上海市格致中学2020-2021学年高一上学期期末英语试题

格致中学二〇二〇学年度第一学期期终考试

高一年级英语试卷

(测试100分钟内完成，总分100分)

I 卷

I. Listeningcomprehension (18%)

Section A

Directions:In Section A, you will hear ten short conversations between two speakers. At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. The conversations and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a conversation and the question about it, read the four possible answers on your paper, and decide which one is the best answer to the question you have heard.

1. A. 145 minutes B. 140 minutes C. 130 minutes D.160 minutes

2. A. In a bank B. In a hotel C. At a tourist agency D. In a supermarket

3. A. A travel agency clerk B. An office agency

C. An emergency room nurse

D. A hotel secretary

4. A. A manager B. A teacher C. A secretary D. A boss

5. A. Only four courses are offered next year.

B. Five courses may be too many.

C. It would be wise to take one more course.

D. A sensible decision must be made as soon as possible.

6. A. In a restaurant across the street. B. In a garden near the restaurant

C. In a driving club not far away

D. In a car on the way

7. A. Betty will start working in this company in four years.

B. Betty will be working in this company for at least four more years.

C. Betty began to work in this company more than four years ago.

D. Betty left her company less than four years ago.

8. A. David was too tired and depressed to study.

B. Davi d didn’t take the woman’s advice.

C. David didn’t do well in any of his exams.

D. David failed in his exam because he was depressed.

9. A. Lisa is still in the kitchen B. Lisa didn’t drive her car that day.

C. Lisa doesn’t like her new car

D. The key on the table was a special one.

10. A. The battery is not correctly positioned.

B. The woman doesn’t know how the calculator works.

C. The calculator needs a new battery to work properly.

D. The man should change some new batteries.

Section B

Directions:In Section B, you will hear two short passages and one conversation. You will be asked three questions on each of the passages and four questions for the conversation. The passages and conversation will be read twice, but the

questions will be spoken only once. When you hear a question, read the four possible answers on your paper and decide which one would be the best answer to the question you have heard.

Question 11 through 13 are based on the following passage.

11. A. His appearance B. His wealth C. His social position D. His height

12. A. They look at the monitors B. They look at other women

C. They look at senior people

D. They look at people next to them

13. A. Because others wo n’t notice them.

B. Because they can see others clearly.

C. Because they feel safe in the lift

D. Because they can talk with their friends in the lift.

Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage.

14. A. They regarded it as an important part of their life.

B. They regarded it as a burden.

C. They regarded it as a test of their romantic partners.

D They regarded it as a lucky thing in their life.

15. A. 6% B. 25% C.32% D.38%

16. A. It will harm a person’s self image.

B. It will harm a person’s work.

C. It will harm a person’s romantic relationship.

D. It will harm a person’s social life.

Question 17 through 20 are based on the following conversation.

17.A. To examine the imported food. B. To protect human health.

C. Its impose tax on food product.

D. To punish nature polluters.

18. A. Its harsh regulations. B. Its great power.

C. Its numerous labs.

D. Its new technologies.

19. A. Conducting research. B. Maintaining standard.

C. Carrying out standards.

D. Importing products.

20. A. Publicizing itself. B. Cooperating with other organizations

C. Creating new forms of energy

D. Increasing budget on research.

II. Grammar multiple choices: (10%)

1. The judges gave no hint of what they thought, so I left the room really ________.

A. to be worried

B. to worry

C. having worried

D. worried 【答案】D

【分析】

【详解】考查非谓语动词。句意：评委们没有透露他们的想法，所以我非常担心地离开了房间。根据句意可知，此处要用形容词worried修饰主语I，此处作的是主语补足语，该词用法为somebody be worried。故选D。

2. I cannot hear the professor clearly as there is too much noise ________ I am sitting.

A. before

B. until

C. unless

D. where 【答案】D

【分析】

【详解】考查状语从句。句意：我听不清那个教授在讲什么，因为在我现在坐的地方噪音太大。分析句意可知，本句为where引导的地点状语从句。故选D项。

3. An ecosystem consists of the living and nonliving things in an area ________ interact with one another.

A. that

B. where

C. who

D. what 【答案】A

【分析】

【详解】考查定语从句。句意：一个生态系统由一个区域内的可以相互作用的生物和非生物成的。根据句意可知，________ interact with one another是定语从句，修饰先行词the living and nonliving things，故排除what,what不能用于定语从句。在该定语从句中，interact 缺少主语，因此排除B项。That 既可以代指人，也可以代指物，who只能代指人，根据中的先行词是the living and nonliving things 是既有人又有物，因此只能选择A项。

4. The guidelines aim to hold back the growing practice of young children _____ in a way that pushes them beyond what children at their age should learn.

