英语
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第一部分：听力（共两节, 满分 30分）
做题时, 先将答案标在试卷上。录音内容结束后, 你将有两秒钟的时间将试卷上的答案转
涂到答题卡上。
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. How soon will the man return the book?
A. In three days. B. In one week. C. In two weeks.
2. What will the woman do next?
A. Advertise for the movie. B. Prepare some food. C. Go to the cinema.
3. Where will the speakers meet on Saturday?
A. At the man’s house. B. At the theatre. C. At school.
4. What are the speakers talking about?
A. A hat. B. A scarf. C. A sweater.
5. What does the woman ask the man to do?
A. Put out a fire. B. Read a scary story. C. Find some firewood.
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。
听第六段材料, 回答第 6-7 题。
6. Who is Beta?
A. The woman’s daughter. B. The woman’s dog. C. The woman’s friend.
7. What training is effective for Beta?
A. Reward training. B. Movement training. C. Confidence training.
听第7 段材料, 回答第8至9 题。
8. What is the man?
A. A doctor. B. A student. C. An athlete.
9. What do we know about the man?
A. He met with a car accident.
B. He had an operation on his leg.
C. He got injured at the age of 17.
听第8 段材料, 回答第 10至 12 题。
10. Where will the speakers spend their vacation?
A. At a beach. B. On an island. C. In a mountain.
11. What will the woman make a booking for?
A. The hotel. B. The flight. C. The restaurants.
12. What does the woman suggest doing before leaving?
A. Buying some clothes.
B. Booking the activities.
C. Watching the weather conditions.
听第9 段材料, 回答第 13至 16 题。
13. What is the relationship between the speakers?
A. Host and guest. B. Writer and reader. C. Boss and employee.
14. What is the work life balance like in traditional workplaces?
A. People's work and private lives are separate.
B. People work long legal working hours.
C. People spend little time with family.
15. What does the man think of working on weekends in traditional workplaces?
A. It's normal. B. It's impossible. C. It's uncommon.
16. What will the man probably talk about next?
A. The influence of his new book.
B. The changed work-life balance.
C. The healthy working lives.
听第 10 段材料, 回答第 17至 20 题。
17. What could the speaker probably be?
A. A teacher. B. A student. C. A guide.
18. How was the first winter of the first Englishmen?
A. Easy. B. Boring. C. Tough.
19. When was the first Thanksgiving celebrated?
A. In 1620. B. In 1621. C. In 1622.
20. What can we learn from the talk?
A. Natives were invited on the first Thanksgiving,
B. Thanksgiving is celebrated quite differently now.
C. Thanksgiving was originally celebrated in December.
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, 并在答题卡
上将该项涂黑。
A
While Alice has her adventures in the Wonderland, you can have your own as well this summer.
British contemporary artist Philip Colbert has created a Lobster （龙虾） Wonderland in Changsha,
Hunan Province.
Philip Colbert's globally welcomed lobster series has won the hearts of a large number of
followers. The artist, with a master's in philosophy, takes lobster as his second personality.
Through large installations, public art theme exhibition and new media art, the artist has
introduced works from galleries and created a surreal art scenery in city's public space with a
combination of pop art and local culture.
In Changsha IFS, Colbert's exhibition, which is the London-based artist's first large-scale. out-
door public art installations, has three major sectors, showcasing his large installations, sculptures
and new media arts as well as the special Works created for the event.
The opening ceremony, an art carnival, saw the debut （首次登台） of a 12-meter-long Lobster
Taikonaut specially made by Colbert. His Lobster Flower and Lobster Shark also found their way in
the parade. At the southwest square, people can find Lobster Fountain towering 12 meters and enjoy
two major theme sectors, Lobster Island and Lobster Skate Park. Lobster Rainbow, a lobster breaking
through a roof with a rainbow behind it, is the artist's brand-new work for Changsha IFS. In his works,
such as Daydreamer, Colbert also expresses his wish of narrowing the distance between art pieces
and people.
21. What is Philip Colbert well known for?
A. Alice Wonderland. B. Shark experience. C. Rainbow story. D. Lobster series.
22. What can we learn about the exhibition according to the text?
A. It took place in the open air.
B. People can buy lobsters at lower price.
C. People can enjoy lobster fountain and lake.
D. Lobster Island is the artist's brand-new work for Changsha IFS.
23. Where can the text probably be found?
A. A shopping brochure. B. An art magazine.
C. A science report. D. A fashion advertisement.
B
I used to believe that only words could catch the essence of the human soul. The literary works
contained such distinct stories that they shaped the way we saw the world. Words were what
composed the questions we sought to uncover and the answers to those questions themselves. Words
were everything.
That belief changed.
In an ordinary math class, my teacher posed a simple question: What's 0. 99 rounded to the
nearest whole number? Easy. When rounded to the nearest whole number, 0. 99 =1. Somehow, I
thought even though 0. 99 is only 0. 01 away from 1, there's still a 0. 01 difference. That means even
if two things are only a little different, they are still different, so doesn't that make them completely
different?
My teacher answered my question by presenting another equation （等式）： 1= 0. 9, which
could also be expressed as 1=0. 99999… repeating itself without ever ending.
