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成都石室中学2023—2024学年度上期高2024届入学考试
英语试卷
满分150分 考试时间：120分钟
第I卷
第一部分 听力(共两节，满分30分)
第一节 (共5小题；每小题1.5分，满分7.5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，你都有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 man think of the exhibit?
A. Attractive. B. Inspiring. C. Uninteresting.
2. What is the man probably?
A. A teacher. B. A coach. C. A doctor.
3. What did the man do on the first day at the summer school?
A. He did Gloria a favor. B. He learned about the rules. C. He collected the stuff.
4. What does the man suggest the woman do with her package?
A. Send it by airmail. B. Mail it tomorrow. C. Buy insurance for it.
5. Where are the speakers going to meet Dave?
A. Outside the bookstore. B. In a burger shop. C. At the cinema.
第二节 (共15 小题；每小题1.5分，满分22.5分)
听下面5段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题，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。听完每段对话或独白前，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。每段对话或独白读两遍。
听下面一段对话，回答第6至第8三个小题。
6. What will the man do at noon on Saturday?
A. Have lunch with his mother.
B Take his sister to play basketball.
C. Make a telephone call to his mother.
7. How will the man go to the basketball game?
A. By car. B. By bus. C. By subway.
8. When will the speakers meet on Saturday?
A. At 5 p.m. B. At 4:30 p.m. C. At 4 p.m.
听下面一段对话，回答第9至第11三个小题。
9. What is the probable relationship between the speakers?
A. Salesperson and consumer. B. Receptionist and guest. C. Manager and employee.
10. How much are the meals?
A. $30. B. $90. C. $100.
11. How does the man pay his bill?
A. In cash. B. By credit card. C. By WeChat.
听下面一段对话，回答第12至第14三个小题。
12. Why did the woman go to Bangkok?
A. Her friend persuaded her. B. Her company sent her there. C. Her colleague invited her.
13. What did the woman dislike in Bangkok?
A. The temples. B. The food. C. The weather.
14. When is a bad time to go to Bangkok?
A. February. B. April. C. November.
听下面一段对话，回答第15至第17三个小题。
15. What are the speakers mainly talking about?
A. Their college study. B. Their future plans. C. Their favorite hobbies.
16. Why does the woman consider continuing her studies?
A. She wants to get a degree for her dream job.
B. She wants to work with her college teachers.
C. She wants to study in her favorite university.
17. What does the man say about being a gym instructor?
A. It can make him appear young. B. It can make him feel respectable. C. It can make him physically healthy.
听下面一段独白，回答第18至第20三个小题。
18 When can most children learn how to use the computer?
A. At the age of 2. B. At the age of 3.5. C. In Grade3 or 4.
19. How did Judy’s son know the classification?
A. On his own. B. Under Judy’s guidance. C. With the help of the software.
20. Why is it necessary for children to learn the computer at home?
A. They can avoid being at a disadvantage.
B. They can get online help from the teachers.
C. They’ll leave good impressions on their teachers.
第二部分 阅读理解(共两节，满分40分)
第一节 (共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分)
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。
A
NPR’s Student Podcast (播客) Challenge is back—for a fifth year! This year’s competition will open for entries on September 6, 2023 and close on October 28.
As in past years, our judges will choose winners in two categories: grades five through eight and grades nine through twelve. Entries must be submitted by an educator or a student leader who’s 18 years old or older. Another important rule is that the maximum length of your podcast is within eight minutes, and longer entries will be disqualified.
Our judges will use the following criteria to narrow down and choose the winners:
Information and structure, 40 percent
Does the podcast tell a good story or teach us something new and important? Is it structured in a way that keeps listeners engaged? Can we easily follow the story you’re telling or the information you’re explaining? Have you spent time cutting out unnecessary information to make sure the main ideas come through clearly?
Personality and creativity, 40 percent
Does it have personality, or does it sound like you’re reading from a script (脚本)? Does it make us laugh or cry or leave us deep in thought?
Production 20 percent
We’re not judging you on how fancy your equipment is and we don’t expect you to be an expert on recording and editing sound, but we hope you’ll try.
Some podcasts may use a narration format. Others may be more of an interview format. If you use sound apart from interviews and narration, make sure it is clear and smooth.
1. Who are qualified to submit the podcast to the competition?
A. Editors. B. Students. C. Parents. D. Teachers.
2. What is a requirement for the entries?
A. They should be more than eight minutes. B. They must be well structured and edited.
C. They must be produced with special sound effects. D. They have to adopt an interview format.
3. Which statement is NOT true about the competition?
A. October 28 is the deadline for all the participants to hand in their entry.
B. The content of a podcast must be educational as well as entertaining.
C. It doesn’t matter whether students are using equipment of high quality
D. Winners are evaluated in different aspects other than the script or format.
【答案】1. D 2. B 3. B
【解析】
【导语】本文是一篇应用文。文章主要介绍了NPR学生博客大赛的参赛要求。
【1题详解】
细节理解题。根据文章第二段“Entries must be submitted by an educator or a student leader who’s 18 years old or older.(参赛作品必须由年满18周岁的教育工作者或的学生领导提交。)”可知，教师可以参加。故选D项。
【2题详解】
细节理解题。根据文章Information and structure, 40 percent部分“ Is it structured in a way that keeps listeners engaged? Can we easily follow the story you’re telling or the information you’re explaining? (它的结构是否能吸引听众的注意力？我们能很容易地跟上你讲的故事或你解释的信息吗？)”可知，参赛作品的要求是它们必须有良好的结构和编辑。故选B项。
【3题详解】
细节理解题。根据文章Personality and creativity, 40 percent部分“ Does it make us laugh or cry or leave us deep in thought?(它会让我们笑，让我们哭，还是让我们陷入沉思？)”可知，播客的内容有笑点或泪点，B项说必须要有教育意义和娱乐性，不符合。故选B项。
B
The most important life lesson I’ve learned from running is to run at my own pace. This lesson has guided me in many ways. In particular, it made me challenge the fixed expectations of retirement and aging.
Running is a metaphor (隐喻) for life. I realized this while training for a marathon to celebrate my 60th birthday. All the other runners being faster than me made me embarrassed, but my coach shared some valuable advice: run at your own best pace — setting a goal or target time could be a limitation. He was right. Over time I ran more easily and faster. I also enjoyed the experience much more.
I have applied this principle to other areas of my life. Finding a rhythm is not about efficiency or how many things I can get done in a day. It has more to do with what I decide to do at this stage in my life. Running carries its own set of expectations, including what people at certain life stage should be doing or not doing. Expectations at my age can center on how leisure time is spent, decisions about employment, and even the role of a grandparent.
I used to think it was young people who bore the impact of peer pressure, but older adults can experience it too. This is ironic, because often later in this life is a time when we tend to care less about the opinions of others.
I’m not suggesting we postpone dreams. Of course, we should do what matters to us, but it’s easy to view retirement as another occupation with benchmarks (基准) to be met. It’s a comparison trap that makes what someone else does the reference point.
Forget what others are doing. Their pace is not necessarily the pace you should run at. Run at your own way. Our bodies know what they need. Our hearts know what they need. In living life on our own terms, we will likely feel stronger in body, mind and spirit.
4. What motivated the author to participate in marathon?
A. Her keen wish to celebrate her 60th birthday.
B. Her strong curiosity for fighting against aging.
C. Her eager interest in doing regular exercise.
D. Her urgent need to enhance her health and mind.
5. What do the underlined words “this principle” in paragraph 3 probably refer to?
A. Setting a target time. B. Finding your limitation.
C. Enjoying your decisions. D. Running at your own pace.
6. What does the author think of peer pressure?
A. Its impact is only limited to young generations.
B. Even senior citizens cannot avoid it completely.
C. Its existence is too ridiculous to explain.
D. It ends if we stop pursuing our dreams.
7. What might the author intend to convey through her experience?
A. Look before you leap. B. Birds of a feather flock together.
C. It’s never old late to learn. D. Don’t follow the crowd.
【答案】4. A 5. D 6. B 7. D
【解析】
【导语】这是一篇夹叙夹议的文章。文章讲述了作者通过跑马拉松，教练给他的建议，明白了每个人的人生应该有自己的节奏，而不是按照别人的节奏来生活。
【4题详解】
细节理解题。根据第二段中“I realized this while training for a marathon to celebrate my 60th birthday. (我是在为庆祝我60岁生日的马拉松训练时意识到这一点的。)”可知，庆祝60岁生日的强烈愿望激励了作者参加马拉松。故选A项。
【5题详解】
词句猜测题。划线词句前文“All the other runners being faster than me made me embarrassed, but my coach shared some valuable advice: run at your own best pace — setting a goal or target time could be a limitation. (所有其他跑得比我快的人都让我很尴尬，但我的教练分享了一些宝贵的建议:以你自己的最佳节奏跑步——设定一个目标或目标时间可能是一种限制。)”说明教练建议作者按照自己的速度跑步，不用在意其他人的速度。从而推知划线词句“(我把this principle应用到我生活的其他方面。)”其中划线短语应为“按照自己最好的节奏跑步”的意思。故选D项。
【6题详解】
细节理解题。根据第四段中“I used to think it was young people who bore the impact of peer pressure, but older adults can experience it too. (我曾经认为只有年轻人才会受到同辈压力的影响，但老年人也会有同样的感受。)”可知，作者认为在同辈压力影响方面，即使是老年人也不能完全避免它。故选B项。
【7题详解】
推理判断题。根据最后一段“Forget what others are doing. Their pace is not necessarily the pace you should run at. Run at your own way. Our bodies know what they need. Our hearts know what they need. In living life on our own terms, we will likely feel stronger in body, mind and spirit. (忘记别人在做什么。他们的速度不一定是你应该跑的速度。按照你自己的方式奔跑。我们的身体知道自己需要什么。我们的心知道自己需要什么。按照自己的方式生活，我们可能会在身体、思想和精神上感到更强大。)”可知，作者打算通过她的经历向读者传达，按照自己的节奏生活，不要随大流儿。故选D项。
C
On January 7, David Bennett went into the operating room at the University of Maryland Medical Center for a surgical procedure never performed before on a human. The 57-year-old Maryland resident had been hospitalized for months due to a life threatening disease. His heart was failing him and he needed a new one.
Bennett’s condition left him unresponsive to treatment and ineligible (不合格) for the transplant list or an artificial heart pump. The physician-scientists at the center, however, had another-also risky- option: transplant (移植) a heart from a genetically-modified pig.
“It was either die or do this transplant,” Bennett had told surgeons a day before the operation. “I want to live. I know it’s a shot in the dark, but it’s also my last choice.”
It took the medical team eight hours to finish the operation, making Bennett the first human to successfully receive a pig’s heart. “It’s working and it looks normal. We are thrilled, but we don’t know what tomorrow will bring us. This has never been done before,” Barkley Griffith, who led the transplant team, told the New York Times.
While it’s only been five days since the operation, the surgeons say that Bennett’s new pig heart was, so far, functioning as expected and his body wasn’t rejecting (排斥) the organ. They are still monitoring his condition closely.
