2021 届宁德市普通高中毕业班第三次质量检查
英语试题
注意事项：
1. 答题前，考生先将自己的姓名、准考证号码填写清楚，将条形码准确粘贴在条
形码区域内。
2. 选择题必须用 2B 铅笔填涂：非选择题必须用 0. 5 毫米黑色字迹的签字笔书写，
字体工整、笔迹清楚。
3. 请按照题号顺序在各题目的答题区域内作答，超出答题区域书写的答案无效；
在草稿纸、试卷上答题无效。
4. 考生必须保持答题卡的整洁，不要折叠、不要弄破、弄皱，不使用涂改液、修
正带、刮纸刀。
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，并标在试卷的相应位置。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。
1. What are the speakers talking about?
A. A national park. B. A famous man in history. C. Their plans
for a trip.
2. Where is the man probably going to work?
A. In a bank. B. At a barbershop. C. At a clothing
store.
3. What does the woman advise the man to do?
A. Wear a suit. B. Dress casually. C. Buy a new
suit.
4. Why is the man not ready to rent the apartment?
A. He doesn't like it.
B. It's too close to the station.
C He doesn't know if his wife will like it.
5. When will the taxi pick the speakers up?
A. At 11: 00 p. m. B. At 5: 00 a. m. C. At 7: 00 a.
m.
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，并标在试卷的相应位置。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 段对话，回答第 6 至 7 题。
6. Who is Mary?
A. Carl's baby . B. Carl's wife. C. Carl's neighbor.
7. How did Carl deal with the incident last night?
A. By ending the party. B. By calling the police. C. By talking to
the neighbors.
听第 7 段对话，回答第 8 至 10 题。
8. What do the speakers want to do on the weekend?
A. Stay at home. B. See a movie. C. Go to the
beach.
9. What will the weather be like according to the weather forecast?
A. Cold. B. Warm. C. Hot.
10. What do the speakers think of the weather in California?
A. It is changeable. B. It is predictable. C. It is comfortable.
听第 8 段对话，回答第 11 至 13 题。
11. What do the speakers want to do?
A. Take language courses B. Edit their papers. C. Practise
languages.
12. What does the woman want to learn?
A. Written Chinese. B. English writing. C. Spoken Chinese.
13. When will they probably meet?
A. On Monday morning. B. On Monday afternoon. C. On Monday
evening.
听第 9 段对话，回答第 14 至 16 题。
14. Why is the woman sad?
A. The man is leaving.
B. She heard some bad news.
C. The man wants the woman to leave.
15. What is the probable relationship between the speakers?
A. Brother and sister. B. Mother and son. C. Uncle and
niece.
16. How does the man feel about his future?
A. Worried. B. Optimistic. C. Confused.
听第 10 段材料，回答第 17 至 20 题。
17. How many solar terns were used in the Shang Dynasty?
A. 4. B. 8. C. 24.
18. Why were the 24 solar terms created?
A. To record changes in human life. B. To guide farming activities. C. To show the
sun's position.
19. What was the tradition to celebrate, the Beginning of Summer?
A. Eating dumplings. B. Eating cold food. C. Drinking tea.
20. What was forbidden to do on Cold Food Festival ?
A. Cooking food. B. Eating out. C. Celebrating a
harvest.
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）
阅读下列四篇短文，从短文后每题所给的 A、B、C 和 D 四个选项中，选出最佳
选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A
From the Great Market Hall to the Gellért Hotel and Baths, these architectural notables are
must-sees while you’re in Hungary.
Great Market Hall
Close by the River Danube in Budapest is one of Europe's liveliest 19th-century market halls.
Designed by a group of architects led by Samu Petz and completed in 1897, the Great Market Hall
has a facade featuring patterned brickwork around a large main window and four smaller ones. At
each end of the facade is a small tower.
Dohány Street Synagogue
In 1844 the Neolog Jewish community of Pest acquired a site at Dohány Street to build a new
synagogue for its community of about 30,000 members and to celebrate their religious festivals. The
architect chosen was German-born Ludwig Förster, whose Moorish synagogue in Leopoldtstadt,
Vienna, was being built at the time. This building in Budapest measures approximately 173 by 87
feet.
Gellért Hotel and Baths
The Gellért Hotel and Baths, completed in 1918, faces Liberty Bridge at the foot of Gellérthegy
Hill in Buda. The hill has long been known for its hot springs. Budapest is a city of spas, and the
Gellért Hotel and Baths is by far the grandest. Thirteen springs feed thermal pools inside delicately
decorated spa baths built in the Magyaros National Romantic style of Ödön Lechner, who influenced
a generation of Hungarian architects.
