英语试卷
考试时间：120分钟 满 分：150分
第一部分 听力（共两节，满分 30 分）
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. What will the woman do?
A. Go to the bathroom. B. Keep an eye on the bag. C. Check inside the man’s bag.
2. What’s the relationship between the two speakers?
A. Relatives. B. Classmates. C. Colleagues.
3. Where are the two speakers?
A. In a restaurant. B. In a hotel. C. In a party.
4. What do the two speakers think of the weather report?
A. It’s unreliable. B. It’s accurate. C. It’s worrying.
5. What is bothering the man?
A. His low salary. B. His heavy workload. C. The difficulty of hiring people.
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 6 段材料，回答第6 至 7 题。
6. How much time do they have before the party starts?
A. 15 minutes. B. 30 minutes. C. 45 minutes.
7. What problem is the man facing?
A. He’s running out of time.
B. He doesn’t know how to get there.
C. He’s trapped in a traffic jam.
听第 7 段材料，回答第 8 至 9 题。
8. What do we know about the woman?
A. She directed the musical.
B. She quit dancing due to an accident.
C. She has no dancing talent.
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these great resorts options.
Hyatt Ziva Cap Cana
Located in Punta Cana, this family-friendly vacation at an all-inclusive resort offers something for
everyone in your party. Parents can enjoy relaxing by one of the resort’s swim-up bars in an infinity pool or
head out for some deep-sea fishing. Kids, meanwhile, can head over to the kids’ club for a number of activities.
Plus, all of the drinks and food across the 14 restaurants and bars is included.
Beaches Turks & Caicos
This resort has become the Caribbean’s popular go-to when it comes to all-inclusive family vacations
that provide great value since there’s so much to do for guests of all ages. There’s a 45,000-square-foot water
park, 24 restaurants, unlimited PADI-certified scuba diving and water sports, a 12-mile beach, a spa, 10
pools—whew!
The Alisal Guest Ranch
If you live in the city and want to get back to nature, this luxury farm over nearly 11,000 acres in
California’s Santa Ynez Valley is a perfect fit for a family. All that wide-open space means activities like
horseback riding, scenic cycling, hiking, fishing, kayaking and, for the body-and-spirit-minded traveler in your
group, yoga.
Montage Palmetto Bluff
The 20,000-acre community includes a nature preserve with walking trails, but the real stars of the show
here are the over 300 species of birds. The resort’s resident naturalist takes families on walks to Bird Island,
sharing a history of the area. Plus, kids will love the kayak tours that get up close to the dolphins that live there
year-round.
21. Which attracts those interested in horseback-riding?
A. Hyatt Ziva Cap Cana. B. Beaches Turks & Caicos.
C. Montage Palmetto Bluff. D. The Alisal Guest Ranch.
22. What do the four attractions share?
A. They promise good food services. B. They have large historic architecture.
C. They offer activities for parents and children. D. They include various kinds of kids’ clubs.
23. What is the purpose of the text?
A. To organize some family parties. B. To highlight some tourist resorts.
C. To introduce some nature reserves. D. To stimulate some domestic needs.
B
Moving forces us to face the extraneous. File cabinets and drawers stuffed to the brim, boxes piled high
in the backs of closets — why keep letters and cards that we never re-read? One card with my grandmother’s
handwriting should be enough.
An unnerving yet productive strategy is to envision someone dealing with the piles of papers if you
suddenly weren’t here. You instantly realize that most of your accumulation will one day be thrown into a
recycling bin. The things you are saving as reminders of your past are useless to others. Sure, you may value
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what you keep, but worth is essentially all in your head.
In a real sense, to throw things away is to prepare to die. This is not a gloomy declaration but rather an
enlivening recognition of the freedom that follows when we take ourselves less seriously. It’s the same as
looking at a sky full of stars and feeling the relief of being tiny and unimportant. Awareness of the briefness of
our time on earth and the impermanence of both our attachments and our sufferings can become a powerful
basis for clearing things and emotions alike.
A few years ago, dear friends were called home from work to a big fire. They watched as their house
burned to the ground, despite the efforts of several fire crews. Everything material, cherished things, and
accumulations were reduced to ashes — clothes, photo albums, furniture, paintings, books, boxes of old letters,
the piano.
By nightfall, what they had left were the clothes they had worn that day and the photos they had kept at
their workplaces. At first, they felt completely collapsed, but once they emerged from the initial shock and
grief, they were sustained by a lot of love from family and friends. They were alive, and this is what really
mattered. It is astonishing to discover how little weight our possessions carry in this calculus of true necessity.
