英语
考试满分：150 分考试时间:120 分钟
注意事项:
1. 答题前，考生先将自己的姓名、准考证号填写清楚，将条形码准确粘贴在条形码区域
内。
2. 全部答案在答题卡上完成，答在本试卷上无效。
3. 回答选择题时，选出每小题答案后，用 2B 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。回答非选择题时，将答案用 0. 5mm 黑
色笔迹签字笔写在答题卡上。
4. 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. How will the speakers go to school?
A. By bus. B. By taxi. C. By subway.
2. Who is probably the man?
A. A customer. B. A shop assistant. C. A designer.
3. What does the woman mean?
A. She is still looking for a new job.
1 / 13
B. She doesn’t like her job.
C. She won’t change her job.
4. Where are probably the speakers?
A. At a restaurant. B. At their house. C. At a market.
5. Why does the woman thank the man?
A. He gave her a gift. B. He lent his CD to her. C. He spent Christmas with her.
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. How long does the man plan to practice Tai Chi every day?
A. 60 minutes. B. 30 minutes. C. 15 minutes.
7. Why won’t the woman practice Tai Chi in the morning?
A. She can’t get up early.
B. She has to work early.
C. She dislikes doing exercise then.
听第 7 段材料，回答第 8 至 10 题。
8. What was the woman doing before the conversation?
A. Renting a car. B. Withdrawing money. C. Driving a car.
9. What does the woman dislike about the red car?
A. Its color. B. Its price. C. Its seats.
10. What does the woman want to do next?
A. Bargain over the price. B. Look at other cars. C. Find another shop.
听第 8 段材料，回答第 11 至 13 题。
11. What's the most probable relationship between the speakers?
A. Classmates. B. Colleagues. C. Mother and son.
12. What did Ian's father do?
A. He left the stove on and it caught fire.
B. He saved a girl from a burning house.
2 / 13
C. He was trapped in a narrow place.
13. What can we learn from the conversation?
A. Wendy's father is a firefighter.
B. Ian wants to be a firefighter.
C. Wendy admires her father very much.
听第 9 段材料，回答第 14 至 16 题。
14. What difficulty did Vivian have at university?
A. Living with others. B. Making friends. C. Doing well in exams.
15. How did Vivian deal with her difficulty?
A. By studying with people who are in a similar situation.
B. By spending more time with old friends.
C. By asking her teachers for help.
16. How long has Vivian been at university?
A. Almost four years. B. About three years. C. About one year.
听第 10 段材料，回答第 17 至 20 题。
17. Which book was made into a movie?
A. Every Note Played. B. Left Neglected. C. Still Alice.
18. At which university did Lisa Genova get her PhD?
A. Bates College. B. Yale University. C. Harvard University.
19. What did Lisa's speeches focus on?
A. A disease. B. A novel. C. An Oscar-winning film.
20. What is the text mainly about?
A. The benefits of education.
B. The achievements of an author.
C. The impact of Alzheimer's disease.
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 A、B、C、D 四个选项中选出最佳选项。
A
3 / 13
These novels focus on the excitement and drama of returning to class.
The First Rule of Punk
By Celia C. Prez
（Puffin Books）
On the first day at her new middle school, Malu upsets a popular classmate and violates the dress
code with her punk style. Her dad reminds her of the first rule of punk: Be yourself. Will keeping his
advice in mind help Malu have a better rest of the school year? Ages 10 and up.
It's the First Day of School... Forever!
By R. L. Stine
（Square Fish）
This classic book from the author of the Goosebumps series is filled with suspense and humor.
Every day, Artie wakes up and the same thing happens-he bumps his head and gets ready for the first
day of fifth grade. A twist ending helps explain why nothing changes from day to day. Ages 8-12.
New Kid
By Jerry Craft
（Quill Tree Books）
On the first day at a fancy prep school, Jordan realizes he's one of only a handful of Black
students. He doesn't feel like he fits in with his classmates or his old friends in the neighborhood.
Will he continue to feel stuck between the two worlds? This book is the only picture novel to win the
famous Newbery Medal. Ages 8-12.
Save Me a Seat
By Sarah Weeks and Gita Varadarajan
（Scholastic）
If you're a fan of Fish in a Tree, you may enjoy this novel about two fifth graders. Ravi recently
moved from India to New Jersey and feels like an outsider. Joe gets looked down upon because he
needs extra help at school. As time passes, they realize they may share a lot in common. Ages 8-12.
21. Whose book is suitable for a 15-year-old boy?
A. R. L. Stine's. B. Jerry Craft's.
C. Celia C. Prez's. D. Sarah Weeks and Gita Varadarajan's.
22. Which probably attracts a kid most if he loves pictures?
4 / 13
A. New Kid. B. Save Me a Seat.
C. The First Rule of Punk. D. It's the First Day of School. . . Forever!
23. In the novel Save Me a Seat, how do Ravi and Joe become friends?
A. They are familiar with each other. B. They both come from India.
C. They are quiet in class. D. They both encounter challenges.
B
On the day he almost died, Kimbal Musk had food on the brain. The Internet startup talent and
restaurateur had just arrived in Jackson Hole from a conference where chef Jamie Oliver had spoken
about the benefits of healthy eating. This was something Musk thought about a lot-how he might
make a difference to the food industry-but beyond expanding his farm-to-table movement along with
his restaurant, Musk hadn't yet broken the code. Then he went sailing down a snowy slope （坡）
and fell over, breaking his neck. The left side of his body was paralyzed.
