2023届安徽省卓越县中联盟高三上学期开学考试-英语试题含解析

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 2022—2023学年（上）安徽卓越县中联盟高三年级开学考
英语
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2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. What does the man order?
A. A small soda. B. A baked potato. C. A salad.
2. When should the meeting have started?
A. At 8:00 a. m. B. At9:00 a. m. C. At 10:00 a. m.
3. Why does the woman’s husband prefer to live in the city center of Dalian?
A. To experience the peace of nature.
B. To enjoy the convenience of life.
C. To avoid unnecessary expenses.
4. Which club will the man join?
A. The sports club. B. The art club. C. The reading club.
5. What is the probable relationship between the speakers?
A. Doctor and patient. B. Teacher and student. C. Mother and son.
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，各小题给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。
听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
6. What's the problem of the man?
A. His name can hardly be remembered.
B. His Chinese name is difficult to read.
C. His English name sounds strange.
7. What does the woman suggest the man to do?
A. Have an English name.
B. Choose another Chinese name.
C. Keep his Chinese name.
听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
8. Where might the speakers be?
A. In a library. B. On a street. C. In a hospital.
9. What does the man think of seeing-eye dogs?
A. They cost too much.
B. They aren’t as useful as we expect.
C. They are hard to get.
10. What can we learn about the speakers from the conversation?
A. The woman is blind.
B. The man’s fingers are very sensitive.
C. They are willing to help the disabled.
听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
11. What does the woman want the man to do?
A. Take her out for a meal.
B. Treat her cousin to a meal.
C. Recommend her some places for a meal.
12. When will the woman treat her cousin outside?
A. On Monday. B. On Tuesday. C. On Friday.
13. Where will the woman go tonight?
A. To a Thai restaurant.
B. To a Chinese restaurant.
C. To an Australian restaurant.
听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
14. What does the woman recommend to the man?
A. A website. B. A high school. C. A school reunion.
15. How does the man like his high school life?
A. Horrible. B. Colorful. C. Exciting.
16. What interests the woman?
A. Finishing the project.
B. Visiting her college friends.
C. Meeting her high school friends.
17. What's the probable relationship between the speakers?
A. Workmates. B. High school classmates. C. College classmates.
听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
18. How old is Ms. Hawkins?
A. 105 years old. B. 83 years old. C. 115 years old.
19. What is Ms. Hawkins’ main sport?
A. Swimming. B. Cycling. C. Hiking.
20. What was Mr. Eberhart before retirement?
A. A policeman. B. A doctor. C. A writer.
第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）
第一节（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A
Summer isn't over yet! There’s still plenty of time for camp fun. Need last-minute camp plans? The following programs are here to help!
Pono Summer Camp
From book clubs to cooking classes and even travel, the camp lets kids design their own activities and brings them to life through field trips and online lessons. It runs from July 6 to September4 for children aged6 to 14.
Rise
This performing and media arts program has invited some artists who have professional acting, writing, clowning, dancing, directing, photographing and film-making experience. From July 6 to August 27, weekly camps take place Monday ~ Friday 1 p. m. ~3 p. m. and run until the last week in August for $150 per week.
Shack Camp
This six-week camp includes DIY activities such as putting together a juice stand, making campaign buttons and making your own ice cream. For $79, campers buy a Shack Camp Box that includes $175 worth of materials. The money from it will help support the Fresh Air Fund.
New York Sewing Camp
From June 15 to August 7, those interested in fashion can explore their love for clothing during the New York Sewing Camp offerings for ages 7 ~ 10 and 11 ~ 14. Classes will be broken up into three time slots（时间段） five days per week and focus on the basics before kids work their way up to projects like skirts and bags. The cost is $375 per student.
21. What will kids do at Pono Summer Camp?
A. Do farm work in the field. B. Attend some classes online.
C. Design activities for other kids. D. Learn survival skills in the wild.
22. Which camp should you choose if you want to learn how to make a short movie?
A. Rise. B. Shack Camp.
C. Pono Summer Camp. D. New York Sewing Camp.
23. How much should you pay if you go to the camp aimed at DIY skills?
A. $375. B. $175. C. $150. D. $79.
B
It is not always easy to know what food to order at restaurants. But a new company Kabaq in New York is hoping to help. The company offers menu items in augmented（增强的）reality. The technology places computer-generated images into the user's view of the real world.
At Vino Levantino wine bar in New York City, the desserts are tasty but many visitors may have never heard of them. Instead of explaining the traditional Middle Eastern sweet to restaurant visitors，owner Haim Amit shows them. The Kabaq's augmented reality application displays models of the desserts in 3-D on an iPad. Customers at each table use an iPad to explore the desserts.
Alper Guler is the founder of Kabaq. “Humans are visual creatures, and we are creating really realistic 3-D food models.” The technology company is helping diners decide what to eat and making traditional menus more modern. Guler and his team visit restaurants to capture 3-D images of dishes. They place dishes on a turning table inside a photo box and the camera scans the dishes from all sides.
“We have special equipment that stands here, shooting a bunch of pictures at the same time. So, as the table turns, our system takes all the pictures along the way. And we go back to our office and basically start processing all of these images. ”For their services, Kabaq charges $99- $ 199 per month.
Amit says the technology is not only increasing profits at his restaurant but offering customers a special experience. “It’s not just the sale—the sales grow like about 22 percent overall on average—but the experience with customers is different—they didn't expect it and they really like it.”
Amit says he has noticed how excited his customers are about it. It's amazing.
24. How do customers in Haim Amit's bar know about an unfamiliar dessert?
A. By searching the bar’s website. B. By turning to an app.
C. By looking at pictures on traditional menus. D. By asking the waiters for help.
25. What inspired Alper Guler to invent the 3-D menus?
A. Humans’ habit of making eating decisions. B. Love for delicious food.
C. Request from consumers. D. An unpleasant dining experience.
26. What does Amit think of the invention?
A. It is far from satisfactory. B. It proves food is No. 1 for the people.
C. It kills two birds with one stone. D. It inspires other restaurants to follow.
27. Which of the following can be the best title for the text?
A. Technology Promotes Traditional Food
B. 3-D Images Show Process of Food Making
C. Technology Brings 3-D Images to Food Menus
D. Traditional Menus Will Be Replaced by 3-D Ones
C
“Robots are ready to replace millions of humans in various industries. But they're nowhere close to being human-like,” said Blake Hannaford, a robotics professor at the University of Washington in Seattle.
So far, robots don't really look or act like the sensitive beings described throughout science fiction. Rather, these basic machines are tasked with carrying out simple tasks that promote productivity around the workplace or factory. We are still decades away from a future where robots carry out more difficult and meaningful tasks.
But other aspects continue to have a significant influence on robotics. Robots are already performing some human functions. In everyday terms, that means your smartphone can do more with the same battery life. It also means quicker advances in artificial intelligence—things like computer vision and natural language processing that help robots “see” and learn.
Going forward, Hannaford said, robots will “free up people's brains” to perform other, more complex tasks. “There’s going to be a lot of people who fall by the wayside,” he said of the countless jobs that will be automated or disappear entirely.
More than 120 million workers worldwide (11.5 million in the U.S.) will need retraining just in the next few years due to replacement caused by artificial intelligence and robots, according to a recent IBM Institute for Business Values study. Not all of them will get that retraining, of course, but the ones who do will be more likely to gain new types of jobs brought by the robot revolution.
But some experts say the more robots surpass humans, the more humans will be expected to keep up.
“The way we have to start thinking about robots is not as a threat, but as something that we can work with in a co-operative way,” Hannaford said. “A lot of it is changing our own attitudes.”