1. What is Dohány Street Synagogue?
A. A street. B. A community. C. A church. D. A hotel.
2. What do we know about Gellért Hotel and Baths?
A. It is famous for spa baths. B. It was designed by Lechner.
C. It has thirteen thermal pools. D. It lies at the foot of Liberty Bridge.
3. What do three buildings have in common?
A. They are of Romantic styles. B. They are located in Budapest.
C. They were built by Hungarian architects. D. They were completed in the19th
century.
B
Sophia Gholz is an award-winning children's book author, music lover. and magic seeker.
Sophia enjoys writing fiction with humor and heart. When writing nonfiction, she pulls on her love
of science and her family background in ecology.
Her book, The Boy Who Grew a Forest, shares the true story of Jadav Payeng, a man in India
who single- bandedly planted an entire forest over the course of his lifetime. When he was younger,
Jadav Payeng was shocked by the destruction of his island home. So he took matters into his own
bands and began planting one seed at a time. Jadav's forest is now over 1300 acres and provides a
home to many animals, some endangered. Jadav is still planting today and his hard work has now
been celebrated around the world.
To write this story, Sophia got to know more about Jadav Payeng and his forest through a
documentary film called Forest Man. Influenced by her father, a forest ecologist and a scientist, she
grew up learning about the importance of trees and the natural world. When she heard about a man
on a m1ssion to reforest an entire island on his own, she was drawn to this story.
As for research, most of her research was done online. She read every news article that she
could find about Jadav and listened to every interview. Then she reached out to several people who
had met or interviewed Jadav as well, including the producer of his short documentary film.
She hopes that The Boy Who Grew a Forest lights a spark in everyone who reads it to go out
and care for our beautiful planet. She'd love young readers to be inspired to plant or to learn more
about animal habitats, biodiversity and science in general.
4. What is the second paragraph mainly about?
A. A story on how to plant trees. B. Endangered animals in the forest.
C. Destruction of Jadav's island home. D. A book introducing a tree- planting
hero.
5. What do we know about Jadav Payeng ?
A. He has quit planting recently. B. He is known to many people. .
C. He was an actor of Forest Man. D. He planted trees with his family.
6. Which words can best describe Jadav Payeng?
A. Humorous and skilled. B. Creative and outgoing.
C. Determined and diligent. D. Controversia1 and helpful.
7. What's the purpose of writing The Boy Who Grew a Forest?
A. To encourage research on wildlife. B. To describe a boy's farming experience.
C. To stress the importance of planting trees. D. To advocate the action to protect the
earth.
C
The first wave of a new class of anti-aging drugs have begun human testing. These drugs won't
let you live longer but aim to treat specific illnesses by slowing a fundamental process of aging.
The drugs are called senolytics—they work by removing certain cells that accumulate as we age.
Known as “senescent” cells, they can create low-level inflammation (炎症) that prevents normal
systems of living cells repair and creates a poisonous environment for neighboring cells.
In June, San Francisco - based Unity Biotechnology reported initial results in patients with mild
to severe osteoarthritis (关节炎) of the knee. Results from a larger clinical trial are expected in the
second half of this year. The company is also developing similar drugs to treat age-related diseases
of the eyes and lungs, among other conditions.
Senolytics are now in human tests, along with a number of other promising approaches
targeting the biological processes that lie at the root of aging and various diseases.
A company called Alkahest injects patients with components found in young people's blood and
says it hopes to stop conscious and functional decline in patients suffering from mild to moderate
Alzheimer's disease. The company also has drugs for Parkinson's and dementia in human testing.
And in December, researchers at Drexel University College of Medicine even tried to see if a
cream including the immune-suppressing drug could slow aging in human skin.
The tests reflect researchers' expanding efforts to learn if the many diseases associated with
getting older- such as heart diseases, arthritis, cancer, and dementia- can be dealt with to delay their
outbreak.
8. Why do the researchers develop the drugs?
A. To rid inflammation. B. To lengthen people's life.
C. To treat age-related diseases. D. To remove cancer cells.
9. What does the underlined word “senescent” in paragraph 2 probably mean?
A. Repairing. B. Cycling. C. Aging. D. Dividing.
10. How does the text mainly develop?
A. By listing data B. By providing details.
C. By making comparisons. D. By analyzing causes.
11. Where is this text most likely from?
A. A diary. B. A guidebook. C. A novel. D. A
magazine.
D
Just as a hungry brain craves (渴望) food, a lonely brain craves people. A new brain study
demonstrates this. After being left alone, it shows people's brains would be activated at the sight of
other people. The action was in the same brain region that speeds up when a hungry person sees
food.