Musk eventually made a full recovery, but it involved spending two months on his back, which
gave him plenty of time to come up with a plan. Since then, he has launched an initiative to put
learning gardens in public schools across America; attracted Generation Z to the farming profession
by changing shipping containers into high-tech, data-driven, year-round farms; and this year, is
kicking off a new campaign to create one million at-home gardens.
Aimed at reaching low-income families, the Million Gardens Movement was inspired by the
pandemic, as both a desire to feel more connected to nature and food insecurity have been at the
forefront of so many people's lives. We were getting a lot of inquiries about gardening from people
that had never gardened before, says Musk. People were looking to garden for a bunch of reasons:
to supplement their budget, to improve the nutritional quality of their diets, or just to cure the boredom
that came with the lockdown.
The program offers free garden kits that can be grown indoors or outdoors, and will be
distributed through schools that Musk's non-profit, Big Green, has already partnered with. It also
offers free courses on how to get the garden growing and fresh seeds and materials for the changing
growing seasons. I grew up in the projects when I was young, in what we now call food deserts,
says EVE, one of the many celebrities who have teamed up with the organization to encourage
people to pick up a free garden. What I love about this is that it's not difficult. We are all able to
grow something.
5 / 13
24. What inspired Musk to be devoted to food industry?
A. An accident. B. Jamie Oliver's speech.
C. The pandemic. D. The farm-to-table movement.
25. What can we learn about the Million Gardens Movement?
A. It has mainly attracted young generations.
B. It has just accomplished its target.
C. It may be stimulated by a lack of food security.
D. It increases economic burdens for the poor.
26. Which of the following best describes Musk?
A. Charitable. B. Honest. C. Flexible. D. Strict.
27. Why is EVE taken as an example?
A. To demonstrate the program to be non-profit.
B. To share his experience in a food desert.
C. To encourage people to start a free garden.
D. To clarify the reason why he loves a garden.
C
Dutch researchers have discovered that birds living in cities are using metal spikes （尖刺） to.
build their nests. People put these spikes on buildings in order to keep birds off their balconies,
benches, and chimneys, but birds seem to be stealing them and using them to keep people away from
their eggs.
The research began when, in the courtyard of a hospital in Antwerp, Belgium, biologist
AukeFlorian Hiemstra found a large nest that had been built by a magpie （喜鹊）. The nest was
made from about 1, 500 metal spikes. They were pointing outward to create a protective system
around the nest.
I just stared at it, this strange, beautiful, weird nest, Hiemstra told BBC News. When he
investigated further, he found that magpies had moved away nearly 165 feet of metal spikes that had
been glued to the hospital's roof.
After Hiemstra made this discovery, his team heard about a similar nest created by crows in
Rotterdam, in the Netherlands, and another magpie nest in Glasgow, Scotland. The crows had
positioned the spikes in a different way, perhaps using the metal to support the nest's structure.
6 / 13
In their report, the researchers mention many kinds of birds moving spikes off buildings, but
they chose to focus their study on corvids （birds from the crow family）. The researchers pointed
out that there have been previous studies on how corvids use everything from telephone wires to
clothes hangers to build their nests. They said the use of anti-bird spikes hints at a functional use-
meaning the birds seem to know exactly what they're doing.
Magpies have often been seen nesting in thorny （多刺的） places, where the thorns can
prevent people from attacking the small eggs and chicks inside the nest. Thorny hedges aren't
common in cities, however, so the theory is that magpies use the human-made version instead.
Hiemstra calls this the birds' revenge. We're trying to get rid of birds, but the birds are collecting
our metal spikes and actually making more birds in these nests, he said.
28. Why are metal spikes put on buildings?
A. To draw birds' attention to the nest. B. To prevent strangers entering.
C. To keep birds off the buildings. D. To make the buildings more beautiful.
29. Magpies use metal spikes to build nests ___.
A. to protect their eggs and chicks B. to decorate their nests
C. to provide a strong hold D. to support the structure of the nests
30. What does Hiemstra think of birds' collecting metal spikes?
A. Disappointing. B. Appreciative. C. Confusing. D. Indifferent.
31. What is the purpose of the passage?
A. To introduce a new species of bird that has adapted to city life.
B. To compare different nesting habits of birds in urban environments.
C. To emphasize the negative impact of human activities on bird habitats.
D. To inform readers about birds using metal spikes to build nests in cities.
D
There was a point in time when the solar industry was considered dead money. It was too
expensive, too inefficient, and too inconsistent to be a viable （切实可行的） alternative energy
source for really anything, let alone your home or office.
But those days are long gone.