A. educated

B. to educate

C. being educated

D. educating

【答案】C

【详解】考查非谓语动词。句意：这些指导方针旨在抑制目前不断发展的迫使受教育儿童超前学习他们应学内容的教育方式。分析句子结构可知，句子的谓语为aim to，所以educate 在句中应使用非谓语形式。由句意可知“接受教育”与逻辑主语“children”之间为被动关系，所以应使用被动语态结构，结合“目前”可知是“正在接受教育的方式”，所以用非谓语动词中表示正在进行的被动语态结构being done 。故填being educated。

5. The gallery takes a cut of the artwork sold, with prices_______ from $1 to $100.

A. ranged

B. ranging

C. being ranged

D. range 【答案】B

【分析】

【详解】考查现在分词。句意：画廊从售出的艺术品中提成，价格从1美元到100美元不等。该句使用短语range from… to…，意为“范围从......到......不等”，分析句子成分可知，“with prices_______ from $1 to $100”为“with+宾语+宾补”复合结构，选项中所给核心词“range”与宾语prices之间为主动关系，故应用现在分词的主动形式，故选B。

6. _______ might be expected, I did what I could to make them feel at home.

A. What

B. It

C. Which

D. As

【答案】D

【分析】

【详解】考查非限制性定语从句的关系代词。句意：正如所预料的那样，我尽我所能让他们有家的感觉。分析句子可知，逗号前为定语从句，关系代词as引导非限制性定语从句，代指主句全部，在从句中作主语，从句可置于主句前，有“正如”之意。而which引导定语从句不可置于句首。故选D项。

7. Today, Britain is still a global power---- at least partly because of Queen Elizabeth II, _____ has passionately worked to strengthen ties between Britain and other global powers.

A. which

B. whom

C. who

D. that 【答案】C

【分析】

【详解】考查非限制性定语从句。句意：至少从部分意义来说，今天的英国因为伊丽莎白女王二世的存在仍就是一个世界大国，伊丽莎白二世一直热情地致力于加强英国和其他世界大国之间的联系。分析句子结构可知，逗号后面为非限制性定语从句，先行词为Queen Elizabeth II，从句中缺少主语，所以用who引导。故选C。

【点睛】

8. Bob looked so ridiculous that for a moment we didn’t know _______ we should take him seriously.

A. whether

B. that

C. what

D. how 【答案】A

【分析】

【详解】考查宾语从句。句意：鲍勃看上去很可笑，一时间我们都不知道该不该把他当回事。分析句子结构，“_____ we should take him seriously.”为宾语从句，从句不缺成分，结合语境，引导词有“是否”的含义，需用连接词whether引导。故选A。

9. A new study shows that ________ fathers and mothers spend almost equal time performing paid and unpaid work combined, mothers spend nine more hours per week multitasking than fathers. A. if B. when C. because D. while 【答案】D

【详解】考查让步状语从句。句意：一项新的研究表明，虽然父亲和母亲在从事有酬和无酬工作方面的时间几乎相等，但母亲每周比父亲多花9个小时的多任务处理。A. if如果；B. when 当……时候；C. because 因为；D. while尽管。分析句子可知，________ fathers and mothers spend almost equal time performing paid and unpaid work combined为让步状语从句，应使用while引导。故选D。

10. __________ by Smartphone’s high-quality built-in cameras and easy access to picture enhancing apps, “selfies” beco me a popular form of self -expression among social media users. A. Being made possible B. To make possible

C. Made possible

D. Making possible

【答案】C

【分析】

【详解】考查非谓语动词。句意：由于智能手机内置的高质量摄像头和图片增强应用程序的便捷，“自拍”成为社交媒体用户中流行的自我表达形式。分析句子可知，句子主语为“selfies”，非谓语动词make“使得”和主语之间是被动关系，所以应用其过去分词作状语，表原因，因和主语并无进行关系，排除A项。故选C项。

III. Vocabulary (7%)

从方框里选择合适的词语的填空。

Within half an hour of the annual Nov. 11 online shopping gala beginning at the stroke of midnight on Wednesday, the total ______11______ volume on Tmall alone exceeded 372.3 billion yuan ($56.4 billion), higher than a whole year’s revenue of Morgan Stanley or Golden Sachs.