“I think it’s extremely exciting,” says Robert Montgomery, transplant surgeon and director of the NYU Langone Transplant Institute, who was not involved in Bennett’s operation. The result of the procedure was also personally meaningful for Montgomery, who received a heart transplant in 2018 due to a genetic disease that may also affect members of his family in the future. “It’s still in the early days, but still the heart seems to be functioning. And that in and of itself is an extraordinary thing. Up to now most experimental heart transplant procedures have been done between pigs and other animals. This is the first time that surgeons have taken it into a living human.”
8. What do the words “a shot in the dark” underlined in Paragraph 3 mean?
A. Something that costs a fortune.
B. Something impossible to succeed.
C. Something drawing public attention.
D. Something with an uncertain outcome.
9. What is Barkley Griffith’s attitude to Bennett’s post-operation condition?
A. Negative.
B. Cautious.
C. Optimistic.
D. Uncaring.
10. What is the text mainly about?
A. The heated debate over the pig heart transplant.
B David Bennett’s contribution to medical research.
C. The first experimental pig heart transplant in the world.
D. The first successful pig heart transplant into a living human.
11. In which section of a magazine may this text appear?
A. Political Affairs.
B. Global Entertainment.
C. Sci-Tech Front.
D. Financial Window.
【答案】8. D 9. B 10. D 11. C
【解析】
【导语】本文是一篇新闻报道。文章报道了全球第一次成功的猪心移植到活人体内。
【8题详解】
词句猜测题。根据划线词上文““It was either die or do this transplant,” Bennett had told surgeons a day before the operation.(“要么死，要么做移植手术，”班尼特在手术前一天告诉外科医生)”及下文“but it’s also my last choice.(但这也是我最后的选择)”可推知，班尼特不确定手术是否成功。由此推知，划线短语a shot in the dark的意思是“结果不确定的事情”。故选D。
【9题详解】
推理判断题。根据第四段中的““It’s working and it looks normal. We are thrilled, but we don’t know what tomorrow will bring us. This has never been done before,” Barkley Griffith, who led the transplant team, told the New York Times.(“它正在工作，看起来很正常。我们很兴奋，但我们不知道明天会给我们带来什么。这是前所未有的，”领导移植团队的巴克利·格里菲斯在接受《纽约时报》采访时表示)”可推知，巴克利·格里菲斯对本内特的术后情况持谨慎态度。故选B。
【10题详解】
主旨大意题。根据第一段中的“On January 7, David Bennett went into the operating room at the University of Maryland Medical Center for a surgical procedure never performed before on a human.(1月7日，大卫·班尼特走进马里兰大学医学中心的手术室，进行一项从未在人类身上进行过的手术)”和“His heart was failing him and he needed a new one.(他的心脏衰竭了，他需要一个新的心脏)”根据第二段“The physician-scientists at the center, however, had another-also risky- option: transplant (移植) a heart from a genetically-modified pig.”（然而，该中心的医生和科学家们还有另一个同样有风险的选择:从一只转基因猪身上移植心脏。）及下文介绍可知，文章主要介绍了全球第一次成功的猪心移植到活人体内。故选D。
【11题详解】
推理判断题。根据第一段中的“On January 7, David Bennett went into the operating room at the University of Maryland Medical Center for a surgical procedure never performed before on a human.(1月7日，大卫·班尼特走进马里兰大学医学中心的手术室，进行一项从未在人类身上进行过的手术)”及下文介绍可知，文章主要介绍了全球第一次成功的猪心移植到活人体内。由此推知，这篇文章也许会出现在杂志的科技前沿部分。故选C。
D
Women were less likely than men to support the Vietnam war, the Gulf war, or the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq. They commit far fewer murders. They are less likely to favor strikes. For some scholars, these are grounds for thinking that a world run by women would be more peaceful.
But European history suggests otherwise, according to political scientists Oeindrila Dube and S. P. Harish. They studied how often European rulers went to war between 1480 and 1913, and found that states ruled by queens were 27% more likely to get involved in wars than those ruled by kings.
This was not all the queens’ fault: men, seeing them as soft targets, tended to attack them. Frederick the Great of Prussia once declared: ”No woman should ever be allowed to govern anything.“ Shortly after becoming king, he attacked the newly crowned Archduchess of Austria, Maria Theresa, and seized Silesia province. Despite years of war, she never recovered it.
But perceived weakness is not the whole story. Queens, the researchers found, were more likely to gain new territory. Catherine the Great expanded her empire by some 200,000 square miles. And married queens were more aggressive than single queens or kings, whether single or married.
The authors suggest several reasons for this. First, married queens may have been able to form more military alliances(联盟),making them confident enough to pick fights. Their husbands had often served in the army before they married, and were well placed to strengthen military ties between their homelands and their wives’ states.
Second, unlike most kings, queens often gave their husbands a lot of power,putting them in charge of foreign policy or the economy. During the 1740s, Maria Theresa’s husband, Francis I, reformed the Austrian economy and raised money for the armed forces while his wife ruled much of central Europe. Prince Albert was Queen Victoria’s most trusted adviser, shaping her foreign policy until his death in1861. This division of labor, the authors suggest, freed up time for queens to pursue more aggressive policies.
The modern era, too, has witnessed female leaders in wars: Golda Meir and the Yom Kippur war, or Margaret Thatcher and the Falklands. The number of countries led by women has more than doubled since 2000, but there is plenty of room for improvement: the current level of 15 represents less than 10 % of the total. A world in which more women took power might be more equal. Whether it would be more peaceful is a different question.
12. The underlined “perceived weakness” in paragraph 4 means that________.
A. women were less likely to support wars
B. women could not recover lost territory
C. women commit far fewer crimes
D. women were soft targets
13. Why were married queens more likely to gain new territory?
A. Because their military alliances picked fights for them.
B. Because they were ambitious and aggressive by nature.
C. Because their husbands were supportive in state governing.
D. Because they centralized all power into their own hands.
14. What is the purpose of mentioning the two female leaders in the last paragraph?
A. To imply there is room for improvement in gender equality.
B. To indicate more females become leaders in modern times.
C. To illustrate female leaders cannot prevent wars in modern times.
D. To suggest female leaders have their share of wars in modern times.
15. According to the passage, we can safely conclude that________.
A. married women are not fit to govern their states on their own
B. female leaders should be responsible for all wars throughout history
C. the world wouldn’t be more peaceful even if more women took power
D. the division of labor allows queens to survive economic crisis
【答案】12. D 13. C 14. D 15. C
【解析】
【导语】这是一篇说明文。文章主要介绍了由女性执政的国家历史上并不比男性执政的国家和平，已婚女王带领的国家其实经历了更多的战争。
【12题详解】
词句猜测题。根据第三段第一句话“This was not all the queens’ fault: men, seeing them as soft targets, tended to attack them. (这不全是女王的错：男人们把他们视为软目标，倾向于攻击他们)”以及下文可知，男人们将女人看作软柿子，倾向于攻击她们，然后举例证明男人攻击女性执政的国家，而第四段却表示这不是完整的故事，说明划线词应该指代上文男性对女性的轻视，因此画线的句子应该理解为“认为女人是软柿子”。故选D。
【13题详解】
细节理解题。根据倒数第三段“The authors suggest several reasons for this. First, married queens may have been able to form more military alliances(联盟),making them confident enough to pick fights. Their husbands had often served in the army before they married, and were well placed to strengthen military ties between their homelands and their wives’ states.(作者提出了几个原因。首先，已婚皇后可能已经能够形成更多的军事联盟，使他们有足够的信心挑起战争。他们的丈夫在结婚前经常在军队服役，他们处于有利地位，可以加强祖国和妻子所在州之间的军事联系)”可知，他们的丈夫会帮助其管理国家。故选C。
【14题详解】
推理判断题。根据最后一段第一句话“The modern era, too, has witnessed female leaders in wars: Golda Meir and the Yom Kippur war, or Margaret Thatcher and the Falklands. (现代也见证了战争中的女性领导人：戈尔达·梅尔和赎罪日战争，或者玛格丽特·撒切尔和福克兰群岛)”可知，这里举例是想表明当代的女性领导者也在战争中有参与。故选D。
【15题详解】
推理判断题。根据文章最后一段最后两句话“A world in which more women took power might be more equal. Whether it would be more peaceful is a different question.(一个有更多女性掌权的世界可能会更加平等。是否会更和平是另一个问题)”可知，越来越多女性执政可能世界会更平等，但是是否更和平就是另一回事了，且前面一直介绍历史上和现代女性执政者都参与战争，所以我们可以总结出就算更多女性执政，世界也不会变得更加和平。故选C。
第二节 (共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分)
根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
Many people wonder what they can do to become well-rounded and competitive while increasing their rate of success. ____16____
Be willing to expand your mind. Rid yourself of assumptions and convictions so that you can be open and receptive to new information. ____17____ You will eventually come across information that challenges your worldview. Rather than remaining resting in your comfort zone, use this time to stop, reflect and shed light on these ideas in a way that can develop and expand your vision.
After the mind has been ready, the next step is application. ____18____ Learning information you can use in your daily life is very important to having a continuous desire to further advance your education. Skill-based learning, for example, is useless if it isn’t applied. Reading a book on automobile repair isn’t the same as physically changing the oil or tire on your car. Reading about art isn’t the same as picking up a brush. If your knowledge can be directly applied in a functional and fun fashion, put it into practice! Many people learn by being hands-on.
Surround yourself with like-minded individuals and try to always take something valuable away from your daily interactions. ____19____ If you come across anything that confuses you, ask them! Never be too prideful, for each question you don’t ask is a missed opportunity!
____20____ Commit to expanding your mind, continuing your education and becoming a student of life. Use the world as your classroom, and always come away with a lesson. Remember to cultivate your mind so it is prepared to expand, blossom and grow. And share your fountain of knowledge.