28. What can we infer from what Hannaford said?
A. Robots will help make life easier for all of us.
B. We'll see some jobs taken over entirely by robots.
C. Robots are at a stage of being human-like.
D. It is likely that we will be wiped out by robots.
29. What is paragraph 2 mainly about?
A. Robots in science fiction closely resemble us.
B. Robots can carry out complex actions automatically.
C. Humans will be replaced by robots in the near future.
D. The development of robots has a long way to go.
30. What does the underlined word “surpass” in paragraph 6 probably mean?
A. Complete fewer tasks than. B. Do better than.
C. Make more mistakes than. D. Get more retraining than.
31. What attitude should we have towards robots according to Hannaford?
A. Positive. B. Opposed.
C. Uncaring. D. Doubtful.
D
It has now been one year since The Ocean Cleanup made history by cleaning up the first of the plastic from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch(垃圾带). And now, its researchers are turning the waste into designer sunglasses. Not only are the stylish glasses made from the plastic collected, but the earnings go toward helping support the nonprofit so they can continue cleaning up the ocean.
The new glasses are the first product to be created from the recovered ocean waste, but The Ocean Cleanup website says it will not be the last. Back in October 2019,after years of research, The Ocean Cleanup project announced that their System 001/B had successfully collected plastic waste from the garbage patch. The system uses the natural forces of the ocean to gather plastic in the garbage patch, a process that was first brought up by Boyan Slat back in October 2012.
Together with famous designer Yves Behar, and Safilo, The Ocean Cleanup worked to create sunglasses that could produce a feeling or memory of the ocean, reminding people where they came from and what they are protecting. The frames（框架）of the new sunglasses are made from the recovered ocean pollution. Because the joining points have also been specially designed, they can very quickly be taken apart for recycling.
Although the sunglasses cost $199 a pair, all of the money earned from them will be used to fund the nonprofit' s operations. For every pair sold, the organization will be able to clean 24 football-fields-worth of ocean garbage. And since the glasses went on sale earlier last week, supporters have already funded more than 133 , 100 football fields of garbage.
“When every pair is bought up from the first batch（批）of sunglasses we can then clean 500,000 football fields worth of plastic,” says the website. “That means we can use this garbage to clean more garbage: going full circle, over and over, until we have achieved our purpose of clean oceans.
32. What was The Ocean Cleanup's System 001/B used to do?
A. Collect information of the ocean. B. Monitor the garbage patch.
C. Gather plastic waste. D. Sort ocean waste.
33. Which of the following is a characteristic of the new sunglasses?
A. They are green in color. B. They can be easily recycled.
C. They can help find ocean pollution. D. They have more joining points than others.
34. What does the author imply in paragraph 4?
A. The price of the sunglasses should be lower.
B. The money will be used to build football fields.
C. The Ocean Cleanup is in need of financial support.
D. Buying the sunglasses can help reduce ocean waste.
35. Which section of a website is the text most probably taken from?
A. Fashion. B. Lifestyle. C. Technology. D. Environment.
第二节（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）
根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。选项中有两项为多余选项。
Ways to Grow Your Own Plant Supports Instead of Buying Them
Many new gardeners think it is necessary to buy new items for their gardens, when in fact, careful design and the right plant choices can mean that your garden can actually provide the things you need.
One common example of the things that people buy when they could grow them in their own garden is plant supports.____36____. While there are numerous plant supports on the market, my professional take is you can do without buying any of these at all.
Many climbing and vining plants require some support as they grow. Sometimes, the plants you grow beside climbers or vines can provide all the support they need. ____37____ . The same thing can be true of a number of taller perennials (多年生植物). Growing them close can prevent them being blown over in strong winds. ____38____, as you will need to think about competition and avoid overcrowding.
Of course, other living plants will not always be able to provide the support that is required. I find growing trees like the hazel or willow means you always have suitable material to use in your own garden. ____39____ . Do so early on in garden establishment and over time, you can easily become self-sufficient in garden plant supports-even in a small garden.
____40____, it can be helpful to think about longer-term needs in your garden. Grow not just eatable plants, but also a range of other plants which will allow you to become more self-sufficient over time.
A. Plenty of trees grow relatively quickly
B. Thick planting should be handled with care
C. Before you buy plant supports for your garden
D. Planting these trees in your garden can be a great choice
E. So when designing your garden and deciding which plants to grow
F. Plants like short peas can simply be grown close together and will hold each other up
G. Plant supports can be living growing plants or branches cut from elsewhere in the space
第三部分 语言知识运用（共两节，满分45分）
第一节（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
On a hot day, George and his brother, Mark, were planting new grass in George’s garden. The lawn(草坪)in the garden had become brown and patchy(参差不齐的), which could make a ____41____ in the heat. The authorities had ____42____ to charge a heavy fine if the situation was not ____43____ . George and Mark had been planting the new patches of grass since morning but the progress was ____44____. George, who was 68, was not feeling right. He went indoors to take a ____45____and suddenly fell down on the couch. His wife, Melissa, called the ambulance____46____.
While he was having a heart attack, George had one thing on his ____47____— his lawn. If the new patches of grass were not planted on the lawn that day, the grass would die. “Although he was in great pain, he kept asking me to have the patches of grass planted because he didn't want them to go to waste,” Melissa ____48____.
Soon the paramedics(护理人员)arrived and ____49____George and Melissa to the hospital, leaving Mark behind to take care of the garden. After an hour, Mark had only _____50_____to uproot the old grass. He was about to plant the new grass when two emergency vehicles _____51_____. Four paramedics, the same ones who had _____52_____ his brother earlier on, got out. George had shared with them how badly he had wanted to plant the new grass patches in his lawn, so they returned to _____53_____. The task was _____54_____ in less than two hours!
Meanwhile, George had undergone a heart surgery. After he had recovered, he had been _____55_____ his beautiful lawn. He was amazed at the new look covered with _____56_____ patches of grass.
George and Melissa were _____57_____ that those paramedics had gone above and beyond their _____58_____ to offer help with the lawn. Melissa told the newspaper reporter one day, “These men not only _____59_____ George’s life, but also his grass. That's just so _____60_____.”
41. A. trap B. fire C. mess D. mistake
42. A. promised B. hesitated C. struggled D. threatened
43. A. approved of B. left out C. dealt with D. put forward
44. A. slow B. steady C. easy D. obvious
45. A. break B. lesson C. chance D. walk
46. A. carefully B. gratefully C. immediately D. secretly
47. A. shoulder B. hand C. head D. mind
48. A. recalled B. questioned C. insisted D. warned
49. A. treated B. rushed C. reported D. introduced
50. A. happened B. attempted C. managed D. offered
51. A. started B. appeared C. crashed D. dropped
52. A. called on B. turned down C. brought back D. attended to
53. A. celebrate B. check C. help D. study
54. A. improved B. increased C. completed D. confirmed
55. A. enjoying B. advocating C. changing D. designing
56. A. black B. green C. red D. brown
57. A. frightened B. regretful C. proud D. surprised
58. A. abilities B. duties C. patience D. ambition
59. A. ruined B. enriched C. entered D. saved
60. A. awesome B. convenient C. awkward D. shocking
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，并将答案填写在答题卡上。
As we all know, we all need blood. Actually, every three seconds, someone needs it. Whether it’s for having a baby or ____61____(experience)an operation, blood saves millions of lives every year. But the trouble is that we can only get it from each other, which is why we all have a ____62____(responsible)to donate blood. Almost 68 million people in the U.S alone ____63____(donate)blood in the past few years. But where does all this blood go after it leaves your body? Let’s start at the post donation stage. First, test tubes of your blood ____64____(send)to a lab to identify any diseases and the blood type. At the same time, your blood goes into a place where it’s separated into three different ____65____(component): red blood cells，platelets and plasma. And each of these has a separate function. Red blood cells are what give your blood ____66____(it)color and contain a protein which makes it easier for them ____67____(transport)oxygen to and from your lungs. This is what is given to patients under operation or those ____68____low blood cell counts. Platelets are the small parts of other cells and they are of great help for your blood to clot (凝结成块)properly. They’re ____69____(common)used for cancer patients ____70____have been affected by their chemical treatment.