24. What does the underlined word “extraneous” mean in Paragraph 1?
A. Invaluable. B. Irrelevant. C. Suitable. D. Necessary.
25. What may the author agree with about the value of one’s accumulation?
A. It’s useless. B. It’s essential. C. It’s personal. D. It’s recyclable.
26. How can one be prepared “to throw things away” according to paragraph 3?
A. By recognizing the burden of freedom.
B. By letting oneself fade into insignificance.
C. By being aware of the preciousness of time.
D. By treasuring the attachments and sufferings.
27. Why does the author mention his friends’ story?
A. To demonstrate the cruelty of a fire.
B. To stress the weight our possessions carry.
C. To emphasize the importance of love from friends.
D. To show the insignificance of our possessions.
C
Beeping alarms in hospitals are a life-or-death matter — but with so many going off all the time, medical
professionals may experience alarm fatigue that impairs (损伤) care. Researchers now report that changing an
alarm’s sound to include properties of musical instruments can make it more helpful in the noisy clinics.
Beeping alarms can sound up to 300 times a day per patient in U. S. hospitals, but only a small percentage
require immediate action. Data from the U. S. Food and Drug Administration suggest that alarm fatigue
(including when clinicians turned off or forgot to restart alarms) and other alarm-related issues were linked to
566 deaths over five and a half years.
In 2015 Doctor Schlesinger and Schutz, a music cognition researcher, began examining musical qualities
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called timbres (音质) that might let softer sounds command attention from busy clinicians. They found that
sounds with a “percussive” timbre, many of which contain short bursts of high-frequency energy — such as
wine glasses clinking — stand out even at low volume. In contrast, loud, “flat” tones that lack high-frequency
components, like a reversing truck’s beep, get lost.
The researchers have since continued to conduct experiments in which participants evaluate different
sounds and melodies for annoyance, detectability and recognizability. For a recent study they played
participants the same sets of notes with varying timbres. They found the sounds that made these sets least
annoying, with no decrease in recall, were percussive and had complex, time-varied harmonic overtones (the
many components within a single sound) like a xylophone’s ping (木琴声). The researchers now are drawing
inspiration from the timbres of other instruments: the triangle, for example, famously stands out in a crowd of
sounds possibly because it has overtones that depart from traditional harmonic series. Such findings could lead
to alarms that command attention and fit into current regulatory guidelines. Michael Rayo, who studies
cognitive systems design at the Ohio State University, says that complex sounds like those instruments in the
study avoid trading detectability for recognition. Experimenting with timbre, he says, “furthers our
understanding of aspects that can improve performance in hospital alarms.”
28. What is the point of changing an alarm’s sound in hospitals?
A. Curing more patients. B. Making alarms more effective.
C. Reducing the going off of alarms. D. Including features of musical instruments.
29. What can be called a sound with a “percussive” timbre?
A. The roll of a distant thunder. B. The beep of a reversing truck.
C. The ringing sound of a wind-bell. D. The sound of a working air-conditioner.
30. What can be inferred from the last two paragraphs?
A. Researching timbre ensures perfect performance of alarms.
B. Percussive sounds alone made the sets of notes least annoying.
C. Triangles stand out because of their traditional harmonic series.
D. Alarms with instrumental sounds are probably detectable and recognizable.
31. What is the most suitable title for the text?
A. Hospital Issues B. Musical Instruments C. Percussive Timbre D. Musical Alarms
D
Every decision we make is arrived at through hugely complex neurological processing. Although it feels
as though you have a choice, the action that you ‘decide’ to take is entirely directed by automatic neural activity.
Brain imaging studies show that a person’s action can be predicted by their brain activity up to 10 seconds
before they themselves become aware they are going to act. Multiple neuroscientific studies show that even
those important decisions that feel worked out are just as automatic as knee-jerk reactions (although more
complex).
Decision-making starts with the amygdala: a set of two almond-shaped nuclei (杏仁状核) buried deep
within the brain, which generate emotion. The amygdala registers the information streaming in through our
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senses and responds to it in less than a second, sending signals throughout the brain. These produce an urge to
run, fight, freeze or grab, according to how the amygdala values various stimuli.
Before we act on the amygdala’s signals, however, the information is usually processed by other brain
areas, including some that produce conscious thoughts and emotions. Areas concerned with recognition work
out what’s going on, those concerned with memory compare it with previous experiences, and those concerned
with reasoning, judging and planning get to work on constructing various action plans. The best plan — if we
are lucky — is then selected and carried out. If any of this process goes wrong, we are likely to hesitate, or do
something silly.
