英语
本试题卷分为听力、阅读、语言运用和写作四个部分，共 10 页。时量 120 分钟。满分 150
分。
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. Where will Peter spend his vacation?
A. Beijing. B. Paris. C. New York.
2. What is the probable relationship between the speakers?
A. Roommates. B. Boss and secretary. C. Husband and wife.
3. What is the man’s problem?
A. He needs a ride. B. He needs a new job. C. He doesn’t have insurance.
4. What does the woman imply?
A. She doesn’t plan to continue studying next year.
B. She has already told the man about her plan.
C. She isn’t planning to leave her university.
5. Why does the man like realistic art?
A. It makes him relaxed. B. It’s easy to understand. C. It inspires imagination.
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。
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听第 6 段材料，回答第 6、7 题。
6. What does the woman like about the new design?
A. The red walls. B. The new piano. C. The new floor.
7. What does the man want to do at the end?
A. Have a meal. B. Repair the piano. C. Listen to live music.
听第 7 段材料，回答第 8、9 题。
8. What is the woman dissatisfied with?
A. The living room. B. The bedroom. C. The kitchen.
9. What does the man think of the living room?
A. New and modern. B. Small but well-furnished. C. Big and bright.
听第 8 段材料，回答第 10 至 12 题。
10. Why does Jack feel excited about the lecture?
A. He’ll get a book for free.
B. He is interested in the South Pole.
C. He admires the explorer very much.
11. Where will the speakers meet?
A. At the school gate. B. Near the station. C. In the lecture hall.
12. How will Jack get to Mandy’s school?
A. By bus. B. By subway. C. By bike.
听第 9 段材料，回答第 13 至 16 题。
13. What will the woman do on the computer?
A. Search for an article. B. Deal with some work. C. Purchase newspapers.
14. What do we know about Max?
A. He has mixed feelings now. B. He is admitted to a college. C. He is afraid of leaving home.
15. What is Roxanne White?
A. A consultant、 B. A professor. C. A journalist.
16. What will Max do?
A. Give a lecture. B. Visit a university. C. Meet Roxanne White.
听第 10 段材料，回答第 17 至 20 题。
17. What happened to Claire when she was six years old?
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A. Her mother left her. B. She lost her father. C. She lived with her aunt.
18. What did Claire have to do at 8?
A. Work on the farm. B. Make meals for the family. C. Go to school early.
19. How did Claire complete her high school?
A. By learning from farmers. B. By teaching herself. C. By going to night school.
20. How was Claire’s childhood?
A. Happy. B. Tough. C. Carefree.
第二部分 阅读（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
Volunteering has changed over these past few years and virtual volunteering is here for you to try! Find your
perfect remote opportunity by becoming a Sense Virtual Buddying volunteer.
The Role of a Virtual Buddy
Sense Virtual Buddying matches volunteers with disabled people who have similar interests to ensure you’ll
have lots of fun together. Once matched with a buddy, you will get to know each other remotely through video calls,
phone calls, texting, emails or letters. You’ll arrange weekly sessions and plan fun things to do together. You could
be playing games, doing arts and crafts, playing music, planting—there are so many possibilities! We will provide
you with weekly themed activities to help to support you in planning your interactions with your buddy.
What We Can Offer You
Before you start your volunteering role, we’ll make sure that you’ve had the training you need to feel confident.
This will be delivered online and through video calls. While you’re volunteering with us as a virtual buddy, you’ll
also get a written account of your volunteering and references ( if required), reimbursement (报销) of pre-agreed
expenses ( up to 25), and great opportunities to develop new skills and get to know new people while making a real
difference to a person’s life.
Who We Are Looking for
It is essential that volunteers should be good at expressing their ideas and feelings and passionate about assisting
people with complex disabilities to fit in with the world. And volunteers who have knowledge or experience of British
Sign Language will be prioritized. You don’t need to have previous experience of volunteering or nursing disabled
people.
If you have any questions regarding the role or would like some more information, please contact the
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volunteering team at volunteer@sense.org
1. What is a virtual buddy expected to do?
A. Evaluate weekly themed activities. B. Tend the disabled in person every week.
C. Match buddies based on similar interests. D. Interact with a matched buddy virtually.
2. What can Sense Virtual Buddying provide for their volunteers?
A. Free face-to-face job training. B. A chance to meet the sponsors.
C. A written record of volunteering. D. Reimbursement of travel expenses.
3. Which of the following is a must-have qualification to be a virtual buddy?
A. Mastering a foreign sign language. B. Being communicative and helpful.
C. Possessing prior volunteering experience. D. Having a good grasp of nursing the disabled.
B
Katalin Karik along with her colleague Drew Weissman won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in
2023 for the development of messenger RNA (mRNA) technology.
