英语试题
注意事项：
1. 本试卷共 10 页，全卷满分 150 分，答题时间为 120 分钟；
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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。听力部分结束前，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. Where does the conversation take place?
A. In a bookstore. B. In a dining hall. C. In a shopping mall.
2. What will the woman do on the weekend?
A. Go hiking. B. Have a picnic. C. Make movies.
3. What is the woman’s attitude towards keeping pets?
A. Supportive. B. Unconcerned. C. Opposed.
4. What is probably the main cause of the traffic jams?
A. The economy develops too fast.
B. The number of cars is increasing.
C. The skills of drivers are too bad.
5. What will the man probably do next?
A. Go to the restaurant. B. Bring dishes to the office. C. Have dinner at home.
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 does the woman think of the first aid course?
A. Interesting. B. Scary. C. Essential.
7. What is probably the woman?
A. A student. B. A teacher. C. A doctor.
听第 7 段材料，回答第 8 至 10 题。
8. When is the man leaving for New York?
A. Monday. B. Wednesday. C. Friday.
9. What will the man be doing during his free time in New York?
A. Attending meetings. B. Visiting clients. C. Exploring the city.
10. What are the speakers talking about?
A. A travel plan. B. A business trip. C. A news report.
听第 8 段材料，回答第 11 至 13 题。
11. Which city is recommended for a cultural heritage?
A. Chiang Mai. B. Phuket. C. Bangkok.
12. What is the best time to visit Thailand?
A. January. B. March. C. October.
13. Why does the woman make the phone call?
A. To ask for a travel brochure.
B. To make a travel reservation.
C. To know more about Thailand.
听第 9 段材料，回答第 14 至 17 题。
14. How does pollution affect the ocean?
A. It harms sea life and damages ecosystems.
B. It leads to the reduction of fish populations.
C. It threatens the livelihoods of many people.
15. How many major threats does the man mention?
A. Three. B. Four. C. Five.
16. What can individuals do to prevent sea pollution?
A. Keeping sustainable fishing practices.
B. Reducing plastic waste in daily life.
C. Finding approaches, to water saving.
17. What is the probable relationship between the speakers?
A. Doctor and patient. B. Expert and student. C. Journalist and interviewee.
听第 10 段材料，回答第 18 至 20 题。
18. What is the average height of people in the Qin dynasty?
A. 1. 78 meters. B. 1. 70 meters. C. 1. 90 meters.
19. Why were the terracotta soldiers made much taller?
A. To ensure that they can fight closely with each other.
B. To show the strong power of warriors impressively.
C. To make every statue as lifelike as. human beings.
20. What is the man mainly talking about?
A. The facial features of Terracotta Warriors.
B. The height of the Terracotta Warriors.
C. The introduction of Terracotta Warriors.
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 和 D 四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
A
Despite the freezing weather outside, ice cream never loses its charm. Do you want one? Here
are some famous ice cream brands, there must be one that suits your taste.
Baskin Robbins
Baskin Robbins has been around for over 70 years. And with their many locations of ice-cream
shops and the ability to purchase pints in grocery stores, these ice cream products are highly
accessible. Baskin Robbins is known for their' wide array of ice cream flavors, ranging from classics
like Pralines n' Cream to unique offerings such as Secret Admirer, Cherries Jubilee, and Skillet
Cookie Crumble. They even make delightful ice cream cakes that are perfect for your junior's birthday
parties.
So Delicious
So Delicious is unique in that it is a dairy-free brand. They make non-dairy coffee creamers,
cheese, and ice cream products. If you are on a dairy-free diet, this brand is for you. They make so
many types of non-dairy ice cream with bases including almond milk, cashew milk, coconut milk,
soy milk, oat milk, and their new concoction wonder milk. Their flavors range from buttery pecan,
to oat milk coffee chip, and dark chocolate truffle.