The various stages of decision-making are marked by different types of brain activity. Fast
(gamma)waves, with frequencies of 25 to 100 Hz, produce a keen awareness of the multiple factors that need
to be taken into account to arrive at a decision. If you are trying to choose a sandwich, for instance, gamma
waves generated in various cells within the ‘taste’ area of the brain bring to mind and compare the taste of ham,
hummus, wholemeal, sourdough, and so on. Although it may seem useful to be aware of the full range of
choice, too much information makes decision-making more difficult, so irrelevant factors get dismissed
quickly and unconsciously.
After this comparison stage, the brain switches to slow-wave activity (12 to 30 Hz). This extinguishes
most of the gamma activity, leaving just a single ‘hotspot’ of gamma waves which marks the chosen option.
Although there is no ‘you’ outside your brain to direct what it’s doing, you can help it to make good
decisions by placing yourself in a situation which is likely to make the process run more smoothly. Doing
something that is physically or mentally stimulating before making a decision will help your brain produce the
initial gamma waves that generate awareness of the competing options. Getting over-excited, on the other hand,
will prevent the switch to the slow brainwaves, making it much harder to single out a choice.
32. Why does the writer mention “knee-jerk reactions” in the first paragraph?
A. To introduce the finding of the latest brain imaging studies.
B. To illustrate that decisions are not consciously thought out.
C. To call attention to a kind of neural reaction that is not very complex.
D. To show the difference between decision-making and other brain activity.
33. What does the amygdala do according to the passage?
A. It works out conscious thoughts and emotions.
B. It selects the best action plan for a given situation.
C. It dismisses factors that are irrelevant to the decision to be made.
D. It processes sensory information and generates emotional responses.
34. What can be concluded from paragraphs 4 and 5?
A. Slow-wave activity usually lasts longer than fast-wave activity.
B. The brain prioritizes information before settling on a final choice.
C. Decision-making is difficult when slow-wave activity occurs first.
D. The brain needs as much information as possible to make a decision.
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35. How does engaging in stimulating activities help the decision-making process?
A. By preparing the brain to single out the most reasonable choice.
B. By helping the brain switch to slow-wave activity more quickly.
C. By getting the brain to focus on those most relevant alternatives.
D. By making the brain more aware of the factors and choices involved.
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。
Indoor plants might look as if they just sit around not doing much, but in many ways they are the unsung
heroes of the home. 36 , but studies have shown that they can promote people’s wellbeing by improving
their mood, reducing stress and helping their memory. What’s more, indoor plants are easy to look after and
are not very expensive.
What are indoor plants?
Indoor plants, also known as houseplants or pot plants, are plants that like to grow indoors. Many of
these species are not ideally suited to growing outside in the UK, especially in the winter. 37 .
Why are indoor plants good for you?
Will Spoelstra, who works at the Royal Botanic Gardens, says, “ 38 . I find during the winter
months, plants around the house can really lift your mood.” Several studies have backed this up and found that
indoor plants can improve creativity, focus and memory. There is also research showing that pot plants can
clean the air around them by removing harmful gases, such as carbon dioxide. They also remove some harmful
chemicals from paints or cooking. 39 .
Which plants can you grow?
Aloe vera, peace lilies and spider plants are some of the species that are easy to grow indoors. You can
buy plants from supermarkets, garden centres or online. Younger plants are often cheaper than fully grown
ones, and you get to care for them as they mature — which is part of the joy of owning plants. “ 40 ,”
Spoelstra says. “It can bring a new interest and focus into people’s lives and help to make the link between
home and nature.”
A. All plants are different
B. Not only do they look beautiful
C. There are many benefits to growing plants indoors
D. Instead, they grow better inside, where it is warmer
E. Plants like peace lilies and devil’s ivy are among the best
F. Changing the pot of your plant from time to time will also help
G. Learning about the requirements of each plant can be very rewarding
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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。
Michael Surrell and his wife had just parked the car when they got a call from their daughter: “The house
next door is on fire!” He instantly went to 41 and saw an old woman cried. “The baby is inside!” “The
baby” was 8-year-old Tiara Roberts, the woman’s 42 .
Though the fire department had been called, Surrell 43 rushed into the burning house. The thick
44 caused him to stumble blindly around and made it impossible to 45 . After a few minutes in the
smoke-filled house, he moved outside to 46 his breath.
“Where is Tiara?” he asked 47 .
“The second floor,” her grandma shouted back.
