上海市行知中学2024-2025学年高二上学期第一次月考英语试卷(无答案)

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（试卷满分140分，考试时间120分钟）
第Ⅰ卷（共100分）
Ⅰ. Listening Cmprehensin
Sectin A
Directins: In Sectin A, yu will hear ten shrt cnversatins between tw speakers. At the end f each cnversatin, a questin will be asked abut what was said. The cnversatins and the questins will be spken nly nce. After yu hear a cnversatin and the questin abut it, read the fur pssible answers n yur paper, and decide which ne is the best answer t the questin yu have heard.
1. A. 100 dllars.B. 200 dllars.C. 300 dllars.D. 600 dllars.
2. A. In the hspital.B. At a nursery.C. At a plice statin.D. In a library.
3. A. April.B. May.C. June.D. July.
4. A. G t visit the writer.B. Buy her new bk.
C. Ignre her new bk.D. Write a bk review.
5. A. Jgging.B. Basketball.C. Swimming.D. Thrwing.
6. A. The lady’s rm is far.
B. She has t sign up fr using the lady’s rm.
C. She is nt able t use the lady’s rm right nw.
D. He will lead her t the lady’s rm.
7. A. He will read it n Saturday.B. He will lend it t Sandy first.
C. He will lend it t Jane first.D. He will keep the paper until Sunday.
8. A. He prbably just has gt a headache.
B. There’s n air-cnditiner in the rm.
C. She thinks he is nt seriusly sick.
D. She thinks he shuld g t see the dctr.
9. A. They culdn’t change the plan.
B. They shuld change their plan.
C. She desn’t believe the weather frecast.
D. She thinks the basketball game wn’t last.
10. A. He can cme fr next party.B. He can bring his wife alng t the party.
C. He can stay at hme fr his wife.D. She will change the time f the party.
Sectin B
Directins: In Sectin B, yu will hear tw shrt passages and ne lnger cnversatin. After each passage r cnversatin, yu will be asked several questins. The passages and the cnversatin will be read twice, but the questins will be spken nly nce. When yu hear a questin, read rhe fur pssible answers n yur paper and decide which ne wuld be the best answer t the questin yu have heard.
Questins 11 thrugh 13 are based n the fllwing passage.
11. A. They believed that he wuld realize his dream.
B. They ffered him help t achieve his dream.
C. They didn’t believe that his dream wuld cme true.
D. They made n respnse t his annuncement.
12. A. That he was encuraged by the teacher.
B. That he was encuraged by the lcal paper editr.
C. That his first pem was published.
D. That he was encuraged by a prfessinal writer.
13. A. It reminds him f his schl life.
B. It reminds him that dreams will cme true thrugh effrts.
C. It reminds him hw pr he used t be.
D. It reminds him f the lcal paper.
Questins 14 thrugh 16 are based n the fllwing passage.
14. A. Gardening.B. Hw t take care f birds.
C. Hw t feed birdsD. Hw t get birds t the garden.
15. A. Fruit, water and insects.
B. Plants, sleeping place and fd.
C. Variety f plants, fd and water.
D. Different types f plants, seed and insects.
16. A. Change the water fr them.B. Play with them.
C. Nt t apprach them.D. Play the music fr them.
Questins 17 thrugh 20 are based n the fllwing cnversatin.
17. A. The bkstre is sld ut f the bk.
B. The bkstre he is in des nt carry the bk.
C. His prfessr did nt rder enugh cpies f the bk.
D. The bk is nt being used fr any curse ffered at the university.
18. A. Save a cpy f the bk fr him as sn as it cmes in
B. Order mre cpies f the bk
C. Call the cmputer stre acrss the Street
D. Find a stre that sells the bk if he cannt find it
19. A. He is embarrassed that he did nt think f it himself.
B. He suggests that the infrmatin be psted in the stre.
C. He aplgizes fr bthering the wman.
D. He is annyed that the wman did nt tell him sner.
20. A. T determine hw urgent the student’s need is.
B. T figure ut why the bk is nt listed n the cmputer.
C. T find ut what level cmputer science curse the man is taking.
D. T explain why the bk might be sld ut.
Ⅱ. Grammar and Vcabulary
Sectin A
Directins: After reading the passage belw, fill in the blanks t make the passage cherent and grammatically crrect. Fr the blanks with a given wrd, fill in each blank with the prper frm f the given wrd; fr the ther blanks, use ne wrd that best fits each blank.