第四部分 写作（共两节，满分35分）
第一节 短文改错（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
71. 假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（N），并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2.只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
My grandmother is in her eighty this year. Last month, I bought her smart phone specially designed for the elderly. I patiently teach her how to telephone or how to have a video chat with others on WeChat. I practiced again and again. She was very thrilling when she could chat on WeChat. She thought the smart phone was such powerful a tool. Now she has final mastered how to use the smart phone. To her delight, she can have a video chat with me on WeChat without being helped. She takes pride in herself because of she can keep up with the times. She no long feels lonely.
第二节 书面表达（满分25分）
72. 你校英文报正在开展以The Importance of Doing Housework为题的讨论。请根据图表中的调查结果写一篇短文投稿，内容包括：

1.中学生做家务状况描述；
2.造成此状况的原因；
3.你的观点。
注意：1.词数100左右；
2.短文的题目和首句已为你写好。
The Importance of Doing Housework
It’s widely known that Labor Education will be included in the education of middle schools in China.
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2022—2023学年（上）安徽卓越县中联盟高三年级开学考
英语
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2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. What does the man order?
A. A small soda. B. A baked potato. C. A salad.
【答案】C
【解析】
【原文】W: Welcome to Montana’s Steakhouse. How are you doing today?
M: I am well, thank you. I will have the New York Steak with a side salad instead of a baked potato, and a large Coke, please.
W: Coming right up, sir.
2. When should the meeting have started?
A. At 8:00 a. m. B. At9:00 a. m. C. At 10:00 a. m.
【答案】B
【解析】
【原文】M: Where is Jenifer? It's 10:00 a. m. The meeting should have started an hour ago.
W: She called earlier. All the subway trains have been canceled, so she had to take a taxi. But it's stuck in traffic.
3. Why does the woman’s husband prefer to live in the city center of Dalian?
A. To experience the peace of nature.
B. To enjoy the convenience of life.
C. To avoid unnecessary expenses.
【答案】B
【解析】
【原文】M: Have you decided where to live after you move to Dalian?
W: I’d like to live in the countryside to save on expenses and also escape the chaos and crowds of the city, but my husband wants a flat in the city center so that we won’t have to travel a long way to get what is needed.
4. Which club will the man join?
A. The sports club. B. The art club. C. The reading club.
【答案】A
【解析】
【原文】W: Alex, what are you doing with that glove? I thought you were in the book club.
M: The book club? Nah. I can read books anytime, anywhere, so I’ve decided to join a sports club.
W: But can you really play baseball?
M: Yes! Actually, I’ m good at all kinds of sports—tennis, swimming, running...
5. What is the probable relationship between the speakers?
A. Doctor and patient. B. Teacher and student. C. Mother and son.
【答案】C
【解析】
【原文】W: Tom, what are you doing in your room? Playing computer games? Don’t you forget your promise?
M: Oh, no. This is not a real game. It only helps me remember new words.
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，各小题给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。
听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
6. What's the problem of the man?
A. His name can hardly be remembered.
B. His Chinese name is difficult to read.
C. His English name sounds strange.
7. What does the woman suggest the man to do?
A. Have an English name.
B. Choose another Chinese name.
C. Keep his Chinese name.
【答案】6. B 7. C
【解析】
【原文】M: Julia, I want to have an English name. You know, my Chinese name is hard to pronounce. Can you give me some advice?
W: Why not just stick to your Chinese name? Any name can be written in the English alphabet, so you don't really need to have an English name!
M: To be honest, some English names people choose are rather strange. 'They are never used as names.
W: In fact, you should demand that all your colleagues call you by your Chinese name. After all, it is a name with a lot of meaning and something that your parents have chosen for you with a lot of care!
听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
8. Where might the speakers be?
A. In a library. B. On a street. C. In a hospital.
9. What does the man think of seeing-eye dogs?
A. They cost too much.
B. They aren’t as useful as we expect.
C. They are hard to get.
10. What can we learn about the speakers from the conversation?
A. The woman is blind.
B. The man’s fingers are very sensitive.
C. They are willing to help the disabled.
【答案】8. B 9. A 10. C
【解析】
【详解】M: Mom, this road is so strange! It is different from the other roads.
W: Oh, it was built for the blind. They can feel and find their way to any place they want.
M: Is that so? Oh, great. Now they don’t need to get extremely expensive seeing-eye dogs.
W: Yeah, seeing-eye dogs are expensive but they can look after their masters without any problems.
M: But how do blind people without seeing-eye dogs have normal lives?
W: They have much less trouble in public places now thanks to good social services. You know, we have a lot of public facilities designed especially to assist the blind, such as those in elevators and on the subway.
M: Oh, yeah. I recall that you told me there is something that you can touch on paper money to identify how much it is. Where is that?
W: Mr. Forgetful, I told you it’s right here. Can you feel it?
M: Oh, it’s impossible for me. I feel nothing. How can blind people feel it just by touching it?
W: Their sense of touch is incredibly sensitive.
M: Sounds quite reasonable.
W: People should do more for the disabled.
M: Oh, I want to be an inventor to make useful things.
W: That’s a good idea.
听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
11. What does the woman want the man to do?
A. Take her out for a meal.
B. Treat her cousin to a meal.
C. Recommend her some places for a meal.
12. When will the woman treat her cousin outside?
A. On Monday. B. On Tuesday. C. On Friday.
13. Where will the woman go tonight?
A. To a Thai restaurant.
B. To a Chinese restaurant.
C. To an Australian restaurant.
【答案】11. C 12. A 13. C
【解析】
【原文】W: Hi John. Are you in a mad rush? Off for lunch?
M: Er, no, not yet.
W: Great, because I was wondering if you could help me. I’ve got an Australian cousin visiting, and I promised to take her out for a meal. Got any ideas where I should go?
M: When? Tonight? Everybody’s busy on Fridays.
W: It’s on Monday, actually, so no problem.
M: Well, you could always ask what sort of food she likes.
W: Yes, I did. She said she wanted to try some Asian food.
M: Well, you could try that new Thai Restaurant.
W: Oh, yes. But we looked in there and she said it looked a bit boring. Do you know anywhere a bit “cooler”?
M: Well, you could take her to Bob’s. That’s an Australian restaurant that does good food and it’s pretty trend—it does some Chinese dishes too.
W: Thanks a lot! I might give that a go tonight.
听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
14. What does the woman recommend to the man?
A. A website. B. A high school. C. A school reunion.
15. How does the man like his high school life?
A. Horrible. B. Colorful. C. Exciting.
16. What interests the woman?
A. Finishing the project.
B. Visiting her college friends.
C. Meeting her high school friends.
17. What's the probable relationship between the speakers?
A. Workmates. B. High school classmates. C. College classmates.
【答案】14. A 15. A 16. C 17. A
【解析】
【原文】W: I just heard of a website that can help you find your high school friends so you can have a reunion. It's so exciting.
M: Oh, Goodness. I totally wouldn't want to do that. It’s the last thing that I want to do.
W: What? I just can't wait to see my friends: how they are, what they are up to...I miss them so much.
M: The people at my high school were horrible. You know my teenage years were tough.
W: I’m sure everyone may have changed. Don’t you want to see how they changed and what kind of jobs they have?
M: Maybe it’s sort of nice to think about them but not necessarily reintroduce them back into my life.
W: Well, you can think about it and it’ll be fun.
M: I think you're just kind of maybe more social like that than me, but I' m happy with where I am. I don’t really feel like turning the page and looking back.
W: OK, it’s up to you. So what are you doing after we finish our project today?
M: I' m meeting up with an old friend from my college. Do you want to know him?
W: No, not interested.
听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
18. How old is Ms. Hawkins?
A. 105 years old. B. 83 years old. C. 115 years old.
19. What is Ms. Hawkins’ main sport?
A. Swimming. B. Cycling. C. Hiking.
20. What was Mr. Eberhart before retirement?
A. A policeman. B. A doctor. C. A writer.
【答案】18. A 19. B 20. B
【解析】
【原文】W: Today ABC looks at two amazing older people who’ve made the news, mainly because they simply decided not to stop.