Solar energy costs have dropped more than 70% over the past 10 years, and are now cheaper
than fossil fuels in most parts of the United States. Better yet, the drivers of these cost declines-
7 / 13
economies of scale （规模经济） and technological improvements - are durable （耐久的）， and
therefore, solar is only going to get even cheaper. Indeed, these forces are so powerful in the solar
industry that they have their own law - Swanson's Law - which states that the price of solar modules
（模块） decreases by about 20% for every doubling in global solar capacity.
Meanwhile, solar panels have become very efficient at transforming light from the sun into
usable energy. Back in 1992, researchers at the University of South Florida made a thin-film solar
cell with 15. 9% efficiency-and that was considered a breakthrough at the time.
These days, though, your average silicon solar cells' efficiency rate is around 20%. That's
standard. And some research efforts have even managed to achieve near 50% efficiency in certain
lab tests.
At the same time, these solar systems have become dramatically more consistent. One of the
biggest hurdles for solar in the early 2000s was its intermittency-the sun doesn't shine every day, so
what do you do when its cloudy?
Well, that's why the clean energy industry has developed energy storage solutions, which are
basically just big batteries that homeowners and office building managers can install on-site and link
to their 'solar panels to store excess （过度的） solar power on super sunny days, and use that power
on cloudy days.
Cheapest. Most efficient. Most consistent. That's a powerful combination. No wonder solar
industry has accounted for 58% of all new energy capacity additions so far in 2021 and is only going
to get stronger and more active over the next 10 years-to a point where, by 2030, I wouldn't be
surprised to see solar industry accounting for 90%+ of all new energy capacity additions.
32. Which of the following is closely related to solar energy costs according to the Swanson's
Law?
A. Technological improvements. B. The efficiency.
C. Economic growth. D. The capacity.
33. Why have the energy storage solutions been developed?
A. To lower the solar panel costs. B. To ensure consistent power supply.
C. To reduce solar energy waste. D. To generate electricity on cloudy days.
34. What is the author's attitude towards the future of the solar industry?
A. Doubtful. B. Confident. C. Uncaring. D. Disapproving.
8 / 13
35. What can be a suitable title for the text?
A. What Advantages the Solar Energy Has?
B. How We Humans Can Fully Use the Solar energy?
C. Why the Solar Industry Is the Future of Earth's Energy?
D. When the Solar Industry Will Become Our New Energy Capacity Additions?
第二节（共 5 小题；每小题 2 分，满分 10 分）
阅读下面短文，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。
The things we're passionate about bring us joy and light us up from within-but if you're not sure
what your passion is, 36 . The good news is, even if you haven't found it just yet, it is possible to
uncover your true passion at any time in your life, with a little attention and introspection （反省）.
Here are our top tips for pinpointing your passions.
Cultivate more self-awareness.
37 . Self-awareness is an important step to figuring out your passion, Spinelli says. She
suggests asking yourself the following questions in order to figure out patterns or themes that could
lead you to your passion.
What kinds of things bring me joy?
How do I feel when I do those activities?
What are things I love to do?
What are my values and beliefs?
What might be my limiting beliefs that could stop me from figuring out my passion?
What are my strengths?
38 .
As Albert Einstein once said, insanity （疯狂） is doing the same thing over and over and
expecting a different result. So, if you're operating the same way every day and finding you're not
able to discover your passion, something clearly needs to change! In this case, Spinelli says you'll
want to explore areas that may be outside of your comfort zone and include those in your routines-
39 .
Think about what makes you special
9 / 13
No one else has your personality and your unique combination of talents, wisdom, strengths,
skills, and creativity. Identifying what sets you apart and what comes easily and naturally to you will
take you a step closer to doing what you love. 40 . We all have our own light to shine on the world.
A. Get out of your comfort zone
B. Think big, think positive and believe
C. you may just find some new inspiration
D. Remember that we are all here for a reason
E. When you know yourself, you know your passions
F. think about where you're happiest and go there more often
G. it might leave you feeling a bit empty or, at least, uninspired
第三部分语言知识运用（共两节，满分 45 分）
第一节（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 A、B、C 和 D 四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处
的最佳选项。
As a child, I was fascinated by the world of theater and began taking classes at the age of 7.
Throughout my teenage years, I actively 41 plays, television shows, and movies. 42 provided
me with an opportunity to explore and 43 things that I may not have had the courage to attempt
in real life. One of the most significant 44 of acting was the ability to step outside of my comfort
zone and transform into someone else, 45 and bold on stage.
Despite this, in my everyday life, I was often plagued（困扰） by 46 and hesitance. Acting
allowed me to explore different time periods and 47 , as I donned （穿上） various costumes and
immersed （投入） myself in different eras and worlds. I played a variety of 48 ranging from
aliens to ring masters, and 49 a diverse set of skills along the way.
Performing was an excellent way for me to 50 my shyness and inhibitions. I gained a
newfound confidence in myself and learned to be more 51 and daring. 52 , after a while, I grew
tired of living inside someone else's 53 and was ready to forge my own path. I was fortunate to
have received unwavering 54 and guidance from my family, who had always 55 me of the
importance of education and self-worth.
10 / 13