AI and Culture: The Dawn Of The Omnistar (全能明星)
Cmputers have spent decades transfrming humdrum jbs. Nw artificial intelligence (AI) is cming fr the mst glamrus nes. Hllywd has been at a standstill fr half the year, until studis agreed n Nvember 8th t ffer (21)__________ (strike) stars prtectin frm rbtic rivals.
Stars may wrry that AI is stealing their wrk and giving less talented perfrmers the skills t snatch their audience. In fact, the famus stars cmplaining (22)__________ (lud) abut the new technlgy are the nes wh benefit the mst. (23)__________ __________ reducing star pwer, AI will make the biggest celebrities bigger than ever, by allwing them t be in all markets, in all frmats, at all times. Put yur hands tgether - r insert yur earplugs if yu prefer - fr the rise f the mnistar.
This is nt the first time that technlgy (24)__________ (change) the rules f the fame game. Peple began t talk f stars in the 18th century, after the spread f reading made it pssible t be truly famus within yur lifetime. Film and radi initially seemed like a threat t stars, wh wrried that their live perfrmances (25)__________ be devalued. In fact, thse technlgies ushered in (开创) the era f the superstar, a term that caught n in the 1920s. (26)__________ similar panic greeted the inventin f televisin and led t the last big Hllywd strike in 1960. But again, the new tech made the famus even mre s, bringing them int every living rm.
As AI-generated cntent flds int the entertainment business, it will give the megastars the ability t be truly ubiquitus fr their fans. AI-pwered dubbing is already allwing actrs and pdcasters t speak t freign audiences instantly and in their wn vice. It will sn be standard fr vide t be edited (27)__________ __________ their lips match the new language, t. Besides, remving the Hllywd prblem f crwded schedules, AI allws stars t perfrm alngside each ther while nt being tgether at all.
These pprtunities cme with cncerns (28)__________ (attach). The risk is bredm. AI is brilliant at remixing ld material, but nt as adept at generating nvel and the pulse-racing stuff (29)__________ is, fr nw, a human speciality. Yet the entertainment market is strngly self-crrecting. Audiences have the pwer t turn “a ht prperty” int a has-been in an instant. And even as Al-pwered entertainment grws, cnsumers still seem t relish human drama. In the AI age, audiences will face heavy expsure t a handful f mnistars, frm Taylr Swift t Darth Vader. (30)__________ it will be easier than ever fr them t change the channel.
Sectin B
Directins: Cmplete the fllwing passage by using the wrds in the bx. Each wrd can nly be used nce. Nte that there is ne wrd mre than yu need.
Yu are nt perfect
We humans have a natural tendency t magnify ur psitive qualities, and cmpare urselves favrably with thers. This is called “self-enhancement 31 ”, and it gives rise t all srts f distrtins in perceptin. Famusly, back in the 1980s, researchers suggested that up t 80 percent f mtrists cnsidered themselves t have abve-average driving skills. If yu’re a regular driver, yu have t knw that this cannt be true - even if yu persist in believing it abut yurself.
Peple als tend t 32 themselves mre highly n psitive mral traits: the dds are, fr example, that they see themselves as industrius, hnest, and warm. This is particularly prnunced amng yung and middle-aged adults, wh ften rank themselves as excelling beynd the nrm n muitiple 33 . One reasn fr this tendency is that it acts as prtectin against the mental pain that cmes frm negative cmparisns with thers.
Being tld that yu’re wnderful, even perfect, plays int yur need t enact self-enhancement. Yu might d it t yurself, such as self-talk t bst ne’s esteem thrugh psitive affirmatins. Hwever, it is a(n) 34 slutin t life’s prblems. Yu’re bund t be cnfrnted with a painful adjustment t the truth sner r later. Fr instance, researchers publishing in the Jurnal f Persnality and Scial Psychlgy demnstrated that when cllege students harbred a(n) 35 view f their academic capabilities, it augmented their md—indeed, they experienced heightened levels f happiness. But the perceptin f 36 did nt translate int mre satisfactry academic perfrmance. In fact, that in part led t lwer self-esteem.
