秘密启用前
试卷类型：B
英语
本试卷共 10 页，满分 120 分。考试用时 120 分钟。
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第二部分阅读（共两节, 满分 50 分）
第一节（共 15 小题：每小题 2. 5 分, 满分 37. 5 分）
阅读下列短文, 从每题所给的 A、B、C、D 四个选项中选出最佳选项。
A
Student Film Festival
Student Film Festival celebrates learning across the curriculum through the exciting and
dynamic medium of short film.
Through film, students can tell stories, investigate ideas, document learning in any area of study
and express the complexity of their thinking through a range of genres and technical approaches.
With the creative use of digital media, students can integrate their personal perspectives to
explore the diverse and challenging issues of our time.
It’s open to all students, regardless of school. We are accepting submissions in the following
categories:
Cartoon （up to 30 mins）
Documentary（纪录片）（up to 60 mins）
Music Video（under 10 mins）
Science Fiction Short （up to 25 mins）
Situational Comedy （under 10 mins）
Web Series（up to three episodes, no more than 30 mins each）
So far, more than 20 entries have been selected across all categories. We will gradually announce
the chosen entries for each category, giving you a chance to watch all the films online and vote for
your favourites. Winners in all categories will be announced on Wednesday, 27 December.
Over the years, our film festivals have attracted thousands of filmmakers from around the world.
Each festival features live screenings in our own school theater. Our 80-seat theater is outfitted with
a 4K projector and seven speakers throughout the venue, delivering high quality in a first-class
screening environment. Filmmakers whose works are accepted into our festival will receive free
passes to the school theater, invitations to film masterclasses, and are considered for awards.
21. Which of the following can be a suitable submission to the festival?
A. A 20-minute recording of a short play.
B. A two-hour film recording your daily routine.
C. A five-minute fun video about students' dormitory life.
D. A 22-minute educational video explaining popular science.
22. What can filmmakers do if their works are accepted?
A. Receive a film award. B. Watch films for free in the school theater.
C. Interview film masters. D. Deliver a speech in the venue.
23. What is the text?
A. A schedule for the film selecting process.
B. An invitation to a filmmakers' celebration.
C. An announcement of a film festival awards.
D. An advertisement for an upcoming festival.
B
Once the choice of royal household, the watermelon has gained popularity rapidly over the years,
and an online grocer reported that the fruit's sales on the platform had increased sixfold from 2020 to
2022, resulting in increasingly high demand for watermelon quality testers.
Lee, 32, is extremely busy in the summer months. Just by holding the watermelon near his ear
and knocking on the surface with his fingers, Lee says, he can tell by the sound if the fruit is ripe
enough to be eaten or not. He works for a rural cooperative set up by a group of watermelon farmers,
and puts thousands of watermelons through the knock test daily, before they are shipped to
downtown warehouses where the platform sources its supplies.
The practice of knocking on watermelons to determine their ripeness can be found across
cultures. In China, it is considered a national habit. Smart buyers tap on the fruit before purchase to
ensure their money is well-spent. Some buyers knock on the fruit despite not knowing what the hollow
sound means just to negotiate a better deal from the seller.
As fruit sales have moved to online platforms in a big way, those who make a living by checking
the quality of the fruits with their fingers are much in demand. Lee is one among the growing group.
Their task is to conduct knock tests on behalf of e-buyers and ensure that the fruits selected to be sold
online are uniform in size and quality.
Lee, who was once an award-winning soccer player, now describes himself as a goalkeeper for
watermelons. He quit soccer about four years ago and learned about melon-knocking as an emerging
profession and decided to become an apprentice（学徒） to an experienced farmer.
After a year's trial and error, Lee worked independently as a quality checker. It is a highly
demanding task. During the apprenticeship, I often cracked open melons to confirm my judgment.
There are just no shortcuts, he said.
24. What is the main purpose of the text?
A. To introduce an emerging profession.
B. To describe Lee's career transformation.
C. To discuss the importance of fruit quality testers.
D. To explain the cultural role of watermelon-knocking.
25. What has led to the high demand for watermelon quality testers?
A. The popularity of watermelons. B. The big harvest of watermelons.
C. An increase in watermelon prices. D. A rapid rise in online watermelon sales.
26. Why does Lee describe himself as a goalkeeper for watermelons?
A. He was once an award-winning soccer player.
B. He dreams of being a professional melon-knocker.
C. He was taught by an experienced watermelon farmer.
D. He ensures that customers enjoy watermelons of quality.
27. What can we learn from Lee's words in the last paragraph?
A. Seeing is believing. B. Every man has his value.
C. Great efforts and practice matter. D. Excellence can be found in any profession.
C
A moment occurs in the exchange between professor and student when each of us adopts a look.
My look says, What, you don't understand? Theirs says, We don't. And we think you're making it
up. We are having a problem. Basically, we've all read the same story, but we haven't used the same
analytical approaches. It may seem at times as if the professor is inventing interpretations out of thin
air.