Magnum
Magnum ice cream carries many frozen ice cream products sold in grocery stores as well as a
non-dairy line of ice creams. They are most known for their signature hard chocolate shell that appears
in ice cream pints as well as on many of their ice cream frozen bars. They also carry a variety of ice
cream pints in flavors such as Double Cookie Crumble, Milk Chocolate Vanilla, and Double Red
Velvet.
Adirondack Creamery
Adirondack Creamery was launched in New York and sources local cream for their wide line of
ice cream flavors. Some of these flavors include Kulfi Pistachio Cardamom, Syrian Date and Walnut,
and Black Raspberry. They pride themselves on avoiding the use of additives and sell their products
in some grocery stores- although they also have overnight nationwide delivery if you are not a local
resident.
21. What is Baskin Robbins famous for?
A. A limited selection of flavors. B. Being highly accessible to people.
C. A variety of ice cream flavors. D. Being perfect for birthday parties.
22. What is special about So Delicious?
A. It is a brand providing free dairy. B. It is a brand making various milk.
C. It is a brand favored by milkman. D. It is a brand free of dairy products.
23. Where is Adirondack Creamery ice cream mainly sourced?
A. In New York. B. From Syria. C. All over the US. D. Internationally.
B
Growing up on the shores of Lake Huron in the Canadian province of Ontario, Robert Berdan
was never far from water. When he was in sixth grade, he received a toy microscope for Christmas.
Some of the first things he saw through its lens were tiny creatures inside droplets he'd gathered from
a local pond. He was fascinated with the microorganisms.
After eighth grade, Berdan upgraded to a more sophisticated model and realized it was a portal
to another world. The new microscope changed my life, he says. I could see so much more. He
begar studying photography and buying cameras to fit on his microscope. He captured images of
ferns, mushrooms, and trees, and learned how to develop film. He also developed his microscopy
skills so much so that he earned a doctoral degree in cellular biology and spent five years running a
lab at the University of Alberta in Edmonton.
But Berdan never forgot his two early passions - being immersed in nature and photographing
its tiny details - and he decided to return to them. His subjects range from snowflakes to spruce （）
trees. To see the latter under a microscope, Berdan collects, a small branch and wields specialized
tools to shave off paper-thin slices, which he dyes red or blue. For the final images, he often uses a
process: called focus stacking, in which similar photos with different focal planes are mixed together
to achieve a more profound depth of field, and he sometimes sews photos together to create views.
I investigate anything that might have possibilities, he says. And he encourages others to do the
same with a microscope. Any tool that amplifies our ability to see will enhance our creativity, h.
notes. Our observations can potentially lead to new discoveries and solutions.
24. What inspired Berdan to pursue his passion for microscopic photography?
A. Working in a cellular biology lab.
B. Earning a doctoral degree in cellular biology.
C. Tiny microscopes from a local pond.
D. Childhood experiences near Lake Huron.
25. What is the main idea of the second paragraph?
A. Berdan's childhood experience with microscopes.
B. Berdan's reason for studying for a doctoral degree.
C. Berdan's transition from amateur to professional.
D. Berdan's hard work of running a lab in Edmonton.
26. What does the underlined word amplifies mean in the last paragraph?
A. Expands. B. Decreases. C. Mixes. D. Changes.
27. What can be inferred about Berdan's skill in microscopic. photography?
A. He has received formal training in photography and microscopy.
B. He mainly focuses on capturing images of various microscopes. .
C. He experiments with different ways to enhance the depth of field.
D. He is the most skilled biologist in capturing mushrooms and trees.
C
Mutual cooperation in which humans cooperate with wild animals is extremely rare. One such
system involves the greater honeyguide, a small African bird that leads humans to sources of honey.
Once a nest is found, the human honey hunters break into it to obtain honey and bee worms, and the
birds benefit from consuming beeswax in the now-exposed honey comb. Both the birds and the
humans use specialized sounds to communicate their availability to participate in this cooperative
interaction.
