decided t lck himself away fr tw mnths t draw it in all its glrius detail.
“While I was drawing,” he said, “there came mments when it was as thugh the tree was drawing itself. I had spent s much time playing in it. I culd feel it. It was deep inside me.” His finished ak held “a real pwer”, he said. “As yu walk twards it, it just grws.” Brwn became a tree prtraitist.
Over the next few years, he travelled acrss Britain and spent days with the trees selected with the help f the Ancient Tree Frum, the Tree Cuncil and the Wdland Trust. Brwn has started wrk n a 20-drawing series f Britain’s mst imprtant ash trees. “These beautiful ld ash trees are ging t be lst t us,” he says. “They are 350 years ld and they are dying because f a disease that we’ve spread.”
Drawing is nt nly an act f care and a demand fr preservatin, but it “gives me that interface between my passin fr the natural wrld and my creativity,” Brwn says. It has als given him a different perspective n the passage f time. “I’m an ld man yet I’m nly 71, and sme f the trees I’ve drawn are 1,000 years ld. When I’m with them and when I draw them, I think abut the end f my life and the brief nature f human life that passes mmentarily beneath them.”
24. At the age f 57. Brwn ______.
A. mved int his ld huse B. awakened a childhd interest
C. reached the peak f his life D. develped a passin fr gardening
25. What can we learn abut the ak tree and Brwn?
A. It helped him start a new career.
B. It linked him with the wrld.
C. He built a tree huse in it.
D. He studied creatures in it.
26. What is Brwn wrking n?
A. Setting up tree rganizatins.
B. Lking fr cures fr tree diseases.
C. Drawing t call fr prtectin fr trees.
D. Travelling t select imprtant trees in Britain.
27. When Brwn is with trees, he feels that ______.
A. time is endless B. human life is temprary
C. nature is dynamic D. life-lng learning is crucial
C
Neurscientists usually investigate ne brain at a time. They bserve hw neurns（神经元） fire as a persn reads certain wrds, fr example, r plays a vide game. As scial animals, hwever, thse same scientists d much f their wrk tgether — brainstrming hyptheses, puzzling ver prblems and fine-tuning experimental designs. Increasingly, researchers are bringing that reality int hw they study brains.
Cllective neurscience, as sme practitiners call it, is a rapidly grwing field f research. An early, cnsistent finding is that when peple cnverse r share an experience, their brain waves synchrnize. Neurns in crrespnding lcatins f the different brains fire at the same time, creating matching patterns, like dancers mving tgether. The experience f “being n the same wavelength” as anther persn is real, and it is visible in the activity f the brain.
Such wrk is beginning t reveal new levels f richness and cmplexity in sciability. In classrms where students are engaged with the teacher, fr example, their patterns f brain prcessing begin t synchrnize with that teacher’s — and greater synchrny may mean better learning. Cuples exhibit higher degrees f brain synchrny than nn-rmantic pairs, as d clse friends cmpared with mre distant acquaintances.
But much abut the phenmenn remains mysterius — even scientists ccasinally use the wrd “magic” when talking abut it. One straightfrward explanatin culd be that synchrny between brains is a result f shared experience r simply a sign that we are hearing r seeing the same thing as smene else. But the newest research suggests that synchrny is mre than that — r can be. Researchers are discvering synchrny in humans and ther species, and they are mapping its chregraphy — its rhythm, timing and undulatins（波动） — t better understand what benefits it may give us.
Given that synchrnized experiences are ften enjyable, researchers suspect this phenmenn is beneficial: it helps us interact and may have facilitated the evlutin f sciality. This new kind f brain research might als cast light n why we dn’t always “click” with smene r why scial islatin（孤立） is s harmful t physical and mental health. With synchrny and ther levels f neural interactin, humans teach and learn, frge friendships and rmances, and cperate and cnverse. We are driven t cnnect, and synchrny is ne way ur brains help us d it.
8. Accrding t the passage, cllective neurscience ______.
A. cllects and refines research n neurns
B. analyses activities f ne brain at a time
C. prmtes cnnectins amng neurscientists
D. fcuses n studying brains in interactive grups
29. What can we infer abut brain synchrny frm Paragraph 4?
A. It can benefit ther species.
B. Its mechanism has changed.
C. It demands further investigatins.
D. Findings abut it are cntradictry.
30. Which f the fllwing may result frm brain synchrny?
A. Increasing ppularity amng peers.
B. Better cperatin amng teammates.
C. Imprved techniques fr cnversatins.
D. Mre shared experiences between a cuple.
D
Yu might nt think that an AI capable f making music wuld stimulate yur emtin, but thers think differently, particularly thse wh gathered at Mexic City’s Symphny Hall in 2019 fr Schubert’s Unfinished Symphny, which I finished using meldies generated by an AI.