A. Go ahead and challenge yourself today.
B. Create a to-learn list just as you would a to-do list.
C. There are so many things they can do to achieve their goal.
D. You can find a large number of outstanding people in your school.
E. This at times may even contradict what you have always believed to be true.
F. Many people are professionals in their field and have valuable information and insight to share.
G. An often overlooked yet simple way to improve is to increase your knowledge by being a self-starter.
【答案】16. G 17. E 18. B 19. F 20. A
【解析】
【导语】这是一篇说明文。文章主要介绍了在提高成功率的同时，怎样才能变得面面俱到且具有竞争力的一个简单方法：通过自我激励来增加知识。
【16题详解】
上文“Many people wonder what they can do to become well-rounded and competitive while increasing their rate of success. (许多人都想知道，在提高成功率的同时，他们能做些什么才能变得面面俱到并且具有竞争力。)”说明许多人想知道在提高成功率的同时，变得面面俱到且具有竞争力的方法，选项G“一个经常被忽视但却简单的提高方法是通过自我激励来增加你的知识。”承接上文，回答了上文的问题。故选G项。
【17题详解】
上文“Be willing to expand your mind. Rid yourself of assumptions and convictions so that you can be open and receptive to new information. (愿意拓展你的思维。摆脱自己的假设和信念，这样你才能对新信息持开放和接受的态度。)”说明拓展你的思维，要做到摆脱自己的假设和信念，选项E“有时，这甚至可能与你一直相信的真理相矛盾。”承接上文，具体说明摆脱自己的假设和信念的后果。故选E项。
【18题详解】
上文“After the mind has been ready, the next step is application. (在思想准备好之后，下一步就是应用。)”说明思想准备好后，要做到应用，选项B“创建一个学习清单，就像创建一个待办事项清单一样。”承接上文，说明了应用的具体做法。故选B项。
【19题详解】
下文“If you come across anything that confuses you, ask them! Never be too prideful, for each question you don’t ask is a missed opportunity! (如果你遇到任何让你困惑的事情，问问他们！永远不要太骄傲，因为每一个你没有问的问题都是一次错失的机会！)”说明有困惑时，多请教别人，询问别人的意见，选项F“许多人都是各自领域的专业人士，有宝贵的信息和见解可以分享。”引出下文，许多人是专业人士，有宝贵的知识来分享，所以我们有困惑时，需要请教他们。故选F项。
【20题详解】
下文“Commit to expanding your mind, continuing your education and becoming a student of life. Use the world as your classroom, and always come away with a lesson. Remember to cultivate your mind so it is prepared to expand, blossom and grow. And share your fountain of knowledge. (致力于拓展你的思维，继续你的教育，成为一名生活的学生。把这个世界当作你的课堂，并且总是带着一节课离开。记住要培养你的心智，让它为扩张、开花和成长做好准备。分享你的知识源泉。)”说明致力于拓展思维，继续教育，培养知识，分享知识源泉，这都是挑战自己的具体做法。选项A“今天就去挑战自己吧。”引出下文，概括本段内容。故选A项。
第三部分 英语知识运用 (共两节，满分45分)
第一节 完形填空(共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分)
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
The passengers on the bus watched with sympathy as Susan made her way carefully up the steps. She paid the driver and then, using her hands to ____21____ the seats, settled in one of them.
It had been a year since Susan became blind. As a result of an accident, she was suddenly thrown into a world of ____22____. Susan’s husband Mark watched her ____23____ into hopelessness and he was ____24____ to use every possible means to drag her out.
Finally, Susan felt ready to return to her job, but how would she get there? She used to take the bus, but she was now too ____25____ to get around the city by herself. Mark ____26____ to ride the bus with Susan each morning and evening ____27____ she could manage it by herself.
For two weeks, Mark ____28____ Susan to and from work each day. He taught her how to rely on her other ____29____, specifically her hearing, to determine where she was and how to adapt to her new _____30_____.
At last, Susan decided that she was ready to try the trip _____31_____. Monday morning arrived. Before she left, she hugged her husband _____32_____, with her eyes filled with tears of gratitude. She said good-bye and, for the first time, they went their _____33_____ ways. Four days went perfectly, and a wild excitement took _____34_____ of Susan. She was doing it!
On Friday morning, Susan took the bus to work as usual. As she was about to getting _____35_____ the bus, the driver said, “Miss, I sure _____36_____ you.” Curious, Susan asked the driver why.
“You know, every morning for the past _____37_____, a fine-looking gentleman in a military uniform has been standing across the corner over there, watching you until you enter your office building _____38_____,” the bus driver said.
Tears of _____39_____ poured down Susan’s cheeks. She was so lucky, for he had given her a gift more powerful than _____40_____. That is the gift of love that can bring light where there is darkness.
21. A. touch B. grab C. count D. feel
22. A. weakness B. sickness C. darkness D. sadness
23. A. run B. sink C. jump D. step
24. A. inspired B. determined C. honored D. pleased
25. A. tired B. astonished C. depressed D. frightened
26. A. volunteered B. attempted C. continued D. struggled
27. A. when B. as C. until D. after
28. A. drove B. directed C. accompanied D. sent
29. A. feelings B. organs C. skills D. senses
30. A. position B. environment C. status D. role
31. A. on her own B. in person C. to her benefit D. on foot
32. A. politely B. calmly C. briefly D. tightly
33. A. opposite B. separate C. fixed D. lonely
34. A. charge B. place C. advantage D. hold
35. A. on B. away C. off D. into
36. A. respect B. envy C. know D. support
37. A. week B. month C. day D. season
38. A. safely B. excitedly C. hurriedly D. calmly
39. A. joy B. sorrow C. rage D. fright
40. A. courage B. will C. sight D. wisdom
【答案】21. D 22. C 23. B 24. B 25. D 26. A 27. C 28. C 29. D 30. B 31. A 32. D 33. B 34. D 35. C 36. B 37. A 38. A 39. A 40. C
【解析】
【导语】这是一篇记叙文，文章主要讲的是一个盲人乘客苏珊的故事。由于一次车祸，她失明了，丈夫为了照顾她每天和她一起上下班，帮助她适应新的环境，最后苏珊决定自己独自去上下班，而事实上丈夫每天都在默默地目送她安全进入办公楼，司机无意的话语让苏珊意识到相对于视力，丈夫的爱才是在黑暗中给她带来光明的最大礼物。
【21题详解】
考查动词词义辨析。句意：她付了车费，然后用手摸了摸座位，在其中一个座位上坐了下来。A. touch打动；接触；B. grab攫取；抢夺；C. count数数；重要；D. feel触摸；摸索。根据空前“using her hands to”后文“It had been a year since Susan became blind.”可知苏珊是一名盲人，所以此处指的是她通过手的触摸来寻找座位。故选D项。
【22题详解】
考查名词词义辨析。句意：由于一场事故，她突然被扔进了黑暗的世界。A. weakness软弱；缺点；B. sickness疾病；C. darkness黑暗；D. sadness伤心。根据空前“It had been a year since Susan became blind. As a result of an accident, she was suddenly thrown into a world of”可知一场事故让苏珊失明了，所以她就被扔进了黑暗的世界。故选C项。
【23题详解】
考查动词词义辨析。句意：苏珊的丈夫马克看着她陷入绝望，他决心用一切可能的方法帮她摆脱困境。A. run跑；经营；B. sink下沉；陷入；C. jump跳；D. step迈步；踩。根据前文“It had been a year since Susan became blind. As a result of an accident, she was suddenly thrown into a world of ____2____ .”以及空后“into hopelessness and he was ____4____ to use every possible means to drag her out.”以及后文“Finally, Susan felt ready to return to her job,”可知此处指的是苏珊失明后曾经有一段时间对生活失去信心，陷入绝望。故选B项。
【24题详解】
考查形容词词义辨析。句意：苏珊的丈夫马克看着她陷入绝望，他决心用一切可能的方法帮她摆脱困境。A. inspired受到鼓舞的；B. determined坚定的；C. honored荣幸的；受尊敬的；D. pleased开心的。根据空后“to use every possible means to drag her out.”可知马克决心尽一切努力，帮她走出黑暗，重拾对生活的信心。故选B项。
【25题详解】
考查形容词词义辨析。句意：她过去常乘公共汽车，但现在她太害怕了，不敢独自在城里走动。A. tired疲惫的；枯燥的；B. astonished吃惊的；C. depressed抑郁的；D. frightened害怕的。根据前文“It had been a year since Susan became blind. As a result of an accident, she was suddenly thrown into a world of ____2____ .”以及空后“to get around the city by herself.”可知因为失明，所以苏珊害怕像往常一样一个人乘坐公交车。故选D项。
【26题详解】
考查动词词义辨析。句意：马克主动提出每天早晚和苏珊一起乘公共汽车，直到她能自己应付为止。A. volunteered自告奋勇； B. attempted尝试；企图；试图；C. continued继续；D. struggled挣扎；斗争。根据前文“she was now too ____5____ to get around the city by herself.”以及后文“to ride the bus with Susan each morning and evening ____7____ she could manage it by herself.”可知此处指的是因为失明苏珊害怕一个人单独乘坐公交，因此马克主动提出要和她一起乘坐公交上下班直到她可以自己应对这一切。 故选A项。
【27题详解】
考查连词词义辨析。句意：马克主动提出每天早晚和苏珊一起乘公共汽车，直到她能自己应付为止。A. when当……时候；B. as正如；当……时候；尽管；C. until 直到；D. after在……之后。根据空后“she could manage it by herself.”可知此处指的是马克与苏珊一同坐公交这件事会一直持续到苏珊可以自己应付为止。故选C项。
【28题详解】
考查动词词义辨析。句意：两个星期以来，马克每天陪着苏珊上下班。A. drove开车；驱赶；B. directed指导；C. accompanied陪伴；伴随；D. sent送；寄出。根据上文“Mark ____6____ to ride the bus with Susan each morning and evening ____7____ she could manage it by herself.”以及空后“Susan to and from work each day. He taught her how to rely on her other ____9____ , specifically her hearing, to determine where she was and how to adapt to her new ____10____ .”可知马克主动提出早晚与苏珊一同乘坐公交，所以是陪同她上下班。故选C项。
【29题详解】
考查名词词义辨析。句意：他教她如何依靠她的其他感官，特别是她的听觉，来确定她在哪里，以及如何适应新的环境。A. feelings感情；B. organs器官；C. skills技巧； D. senses感官；意义。根据空后“specifically her hearing,”可知因为失明，所以马克教苏珊利用其他的感官来辨别周遭的一切。故选 D项。
【30题详解】
考查名词词义辨析。句意：他教她如何依靠她的其他感官，特别是她的听觉，来确定她在哪里，以及如何适应新的环境。A. position位置；职位；B. environment环境；C. status社会地位；D. role角色；作用。根据空前“specifically her hearing, to determine where she was and how to adapt to her new”可知此处讲的是马克在教苏珊如何利用她的其他感官尤其是听觉来分辨自己所住的位置并适应新的环境。故选 B项。
【31题详解】
考查介词短语辨析。句意：最后，苏珊决定自己试一试这次旅行。A. on her own独自；B. in person亲自；C. to her benefit对她有利；D. on foot步行。根据空后“Monday morning arrived. Before she left, she hugged her husband ____12____ , with her eyes filled with tears of gratitude. She said good-bye and, for the first time, they went their ____13____ ways.”可知苏珊终于决定要尝试一个人乘坐公交上下班。故选A项。
【32题详解】
考查副词词义辨析。句意：星期一早上到了。临走前，她紧紧地拥抱着丈夫，眼里充满了感激的泪水。A. politely礼貌地；B. calmly镇静地；C. briefly简略地；D. tightly坚固地。根据空前“Monday morning arrived. Before she left, she hugged her husband”以及空后“with her eyes filled with tears of gratitude.”可知此处表示苏珊通过拥抱来表达对丈夫的感激。故选D项。
【33题详解】
考查形容词词义辨析。句意：她说了声再见，他们第一次朝着各自的方向走了。A. opposite相反的；相对的；B. separate单独的；独自的；C. fixed固定的；D. lonely孤独的。根据前文“At last, Susan decided that she was ready to try the trip ____11____ .”可知此处讲的因为最初是马克陪苏珊一起乘坐公交车，终于苏珊决定单独乘坐公交上下班，所以是各自朝着各自的方向走了。故选B项。
