英语
注意事项：
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3. 考试结束后，将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。
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，你将有两分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。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。
例： How much is the shirt?
A. 19. 15. B. 9. 18. C. 9. 15.
答案是C。
1. When will the woman meet the staff manager.
A. At 9: 30. B. At 11:00. C. At 12:40.
2. Why hasn’t the woman seen the man for a long time?
A. He went to Glasgow. B. He moved abroad. C. He was ill.
3. Where docs the conversation take place?
A. At a restaurant. B. At a supermarket. C. At home.
4. How does the man feel now?
A. Excited. B. Regretful. C. Refreshed.
5. What is the man doing?
A. Offering a favor. B. Serving a customer. C. Showing the way.
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。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6 段材料，回答第6、7 题。
6. What are the speakers mainly talking about?
A. An outing plan. B. A scheduled activity. C. A car repair.
7. What does the woman ask the man to do?
A. Cancel his plan to meet Frank. B. Invite Frank to join them. C. Ignore their guests,
听第7 段材料，回答第8、9 题。
8. What is the woman shopping for?
A. Envelopes. B. A camera. C. Art supplies.
9. What additional service does the man mention?
A. Photo printing. B. Online purchasing. C. In-store mailing.
听第8 段材料，回答第 10至 12 题。
10. What does Grace need Jack to do?
A. Fix the copy machine. B. Attend a staff meeting. C. Print some documents.
11. What do we know about the copy machine?
A. It is under repair.
B. It is in poor condition.
C. It has broken down three times.
12. Where is Jack heading next?
A. A branch office. B. A copy shop. C. A repair shop.
听第9 段材料，回答第 13至 16 题。
13. What is the job about?
A. Guest reception. B. Hotel decoration. C. Building construction.
14. How long will it take to finish the job?
A. Five days. B. Four days. C. Three days.
15. Who will tell the client about the update?
A. Richard. B. The man. C. The woman.
16. Why does the woman want the job to go smoothly?
A. To attract more workers.
B. To get more job opportunities.
C. To shorten the working period.
听第 10 段材料，回答第 17至 20 题。
17. When did Britt want to build a website originally?
A. After university. B. At university. C. At high school.
18. Why did Britt change the name of her website?
A. The original name wasn't suitable.
B. She wanted to include other games.
C. The website wasn't successful at first.
19. What can we learn about the content of the website?
A. It's wide-ranging. B. It's old-fashioned. C. It's student-targeted.
20. What is the main focus of the website?
A. Make-up. B. Computer games. C. Team sports.
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
The more you meditate and achieve mindfulness, the better you'll feel. There are many free
meditation apps. that offer guided sessions and calming playlists.
The Mindfulness
Meditation beginners and experts alike will find lots of options with The Mindfulness. A 5-day
guided practice and introduction to mindfulness can help you get started, and silent meditations from
3 to 30 minutes can suit a busy lifestyle. The app also offers personalized meditation options,
reminders to keep you mindful throughout the day, and. statistics to track in your meditation journal.
This app offers free contents. Premium access （高级会员） costs about $10 per month or $ 60 per
year.
Insight Timer
The app offers a multitude （众多） of meditation bells and calming musical notes during self-
guided meditations. Featuring a variety of professional instructors and courses, Insight Timer also
offers more contents for free users than other apps. Although the free option is extensive, the premium
version offers courses, downloadable meditations, night mode, and daily insights.
Smiling Mind
It is an evidence-based, not-for-profit mindfulness app with over 300 totally free meditations
and mindfulness programs for both adults and children. Its mission is simple: To provide accessible,
life-long tools to support healthy minds in schools, at home, and in the workplace. Smiling Mind is
extremely beginner-friendly, and you can start from scratch, learning about what mindfulness means,
how it works, the research behind it, and primer meditation sessions.
Breethe: Meditation Sleep
A nice feature about Breethe is the calming background music that plays while the app is open.
even without opening a meditation or music. Breethe offers a lot of sleep contents. including
visualizations and bedtime stories. The app does offer a few 7-day courses for free, but the majority
（1. 000-plus meditations） is locked behind the paywall.
21. Which app is completely free of charge?
A. The Mindfulness B. Insight Timer.
C. Smiling Mind. D. Breethe: Meditation Sleep.
22. What is special about The Mindfulness?
A. It provides courses for beginners. B. It provides calming music.
C. It has a special section intended for kids. D. It keeps records of your meditation practice.
23. What do Insight Timer and Breethe: Meditation Sleep have in common?
A. They have a night mode set.
B. They provide contents on sleep.
C. They have calming background music.
D. They offer free contents for advanced learners.
B
Hello, boys; make lots of toys, said A. C. Gilbert in magazine ads for the erector set （立体
拼装玩具）. The building set, using tiny, metal girders （大梁）， was popular for many years.
As a small boy, Gilbert couldn't sit still for long. When he was 12, he started a sports club for
his friends and got their school to have a field day. After watching pole vault （撑杆 跳）， Gilbert
took a cedar rail from a farmer's fence, shaped it, and began to practice.