Julia “Hurricane” Hawkins—Ms. Hawkins set a new world record earlier this November by running the 100-meter dash in just over 62 seconds. If that doesn’t sound like a record to you, keep in mind that she is 105 years old. Running isn’t Ms. Hawkins’ main sport—she’s been biking for most of her life. But she took up running several years ago and set her first world record in 2017.
M.J. “Sunny” Eberhart—In early November, M. J. “Sunny” Eberhart became the oldest person to hike the full Appalachian Trail. He is 83 years old. The 2, 193-mile hiking trail through the Appalachian Mountains isn’t easy, even for younger people. Mr. Eberhart had to deal with pain and injuries, but he kept going anyway. He’s not exactly new to hiking. He’ s been hiking extremely long distances since 1993, when he retired as an eye doctor. He’s even written books about his hiking. Mr. Eberhart has been writing about his hikes on his website. He ended his final report with this quote: “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”
第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）
第一节（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A
Summer isn't over yet! There’s still plenty of time for camp fun. Need last-minute camp plans? The following programs are here to help!
Pono Summer Camp
From book clubs to cooking classes and even travel, the camp lets kids design their own activities and brings them to life through field trips and online lessons. It runs from July 6 to September4 for children aged6 to 14.
Rise
This performing and media arts program has invited some artists who have professional acting, writing, clowning, dancing, directing, photographing and film-making experience. From July 6 to August 27, weekly camps take place Monday ~ Friday 1 p. m. ~3 p. m. and run until the last week in August for $150 per week.
Shack Camp
This six-week camp includes DIY activities such as putting together a juice stand, making campaign buttons and making your own ice cream. For $79, campers buy a Shack Camp Box that includes $175 worth of materials. The money from it will help support the Fresh Air Fund.
New York Sewing Camp
From June 15 to August 7, those interested in fashion can explore their love for clothing during the New York Sewing Camp offerings for ages 7 ~ 10 and 11 ~ 14. Classes will be broken up into three time slots（时间段） five days per week and focus on the basics before kids work their way up to projects like skirts and bags. The cost is $375 per student.
21. What will kids do at Pono Summer Camp?
A. Do farm work in the field. B. Attend some classes online.
C. Design activities for other kids. D. Learn survival skills in the wild.
22. Which camp should you choose if you want to learn how to make a short movie?
A. Rise. B. Shack Camp.
C. Pono Summer Camp. D. New York Sewing Camp.
23. How much should you pay if you go to the camp aimed at DIY skills?
A. $375. B. $175. C. $150. D. $79.
【答案】21. B 22. A 23. D
【解析】
【导语】本文是一篇应用文。主要对四个夏令营活动进行了介绍和宣传，包括每个夏令营项目的活动内容、时间、费用等信息。
【21题详解】
细节理解题。根据Pono Summer Camp部分的“From book clubs to cooking classes and even travel, the camp lets kids design their own activities and brings them to life through field trips and online lessons.”（从读书俱乐部到烹饪班，甚至旅行，夏令营让孩子们设计自己的活动，并通过实地考察和在线课程将它们带入生活）可知，活动的方式之一是网络课程，故孩子们会在该夏令营中上一些网课。故选B项。
【22题详解】
细节理解题。根据 Rise部分的“This performing and media arts program has invited some artists who have professional acting, writing, clowning, dancing, directing, photographing and film-making experience.”（这个表演和媒体艺术项目邀请了一些有专业表演、写作、小丑、舞蹈、导演、摄影和电影制作经验的艺术家）可知，该夏令营项目邀请的艺术家包括有电影制作经验的艺术家，因此若想学习制作短片，应参加该夏令营。故选A项。
【23题详解】
细节理解题。根据 Shack Camp部分的“This six-week camp includes DIY activities such as putting together a juice stand, making campaign buttons and making your own ice cream.”（这个为期六周的夏令营包括DIY活动，比如组装果汁摊、制作竞选按钮和制作你自己的冰淇淋）可知，该夏令营主要开展DIY活动。再根据该部分第二句“For $79, campers buy a Shack Camp Box that includes $175 worth of materials.”（只要79美元，露营者就可以买到一个包括价值175美元的材料的Shack Camp Box）可知，参加该夏令营的费用是79美元。故选D项。
B
It is not always easy to know what food to order at restaurants. But a new company Kabaq in New York is hoping to help. The company offers menu items in augmented（增强的）reality. The technology places computer-generated images into the user's view of the real world.
At Vino Levantino wine bar in New York City the desserts are tasty but many visitors may have never heard of them. Instead of explaining the traditional Middle Eastern sweet to restaurant visitors，owner Haim Amit shows them. The Kabaq's augmented reality application displays models of the desserts in 3-D on an iPad. Customers at each table use an iPad to explore the desserts.
Alper Guler is the founder of Kabaq. “Humans are visual creatures, and we are creating really realistic 3-D food models.” The technology company is helping diners decide what to eat and making traditional menus more modern. Guler and his team visit restaurants to capture 3-D images of dishes. They place dishes on a turning table inside a photo box and the camera scans the dishes from all sides.
“We have special equipment that stands here, shooting a bunch of pictures at the same time. So, as the table turns, our system takes all the pictures along the way. And we go back to our office and basically start processing all of these images. ”For their services, Kabaq charges $99- $ 199 per month.
Amit says the technology is not only increasing profits at his restaurant but offering customers a special experience. “It’s not just the sale—the sales grow like about 22 percent overall on average—but the experience with customers is different—they didn't expect it and they really like it.”
Amit says he has noticed how excited his customers are about it. It's amazing.
24. How do customers in Haim Amit's bar know about an unfamiliar dessert?
A. By searching the bar’s website. B. By turning to an app.
C. By looking at pictures on traditional menus. D. By asking the waiters for help.
25. What inspired Alper Guler to invent the 3-D menus?
A. Humans’ habit of making eating decisions. B. Love for delicious food.
C. Request from consumers. D. An unpleasant dining experience.
26. What does Amit think of the invention?
A. It is far from satisfactory. B. It proves food is No. 1 for the people.
C. It kills two birds with one stone. D. It inspires other restaurants to follow.
27. Which of the following can be the best title for the text?
A. Technology Promotes Traditional Food
B. 3-D Images Show Process of Food Making
C. Technology Brings 3-D Images to Food Menus
D. Traditional Menus Will Be Replaced by 3-D Ones
【答案】24. B 25. A 26. C 27. C
【解析】
【导语】本文是一篇新闻报道。文章介绍了一家餐馆使用高科技制作了3-D画面的菜单，这一项发明不仅为餐馆增加了大约22%的营业额，而且还给了顾客一个惊喜。
【24题详解】
细节理解题。根据第二段的“The Kabaq's augmented reality application displays models of the desserts in 3-D on an iPad.(Kabaq的增强现实应用程序在iPad上以3D显示甜点模型。)”可知，顾客通过一个特定的应用程序来了解甜点的相关信息。故选B。
【25题详解】
推理判断题。根据第三段的“Humans are visual creatures, and we are creating really realistic 3-D food models.(人类是视觉生物，我们正在创造真实的三维食品模型。)”可知， Alper Guler是根据人类的饮食决策习惯来发明3-D菜单的。故选A。
【26题详解】
推理判断题。根据第五段的“It's not just the sale—the sales grow like about 22 percent overall on average—but the experience with customers is different—they didn't expect it and they really like it.(不仅是销售额，销售额平均增长了约22%，而且与客户的体验也不一样，他们没有预料到，他们真的很喜欢)”可知，Amit觉得他的发明既提高了大约22%的业务增长，又给顾客一个惊喜，因此是一石二鸟。故选C。
【27题详解】
主旨大意题。根据第一段“The technology places computer-generated images into the user's view of the real world.(该技术将计算机生成的图像置于用户的真实世界视图中。)”结合文章介绍了一家餐馆使用高科技制作了3-D画面的菜单，这一项发明不仅为餐馆增加了大约22%的营业额，而且还给了顾客一个惊喜。可知，文章谈论的是一家餐馆使用高科技制作3-D菜单的话题。故选C。
C
“Robots are ready to replace millions of humans in various industries. But they're nowhere close to being human-like,” said Blake Hannaford, a robotics professor at the University of Washington in Seattle.