As the rchestra（管弦乐团） finished Schubert’s riginal wrk and began the music the AI and I had written, I culd feel the crwd’s energy shift frm astnishment t indignatin and fear. They seemed afraid that an AI might be able t make emtinal symphnic music. Yu can see their pint: an AI that makes emtinal music culd affect the emtinal lives f thusands r even millins f peple in a small, but prfund way, just like a human musician des.
Psitive and negative, peple reacted very strngly t AI’s symphnic debut（首秀）. Even thugh mst peple dn’t believe that AI can create smething enjyable, they, at least partly, did enjy the Unfinished Symphny.
Enjyment in music implies that there’s smething in the music that the listener cnnects t, a perceptin f shared emtin. But, in the case f AI music, an emtin shared with wh? AI, as f yet, has n emtins. S what is the meaning f music made withut an emtinal cmpser? The unsatisfying answer is that music has n bjective meaning. A cmpser can decide hw a piece f music sunds, but it’s the listener that decides what it means.
N matter hw it s created, music desn’t exist in a vacuum（真空） t the listener. The meaning we assign t music depends n its cntext — hw the piece cnnects t ther elements in ur lives. Withut cntext, music is like the results f a game whse rules have been lst. The cntext fr a music is part f wh yu are. The music is emtinal t yu because yu have the cntext t appreciate it. As it cntinues t evlve, AI music will develp its wn cntext. Certainly, it’ll be different frm human-made music. It’ll mix existing genres t create new nes; it’ll cmbine instruments that we wuldn’t think f cmbining. Its rules will be different.
I’m nw always asked the same questin: “Wh put the emtin in that music: yu, the cmpser, r the AI?” But that’s nt the questin they really want t ask, thugh. There’s a deeper questin that mst peple are t afraid t ask right nw: “Are my emtins s simple that they can be maneuvered by a machine?”
In my experience, this culd be pssible ne day. If a mdestly capable music AI in 2019 culd stir up emtins f an audience, maybe AI can have a mre pwerful effect n ur emtinal lives than we’d like t admit.
31. The audience reacted strngly t the symphny mainly due t ______.
A. their dubts abut AI’s capabilities
B. their uneasiness abut AI’s influence
C. the rchestra’s brilliant presentatin f AI music
D. the likeness between AI music and the riginal wrk
32. What might the authr agree with?
A. AI pses little impact n peple’s emtins.
B. Music bears n intended emtinal meaning.
C. AI music will utperfrm human-made music.
D. The cntext reflects peple’s interpretatin f music.
33. What des the wrd “maneuvered” underlined in Paragraph 6 mst prbably mean?
A. Refreshed. B. Challenged. C. Revealed. D. Directed.
34. Which wuld be the best title fr the passage?
A. Are Cmpsers T Be Replaced?
B. Wuld AI Music Be a Rising Trend?
C. Culd AI Make Music That Mves Yu?
D. Was the Unfinished Symphny Successful?
根据短文内容，从短文后的七个选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。选项中有两项为多余选项。
Scrates, Galile, Marie Curie, Einstein ... What did these great thinkers have in cmmn? They all practiced deliberate dubt and used it as a tl t imprve their thinking and generate creative ideas.
35 It is abut suspending ur certainty and letting g f ur precnceived（先入为主的） ntins in rder t explre new ideas and perspectives. When we’re certain f smething, we tend t stp lking fr alternative explanatins r pssibilities. 36 Dubt can, f curse, be unsettling, but it can als result in a greater understanding f a subject and inspire fresh thughts and insights.
37 But it desn’t mean we shuld use it all the time. While deliberate dubt can be a valuable tl fr generating creative ideas and explring cmplex prblems, it can als be cunterprductive if it is nt practiced in the right way.
It’s imprtant t keep in mind that deliberate dubt is nt cnstant dubt. If we’re cntinuusly dubting ur wn ideas, we’ll be less likely t pursue them and see them thrugh t cmpletin. 38 We spend s much time dubting everything and end up nt ding anything.
39 We can becme self-critical and unsure f ur abilities, which can undermine ur self-esteem. As a result, we may be t afraid t try new things r take risks.