【34题详解】
考查名词词义辨析。句意：四天过得很顺利，一种疯狂的兴奋笼罩着苏珊。A. charge收费；指控；负责；B. place地方；C. advantage优势；利益；D. hold握；控制。根据空前“Four days went perfectly, and a wild excitement took”以及空后“of Susan. She was doing it!”可知此处指的是苏珊决定独自乘坐公交车之后的四天进展的很顺利，所以可以推断她应该是非常兴奋的，take hold of意为“控制；抓住”。故选D项。
【35题详解】
考查介词词义辨析。句意：当她正要下车时，司机说：“小姐，我真羡慕你。”苏珊好奇地问司机为什么。A. on在……上；B. away离开；C. off离开；D. into进入。根据前文“On Friday morning, Susan took the bus to work as usual. As she was about to getting”以及空后“the bus,” 可知此处指的是苏珊即将下车时与司机的对话，get off意为“下车”。故选C项。
【36题详解】
考查动词词义辨析。句意：当她正要下车时，司机说：“小姐，我真羡慕你。”苏珊好奇地问司机为什么。A. respect尊重；敬重；B. envy羡慕；C. know认识；D. support支持。根据后文““You know, every morning for the past ____17____ , a fine-looking gentleman in a military uniform has been standing across the corner over there, watching you until you enter your office building ____18____ ,” the bus driver said.”可知因为看见每天都有一位穿着军装的英俊绅士站在那边的角落里目送着苏珊安全进入办公楼，所以司机觉得苏珊是幸福的，因此心生羡慕。故选B项。
【37题详解】
考查名词词义辨析。句意：“你知道，过去一周的每天早上，都有一位穿着军装的英俊绅士站在那边的角落里，看着你，直到你安全进入办公楼。”A. week周；B. month月；C. day一天；D. season季节。根据前文“At last, Susan decided that she was ready to try the trip ____11____ . Monday morning arrived. ”以及“Four days went perfectly,”以及“On Friday morning, Susan took the bus to work as usual.”可知苏珊独自乘坐公交上下班已经一周了。故选A项。
【38题详解】
考查副词词义辨析。句意：“你知道，过去一周的每天早上，都有一位穿着军装的英俊绅士站在那边的角落里，看着你，直到你安全进入办公楼。”A. safely安全地；B. excitedly兴奋地；C. hurriedly匆忙地；D. calmly平静地；冷静地。根据空前““You know, every morning for the past ____17____ , a fine-looking gentleman in a military uniform has been standing across the corner over there, watching you until you enter your office building”可知在过去的一周内马克每天都会在目送苏珊安全进入办公楼之后才会离开。故选A项。
【39题详解】
考查名词词义辨析。句意：苏珊喜极而泣。A. joy喜悦；B. sorrow悲伤；伤痛；C. rage愤怒；D. fright斗争。根据前文““You know, every morning for the past ____17____ , a fine-looking gentleman in a military uniform has been standing across the corner over there, watching you until you enter your office building””以及空后“poured down Susan’s cheeks. She was so lucky, for he had given her a gift more powerful than ____20____ . That is the gift of love that can bring light where there is darkness.”可知得知丈夫每天都在目送自己安全进入办公楼之后才会离开的真相后苏珊流下了激动的泪水。故选A项。
【40题详解】
考查名词词义辨析。句意：她是如此幸运，因为他给了她比视力更强大的礼物。A. courage勇气；B. will意志；决心；C. sight视力；景象；D. wisdom智慧。根据后文“That is the gift of love that can bring light where there is darkness.”可知得知真相后的苏珊觉得相对于失明而言，丈夫的爱才是能在黑暗中给她带来光明的最好礼物。故选C项。
第II卷
第二节 (共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分)
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。
“Seeing printed media being ____41____ (gradual) replaced by new media made me feel that something precious in my memory ____42____ (be) lost. I don’t want them to disappear,” he said, ____43____ (add) that publishing marriage announcements evokes ____44____ warm feeling toward newspapers while bringing a sense of vintage elegance.
The price for publishing a marriage announcement differs by number of words, space and printing house. It ranges from around 100 yuan to more than 10,000 yuan. Customers can ____45____ pay for the service online or by phone. Globally, many newspapers also provide sections to publish marriage announcements, along with births and ____46____ (die).
Meng Si, ____47____ works for an online platform ____48____ (associate) with newspaper publishing services, told Xinhua News Agency recently that there has been a ____49____ (notice) increase in inquiries and orders for marriage announcements. The customers are predominantly young people in _____50_____ 20s, with some even making appointments one or two months in advance.
【答案】41. gradually
42. was being
43. adding 44. a
45. either 46. deaths
47. who 48. associated
49. noticeable
50. their
【解析】
【导语】本文为一篇说明文。文章主要介绍了一种新型的印刷媒体的出现，在报纸上刊登结婚公告。
【41题详解】
考查副词。句意：“看到印刷媒体逐渐被新媒体所取代，我觉得我记忆中的一些珍贵的东西正在消失”。此处修饰动词placed，故应用副词“gradually逐渐地”作状语，故填gradually。
【42题详解】
考查时态。句意：同上。此句中something作主语，为不定代词，此处作谓语动词，此处意为“正在消失”，根据前文made可知，此处应用过去进行时，故填was being。
【43题详解】
考查非谓语动词。句意：他说道，并补充说道，发布结婚公告唤起了对报纸的热情，同时也带来了复古优雅的感觉。此处作状语，add与主语he之间为主动关系，故此处应用现在分词作状语，故填adding。
【44题详解】
考查冠词。句意：同上。此处意为“feeling感觉，热情”为可数名词，且此处泛指“一种热情”，且warm以辅音音素开头，故填a。
45题详解】
考查连词。句意：顾客可以在线或电话支付服务费用。根据后文的or可知，此处为“either…or…要么……要么……”，故填either。
【46题详解】
考查名词的数。句意：在全球范围内，许多报纸也提供刊登结婚公告的版面，以及出生和死亡。此处应用名词“death死亡数”作宾语，且根据前文的births可知，此处应用其复数形式，故填deaths。
【47题详解】
考查定语从句。句意：孟思，在一家与报纸出版服务相关的在线平台工作，最近告诉新华社，婚姻公告的订单和询问有着明显的增加。此处引导非限制性定语从句，先行词为Meng Si，指人，在定语从句中作主语，故应用who引导，故填who。
【48题详解】
考查非谓语动词。句意；同上。此处作定语，修饰platform，platform与associate之间为被动关系，故此处应用过去分词作后置定语，故填associated。
【49题详解】
考查形容词。句意：同上。此处作定语，修饰名词increase，故应用形容词“noticeable明显的”，故填noticeable。
【50题详解】
考查代词。句意：这些顾客主要是20多岁的年轻人，有些人甚至提前一两个月申请。此处意为“他们20几岁时”，表达为in one’s 20s，且此处指代young people，故应用代词their，故填their。
第四部分 写作(共两节，满分35分)
第一节 短文改错（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
51. 假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误,每句中最多有两处。错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏词符号(∧)，并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线(﹨)划掉。
修改：在错的词下画一横线,并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1.每处错误及修改均仅限一词；
2.只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
I have watched a plenty of documentaries about Shanghai and I had been dying to go there. If I have a chance to go sightseeing there, I’ll make a detailed plan based on my knowledge about the city. I’ll walk along the Bund, which I can see many western-style buildings. For lunch, we would like to eat some delicious snack in Yu Garden. After lunch, I plan to visit the Oriental Pearl TV Tower, which is the seventh high tower in the world. Besides, I will also climb to the top of that tower to have a view of the whole modernly city. Only by this way can I have better understanding of it. I hope my wish to visit Shanghai will be realizing this year.
【答案】1.去掉a
2.had→have
3.which→where或which前加上on
4.we→I
5. snack→snacks
6.high→highest
7.modernly→modern
8.by→in
9.better前加上a
10.realizing→realized
【解析】
【导语】本文为一篇记叙文。文章主要讲述了作者去上海的计划。
【详解】1.考固定短语。句意：我已经看过很多关于上海的文件，并一直想要去上海。此处意为“大量的”，表达为plenty of，故去掉a。
2.考查时态。句意同上。此处意为“我一直渴望去上海”，强调从过去持续到现在的动作，故此处应用现在完成时，故将had改为have。
3.考查定语从句。句意：我就会沿着外滩散步，在外滩，我可以看到很多西方建筑。此处引导定语从句，先行词为the Bund，在定语从句作地点状语，故应用where引导，故将which改为where；或理解为介词+which引导定语从句，表示“在外滩”用介词on，故也可用在which前加上on。故which改为where或者在which前加on。
4.考查主语。句意；对于午餐，我想要在豫园吃一些美味的小吃。全文讲述作者去上海的计划，主语为I，故将we改为I。
5.考查名词的数。句意：同上。此处“snack零食”为可数名词，且此处为复数形式，以为你“吃各种零食”，故将snack改为snacks。
6.考查形容词最高级。句意：午餐之后，我打算去参观东方明珠塔，这是世界第七高塔。此处意为“世界上第七高塔”，故应用序数词+adj.最高级，故将high改为highest。
7.考查形容词。句意：而且，我也将爬到塔的顶部，鸟瞰整个现代化的城市。此处修饰名词city，故应用形容词“modern现代的”作定语，故将modernly改为modern。
8.考查介词。句意：只有通过这种方式，我才能更了解上海。“通过这种方式”表达为in this way，故将by改为in。
9.考查冠词。句意同上。此处意为“更好地理解……”，表达为have a better understanding of…，故在better前加上a。
10.考查过去分词。句意：我希望我参观上海的愿望在今年可以实现。此处wish与realize之间为被动关系，应用过去分词和will be构成一般将来时的被动语态。故将realizing改为realized。
第二节 书面表达(满分25分)
52. 假定你是李华，你作为高三学生代表受邀在开学典礼上发言，请撰写一篇发言稿，内容包括：
1.高三学习中可能面临的困难或挑战（至少两点）；
2.解决办法；
3.期望与祝福。
注意：
1.词数100左右；
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Dear teachers and my fellow students,
Good morning.
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Thank you for listening.
【答案】Dear teachers and my fellow students,
Good morning. I am Li Hua. Much honored to deliver a speech on behalf of senior three students here, I would like to share my humble opinions on how to better adapt to senior three life.
It is certain that the coming year is laden with difficulties and challenges. With in total six major subjects to work on, chances are that we will frequently feel a shortage of time. Besides, the highly intense study life is likely to cause stress and anxiety, which leads to low efficiency and even health problems.
Faced with these possible obstacles, we need a detailed study schedule to maximize our efficiency. Meanwhile, it’s necessary to occasionally take off the burden, get enough exercise and relax.
I’m now determined to reach for the stars and firmly believe that as long as we are mentally and physically prepared, we can manage senior three life perfectly.
Thank you for listening.
【解析】
【导语】本篇书面表达属于应用文，要求考生撰写一篇发言稿，作为高三学生代表受邀在开学典礼上发言。
【详解】1.词汇积累
适应：adapt to→adjust to
充满：be laden with→be filled with
除此之外：besides→in addition
面临；面对：be faced with→be confronted with
2.句式拓展
简单句变复合句
原句：Faced with these possible obstacles, we need a detailed study schedule to maximize our efficiency.
拓展句：Because we are faced with these possible obstacles, we need a detailed study schedule to maximize our efficiency.
【点睛】【高分句型1】With in total six major subjects to work on, chances are that we will frequently feel a shortage of time.(使用了with复合结构)
【高分句型2】Meanwhile, it’s necessary to occasionally take off the burden, get enough exercise and relax.(使用了it作形式主语，不定式作真正主语的结构)
成都石室中学2023—2024学年度上期高2024届入学考试
英语试卷
满分150分 考试时间：120分钟
第I卷
第一部分 听力(共两节，满分30分)
第一节 (共5小题；每小题1.5分，满分7.5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，你都有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 man think of the exhibit?