So far, robots don't really look or act like the sensitive beings described throughout science fiction. Rather, these basic machines are tasked with carrying out simple tasks that promote productivity around the workplace or factory. We are still decades away from a future where robots carry out more difficult and meaningful tasks.
But other aspects continue to have a significant influence on robotics. Robots are already performing some human functions. In everyday terms, that means your smartphone can do more with the same battery life. It also means quicker advances in artificial intelligence—things like computer vision and natural language processing that help robots “see” and learn.
Going forward, Hannaford said, robots will “free up people's brains” to perform other, more complex tasks. “There’s going to be a lot of people who fall by the wayside,” he said of the countless jobs that will be automated or disappear entirely.
More than 120 million workers worldwide (11.5 million in the U.S.) will need retraining just in the next few years due to replacement caused by artificial intelligence and robots, according to a recent IBM Institute for Business Values study. Not all of them will get that retraining, of course, but the ones who do will be more likely to gain new types of jobs brought by the robot revolution.
But some experts say the more robots surpass humans, the more humans will be expected to keep up.
“The way we have to start thinking about robots is not as a threat, but as something that we can work with in a co-operative way,” Hannaford said. “A lot of it is changing our own attitudes.”
28. What can we infer from what Hannaford said?
A. Robots will help make life easier for all of us.
B. We'll see some jobs taken over entirely by robots.
C. Robots are at a stage of being human-like.
D. It is likely that we will be wiped out by robots.
29. What is paragraph 2 mainly about?
A. Robots in science fiction closely resemble us.
B. Robots can carry out complex actions automatically.
C. Humans will be replaced by robots in the near future.
D. The development of robots has a long way to go.
30. What does the underlined word “surpass” in paragraph 6 probably mean?
A. Complete fewer tasks than. B. Do better than.
C. Make more mistakes than. D. Get more retraining than.
31. What attitude should we have towards robots according to Hannaford?
A. Positive. B. Opposed.
C. Uncaring. D. Doubtful.
【答案】28. B 29. D 30. B 31. A
【解析】
【导语】本文是一篇说明文。文章介绍了机器人和机器人技术的未来以及对人类的影响。
【28题详解】
细节理解题。根据第一段的“Robots are ready to replace millions of humans in various industries. (机器人已经准备好在各个行业取代数百万人。)”以及第四段的“he said of the countless jobs that will be automated or disappear entirely.(他说，无数的工作将被自动化或完全消失。)”可知，机器人已经准备好取代不同行业的数百万人，我们将看到一些工作完全被机器人所取代，故选B。
【29题详解】
主旨大意题。根据第二段的“We are still decades away from a future where robots carry out more difficult and meaningful tasks.(我们离机器人执行更困难和更有意义的任务的未来还有几十年。)”可知，第二段主要讲述了机器人的发展还有很长的路要走，故选D。
【30题详解】
词句猜测题。根据后文“the more humans will be expected to keep up.(预计会有更多的人跟上。)”可知，人类要跟上机器人的步伐，即机器人超过了人类，做的比人类好，故选B。
【31题详解】
判断推理题。根据第七段的“The way we have to start thinking about robots is not as a threat, but as something that we can work with in a co-operative wa.(我们开始思考机器人的方式不是威胁，而是我们可以合作的方式)”可知，Hannaford对待机器人的态度是积极的，人类应当与机器人共同合作让生活变得更好而不是把机器人当成威胁，故选A。
D
It has now been one year since The Ocean Cleanup made history by cleaning up the first of the plastic from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch(垃圾带). And now, its researchers are turning the waste into designer sunglasses. Not only are the stylish glasses made from the plastic collected, but the earnings go toward helping support the nonprofit so they can continue cleaning up the ocean.
The new glasses are the first product to be created from the recovered ocean waste, but The Ocean Cleanup website says it will not be the last. Back in October 2019,after years of research, The Ocean Cleanup project announced that their System 001/B had successfully collected plastic waste from the garbage patch. The system uses the natural forces of the ocean to gather plastic in the garbage patch, a process that was first brought up by Boyan Slat back in October 2012.
Together with famous designer Yves Behar, and Safilo, The Ocean Cleanup worked to create sunglasses that could produce a feeling or memory of the ocean, reminding people where they came from and what they are protecting. The frames（框架）of the new sunglasses are made from the recovered ocean pollution. Because the joining points have also been specially designed, they can very quickly be taken apart for recycling.
Although the sunglasses cost $199 a pair, all of the money earned from them will be used to fund the nonprofit' s operations. For every pair sold, the organization will be able to clean 24 football-fields-worth of ocean garbage. And since the glasses went on sale earlier last week, supporters have already funded more than 133 , 100 football fields of garbage.
“When every pair is bought up from the first batch（批）of sunglasses, we can then clean 500,000 football fields worth of plastic,” says the website. “That means we can use this garbage to clean more garbage: going full circle, over and over, until we have achieved our purpose of clean oceans.
32. What was The Ocean Cleanup's System 001/B used to do?
A. Collect information of the ocean. B. Monitor the garbage patch.
C. Gather plastic waste. D. Sort ocean waste.
33. Which of the following is a characteristic of the new sunglasses?
A. They are green in color. B. They can be easily recycled.
C. They can help find ocean pollution. D. They have more joining points than others.
34. What does the author imply in paragraph 4?
A. The price of the sunglasses should be lower.
B. The money will be used to build football fields.
C. The Ocean Cleanup is in need of financial support.
D. Buying the sunglasses can help reduce ocean waste.
35. Which section of a website is the text most probably taken from?
A. Fashion. B. Lifestyle. C. Technology. D. Environment.
【答案】32. C 33. B 34. D 35. D
【解析】
【导语】本文是一篇说明文。The Ocean Cleanup这一非营利性组织一直致力于清理海洋中的塑料垃圾。他们利用从太平洋垃圾带收集到的塑料垃圾制作了一款时髦的太阳镜，并将从中获得的收入继续用于清理垃圾。
【32题详解】
细节理解题。根据第二段的“Back in October 2019, after years of research, The Ocean Cleanup project announced that their System 001/B had successfully collected plastic waste from the garbage patch.”（回到2019年10月，经过多年的研究，海洋清理项目宣布他们的 System 001/B 已经成功收集了垃圾碎片中的塑料垃圾）可知，该组织的System 001/B这一系统是用来收集塑料垃圾的。故选C项。
【33题详解】
细节理解题。根据第三段的“Because the joining points have also been specially designed, they can very quickly be taken apart for recycling.”（因为连接点也是经过特殊设计的，它们可以很快被拆开回收利用）可知，这款太阳镜的连接点是经过特殊设计的，它们可以很快被拆开以便回收利用。由此可知，这款太阳镜的一个特点是很容易被回收利用。故选B项。
【34题详解】
推理判断题。根据第四段的“Although the sunglasses cost $199 a pair, all of the money earned from them will be used to fund the nonprofit' s operations. For every pair sold, the organization will be able to clean 24 football-fields- worth of ocean garbage.”（尽管这款太阳镜每副售价199美元，但所有的收入都将用于资助该非营利组织的运营。每卖出一副眼镜，该组织将能够清理24个足球场大小的海洋垃圾）可知，所有从这款太阳镜中赚来的钱都将用于资助这家非营利性组织的运营，每售出一副太阳镜，该组织将能够清理值24个足球场的海洋垃圾。由此可推知，购买这些太阳镜有助于减少海洋中的塑料垃圾。故选D项。
【35题详解】
推理判断题。总结全文内容可知，本文介绍了The Ocean Cleanup这一非营利性组织把收集的海洋塑料垃圾制作成时髦的太阳镜，并将从中获得的收入用于清理海洋垃圾的情况。文章的中心话题是应对海洋塑料污染，属于环境的范畴。故选D项。
第二节（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）
根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。选项中有两项为多余选项。
Ways to Grow Your Own Plant Supports Instead of Buying Them
Many new gardeners think it is necessary to buy new items for their gardens, when in fact, careful design and the right plant choices can mean that your garden can actually provide the things you need.