Livia Tomova, a neuroscientist, who studies how the brain produces mental activities, and her
colleagues began this study. They recruited (招募) 40 people. On one day, the participants had to
fast—not eat anything at all—for 10 hours. On another day, the same people were placed in a room
for 10 hours. They couldn't see anyone. No friends, no family and no social media. They weren't
even allowed to check their email. After both days, Tomova and her colleagues put the people in a
MRI machine. It shows activity in the brain by tracking how much blood is flowing to each region.
At the end of each day, the participants showed high activity in a brain area called the midbrain.
The scientists were interested in two, small areas within it. Both areas produce dopamine, a chemical
that is important in craving and rewards. The two areas activated when hungry participants saw
pictures of tasty pizza or juicy hamburgers. After the volunteers had been isolated, those brain areas
became active when they saw social activities they missed. It might be playing sports or chatting
with friends.
The midbrain plays an important part in people's motivation to seek food or friends. In fact, it
responds to food and social signals even when people aren't hungry or lonely. But hunger and
loneliness increased the reactions and made people's responses specific to the thing they were
missing. And the more hunger or isolation the volunteers said they were experiencing, the stronger
the activity in this part of the brain. Tomova and her colleagues published their results November 23
in Nature Neuroscience.
12. How does Tomova test out the result of the study?
A. By stimulating desire. B. By controlling blood flow.
C. By monitoring brain activity. D. By examining mental activities.
13. What do we know about midbrain?
A. It consists of two areas. B. It helps motivate desire for food.
C. It stops working when people are full. D. It decreases responses to lost friends.
14. What does the underlined “it” in paragraph 3 refer to?
A. A midbrain area. B. A social activity. C. A volunteer. D. A
hamburger.
15. What can be the best title for the text?
A. Dopamine—a Sure Sign of Age B. Midbrain—a Nest for the Thoughts
C. Hunger Makes Mental Health Struggle D. Loneliness Makes Our Brains Need
People
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能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项
为多余选项。
According to personal development author and blogger Steve Pavlina, there are supports for
self-discipline. ___16___
Acceptance
Acceptance means that you look at your life and assess yourself in regards to self-discipline
____17____ Do you keep your desk and work environment clean and neat? Do you get adequate
exercise? Once we get to know ourselves, we can make a proper plan to improve our self-discipline.
Persistence
Persistence doesn't mean you. have to stick to your goals for decades ____18____ But when
you have a clear vision and plan how to get there you must keep pushing hard. Persistence (坚持)
will create its own positive cycle. Working hard on your goals, you'll start to see results. These
results will give you more motivation to keep working to create more results that will give you even
more motivation.
Hard work
____19____ You might get lucky once in a while but hard work is a must for lasting success.
Hard work is a work that challenges you, both physically and mentally. It makes you grow. as you
constantly push to the limits and expand yourself. Develop bard work and you will improve your
self-discipline.
Willpower
Willpower allows us to break through our comfort zone and make gradual improvement in our
life necessary to change it for the better. ____20____ For example, when going on a diet, you
manage to stick with it a few days and then you go back to eating the old ways. That's why it's
important to use our willpower strategically, setting our environment in a way that requires the least
amount of willpower.
A. People also change their goals.
B. Let's take a look at some of them.
C. It doesn't mean the same as hard work.
D. It might be fine with just going with the flow.
E. You must realize that there is no straight path to success.
F. It's best to identify your weakest areas and strongest one.
G. But the problem is that we only have a limited amount of it.
第三部分 英语知识运用 （共两节，满分 30 分）
第一节 完形填空（共 15 小题；每小题 1 分，满分 15 分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C 和 D）中，选出可以填
入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
When I was a kid, I would ask my mom why she and my father had to work. She would always
tell me that they had to, so we could ____21____ to buy food, to pay for the bills, or to pay for our
schooling. Although they were ____22____ at the office 5 days a week, they still ____23____ time
to look after us and teach us our lessons in the evening. They didn't ____24____ us to seek after
honors, but we were motivated enough to study hard. It was our ____25____ of repaying our parents
who never complained about working.
My parents taught me that one has to work in order to live a good life. They ____26____ ,
however, that this should not be taken/ as having to ____27____ just to work! They said that work
should not ____28____ one's whole existence. And this was their life ____29____ . At the end of the
work day, they would leave all their problems _____30_____ to work in the office so that at home
they could be devoted to us 100%, no _____31_____ . I must say that I agree with them.
There's nothing wrong with _____32_____ at work. Keep in mind that your _____33_____ is
your loved ones and not your work. Everybody _____34_____ to be happy and I hope that everyone
grows old without any _____35_____ in life.