All f this can explain why s many yung peple tday wind up seeing the wrld as hstile (敌对的): “If I’m wnderful, ther peple must be creating many prblems.” Cnsequently, yu can see hw sme wuld feel 37 and wrnged when cnfrnted with a reality abut their perfrmance in schl r at wrk that desn’t 38 their self-enhancement prpaganda (宣传).
S we face a dilemma in life: we aspire t enhance ur wn well-being and t elevate the emtinal state f thers, but peple’s tendency t d s thrugh self-enhancement may pssibly yield 39 ultimate csts. Here are sme pearls f wisdm t cnsider: 40 yur imperfectins, nt as failings but as interesting puzzles t slve.
Ⅲ. Reading Cmprehensin
Sectin A
Directins: Fr each blank in the fllwing passage there are fur wrds r phrases marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the wrd r phrase that best fits the cntext.
What Des It Really Mean T Learn?
During my sphmre year, I read “Middlemarch” and didn’t understand why Drthea, a yung and intelligent wman, despite warnings, married an annying ld man and, after 40 years f unfulfilled dreams and cmprmises, gt divrced, finally realizing her grave mistake. Neither did my classmates, which frustrated ur prfessr. “Yu’ll understand when yu’re frty.” he said. At that age, we had never experienced the cnsequences f a hasty marriage, a career misstep, r the lss f a lved ne.
41 , it’s ne f the tragedies f humanities educatin that s much f it ccurs between the ages f eighteen and twenty-tw. We dn’t teach peple t drive at twelve, when they’re carless; why shuld we make them read nvels abut life’s 42 when they have nne? Yet there’s a thery behind: it’s that knwledge acquired t early gets stred. Patterns f thinking established nw will be 43 later; ideas encuntered first in art will prime us fr the rest f life. This sunds vague until yu reflect n the fact that knwledge almst never arrives at the mment f its 44 . Yu take a class in law schl tday nly t argue a cmplicated case years later; yu learn years befre saving a drwning man; yu read nline abut hw t prevent a(n) 45 bear, because yu never knw.
Leslie Valiant, a renwned cmputer scientist, calls ur ability t learn ver the lng term “educability” and he embraces it as the key t ur success. When we think abut what makes ur minds special, we tend t fcus n 46 . But if we want t grasp reality in all its cmplexity, then “cleverness is nt enugh.” We need t build flexible theries abut the wrld — theries that will serve us in 47 circumstances—and we d that by cllecting different types f knwledge, ften gradually and unexpectedly and then 48 them tgether. Thrugh this prcess, we acquire systems f beliefs that are 49 than the nes we can create thrugh direct persnal experience.
An educable mind, he writes, can learn frm bks, lectures, cnversatins, and experiences—frm anything. Educability is similar t “ 50 smarts” which means having a practical ability t handle life’s challenges, and is clsely related t having cmmn sense in real-wrld cntexts. When peple strike us as particularly “well-educated”, this might mean that they’ve had lts f schl, but it culd als mean that they’re 51 educable, with the ability t “ 52 f whatever educatinal pprtunities arise.”
Valiant thinks at a time when accelerating technlgical change means there’s always mre t learn, we might seek t create a mre educable sciety in general. As fr me, I wuld seek t learn abut a wider range f disciplines, and simply try mre things. Dwn in the basement, “Middlemarch” is there, alng with many ther bks that I read casually then but have cme t 53 with the passage f time. Reading widely abut things that dn’t seem immediately useful, in the hpe that what yu learn nw may prve meaningful later—that’s pretty much the definitin f a 54 educatin. Wh knew that ne f its best 55 wuld turn ut t be a cmputer scientist?