Karik was born in January 1955, in a small village in Hungary. She had an ambition from early on to become
a scientist. As a young adult, she became interested in mRNA, which carries DNA instructions to the protein-making
engine of cells. She hoped that mRNA could play a key role in the treatment of various diseases. It became her
mission to make her dream a reality to help cure patients. However, Karik faced a shortage of money for her research
in her country, and she then faced the choice of stop ping and doing something not connected to her mission or
continuing her research at the price of having to leave her country.
After searching for posts and scholarships worldwide Karik accepted an offer from Temple University in
,
Philadelphia for a postdoctoral fellowship. Karik and her husband gave up everything they had in their homeland
and bought a one-way ticket to the U. S., where they knew no one. She was aware of the risks but didn’t feel
discouraged. As she put it in an award acceptance speech, “Follow your dreams and don’t hesitate to learn anything
from anyone.”
She was initially on track to become a full professor but received repeated fund rejections. Undeterred by the
problems and challenges, she chose to continue her research. By focusing on what mattered to her every day, she
“accidentally” met her work partner Drew Weissman who was also interested in mRNA. They teamed up to work on
mRNA and published papers about their groundbreaking discovery for years. Then the pandemic hit the world. The
changed mRNA technology Karik and Weissman invented was then used in vaccines that prevented the infection
effectively.
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Karik’s life is a testament to finding one’s passion and then pursuing it every single day. Many of us know
what we are fond of, but we are not good self-motivators on a daily basis.
4. What can we learn about Karik from paragraph 2?
A. She had a clear sense of purpose. B. She was poor when she was young.
C. She was hesitant to leave her country. D. She longed to be a doctor to cure patients.
5. What does the underlined part “Undeterred by” in paragraph 4 probably mean?
A. Being afraid of. B. Not motivated by.
C. Being unaware of. D. Not discouraged by.
6. What is probably the main contribution of Karik?
A. Simplifying the mRNA technology. B. Making the structure of mRNA clear.
C. Laying the foundation for mRNA vaccines. D. Developing a vaccine for a serious disease.
7. What can we learn from Karik’s success?
A. Every minute counts. B. Two heads are better than one.
C. Where there’s a will, there’s a way. D. Necessity is the mother of invention.
C
Researchers have designed a hand-held device that can capture and change water molecules from the air into
drinkable water using only surrounding sunlight as its energy source.
This atmospheric water harvester used a material, known as a metal-organic framework (MOF). It can capture
water repeatedly in the hottest and driest place in North America, Death Valley National Park. The tests showed the
device could provide clean water anywhere, addressing an urgent problem, as climate change speeds up drought
conditions.
“Almost one-third of the world’s population lives in water-stressed areas. The UN predicts that almost 5 billion
people on our planet will experience some kind of water stress for a significant part of the year 2050,” said Omar
Yaghi. He is the Berkeley chemistry professor who invented MOFs and is leading this study. “This is quite relevant
to taking advantage of a new source for water.”
Other kinds of materials, such as salts or hydrogels, cannot operate in extreme weather conditions, in an energy-
efficient manner and with a high capacity all at once. The new MOF-powered harvesters can be an exceptionally
powerful tool to address water shortage issues related to anything from drinking water to agriculture. This technology
can also be used to secure pure water in areas where water is plentiful but not clean.
It’s also extremely efficient at harvesting water, releasing as drinking water 85 to 90 percent of the water it
captures as atmospheric vapor. It harvested up to 285 grams of water per kilogram of the metal-organic framework
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in a day, the amount of a cup of water. It’s also smaller than the earlier type but it is even more energy-efficient. It
produced 200 grams of clean water per square meter of water vapor, more than three times the water productivity
rate of the earlier type.
There will likely be further developments in efficiency and size for this device. Yaghi said he could see one day
the widespread adoption of household-based MOF-powered water harvesters, and community-scale water harvesters
with the help of data science and machine learning. Those could be in kitchens or even next to air conditioners to
supply homes with clean water for cooking and cleaning. Some companies are already working on this, he said.