21. A. desire B. offer C. promise D. afford
22. A. cautious B. busy C. tense D.
comfortable
23. A. changed B. spared C. killed D. increased
24. A. permit B. remind C. warn D. pressure
25. A. cause B. trick C. way D. habit
26. A. understood B. ignored C. stressed D. recalled
27. A. dream B. tolerate C. play D. live
28. A. occupy B. threaten C. confirm D. prove
29. A. quality B. philosophy C. ability D.
psychology
30. A. related B. introduced C. compared D. applied
31. A. heavier B. higher C. sadder D. less
32. A. joking B. wandering C. struggling D. arguing
33. A. loss B. strength C. priority D. wisdom
34. A. deserves B. seems C. fails D. pretends
35. A. doubt B. regret C. mistake D. hesitation
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。
During Chinese New Year, money is put inside red envelopes which are then handed out to
___36___ (young) generations by their parents, grandparents, relatives and even close neighbors and
friends. At some ___37___ (company), workers may also receive a year-end cash bonus ___38___
(fold) inside a red envelope. Red envelopes are also popular gifts for birthdays and weddings. Red
symbolizes luck and good fortune in Chinese culture. That is ___39___ red envelopes are used
during Chinese New Year ___40___ other celebratory events.
The receiver of a red envelope at Chinese New Year or on his or her birthday should not open it
in front of the ___41___ (give). However, the procedure is different at Chinese weddings, where
there is a table at ___42___ entrance of the wedding reception where guests give their red envelopes
to attendants and sign their names on a large scroll. They will ___43___ (immediate) open the
envelope, count the money inside, and record it on a register next ___44___ the guests' names.
The money inside a red envelope should always be new and crisp. Folding the money or giving
dirty or wrinkled bills is in bad taste. Coins and checks ____45____ (avoid) the former because
change is not worth much and the latter because checks are not widely used in Asia.
第四部分 写作（共两节，满分 40 分）
第一节 应用文写作（满分 15 分）
46. 假如你是李华，请写一份以“爱护眼睛”为主题的倡议书，在学校英语报上发表。内容包
括：
1. 不良的用眼习惯；
2. 爱护眼睛的意义；
3. 提出合理的倡议。
注意： 1 词数 80 左右；
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Dear fellow students,
________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________
________________________
Li Hua
第二节 读后续写（满分 25 分）
47. 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。
One evening a middle-aged lady was walking down the street when she noticed an old beggar
sitting on the corner. The man was elderly, unshaven, and ragged. As he sat there, pedestrians walked
by him giving him dirty looks. They clearly wanted nothing to do with him because of who he was -
a dirty, homeless man. But when she saw him, the woman was moved to sympathy.
It was very cold that day and the man had his torn coat - more like an old suit coat rather than a
warm coat - wrapped around him. She stopped and looked down. “Sir?” she asked. “Are you all
right?”
The man slowly looked up. This was a woman clearly accustomed to the finer things of life.
Her coat was new. She looked like that she had never missed a meal in her life. His first thought was
that she wanted to make fun of him, like so many others had done before. “Leave me alone,” he
shouted.
To his amazement, the woman continued standing. She was smiling - her even white teeth
displayed in extremely bright rows. “Are you hungry?” she asked.
“No,” he answered ironically. “I've just come from dining with the president. Now go away.”
The woman's smile became even broader. Suddenly the man felt a gentle hand under his arm.
“What are you doing, lady?” the man asked angrily. “I said to leave me alone.”
Just then a policeman came up. “Is there any problem, ma'am?” he asked.
“No problem here, officer,” the woman answered. “I'm just trying to get this man to his feet.
Will you help me?”
The officer scratched his head. “That's old Jack. He's been a fixture around here for a couple of
years. What do you want with him?”
“See that cafeteria over there?”she asked. “I'm going to get him something to eat and get him
out of the cold for a while.”
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。
“Are you crazy, lady?” the homeless man resisted.
________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________
________________________
She stared at him carefully. “Jack, do you remember me?”
________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________
________________________
2021 届宁德市普通高中毕业班第三次质量检查
英语试题 答案版
注意事项：
1. 答题前，考生先将自己的姓名、准考证号码填写清楚，将条形码准确粘贴在条
形码区域内。
2. 选择题必须用 2B 铅笔填涂：非选择题必须用 0. 5 毫米黑色字迹的签字笔书写，
字体工整、笔迹清楚。
3. 请按照题号顺序在各题目的答题区域内作答，超出答题区域书写的答案无效；
在草稿纸、试卷上答题无效。
4. 考生必须保持答题卡的整洁，不要折叠、不要弄破、弄皱，不使用涂改液、修
正带、刮纸刀。
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，并标在试卷的相应位置。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。
1. What are the speakers talking about?
A. A national park. B. A famous man in history. C. Their plans
for a trip.
2. Where is the man probably going to work?
A. In a bank. B. At a barbershop. C. At a clothing
store.