Last year, the total _____12_____ for t he whole of the Singles’ Day shopping ev ent was 268.4 billion yuan. This year it took only 30 minutes for Tmall to achieve a sales volume that was 38 percent higher.

While that is partly a reflection of Chinese people finally releasing their consumption potential delayed as a result of the ____13____ prevention and control measures at the beginning of the year, it is also indicative of their _____14_____consumption power.

The event has set new sales records year after year. Now, 11 years after its birth, the Nov. 11 festival has surpassed its original role as a simple sales booster and promotional event for Tmall to become a powerful ____15____ of the national economy.

Data show that consumption is now the most powerful drivers of the national economy. It has ____16____China’s economy form negati ve to positive growth in the first three quarters of the year, despite the COVID-19 pandemic and the attendant economic headwinds and uncertainties.

Over the years, the event has also caught the attention of foreign companies ____17____the Chinese market. Such that although born in China, it is now a worldwide phenomenon. For example, during the pre-selling period from Oct 21 to 31, during which consumers could order the discounted goods they wanted in advance, Estee Lauder, L’Oreal, and Lancome were among the most popular brands for their skin care products.

Every year after the Singles’ Day, people ask each other: Did you participate in this year’s hundred billion yuan project? Every company selling and every person buying made contributions to the post pandemic recovery of the nation and the world.

【答案】11. F 12. B

13. G 14. H

15. D 16. C

17. A

本文是一篇新闻报道。文章讲述了2021年双十一购物节落下帷幕，今年的销售额比去年继续增加。这反映了由于年初的防疫措施，中国人终于释放出了被推迟的消费潜力，但这也表明他们的消费能力在不断增强。

【11题详解】

考查非谓语动词。句意：11月11日，一年一度的网络购物盛典在周三午夜敲响的半小时内拉开帷幕，仅天猫一家的采购总额就超过了3723亿元人民币（564亿美元），高于Morgan Stanley或Golden Sachs全年的收入。分析句子可知，空格处应为前置定语修饰名词volume，purchase是“购买”为动词，两者是主动关系，用现在分词purchasing作后置定语修饰volume，符合句意。故选F。

【12题详解】

考查名词。句意：去年，整个光棍节购物活动的消费总额为2684亿元。根据空格前的定冠词the和形容词total可知，此处需要填入名词。然后根据下文“268.4 billion yuan”可知，此处讲述的是消费总额。consumption是“消费”为名词，符合句意。故选B。

【13题详解】

考查形容词。句意：虽然这在一定程度上反映了由于年初的防疫措施，中国人终于释放出了被推迟的消费潜力，但这也表明他们的消费能力在不断增强。根据空格后的名词prevention(预防、防治)可知，此处需要填入形容词来修饰名词。epidemic是“流行病的”为形容词，符合句意。故选G。

【14题详解】

考查非谓语动词。句意见上一题。分析句子可知，空格处应为前置定语修饰名词consumption power，grow是“增长”为动词，与consumption power是主动关系。用现在分词growing 作前置定语修饰consumption power，符合句意。故选H。

【15题详解】

考查名词。句意：如今，11月11日这个节日已经诞生11年了，它已经超越了最初作为天猫销售助推器和促销活动的角色，成为国民经济的强大引擎。根据空格前的不定冠词a和形容词powerful(强有力的)可知，此处填入名词。engine是“引擎”为名词，符合句意。故选D。【16题详解】

考查动词。句意：它推动了中国经济在今年前三个季度从负增长转为正增长，尽管COVID-19流感大流行以及随之而来的经济不利因素和不确定性。分析句子结构可知，此处需要用动词

与空格前的has构成现在完成时。propel为“推动、驱动”为动词，符合句意。故选C。【17题详解】

考查非谓语动词。句意：多年来，这一事件也引起了关注中国市场的外国公司的注意。分析句子可知，空格处应为后置定语修饰前面名词foreign companies，eye是“注视、审视”为动词，两者是主动关系，所以用现在分词eyeing作后置定语修饰foreign companies，符合句意。故选A。

IV. Reading comprehension (37 %)

Section A (15%)

Directions: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.

I have just finished my 23rd year of teaching at universities. And there have been several

_____18_____ in the way students approach their classes. The most noticeable is that when I started teaching, students took notes in notebooks, but now every desk has a laptop on it when I give a lecture.

There seem to be a lot of obvious _____19_____ of taking notes on a computer. For one it is easy to save the notes in a place where you can _____20_____ them later. For another, you will be able to read your notes later especially if your handwriting is poor.