One common example of the things that people buy when they could grow them in their own garden is plant supports.____36____. While there are numerous plant supports on the market, my professional take is you can do without buying any of these at all.
Many climbing and vining plants require some support as they grow. Sometimes, the plants you grow beside climbers or vines can provide all the support they need. ____37____ . The same thing can be true of a number of taller perennials (多年生植物). Growing them close can prevent them being blown over in strong winds. ____38____, as you will need to think about competition and avoid overcrowding.
Of course, other living plants will not always be able to provide the support that is required. I find growing trees like the hazel or willow means you always have suitable material to use in your own garden. ____39____ . Do so early on in garden establishment and over time, you can easily become self-sufficient in garden plant supports-even in a small garden.
____40____, it can be helpful to think about longer-term needs in your garden. Grow not just eatable plants, but also a range of other plants which will allow you to become more self-sufficient over time.
A. Plenty of trees grow relatively quickly
B. Thick planting should be handled with care
C. Before you buy plant supports for your garden
D. Planting these trees in your garden can be a great choice
E. So when designing your garden and deciding which plants to grow
F. Plants like short peas can simply be grown close together and will hold each other up
G. Plant supports can be living, growing plants or branches cut from elsewhere in the space
【答案】36. G 37. F 38. B 39. D 40. E
【解析】
【导语】本文为一篇说明文。许多新园丁认为有必要为他们的花园购买新物品，但事实上，精心设计和正确的植物选择意味着你的花园实际上可以提供你需要的东西。文章介绍了植物支架不用买的实用小技巧。
【36题详解】
上文“One common example of the things that people buy when they could grow them in their own garden is plant supports. (当人们可以在自己的花园里种植出来，他们会购买的一个常见的例子是植物支架。)”，plant supports为本段的关键词，此句可知，花园里需要用得到的植物支架有两个来源：或者购买，或者自己种出植物支架，人们通常选择购买支架，根据句中的could的语气，这是作者不赞同的做法。G项“Plant supports can be living, growing plants or branches cut from elsewhere in the space (植物支架可以是活的，生长的植物或从空间的其他地方剪下的树枝)”可知，此处承接上文，作者表示：在花园里就地取材，用活的、生长着的植物，或者其他地方剪来的枝条，都可以做成支架，呼应上文的 they could grow them in their own garden；下文“While there are numerous plant supports on the market, my professional take is you can do without buying any of these at all. (虽然市场上有很多植物支架，但我的专业观点是，你可以不买任何一种，也能得到支架。)”，作者提出自己的观点，不花钱的情况下你也可以得到植物支架，G项与下文为顺接关系，语意顺畅。故选G项。
【37题详解】
上文“Sometimes, the plants you grow beside climbers or vines can provide all the support they need. (有时，你在攀援植物或藤蔓旁种植的植物可以提供它们所需的一切支持。)”，下文“The same thing can be true of a number of taller perennials (多年生植物). (同样的情况也可能发生在一些较高的多年生植物上)”，F项“Plants like short peas can simply be grown close together and will hold each other up (像矮豌豆这样的植物可以简单地种在一起，它们会互相提供支撑)”，作者指出需要支架的taller perennials与Plants like short peas，都可以通过近距离种植的方式来相互支撑，下文中的The same thing指代F项中的simply be grown close together and will hold each other up，上下文语意顺畅一致。故选F项。
【38题详解】
下文“as you will need to think about competition and avoid overcrowding. (因为你需要考虑竞争，避免过度拥挤。)”，B项“Thick planting should be handled with care (茂密的植物应小心处理)”，下文为B项观点的原因：因为你需要考虑植物竞争生长，所以得避免植物过度拥挤。B项中的Thick planting与下文的overcrowding相呼应，语意一致顺畅。故选B项。

【39题详解】
上文“I find growing trees like the hazel or willow means you always have suitable material to use in your own garden. (我发现，种植像榛树或柳树这样的树意味着你总是有合适的材料在自己的花园里使用)”可知，橡树和柳树能提供做植物支架的材料，D项“Planting these trees in your garden can be a great choice (在你的花园里种植这些树是一个很好的选择)”，其中的these trees指代上文的trees like the hazel or willow，下文“Do so early on in garden establishment and over time, you can easily become self-sufficient in garden plant supports-even in a small garden. (花园建设的早期就这样做，随着时间的推移，你可以很容易地在花园植物的支持上自给自足——即使是在一个小花园。)”，下文的so指代D项中的Planting these trees in your garden，上下文语意连贯顺畅。故选D项。
【40题详解】
后一句“Grow not just eatable plants, but also a range of other plants which will allow you to become more self-sufficient over time. (不仅要种植可食用的植物，还要种植一系列其他植物，随着时间的推移，这些植物会让你变得更加自给自足。)”可知，作者建议的“花园里的种植的植物种类，以及带来的好处，根据句法角度，E项“So when designing your garden and deciding which plants to grow (所以在设计你的花园并决定种植哪种植物时)”可知，此段话题为“花园的布置，植物的选择”，下文“ it can be helpful to think about longer-term needs in your garden. (考虑一下你的花园的长期需求是有帮助的。)”，下句中的allow you to become more self-sufficient over time是上一句longer-term needs的具体表现，语意连贯顺畅。故选E项。

第三部分 语言知识运用（共两节，满分45分）
第一节（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
On a hot day, George and his brother, Mark, were planting new grass in George’s garden. The lawn(草坪)in the garden had become brown and patchy(参差不齐的), which could make a ____41____ in the heat. The authorities had ____42____ to charge a heavy fine if the situation was not ____43____ . George and Mark had been planting the new patches of grass since morning but the progress was ____44____. George, who was 68, was not feeling right. He went indoors to take a ____45____and suddenly fell down on the couch. His wife, Melissa, called the ambulance____46____.
While he was having a heart attack, George had one thing on his ____47____— his lawn. If the new patches of grass were not planted on the lawn that day, the grass would die. “Although he was in great pain, he kept asking me to have the patches of grass planted because he didn't want them to go to waste,” Melissa ____48____.
Soon the paramedics(护理人员)arrived and ____49____George and Melissa to the hospital, leaving Mark behind to take care of the garden. After an hour, Mark had only _____50_____to uproot the old grass. He was about to plant the new grass when two emergency vehicles _____51_____. Four paramedics, the same ones who had _____52_____ his brother earlier on, got out. George had shared with them how badly he had wanted to plant the new grass patches in his lawn, so they returned to _____53_____. The task was _____54_____ in less than two hours!
Meanwhile, George had undergone a heart surgery. After he had recovered, he had been _____55_____ his beautiful lawn. He was amazed at the new look covered with _____56_____ patches of grass.
George and Melissa were _____57_____ that those paramedics had gone above and beyond their _____58_____ to offer help with the lawn. Melissa told the newspaper reporter one day, “These men not only _____59_____ George’s life, but also his grass. That's just so _____60_____.”