41. A. ScientificallyB. NaturallyC. SurprisinglyD. Arguably
42. A. happinessB. challengesC. regretsD. knwledge
43. A. retracedB. repeatedC. repenedD. reassured
44. A. learningB. absrptinC. applicatinD. acquisitin
45. A. sleepingB. wanderingC. raringD. charging
46. A. intelligenceB. creativityC. imaginatinD. empathy
47. A. unfldedB. unanticipatedC. unrealD. related
48. A. analyzingB. classifyingC. knittingD. diversifying
49. A. braderB. greaterC. shallwerD. newer
50. A. cgnitinB. relatinshipC. studyD. street
51. A. exceptinallyB. cnsistentlyC. cincidentallyD. merely
52. A. make cntrlB. take chargeC. n accuntD. take advantage
53. A. perceiveB. memrizeC. realizeD. value
54. A. well-rundedB. prfessinalC. technlgyD. public
55. A. creatrsB. winnersC. defendersD. writers
Sectin B
Directins: Read the fllwing three passages. Each passage is fllwed by several questins r unfinished statements. Fr each f them there are fur chices marked A, B, C and D. Chse the ne that fits best accrding t the infrmatin given in the passage yu have read.
(A)
Human beings arund the wrld delight in ht and spicy fds. Thai, Mexican, Chinese, Indian, Ethipian—the dishes that can take the rf ff yur muth are numerus and flavurful. As yu have these intense tastes, hwever, yu may wnder, why d sme dishes cmpete fr the title f spicy champin, while thers feature barely the hint f a burn?
This is a questin that has interested fd histrians fr sme time. Indeed, it’s a curius truth that places with warm climates d seem t have a heavier prepnderance (优势) f ht and spicy dishes, which may have smething t d with the fact that sme spices have antimicrbial features, studies have fund.
In ne survey f ckbks frm arund the wrld, researchers nte: “As mean annual temperatures increased, the prprtin f recipes cntaining spices, number f spices per recipe, ttal number f spices used, and use f the mst effective antibacterial spices all increased.” In ht places where befre refrigeratin fd wuld have gne ff very quickly, spices might have helped things keep a bit lnger.
It’s als been suggested that because spicy fd makes mst peple sweat, it might help us t cl ff in ht parts f the wrld. One study f peple wh drank ht water after exercise shwed that they did cl dwn slightly mre than thse wh drank cld water, but nly in situatins with lw humidity. Thailand in August, that ain’t.
But spice is hardly limited t the ht parts. While chilli peppers are riginally frm the Americas, this particular kind f heat grew widespread in the 15th and 16th centuries. Other spices nt spicy in the same way as peppers, perhaps, but still strngly flavured—had been circulating in Eurpe fr centuries. Heavily spiced dishes were the darlings f many cuisines we currently dn’t think f fr their zing (活力): numerus recipes in ne 18th-century British ckery bk include strng spices, fr instance. What happened?
Well, ne pssibility is that it became a bit uncivilized t like quite s many flavurs in ne’s fd, as Maanvi Singh has written ver at The Salt. What we nw cnsider classic Eurpean cuisine has a tendency t fcus n pairing like flavurs with like, rather than bringing in a crwd f strng, cntrasting nes. That may be because, as spice prices drpped dramatically in Eurpe in the 1600s and it became easier fr just anyne t seasn their fd with them, tastemakers fell ut f lve with them. They began t emphasize dishes where the fcus was the purest essence f the basic ingredients cmbined with flavurs that served t bring that ut. In a wrd, it may have been snbbery, Singh writes, that erased the jy f spice frm many Eurpean tastes.
56. Which f the fllwing cuisines des NOT value ht and spicy flavur?
A. Fd in Eurpe befre the 1600s.
B. Dishes frm places with warm climates.
C. Fd in the Americas.
D. Dishes in tday’s Britain.
57. Which f the fllwing is true abut the relatinship between temperature and spice?
A. The higher the temperature is, the mre spices are used.
B. The lwer the temperature is, the mre chilli peppers are cnsumed.
C. The higher the temperature is, the mre expensive it is t get spices.
D. The lwer the temperature is, the mre strngly flavured the fd is.
58. In Paragraph 4, what des the sentence “Thailand in August, that ain’t” mean?
A. Peple in Thailand dn’t enjy spicy fd.
B. Summer in Thailand desn’t bast ht weather.
C. Thai peple dn’t enjy cld drinks in summer.
D. Drinking ht water desn’t help cl Thai peple dwn.
59. Accrding t Maanvi Singh, tday’s Eurpeans prefer pure tastes rather than strng, cntrasting flavurs, mst prbably because ________.
