英语试题
一、阅读理解
Visit the Kingdom of the Polar Bear
As winter shortens and ice melts on Hudson Bay, a mother polar bear and her two cubs face danger brought on by climate change. Following the bear family, guide Dennis Compare witnesses achievements of survival and adaptability. The two-hour TV special Kingdom of the Polar Bears airs April 22 at 8/7c on Nat Geo WILD.
Series, Book Reveal Whales’ Secrets
National Geographic Explorer Brian Skerry’s breathtaking photographs are at the heart of Secrets of the Whales. That’s the title of Skerry’s new book, on sale April 6, and the name of National Geographic’s documentary series, with filmmaker James Cameron executive producing and actor Sigourney Weaver narrating. It premieres (首映) April 22 on Disney.
Dive Into the Life of Explorer Ballard
Known for finding famous shipwrecks such as the Titanic, Robert Ballard shares not only his expeditions but also his personal challenges in a remarkable memoir. Into the Deep: An Explorer’s Life is available May 11 wherever books are sold.
Neil deGrasse Tyson Fields Cosmic Queries
Curious about your place in the universe? Cosmic Queries: Star Talk’s Guide to Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We’re Going offers the wit and wisdom of
astrophysicist deGrasst Tyson and physicist James Trefil, illustrated with stellar photos. It’s available wherever books are sold.
1. Which of the following is both a book and a TV series? A．Secrets of the Whales. B．Kingdom of the Polar Bears. C．Into the Deep: An Explorer’s Life. D．Cosmic Queries. 2. Which one might appeal to a man with an adventurous spirit? A．Secrets of the Whale. B．Kingdom of the Polar Bears.
C．Into the Deep: An Explorer’s Life. D．Cosmic Queries. 3. Which section of a newspaper can the text be found? A．Education. B．Business. C．Health. D．Entertainment.
I was brushing my teeth getting ready for bed when the phone rang. “Lindy, this is Leslie,” she said. “I hope I didn’t catch you sleeping.”
I didn’t know Leslie very well. We had children of similar ages and occasionally spoke with each other at various community events, but to say we were friends was a stretch.
She asked me a most peculiar question “Do you have room for turkeys in your freezer?”
We had lots of room in our freezer. In fact, we had too much room. My husband’s business had taken a downturn and we were pretty much at the bottom of our food supply.
“Sure,” I responded, “Did your freezer break down?”
“Not exactly,” Leslie replied, “but if you will give me directions to your house I will explain when I get there.”
A few minutes later, Leslie stepped down from a huge freezer truck and explained that her husband serviced a small grocery store that had just lost its lease. They had to empty all the freezers before midnight. They thought it was a shame to just throw away all this good food so she began to go through her list of contacts, dropping off food to anyone she could think of who might be willing to take it.
As we started carrying blocks of food to fill our freezer. I asked her. “When will you be coming back for all this?” Leslie just laughed, “We don’t want it back. It is yours to eat, to share to enjoy!”
Then she and her husband climbed back into their truck, waved goodbye and backed down the driveway.
Leslie had no idea that we were in such a tight financial spot that we struggled to buy groceries. It was not something that I shared with anyone. Having plenty of food for my family was a huge stress reliever during a difficult time.
Over the next several months we ate well and shared turkey with friends, family and neighbors. By the time the freezer food finally ran out we were back on our feet. Yet I always remember that summer night when an acquaintance called. She had a smile in her voice when she asked, “Do you have room for turkeys?”
4. How might the author feel when Leslie called? A．Surprised. B．Annoyed. C．Depressed. D．Pleased. 5. What does the underlined word “stretch” in paragraph 3 probably mean? A．Mistake B．Truth C．Overstatement D．Argument 6. What can we infer about Leslie?
A．She needed help to store the frozen food. B．She knew Lindy was in need of food. C．She felt relieved to throw away the food.
D．She wanted to put the food to good use. 7. What is the best title for the text? A．Room for Turkeys B．A Midnight Visitor C．Food Delivery
D．An Empty Freezer
This week Surgeon General Vivek H. Murthy released a warning about the risks that social media presents to the mental health of children and teenagers. Adolescent mental health has been declining for years, and an increasing amount of research suggests that social media platforms could be partially to blame. But experts continue to debate just how much impact they have.