A. Attractive. B. Inspiring. C. Uninteresting.
2. What is the man probably?
A. A teacher. B. A coach. C. A doctor.
3. What did the man do on the first day at the summer school?
A. He did Gloria a favor. B. He learned about the rules. C. He collected the stuff.
4. What does the man suggest the woman do with her package?
A. Send it by airmail. B. Mail it tomorrow. C. Buy insurance for it.
5. Where are the speakers going to meet Dave?
A. Outside the bookstore. B. In a burger shop. C. At the cinema.
第二节 (共15 小题；每小题1.5分，满分22.5分)
听下面5段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题，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。听完每段对话或独白前，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。每段对话或独白读两遍。
听下面一段对话，回答第6至第8三个小题。
6. What will the man do at noon on Saturday?
A. Have lunch with his mother.
B Take his sister to play basketball.
C. Make a telephone call to his mother.
7. How will the man go to the basketball game?
A. By car. B. By bus. C. By subway.
8. When will the speakers meet on Saturday?
A. At 5 p.m. B. At 4:30 p.m. C. At 4 p.m.
听下面一段对话，回答第9至第11三个小题。
9. What is the probable relationship between the speakers?
A. Salesperson and consumer. B. Receptionist and guest. C. Manager and employee.
10. How much are the meals?
A. $30. B. $90. C. $100.
11. How does the man pay his bill?
A. In cash. B. By credit card. C. By WeChat.
听下面一段对话，回答第12至第14三个小题。
12. Why did the woman go to Bangkok?
A. Her friend persuaded her. B. Her company sent her there. C. Her colleague invited her.
13. What did the woman dislike in Bangkok?
A. The temples. B. The food. C. The weather.
14. When is a bad time to go to Bangkok?
A. February. B. April. C. November.
听下面一段对话，回答第15至第17三个小题。
15. What are the speakers mainly talking about?
A. Their college study. B. Their future plans. C. Their favorite hobbies.
16. Why does the woman consider continuing her studies?
A. She wants to get a degree for her dream job.
B. She wants to work with her college teachers.
C. She wants to study in her favorite university.
17. What does the man say about being a gym instructor?
A. It can make him appear young. B. It can make him feel respectable. C. It can make him physically healthy.
听下面一段独白，回答第18至第20三个小题。
18 When can most children learn how to use the computer?
A. At the age of 2. B. At the age of 3.5. C. In Grade3 or 4.
19. How did Judy’s son know the classification?
A. On his own. B. Under Judy’s guidance. C. With the help of the software.
20. Why is it necessary for children to learn the computer at home?
A. They can avoid being at a disadvantage.
B. They can get online help from the teachers.
C. They’ll leave good impressions on their teachers.
第二部分 阅读理解(共两节，满分40分)
第一节 (共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分)
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。
A
NPR’s Student Podcast (播客) Challenge is back—for a fifth year! This year’s competition will open for entries on September 6, 2023 and close on October 28.
As in past years, our judges will choose winners in two categories: grades five through eight and grades nine through twelve. Entries must be submitted by an educator or a student leader who’s 18 years old or older. Another important rule is that the maximum length of your podcast is within eight minutes, and longer entries will be disqualified.
Our judges will use the following criteria to narrow down and choose the winners:
Information and structure, 40 percent
Does the podcast tell a good story or teach us something new and important? Is it structured in a way that keeps listeners engaged? Can we easily follow the story you’re telling or the information you’re explaining? Have you spent time cutting out unnecessary information to make sure the main ideas come through clearly?
Personality and creativity, 40 percent
Does it have personality, or does it sound like you’re reading from a script (脚本)? Does it make us laugh or cry or leave us deep in thought?
Production 20 percent
We’re not judging you on how fancy your equipment is and we don’t expect you to be an expert on recording and editing sound, but we hope you’ll try.
Some podcasts may use a narration format. Others may be more of an interview format. If you use sound apart from interviews and narration, make sure it is clear and smooth.
1. Who are qualified to submit the podcast to the competition?
A. Editors. B. Students. C. Parents. D. Teachers.
2. What is a requirement for the entries?
A. They should be more than eight minutes. B. They must be well structured and edited.
C. They must be produced with special sound effects. D. They have to adopt an interview format.
3. Which statement is NOT true about the competition?
A. October 28 is the deadline for all the participants to hand in their entry.
B. The content of a podcast must be educational as well as entertaining.
C. It doesn’t matter whether students are using equipment of high quality
D. Winners are evaluated in different aspects other than the script or format.
【答案】1. D 2. B 3. B
【解析】
【导语】本文是一篇应用文。文章主要介绍了NPR学生博客大赛的参赛要求。
【1题详解】
细节理解题。根据文章第二段“Entries must be submitted by an educator or a student leader who’s 18 years old or older.(参赛作品必须由年满18周岁的教育工作者或的学生领导提交。)”可知，教师可以参加。故选D项。
【2题详解】
细节理解题。根据文章Information and structure, 40 percent部分“ Is it structured in a way that keeps listeners engaged? Can we easily follow the story you’re telling or the information you’re explaining? (它的结构是否能吸引听众的注意力？我们能很容易地跟上你讲的故事或你解释的信息吗？)”可知，参赛作品的要求是它们必须有良好的结构和编辑。故选B项。
【3题详解】
细节理解题。根据文章Personality and creativity, 40 percent部分“ Does it make us laugh or cry or leave us deep in thought?(它会让我们笑，让我们哭，还是让我们陷入沉思？)”可知，播客的内容有笑点或泪点，B项说必须要有教育意义和娱乐性，不符合。故选B项。
B
The most important life lesson I’ve learned from running is to run at my own pace. This lesson has guided me in many ways. In particular, it made me challenge the fixed expectations of retirement and aging.
Running is a metaphor (隐喻) for life. I realized this while training for a marathon to celebrate my 60th birthday. All the other runners being faster than me made me embarrassed, but my coach shared some valuable advice: run at your own best pace — setting a goal or target time could be a limitation. He was right. Over time I ran more easily and faster. I also enjoyed the experience much more.
I have applied this principle to other areas of my life. Finding a rhythm is not about efficiency or how many things I can get done in a day. It has more to do with what I decide to do at this stage in my life. Running carries its own set of expectations, including what people at certain life stage should be doing or not doing. Expectations at my age can center on how leisure time is spent, decisions about employment, and even the role of a grandparent.
I used to think it was young people who bore the impact of peer pressure, but older adults can experience it too. This is ironic, because often later in this life is a time when we tend to care less about the opinions of others.
I’m not suggesting we postpone dreams. Of course, we should do what matters to us, but it’s easy to view retirement as another occupation with benchmarks (基准) to be met. It’s a comparison trap that makes what someone else does the reference point.
Forget what others are doing. Their pace is not necessarily the pace you should run at. Run at your own way. Our bodies know what they need. Our hearts know what they need. In living life on our own terms, we will likely feel stronger in body, mind and spirit.
4. What motivated the author to participate in marathon?
A. Her keen wish to celebrate her 60th birthday.
B. Her strong curiosity for fighting against aging.
C. Her eager interest in doing regular exercise.
D. Her urgent need to enhance her health and mind.
5. What do the underlined words “this principle” in paragraph 3 probably refer to?
A. Setting a target time. B. Finding your limitation.
C. Enjoying your decisions. D. Running at your own pace.
6. What does the author think of peer pressure?
A. Its impact is only limited to young generations.
B. Even senior citizens cannot avoid it completely.
C. Its existence is too ridiculous to explain.
D. It ends if we stop pursuing our dreams.
7. What might the author intend to convey through her experience?
A. Look before you leap. B. Birds of a feather flock together.
C. It’s never old late to learn. D. Don’t follow the crowd.
【答案】4. A 5. D 6. B 7. D
【解析】
【导语】这是一篇夹叙夹议的文章。文章讲述了作者通过跑马拉松，教练给他的建议，明白了每个人的人生应该有自己的节奏，而不是按照别人的节奏来生活。
【4题详解】
细节理解题。根据第二段中“I realized this while training for a marathon to celebrate my 60th birthday. (我是在为庆祝我60岁生日的马拉松训练时意识到这一点的。)”可知，庆祝60岁生日的强烈愿望激励了作者参加马拉松。故选A项。
【5题详解】
词句猜测题。划线词句前文“All the other runners being faster than me made me embarrassed, but my coach shared some valuable advice: run at your own best pace — setting a goal or target time could be a limitation. (所有其他跑得比我快的人都让我很尴尬，但我的教练分享了一些宝贵的建议:以你自己的最佳节奏跑步——设定一个目标或目标时间可能是一种限制。)”说明教练建议作者按照自己的速度跑步，不用在意其他人的速度。从而推知划线词句“(我把this principle应用到我生活的其他方面。)”其中划线短语应为“按照自己最好的节奏跑步”的意思。故选D项。
【6题详解】
细节理解题。根据第四段中“I used to think it was young people who bore the impact of peer pressure, but older adults can experience it too. (我曾经认为只有年轻人才会受到同辈压力的影响，但老年人也会有同样的感受。)”可知，作者认为在同辈压力影响方面，即使是老年人也不能完全避免它。故选B项。
【7题详解】
推理判断题。根据最后一段“Forget what others are doing. Their pace is not necessarily the pace you should run at. Run at your own way. Our bodies know what they need. Our hearts know what they need. In living life on our own terms, we will likely feel stronger in body, mind and spirit. (忘记别人在做什么。他们的速度不一定是你应该跑的速度。按照你自己的方式奔跑。我们的身体知道自己需要什么。我们的心知道自己需要什么。按照自己的方式生活，我们可能会在身体、思想和精神上感到更强大。)”可知，作者打算通过她的经历向读者传达，按照自己的节奏生活，不要随大流儿。故选D项。
C
On January 7, David Bennett went into the operating room at the University of Maryland Medical Center for a surgical procedure never performed before on a human. The 57-year-old Maryland resident had been hospitalized for months due to a life threatening disease. His heart was failing him and he needed a new one.
Bennett’s condition left him unresponsive to treatment and ineligible (不合格) for the transplant list or an artificial heart pump. The physician-scientists at the center, however, had another-also risky- option: transplant (移植) a heart from a genetically-modified pig.
“It was either die or do this transplant,” Bennett had told surgeons a day before the operation. “I want to live. I know it’s a shot in the dark, but it’s also my last choice.”
It took the medical team eight hours to finish the operation, making Bennett the first human to successfully receive a pig’s heart. “It’s working and it looks normal. We are thrilled, but we don’t know what tomorrow will bring us. This has never been done before,” Barkley Griffith, who led the transplant team, told the New York Times.
While it’s only been five days since the operation, the surgeons say that Bennett’s new pig heart was, so far, functioning as expected and his body wasn’t rejecting (排斥) the organ. They are still monitoring his condition closely.