T avid these traps, it’s imprtant t strike a balance between dubt and certainty, and t use dubt as a tl t stimulate creative thinking and explratin, rather than as a means f undermining urselves r thers.
A. Deliberate dubt can als lead t a lack f cnfidence.
B. But when we dubt, we’re frced t cnsider ther perspectives.
C. In this case, deliberate dubt can prevent us frm making decisins.
D. When practiced all the time, deliberate dubt can lead t a different belief.
E. By turning dubt int a deliberate prcess, we pen urselves t new pssibilities.
F. Deliberate dubt is the practice f actively questining ur beliefs and assumptins.
G. Deliberate dubt can help us t develp a mre pen-minded apprach t the wrld.
第一节 （共4小题；第40、41题各2分，第42题3分，第43题5分，共12分）
阅读下面短文，根据题目要求用英文回答问题。请在答题卡指定区域作答。
When I think abut running a timed mile in elementary schl PE class, I can still feel the full-bdy sensatin f stress. The mile run was part f the Natinal Physical Fitness Test, a bi annual assessment given t elementary thrugh high schl students, which included five events: the mile run, sit-ups, pull-ups r push-ups, a sit-and-reach and a shuttle run.
Twice a year, the tp 15 percent f participants natinwide were hnred with a Physical Fitness Award. At my schl, the winners’names were painted n ne f the gym’s walls. Fr years I stared admiringly at thse names, wndering if I wuld ever make the cut. But n matter hw hard I tried, I culd never pull my chin abve the bar.
I believe deeply in the value f physical activity fr bth the mind and the bdy. Hwever, it wasn’t until I was in my 30s and had run a half-dzen half-marathns, at a cmfrtable pace, that I even began t believe I was a sprtswman. I’ve heard similar stries frm many peple. My friend Natalia, a grup fitness instructr, said that fr years she saw herself as lacking athleticism thanks t her experience in PE class. It was nly when she tk a fitness class that she began t see herself as physically capable.
Their experiences, and my wn, made me believe even if PE class and fitness assessment fail t make yu develp a psitive relatinship with sprts, there is definitely a psitive pprtunity t make it a surce f jy in yur life.
It’s taken years t meet myself where I am. When I run a mile these days, I feel s gd by the end that I want t run anther. I still can’t d a traditinal pull-up, but a trainer at my gym recently intrduced me t assisted pull - ups with resistance bands; I delight in finally feeling up t the task.
Fitness shuldn’t be fr the few. We all benefit frm sprts, whether we earn ur names n the wall r nt.
40. What is the Natinal Physical Fitness Test?
41. What was in her mind when the authr stared at the names n the wall?
42. Please decide which part is false in the fllwing statement, then underline it and explain why.
Accrding t the authr, many peple fail in PE class r fitness assessment and then they will find it difficult t make sprts a surce f jy in their life.
43. What d yu think f the idea “fitness shuldn’t be fr the few” in the last paragraph? （In abut 40 wrds）
第二节 （20分）
假设你是红星中学高三学生李华。你的好友 Jim是北京一所国际学校的篮球队队长.你校计划组织一场校际篮球比赛，请你用英文给Jim写一封邮件，内容包括：
1.发出比赛邀请；
2.提议比赛安排。
注意：1.词数100左右；
2.开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。
Dear Jim,
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Yurs,
Li Hua
（请务必将作文写在答题卡指定区域内）
Spt
Over 1.000 f these yellw rbts, Spt, are already checking factries and pwer plants. And nw the New Yrk City Fire Department is starting t use the dg-like devices fr search-and-rescue missins.
In April 2024, a Spt surveyed the remains f a cllapsed car park that was cnsidered t unstable fr fire crews t enter. Spt can als send back vide ftage, carry up t 14 kg and. when fitted with an add-n “arm”, pen drs and press switches.
Lightning Swarm
Inspired by fireflies, these rbts are tiny and can give ut light in varius clurs. The scientists intend the rbts t use their lights t signal t and track each ther: a lw-pwer cmmunicatin strategy fr a lightweight rbt.
“We envisin sending hundreds r mre f these tiny flying rbts int a disaster site, and having them cllectively search fr survivrs,” says MIT rbtics engineer Prf Kevin Chen. “Once a surviv r is fund, they’ll pass the infrmatin ut t the peratrs.”
Trail Blazers
At the Bajia Firc Rescue Statin, in Yantai, nrtheast China. a firefighter tests ut a fire-fighting rbt.