Before we go out and encourage every student to bring a laptop to class, ____21____, it is worth checking out a study by Pam Mueller and Danny Oppenheimer. They compared college students’ ____22____ in tests following exposure to material. The students were assigned either to take notes by hand or using a laptop.

In the first study, students took notes while watching a lecture. Then, they engaged in other activities for about 30 minutes. Finally, they were given a quiz about the lecture. The quiz contained factual questions as well as conceptual questions that required some ____23____ of the subject matter.

Students did about equally well on the factual question _____24_____ how they took notes. However, the students did much _____25_____ on the conceptual questions when they took notes by hand than when they took them using the laptop.

The experiments _____26_____the content of people’s notes to the lecture and found that when people typed their notes on a laptop, they were much more likely to _____27_____ what

people said directly rather than writing their impressions of it. That is, people writing out their notes had to think more _____28_____ about the content of what they heard than those people who were just typing.

Then, in the second study, the experiments told people using the laptops to take good notes rather than just taking down what they heard. Even when people were given these ______29______, they still had a greater tendency to type what they heard than people who were taking notes by hand. As before, the people who used the laptops did more poorly on a test of ______30______ knowledge than those who took notes by hand.

So there is real value in having to ______31______ the material in the process of taking notes. It is because handwriting is slow and ______32______ that people have to think more clearly about what they want to write down rather than copying down what is being said.

18. A. challenges B. changes C. problems D. projects

19. A. approaches B. benefits C. equivalents D. guidelines

20. A. find B. give C. take D. use

21. A. additionally B. finally C. otherwise D. though

22. A. confidence B. competition C. expectation D. performance

23. A. description B. experience C. understanding D. memorization

24. A. owing to B. regardless of C. in the form of D. in relation to

25. A. better B. faster C. more poorly D. more slowly

26. A. offered B. devoted C. led D. compared

27. A. copy B. remember C. summarize D. grasp

28. A. cheerfully B. positively C. deeply D. quickly

29. A. administrations B. foundations C. instructions D. restrictions

30. A. detailed B. experimental C. established D. conceptual

31. A. come across B. think about C. put away D. take down

32. A. effortful B. quiet C. steady D. casual 【答案】18. B 19. B 20. A 21. D 22. D 23. C 24. B 25. A 26. D 27. A 28. C 29. C 30. D 31. B 32. A

这是一篇议论文。文章通过介绍一项研究，对用笔记本电脑和用纸质笔记本做笔记进行了比较，谈论了各自的优点。

【18题详解】

考查名词词义辨析。句意：学生们上课的方式也发生了一些变化。A. challenges挑战；B. changes改变；C. problems问题；D. projects工程。根据后文“The most noticeable is that when I started teaching, students took notes in notebooks, but now every desk has a laptop on it when I give a lecture. ”可知，过去学生们在笔记本上做笔记，现在都有笔记本电脑了，所以指上课方式发生了变化。故选B项。

【19题详解】

考查名词词义辨析。句意：在电脑上做笔记似乎有很多明显的好处。A. approaches方式，方法；B. benefits利益，好处；C. equivalents等量；D. guidelines准则，指导方针。根据后文“For one, it is easy to save the notes in a place where you can _____3_____ them later. For another, you will be able to read your notes later especially if your handwriting is poor.”列举的用笔记本电脑做笔记的两大好处可知，因此推断这里指的是用笔记本电脑做笔记的好处。故选B项。【20题详解】

考查动词词义辨析。句意：首先，把笔记保存在一个以后可以找到的地方是很容易的。A. find 发现，找到；B. give给；C. take拿走；D. use用。根据电脑常识和本句句意可知，笔记本电脑很容易将笔记储存在一个容易找到的地方。故选A项。

【21题详解】

考查副词词义辨析。句意：在我们鼓励每个学生带笔记本电脑上课之前，我们有必要看看Pam Mueller 和Danny Oppenheimer 的一项研究。A. additionally另外；B. finally最后；C. otherwise否则；D. though不过，然而。上一段内容是讲述笔记本电脑做笔记的好处，再结

合后面介绍研究的结果，笔记本电脑做笔记并不是没有缺点，可知此处语义转折。故选D 项。

【22题详解】

考查名词词义辨析。句意：他们比较了大学生接触材料后在测试中的表现。A. confidence信心；B. competition竞赛；C. expectation期望；D. performance表现，演出，工作情况。根据本句后文“in tests following exposure to material.”可知，是指在测试中的表现。选项如“信心；竞赛；期望”不符合句意。故选D项。