A. the spice prices have grwn t high fr rdinary peple
B. peple have been t used t fd seasned with spices
C. spice n lnger represents a special right r advantage
D. strngly flavured spices n lnger circulate in Eurpe
(B)
Memry expert Prfessr Jemima Gryaznv answers yur mst cmmn questins abut memry.
1.____________________
We remember the things that have strng cnnectins in ur mind, especially emtinal cnnectins. Childhd memries are ften very emtinal: we experience things fr the first time s we have strng feelings f fear r excitement. Retelling events als helps t fix them in ur memries and interesting r funny stries frm ur childhd are ften tld again and again!
2. D sme peple really have a phtgraphic memry?
It is well knwn that sme peple have an extrardinary memry. Daniel Tammet, fr example, can remember the first 22,500 digits f pi and Stephen Wiltshire can draw a detailed picture f a city frm memry after flying ver it in a helicpter. Hwever, neither Daniel nr Stephen has a phtgraphic memry. They are gd at remembering particular things fr a limited time. A persn with a phtgraphic memry culd remember every detail f a picture, a bk r an event many years later. N ne has yet prved that they have a phtgraphic memry in a scientific test.
3. Is cmputer memry better than human memry?
That depends n what yu mean by “better”! Infrmatin in a cmputer is stred in separate pieces. Human memry is stred in a different way. Each piece f infrmatin is cnnected t many ther pieces. That’s why a particular smell can bring back memries f a hliday r a persn. The prblem with human memry is that it is messy and nt very accurate. The prblem with cmputer memry is that it can’t make cnnectins between pieces f infrmatin — it isn’t creative.
4. I’m 24. Is my memry getting wrse?
Nt yet, but it will d sn. Our memry reaches its full pwer at the age f 25. At that pint we can remember up t 200 pieces f infrmatin a secnd. After this age, hwever, the brain starts t get smaller. By the age f 40 we are lsing 10,000 brain cells every day. By middle age ur memry is significantly wrse than when we were yung.
5. Is it pssible t remember early childhd?
Scientists used t believe that it was impssible t remember very early childhd, but recent research shws that babies are much cleverer than we previusly thught. Sme peple really can remember being a baby. Others, hwever, remember nthing befre the age f five r even ten!
60. Which f the fllwing questins best fits the blank in the passage?
A. What can we d t imprve ur memry as we grw lder?
B. Can childhd memries help us remember what has happened recently?
C. Hw d we establish emtinal cnnectins with ur childhd experiences?
D. Why can I remember events in my childhd but nt what happened last week?
61. What can we learn abut phtgraphic memry?
A. Only sme f us can benefit frm it.
B. There is n reliable evidence that it exists.
C. We cannt acquire it withut specialized training.
D. It enables us t remember details in a limited time.
62. Which f the fllwing statements is True accrding t the passage?
A. In mst cases infrmatin is separately stred in human memry.
B. Human’s ability t memrize things declines as the brain gets smaller.
C. Cmputer memry is better than human memry frm many perspectives.
D. Whether we can remember ur early-childhd needs mre scientific research.
(C)
Dr. Dnald Sadway at MIT started his wn battery cmpany with the hpe f changing the wrld’s energy future. It’s a dramatic endrsement (认可) fr a technlgy mst peple think abut nly when their smartphne ges dark. But Sadway isn’t alne in basting abut energy strage as a missing link t a cleaner, mre efficient, and mre equitable energy future.
Scientists and engineers have lng believed in the prmise f batteries t change the wrld. Advanced batteries are mving ut f specialized markets and creeping int the mainstream, signaling a tipping pint fr frward-lking technlgies such as electric cars and rftp slar prpels.
The ubiquitus (无所不在的) battery has already cme a lng way, f curse. Fr better r wrse, batteries make pssible ur mbile-first lifestyles, ur screen culture, ur increasingly glbalized wrld. Still, as impressive as all this is, it may be trivial cmpared with what cmes next. Having already enabled a cmmunicatins revlutin, the battery is nw pised t transfrm just abut everything else.