Actually, the truth is that as the slightly more experienced reader, the professor has acquired
over the years the use of a certain language reading. Besides, he has grasped three professional
tools-memory, symbol and pattern. These items separate the professional readers from the ordinary
ones.
English professors are cursed with memory. When reading a new book, I constantly seek out
connections and inferences, recalling faces and themes from past readings. I can't not do it, although
there are plenty of times when that ability is not something I want to exercise. This does not
necessarily improve the experience of popular entertainment.
Professors also read and think symbolically. Everything is a symbol of something, it seems, until
proven otherwise. We ask: What does the thing over there represent? The kind of mind that works its
way through undergraduate and then graduate classes in literature and criticism tends to see things as
existing in themselves while also representing something else. This tendency to understand the world
in symbolic terms is enhanced by years of training and rewards the symbolic imagination.
A related phenomenon in professorial reading is pattern recognition. Most professional students
of literature learn to take in the specific detail while seeing the patterns that the detail reveals.
Experience has proved to them that life and books fall into similar patterns. Literature is full of
patterns, and your reading experience will be much more rewarding when you can step back from the
work, even while you are reading it, and look for those patterns.
28. How does the author introduce the topic?
A. By describing a real-life scene. B. By using popular quotes.
C. By presenting conflicting ideas. D. By raising an interesting question.
29. Why do the students think the professor is making up interpretations?
A. They have limited life experience.
B. They lack chances for sufficient reading.
C. They are unable to analyze the text thoroughly.
D. They do not trust the professor's teaching abilities.
30. What does paragraph 3 say about English professors?
A. They have a strong desire to not have their good memory.
B. Their reading habit doesn't always guarantee desirable effects.
C. Their memory adds to their reading pleasure of popular works.
D. They keep making connections with their own life while reading.
31. Which is the author's suggestion on reading literature?
A. Identify the hidden text modes. B. Perceive many things at the same time.
C. Look for details and language patterns. D. Memorize patterns of symbolic meanings.
D
Research is making surprising discoveries about insects: Honeybees have emotional ups and
downs. Cockroaches have personalities and team up to make decisions. Fruit flies experience
something very like fear.
We're pretty sure other humans have feelings because they can tell us. But we don't know
whether the bee is buzzing in anger or in fear. Human babies are silent on the matter, too. It was only
in the 1980s that doctors came to believe human babies felt pain.
In recent years, humans have gradually offered membership in the sentience club not only to
their own young, but to some other animals. In the last decade, many countries have begun to ban
experimentation on all great apes. And some ocean creatures were recently recognized as sentient.
But with insects, the question remains open.
Andrew Barron and Colin Klein are behind much of the foundational work on bee brains. In
2016, they published a paper arguing that insects' brains have the capacity for subjective experience.
Their argument follows on the research of Swedish scientist BjrnMerker, whose work suggests that
the more basic forms of consciousness （意识） are located not in the cortex （大脑皮层）, which
insects do not have, but in subcortical structures of the brain, which insects do have. These
subcortical structures are quite big and have a huge amount of processing power, says Barron. They
also argue that these structures may have been the earlier forms of our consciousness during
evolutionary development.
Other researchers are digging into the question, too. Jessica Ware notes that she's unsure what
the similarities in these subcortical structures mean for insect consciousness. We don't really have
enough information to distinguish between what could be consciousness or awareness of the
surroundings and what could be us humans interpreting that as consciousness, she says.
Still, Ware loves the idea of expanding the discussion of consciousness. The doors are just
opening up for further exploration, she says. This means we might have stopped looking at what it
means to be conscious from a human-centered view.
32. Why is it challenging to determine the emotional states of insects?
A. Insects tend to hide their emotions.
B. Insects are not capable of communication.
C. Insects rarely experience human-like emotions.
D. Insects cannot convey their emotions to humans.
33. What does the underlined phrase sentience club refer to in paragraph 3?
A. Animals selected for scientific research.
B. Social clubs founded to protect animals.
C. Creatures recognised as having consciousness.
D. Organizations committed to emotion management.
34. What do Barron and Klein argue about insect brains?
A. They have developed in similar ways as human brains.
B. They have the competence for emotions and consciousness.
C. They have the same processing power as human beings do.
D. They produce some basic forms of consciousness in the cortex.
35. What is Ware's concern about Barron and Klein's argument?
A. The lack of theoretical foundation. B. The possibility of misinterpretation.
C. The underestimation of brain function. D. The use of inappropriate research method.
第二节（共 5 小题；每小题 2. 5 分, 满分 12. 5 分）
阅读下面短文, 从短文后的选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多
余选项。
Collaboration happens more often than we realize. __36__ This may seem easy in theory but
being an effective collaborator can sometimes be a challenge. Below are the tips on how to improve
your collaboration skills.
Listening
__37__ During collaboration, it can be easy to get so wrapped up in your own ideas that you're
not giving your full attention and consideration to everyone else's. If everyone in the room falls victim
to this, there wouldn't really be any collaboration happening. Take time to really listen and process
the ideas of others.
Giving and receiving honest feedback
It's important that everyone is able to be straightforward when giving and receiving feedback.