The two areas studied by Spottiswoode and Wood are northern Mozambique, where the honey
hunters are from the Yao cultural group, and northern Tanzania, where the honey hunters are from
the Hadza culture. The Yao communicate with honeyguides using a short and high-pitched sound
followed by a low sound brrrrhm, whereas the Hadza use a melodic whistle. Thus, signal and
response both vary geographically.
Spotiswoode and Wood propose that the geographic variation they have identified in this
mutualism is the product of cultural codevelopment. To qualify as cultural, the cooperative behaviors
would have to be acquired through social learning from individuals of the same species. Social
learning, however, is less of a given on the honeyguide side. Instead, what is required of honeyguides
is another form of vocal learning - comprehension learning — in which the meaning of a signal is
learned. Comprehension learning is common in birds. Whether social learning is involved, however,
is not so, obvious.
Honeyguides put in considerable effort helping their human partners find food and are faithfully
rewarded by being given food in return. In some human cultures, honey hunters purposefully leave
out honeycomb to reward honeyeaters, but in others the hunters. go, to great length to deny the birds
any reward, by collecting, burying, or burning any honeycomb exposed when they destroy a nest.
The reason given for these acts is that keeping the birds hungry causes them to continue guiding.
A promising question for future research is whether geographic differences in human cultural
preferences for rewarding or not rewarding honeyguides affect the preferences of individual birds for
guiding versus taking advantage of the guiding of others.
28. What is the purpose of mentioning the two areas in Paragraph 2?
A. To show that honey hunting is very popular in their culture.
B. To explain that communication methods differ in geography.
C. To illustrate the differences between the Yao and the Hadza.
D. To show that birds can understand various human cultures.
29. Why do some hunters refuse to give honeyguides any prizes?
A. To let them realize human's power. B. To make them keep providing help.
C. To cause them to burn honeycomb. D. To use the honeycomb themselves.
30. What can be inferred about the relationship between humans and honeyguides?
A. Honeyguides have already had strong skills to learn from society.
B. Honeyguides have a genetic tendency to guide humans for honey.
C. Humans and honeyguides have a mutually beneficial relationship.
D. Human honey hunters will lose their jobs without honeyguides.
31. What is likely to be discussed in the following paragraph?
A. The impact of human cultural preferences on honeyguide behavior.
B. The further study on the cultural differences in human preferences.
C. The ecologically rewarding consequences of honeyguide behavior.
D. The influence of honeyguide behavior on human cultural practices.
D
The winning artworks from the first Young Botanical Artist Competition are appearing in an
exhibition at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew, London. The competition was open to young people
aged 16 to 25 and received more than 1, 000 entries from people in 77 countries.
Botanical art is a special type of drawing or painting that helps botanists describe plants and
fungi. It brings to life the tiniest details of grasses, flowers and trees, including their colour and shape,
and has been an important scientific tradition for hundreds of years. In fact, Kew Gardens, which is
264 years old and home to 50, 000 plants, has always had a botanical artist in its team.
The theme of the competition was trees, and the winner of the 16 to 18 age group was Marianna
Zych （aged 17） from Poland. Her entry, Prunus Serrula, shows the delicately peeling bark of the
Tibetan cherry tree, which Zych created with watercolours after just one month of painting classes.
The winner of the 19 to 25 category was Khanh Ly Nguyen from Vietnam, whose watercolour,
Bauhinia Variegata Leaf, reveals the clear details of an orchid tree leaf.
Both will appear in an exhibition of 50 artworks at the Shirley Sherwood Gallery at Kew
Gardens. All of the featured artworks were picked for their creativity and accuracy by a panel of
judges that included botanical artists from around the world. The exhibition runs until April 2024 and
visitors are also being asked to vote for the People's Choice award, which will be announced in April.