3. What does the woman advise the man to do?
A. Wear a suit. B. Dress casually. C. Buy a new
suit.
4. Why is the man not ready to rent the apartment?
A. He doesn't like it.
B. It's too close to the station.
C He doesn't know if his wife will like it.
5. When will the taxi pick the speakers up?
A. At 11: 00 p. m. B. At 5: 00 a. m. C. At 7: 00 a.
m.
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，并标在试卷的相应位置。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 段对话，回答第 6 至 7 题。
6. Who is Mary?
A. Carl's baby . B. Carl's wife. C. Carl's neighbor.
7. How did Carl deal with the incident last night?
A. By ending the party. B. By calling the police. C. By talking to
the neighbors.
听第 7 段对话，回答第 8 至 10 题。
8. What do the speakers want to do on the weekend?
A. Stay at home. B. See a movie. C. Go to the
beach.
9. What will the weather be like according to the weather forecast?
A. Cold. B. Warm. C. Hot.
10. What do the speakers think of the weather in California?
A. It is changeable. B. It is predictable. C. It is comfortable.
听第 8 段对话，回答第 11 至 13 题。
11. What do the speakers want to do?
A. Take language courses B. Edit their papers. C. Practise
languages.
12. What does the woman want to learn?
A. Written Chinese. B. English writing. C. Spoken Chinese.
13. When will they probably meet?
A. On Monday morning. B. On Monday afternoon. C. On Monday
evening.
听第 9 段对话，回答第 14 至 16 题。
14. Why is the woman sad?
A. The man is leaving.
B. She heard some bad news.
C. The man wants the woman to leave.
15. What is the probable relationship between the speakers?
A. Brother and sister. B. Mother and son. C. Uncle and
niece.
16. How does the man feel about his future?
A. Worried. B. Optimistic. C. Confused.
听第 10 段材料，回答第 17 至 20 题。
17. How many solar terns were used in the Shang Dynasty?
A. 4. B. 8. C. 24.
18. Why were the 24 solar terms created?
A. To record changes in human life. B. To guide farming activities. C. To show the
sun's position.
19. What was the tradition to celebrate, the Beginning of Summer?
A. Eating dumplings. B. Eating cold food. C. Drinking tea.
20. What was forbidden to do on Cold Food Festival ?
A. Cooking food. B. Eating out. C. Celebrating a
harvest.
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）
阅读下列四篇短文，从短文后每题所给的 A、B、C 和 D 四个选项中，选出最佳
选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A
From the Great Market Hall to the Gellért Hotel and Baths, these architectural notables are
must-sees while you’re in Hungary.
Great Market Hall
Close by the River Danube in Budapest is one of Europe's liveliest 19th-century market halls.
Designed by a group of architects led by Samu Petz and completed in 1897, the Great Market Hall
has a facade featuring patterned brickwork around a large main window and four smaller ones. At
each end of the facade is a small tower.
Dohány Street Synagogue
In 1844 the Neolog Jewish community of Pest acquired a site at Dohány Street to build a new
synagogue for its community of about 30,000 members and to celebrate their religious festivals. The
architect chosen was German-born Ludwig Förster, whose Moorish synagogue in Leopoldtstadt,
Vienna, was being built at the time. This building in Budapest measures approximately 173 by 87
feet.
Gellért Hotel and Baths
The Gellért Hotel and Baths, completed in 1918, faces Liberty Bridge at the foot of Gellérthegy
Hill in Buda. The hill has long been known for its hot springs. Budapest is a city of spas, and the
Gellért Hotel and Baths is by far the grandest. Thirteen springs feed thermal pools inside delicately
decorated spa baths built in the Magyaros National Romantic style of Ödön Lechner, who influenced
a generation of Hungarian architects.
1. What is Dohány Street Synagogue?
A. A street. B. A community. C. A church. D. A hotel.
2. What do we know about Gellért Hotel and Baths?
A. It is famous for spa baths. B. It was designed by Lechner.
C. It has thirteen thermal pools. D. It lies at the foot of Liberty Bridge.
3. What do three buildings have in common?
A. They are of Romantic styles. B. They are located in Budapest.
C. They were built by Hungarian architects. D. They were completed in the19th
century.
【答案】1. C 2. A 3. B
B
Sophia Gholz is an award-winning children's book author, music lover. and magic seeker.
Sophia enjoys writing fiction with humor and heart. When writing nonfiction, she pulls on her love
of science and her family background in ecology.
Her book, The Boy Who Grew a Forest, shares the true story of Jadav Payeng, a man in India
who single- bandedly planted an entire forest over the course of his lifetime. When he was younger,
Jadav Payeng was shocked by the destruction of his island home. So he took matters into his own
bands and began planting one seed at a time. Jadav's forest is now over 1300 acres and provides a
home to many animals, some endangered. Jadav is still planting today and his hard work has now
been celebrated around the world.