There was something mysterious but fascinating about the equation. The left side was
unchangeable, objective: it contained a number that ended. On the right was something endless,
number repeating itself limitless times. Yet, somehow, these two opposed things were connected by
an equal sign.
Lying in bed, I thought about how much the equation paralleled our existence. The left side of
the equation represents that sometimes life itself is so unchangeable and so clear. The concrete, whole
number of the day when you were born and the day when you would die. But then there is that gap
in between life and death. The right side means a time and space full of limitless possibilities, and
endless opportunities into the open future.
So that's what life is. Objective but imaginative. Unchangeable but limitless. Life is an equation
with two sides that balances itself out. Still, we can't ever truly seem to put the perfect words to it. So
possibly numbers can express ideas as equally well as words can. For now, let's leave it at that: 1= 0.
99999. . . and live a life like it.
24. What does the author emphasize about words in paragraph 1?
A. Their wide variety. B. Their literary origins.
C. Their expressive power. D. Their distinct sounds.
25. What made the author find the equation fascinating?
A. The repetition of a number. B. The difference between the two numbers.
C. The question the teacher raised. D. The way two different numbers are equal.
26. Which of the following can replace the underlined word paralleled in paragraph 6?
A. Measured. B. Composed. C. Mirrored. D. Influenced.
27. What is a suitable title for the text?
A. The Perfect Equation B. Numbers Build Equations
C. An Attractive Question D. Words Outperform Numbers
C
Nearly every week, we hear news about the latest successes and failures in driverless vehicles.
But we hear little about how other industries are developing this same kind of technology. One
industry heavily involved in researching and developing artificial intelligence, or AI, is agriculture.
Companies are experimenting with high-tech tools that can help farmers save time and money, while
reducing environment-harming chemicals.
One of the companies is EcoRobotix of Switzerland. It created a robot equipped with AI and
cameras to identify all plants on a farm. The robot has four wheels to carry itself through the fields in
search of weeds. Computer-controlled arms then lower and spray weeds with small amounts of
herbicide （除草剂）. Company officials say the robot can fully operate on its own for up to 12
hours a day while being powered by the sun. It uses the same kind of sensor and positioning
technology used to guide driverless vehicles. A farmer can also control the equipment through a smart
phone.
The co-founder of EcoRobotix, Aurlien Demaurex, says the farm robot can kill weeds with 20
times less herbicide than traditional methods. This is because the system uses exactly the right amount
of chemical in the exact place required to kill weeds. Currently, farmers spread weed killers over
massive areas to destroy unwanted plants.
Another company developing farm robotics is California-based Blue River Technology. The
company has a system called See Spray, which it claims is the world's first smart sprayer. The
system-which connects to the back of a tractor-is also equipped with AI to identify and chemically
kill only weeds. It can also spray chemicals on wanted plants to help them grow. Ben Chostner, vice
president of business development for Blue River Technology, explains in a company video that See
Spray technology uses the same deep learning methods used in facial recognition. The first time the
machine saw pigweed, it didn't know what kind of plant it was. But we taught it-by giving it tens of
thousands of examples of pigweed-and now it's an expert in pigweed.
28. How will AI benefit agriculture?
A. It will fund agriculture research. B. It can avoid harmful chemicals.
C. It contributes to low-cost farming. D. It frees all farmers from field work.
29. What do the products of the two companies have in common?
A. They use recognition technology. B. They are powered by solar energy.
C. They are connected with smart phones. D. They can help wanted plants grow rapidly.
30. What do Ben Chostner's words suggest about the robot?
A. It can track various plants. B. It has the learning ability.
C. It is environmentally-friendly. D. It is good at self-improving.
31. What is mainly talked about in the text?
A. Modern See Spray technology. B. The experiment in farming robots.
C. Artificial intelligence in agriculture. D. The new trend in artificial intelligence.
D
A lot of manufactured glass today made from sand and sodium carbonate （碳酸钠） can be
reused or melted down and recycled into new items, but it doesn't break down in the environment and
will sit in landfills for thousands of years. A team of Chinese scientists aimed to deal with this
environmental concern by developing an eco-conscious alternative.
In a study published recently in the journal Science Advances, a team at the Chinese Academy
of Sciences' Institute of Process Engineering describe how they engineered biodegradable glass made
from amino acids （氨基酸）. That glass would have a smaller impact on the environment and can
break down in a few weeks or in several months.
In a test, glass beads （珠） made out of amino acids were placed under the skin of mice, and
the breakdown of the beads and the skin healing process were observed for 30 days. A diagram from
the study shows how the mice's bodies broke down the beads. In that month, the glass implant
degraded beneath the skin, the wound site healed, and fur grew back. Throughout the experimental
period, no mice exhibited any pain-related behavior that may have been caused by the glass
implantation, and none of them experienced obvious weight loss, the researchers wrote in their
paper.
Although amino acids do degrade over time in the environment, this biodegradable glass is not
as durable as traditional glass, because amino acids can break down quickly in heat. In order to
overcome this, the researchers chemically modified （改造） the amino acids using the heating-
cooling procedure applied in glass manufacturing. This is when materials for the glass are heated to
become soft and then rapidly cooled so as to make the glass tougher.