【23题详解】

考查名词词义辨析。句意：测验包括事实问题以及需要对主题事项有一定理解的概念问题。

A. description描述；

B. experience经验，经历；

C. understanding理解；

D. memorization记忆。要回答概念性的问题，需要理解。故选C项。

【24题详解】

考查固定短语词义辨析。句意：不管学生如何记笔记，他们在事实性问题上的表现都差不多。

A. owing to由于；

B. regardless of不管；

C. in the form of以……形式；

D. in relation to关于。根据前文“Students did about equally well on the factual question”可知，此处表达为“不管”学生如何记笔记，合乎逻辑，符合句意。故选B项。

【25题详解】

考查副词比较级词义辨析。句意：然而，当学生手写笔记时，他们在概念性问题上的表现要比使用笔记本电脑时好得多。A. better更好地；B. faster更快地；C. more poorly更穷地；D. more slowly更慢地。根据前文“Students did about equally well on the factual question _____7_____ how they took notes.”可知，学生在事实性问题上的表现都差不多，转折词However说明在在概念性问题上有差别，根据后文“As before, the people who used the laptops did more poorly on a test of _____13_____ knowledge than those who took notes by hand. ”可知，用纸质笔记本做笔记的表现比用笔记本电脑的更好。故选A项。

【26题详解】

考查动词词义辨析。句意：实验将人们的笔记内容与演讲内容进行了比较，发现当人们在笔记本电脑上输入笔记时，他们更倾向于直接复制人们所说的内容，而不是写下他们对演讲的印象。A. offered提供；B. devoted奉献；C. led领导；D. compared比较。根据后文“when people typed their notes on a laptop, they were much more likely to ____10____ what people said directly rather than writing their impressions of it.”这个结论可知，是通过对笔记内容和演讲内容进行

比较而得到的。故选D项。

【27题详解】

考查动词词义辨析。句意：实验将人们的笔记内容与演讲内容进行了比较，发现当人们在笔记本电脑上输入笔记时，他们更倾向于直接复制人们所说的内容，而不是写下他们对演讲的印象。A. copy复制，照抄；B. remember记得；C. summarize总结，概括；D. grasp抓住，领会。根据后文“rather than writing their impressions of it”可以推测，他们不是写下自己的印象，而是直接复制演讲内容。根据后文“It is because handwriting is slow and _____15_____ that people have to think more clearly about what they want to write down rather than copying down what is being said.”可以验证，此处指直接“复制”。故选A项。

【28题详解】

考查副词词义辨析。句意：也就是说，写笔记的人必须比那些只是打字的人更深入地思考他们所听到的内容。A. cheerfully兴高采烈地；B. positively积极地；C. deeply深刻地；D. quickly 迅速地。根据前文“The experiments _____9___ the content of people’s notes to the lecture and found that when people typed their notes on a laptop, they were much more likely to ____10____ what people said directly rather than writing their impressions of it.”可知，笔记本电脑做笔记有些缺点，此句承接上句内容，讲述用纸质笔记本做笔记的好处，所以，此处应指能够更深入地思考。故选C项。

【29题详解】

考查名词词义辨析。句意：即使人们得到了这些指示，他们仍然比那些手写笔记的人更倾向于输入他们所听到的内容。A. administrations管理；B. foundations地基；C. instructions指示；

D. restrictions约束，限制。根据前文“Then, in the second study, the experiments told people using the laptops to take good notes rather than just taking down what they heard.”可知，实验给用笔记本电脑做笔记的人提出了指示，所以此处指人们得到这些指示后的表现。故选C项。【30题详解】

考查形容词词义辨析。句意：和以前一样，使用笔记本电脑的人在概念知识测试中的表现要比那些用手记笔记的人差。A. detailed详细的；B. experimental实验的；C. established建立的，确认的；D. conceptual概念的。根据前文“However, the students did much _____8_____ on the conceptual questions when they took notes by hand than when they took them using the laptop.”可知，此处指的是在概念知识测试中。故选D项。

【31题详解】

考查动词短语词义辨析。句意：因此，在做笔记的过程中，必须考虑材料是有真正的价值的。

A. come across偶遇；

B. think about考虑；

C. put away收起；

D. take down拿下。本段对实验结果做出评价总结，所以说在做笔记的过程中考虑用什么材料是有价值的。故选B项。【32题详解】

考查形容词词义辨析。句意：这是因为书写是缓慢和费力的，人们必须更清楚地思考他们想要写下什么，而不是复制什么正在说。A. effortful努力的，费力的；B. quiet安静的；C. steady 稳定的；D. casual临时的。根据后文“people have to think more clearly about what they want to write down rather than copying down what is being said”可知，人们必须更清楚地思考他们想要写下什么，这样做笔记，是缓慢并且费力的。故选A项。

Section B (22%)

Directions: Read the following four passages. Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage you have just read.

