英语
命题：沈阳市第五十一中学 刘健
沈阳市第三十一中学 陈超
东北育才学校 吴鹏飞
审题：沈阳市教育研究院 曹娜
注意事项：
1.答卷前，考生务必将自己的姓名、考号填写在答题卡上。
2.选出每小题答案后，用铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如需改
动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案标号。不能答在本试卷上，否则无效。
3.考试结束后，考生将答题卡交回。
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. What is the weather like today?
A. Rainy. B. Cloudy. C. Sunny.
2. What are the speakers mainly talking about?
A. The population. B. The capital city. C. The whole
country.
3. Why can’t the girl probably get to sleep tonight?
A. She failed her final exams. B. She quarreled with her dad. C.
She’s worried about the coming exams.
4. Where are probably the speakers?
A. In an art gallery. B. In a museum. C. In a library.
5. What does the woman advise the man to do?
A. Pack his bags. B. Quit his current job. C. Start his
own business.
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. Who is the man probably talking to?
A. A passenger. B. A booking clerk. C. A friend.
7. What is the man going to do first?
A. Wait for another train. B. Buy a return ticket. C. Find
the train attendant.
听第 7 段材料，回答第 8、9 题。
8. What is the relationship between the speakers?
A. Schoolmates. B. Colleagues. C. Close friends.
9. What does the man think of Diana?
A. She is unkind to others. B. She is easy to get along with. C.
She seems bad-tempered.
听第 8 段材料，回答第 10 至 12 题。
10. Where does the conversation probably take place?
A. In the classroom. B. In the street. C. In the office.
11. Why does the woman look upset?
A. She has got stuck in traffic.
B. She missed her English class.
C. She felt that something bad had happened.
12. How does the man feel about the woman’s words?
A. Interested. B. Doubtful. C. Confused.
听第 9 段材料，回答第 13 至 16 题。
13. How does the man sound at first?
A. Nervous. B. Confident. C. Surprised.
14. How long did the man work as a deliveryman?
A. Half a year. B. A year. C. Two years.
15. What can we learn from the conversation?
A. The man is uninterested in his major.
B. The woman likes to eat pizza.
C. The woman will be Mark’s leader.
16. What are the speakers doing?
A. Conducting an interview. B. Talking about how to find a job. C.
Discussing their work experience.
听第 10 段材料，回答第 17 至 20 题。
17. Who is the speaker?
A. A student. B. A reporter. C. A guide.
18. What is the main purpose of the talk?
A. To tell about the rules of the museum.
B. To discuss the weekend plans.
C. To announce some changes of a visit.
19. What day was the trip to the museum scheduled for?
A. Sunday. B. Saturday. C. Monday.
20. What are the listeners forbidden to do?
A. Take a camera. B. Wear comfortable clothes. C. Touch any
exhibit.
第二部分：阅读理解（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）
阅读下面短文，从每题所给的 A、B、C 和 D 四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
A
World-famous Botanical Gardens
From botanical history to scientific discovery, here are the top
picks for people to explore.
Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, London, England (1840)
Located in London, Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew are home to the
world’s biggest collection of living plants. As a global resource for
plant and fungal knowledge, it has more than 50,000 species of native
and exotic plants, trees, and flowers on site. It is a setting rich
in history that spans from royal decorations to wartime bombing, and
its mission is to protect plants for the future of all life on Earth.
The Humble Administrator’s Garden, Suzhou, China (1513)
The Humble Administrators Garden in Suzhou is a great masterpiece
with its attractive design and careful arrangement of natural elements.
It’s centered around water features, with beautiful fountains, complex
rockwork, and historic buildings surrounded by thick vegetation. The
combination of these elements creates a picturesque landscape. Because
of its exceptional cultural and historical significance, the garden
has become a world heritage.
Parque de Monserrate, Sintra, Portugal (1789)
Monserrate is a combination of wild landscape with old ruins, formal
lawned areas and lovely gardens. The garden sits on the lower slopes
of the Sintra Mountains, which have one of the mildest climates in
Europe, so the garden is frost-free. At its very centre is a grand
palace, which has a distinctive mixture of different architectural
styles. It has been the site of various buildings and gardens for
hundreds of years.
Missouri Botanical Garden, St Louis, USA (1859)
Established in 1859, Missouri Botanical Garden is the oldest
botanical garden in continuous use in North America. It is recognized
internationally for its scientific research. With almost 50 themed
gardens, Missouri Botanical Garden has been involved in the
conservation of plants from native American regions and also from
Madagascar, China and Central America.