8. What can we say about the new hand-held device?
A. It helps improve air quality.
B. It may solve water pollution.
C. It can run without additional power sources.
D. It is only suitable in the driest and hottest areas.
9. What does the author intend to do in the third paragraph?
A. To highlight the fact of water shortage.
B. To show the necessity of the harvester.
C. To advocate relieving efforts in water-stressed areas.
D. To warn against the harm caused by climate change.
10. How much water can we get using a harvester with two kilograms of the MOF daily?
A. About 400 grams. B. About 485 grams.
C. About 570 grams. D. About 360 grams.
11. Which of the following statements about the MOF-powered harvester may Yaghi agree with?
A. It will have huge market potential. B. It will function best in the kitchen.
C. It will be much cheaper in the future. D. It will help promote machine learning
D
Power often boosts an employee’s creativity because being powerful liberates the individual from restrictions.
However, new research shows that employees who are not in position s of power can become more creative when
given time to “warm up” by engaging in the creative tasks more than once.
“This is important because when people with more power are able to express their creative ideas more than those
with less power, it leads to rich-get-richer dynamics that strengthen these power imbalances,” said Brian Lucas, an
assistant professor at Cornell University. “Understanding ways to boost the creativity of lower-power workers can
help them find the right way to deal with this low-power disadvantage,” Lucas said.
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Lucas and his colleagues conducted three studies to reach their conclusion. In the first study, they divided the
creative idea generation session into two rounds: a one-minute “warm-up” followed by a second round in which the
participants could take as long as they wanted. Participants were randomly assigned to a high-power condition or a
low-power condition, and feelings of power were generated with a role manipulation (操纵) where participants were
given a leadership role with control over resources (high power) or an employee role with no control over resources
(low power). The study found that high-power individuals were more creative than low-power individuals in the
warm-up round. There was no difference, though, in creativity in the second round.
In the second study, the researchers gave them a different creative task and increased the number of rounds from
two to five, participants taking as long as they like to complete the task. Consistent with the first study, the study
found that high-power individuals were more creative than low-power individuals in the first round. But the creativity
of low-power individuals caught up with the creativity of the high-power individuals after the first round. Results of
the third study demonstrated that a different creativity task can also warm up low-power people for an unrelated
creativity task.
“Given the high value of creative ideas for organizations it is vital to develop approaches that empower all
,
employees to tap their creative potential,” Lucas said. “The low-power warm-up effect suggests a simple intervention
that empowers all employees to tap their creative potential and overcomes power imbalances in the workplace: when
pursuing creative work, let employees warm up first.”
12. Why does Lucas think it important to boost the creativity of lower-power workers?
A. It maintains power imbalances.
B. It motivates their ambition to catch up.
C. It creates a competitive work environment.
D. It encourages a workplace with more equality.
13. How did Lucas and his co-authors stimulate feelings of power in the participants?
A. Through a creative task with time limits.
B. Through providing them with different positions.
C. Through a competition between leaders and employees.
D. Through assigning them to different conditions intentionally.
14. What can describe the relationship between power and creativity according to the studies?
A. It’s fixed. B. It’s dynamic.
C. It’s unpredictable. D. It’s irrelevant.
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15. Which of the following is the best title for the text?
A. Higher power contributes to more creativity
B. Changing tasks boosts all the employees’ creativity
C. “Warm-up time” bridges creativity imbalances
D. Low-power individuals outperform the high-power ones
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。
Based on his own research at Washington University in St. Louis and other scientific studies, psychology
lecturer Bono offers the following tips for getting and staying happier in your life.
____16____ Looking forward to an enjoyable experience can make it all that much sweeter. Wait a couple of
days before seeing a new movie that just came out, plan your big vacation for later in the summer, and try to take
time to enjoy each bite of dessert. On the opposite, get negative tasks out of the way as quickly as possible — any
delay will only make them seem worse.
People who focus more on process than outcome tend to remain motivated in the face of setbacks. They’re better
at sticking with major challenges and prefer them over the easy route. ____17____ Because it celebrates rewards that
come from the work itself. Focusing only on the outcome can lead to premature burnout if things don’t go well.