The wireless age is expanding t include nt just ur phnes, tablets, and laptps, but als ur cars, hmes, and even whle cmmunities. In emerging ecnmies, rural cmmunities are bypassing the wires and wden ples that spread pwer. Instead, sme in Africa and Asia are seeing their first lightbulbs illuminated by the pwer f sunlight stred in batteries.
Tday, energy strage is a $33 billin glbal industry that generates nearly 100 gigawatt-hurs f electricity per year. By the end f the decade, it’s expected t be wrth ver 50 billin dllars and generate 160 gigawatt-hurs, enugh t attract the attentin f majr cmpanies that might nt therwise be interested in a decidedly pedestrian technlgy. Even utility cmpanies, which have lng viewed batteries and alternative frms f energy as a threat, are learning t embrace the technlgies as enabling rather than disrupting.
Tday’s battery breakthrughs cme as the wrld lks t expand mdern energy access t the billin r s peple withut it, while als cutting back n fuels that warm the planet. Thse simultaneus challenges appear less verwhelming with increasingly better answers t a centuries-ld questin: hw t make pwer prtable.
T be sure, the battery still has a lng way t g befre the nightly recharge cmpletely replaces the weekly trip t the gas statin. A battery-pwered wrld cmes with its wn risks, t. What happens t the centralized electric grid, which tk decades and billins f dllars t build as: mre and mre peple becme “prsumers”, wh prduce and cnsume their wn energy n site?
N ne knws which—if any—battery technlgy will ultimately dminate, but ne thing remains clear. The future f energy is in hw we stre it.
63. What des Dr. Sadway think f energy strage?
A. It invlves the applicatin f sphisticated technlgy.
B. It is the directin energy develpment shuld fllw.
C. It will prve t be a prfitable business.
D. It is a technlgy benefiting everyne.
64. What is mst likely t happen when advanced batteries becme widely used?
A. Mbile-first lifestyles will becme ppular.
B. The glbalizatin prcess will be accelerated.
C. Cmmunicatins will take mre diverse frms.
D. The wrld will underg revlutinary changes.
65. In sme rural cmmunities f emerging ecnmies, peple have begun t ________.
A. find digital devices simply indispensable
B. cmmunicate primarily by mbile phne
C. light their hmes with stred slar energy
D. distribute pwer with wires and wden ples
66. What des the authr imply abut the centralized electric grid?
A. It might becme a thing f the past.
B. It might turn ut t be a “prsumer”
C. It will be easier t perate and maintain.
D. It will have t be cmpletely transfrmed.
Sectin C
Directins: Read the fllwing passage. Fill in each blank with a prper sentence given in the bx. Each sentence can be used nly nce. Nte that there are tw mre sentences than yu need.
Accrding t a new study just published in Psychlgical Science, any ne persn seen in a grup just seems better lking than when viewed alne. The reasn: human eyes average things ut, and when it cmes t faces, average is usually gd.
67 Facial analysis studies shw the symmetry (对称) is almst always regarded as prettier that asymmetry and the mst beautiful faces are the nes n which eyes are n mre r less than a certain distance apart, and the frehead, chin, cheeks and ther features take up n mre than a certain share f the whle. It’s the reasn that mdels may be grgeus but can prve awfully difficult t tell apart.
“Perhaps,” says psychlgical scientist Drew Walker f the University f Califrnia, San Dieg, in a statement that accmpanied the release f the study, “beautiful peple are all alike, but every unattractive persn is unattractive in their wn ways.”
T test hw that plays ut in a grup setting, Walker and his UCSD cllabratr, psychlgical scientist Edward Vul, recruited 130 undergraduate students and shwed them pictures f 100 different men and wmen. 68 Other times they were cut ut t shw just ne face at a time. Still ther times, the faces were taken ut f cntext and arranged n a simple grid (风格) f either fur, nine r 16 faces.