21. Why are the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew established?
A. To collect tropical plants. B. To conserve various
plants.
C. To record the history of British plants. D. To provide a shelter
for people in wartime.
22. What is special about the Humble Administrator’s Garden?
A. It highlights the waterscape. B. It is surrounded by
formal lawns.
C. It includes many themed gardens. D. It shows different
architectural ruins.
23. Where are science lovers most likely to go?
A. London. B. Suzhou. C. Sintra. D. St Louis.
21B. To conserve various plants. The passage states that the Royal Botanic
Gardens at Kew has a mission to protect plants for the future of all life on
Earth, which aligns with the goal of conserving various plants.
22A. It highlights the waterscape. The Humble Administrator’s Garden is
described as being centered around water features, which indicates that it
highlights the waterscape with its beautiful fountains and other water elements.
23D. St Louis. The Missouri Botanical Garden in St Louis is noted for its
scientific research, making it the most likely destination for science lovers
interested in botany and plant conservation.
B
Since young children went back to school across Sweden recently,
many of their teachers have been putting a new emphasis on printed
books, quiet reading time and handwriting practice, and devoting less
time to tablets, independent online research and keyboarding skills.
The return to more traditional ways of learning is a response to
politicians and experts questioning whether Sweden’s hyper-
digitalized approach to education, including the introduction of
tablets in nursery schools, had led to a decline in basic skills.
Sweden’s minister for schools, Lotta Edholm was one of the biggest
critics of the all-out embrace of technology. “Sweden’s students need
more textbooks,” Edholm said in March. “Physical books are important
for student learning.” The minister announced in August that the
government wanted to change the decision by the national agency for
education to make digital devices compulsory in preschools. It plans
to go further and to completely end digital learning for children under
age six, the ministry has told the Associated Press.
Although Sweden’s students score above the European average for
reading ability, an international assessment of fourth-grade reading
levels, the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS),
highlighted a decline among Sweden’s children between 2016 and 2021.
In comparison, Singapore — which topped the rankings — improved
its PIRLS reading scores from 576 to 587 during the same period, and
England’s average reading achievement score fell only slightly, from
559 in 2016 to 558 in 2021. An overuse of screens during school lessons
may cause youngsters to fall behind in core subjects, education experts
say. “There’s clear scientific evidence that digital tools impair
rather than enhance student learning,” Sweden’s Karolinska Institute,
a highly respected medical school focused on research, said in a
statement in August on the country’s national digitalization strategy
in education.
“We believe the focus should return to acquiring knowledge through
printed textbooks and teacher expertise, rather than acquiring
knowledge primarily from freely available digital sources that have
not been checked for accuracy.” the school added.
24. Why do Swedish schools return to paper books?
A. To cater to parents’ increasing needs.
B. To help with children’s independent learning.
C. To overcome children’s addiction to digital tools.
D. To avoid possible decline in children’s basic skills.
25. What does the underlined words “all-out embrace” mean in Paragraph
3?
A. Total acceptance. B. Creative use. C. Rapid development.
D. Serious addiction.
26. What might Karolinska Institute agree with?
A. Teachers should acquire more knowledge.
B. Knowledge from digital tools may not be reliable.
C. Digital tools smooth out learning barriers for children.
D. The accessibility to digital sources should be improved.
27. Which of the following is a suitable title for the text?
A. Swedish Children’s Return to Paper B. Problems with Children’s
Education
C. Popularity of Digitalization in Sweden D. Enhancement of Teaching
Strategies in Sweden
24D. To avoid possible decline in children’s basic skills. 瑞典学校回归纸质书籍的原因是为了
防止孩子们的基本技能可能出现的下降。文章中提到，教育工作者和专家们质疑瑞典超数字化的教育方式，包
括在幼儿园引入平板电脑，是否导致了基础技能的下降。
25A. Total acceptance. “all-out embrace”在第三段中意味着全面接受。这里指的是瑞典学校对技术
的全面接受，特别是在教育领域。
26B. Knowledge from digital tools may not be reliable. 卡罗琳斯卡医学院（Karolinska
Institute）可能会同意来自数字工具的知识可能不可靠。学校在声明中提到，应该回归通过纸质教科书和
教师专业知识获取知识，而不是主要从未经准确性检查的自由获取的数字资源中获取知识。
27A. Swedish Children’s Return to Paper 适合本文的标题是“A. Swedish Children’s Return
to Paper”（瑞典儿童回归纸质书籍）。这个标题准确地概括了文章的主要内容，即瑞典学校重新强调纸质书
籍、安静的阅读时间和书写练习，减少对平板电脑、独立的在线研究和键盘技能的依赖。
C
Cut into the trunk of a pine tree, and you will see a familiar series
of concentric (同中心的) rings. But not all trunks tell the same story.