Taking a deep breath, Surrell went in a second time. Because the house had a 48 layout to his, he
found the stairs easily and made it to the second floor.
But the darkness was 49 . All he could feel was the crackling and popping of burning wood. Then
a soft but 50 moan emerged. He crawled toward the sound, feeling around for any 51 of the
little girl. Finally, he 52 something. He scooped Tiara into his arms, 53 through the smoke.
Fortunately, Surrell managed to help Tiara out, she was 54 from the hospital after a few days.
However, The fire worsened Surrell’ s pulmonary (肺的) condition, which he suffered before, and he feels the
effects even two years later. “It’s a small 55 to pay,” he says. “I would do it again without a second
thought.”
41. A. investigate B. witness C. appreciate D. instruct
42. A. niece B. granddaughter C. cousin D. daughter
43. A. consciously B. immediately C. casually D. calmly
44. A. smoke B. mist C. dust D. smog
45. A. escape B. distinguish C. breathe D. see
46. A. hold B. save C. waste D. catch
47. A. randomly B. cautiously C. nervously D. desperately
48. A. opposite B. similar C. different D. familiar
49. A. thrilling B. challenging C. overwhelming D. threatening
50. A. firm B. loud C. distinct D. sharp
51. A. track B. symbol C. sound D. sign
52. A. touched B. found C. explored D. got
53. A. breaking B. struggling C. going D. running
54. A. rescued B. transported C. suspended D. released
55. A. price B. bill C. check D. fine
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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。
Int’l horticultural expo attracts worldwide green fingers to Chengdu
The International Horticultural Exhibition 2024 kicked off on Friday in Chengdu, 56 unique
natural geography provides the lush urban environment with greenery all year round and diverse flowers in
each season. With a kaleidoscope (万花筒) of horticultural technologies and garden arts from home and abroad
57 (showcase) during the event, it offers a comprehensive and on-site “101 handbook” for gardening
devotees worldwide.
The expo, which lasts 186 days, emphasizes green, low-carbon, sustainable and 58 (include)
principles. The event brings together hundreds of top 59 (exhibit) and leading companies from more
than 30 countries. Apart from the 39 international gardens of the world’s major styles of garden design, multiple
Chinese cities demonstrate their own architectural and gardening features. Visitors can be immersed 60
a verdant canvas of trees and grass, 61 (intoxicate) with the captivating cultural essence of the Oriental
philosophy of living.
The expo is expected 62 (make) more citizens feel the beauty of nature and hold the common
belief 63 the solution to future crises lies in plants and nature, Briercliffe, secretary general of AIPH,
noted. 64 (grow) flowers and even vegetables at home is not only an effective way to improve one’s
quality of life in the concrete jungle but a significant economic opportunity that 65 (contribute) to
rural revitalization and ecological development in today’s world.
第四部分 写作（共两节，满分 40 分）
第一节 （满分 15 分）
假定你是李华，你即将在英语课的自由讨论环节发言。请你写一篇发言稿与同学们分享你在英语
学习中的一个好习惯及你的受益情况。
注意：
1. 写作词数应为 80 左右；
2. 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
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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。
One of the most difficult realities about the teaching profession is that we seldom know if we have made
a difference. When I become discouraged about my job, my students or myself, I often think back to one
particular day of my teaching career.
My first year of teaching was almost over. I taught junior English at Milford High School on a one-year
contract. I had a bright group of students and I was grateful for that. However, as the end of the school year
drew to a close, my students continually asked if the regular teacher would be returning. I tried to respond with
little emotion. Deep down, though, I was more bothered by leaving than I admitted.
Finally, the day came to give my last final exam. I passed the office before the bell rang and saw a couple
of the students from my class, and I thought how difficult saying good-bye would be. They were a group with
whom I could joke, have fun and share ideas. Teaching them was a pleasure, and we all had learned a lot that
year. But, as successful students do, they were moving on to twelfth grade, and I doubted they would remember
much about me after a few more years of their academic careers and busy lives.
Just about this time I was on hall duty outside my classroom, and I noticed the crowds thinning out and
classroom doors shutting. I looked in my room to find only two students in attendance. When I commented
that it was awfully strange that their classmates were so late, they agreed and then quickly asked to get a drink
outside. The hallway was awfully quiet. I walked down the hall several times to see if anyone was coming.
Suddenly, I heard footsteps coming down the hall. I was annoyed that after such a great year with these kids, I
would — on their last day with me — have to give them a lecture about responsibility.
注意：
1. 续写词数应为 150 左右;
2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
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