It's important to point out that this biodegradable glass is currently in the lab stage, and far from
large-scale commercialization, emphasized Yan Xuehai, a professor involved in the study, in a press
release.
32. What is an advantage of the new glass?
A. It can be recycled at a low cost. B. It is produced without pollution.
C. It takes less time to break down. D. It has a wide range of applications.
33. Why did researchers implant glass beads inside mice?
A. To investigate why amino acids are medically useful.
B. To assess whether the glass is biologically harmless.
C. To explore how long it takes for the glass to degrade.
D. To observe if the glass can be melt down in mice's stomach.
34. What makes amino acids not as long-lasting as traditional glass?
A. The instability of amino acids.
B. The difficulty of breaking down.
C. The failure of the glass implantation.
D. The challenge of improving the heating-cooling procedure.
35. What is the attitude of Yan Xuehai towards the new glass's launch on the market?
A. Optimistic. B. Critical. C. Indifferent. D. Uncertain.
第二节（共5 小题；每小题2分, 满分 10 分）
根据文章内容, 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。
A man may usually be known by the books he reads as well as by the company he keeps, for
there is the companionship of books as well as of men. 36
A good book may be among the best of friends. It's the same today that it always was, and it will
never change. It is the most patient and cheerful of companions. 37 It always receives us with the
same kindness, amusing and instructing us in youth, and comforting and supporting us in age.
38 They do so just as two persons sometimes discover a friend by the admiration which they
both have for a third. There's a proverb, Love me, love my dog. But there is more wisdom in this:
Love me, love my book. The book is a truer and higher bond of union. Men can think, feel, and
sympathize with each other through their favorite author.
Books introduce us into the best society. 39 We hear what they said and did; we see them as
if they were really alive; we sympathize with them, enjoy them; their experience becomes ours, and
we feel as if we were actors or actresses with them in the scenes which they describe.
There is a story of two men: one was a king, who dreamed every night that he was a beggar; the
other was a beggar, who dreamed every night that he was a prince, and lived in a palace. 40 But
when we read, we may not only be kings and live in palaces, but, what is far better, we may transport
ourselves to the mountains or the seashore, and visit the most beautiful parts of the world, without
tiredness, inconvenience or expense.
A. Books are to mankind what memory is to a man.
B. Imagination is sometimes more vivid than reality.
C. Nothing in books can long survive but what is really good.
D. It doesn't turn its back upon us in times of difficulty or hardship.
E. They bring us into the presence of the greatest minds that have ever lived.
F. Men discover their liking for each other by the love they each have for a book.
G. And one should live in the best company whether it may be the company of books or men.
第三部分语言知识运用（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, 并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。
Harry Linehan, 13, and his brother Tom, 15, are both members of the Sorrento Surf Life Saving
Club. Last Sunday morning, they were training at the beach when a couple 41 and alerted them
to a man offshore who was in 42 .
There were no lifeguards 43 , so Tom made a beeline to the man on his racing paddleboard
（冲浪 板） and shouted to Harry for 44 . And, as any younger brother would, Harry 45 .
When the boys got out to the man, they noticed he was 46 to keep his head above water. With
great efforts, the boys 47 to get the man on a racing board and 48 pulled him an the heavy
kayak （独木舟） back to shore. 49 , the man was OK and did not need further medical assistance.
He 50 us, but he was definitely in a state of 51 , said Tom.
A representative from Surf Life Saving Club arrived shortly afterwards and was 52 the boys
had been able to put their training into 53 . Their father Nathan said his sons had been 54 for
situations exactly like this. The purpose of the organisation （SLS） is to teach people 55 so
they can use them when needed. The 56 just put them into action, he said.
Harry has a surf rescue certificate and Tom 57 a bronze medal in a surfing competition only
a week before the 58 If I didn't have the training I wouldn't have known what to do. . . you don't
realize the skills you have until you 59 them, said Tom. Anyone with the 60 training would
have done the same thing.
41. A. set off B. settled down C. turned away D. rushed over
42. A. silence B. trouble C. disappointment D. charge
43. A. on duty B. in panic C. under control D. on board
44. A. protection B. advice C. permission D. help
45. A. hesitated B. escaped C. followed D. froze
46. A. preparing B. struggling C. learning D. pretending
47. A. seemed B. preferred C. proposed D. managed
48. A. suddenly B. quietly C. slowly D. effortlessly
49. A. Luckily B. Hopefully C. Normally D. Naturally
50. A. received B. thanked C. welcomed D. consulted
51. A. shock B. embarrassment C. excitement D. anger
52. A. anxious B. confused C. happy D. curious
53. A. operation B. study C. effect D. practice
54. A. awarded B. interviewed C. coached D. admired
55. A. skills B. theories C. standards D. subjects
56. A. trainers B. boys C. representatives D. couple
57. A. collected B. lost C. donated D. designed
58. A. race B. test C. campaign D. rescue
59. A. remember B. need C. cherish D. master
60. A. free B. informal C. appropriate D. latest