“I think it’s extremely exciting,” says Robert Montgomery, transplant surgeon and director of the NYU Langone Transplant Institute, who was not involved in Bennett’s operation. The result of the procedure was also personally meaningful for Montgomery, who received a heart transplant in 2018 due to a genetic disease that may also affect members of his family in the future. “It’s still in the early days, but still the heart seems to be functioning. And that in and of itself is an extraordinary thing. Up to now most experimental heart transplant procedures have been done between pigs and other animals. This is the first time that surgeons have taken it into a living human.”
8. What do the words “a shot in the dark” underlined in Paragraph 3 mean?
A. Something that costs a fortune.
B. Something impossible to succeed.
C. Something drawing public attention.
D. Something with an uncertain outcome.
9. What is Barkley Griffith’s attitude to Bennett’s post-operation condition?
A. Negative.
B. Cautious.
C. Optimistic.
D. Uncaring.
10. What is the text mainly about?
A. The heated debate over the pig heart transplant.
B David Bennett’s contribution to medical research.
C. The first experimental pig heart transplant in the world.
D. The first successful pig heart transplant into a living human.
11. In which section of a magazine may this text appear?
A. Political Affairs.
B. Global Entertainment.
C. Sci-Tech Front.
D. Financial Window.
【答案】8. D 9. B 10. D 11. C
【解析】
【导语】本文是一篇新闻报道。文章报道了全球第一次成功的猪心移植到活人体内。
【8题详解】
词句猜测题。根据划线词上文““It was either die or do this transplant,” Bennett had told surgeons a day before the operation.(“要么死，要么做移植手术，”班尼特在手术前一天告诉外科医生)”及下文“but it’s also my last choice.(但这也是我最后的选择)”可推知，班尼特不确定手术是否成功。由此推知，划线短语a shot in the dark的意思是“结果不确定的事情”。故选D。
【9题详解】
推理判断题。根据第四段中的““It’s working and it looks normal. We are thrilled, but we don’t know what tomorrow will bring us. This has never been done before,” Barkley Griffith, who led the transplant team, told the New York Times.(“它正在工作，看起来很正常。我们很兴奋，但我们不知道明天会给我们带来什么。这是前所未有的，”领导移植团队的巴克利·格里菲斯在接受《纽约时报》采访时表示)”可推知，巴克利·格里菲斯对本内特的术后情况持谨慎态度。故选B。
【10题详解】
主旨大意题。根据第一段中的“On January 7, David Bennett went into the operating room at the University of Maryland Medical Center for a surgical procedure never performed before on a human.(1月7日，大卫·班尼特走进马里兰大学医学中心的手术室，进行一项从未在人类身上进行过的手术)”和“His heart was failing him and he needed a new one.(他的心脏衰竭了，他需要一个新的心脏)”根据第二段“The physician-scientists at the center, however, had another-also risky- option: transplant (移植) a heart from a genetically-modified pig.”（然而，该中心的医生和科学家们还有另一个同样有风险的选择:从一只转基因猪身上移植心脏。）及下文介绍可知，文章主要介绍了全球第一次成功的猪心移植到活人体内。故选D。
【11题详解】
推理判断题。根据第一段中的“On January 7, David Bennett went into the operating room at the University of Maryland Medical Center for a surgical procedure never performed before on a human.(1月7日，大卫·班尼特走进马里兰大学医学中心的手术室，进行一项从未在人类身上进行过的手术)”及下文介绍可知，文章主要介绍了全球第一次成功的猪心移植到活人体内。由此推知，这篇文章也许会出现在杂志的科技前沿部分。故选C。
D
Women were less likely than men to support the Vietnam war, the Gulf war, or the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq. They commit far fewer murders. They are less likely to favor strikes. For some scholars, these are grounds for thinking that a world run by women would be more peaceful.
But European history suggests otherwise, according to political scientists Oeindrila Dube and S. P. Harish. They studied how often European rulers went to war between 1480 and 1913, and found that states ruled by queens were 27% more likely to get involved in wars than those ruled by kings.
This was not all the queens’ fault: men, seeing them as soft targets, tended to attack them. Frederick the Great of Prussia once declared: ”No woman should ever be allowed to govern anything.“ Shortly after becoming king, he attacked the newly crowned Archduchess of Austria, Maria Theresa, and seized Silesia province. Despite years of war, she never recovered it.
But perceived weakness is not the whole story. Queens, the researchers found, were more likely to gain new territory. Catherine the Great expanded her empire by some 200,000 square miles. And married queens were more aggressive than single queens or kings, whether single or married.
The authors suggest several reasons for this. First, married queens may have been able to form more military alliances(联盟),making them confident enough to pick fights. Their husbands had often served in the army before they married, and were well placed to strengthen military ties between their homelands and their wives’ states.
Second, unlike most kings, queens often gave their husbands a lot of power,putting them in charge of foreign policy or the economy. During the 1740s, Maria Theresa’s husband, Francis I, reformed the Austrian economy and raised money for the armed forces while his wife ruled much of central Europe. Prince Albert was Queen Victoria’s most trusted adviser, shaping her foreign policy until his death in1861. This division of labor, the authors suggest, freed up time for queens to pursue more aggressive policies.
The modern era, too, has witnessed female leaders in wars: Golda Meir and the Yom Kippur war, or Margaret Thatcher and the Falklands. The number of countries led by women has more than doubled since 2000, but there is plenty of room for improvement: the current level of 15 represents less than 10 % of the total. A world in which more women took power might be more equal. Whether it would be more peaceful is a different question.
12. The underlined “perceived weakness” in paragraph 4 means that________.
A. women were less likely to support wars
B. women could not recover lost territory
C. women commit far fewer crimes
D. women were soft targets
13. Why were married queens more likely to gain new territory?
A. Because their military alliances picked fights for them.
B. Because they were ambitious and aggressive by nature.
C. Because their husbands were supportive in state governing.
D. Because they centralized all power into their own hands.
14. What is the purpose of mentioning the two female leaders in the last paragraph?
A. To imply there is room for improvement in gender equality.
B. To indicate more females become leaders in modern times.
C. To illustrate female leaders cannot prevent wars in modern times.
D. To suggest female leaders have their share of wars in modern times.
15. According to the passage, we can safely conclude that________.
A. married women are not fit to govern their states on their own
B. female leaders should be responsible for all wars throughout history
C. the world wouldn’t be more peaceful even if more women took power
D. the division of labor allows queens to survive economic crisis
【答案】12. D 13. C 14. D 15. C
【解析】
【导语】这是一篇说明文。文章主要介绍了由女性执政的国家历史上并不比男性执政的国家和平，已婚女王带领的国家其实经历了更多的战争。
【12题详解】
词句猜测题。根据第三段第一句话“This was not all the queens’ fault: men, seeing them as soft targets, tended to attack them. (这不全是女王的错：男人们把他们视为软目标，倾向于攻击他们)”以及下文可知，男人们将女人看作软柿子，倾向于攻击她们，然后举例证明男人攻击女性执政的国家，而第四段却表示这不是完整的故事，说明划线词应该指代上文男性对女性的轻视，因此画线的句子应该理解为“认为女人是软柿子”。故选D。
【13题详解】
细节理解题。根据倒数第三段“The authors suggest several reasons for this. First, married queens may have been able to form more military alliances(联盟),making them confident enough to pick fights. Their husbands had often served in the army before they married, and were well placed to strengthen military ties between their homelands and their wives’ states.(作者提出了几个原因。首先，已婚皇后可能已经能够形成更多的军事联盟，使他们有足够的信心挑起战争。他们的丈夫在结婚前经常在军队服役，他们处于有利地位，可以加强祖国和妻子所在州之间的军事联系)”可知，他们的丈夫会帮助其管理国家。故选C。
【14题详解】
推理判断题。根据最后一段第一句话“The modern era, too, has witnessed female leaders in wars: Golda Meir and the Yom Kippur war, or Margaret Thatcher and the Falklands. (现代也见证了战争中的女性领导人：戈尔达·梅尔和赎罪日战争，或者玛格丽特·撒切尔和福克兰群岛)”可知，这里举例是想表明当代的女性领导者也在战争中有参与。故选D。
【15题详解】
推理判断题。根据文章最后一段最后两句话“A world in which more women took power might be more equal. Whether it would be more peaceful is a different question.(一个有更多女性掌权的世界可能会更加平等。是否会更和平是另一个问题)”可知，越来越多女性执政可能世界会更平等，但是是否更和平就是另一回事了，且前面一直介绍历史上和现代女性执政者都参与战争，所以我们可以总结出就算更多女性执政，世界也不会变得更加和平。故选C。
第二节 (共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分)
根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
Many people wonder what they can do to become well-rounded and competitive while increasing their rate of success. ____16____
Be willing to expand your mind. Rid yourself of assumptions and convictions so that you can be open and receptive to new information. ____17____ You will eventually come across information that challenges your worldview. Rather than remaining resting in your comfort zone, use this time to stop, reflect and shed light on these ideas in a way that can develop and expand your vision.
After the mind has been ready, the next step is application. ____18____ Learning information you can use in your daily life is very important to having a continuous desire to further advance your education. Skill-based learning, for example, is useless if it isn’t applied. Reading a book on automobile repair isn’t the same as physically changing the oil or tire on your car. Reading about art isn’t the same as picking up a brush. If your knowledge can be directly applied in a functional and fun fashion, put it into practice! Many people learn by being hands-on.
Surround yourself with like-minded individuals and try to always take something valuable away from your daily interactions. ____19____ If you come across anything that confuses you, ask them! Never be too prideful, for each question you don’t ask is a missed opportunity!
____20____ Commit to expanding your mind, continuing your education and becoming a student of life. Use the world as your classroom, and always come away with a lesson. Remember to cultivate your mind so it is prepared to expand, blossom and grow. And share your fountain of knowledge.