Gilbert won a gold medal in pole vault at the Olympic Games in 1908. By that time, he had a
diploma in physical education and had nearly finished medical studies. However, he later started his
first business: making and selling magic kits, with which Gilbert had amused friends and earned
college money.
One day. Gilbert saw workers using steel girders to build towers for power lines. That gave him
the idea for the erector set.
In 1917, the Council of National Defense thought no toys should be sold for Christmas because
the country was fighting in World War I. Gilbert, with other men from the Toy Manufacturers, went
to Washington, D. C. with about 40 different toys. and they were given 15 minutes to speak.
This meeting was at the end of a long, hard day. Gilbert exclaimed how toys helped children
learn while his helpers brought out the toys. Soon, tired government men were on the floor, playing
with building sets, models of navy ships, and other toys. The time limit was forgotten; so was the
Christmas toy ban.
Gilbert spent the rest of his life improving erector sets. When he died in 1961, he had 150 patents
for his many inventions. But his chief joy was in helping children learn and have fun at the same time.
He once said, I have never worked on anything to make money unless it was fun too. As a matter of
fact, the fun always came first.
24. What do we know about Gilbert according to paragraphs 2-3?
A. He was unwilling to sit down as a small kid.
B. He convinced his school to establish a sports club.
C. He absorbed himself in coming up with new ideas.
D He demonstrated his interest and gift in various fields.
25. What inspired Gilbert to make the creator set?
A. Asking workers for assistance. B. Observing a construction work.
C. Designing towers for power lines. D. Selling magic kits in previous years
26. The officials cancelled the plan to ban Christmas toys because ______.
A. they were impressed by Gilbert's words
B. they forgot the time limit arranged earlier
C. they were exhausted after playing on the floor
D. they experienced the pleasure of playing toys
27. Which words can best describe Gilbert's personality?
A. Talented and committed. B. Friendly and considerate.
C. Brilliant and cold-hearted. D. Generous and strong-willed.
C
To the human ears a field of flowers is silent, save the noise of birds and insects. To certain
animal ears, however, a field of flowers is full of conversation.
It has long been known that plants communicate when stressed. You need only observe a
houseplant to realize that a plant wilts （枯萎） when it needs water, or turns yellow at the edges
when it has been watered too much. Some plants may also emit a bitter taste to deter insects from
capitalizing on their stressed state; while others may emit organic compounds to alarm other plants
in the area.
Now, a new study, conducted by researchers at Tel Aviv University. shows that not only do
plants express themselves in the above ways when stressed, they also emit sounds.
According to the study, plants emit sounds at frequencies between 40 to 80 kilohertz- beyond
the range of human ears—but within the range of some animals. “While imperceptible to the human
ears, the sounds emitted by plants can probably be heard by such animals as bats, mice, and insects,
explained Dr. Lilach Hadany, a Professor at Tel Aviv University and a co-author of the study.
One of the primary breakthroughs of Hadany's study is that the researchers have managed to
understand and classify the sounds that plants generate for the first time. Plants that are not stressed
produce about one noise per hour, but plants that are stressed, dehydrated, or injured many hundreds
of sounds per hour, and each of these sounds seems to be specific to the type of stress the plant is
under.
This type of information could be vital for agriculture. Knowing what sounds their plants are
making could help farmers determine whether their crops are in danger or drought or disease and
allow them to make the necessary changes to let their plants to thrive.
Amazingly enough, the researchers are not actually sure how the plants make sounds, though it
may have something to do with cavitation （空穴现象）, which is when the water tension in the
plants becomes too high and the water turns to gas, making an ultrasonic popping noise.
Whatever the case, this is still a game-changer for plant science, and potentially for the future of
agriculture. One day soon your plants may be-able to tell you if they are hungry, thirsty, or just feeling
lonely.
28. What does the underlined word deter mean in paragraph 2?
A. Identify. B. Ignore. C. Prevent. D. Preserve.
29. What can we know about the new study according to the passage?
A. The sounds emitted by plants always remain the same.
B. All animals are not able to hear the sounds produced by plants.
C. Previous experiments suggested similar findings to the new study.
D. Researchers have made sense of how plants exactly make sounds.
30. What is paragraph 6 mainly about?
A. The new study's benefits to farmers.
B. The new study's limitations in agriculture.
C. The new study's impact on further studies.
D. The new study's insight into relevant research.
31. What is the author's attitude towards the scientific value of the new study?
A. Indifferent. B. Skeptical. C. Ambiguous. D. Favorable.
D
Imagine getting ready for bed, brushing your teeth, setting your alarm and then putting a device
on your head that allows you to control your dreams. It might sound like something out of a
Christopher Nolan movie, but it's also the real-life promise of a new futuristic-looking headband
called Halo, currently in development by US tech start-up Prophetic.
Planned for release in 2025, Halo aims to allow you to have more lucid dreams-dreams where
you are aware that you're dreaming. In some cases, you might also exert （施加） a degree of control
over what happens in these dreams, perhaps in ways that benefit your waking life, such as solving
work problems, visiting faraway lands, practising guitar and much more.
The state-of-the-art approach taken by the team behind the Halo device involves two stages.