When you share your opinion and someone else disagrees with it, try not to take it personally.
__38__ It's not necessarily for your ideas to be right. On the other hand. you should also feel
comfortable giving open and honest feedback to others so long as you're being polite about it.
__39__
This could be someone who works in a different position at your job. someone with a different
background from you, or someone who's an expert in the topic you're seeking information about. This
can help to start more dynamic conversations and introduce new ideas you may not have come up
with if you were working on your own or with a group of like-minded people.
Collaboration may not always be easy. __40__
A. Appreciating ideas from different fields
B. Seeking collaborators outside your field
C. It's important to not let your self-importance take hold.
D. Without collaboration, we may not be able to complete most of our work.
E. If you do feel annoyed, remind yourself the goal is to find an ideal solution.
F. It can be defined as working together with others to achieve a common goal.
G. But if you apply these ideas, you may find the experience productive and positive.
第三部分语言运用（共两节, 满分 30 分）
第一节（共 15 小题：每小题 1 分, 满分 15 分）
阅读下面短文, 从每题所给的 A、B、C、D 四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
Christy was helping Mum sort through boxes they'd found in their new home. Look, she held
up an old photo, It says Mabel beside Dream Lake, summer 1910. It looked so. __41__. Christy
asked if she could__42__it. Mum agreed, adding that Mabel was once the owner of the house, but
she didn't know about the__43__.
Now Christy had a puzzle to__44__. Where was Dream Lake? The next morning, Christy went
to the local__45__, where she looked through __46__ of the town. They showed streets, businesses,
but no lakes. Back home, while she was staring out her bedroom window, a __47__feeling hit her.
Christy quickly __48__ Mabel's photo and ran outside. In its __49__, a steeple （尖塔） rose above
a border of short trees. It looked much like the one now visible above the line of trees of her backyard.
Mum! shouted Christy. It's the same steeple. This picture was taken in our __50__!
Mum hurried outside to look. Yeah, the trees have __51__ grown, but it's the same steeple. But
where's the lake? They finally turned to the historical society. But no one there had ever heard of
such a lake. And all the__52__proved useless.
I don't__53__it, said Christy in confusion.
That night, __54__came down and cooled the air. Early the next morning, Christy woke up and
looked out of her window. Dream Lake! yelled Christy. We __55__the puzzle, Mum!
41. A. colourful B. historical C. permanent D. real
42. A. share B. hang C. copy D. keep
43. A. lady B. time C. lake D. photo
44. A. care for B. worry about C. work out D. take up
45. A. gallery B. park C. theatre D. library
46. A. maps B. posters C. films D. journals
47. A. positive B. familiar C. horrible D. strange
48. A. hid B. threw C. tore D. grabbed
49. A. composition B. background C. reflection D. shade
50. A. backyard B. house C. neighbourhood D. town
51. A. merely B. slowly C. hardly D. truly
52. A. searches B. aids C. scenes D. guesses
53. A. make B. like C. get D. believe
54. A. snow B. rain C. wind D. fog
55. A. solved B. found C. completed D. proved
第二节（共 10 小题：每小题 1. 5 分, 满分 15 分）
阅读下面短文, 在空白处填入 1 个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
Recently, Guangzhou has successfully hosted the Understanding China International
Conference 2023, the 5th World Media Summit, and other significant events, once again highlighting
its role as__56__window for the world to comprehend China's high-quality development. So,
__57__Guangzhou? Let's find out.
__58__（gain）a deeper understanding of China, one must experience its history and culture.
With a history of over 2, 000 years and a rich cultural heritage, Guangzhou offers a variety of
historical and cultural__59__（treasure）. In this city, you can sip a cup of coffee while watching
Cantonese opera in Yongqingfang or taste Cantonese dim sum while gazing at Western-style
architecture on Shamian Island.
Economy is another crucial aspect in understanding China. In recent years, Guangzhou
has__60__（active） participated in the Belt and Road international cooperation, gradually__61__
（establish）a comprehensive, multi-level, and wide-ranging pattern of opening-up. As a thousand-
year-old commercial city known for the Canton Fair, Guangzhou has drawn__62__（ globe）
attention with its open genes and prosperous economy.
Connecting with the world also requires a highly__63__（develop）transportation network.
Guangzhou has constructed a modern three-dimensional transportation system that links airports,
seaports, railway ports, and digital ports, providing easy access__64__both domestic and foreign
participants.
Guangzhou's openness, inclusiveness, vitality, and innovative spirit make it an ideal choice for
hosting international events, which, in turn, __65__ （help）the economic and social development
of the city.
第四部分写作（共两节, 满分 40 分）
第一节（满分 15 分）
学校英语俱乐部正在开展以 Ways to Relieve Stress 为题的讨论。请根据图表中的调查结
果写一篇发言稿, 内容包括：
1. 简述调查结果；
2. 评价并提出建议。
注意：
1. 写作词数应为 80 左右；
2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
Ways to Relieve Stress
Recently a survey was carried out about ways to relieve stress.
第二节（满分 25 分）
阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。