A. Go ahead and challenge yourself today.
B. Create a to-learn list just as you would a to-do list.
C. There are so many things they can do to achieve their goal.
D. You can find a large number of outstanding people in your school.
E. This at times may even contradict what you have always believed to be true.
F. Many people are professionals in their field and have valuable information and insight to share.
G. An often overlooked yet simple way to improve is to increase your knowledge by being a self-starter.
【答案】16. G 17. E 18. B 19. F 20. A
【解析】
【导语】这是一篇说明文。文章主要介绍了在提高成功率的同时，怎样才能变得面面俱到且具有竞争力的一个简单方法：通过自我激励来增加知识。
【16题详解】
上文“Many people wonder what they can do to become well-rounded and competitive while increasing their rate of success. (许多人都想知道，在提高成功率的同时，他们能做些什么才能变得面面俱到并且具有竞争力。)”说明许多人想知道在提高成功率的同时，变得面面俱到且具有竞争力的方法，选项G“一个经常被忽视但却简单的提高方法是通过自我激励来增加你的知识。”承接上文，回答了上文的问题。故选G项。
【17题详解】
上文“Be willing to expand your mind. Rid yourself of assumptions and convictions so that you can be open and receptive to new information. (愿意拓展你的思维。摆脱自己的假设和信念，这样你才能对新信息持开放和接受的态度。)”说明拓展你的思维，要做到摆脱自己的假设和信念，选项E“有时，这甚至可能与你一直相信的真理相矛盾。”承接上文，具体说明摆脱自己的假设和信念的后果。故选E项。
【18题详解】
上文“After the mind has been ready, the next step is application. (在思想准备好之后，下一步就是应用。)”说明思想准备好后，要做到应用，选项B“创建一个学习清单，就像创建一个待办事项清单一样。”承接上文，说明了应用的具体做法。故选B项。
【19题详解】
下文“If you come across anything that confuses you, ask them! Never be too prideful, for each question you don’t ask is a missed opportunity! (如果你遇到任何让你困惑的事情，问问他们！永远不要太骄傲，因为每一个你没有问的问题都是一次错失的机会！)”说明有困惑时，多请教别人，询问别人的意见，选项F“许多人都是各自领域的专业人士，有宝贵的信息和见解可以分享。”引出下文，许多人是专业人士，有宝贵的知识来分享，所以我们有困惑时，需要请教他们。故选F项。
【20题详解】
下文“Commit to expanding your mind, continuing your education and becoming a student of life. Use the world as your classroom, and always come away with a lesson. Remember to cultivate your mind so it is prepared to expand, blossom and grow. And share your fountain of knowledge. (致力于拓展你的思维，继续你的教育，成为一名生活的学生。把这个世界当作你的课堂，并且总是带着一节课离开。记住要培养你的心智，让它为扩张、开花和成长做好准备。分享你的知识源泉。)”说明致力于拓展思维，继续教育，培养知识，分享知识源泉，这都是挑战自己的具体做法。选项A“今天就去挑战自己吧。”引出下文，概括本段内容。故选A项。
第三部分 英语知识运用 (共两节，满分45分)
第一节 完形填空(共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分)
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
The passengers on the bus watched with sympathy as Susan made her way carefully up the steps. She paid the driver and then, using her hands to ____21____ the seats, settled in one of them.
It had been a year since Susan became blind. As a result of an accident, she was suddenly thrown into a world of ____22____. Susan’s husband Mark watched her ____23____ into hopelessness and he was ____24____ to use every possible means to drag her out.
Finally, Susan felt ready to return to her job, but how would she get there? She used to take the bus, but she was now too ____25____ to get around the city by herself. Mark ____26____ to ride the bus with Susan each morning and evening ____27____ she could manage it by herself.
For two weeks, Mark ____28____ Susan to and from work each day. He taught her how to rely on her other ____29____, specifically her hearing, to determine where she was and how to adapt to her new _____30_____.
At last, Susan decided that she was ready to try the trip _____31_____. Monday morning arrived. Before she left, she hugged her husband _____32_____, with her eyes filled with tears of gratitude. She said good-bye and, for the first time, they went their _____33_____ ways. Four days went perfectly, and a wild excitement took _____34_____ of Susan. She was doing it!
On Friday morning, Susan took the bus to work as usual. As she was about to getting _____35_____ the bus, the driver said, “Miss, I sure _____36_____ you.” Curious, Susan asked the driver why.
“You know, every morning for the past _____37_____, a fine-looking gentleman in a military uniform has been standing across the corner over there, watching you until you enter your office building _____38_____,” the bus driver said.
Tears of _____39_____ poured down Susan’s cheeks. She was so lucky, for he had given her a gift more powerful than _____40_____. That is the gift of love that can bring light where there is darkness.
21. A. touch B. grab C. count D. feel
22. A. weakness B. sickness C. darkness D. sadness
23. A. run B. sink C. jump D. step
24. A. inspired B. determined C. honored D. pleased
25. A. tired B. astonished C. depressed D. frightened
26. A. volunteered B. attempted C. continued D. struggled
27. A. when B. as C. until D. after
28. A. drove B. directed C. accompanied D. sent
29. A. feelings B. organs C. skills D. senses
30. A. position B. environment C. status D. role
31. A. on her own B. in person C. to her benefit D. on foot
32. A. politely B. calmly C. briefly D. tightly
33. A. opposite B. separate C. fixed D. lonely
34. A. charge B. place C. advantage D. hold
35. A. on B. away C. off D. into
36. A. respect B. envy C. know D. support
37. A. week B. month C. day D. season
38. A. safely B. excitedly C. hurriedly D. calmly
39. A. joy B. sorrow C. rage D. fright
40. A. courage B. will C. sight D. wisdom
【答案】21. D 22. C 23. B 24. B 25. D 26. A 27. C 28. C 29. D 30. B 31. A 32. D 33. B 34. D 35. C 36. B 37. A 38. A 39. A 40. C
【解析】
【导语】这是一篇记叙文，文章主要讲的是一个盲人乘客苏珊的故事。由于一次车祸，她失明了，丈夫为了照顾她每天和她一起上下班，帮助她适应新的环境，最后苏珊决定自己独自去上下班，而事实上丈夫每天都在默默地目送她安全进入办公楼，司机无意的话语让苏珊意识到相对于视力，丈夫的爱才是在黑暗中给她带来光明的最大礼物。
【21题详解】
考查动词词义辨析。句意：她付了车费，然后用手摸了摸座位，在其中一个座位上坐了下来。A. touch打动；接触；B. grab攫取；抢夺；C. count数数；重要；D. feel触摸；摸索。根据空前“using her hands to”后文“It had been a year since Susan became blind.”可知苏珊是一名盲人，所以此处指的是她通过手的触摸来寻找座位。故选D项。
【22题详解】
考查名词词义辨析。句意：由于一场事故，她突然被扔进了黑暗的世界。A. weakness软弱；缺点；B. sickness疾病；C. darkness黑暗；D. sadness伤心。根据空前“It had been a year since Susan became blind. As a result of an accident, she was suddenly thrown into a world of”可知一场事故让苏珊失明了，所以她就被扔进了黑暗的世界。故选C项。
【23题详解】
考查动词词义辨析。句意：苏珊的丈夫马克看着她陷入绝望，他决心用一切可能的方法帮她摆脱困境。A. run跑；经营；B. sink下沉；陷入；C. jump跳；D. step迈步；踩。根据前文“It had been a year since Susan became blind. As a result of an accident, she was suddenly thrown into a world of ____2____ .”以及空后“into hopelessness and he was ____4____ to use every possible means to drag her out.”以及后文“Finally, Susan felt ready to return to her job,”可知此处指的是苏珊失明后曾经有一段时间对生活失去信心，陷入绝望。故选B项。
【24题详解】
考查形容词词义辨析。句意：苏珊的丈夫马克看着她陷入绝望，他决心用一切可能的方法帮她摆脱困境。A. inspired受到鼓舞的；B. determined坚定的；C. honored荣幸的；受尊敬的；D. pleased开心的。根据空后“to use every possible means to drag her out.”可知马克决心尽一切努力，帮她走出黑暗，重拾对生活的信心。故选B项。
【25题详解】
考查形容词词义辨析。句意：她过去常乘公共汽车，但现在她太害怕了，不敢独自在城里走动。A. tired疲惫的；枯燥的；B. astonished吃惊的；C. depressed抑郁的；D. frightened害怕的。根据前文“It had been a year since Susan became blind. As a result of an accident, she was suddenly thrown into a world of ____2____ .”以及空后“to get around the city by herself.”可知因为失明，所以苏珊害怕像往常一样一个人乘坐公交车。故选D项。
【26题详解】
考查动词词义辨析。句意：马克主动提出每天早晚和苏珊一起乘公共汽车，直到她能自己应付为止。A. volunteered自告奋勇； B. attempted尝试；企图；试图；C. continued继续；D. struggled挣扎；斗争。根据前文“she was now too ____5____ to get around the city by herself.”以及后文“to ride the bus with Susan each morning and evening ____7____ she could manage it by herself.”可知此处指的是因为失明苏珊害怕一个人单独乘坐公交，因此马克主动提出要和她一起乘坐公交上下班直到她可以自己应对这一切。 故选A项。
【27题详解】
考查连词词义辨析。句意：马克主动提出每天早晚和苏珊一起乘公共汽车，直到她能自己应付为止。A. when当……时候；B. as正如；当……时候；尽管；C. until 直到；D. after在……之后。根据空后“she could manage it by herself.”可知此处指的是马克与苏珊一同坐公交这件事会一直持续到苏珊可以自己应付为止。故选C项。
【28题详解】
考查动词词义辨析。句意：两个星期以来，马克每天陪着苏珊上下班。A. drove开车；驱赶；B. directed指导；C. accompanied陪伴；伴随；D. sent送；寄出。根据上文“Mark ____6____ to ride the bus with Susan each morning and evening ____7____ she could manage it by herself.”以及空后“Susan to and from work each day. He taught her how to rely on her other ____9____ , specifically her hearing, to determine where she was and how to adapt to her new ____10____ .”可知马克主动提出早晚与苏珊一同乘坐公交，所以是陪同她上下班。故选C项。
【29题详解】
考查名词词义辨析。句意：他教她如何依靠她的其他感官，特别是她的听觉，来确定她在哪里，以及如何适应新的环境。A. feelings感情；B. organs器官；C. skills技巧； D. senses感官；意义。根据空后“specifically her hearing,”可知因为失明，所以马克教苏珊利用其他的感官来辨别周遭的一切。故选 D项。
【30题详解】
考查名词词义辨析。句意：他教她如何依靠她的其他感官，特别是她的听觉，来确定她在哪里，以及如何适应新的环境。A. position位置；职位；B. environment环境；C. status社会地位；D. role角色；作用。根据空前“specifically her hearing, to determine where she was and how to adapt to her new”可知此处讲的是马克在教苏珊如何利用她的其他感官尤其是听觉来分辨自己所住的位置并适应新的环境。故选 B项。
【31题详解】
考查介词短语辨析。句意：最后，苏珊决定自己试一试这次旅行。A. on her own独自；B. in person亲自；C. to her benefit对她有利；D. on foot步行。根据空后“Monday morning arrived. Before she left, she hugged her husband ____12____ , with her eyes filled with tears of gratitude. She said good-bye and, for the first time, they went their ____13____ ways.”可知苏珊终于决定要尝试一个人乘坐公交上下班。故选A项。
【32题详解】
考查副词词义辨析。句意：星期一早上到了。临走前，她紧紧地拥抱着丈夫，眼里充满了感激的泪水。A. politely礼貌地；B. calmly镇静地；C. briefly简略地；D. tightly坚固地。根据空前“Monday morning arrived. Before she left, she hugged her husband”以及空后“with her eyes filled with tears of gratitude.”可知此处表示苏珊通过拥抱来表达对丈夫的感激。故选D项。
【33题详解】