Fr a few years, China has been prmting the technlgy, which allws human firefighters t stay safely utside the danger zne while cntrlling rbt firefighters t put ut fires at chemical plants and in subways. One majr advantage f this apprach is fire resistance — Trail Blazers can wrk at temperatures f 1,000℃ fr ver 30 mins.
Rster
Thanks t its clever design, Rster can rll acrss surfaces r fly arund t examine almst any type f disaster site, mving thrugh narrw passages and windws, r ver bstacles and up r dwn staircases.
Designed t assist in search peratins, the rbt uses cameras and sensrs t scan a space, s that rescuers dn’t need t enter dangerus areas. Rster can als cmmunicate with search teams and ther rbts via a radi link.
北京市东城区2023—2024学年度第二学期高三综合练习（二）
英语参考答案及评分标准
第一部分 知识运用（共两节，30分）
第一节 （共10小题；每小题1.5分，共15分）
1. B 2. A 3. C 4. C 5. D
6. D 7. B 8. D 9. C 10. A
第二节 （共10小题；每小题1.5分，共15分）
11. but 12. where 13. runs 14. why 15. are paid
16. int 17. shwed 18. canned 19. supplies 20. t dnate
第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，38分）
第一节 （共14小题；每小题2分，共28分）
21. D 22. C 23. A 24. B 25. A
26. C 27. B 28. D 29. C 30. B
31. B 32. B 33. D 34. C
第二节 （共5小题；每小题2分，共 10分）
35. F 36. B 37. G 38. C 39. A
第三部分 书面表达（共两节，32分）
第一节 （12分）
40. It is a bi annual assessment given t elementary thrugh high schl students.
41. She was wndering if she wuld ever make the cut.
42. Accrding t the authr, many peple fail in PE class r fitness assessment and then they will find it difficult t make sprts a surce f jy in their life.
Accrding t the passage, many peple fail in PE class r fitness assessment but there is definitely a psitive pprtunity fr them t make sprts a surce f jy in their life.
本试卷共11页，共100分。考试时长90分钟。考生务必在答题卡指定区域作答，在试卷上作答无效。考试结束后，将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。
第一部分 知识运用（共两节，30分）
第一节 完形填空（共10小题；每小题1.5分，共15分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Steven tk his 7-year-ld sn Alex and 4-year-ld daughter Mia ut n his bat fr fishing and fun. But in the blink f an eye, things tk a terrifying 1 when a strng current suddenly swept thrugh, causing Mia t 2 her hld n the bat.
While Mia wre a life jacket, Alex did nt. But as the current pulled his sister away, Alex wasn’t ging t leave her alne. He, t, let g f the 3 and swam tward his sister.
Realizing the danger, Steven 4 jumped int the water and tried t help his kids. But the strng current made it difficult even fr him. S he tld Alex t swim t shre while he tried t rescue Mia.
“I tld them bth I lved them because I wasn’t sure what was ging t happen,” Steven recalled. “I tried t 5 Mia as lng as I culd. But finally I wre myself ut, and she drifted away（漂走） frm me.”
Alex fllwed his dad’s 6 and headed fr the shre. But it was n easy task. “The current was ging the ppsite way,” he explained.
This little by spent an hur 7 his way back t land. He swam mre than a mile. Once he finally made it t the shre, the by ran t the first huse he culd find and begged fr 8 . Frm there, Jacksnville authrities 9 and rescued Steven and his daughter.
Alex, the brave and 10 little by saved his sister and dad. If nt fr him, it wuld have been a different stry.
1. A. hit B. turn C. pause D. risk
2. A. release B. find C. escape D. regain
3. A. fish B. jacket C. bat D. current
4. A. unusually B. suddenly C. instantly D. unexpectedly
5. A. relate t B. wait fr C. cunt n D. stick with
6. A. explanatin B. ftsteps C. example D. instructins
7. A. clearing B. fighting C. picking D. changing
8. A. security B. understanding C. permissin D. help
9. A. cut in B. lked ut C. tk ver D. came arund
10. A. tugh B. humble C. hard-wrking D. cnfident
第二节 语法填空（共10小题；每小题1.5分，共15分）
阅读下列短文，根据短文内容填空。在未给提示词的空白处仅填写1个恰当的单词，在给出提示词的空白处用括号内所给词的正确形式填空。请在答题卡指定区域作答。
A
Have yu ever heard f the Ring f Fire? It might sund like smething straight ut f science fictin, 11 it is a real place. The Ring f Fire is the name used by scientists t describe an area 12 frequent vlcanic eruptins and earthquakes take place. In fact, mst f the wrld’s vlcanes are lcated there. The Ring f Fire is an arc-shaped regin that 13 （run） alng the cast f Nrth and Suth America, alng the eastern edge f Asia, acrss Alaska’s Aleutian Islands, and alng the cast f New Zealand.