To write this story, Sophia got to know more about Jadav Payeng and his forest through a
documentary film called Forest Man. Influenced by her father, a forest ecologist and a scientist, she
grew up learning about the importance of trees and the natural world. When she heard about a man
on a m1ssion to reforest an entire island on his own, she was drawn to this story.
As for research, most of her research was done online. She read every news article that she
could find about Jadav and listened to every interview. Then she reached out to several people who
had met or interviewed Jadav as well, including the producer of his short documentary film.
She hopes that The Boy Who Grew a Forest lights a spark in everyone who reads it to go out
and care for our beautiful planet. She'd love young readers to be inspired to plant or to learn more
about animal habitats, biodiversity and science in general.
4. What is the second paragraph mainly about?
A. A story on how to plant trees. B. Endangered animals in the forest.
C. Destruction of Jadav's island home. D. A book introducing a tree- planting
hero.
5. What do we know about Jadav Payeng ?
A. He has quit planting recently. B. He is known to many people. .
C. He was an actor of Forest Man. D. He planted trees with his family.
6. Which words can best describe Jadav Payeng?
A. Humorous and skilled. B. Creative and outgoing.
C. Determined and diligent. D. Controversia1 and helpful.
7. What's the purpose of writing The Boy Who Grew a Forest?
A. To encourage research on wildlife. B. To describe a boy's farming experience.
C. To stress the importance of planting trees. D. To advocate the action to protect the
earth.
【答案】4. D 5. B 6. C 7. D
C
The first wave of a new class of anti-aging drugs have begun human testing. These drugs won't
let you live longer but aim to treat specific illnesses by slowing a fundamental process of aging.
The drugs are called senolytics—they work by removing certain cells that accumulate as we age.
Known as “senescent” cells, they can create low-level inflammation (炎症) that prevents normal
systems of living cells repair and creates a poisonous environment for neighboring cells.
In June, San Francisco - based Unity Biotechnology reported initial results in patients with mild
to severe osteoarthritis (关节炎) of the knee. Results from a larger clinical trial are expected in the
second half of this year. The company is also developing similar drugs to treat age-related diseases
of the eyes and lungs, among other conditions.
Senolytics are now in human tests, along with a number of other promising approaches
targeting the biological processes that lie at the root of aging and various diseases.
A company called Alkahest injects patients with components found in young people's blood and
says it hopes to stop conscious and functional decline in patients suffering from mild to moderate
Alzheimer's disease. The company also has drugs for Parkinson's and dementia in human testing.
And in December, researchers at Drexel University College of Medicine even tried to see if a
cream including the immune-suppressing drug could slow aging in human skin.
The tests reflect researchers' expanding efforts to learn if the many diseases associated with
getting older- such as heart diseases, arthritis, cancer, and dementia- can be dealt with to delay their
outbreak.
8. Why do the researchers develop the drugs?
A. To rid inflammation. B. To lengthen people's life.
C. To treat age-related diseases. D. To remove cancer cells.
9. What does the underlined word “senescent” in paragraph 2 probably mean?
A. Repairing. B. Cycling. C. Aging. D. Dividing.
10. How does the text mainly develop?
A. By listing data B. By providing details.
C. By making comparisons. D. By analyzing causes.
11. Where is this text most likely from?
A. A diary. B. A guidebook. C. A novel. D. A
magazine.
【答案】8. C 9. C 10. B 11. D
D
Just as a hungry brain craves (渴望) food, a lonely brain craves people. A new brain study
demonstrates this. After being left alone, it shows people's brains would be activated at the sight of
other people. The action was in the same brain region that speeds up when a hungry person sees
food.
Livia Tomova, a neuroscientist, who studies how the brain produces mental activities, and her
colleagues began this study. They recruited (招募) 40 people. On one day, the participants had to
fast—not eat anything at all—for 10 hours. On another day, the same people were placed in a room
for 10 hours. They couldn't see anyone. No friends, no family and no social media. They weren't
even allowed to check their email. After both days, Tomova and her colleagues put the people in a
MRI machine. It shows activity in the brain by tracking how much blood is flowing to each region.
At the end of each day, the participants showed high activity in a brain area called the midbrain.
The scientists were interested in two, small areas within it. Both areas produce dopamine, a chemical
that is important in craving and rewards. The two areas activated when hungry participants saw
pictures of tasty pizza or juicy hamburgers. After the volunteers had been isolated, those brain areas
became active when they saw social activities they missed. It might be playing sports or chatting
with friends.