考查形容词词义辨析。句意：她说了声再见，他们第一次朝着各自的方向走了。A. opposite相反的；相对的；B. separate单独的；独自的；C. fixed固定的；D. lonely孤独的。根据前文“At last, Susan decided that she was ready to try the trip ____11____ .”可知此处讲的因为最初是马克陪苏珊一起乘坐公交车，终于苏珊决定单独乘坐公交上下班，所以是各自朝着各自的方向走了。故选B项。
【34题详解】
考查名词词义辨析。句意：四天过得很顺利，一种疯狂的兴奋笼罩着苏珊。A. charge收费；指控；负责；B. place地方；C. advantage优势；利益；D. hold握；控制。根据空前“Four days went perfectly, and a wild excitement took”以及空后“of Susan. She was doing it!”可知此处指的是苏珊决定独自乘坐公交车之后的四天进展的很顺利，所以可以推断她应该是非常兴奋的，take hold of意为“控制；抓住”。故选D项。
【35题详解】
考查介词词义辨析。句意：当她正要下车时，司机说：“小姐，我真羡慕你。”苏珊好奇地问司机为什么。A. on在……上；B. away离开；C. off离开；D. into进入。根据前文“On Friday morning, Susan took the bus to work as usual. As she was about to getting”以及空后“the bus,” 可知此处指的是苏珊即将下车时与司机的对话，get off意为“下车”。故选C项。
【36题详解】
考查动词词义辨析。句意：当她正要下车时，司机说：“小姐，我真羡慕你。”苏珊好奇地问司机为什么。A. respect尊重；敬重；B. envy羡慕；C. know认识；D. support支持。根据后文““You know, every morning for the past ____17____ , a fine-looking gentleman in a military uniform has been standing across the corner over there, watching you until you enter your office building ____18____ ,” the bus driver said.”可知因为看见每天都有一位穿着军装的英俊绅士站在那边的角落里目送着苏珊安全进入办公楼，所以司机觉得苏珊是幸福的，因此心生羡慕。故选B项。
【37题详解】
考查名词词义辨析。句意：“你知道，过去一周的每天早上，都有一位穿着军装的英俊绅士站在那边的角落里，看着你，直到你安全进入办公楼。”A. week周；B. month月；C. day一天；D. season季节。根据前文“At last, Susan decided that she was ready to try the trip ____11____ . Monday morning arrived. ”以及“Four days went perfectly,”以及“On Friday morning, Susan took the bus to work as usual.”可知苏珊独自乘坐公交上下班已经一周了。故选A项。
【38题详解】
考查副词词义辨析。句意：“你知道，过去一周的每天早上，都有一位穿着军装的英俊绅士站在那边的角落里，看着你，直到你安全进入办公楼。”A. safely安全地；B. excitedly兴奋地；C. hurriedly匆忙地；D. calmly平静地；冷静地。根据空前““You know, every morning for the past ____17____ , a fine-looking gentleman in a military uniform has been standing across the corner over there, watching you until you enter your office building”可知在过去的一周内马克每天都会在目送苏珊安全进入办公楼之后才会离开。故选A项。
【39题详解】
考查名词词义辨析。句意：苏珊喜极而泣。A. joy喜悦；B. sorrow悲伤；伤痛；C. rage愤怒；D. fright斗争。根据前文““You know, every morning for the past ____17____ , a fine-looking gentleman in a military uniform has been standing across the corner over there, watching you until you enter your office building””以及空后“poured down Susan’s cheeks. She was so lucky, for he had given her a gift more powerful than ____20____ . That is the gift of love that can bring light where there is darkness.”可知得知丈夫每天都在目送自己安全进入办公楼之后才会离开的真相后苏珊流下了激动的泪水。故选A项。
【40题详解】
考查名词词义辨析。句意：她是如此幸运，因为他给了她比视力更强大的礼物。A. courage勇气；B. will意志；决心；C. sight视力；景象；D. wisdom智慧。根据后文“That is the gift of love that can bring light where there is darkness.”可知得知真相后的苏珊觉得相对于失明而言，丈夫的爱才是能在黑暗中给她带来光明的最好礼物。故选C项。
第II卷
第二节 (共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分)
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。
“Seeing printed media being ____41____ (gradual) replaced by new media made me feel that something precious in my memory ____42____ (be) lost. I don’t want them to disappear,” he said, ____43____ (add) that publishing marriage announcements evokes ____44____ warm feeling toward newspapers while bringing a sense of vintage elegance.
The price for publishing a marriage announcement differs by number of words, space and printing house. It ranges from around 100 yuan to more than 10,000 yuan. Customers can ____45____ pay for the service online or by phone. Globally, many newspapers also provide sections to publish marriage announcements, along with births and ____46____ (die).
Meng Si, ____47____ works for an online platform ____48____ (associate) with newspaper publishing services, told Xinhua News Agency recently that there has been a ____49____ (notice) increase in inquiries and orders for marriage announcements. The customers are predominantly young people in _____50_____ 20s, with some even making appointments one or two months in advance.
【答案】41. gradually
42. was being
43. adding 44. a
45. either 46. deaths
47. who 48. associated
49. noticeable
50. their
【解析】
【导语】本文为一篇说明文。文章主要介绍了一种新型的印刷媒体的出现，在报纸上刊登结婚公告。
【41题详解】
考查副词。句意：“看到印刷媒体逐渐被新媒体所取代，我觉得我记忆中的一些珍贵的东西正在消失”。此处修饰动词placed，故应用副词“gradually逐渐地”作状语，故填gradually。
【42题详解】
考查时态。句意：同上。此句中something作主语，为不定代词，此处作谓语动词，此处意为“正在消失”，根据前文made可知，此处应用过去进行时，故填was being。
【43题详解】
考查非谓语动词。句意：他说道，并补充说道，发布结婚公告唤起了对报纸的热情，同时也带来了复古优雅的感觉。此处作状语，add与主语he之间为主动关系，故此处应用现在分词作状语，故填adding。
【44题详解】
考查冠词。句意：同上。此处意为“feeling感觉，热情”为可数名词，且此处泛指“一种热情”，且warm以辅音音素开头，故填a。
45题详解】
考查连词。句意：顾客可以在线或电话支付服务费用。根据后文的or可知，此处为“either…or…要么……要么……”，故填either。
【46题详解】
考查名词的数。句意：在全球范围内，许多报纸也提供刊登结婚公告的版面，以及出生和死亡。此处应用名词“death死亡数”作宾语，且根据前文的births可知，此处应用其复数形式，故填deaths。
【47题详解】
考查定语从句。句意：孟思，在一家与报纸出版服务相关的在线平台工作，最近告诉新华社，婚姻公告的订单和询问有着明显的增加。此处引导非限制性定语从句，先行词为Meng Si，指人，在定语从句中作主语，故应用who引导，故填who。
【48题详解】
考查非谓语动词。句意；同上。此处作定语，修饰platform，platform与associate之间为被动关系，故此处应用过去分词作后置定语，故填associated。
【49题详解】
考查形容词。句意：同上。此处作定语，修饰名词increase，故应用形容词“noticeable明显的”，故填noticeable。
【50题详解】
考查代词。句意：这些顾客主要是20多岁的年轻人，有些人甚至提前一两个月申请。此处意为“他们20几岁时”，表达为in one’s 20s，且此处指代young people，故应用代词their，故填their。
第四部分 写作(共两节，满分35分)
第一节 短文改错（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
51. 假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误,每句中最多有两处。错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏词符号(∧)，并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线(﹨)划掉。
修改：在错的词下画一横线,并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1.每处错误及修改均仅限一词；
2.只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
I have watched a plenty of documentaries about Shanghai and I had been dying to go there. If I have a chance to go sightseeing there, I’ll make a detailed plan based on my knowledge about the city. I’ll walk along the Bund, which I can see many western-style buildings. For lunch, we would like to eat some delicious snack in Yu Garden. After lunch, I plan to visit the Oriental Pearl TV Tower, which is the seventh high tower in the world. Besides, I will also climb to the top of that tower to have a view of the whole modernly city. Only by this way can I have better understanding of it. I hope my wish to visit Shanghai will be realizing this year.
【答案】1.去掉a
2.had→have
3.which→where或which前加上on
4.we→I
5. snack→snacks
6.high→highest
7.modernly→modern
8.by→in
9.better前加上a
10.realizing→realized
【解析】
【导语】本文为一篇记叙文。文章主要讲述了作者去上海的计划。
【详解】1.考固定短语。句意：我已经看过很多关于上海的文件，并一直想要去上海。此处意为“大量的”，表达为plenty of，故去掉a。
2.考查时态。句意同上。此处意为“我一直渴望去上海”，强调从过去持续到现在的动作，故此处应用现在完成时，故将had改为have。
3.考查定语从句。句意：我就会沿着外滩散步，在外滩，我可以看到很多西方建筑。此处引导定语从句，先行词为the Bund，在定语从句作地点状语，故应用where引导，故将which改为where；或理解为介词+which引导定语从句，表示“在外滩”用介词on，故也可用在which前加上on。故which改为where或者在which前加on。
4.考查主语。句意；对于午餐，我想要在豫园吃一些美味的小吃。全文讲述作者去上海的计划，主语为I，故将we改为I。
5.考查名词的数。句意：同上。此处“snack零食”为可数名词，且此处为复数形式，以为你“吃各种零食”，故将snack改为snacks。
6.考查形容词最高级。句意：午餐之后，我打算去参观东方明珠塔，这是世界第七高塔。此处意为“世界上第七高塔”，故应用序数词+adj.最高级，故将high改为highest。
7.考查形容词。句意：而且，我也将爬到塔的顶部，鸟瞰整个现代化的城市。此处修饰名词city，故应用形容词“modern现代的”作定语，故将modernly改为modern。
8.考查介词。句意：只有通过这种方式，我才能更了解上海。“通过这种方式”表达为in this way，故将by改为in。
9.考查冠词。句意同上。此处意为“更好地理解……”，表达为have a better understanding of…，故在better前加上a。
10.考查过去分词。句意：我希望我参观上海的愿望在今年可以实现。此处wish与realize之间为被动关系，应用过去分词和will be构成一般将来时的被动语态。故将realizing改为realized。
第二节 书面表达(满分25分)
52. 假定你是李华，你作为高三学生代表受邀在开学典礼上发言，请撰写一篇发言稿，内容包括：
1.高三学习中可能面临的困难或挑战（至少两点）；
2.解决办法；
3.期望与祝福。
注意：
1.词数100左右；
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Dear teachers and my fellow students,
Good morning.
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Thank you for listening.
【答案】Dear teachers and my fellow students,
Good morning. I am Li Hua. Much honored to deliver a speech on behalf of senior three students here, I would like to share my humble opinions on how to better adapt to senior three life.
It is certain that the coming year is laden with difficulties and challenges. With in total six major subjects to work on, chances are that we will frequently feel a shortage of time. Besides, the highly intense study life is likely to cause stress and anxiety, which leads to low efficiency and even health problems.
Faced with these possible obstacles, we need a detailed study schedule to maximize our efficiency. Meanwhile, it’s necessary to occasionally take off the burden, get enough exercise and relax.
I’m now determined to reach for the stars and firmly believe that as long as we are mentally and physically prepared, we can manage senior three life perfectly.
Thank you for listening.
【解析】
【导语】本篇书面表达属于应用文，要求考生撰写一篇发言稿，作为高三学生代表受邀在开学典礼上发言。
【详解】1.词汇积累
适应：adapt to→adjust to
充满：be laden with→be filled with
除此之外：besides→in addition
面临；面对：be faced with→be confronted with
2.句式拓展
简单句变复合句
原句：Faced with these possible obstacles, we need a detailed study schedule to maximize our efficiency.
拓展句：Because we are faced with these possible obstacles, we need a detailed study schedule to maximize our efficiency.
【点睛】【高分句型1】With in total six major subjects to work on, chances are that we will frequently feel a shortage of time.(使用了with复合结构)
【高分句型2】Meanwhile, it’s necessary to occasionally take off the burden, get enough exercise and relax.(使用了it作形式主语，不定式作真正主语的结构)
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