B
At the mment, AI tls prvide results that are nt always crrect r apprpriate. That’s 14 cmpanies are lking fr peple t help train AI prgrams. These peple are called prmpt engineers, wh 15 （pay） six - figure salaries. Anna Bernstein, a prmpt engineer, writes prmpts and feeds them 16 AI tls. This helps the AI generate text with accurate infrmatin. She thinks prmpt engineering is nw ne f the httest tech jbs and she lves her jb.
C
When Lauren Schreder, a high schl student, 17 （shw） up t a cmmunity fd drive last year, she saw what peple there gt — just a lt f 18 （can） gds. She decided t becme the change she wanted t see.Schreder grew 7,000 punds f prduce and gave it all away t fd banks. Her wrk drew the attentin f Future Farmers f America, which gave her sme mney fr 19 （supply） and seeds. Her gal is 20 （dnate） 20,000 punds f vegetables by the time she graduates.
第一节（共14小题；每小题2分，共28分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A
21. Which rbts can wrk in the air?
A. Spt and Trail Blazers. B. Spt and Lightning Swarm.
C. Rster and Trail Blazers. D. Rster and Lightning Swarm.
22. What d these rbts have in cmmn?
A. They can send radi signals.
B. They are fitted with cameras.
C. They can help cnduct rescues.
D. They are mdelled after animals.
23. This passage is prbably frm ______.
A. a science magazine B. a test reprt
C. an perating handbk D. a mdern fictin
B
Mark Brwn. 57. had been making films fr 30 years, but he fund himself feeling tired f it. “I thught, things can nly g dwnhill.” Brwn knew he needed t d smething else — but what? A few years earlier, he had bught his childhd huse and mved in. While Brwn wndered abut a secnd care er in gardening, he heard a different internal vice. “That child wh used t lve drawing whispered t me dwn the years,” he said. Sme unacknwledged lnging in him was brught ut.
There was a great ak tree near his hme. It had std ut t his yung self as a “fantastical giant — a treasure hme t birds, insects and animals. There was a cave inside. We used t squeeze in thrugh this hle.” He decided t lck himself away fr tw mnths t draw it in all its glrius detail.
“While I was drawing,” he said, “there came mments when it was as thugh the tree was drawing itself. I had spent s much time playing in it. I culd feel it. It was deep inside me.” His finished ak held “a real pwer”, he said. “As yu walk twards it, it just grws.” Brwn became a tree prtraitist.
Over the next few years, he travelled acrss Britain and spent days with the trees selected with the help f the Ancient Tree Frum, the Tree Cuncil and the Wdland Trust. Brwn has started wrk n a 20-drawing series f Britain’s mst imprtant ash trees. “These beautiful ld ash trees are ging t be lst t us,” he says. “They are 350 years ld and they are dying because f a disease that we’ve spread.”
Drawing is nt nly an act f care and a demand fr preservatin, but it “gives me that interface between my passin fr the natural wrld and my creativity,” Brwn says. It has als given him a different perspective n the passage f time. “I’m an ld man yet I’m nly 71, and sme f the trees I’ve drawn are 1,000 years ld. When I’m with them and when I draw them, I think abut the end f my life and the brief nature f human life that passes mmentarily beneath them.”
24. At the age f 57. Brwn ______.
A. mved int his ld huse B. awakened a childhd interest
C. reached the peak f his life D. develped a passin fr gardening
25. What can we learn abut the ak tree and Brwn?
A. It helped him start a new career.
B. It linked him with the wrld.
C. He built a tree huse in it.
D. He studied creatures in it.
26. What is Brwn wrking n?
A. Setting up tree rganizatins.
B. Lking fr cures fr tree diseases.
C. Drawing t call fr prtectin fr trees.
D. Travelling t select imprtant trees in Britain.
27. When Brwn is with trees, he feels that ______.
A. time is endless B. human life is temprary
C. nature is dynamic D. life-lng learning is crucial
C
Neurscientists usually investigate ne brain at a time. They bserve hw neurns（神经元） fire as a persn reads certain wrds, fr example, r plays a vide game. As scial animals, hwever, thse same scientists d much f their wrk tgether — brainstrming hyptheses, puzzling ver prblems and fine-tuning experimental designs. Increasingly, researchers are bringing that reality int hw they study brains.