Maria Devaney, who manages galleries and exhibitions at Kew Gardens, said botanical art is
about inspiring curiosity and discovering the natural world. It's been wonderful to see such an
enthusiastic response to the competition as a whole, she said. Dr Shirley Sherwood, a writer and
botanist who collects plant pictures, said she was delighted to see first-hand the next generation of
talented botanical artists.
32. What can be inferred about Marianna from the third paragraph?
A. She has formally studied painting since childhood.
B. She is from Poland which is full of Tibetan trees.
C. She has limited experience in watercolor painting.
D. She is famous for revealing the details of tree leaves.
33. What is Shirley's attitude to the new generation of botanical artists?
A. Skeptical. B. Indifferent. C. Disappointed. D. Optimistic.
34. What would be an appropriate title for this article?
A. The Historical Significance of Botanical Illustration
B. Young Talents Blossom at the Royal Botanic Gardens
C. The Evolution of Botanical Art in Modern Times
D. Gardening Tips from the Experts at Kew Gardens
35. Where could this article most likely have been published?
A. On a fashion website. B. In a gardening magazine.
C. In an academic textbook. D. In a cooking review journal.
第二节（共 5 小题，每小题 2 分，满分 10 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。
In today's world, where the consequences of climate change are becoming increasingly evident,
the need for energy conservation has never been more pressing. 36 .
Use your laptop more than your desktop
Laptops use an average of 20 to 50 watts of electricity to run, whereas desktop computers use
an average of 60 to 200 watts of electricity to run. The reason for this is that laptops run off of battery
power and desktops are continuously plugged into a power source that drains energy.
37 . Not only does this help reduce your energy usage, but it also optimizes your laptop's
battery life to last longer.
Charge your phone in airplane mode and before bedtime
While charging, switch your phone to airplane mode, so that the phone does not slow down the
charging process by continually burning energy trying to connect with cell phone towers and plot
your location with its GPS function. When you switch to airplane mode your phone charges more
quickly.
The brighter the screen setting, the more power it uses and vibration uses more energy than a
ringtone. 38 , therefore less energy consumption. And remember-unplug your charger if not in
use!
Unplug mobile phone and laptop chargers
Always unplug electronics and appliances when not in use. 39 . When the power strip is left
on, the devices plugged into it continue to use energy and actually increase your energy usage. The
Northern Resources Defense Council found that devices in sleep or standby mode account for about
one- quarter of all residential energy consumption.
40
Reduce your carbon footprint by organizing your files and eliminating unnecessary data from
cloud storage! Companies offering cloud data storage need warehouses filled with servers running
nonstop. These data centers consume massive amounts of energy since they require AC systems to
avoid overheating.
A. Low Power Mode also saves battery life
B. Delete unwanted files from cloud storage
C. Saving energy is now easier with these tips from UNICEF
D. Therefore, energy conservation has never been more pressing
E. Unused electronic appliances may produce harm to the environment
F. Deenergization will save you energy, money, and can prevent electrical fires
G. Make sure to unplug your laptop from the power source once it's fully charged
第三部分：英语知识运用（共两节，满分 45 分）
第一节完形填空（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。
They don't call Vusi Sindane the crazy cyclist for nothing. The software engineer 41 a 3,
000 km bicycle journey in June, all to 42 money for 10, 000 pairs of school shoes for children in
need.
When he worked in Limpopo, he saw 43 the poverty faced by 44 kids. My biggest cause
s education, and when I saw barefoot children walking to school in Limpopo, I knew something had
to be lone, he says. He 45 with a non-profit organization which supplies school shoes to children
in 46 areas.
However, the pandemic 47 his plans to do his cross-country cycle in 2020 and 2021, and a
（n） 48 injury last year meant he could only get going in April this year. Prior to his 13 April
departure, he 49 his training with six weeks of 50 cycling with his mentor and training partner.
But Vusi quickly discovered that nothing could've 51 him for what he would encounter and have
to 52 . The first day was like a reality 53 . Although I'd been planning and considering this for
nearly six years, the reality is that there's 54 on the road, there's climbing, you must use your body