41. A. trap B. fire C. mess D. mistake
42. A. promised B. hesitated C. struggled D. threatened
43. A. approved of B. left out C. dealt with D. put forward
44. A. slow B. steady C. easy D. obvious
45. A. break B. lesson C. chance D. walk
46. A. carefully B. gratefully C. immediately D. secretly
47. A. shoulder B. hand C. head D. mind
48. A. recalled B. questioned C. insisted D. warned
49. A. treated B. rushed C. reported D. introduced
50. A. happened B. attempted C. managed D. offered
51. A. started B. appeared C. crashed D. dropped
52. A. called on B. turned down C. brought back D. attended to
53. A. celebrate B. check C. help D. study
54. A. improved B. increased C. completed D. confirmed
55. A. enjoying B. advocating C. changing D. designing
56. A. black B. green C. red D. brown
57. A. frightened B. regretful C. proud D. surprised
58. A. abilities B. duties C. patience D. ambition
59. A. ruined B. enriched C. entered D. saved
60. A. awesome B. convenient C. awkward D. shocking
【答案】41. B 42. D 43. C 44. A 45. A 46. C 47. D 48. A 49. B 50. C 51. B 52. D 53. C 54. C 55. A 56. B 57. D 58. B 59. D 60. A
【解析】
【导语】本文是一篇记叙文。在和兄弟Mark整理草坪时，George突发心脏病，后被护理人员送到医院。他康复后惊奇地发现自己的草坪已经种上了新草。原来是那些护理人员和Mark一起把新草种上了。
【41题详解】
考查名词词义辨析。句意：花园中的草坪已经泛黄，参差不齐。这在炎热的天气中可能会造成火灾。A. trap陷阱；B. fire火；C. mess混乱，杂乱；D. mistake错误。根据“in the heat.”推知，泛黄的草坪容易在炎热的天气引发火灾。故选B。
【42题详解】
考查动词词义辨析。句意：官方已经发出警告，如果这种情况不进行处理，他们会被罚款。A. promised 承诺；B. hesitated犹豫；C. struggled挣扎，努力；D. threatened威胁，警告。根据“charge a heavy fine”可知，这是官方发出的警告。故选D。
【43题详解】
考查动词短语辨析。句意同上。A. approved of赞同；B. left out遗漏；C. dealt with处理；D. put forward提出。结合上文提到泛黄的草坪容易在炎热天气引发火灾和“if the situation”可知，此处是指官方要求处理这种情况。故选C。
【44题详解】
考查形容词词义辨析。句意：George和Mark从早晨就开始种植新草块，但是进展缓慢。A. slow慢慢的；B. steady稳定的，持续的；C. easy容易的；D. obvious明显的。根据“George and Mark had been planting the new patches of grass since morning”和表示转折意义的but可知，尽管一大早就开始种植草坪，但进展缓慢。故选A。
【45题详解】
考查名词词义辨析。句意：他回屋里去休息，但突然就倒在沙发上了。A. break休息；B. lesson课；C. chance机会；D. walk散步。根据“George, who was 68, was not feeling right.”可知，George因为不舒服回屋休息。故选A。
【46题详解】
考查副词词义辨析。句意：他的妻子Melissa立刻叫了救护车。A. carefully仔细地；B. gratefully感激地；C. immediately立即；D. secretly秘密地。根据“suddenly fell down on the couch.”推知，George的妻子立刻叫了救护车。故选C。
【47题详解】
考查名词词义辨析。句意：尽管得了心脏病，但George惦念着一件事情——他的草坪。A. shoulder肩膀；B. hand 手；C. head头；D. mind思维，大脑。on one’s mind“挂在心上，惦念”。根据“While he was having a heart attack”可知，虽然生病了但George还惦记着自己的草坪。故选D。
【48题详解】
考查动词词义辨析。句意：Melissa回忆道：“尽管他非常痛苦，但他一直要求我种植草坪，因为他不想让这些草块被扔掉。”A. recalled回忆，召回；B. questioned询问；C. insisted坚持；D. warned警告。结合上下文语境可知，这是Melissa回忆当时情况所说的话。故选A。
【49题详解】
考查动词词义辨析。句意：很快护理人员就到了，并把George和Melissa迅速送到了医院。A. treated对待，治疗，招待；B. rushed急忙送，急送；C. reported报道；D. introduced介绍。根据上文“suddenly fell down on the couch.”可知，George突然发病，因此护理人员快速将他送往医院进行救治。故选B。
【50题详解】
考查动词词义辨析。句意：一小时后，Mark才把枯黄的旧草拔完。A. happened发生；B. attempted企图；C. managed管理，设法；D. offered提供，主动提出。根据下文“He was about to plant the new grass”可知，Mark已经把旧草拔完，manage to do sth.“设法做成某事”。故选C。
【51题详解】
考查动词词义辨析。句意：他正要去种新草的时候，两辆紧急救援车出现了。A. started开始；B. appeared出现，看起来；C. crashed碰撞；D. dropped落下。根据“Four paramedics, the same ones who had 　　　his brother earlier on, got out.”可知，此处指Mark正准备种上新草，突然看见了救护车，即救护车出现了。故选B。
【52题详解】
考查动词短语辨析。句意：先前照顾他哥哥的那四位护理人员从车里出来了。A. called on拜访，号召；B. turned down调小，拒绝；C. brought back带回，使……想起；D. attended to照顾。结合上文可知，the same ones指的是上文提到的医护人员，医护人员的职责是照顾病人。故选D。
【53题详解】
考查动词词义辨析。句意：George和他们分享了他多么想在草坪上种植新的草坪，所以他们回来帮忙。A. celebrate庆祝；B. check检查；C. help帮助；D. study学习，研究。根据“George had shared with them how badly he had wanted to plant the new grass patches in his lawn”推知，医护人员听了George的心愿后都来家里帮忙种植草坪。故选C。
【54题详解】
考查动词词义辨析。句意：不到两小时这项任务就完成了。A. improved改善；B. increased增加；C. completed完成；D. confirmed确认。根据“in less than two hours!”推知，种草坪的工作在医护人员的帮助下很快就完成了。故选C。
【55题详解】
考查动词词义辨析。句意：在他康复后，George就享受到了自己美丽的草坪。A. enjoying享受；B. advocating提倡；C. changing改变；D. designing设计。根据上文“The task was ____14____ in less than two hours!”可知，草坪已经种植好了，George出院后就可以享受自己美丽的草坪了。故选A。
【56题详解】
考查形容词词义辨析。句意：被绿草块覆盖的新面貌使他感到惊奇。A. black黑色的；B. green绿色的；C. red红色的；D. brown棕色的。对应上文“The lawn(草坪)in the garden had become brown”可知，新种的草坪是绿油油的。故选B。
57题详解】
考查形容词词义辨析。句意：George 和Melissa非常吃惊这些护理人员会在职责之外帮助他们修整草坪。A. frightened害怕的；B. regretful遗憾的；C. proud骄傲的；D. surprised惊讶的。根据下文“those paramedics had gone above and beyond their 　　　　　　　　　　 to offer help with the lawn”可推知，George和妻子对医护人员帮着种草坪的行为感到吃惊，因为这不是他们的工作。故选D。
【58题详解】
考查名词词义辨析。句意同上。A. abilities能力；B. duties职责；C. patience耐心；D. ambition雄心，报复。结合常识可知，帮病人种植草坪不是医护人员的职责。go above and beyond duties“超越职责，在职责之外”。故选B。
【59题详解】
考查动词词义辨析。句意：Melissa曾告诉报纸记者，“这些人不仅救了George的命，也救了他的草。这真是太棒了。”A. ruined摧毁；B. enriched使丰富；C. entered进入；D. saved拯救，存，节约。根据上文“Meanwhile, George had undergone a heart surgery. After he had recovered,”可知，医护人员拯救了George的生命。故选D。
【60题详解】
考查形容词词义辨析。句意同上。A. awesome令人敬畏的，极好的；B. convenient便利的；C. awkward尴尬的，笨拙的；D. shocking令人震惊的。根据“These men not only ____19____ George's life, but also his grass.”推知，Melissa认为这是一件令人敬畏、非常棒的事情。故选A。
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，并将答案填写在答题卡上。
As we all know, we all need blood. Actually, every three seconds, someone needs it. Whether it’s for having a baby or ____61____(experience)an operation, blood saves millions of lives every year. But the trouble is that we can only get it from each other, which is why we all have a ____62____(responsible)to donate blood. Almost 68 million people in the U.S alone ____63____(donate)blood in the past few years. But where does all this blood go after it leaves your body? Let’s start at the post donation stage. First, test tubes of your blood ____64____(send)to a lab to identify any diseases and the blood type. At the same time, your blood goes into a place where it’s separated into three different ____65____(component): red blood cells，platelets and plasma. And each of these has a separate function. Red blood cells are what give your blood ____66____(it)color and contain a protein which makes it easier for them ____67____(transport)oxygen to and from your lungs. This is what is given to patients under operation or those ____68____low blood cell counts. Platelets are the small parts of other cells and they are of great help for your blood to clot (凝结成块)properly. They’re ____69____(common)used for cancer patients ____70____have been affected by their chemical treatment.