First, they are using EEG （脑电图） and fMRI （功能性磁共振成像） to collect vast amounts of
brain data from volunteers experiencing lucid dreams. This information will be key for the second
main area of investigation, which involves using TUS （超声） to manipulate brain activity in a way
that will induce （诱导）， sustain and influence lucid dreams by employing high-frequency
sounds.
So, is there any reason not to be excited about the Halo headset? One issue is that TUS is a
relatively new approach to brain stimulation and it's not entirely clear what the long-term
consequences of zapping your brain with high-frequency sounds might be. A second Issue is that
some sleep scientists believe dreams have basic functions. One potential concern is that by using a
device to alter（更改） the nature of your dreams, you risk interfering with the usual purpose of your
dreams: A-final consideration is that. there are already several established techniques for inducing
lucid dreams that. do not involve cutting-edge technology, such as training by repeatedly pairing a
sound with deliberate thoughts of self-awareness, which are cheaper than the Halo headset.
With all these issues taken into consideration, the journey ahead is not without obstacles, and
only time will reveal the future path of Halo.
32. How does Halo aim to impact users' dreams?
A. By keeping a clear track of dreams. B. By enabling more conscious dreams.
C. By producing more frequent dreams. D. By increasing the duration of dreams.
33. Which of the following is mentioned as an issue with Halo?
A. Too much control over dream content.
B. Known long-term impacts on the brain.
C Privacy concerns about collecting brain data.
D. Interference with the basic functions of dreams.
34. What can be -inferred from paragraph 4?
A. Dreams altered by Halo would lose all usual functions.
B. Other. established techniques are less effective than Halo.
C. Halo is the most advanced device for lucid dreams so far.
D. High-frequency sounds cause permanent damage to the brain.
35. Which of the following can be the best title for the passage?
A. The Basic Functions of Lucid Dreams
B. The Promising Future of Halo Headband
C. The Pros and Cons of Dream Controlling
D. Halo Headband: a Device for Lucid Dreams
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。
What prevents certain individuals from acknowledging their mistakes, regardless of the
situation? Why do they struggle to apologize, even when it's clear they're at fault? For them, the act
of admitting wrongdoing and apologizing poses a significant psychological threat. 36 .
People who cannot apologize often have deep feelings of. low self-worth. When their delicate
ego （自我） cannot absorb the blow of admitting they were wrong, 37 they may place blame
on others and even argue about basic facts to prevent the threat of having to lower themselves by
offering an apology.
Unfortunately, many of us mistakenly interpret these people's defensiveness as a sign of
psychological strength. 38 . But this doesn't show that they're strong-it shows that they're weak.
39 . In order to take responsibility and apologize, our self-worth needs to be strong enough
to absorb that discomfort. Indeed, if our self-worth is. higher and more stable, we can tolerate the
temporary discomfort without the walls around our ego falling down.
The mistake we often make when faced with someone who's habitually incapable of apologizing
is to become angry and try to win our argument with them. 40 . In these situations, the best we can
do is make our points as calmly and convincingly as we can and then disengage from the argument
when it becomes unproductive-like when they disagree with the facts, come up with silly excuses or
turn to mean remarks.
A. their defense mechanisms kick in
B. But the sad reality is that we can never win
C. There can be various obstacles in our way of doing what is right
D. taking responsibility for their mistakes can actually be seen as a sign of strength
E. That's because outwardly they appear to be tough individuals who refuse to back down
F. Admitting that we're wrong is emotionally uncomfortable and painful to our sense of self
G. It means acknowledging they've hurt someone, potentially triggering feelings of shame after
all
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。
Every weekend in the summer, my father would take us to one of the splendid lakes. One 41
that I would never forget was a visit to Oneida Lake. After arriving. there, we 42 the car of our
picnic supplies and located the perfect picnic spot. Then my dad, sister and I ran into the splashing
waves, leaving my mother behind to 43 the picnic.
My sister loved synchronized swimming （花样游泳） and started. 44 skills. My father,
being an athlete himself, was 45 In her show. With no one 46 me, I became bored and decided
to swim by myself in deeper water. The waves were getting 47 , but I didn't care. As I took a.
breath to try a dive, a huge wave 48 me. I choked and then a huge undercurrent swept me deeper
beneath the waves. With the very thought of dying, a great sense of 49 flooded over me. I kicked
my legs 50 but in vain, losing any hope for a breath. Suddenly, I felt a firm 51 on my arm and
a pull to safety. It was my dad! He hugged me tightly and carried me back to the 52 where I could
stand.
There was no 53 , just a big smile because he knew I was all right. It turned out that my father
had never taken his eye off me, 54 as he had the other eye on my sister! 55 his watching over
me, protecting mc and loving me, I would not become the strong woman I am today.
41. A. trip B. hike C. voyage D. adventure
42. A. loaded B. cleaned C. repaired D. emptied
43. A. put off B. plan for C. prepare for D. contribute to
44. A. learning B. acquiring C. practicing D. mastering
45. A. talented B. absorbed C. specialized D. experienced
46. A. knowing B. watching C. bothering D. recognizing
47. A. softer B. colder C. warmer D. stronger
48. A. caught B. soaked C. refreshed D. swallowed