The midbrain plays an important part in people's motivation to seek food or friends. In fact, it
responds to food and social signals even when people aren't hungry or lonely. But hunger and
loneliness increased the reactions and made people's responses specific to the thing they were
missing. And the more hunger or isolation the volunteers said they were experiencing, the stronger
the activity in this part of the brain. Tomova and her colleagues published their results November 23
in Nature Neuroscience.
12. How does Tomova test out the result of the study?
A. By stimulating desire. B. By controlling blood flow.
C. By monitoring brain activity. D. By examining mental activities.
13. What do we know about midbrain?
A. It consists of two areas. B. It helps motivate desire for food.
C. It stops working when people are full. D. It decreases responses to lost friends.
14. What does the underlined “it” in paragraph 3 refer to?
A. A midbrain area. B. A social activity. C. A volunteer. D. A
hamburger.
15. What can be the best title for the text?
A. Dopamine—a Sure Sign of Age B. Midbrain—a Nest for the Thoughts
C. Hunger Makes Mental Health Struggle D. Loneliness Makes Our Brains Need
People
【答案】12. C 13. B 14. B 15. D
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能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项
为多余选项。
According to personal development author and blogger Steve Pavlina, there are supports for
self-discipline. ___16___
Acceptance
Acceptance means that you look at your life and assess yourself in regards to self-discipline
____17____ Do you keep your desk and work environment clean and neat? Do you get adequate
exercise? Once we get to know ourselves, we can make a proper plan to improve our self-discipline.
Persistence
Persistence doesn't mean you. have to stick to your goals for decades ____18____ But when
you have a clear vision and plan how to get there you must keep pushing hard. Persistence (坚持)
will create its own positive cycle. Working hard on your goals, you'll start to see results. These
results will give you more motivation to keep working to create more results that will give you even
more motivation.
Hard work
____19____ You might get lucky once in a while but hard work is a must for lasting success.
Hard work is a work that challenges you, both physically and mentally. It makes you grow. as you
constantly push to the limits and expand yourself. Develop bard work and you will improve your
self-discipline.
Willpower
Willpower allows us to break through our comfort zone and make gradual improvement in our
life necessary to change it for the better. ____20____ For example, when going on a diet, you
manage to stick with it a few days and then you go back to eating the old ways. That's why it's
important to use our willpower strategically, setting our environment in a way that requires the least
amount of willpower.
A. People also change their goals.
B. Let's take a look at some of them.
C. It doesn't mean the same as hard work.
D. It might be fine with just going with the flow.
E. You must realize that there is no straight path to success.
F. It's best to identify your weakest areas and strongest one.
G. But the problem is that we only have a limited amount of it.
【答案】16. B 17. F 18. A 19. E 20. G
第三部分 英语知识运用 （共两节，满分 30 分）
第一节 完形填空（共 15 小题；每小题 1 分，满分 15 分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C 和 D）中，选出可以填
入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
When I was a kid, I would ask my mom why she and my father had to work. She would always
tell me that they had to, so we could ____21____ to buy food, to pay for the bills, or to pay for our
schooling. Although they were ____22____ at the office 5 days a week, they still ____23____ time
to look after us and teach us our lessons in the evening. They didn't ____24____ us to seek after
honors, but we were motivated enough to study hard. It was our ____25____ of repaying our parents
who never complained about working.
My parents taught me that one has to work in order to live a good life. They ____26____ ,
however, that this should not be taken/ as having to ____27____ just to work! They said that work
should not ____28____ one's whole existence. And this was their life ____29____ . At the end of the
work day, they would leave all their problems _____30_____ to work in the office so that at home
they could be devoted to us 100%, no _____31_____ . I must say that I agree with them.
There's nothing wrong with _____32_____ at work. Keep in mind that your _____33_____ is
your loved ones and not your work. Everybody _____34_____ to be happy and I hope that everyone
grows old without any _____35_____ in life.
21. A. desire B. offer C. promise D. afford
22. A. cautious B. busy C. tense D.
comfortable
23. A. changed B. spared C. killed D. increased
24. A. permit B. remind C. warn D. pressure
25. A. cause B. trick C. way D. habit
26. A. understood B. ignored C. stressed D. recalled
27. A. dream B. tolerate C. play D. live
28. A. occupy B. threaten C. confirm D. prove
29. A. quality B. philosophy C. ability D.
psychology
30. A. related B. introduced C. compared D. applied
31. A. heavier B. higher C. sadder D. less
32. A. joking B. wandering C. struggling D. arguing
33. A. loss B. strength C. priority D. wisdom
34. A. deserves B. seems C. fails D. pretends
35. A. doubt B. regret C. mistake D. hesitation
【答案】21. D 22. B 23. B 24. D 25. C 26. C 27. D 28. A 29. B
30. A 31. D 32. C 33. C 34. A 35. B
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。
During Chinese New Year, money is put inside red envelopes which are then handed out to
___36___ (young) generations by their parents, grandparents, relatives and even close neighbors and
friends. At some ___37___ (company), workers may also receive a year-end cash bonus ___38___
(fold) inside a red envelope. Red envelopes are also popular gifts for birthdays and weddings. Red
symbolizes luck and good fortune in Chinese culture. That is ___39___ red envelopes are used
during Chinese New Year ___40___ other celebratory events.