Cnsistently, the researchers fund, the sle shts were regarded as less attractive than the faces viewed in a grup—whether in a real setting r n the grid. This was true regardless f the gender f the subjects and regardless f whether they wuld bradly be described as fllwing mst definitins f attractiveness r unattractiveness. 69
The explanatin fr the phenmenn, they believe, is the averaging effect and hw it wrks. 70 “Individuals with cmplementary features—ne persn with narrw eyes and ne persn with wide eyes—wuld enjy a greater bst in attractiveness when seen tgether, as cmpared t grups cmpsed f individuals wh have similar features,” Walker and Vul write.
Ⅳ. Summary Writing
71. Directins: Read the fllwing passage. Summarize the main idea and the main pint(s) f the passage in n mre than 60 wrds. Use yur wn wrds as far as pssible.
Curisity Is an Increasingly Rare Virtue
Mst f the breakthrugh discveries and remarkable inventins thrughut histry, frm flints (打火石) fr starting a fire t self-driving cars, have smething in cmmn: They are the result f curisity. But the jurnalist Ian Leslie, in his newly-published bk Curius: The Desire t Knw and Why Yur Future Depends n It, insists that curisity is a much-verlked human virtue, crucial t ur success, and we are lsing it.
Leslie presents cnsiderable evidence fr the claim that the sciety as a whle is grwing less curius. In the U.S. and Eurpe, fr example, the rise f the Internet, amng ther scial and technlgical changes, has led t a declining cnsumptin f news frm utside the reader’s brders. Indeed, Ggle, fr which Leslie expresses admiratin, is als his frequent whipping by (替罪羊): we seek nly the infrmatin we want. But nt everything is t be blamed n technlgy. The decline in interest in literary fictin is als ne f the causes identified by Leslie
Why is this a prblem? Because withut curisity we will lse the spirit f innvatin and entrepreneurship (企业家精神). Wrse still, that lack f curisity prduces a relative lack f knwledge, and the lack f knwledge is difficult if nt impssible t cmpensate fr later n.
Frtunately, sme strategies can be emplyed t develp curisity: If yu just accept the wrld as it is withut trying t dig deeper, yu will certainly lse the hly curisity. Of curse, ne effective way t dig deeper beneath the surface is asking questins: What is that? Why is it made that way? Wh invented it? Hw des it wrk? And if yu see learning as a burden, there’s n way yu will want t dig deeper int anything. That will just make the burden heavier. But if yu think f learning as smething fun, yu will naturally want t dig deeper.
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Ⅴ. Translatin
Directins: Translate the fllwing sentences int English, using the wrds given in the brackets.
72. 幸福常常在于那些小瞬间，比如踮起脚尖悄悄去给朋友一个意外的惊喜。(cnsist)
73. 学生们在社区服务中轮流完成不同的任务，这一经历成为了他们志愿服务中最精彩的部分。(episde)
74. 持续学习是至关重要的，因为一旦你在知识获取上不再有所作为，你可能会发现自己落后了。(difference)
75. 当得知被卡车撞到的女孩由救护车送往了医院，许多人自发地献血并要求司机应该尽早被缉拿归案。(On)
Ⅵ. Guided Writing
Directins: Write an English cmpsitin in 120-150 wrds accrding t the instructins given belw in Chinese.
76. 假设你是明启中学学生李华，最近你的班主任布置了一项作业，要求你们写一封信给在学习上感到迷茫的高一学弟学妹们，分享你关于“如何学习(Hw t Learn)”的经验和建议。内容必须包括：
1) 用一个例子简短说明你曾经如何找到适合自己的学习方法；
2) 给出你的建议。A. rateB. superirityC. matchD. attributesE. measuresF. shrt-lived
G. verestimatedH. enduringI. disillusinedJ. reframeK. bias
A. Bth the grgeus (非常美丽的) and nn-grgeus imprved by being with ther peple.
B. Smetimes the subjects in the pictures were shwn as part f a three-persn grup.
C. It turns ut that peple dn’t even need t be in an actual grup t lk mre attractive.
D. It’s n secret that ur definitin f beauty is defined by a very clear set f physical nrms.
E. A big nse in the cmpany f a small nse des nt lk bigger still; rather, bth nses mve clser t the average.
F. While being average-lking might seem like a bad thing, the research suggests that’s nt necessarily the case fr attractiveness.