Cllective neurscience, as sme practitiners call it, is a rapidly grwing field f research. An early, cnsistent finding is that when peple cnverse r share an experience, their brain waves synchrnize. Neurns in crrespnding lcatins f the different brains fire at the same time, creating matching patterns, like dancers mving tgether. The experience f “being n the same wavelength” as anther persn is real, and it is visible in the activity f the brain.
Such wrk is beginning t reveal new levels f richness and cmplexity in sciability. In classrms where students are engaged with the teacher, fr example, their patterns f brain prcessing begin t synchrnize with that teacher’s — and greater synchrny may mean better learning. Cuples exhibit higher degrees f brain synchrny than nn-rmantic pairs, as d clse friends cmpared with mre distant acquaintances.
But much abut the phenmenn remains mysterius — even scientists ccasinally use the wrd “magic” when talking abut it. One straightfrward explanatin culd be that synchrny between brains is a result f shared experience r simply a sign that we are hearing r seeing the same thing as smene else. But the newest research suggests that synchrny is mre than that — r can be. Researchers are discvering synchrny in humans and ther species, and they are mapping its chregraphy — its rhythm, timing and undulatins（波动） — t better understand what benefits it may give us.
Given that synchrnized experiences are ften enjyable, researchers suspect this phenmenn is beneficial: it helps us interact and may have facilitated the evlutin f sciality. This new kind f brain research might als cast light n why we dn’t always “click” with smene r why scial islatin（孤立） is s harmful t physical and mental health. With synchrny and ther levels f neural interactin, humans teach and learn, frge friendships and rmances, and cperate and cnverse. We are driven t cnnect, and synchrny is ne way ur brains help us d it.
8. Accrding t the passage, cllective neurscience ______.
A. cllects and refines research n neurns
B. analyses activities f ne brain at a time
C. prmtes cnnectins amng neurscientists
D. fcuses n studying brains in interactive grups
29. What can we infer abut brain synchrny frm Paragraph 4?
A. It can benefit ther species.
B. Its mechanism has changed.
C. It demands further investigatins.
D. Findings abut it are cntradictry.
30. Which f the fllwing may result frm brain synchrny?
A. Increasing ppularity amng peers.
B. Better cperatin amng teammates.
C. Imprved techniques fr cnversatins.
D. Mre shared experiences between a cuple.
D
Yu might nt think that an AI capable f making music wuld stimulate yur emtin, but thers think differently, particularly thse wh gathered at Mexic City’s Symphny Hall in 2019 fr Schubert’s Unfinished Symphny, which I finished using meldies generated by an AI.
As the rchestra（管弦乐团） finished Schubert’s riginal wrk and began the music the AI and I had written, I culd feel the crwd’s energy shift frm astnishment t indignatin and fear. They seemed afraid that an AI might be able t make emtinal symphnic music. Yu can see their pint: an AI that makes emtinal music culd affect the emtinal lives f thusands r even millins f peple in a small, but prfund way, just like a human musician des.
Psitive and negative, peple reacted very strngly t AI’s symphnic debut（首秀）. Even thugh mst peple dn’t believe that AI can create smething enjyable, they, at least partly, did enjy the Unfinished Symphny.
Enjyment in music implies that there’s smething in the music that the listener cnnects t, a perceptin f shared emtin. But, in the case f AI music, an emtin shared with wh? AI, as f yet, has n emtins. S what is the meaning f music made withut an emtinal cmpser? The unsatisfying answer is that music has n bjective meaning. A cmpser can decide hw a piece f music sunds, but it’s the listener that decides what it means.
N matter hw it s created, music desn’t exist in a vacuum（真空） t the listener. The meaning we assign t music depends n its cntext — hw the piece cnnects t ther elements in ur lives. Withut cntext, music is like the results f a game whse rules have been lst. The cntext fr a music is part f wh yu are. The music is emtinal t yu because yu have the cntext t appreciate it. As it cntinues t evlve, AI music will develp its wn cntext. Certainly, it’ll be different frm human-made music. It’ll mix existing genres t create new nes; it’ll cmbine instruments that we wuldn’t think f cmbining. Its rules will be different.