The receiver of a red envelope at Chinese New Year or on his or her birthday should not open it
in front of the ___41___ (give). However, the procedure is different at Chinese weddings, where
there is a table at ___42___ entrance of the wedding reception where guests give their red envelopes
to attendants and sign their names on a large scroll. They will ___43___ (immediate) open the
envelope, count the money inside, and record it on a register next ___44___ the guests' names.
The money inside a red envelope should always be new and crisp. Folding the money or giving
dirty or wrinkled bills is in bad taste. Coins and checks ____45____ (avoid) the former because
change is not worth much and the latter because checks are not widely used in Asia.
【答案】36. younger
37. companies
38. folded 39. why
40. and/or 41. giver
42. the 43. immediately
44. to 45. are avoided
第四部分 写作（共两节，满分 40 分）
第一节 应用文写作（满分 15 分）
46. 假如你是李华，请写一份以“爱护眼睛”为主题的倡议书，在学校英语报上发表。内容包
括：
1. 不良的用眼习惯；
2. 爱护眼睛的意义；
3. 提出合理的倡议。
注意： 1 词数 80 左右；
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Dear fellow students,
________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________
________________________
Li Hua
【答案】Dear fellow students,
Currently, many of us suffer from poor eyesight due to excessive or improper use of eyes. So,
I'm advocating protecting our eyes.
Eyes are windows to the soul. Having good eyesight means we can not only see clearly but also
well appreciate beautiful scenery. Only when we form a good habit of protecting eyes, such as doing
regular eye exercises or reading in right light, can we really; enjoy our life.
It's high time that we took it seriously. Don 't hesitate to take action!
第二节 读后续写（满分 25 分）
47. 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。
One evening a middle-aged lady was walking down the street when she noticed an old beggar
sitting on the corner. The man was elderly, unshaven, and ragged. As he sat there, pedestrians walked
by him giving him dirty looks. They clearly wanted nothing to do with him because of who he was -
a dirty, homeless man. But when she saw him, the woman was moved to sympathy.
It was very cold that day and the man had his torn coat - more like an old suit coat rather than a
warm coat - wrapped around him. She stopped and looked down. “Sir?” she asked. “Are you all
right?”
The man slowly looked up. This was a woman clearly accustomed to the finer things of life.
Her coat was new. She looked like that she had never missed a meal in her life. His first thought was
that she wanted to make fun of him, like so many others had done before. “Leave me alone,” he
shouted.
To his amazement, the woman continued standing. She was smiling - her even white teeth
displayed in extremely bright rows. “Are you hungry?” she asked.
“No,” he answered ironically. “I've just come from dining with the president. Now go away.”
The woman's smile became even broader. Suddenly the man felt a gentle hand under his arm.
“What are you doing, lady?” the man asked angrily. “I said to leave me alone.”
Just then a policeman came up. “Is there any problem, ma'am?” he asked.
“No problem here, officer,” the woman answered. “I'm just trying to get this man to his feet.
Will you help me?”
The officer scratched his head. “That's old Jack. He's been a fixture around here for a couple of
years. What do you want with him?”
“See that cafeteria over there?”she asked. “I'm going to get him something to eat and get him
out of the cold for a while.”
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。
“Are you crazy, lady?” the homeless man resisted.
________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________
________________________
She stared at him carefully. “Jack, do you remember me?”
________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________
________________________
【答案】“Are you crazy, lady?” the homeless man resisted. “Please give me a chance to treat you to
dinner. Isn't it nice to have a warm place to stay on such a cold day?” said the woman. This time the
homeless man did not refuse. He was indeed cold and hungry. When he came into the cafeteria, he
sat down gracefully like a gentleman. Then he stood up again, bowed low to the lady to show his
thanks, and quietly ate the food on his plate.
She stared at him carefully. “Jack, do you remember me?” The man looked up thoughtfully, he
looked at the woman in front of him, but he didn't seem to remember anything, he smiled awkwardly
and said, “No.” “Do you remember that you saved a little girl from drowning? You saved me and
then you left in silence. I only knew your name from your badge. It's Jack. I didn't have a chance to
thank you.” The man seemed to remember something, “Anyone can do that, and the best way you
can thank someone is to continue that kindness, " he said.
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