(A)

Notice: Medical Alert

Dear Reader,

Medical related emergencies are on the rise. More seniors are seeking an independent lifestyle and better quality of life. Over 1 in 3people over the age of 64 will fall this year. Nearly half will not be able to get up without support.

Medical expenses can escalate when a person is not given timely support. You can prevent a medical tragedy with our 24-hour emergency response system. Our solution is highly recommended bydoctors, healthcare professionals, and hospitals.

We are offering a FREE Medical Alert System to seniors or theirloved ones who call now. For a limited time, there will be no set-up fees and the medical monitoring starts at less than a dollar a day. The system is Top-ranked and easy-to-use. The pendant (挂件)is 100% waterproof and it can travel with you. Our new system can detect falls automatically.

Call Toll-free 1-800-360-0405 and gain peace of mind. There is no long-term contract. Our medical alert professionals can walk you through everything over the phone.

The first 100 callers to order will receive

●Free Medical Alert System ($300 value)

●24 Hours a Day/7 Days a Week LIVE Monitoring and Support

●Free Waterproof Necklace Pendant or Wristband

●No Long-term Contract

●Free Shipping (mention “Readers Digest”)

Don’t wait until after a fall to give us a call. Take advantage of this special offer now to protect yourself or a loved one.

Call Now Toll-free: 1-800-360-0405 and mention “Readers’ Digest”

Sincerely,

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President

MedicalAlertnow. com

33. Which of the following statements is true about the medical alert system?

A. The users of it will be given timely support on the phone.

B. All medical serious events can be avoided after using it.

C. Its service runs in the daytime and suspends at night.

D. People can buy it from hospitals at the same price.

34. Which of the following is included in an early bird deal?

A. No set-up fees.

B. Long-term contract.

C. Shipping fee discount.

D. A water-proof necklace.

35. This advertisement aims to ______________.

A. urge the government to cut medical expenses for seniors

B. provide advice to old people on how to prevent falls

C. alert people to the high risk of falls

D. promote a medical alert system.

36. Who might make a call after reading the advertisement?

A. a father who cares for his young daughter

B. a doctor who specializes in heart disease

C. a teacher who worries about his elderly father

D. a student who makes troubles at school

【答案】33. A 34. A 35. D 36. C

本文是一篇广告。本文介绍了Medical Alert （警报）系统，该系统对独居老人有帮助。

【33题详解】

细节理解题。根据第二段“Medical expenses can escalate when a person is not given timely support. You can prevent a medical tragedy with our 24-hour emergency response system. (如果一个人得不到及时的

支持，医疗费用可能会上升。您可以通过我们的24小时应急响应系统避免医疗悲剧。)”可知使用该系统可以及时获得电+话支持，所以A 项内容表达正确，故选A 项。

【34题详解】

细节理解题。根据第三段“We are offering a FREE Medical Alert System to seniors or their loved ones who call now. For a limited time, there will be no set-up fees and the medical monitoring starts at less than a dollar a day. (现在打电+话我们将提供一个免费的医疗警报系统给老年人或他们的亲人。在限定时间内，将不收取设置费用，医疗监测开始时每天不到一美元。)”可知，早订购该系统的优惠包括免除设置费用，故选A 项。

【35题详解】

推理判断题。根据第三段“We are offering a FREE Medical Alert System to seniors or their loved ones who call now. For a limited time, there will be no set-up fees and the medical monitoring starts at less than a dollar a day. (现在打电+话我们将提供一个免费的医疗警报系统给老年人或他们的亲人。在限定时间内，将不收取设置费用，医疗监测开始时每天不到一美元。)”以及第五段“The first 100 callers to order will receive(前100个订购者将获得……)”可知本文介绍了Medical Alert （警报）系统，给出了购买方式和购买优惠，由此可知本文旨在推销Medical Alert （警报）系统。故选D 项。