I’m nw always asked the same questin: “Wh put the emtin in that music: yu, the cmpser, r the AI?” But that’s nt the questin they really want t ask, thugh. There’s a deeper questin that mst peple are t afraid t ask right nw: “Are my emtins s simple that they can be maneuvered by a machine?”
In my experience, this culd be pssible ne day. If a mdestly capable music AI in 2019 culd stir up emtins f an audience, maybe AI can have a mre pwerful effect n ur emtinal lives than we’d like t admit.
31. The audience reacted strngly t the symphny mainly due t ______.
A. their dubts abut AI’s capabilities
B. their uneasiness abut AI’s influence
C. the rchestra’s brilliant presentatin f AI music
D. the likeness between AI music and the riginal wrk
32. What might the authr agree with?
A. AI pses little impact n peple’s emtins.
B. Music bears n intended emtinal meaning.
C. AI music will utperfrm human-made music.
D. The cntext reflects peple’s interpretatin f music.
33. What des the wrd “maneuvered” underlined in Paragraph 6 mst prbably mean?
A. Refreshed. B. Challenged. C. Revealed. D. Directed.
34. Which wuld be the best title fr the passage?
A. Are Cmpsers T Be Replaced?
B. Wuld AI Music Be a Rising Trend?
C. Culd AI Make Music That Mves Yu?
D. Was the Unfinished Symphny Successful?
根据短文内容，从短文后的七个选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。选项中有两项为多余选项。
Scrates, Galile, Marie Curie, Einstein ... What did these great thinkers have in cmmn? They all practiced deliberate dubt and used it as a tl t imprve their thinking and generate creative ideas.
35 It is abut suspending ur certainty and letting g f ur precnceived（先入为主的） ntins in rder t explre new ideas and perspectives. When we’re certain f smething, we tend t stp lking fr alternative explanatins r pssibilities. 36 Dubt can, f curse, be unsettling, but it can als result in a greater understanding f a subject and inspire fresh thughts and insights.
37 But it desn’t mean we shuld use it all the time. While deliberate dubt can be a valuable tl fr generating creative ideas and explring cmplex prblems, it can als be cunterprductive if it is nt practiced in the right way.
It’s imprtant t keep in mind that deliberate dubt is nt cnstant dubt. If we’re cntinuusly dubting ur wn ideas, we’ll be less likely t pursue them and see them thrugh t cmpletin. 38 We spend s much time dubting everything and end up nt ding anything.
39 We can becme self-critical and unsure f ur abilities, which can undermine ur self-esteem. As a result, we may be t afraid t try new things r take risks.
T avid these traps, it’s imprtant t strike a balance between dubt and certainty, and t use dubt as a tl t stimulate creative thinking and explratin, rather than as a means f undermining urselves r thers.
A. Deliberate dubt can als lead t a lack f cnfidence.
B. But when we dubt, we’re frced t cnsider ther perspectives.
C. In this case, deliberate dubt can prevent us frm making decisins.
D. When practiced all the time, deliberate dubt can lead t a different belief.
E. By turning dubt int a deliberate prcess, we pen urselves t new pssibilities.
F. Deliberate dubt is the practice f actively questining ur beliefs and assumptins.
G. Deliberate dubt can help us t develp a mre pen-minded apprach t the wrld.
第一节 （共4小题；第40、41题各2分，第42题3分，第43题5分，共12分）
阅读下面短文，根据题目要求用英文回答问题。请在答题卡指定区域作答。
When I think abut running a timed mile in elementary schl PE class, I can still feel the full-bdy sensatin f stress. The mile run was part f the Natinal Physical Fitness Test, a bi annual assessment given t elementary thrugh high schl students, which included five events: the mile run, sit-ups, pull-ups r push-ups, a sit-and-reach and a shuttle run.
Twice a year, the tp 15 percent f participants natinwide were hnred with a Physical Fitness Award. At my schl, the winners’names were painted n ne f the gym’s walls. Fr years I stared admiringly at thse names, wndering if I wuld ever make the cut. But n matter hw hard I tried, I culd never pull my chin abve the bar.
I believe deeply in the value f physical activity fr bth the mind and the bdy. Hwever, it wasn’t until I was in my 30s and had run a half-dzen half-marathns, at a cmfrtable pace, that I even began t believe I was a sprtswman. I’ve heard similar stries frm many peple. My friend Natalia, a grup fitness instructr, said that fr years she saw herself as lacking athleticism thanks t her experience in PE class. It was nly when she tk a fitness class that she began t see herself as physically capable.