A study published in November reveals that the world’s oldest trees
had a very different structure.
Some 370 million years ago, cladoxylopsid trees stood at least eight
meters tall, covered by branches instead of leaves. Today their rare
remains reveal little about their insides; in most cases their inner
structures had rotted before the trees fossilize, and storms had filled
them with sand. But the recent find of two well-preserved fossils in
China has exposed the trees’ inner workings — which are like no other
species studied before.
The cladoxylopsid tree was empty inside. Around the edges were
thick, vertical strands (缕) containing xylem (木质部), a plant tissue
that conducts water and mineral salts from the roots to all other parts.
Modern trees add new layers of multiple xylem as they grow, creating
a woody trunk with a single set of concentric rings. But in
cladoxylopsids, “each strand of xylem had its own growth rings,” says
scientist Christopher M. Berry of Cardiff University in Wales.
Over a tree’s lifetime the strands would weave and cross. “It’s
just incredibly complex,” Berry says. He likens these networks of
flexible tissues and structures to the Eiffel Tower — if tower could
grow, extend and split itself apart over time.
Although the cladoxylopsid tree has no living descendants today,
it is very important. Brigitte Meyer-Berthaud, a scientist, explains
that these trees were among “the major carbon reservoirs of the
Paleozoic”, a time period from 542 million to 251 million years ago.
Cladoxylopsids made up our planet’s first forests, capturing carbon
from the atmosphere and playing a part in adjusting Earth’s climate.
Given this fact, maybe we should study these trees for the forests.
28. What makes it hard to study cladoxylopsid trees?
A. Their thick leaves. B. Their amazing height.
C. Their poorly preserved remains. D. Their fossilized inner
structures.
29. What do we know about cladoxylopsid trees?
A. They had many separate growth rings.
B. Their solid cores contributed to their growth.
C. They had a single set of regular concentric rings.
D. Their roots needed more mineral salts than water.
30. Why does the author mention “the Eiffel Tower” in paragraph 4?
A. To stress the beauty of the Eiffel Tower.
B. To prove the economic status of the tree.
C. To disclose how limited the tree’s lifetime is.
D. To show how complex the tree’s networks are.
31. Why should we study cladoxylopsid trees?
A. They were the only trees present during the Paleozoic era.
B. They helped scientists better protect rich historical culture.
C. They played a significant role in shaping the Earth as it is.
D. They determined the carbon content in the Earth’s atmosphere.
28C. Their poorly preserved remains. 研究 cladoxylopsid 树的难点在于它们的遗骸保存状况不
佳。文章中提到，这些树的内部结构在树木变成化石之前就已经腐烂了，而且风暴还把它们填满了沙子。
29A. They had many separate growth rings. 关于 cladoxylopsid 树，我们知道它们有许多独立的生
长环。科学家 Christopher M. Berry 提到，在 cladoxylopsids 中，“每根木质部都有自己的生长环”。
30D. To show how complex the tree’s networks are. 作者在第四段提到“埃菲尔铁塔”是为了展示这些
树的网络结构是多么复杂。科学家将这些由灵活的组织和结构构成的网络比作埃菲尔铁塔——如果铁塔能够生
长、延伸并在时间上分裂的话。
31C. They played a significant role in shaping the Earth as it is. 我们应该研究
cladoxylopsid 树，因为它们在塑造地球方面发挥了重要作用。科学家 Brigitte Meyer-Berthaud 解释
说，这些树是古生代（一个从 5.42 亿年前到 2.51 亿年前的时间段）的“主要碳汇”，构成了我们星球上的第
一个森林，从大气中捕获碳，并在调节地球气候中发挥作用。
D
In a world of music streaming services, access to almost any song
is just a few clicks away. Yet, the live concert lives on. People still
fill sweaty basements to hear their favorite musicians play. And now
neuroscientists might know why.
Concerts are immersive social experiences in which people listen
to and feel the music together. They are also dynamic — artists can
adapt their playing according to the crowd’s reaction.
It was this last difference that led neuroscientists, from
Universities of Zurich and Oslo, to study the brain responses of people
listening to music. In the experiment, participants lay in an MRI (核磁共
振) scanner listening to the music through earphones, while a pianist
was positioned outside the room. The pianist was shown the participant’
s real-time brain activity as a form of feedback. In the recorded
condition, participants listened to pre-recorded versions of the same
tunes.