Numerous studies demonstrate that adolescent rates of depression, anxiety and loneliness have skyrocketed in the U. S. and elsewhere since around the time that smartphones and social media became ever-present.
Yet the role social media plays has been widely debated. Some researchers have sounded the alarm, arguing that social media provides the most credible explanation for problems such as enhanced teen loneliness. Other researchers have been sitting on the fence. In 2019 Jeff Hancock founding director of the Social Media Lab at Stanford
University, and his colleagues completed an analysis of 226 scientific papers dating back to 2006. They concluded that social media us was associated with a slight increase in depression and anxiety but also improvements in feelings of belonging and connectedness.
Some recent studies have attempted to clarify the link between social media and mental health, asking, for instance, whether social media use is causing depression or whether people are being more active on social media because they’re depressed. In an attempt to present evidence, Massachusetts Institute of Technology economist Alexey Makarin and two of his colleagues conducted mental health surveys taken by college students across the country. Their study, published in 2022, found that swollen rates of depression and anxiety, as well as declined academic performance, followed Facebook’s arrival. Makarin says much of the harm they documented came from social comparisons: students viewed the online profiles of their peers and believed them to “have nicer lives, party more often, have more friends and look better.”
“In total, there’s an increasingly clear picture that, indeed, social media has a
negative impact on mental health,” Makarin says. “We are not saying that social media can explain 100 percent of the rise of mental health issues... But it could potentially explain a sizeable portion.”
8. What do we know about social media?
A．It has negative influence on adolescent mental health. B．It is the leading cause of adolescent depression. C．It plays an important role in treating mental illness.
D．Its impact on mental health is still unknown.
9. What is Jeff Hancock’s attitude towards social media? A．Critical. B．Objective C．Favorable. D．Indifferent. 10. How does social media cause harm to teenagers according to Makarin? A．By threatening their academic performance. B．By presenting them with online profiles. C．By encouraging them to party more often.
D．By making them feel worse-off than others. 11. What is the main purpose of the text?
A．To advocate the harms of social media to teenagers’ mental health. B．To analyze the causes of worsening adolescent mental health.
C．To present findings on the link between social media and mental health. D．To propose an effective approach to handling mental illness.
Drone delivery technology is making huge progress this year as delivery company Zipline announces its latest device that it has been working on since 2014.
The device, known as the Platform 2 (P2) system, could cut delivery times in half and potentially be a new life-saving asset for delivering medical supplies, prescriptions and food.
The build of the P2 Zip consists of a droid (机器人), which is essentially a
streamlined box with a hidden propeller (螺旋桨) at the rear. A person sending out a delivery will put the package within the droid, which will then be placed inside the belly of one of Zipline’s P2 Zip drones.
Once the P2 Zip takes off, it flies at a height of approximately 300 feet in the air. The drone can carry up to eight pounds at a time and can travel as far as an out-and-back service distance of 10 miles. Once the drone reaches its destination, a second droid is lowered and uses sensor cameras to detect where to land the package. The recipient of the package can then open the droid to retrieve the package, and the droid is then lifted back
up into the drone to continue on its journey back to either charge itself or retrieve another order.
One of the best benefits of this new invention is that it will make delivering packages locally a lot quicker. The drone cannot make long journeys; however, it can certainly make it from your local grocery store to your house and back without an issue.
This could also be a potentially life-saving invention as the company will be
cooperating with hospitals and other health care facilities Michigan Medicine and Salt Lake City’s Intermountain Health already plan on using it to deliver prescriptions. It will also be used by some companies to deliver blood and vaccines to remote areas. At the same time, companies like Sweetgreen have also signed on to use the service to deliver food to customers’ homes.
Zipline hopes to have the P2 Zip working and in service in just about a year. The only downside I can imagine is that many other tech companies are working fast to make drone delivery happen, and we may have an issue of drone traffic in the sky before we know it. Until then, we’ll have to see what plans these companies have to limit that issue. 12. What is the P2 Zip according to the text? A．A delivery company B．A streamlined box C．A delivery device
13. What is paragraph 4 mainly about? A．The working process of the device
D．An operational system
B．The advantages of the device
C．The significance of the device D．The design of the device 14. Which of the following can be inferred about the new invention? A．It makes it easy to deliver packages across the country B．It has been used to deliver prescriptions by hospitals C．It is originally designed to save people’s lives
D．It will still be some time before it comes into use
15. Which word best describes the author’s attitude to the invention? A．Worried B．Hopeful C．Doubtful D．Indifferent
二、七选五
How to Set Effective Writing Goal
Achievable writing goals require a certain ability to look inwards. You must evaluate where you are in your writing life, where you want to go, and how you work best. But
how can you set goals that are realistic, useful, and lead you “confidently in the direction of your dreams”?