____18____ Find an activity that allows you to get together with friends on a regular, ongoing basis. A weekly
happy hour, poker night, or TV show ensures consistency and motivation in your social interactions. People with
high-quality relationships are not only happier, but also healthier. ____19____
The next time you are attracted to use your phone to look through social media, look through your list of contacts
instead. ____20____ The happiness you get from a real connection with another person will be far greater than any
comments or likes you get on social media.
A. Anticipation itself is pleasurable.
B. Decrease unnecessary socializing.
C. Find someone to call or FaceTime.
D. This “growth mindset” helps people stay energized.
E. Facebook and Instagram often overstate how much better off others are.
F. Nothing is more important for our psychological health than high-quality friendships.
G. They recover from illnesses more quickly, live longer, and enjoy more enriched lives.
第三部分 语言运用（共两节，满分 30 分）
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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。
Hearing the Olympics were coming to Vancouver, I decided to go for its voluntary work. I’d forgotten what it
was like to put myself out there to make friends. I was glad I didn’t have anyone I knew with me because I wouldn’t
have met Callie ____21____ The memorable experience with her started a (n) ____22____, and I still keep in touch
with her.
Before the opening ceremonies, I was stationed outside the stadium to guide the audience. Accents from all over
____23____ my ears. The games seemed to ____24____ the whole world. Suddenly, I could see people running
towards the harbour. I turned to Callie, a co-worker for this event, “Isn’t that the way to the torch?” We looked at
each other and decided to have a look. My heart ____25____ as I dashed. The air seemed to be ____26____ with
everyone’s excitement, like a kind of electric energy pulsing through us. I’d never felt a (n) ____27____ like it before.
Then, fireworks exploded into the air above us. Their bright colors sparkled against the dark sky. I had ____28____
the lightning of the torch many times on TV, but to actually see it ____29____ was amazing. When the last of the
fireworks _____30_____, there stood the Olympic torch uncovered in all its _____31_____ with its flames shining
at the night sky.
Even now, I can still remember the heat from the torch. I had been one of the _____32_____ staff to walk
underneath it while it burned. A lighthouse of _____33_____ for the future. I stood for a moment right under it,
listening to the _____34_____ voice of my new friend, and I knew I’d made one of the best _____35_____ of my
life.
21. A. otherwise B. therefore C. though D. instead
22. A. conversation B. cooperation C. friendship D. adventure
23. A. blocked B. filled C. struck D. awoke
24. A. unite B. rebuild C. change D. dominate
25. A. flipped B. pounded C. sank D. ached
26. A. charged B. engaged C. connected D. furnished
27. A. incident B. impact C. atmosphere D. challenge
28. A. sighted B. ignored C. investigated D. identified
29. A. in place B. in turn C. in particular D. in person
30. A. put up B. died down C. came out D. passed by
31. A. power B. reputation C. glory D. faith
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32. A. permanent B. professional C. reliable D. fortunate
33. A. view B. hope C. appeal D. aim
34. A. excited B. determined C. convincing D. astonishing
35. A. contributions B. conclusions C. resolutions D. evaluations
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。
Say hello to Marley Dias—this 13-year-old is getting ____36____ (notice) all over the world. She’s been named
by Forbes as the youngest person on their list of ____37____ (influence) individuals under 30.
Growing up, Marley always enjoyed reading. However, a simple yet powerful frustration—the lack of books
____38____ (feature) black girls in her school depressed her. She felt that the books she read should be diverse and
____39____ they should reflect who she was.
Determined to see literature reflect her own identity and experiences, Marley decided to call on people
____40____ (donate) one thousand books ____41____ black girls are front and center so as to share them with
schools and libraries in the U. S.
When she was 11, she started a campaign called1000blackgirlbooks. What started as a personal endeavor
quickly blossomed ____42____ a nationwide movement. Up to now, she ____43____ (collect) over 9,000 books in
total.
Next year she will publish a book she wrote herself called Marley Dias Gets It Done—And So Can You. When
she told her mother about her frustration, her mum suggested she ____44____ (do) something about it. In this
upcoming book, she continues to inspire a generation to embrace _____45_____ (diverse), extend marginalized
voices, and strive for a more inclusive future.
第四部分 写作（共两节，满分 40 分）
第一节（满分 15 分）
46. 假定你是李华，刚刚结束在英国为期三个月的语言培训课程，并返回国内。请给你在英国的老师 Mrs.
Brown 写一封邮件表示感谢。
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；
3. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
Dear Mrs. Brown,
____________________________________________________________________________________________
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