Their experiences, and my wn, made me believe even if PE class and fitness assessment fail t make yu develp a psitive relatinship with sprts, there is definitely a psitive pprtunity t make it a surce f jy in yur life.
It’s taken years t meet myself where I am. When I run a mile these days, I feel s gd by the end that I want t run anther. I still can’t d a traditinal pull-up, but a trainer at my gym recently intrduced me t assisted pull - ups with resistance bands; I delight in finally feeling up t the task.
Fitness shuldn’t be fr the few. We all benefit frm sprts, whether we earn ur names n the wall r nt.
40. What is the Natinal Physical Fitness Test?
41. What was in her mind when the authr stared at the names n the wall?
42. Please decide which part is false in the fllwing statement, then underline it and explain why.
Accrding t the authr, many peple fail in PE class r fitness assessment and then they will find it difficult t make sprts a surce f jy in their life.
43. What d yu think f the idea “fitness shuldn’t be fr the few” in the last paragraph? （In abut 40 wrds）
第二节 （20分）
假设你是红星中学高三学生李华。你的好友 Jim是北京一所国际学校的篮球队队长.你校计划组织一场校际篮球比赛，请你用英文给Jim写一封邮件，内容包括：
1.发出比赛邀请；
2.提议比赛安排。
注意：1.词数100左右；
2.开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。
Dear Jim,
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Yurs,
Li Hua
（请务必将作文写在答题卡指定区域内）
Spt
Over 1.000 f these yellw rbts, Spt, are already checking factries and pwer plants. And nw the New Yrk City Fire Department is starting t use the dg-like devices fr search-and-rescue missins.
In April 2024, a Spt surveyed the remains f a cllapsed car park that was cnsidered t unstable fr fire crews t enter. Spt can als send back vide ftage, carry up t 14 kg and. when fitted with an add-n “arm”, pen drs and press switches.
Lightning Swarm
Inspired by fireflies, these rbts are tiny and can give ut light in varius clurs. The scientists intend the rbts t use their lights t signal t and track each ther: a lw-pwer cmmunicatin strategy fr a lightweight rbt.
“We envisin sending hundreds r mre f these tiny flying rbts int a disaster site, and having them cllectively search fr survivrs,” says MIT rbtics engineer Prf Kevin Chen. “Once a surviv r is fund, they’ll pass the infrmatin ut t the peratrs.”
Trail Blazers
At the Bajia Firc Rescue Statin, in Yantai, nrtheast China. a firefighter tests ut a fire-fighting rbt.
Fr a few years, China has been prmting the technlgy, which allws human firefighters t stay safely utside the danger zne while cntrlling rbt firefighters t put ut fires at chemical plants and in subways. One majr advantage f this apprach is fire resistance — Trail Blazers can wrk at temperatures f 1,000℃ fr ver 30 mins.
Rster
Thanks t its clever design, Rster can rll acrss surfaces r fly arund t examine almst any type f disaster site, mving thrugh narrw passages and windws, r ver bstacles and up r dwn staircases.
Designed t assist in search peratins, the rbt uses cameras and sensrs t scan a space, s that rescuers dn’t need t enter dangerus areas. Rster can als cmmunicate with search teams and ther rbts via a radi link.
北京市东城区2023—2024学年度第二学期高三综合练习（二）
英语参考答案及评分标准
第一部分 知识运用（共两节，30分）
第一节 （共10小题；每小题1.5分，共15分）
1. B 2. A 3. C 4. C 5. D
6. D 7. B 8. D 9. C 10. A
第二节 （共10小题；每小题1.5分，共15分）
11. but 12. where 13. runs 14. why 15. are paid
16. int 17. shwed 18. canned 19. supplies 20. t dnate
第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，38分）
第一节 （共14小题；每小题2分，共28分）
21. D 22. C 23. A 24. B 25. A
26. C 27. B 28. D 29. C 30. B
31. B 32. B 33. D 34. C
第二节 （共5小题；每小题2分，共 10分）
35. F 36. B 37. G 38. C 39. A
第三部分 书面表达（共两节，32分）
第一节 （12分）
40. It is a bi annual assessment given t elementary thrugh high schl students.
41. She was wndering if she wuld ever make the cut.
42. Accrding t the authr, many peple fail in PE class r fitness assessment and then they will find it difficult t make sprts a surce f jy in their life.
Accrding t the passage, many peple fail in PE class r fitness assessment but there is definitely a psitive pprtunity fr them t make sprts a surce f jy in their life.
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