Observe your own habits and patterns
16 . Set writing goals that are useful to you by taking stock of what you know about yourself: what type of writer are you? How do you react emotionally when faced with concrete goals? And when can you realistically squeeze some writing into your schedule?
Just as runners don’t wear hiking boots, writers must set goals that accommodate their personalities and circumstances.
Some goals, like winning the Nobel Prize for Literature, are not really up to us. They’re perfectly valid dreams, but they depend on external factors we can’t control. 17 Break your big goals down into smaller milestone
Most projects have several phases containing several milestones along the way. If you ever find you can’t work toward your bigger goal, you can usually assume that your stepping-stone goals aren’t small enough. 18 If word counts stress you out, make your goals measurable in other ways: commit to writing X number of days a month, or dedicate X number of hours to your writing every weekend. Measure your progress in a way that requires you to invest time and effort but takes a little pressure off of the outcome
19 A wise goal-setter is emotionally prepared for obstacles and can adapt their goals to meet changes in circumstances. 20 , or you’re dealing with unexpected life events that leave little room for pursuing your writing goals.
Always adjust your goal to fit your new circumstances and stand ready to make changes regardless of the outcome. Any struggle to meet your writing goals shouldn’t result in doubt about whether you’re really a writer or not. A．Keep working and make changes B．Be flexible and prepared for obstacles C．Always break goals down into smaller tasks D．Each person responds differently to goal-setting E．So try to avoid such factors in your goal statements F．It’s not easy to break big goals down into smaller tasks G．You may find that writing a book takes longer than anticipated
三、完形填空
Vernon Jackson goes to work at his barbershop even on his off days. But it’s not because he wants to earn as much _________ as possible— it’s because that’s the day he has set aside for VIP _________: children with special needs.
Haircuts are one of the things those children typically struggled with. After
_________ so many horror stories that parents were going through with other barbers who had no patience, he resolved to _________ his day off and open his shop only for children looking to get a proper _________.
“There would be no other barbers in the shop and I could give them all my _________.”
As Jackson cut he started _________, making sure children in his chair keep a smile. Sometimes that meant dancing. Other times, it meant belting out a Taylor Swift song His goal is to get the children who are sensitive to unfamiliar environments
accustomed to the shop so they can feel _________ when other employees and clients are present.
Not only does he work on his day off, but he does it for free. When he _________ the idea on social media a friend offered to sponsor a haircut. Soon more people asked to __________ and Jackson started a GoFundMe.
“Some parents would __________ any amount just for their children to have an experience like any other person. At the end of it, I can tell them ‘It’s __________,’” he said. “They say ‘I got to give you a tip.’” I say,“No, trust me. This is a __________ from the community, myself— please receive it.”
“I’ve had parents bursting into tears, had grandparents getting __________” said Jackson who’s done more than 300 free cuts to date. “It has allowed me to __________ to my fullest capacity and to see what happens when I do.” 21.
A．money 22.
A．employees 23.
A．composing 24.
B．respect
B．parents B．sharing
C．recognition
C．client C．believing
D．trust D．donor D．hearing
A．waste B．star C．sacrifice D．invest 25. A．rest B．cut C．dinner D．conversation 26.
A．attention B．sympathy C．anticipation D．pleasure 27.
A．arising B．entertaining C．screaming D．interrupting 28.
A．realistic B．humble C．astonished D．comfortable 29.
A．stole B．advertised C．rejected D．considered 30.
A．donate B．celebrate C．compete D．inspect 31.
A．save B．receive C．pay D．deposit 32.
A．delayed B．covered C．finished D．included 33. A．gift B．message C．representative D．guarantee 34.
A．dynamic B．desperate C．emotional D．breathless 35.