The scientists were interested in how live music affected the areas
of the brain that process emotions. In the live condition pianists
were instructed to change their playing in order to drive the activity
in one of these regions known as the amygdala.
The results, just published in the journal PNAS, showed that live
music had far more emotional impact. Whether the music was happy or
sad, listening to the pianist playing in a dynamic way generated more
activity in both the amygdala and other parts of the brain’s emotion
processing network.
The study was far from reconstructing the real experience of a
concert, and the authors noted that the live music ended up sounding
quite different from the recorded tracks, which may have driven some
of the differences in participant’s brain activity. Some musical acts
now attempt to recreate the real concert experience with everything
but the artist — ABBA Voyage is a social, immersive show performed
entirely by pre-recorded hologram avatars (全息图). But without Benny’s
(a member of the band) ability to read the mood of the room, it will
never quite match the real thing.
32. What caused the scientists to study music listeners’ brain
response?
A. People’s preference to recorded music. B. The important
social function of concerts.
C. The changeable characteristic of live music. D. The easy
accessibility of streaming services.
33. How did the researchers carry out the experiment?
A. By clarifying a concept. B. By making a comparison.
C. By analyzing previous data. D. By referring to another
study.
34. Why does live music feel better than recorded music?
A. It offers a more traditional and raw sound.
B. It engages the brain’s emotion centers more.
C. It fosters a sense of community and shared energy.
D. It guarantees a deeper understanding of the music.
35. What do we know from the last paragraph?
A. The artists will be replaced by technology soon.
B. The immersive audio makes live music special.
C. The study recreated the experience of a real concert.
D. It is crucial for musicians to read the audiences’ mind.
32C. The changeable characteristic of live music. 科学家之所以研究音乐听众的大脑反应，是因为
现场音乐的可变性特征。文中提到，艺术家可以根据观众的反应调整他们的演奏，这是现场音乐与录制音乐的
一个重要区别。
33B. By making a comparison. 研究人员通过比较现场音乐和录制音乐条件下的参与者的大脑活动来执行
实验。实验中，参与者在核磁共振扫描仪中通过耳机听音乐，而钢琴家则在房间外，并根据参与者的实时大脑
活动作为反馈来调整演奏。
34B. It engages the brain’s emotion centers more. 现场音乐比录制音乐感觉更好，因为它更多地激
活了大脑处理情感的区域。研究表明，无论是快乐还是悲伤的音乐，以动态的方式聆听钢琴家的演奏都能在杏
仁核和大脑情感处理网络的其他部分产生更多的活动。
35D. It is crucial for musicians to read the audiences’ mind. 从最后一段我们知道，对于音乐家
来说，能够读懂房间的情绪是至关重要的。尽管像 ABBA Voyage 这样的一些音乐表演现在尝试通过全息图重
现真实的音乐会体验，但没有了像 Benny 这样的乐队成员能够感知房间的情绪，它永远无法完全达到真实音
乐会的效果。
第二节（共 5 小题；每小题 2.5 分，满分 12.5 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。
With summer fast approaching, it’s time to book your trips. 36
Here is something we can do to avoid them.
Fail to disclose pre-existing medical conditions. It’s crucial that
you tell your insurance provider about any medical conditions you have.
37 If you fail to disclose the problems, you won’t be covered for
any issues related to the condition while you’re on holiday. If you’re
not sure if you need to mention a medical condition you have, it’s
worth asking your insurance provider.
Don’t let your insurance provider know if there are any changes
to your pre-existing medical conditions. To make sure you’re not out
of pocket during your holiday, you need to inform your insurance
provider of any developments in your medical history. 38 If
anything changes in health, let your insurer know as soon as possible
to avoid any complications.
39 A good rule of thumb is to organize your travel insurance
at the same time you book your holiday. Travel insurance covers you
for your holiday as well as the period leading up to it. By booking
your insurance at the same time as the holiday itself, you’ll be covered
if anything changes, or you need to cancel your trip. Make sure you
organize insurance well in advance.
Get your details wrong when booking travel insurance. Make sure
to check your details carefully. You won’t be covered if you’ve given
your insurer the wrong information. Double-check everything you’ve
entered before finalizing your travel insurance. 40
Make sure you compare key features and benefits of travel insurance
policies, and not just the price. Insurance is vital for your trip,
so make sure you take the time to understand what you’re paying for.
A. Leave buying insurance until the last minute.
B. Taking out an annual policy for a long-stay trip.
C. This includes any medical problems you have experienced.