【36题详解】

推理判断题。根据第一段“Medical related emergencies are on the rise. More seniors are seeking an independent lifestyle and better quality of life. Over 1 in 3people over the age of 64 will fall this year. Nearly half will not be able to get up without support.(与医疗有关的紧急情况正在增加。越来越多的老年人正在寻求独立的生活方式和更好的生活质量。今年，超过三分之一的

64岁以上的人在家跌倒。将近一半的人没有人支持就站不起来。)”可知老人容易跌倒且不容易站起来，这样造成了许多的紧急情况，结合第三段“Our new system can detect falls automatically.(我们的新系统能自动侦测跌倒情况。)”和第二段“Medical expenses can escalate when a person is not given timely support. You can prevent a medical tragedy with our 24-hour emergency response system. (如果一个人得不到及时的支持，医疗费用可能会上升。您可以通过我们的24小时应急响应系统避免医疗悲剧。)”可知本文介绍的Medical Alert（警报）系统可以自动侦老年人测跌倒的情况，并及时做出响应，由此可知，担心年迈爸爸的教师读完这个广告会打电+话了解或订购Medical Alert（警报）系统，故选C项。

(B)

Welcome to Adventureland!

Everyone loves Adventureland! The Parks and Exhibitions were built for you to explore (探索), enjoy, and admire their wonders. Every visit will be an unforgettable experience. You will go away enriched, longing to come back. What are you going to do this time?

The Travel Pavilion

Explore places you have never been to before, and experience different ways of life. Visit the Amazon jungle (丛林) village, the Turkish market, the Tai floating market, the Berber mountain house and others. Talk to the people there who will tell you about their lives, and things they make. You can try making a carpet, making nets, fishing ...

The Future Tower

This exhibition shows how progress will touch our lives. It allows us to look into the future and explore the cities of th e next century and the way we’ll be living then. Spend some time in our space station and climb into our simulator (模拟装置) for the Journey to Mars! The Nature Park This is not really one park but several. In the Safari Park you can drive among African animals in one of our Range Cruisers: see lions, giraffes, elephants in the wild. Move on to the Ocean Park to watch the dolphins and whales. And then there is still the Aviary to see ...

The Pyramid

This is the center of Adventureland. Run out of film, need some postcards and stamps? For all these things and many more, visit our underground shopping center. Come here for information and ideas too.

37. The Travel Pavilion is built to help visitors ______.

A. realize the importance of travelling

B. become familiar with mountain countries

C. learn how to make things such as fishing nets

D. learn something about different places in the world

38. If you are interested in knowing about what people’s life will be, you may visit ______.

A. the Travel Pavilion

B. the Future Tower

C. the Safari Park

D. the Pyramid

39. If you want to get a toy lion to take home, where will you most likely go?

A. The Pyramid.

B. The Nature Park.

C. The Future Tower.

D. The Travel Pavilion.

【答案】37. D 38. B 39. A

本文是说明文，介绍了Adventureland包括的几部分景点及每部分的旅游特色。

【37题详解】

细节理解题。根据The Travel Pavilion中Explore places you have never been to before, and experience different ways of life.可知在The Travel Pavilion，你可以探索你从未去过的地方，体验不同的生活方式。故选D.

【38题详解】

细节理解题。根据The Future Tower中It allows us to look into the future and explore the cities of the next century and the way we‘ll be living then.可知在The Future Tower可以展望未来，探索下个世纪的城市以及我们将会如何生活。故选B.

【39题详解】

细节理解题。根据The Pyramid中Run out of film, need some postcards and and stamps? For all these things and many more, visit our underground shopping center.可知这里是购物中心，可以买到玩具狮子。故选A.

(C)

More than a decade ago, cognitive scientists John Bransford and Daniel Schwartz, both then at Vanderbilt University, found that what distinguished young adults from children was not the ability to retain facts or apply prior knowledge to a new situation but a quality they called “preparation for

future learning.” The researchers asked fifth graders and college students to create a recovery plan to protect bald eagles from extinction. Shockingly, the two groups came up with plans of similar quality (although the college students had better spelling skills). From the standpoint of a traditional educator, this outcome indicated that schooling had failed to help students think about ecosystems and extinction, major scientific ideas.

The researchers decided to go deeper, however. They asked both groups to generate questions about important issues needed to create recovery plans. On this task, they found large differences. College students focused on critical issues of interdependence between eagles and their habitats. Fifth graders tended to focus on features of individ ual eagles (“How big are they?” and “What do they eat?”). The college students had cultivated the ability to ask questions, the cornerstone (最重要部分)of critical thinking. They had learned how to learn.