A．learn B．swell C．judge D．love
四、用单词的适当形式完成短文
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。 Monorails (单轨列车) have been around for more than a century and examples can be found all over the world, 36 they’ve never quite fulfilled the futuristic promises of their early promoters. That said, there are a few places where the
unique 37 (quality) offered by monorails are ideally suited to their environment. Chongqing, a megacity which 38 (locate) in southwestern China, is home to the world’s longest and one of its busiest monorail system, carrying millions of passengers a year on two high-capacity “straddle beam” lines 39 (total) 61 miles in length. At just over 34 miles, Line 3 is also the world's longest single monorail line 40 an annual ridership of around 250 million. 41 (put) into operation between 2005 and 2016, the two lines have 70 stations with a mix of underground and elevated
sections. 42 (famous), one section of Line 2 passes through the heart of a high-rise apartment block.
Back in the 1990s, the city’s unique geography, with extreme differences in altitude between its densely populated mountain plateaus and the Yangtze and Jialing river valleys, 43 (force) Chongqing’s transport authorities to seek 44 alternative to conventional subway trains. Monorail’s capacity 45 (negotiate) steep climbs and tight curves made it the ideal solution when this megacity needed to transform its public transport system.
五、用单词的适当形式完成句子
46. The winner of the competition said that he o______ his success to his coach.(根据首字母单词拼写)
六、根据首字母填写单词
47. The show was not boring; on the c______, it was rather entertaining(根据首字母单词拼写)
48. These painkillers should be able to e______ your pain in a matter of minutes. (根据首字母单词拼写)
49. It’s all very well knowing things in theory but what you need to gain is p______ experience. (根据首字母单词拼写)
50. When the fire broke out in the hotel, guests p______ and screamed. (根据首字母单词拼写)
七、根据汉语意思填写单词
51. Let’s leave that matter aside for now and talk about the more ______ (急迫的) problems facing us. (根据汉语提示单词拼写)
52. The river snakes through some of the most ______ (壮观的) countryside in France. (根据汉语提示单词拼写)
53. He tried to ______ (证明…有道理) his behavior by saying that he was being pressured unfairly by his boss. (根据汉语提示单词拼写)
54. The ______ (亮点) of the exhibition is the rocket located at the centre of the hall. (根据汉语提示单词拼写)
55. I watched her walk down the road until she was ______ (吞没) by the darkness. (根据汉语提示单词拼写)
八、其他应用文
56. 假定你是李华，你所在的班级于上周五组织参观了在市美术馆举办的题为“艺术与建筑”的展览。请你写一篇报道，发布在学校网站的“英语角”上。内容包括： 1.展览内容； 2.收获与感想。 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。
Art and Architecture
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九、读后续写
57. 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。
“I feel so alone. And cold. And tired,” I announced to the empty train platform. I glanced at my watch. It was midnight. Why had I decided to travel from Prague to Interlaken without staying somewhere along the way for a day or two? The chill in my bones on that March morning in Switzerland made me question the wisdom of making the eighteen-hour trip via three separate trains.
I was wrapping up a solo-backpacking trip across Europe during my three-week vacation. I wanted to get in as much sightseeing as possible since it was my first time in Europe. By the end of my journey, I was weary of hauling the souvenirs I had purchased and sleeping in large hostel dorm rooms.
“What I wouldn’t give for a hot bath, clean clothes, and a soft bed right now. Or even just someone to talk to.” It felt a little weird speaking to the vacant station, but doing so was preventing me from falling asleep, which was important for safety reasons. Since I still had a couple of hours before my train arrived, I tried to think of something to fill the time. I was too exhausted to read or journal.
Looking around on the hard wooden bench I saw only vacant tracks, dark rail cars, and electronic signs with no incoming trains to announce. Most of the train cars were modern, but one series of cars caught my eye. It was the legendary Orient Express. The dining car probably served phenomenal meals and had white tablecloths with cloth napkins. The sleepers were likely cozy and comfortable with private bathrooms that had lovely-scented soaps and shampoo.
A sigh escaped my lips. I returned my gaze to the empty tracks in front of me, daydreams of the Orient Express streaming through my mind.
One such dream was interrupted by a squeak and then a slam. I tensed and looked over my shoulder, wondering who else would be on the platform.
There stepping down from the Orient Express was a man wearing a blue uniform walking toward me. He held a single, blood red rose. I puzzled as to what a train conductor would do with a flower at that time of night.
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。
Yet he came to a stop beside the bench and handed me the flower.
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Words failed me when I reached out and accepted the flower.
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