【答案】61. experiencing
62. responsibility
63. have donated
64. are sent
65. components
66. its
67. to transport
68. with
69. commonly
70. who##that
【解析】
【导语】本文是一篇说明文，文章介绍了人们献血之后的血的处理过程。
【详解】1.考查非谓语动词。句意：无论是生孩子还是做手术，血液每年都能挽救数百万人的生命。分析句子结构可知，此处填非谓语形式，作for的宾语，故填动名词形式。故填experiencing。
2.考查名词。 句意：但问题是，我们只能从对方那里得到它，这就是为什么我们都有责任献血。空处应填名词作have的宾语，根据空前冠词“a”可知，应用单数名词。故填responsibility。
3.考查动词时态。句意：在过去的几年里，仅美国就有将近6800万人献血。但这些血液离开身体后会去哪里呢?根据下文的“in the past few years”可知，空格处填donate的现在完成时，主语people是复数，助动词用have。故填have donated。
4.考查动词时态、语态和主谓一致。句意：首先，将你的血液试管送往实验室，以确定任何疾病和血型。本句的主语是“test tubes”，跟send之间是被动关系，再结合上下文语境可知，此处表示一般情况，故填一般现在时的被动语态。故填are sent。
5. 考查名词单复数。句意：与此同时，你的血液进入一个地方，在那里它被分成三种不同的(成分)：红细胞、血小板和血浆。component表示“成分”，为可数名词，根据上文的“three different”可知，空格处填复数形式。故填components。
6.考查代词。句意：红细胞为你的血液提供颜色，并含有一种蛋白质，使它们更容易将氧气运输到肺部。根据空后的名词“color”可知，此处应用形容词性物主代词，故填its。
7. 考查非谓语动词。句意：红细胞为你的血液提供颜色，并含有一种蛋白质，使它们更容易将氧气运输到肺部。句中it为makes的形式宾语，makes的真正宾语是后面的动词不定式to transport。故填to transport。
8.考查介词。句意：这是给手术中或血细胞计数低的病人的。 those with low blood cell counts意为“血球计数低的人”。with在此表示“带有……特征”。故填with。
9.考查副词。句意：它们通常用于治疗因化疗而受到影响的癌症患者。此处需要用副词修饰动词。故填commonly。
10. 考查定语从句。句意：它们通常用于治疗因化疗而受到影响的癌症患者。分析句子结构可知，此处为限制性定语从句，先行词为cancer patients，指人，从句缺少主语，故用who或that引导该定语从句。故填who/that。
第四部分 写作（共两节，满分35分）
第一节 短文改错（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
71. 假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（N），并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2.只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
My grandmother is in her eighty this year. Last month, I bought her smart phone specially designed for the elderly. I patiently teach her how to telephone or how to have a video chat with others on WeChat. I practiced again and again. She was very thrilling when she could chat on WeChat. She thought the smart phone was such powerful a tool. Now she has final mastered how to use the smart phone. To her delight, she can have a video chat with me on WeChat without being helped. She takes pride in herself because of she can keep up with the times. She no long feels lonely.
【答案】1.eighty→eighties
2.在smart前加a/one
3.teach→taught
4.or→and
5.I→She
6.thrilling→thrilled
7.such→so
8.final→finally
9.去掉of
10.long→longer
【解析】
【导语】本文是一篇记叙文，主要讲的是作者给奶奶买了一部智能手机，奶奶感到很高兴。
【详解】1.考查名词的复数。句意：我奶奶今年八十多岁了。in her eighties意为“她八十多岁”，eighty需用复数。故将eighty改为eighties。
2.考查冠词或数词。句意：上个月，我给她买了一部专门为老年人设计的智能手机。phone是可数名词，此处表示“我给她买了一部专门为老年人设计的智能手机”，smart是辅音音素开头，“一个”可用a/one，故在smart前加a/one。
3.考查时态。句意：我耐心地教她如何打电话，如何在微信上和别人视频聊天。句子描述过去的事情，时态用一般过去时，teach要用过去式，故将teach改为taught。
4.考查连词。句意：我耐心地教她如何打电话，如何在微信上和别人视频聊天。“how to telephone”和“how to have a video chat with others on WeChat”是并列关系，句子是肯定句，用and连接，故将or改为and。
5.考查代词。句意：她一遍又一遍地练习。根据语境可知，句子表示“她一遍又一遍地练习”，主语“她”用she，位于句首，首字母大写，故将I改为She。
6.考查形容词。句意：当她能在微信上聊天时，她非常激动。修饰主语She应用ed结尾的形容词thrilled表示人的感觉，thrilled意为“激动的”，故将thrilling改为thrilled。
7.考查副词。句意：她认为智能手机是一个非常强大的工具。powerful是形容词，前面用so，故将such改为so。
8.考查副词。句意：现在她终于掌握了如何使用智能手机。修饰动词mastered用副词finally，意为“终于”。故将final改为finally。
9.考查连词。句意：她为自己感到自豪，因为她能跟上时代的步伐。because of后跟名词或名词性短语，because后跟句子，“she can keep up with the times”是句子，因此用because，引导原因状语从句。故去掉of。
10.考查固定短语。句意：她不再感到孤独了。no longer是固定短语，意为“不再”。故将long改为longer。
第二节 书面表达（满分25分）
72. 你校英文报正在开展以The Importance of Doing Housework为题的讨论。请根据图表中的调查结果写一篇短文投稿，内容包括：

1.中学生做家务状况描述；
2.造成此状况的原因；
3.你的观点。
注意：1.词数100左右；
2.短文的题目和首句已为你写好。
The Importance of Doing Housework
It’s widely known that Labor Education will be included in the education of middle schools in China.
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【答案】One possible version:
The Importance of Doing Housework
It’s widely known that Labor Education will be included in the education of middle schools in China. It’s out of the concern that Chinese youngsters do too little housework and belittle manual labor jobs.
According to a recent survey done among 45 middle school students, 10 of them do housework on a daily basis, 30 students do it often, while the other 5 never do it. Due to great academic pressure, schools tend to focus on the academic curriculum, and parents sometimes see household chores as distractions.
As far as I’m concerned, doing housework benefits students greatly. For one thing, it helps cultivate the right view of the world, life and values and develop an interest in doing physical labor. For another, it enables students to acquire basic working capabilities for livelihood and individual development as well as form good working habits.
【解析】
【导语】这是一篇图表作文。要求考生根据中学生做家务情况的统计图写一篇文章投稿，描述中学生做家务的现状，造成此状况的原因，以及自己的观点。
【详解】1.词汇积累
由于：due to →because of
集中于：focus on → concentrate on
把……视……：see…as…→ regard…as…
在我看来：as far as I’m concerned → in my opinion/in my view
一方面……另一方面……：for one thing…for another…→ on the one hand…on the other hand…/in the first place…in the second place…
2.句式拓展
简单句变并列倒装句
原句：For one thing, it helps cultivate the right view of the world, life and values and develop an interest in doing physical labor. For another, it enables students to acquire basic working capabilities for livelihood and individual development as well as form good working habits.
拓展句：Not only does it help cultivate the right view of the world, life and values and develop an interest in doing physical labor but also enables students to acquire basic working capabilities for livelihood and individual development as well as form good working habits.
【点睛】【高分句型1】It’s widely known that Labor Education will be included in the education of middle schools in China.（运用了主语从句）
【高分句型2】According to a recent survey done among 45 middle school students, 10 of them do housework on a daily basis, 30 students do it often, while the other 5 never do it.（运用了过去分词作定语）