Museums and other institutions of informal learning may be better suited to teach this skill than elementary and secondary schools. At the Exploratorium in San Francisco, we recently studied how learning to ask good questions can affect the quality of people's scientific inquiry. We found that when we taught p articipants to ask “What if?” and “How can?” questions that nobody present would know the answer to and that would spark exploration，they engaged in better inquiry at the next exhibit-asking more questions, performing more experiments and making better interpretations of their results. Specifically, their questions became more comprehensive at the new exhibit. Rather than merely asking about something they wanted to try，they tended to include both cause and effect in their question. Asking juicy questions appears to be a transferable skill for deepening collaborative inquiry into the science content found in exhibits.

This type of learning is not confined to museums or institutional settings. Informal learning environments tolerate failure better than schools. Perhaps many teachers have too little time to allow students to form and pursue their own questions and too much ground to cover in the curriculum. But people must acquire this skill somewhere, Our society depends on them being able to make critical decisions about their own medical treatment, say, or what we must do about global energy needs and demands. For that, we have an informal learning system that gives no grades, takes all comers，and is available even on holidays and weekends.

40. What is traditional educators interpretation of the research outcome mentioned in the first paragraph?

A. Students are not able to apply prior knowledge to new problems.

B. College students are no better than fifth grader in memorizing facts.

C. Education has not paid enough attention to major environmental issues.

D. Education has failed to lead students to think about major scientific ideas.

41. College students are different from children in that_____ ?

A. they have learned to think critically.

B. they are concerned about social issues.

C. they are curious about specific features.

D. they have learned to work independently.

42. What is the benefit of asking questions with no ready answers?

A. It arouses students’ interest in things around them.

B. It cultivates student s’ ability to make scientific inquiries.

C It trains students’ ability to design scientific experiments.

D. It helps students realize not every question has an answer.

43. At the end of the passage the author seems to encourage educators to ____.

A. train students to think about global issues

B. design more interactive classroom activities

C. make full use of informal learning resources

D. include collaborative inquiry in the curriculum

【答案】40. D 41. A 42. B 43. C

本文是一篇说明文，介绍了学校教育中存在的一个问题——未能引导学生思考主要的科学思想，作者认为教育工作者应该充分利用非正式学习资源来引导学生思考问题。

【40题详解】

细节理解题。根据第一段中的“From the standpoint of a traditional educator, this outcome indicated that schooling had failed to help students think about ecosystems and extinction, major scientific ideas”可知，从传统教育家的角度来看，这一结果表明，学校教育未能帮助学生思考生态系统和物种灭绝等重大科学问题，也就是说教育未能引导学生思考主要的科学思想，故答案为D。

【41题详解】

细节理解题。根据第二段中的“The college students had cultivated the ability to ask questions, the cornerstone (最重要部分)of critical thinking.”可知，大学生与孩子的不同之处在于他们更关注重要问题，懂得如何提问，具有批判性的思维，也就是说他们学会了批判性地思考问题，故答案为A。

【42题详解】

细节理解题。根据第三段中“and that would spark exploration”可知，问一些没有现成答案的问题能激发学生的探索精神，故答案为B。

【43题详解】

推理判断题。根据最后一段内容可知，整个最后一段作者都是在说非正式学习的好处，尤其根据最后一句话“For that, we have an informal learning system that gives no grades, takes all comers，and is available eve n on holidays and weekends.”可知，作者鼓励教育工作者充分利用非正式学习资源，故答案为C。

II 卷

I．Grammar（8%）

Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.

阅读下面短文，在空白处填入适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

Are You Sitting Comfortably?

The way that people sit in chairs is not just by chance. If you are sitting with your arms and legs swinging, it is probably a sign ___44___ you are relaxed and feeling comfortable. If you

____45____ (position) on the edge of the chair with your legs stretched before you and your feet crossed, it can signal lack of interest.

Here is an example: in a country where the rules of behavior in court were very strict, a witness in a trial sat as _____46_____ (describe) above, with one of his huge boots put on top of ___47___ , wearing a big coat and his arms crossed in front of his body. The judge said: “ Sit u p straight and take your coat off, ___48___I’ll hold you in contempt of court.” The man sat up straight in no time when he realized that he risked ____49____(fine).

When people go to the dentist or wait for a job interview, they might be seated on the edge of their chair with their feet together. If it’s a woman, she’ll probably be hugging her handbag. Body tension spreads and makes you feel short of breath. When you are in such a position, it is easy to lose