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成都石室中学2023—2024学年度上期高2024届入学考试
英语试卷
满分150分 考试时间：120分钟
第I卷
第一部分 听力(共两节，满分30分)
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 does the man think of the exhibit?
A. Attractive. B. Inspiring. C. Uninteresting.
2. What is the man probably?
A. A teacher. B. A coach. C. A doctor.
3. What did the man do on the first day at the summer school?
A. He did Gloria a favor. B. He learned about the rules. C. He collected the stuff.
4. What does the man suggest the woman do with her package?
A. Send it by airmail. B. Mail it tomorrow. C. Buy insurance for it.
5. Where are the speakers going to meet Dave?
A. Outside the bookstore. B. In a burger shop. C. At the cinema.
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。听完每段对话或独白前，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。
听下面一段对话，回答第6至第8三个小题。
6. What will the man do at noon on Saturday?
A. Have lunch with his mother. B. Take his sister to play basketball. C. Make a telephone call to his mother.
7. How will the man go to the basketball game?
A. By car. B. By bus. C. By subway.
8. When will the speakers meet on Saturday?
A. At 5 p.m. B. At 4:30 p.m. C. At 4 p.m.
听下面一段对话，回答第9至第11三个小题。
9. What is the probable relationship between the speakers?
A. Salesperson and consumer. B. Receptionist and guest. C. Manager and employee.
10. How much are the meals?
A. $30. B. $90. C. $100.
11. How does the man pay his bill?
A. In cash. B. By credit card. C. By WeChat.
听下面一段对话，回答第12至第14三个小题。
12. Why did the woman go to Bangkok?
A. Her friend persuaded her. B. Her company sent her there. C. Her colleague invited her.
13. What did the woman dislike in Bangkok?
A. The temples. B. The food. C. The weather.
14. When is a bad time to go to Bangkok?
A. February. B. April. C. November.
听下面一段对话，回答第15至第17三个小题。
15. What are the speakers mainly talking about?
A. Their college study. B. Their future plans. C. Their favorite hobbies.
16. Why does the woman consider continuing her studies?
A. She wants to get a degree for her dream job.
B. She wants to work with her college teachers.
C. She wants to study in her favorite university.
17. What does the man say about being a gym instructor?
A. It can make him appear young. B. It can make him feel respectable. C. It can make him physically healthy.
听下面一段独白，回答第18至第20三个小题。
18. When can most children learn how to use the computer?
A. At the age of 2. B. At the age of 3.5. C. In Grade3 or 4.
19. How did Judy’s son know the classification?
A. On his own. B. Under Judy’s guidance. C. With the help of the software.
20. Why is it necessary for children to learn the computer at home?
A. They can avoid being at a disadvantage.
B. They can get online help from the teachers.
C. They’ll leave good impressions on their teachers.
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，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。
A
NPR’s Student Podcast (播客) Challenge is back — for a fifth year! This year’s competition will open for entries on September 6, 2023 and close on October 28.
As in past years, our judges will choose winners in two categories: grades five through eight and grades nine through twelve. Entries must be submitted by an educator or a student leader who’s 18 years old or older. Another important rule is that the maximum length of your podcast is within eight minutes, and longer entries will be disqualified.
Our judges will use the following criteria to narrow down and choose the winners:
Information and structure, 40 percent
Does the podcast tell a good story or teach us something new and important? Is it structured in a way that keeps listeners engaged? Can we easily follow the story you’re telling or the information you’re explaining? Have you spent time cutting out unnecessary information to make sure the main ideas come through clearly?
Personality and creativity, 40 percent
Does it have personality, or does it sound like you’re reading from a script (脚本)? Does it make us laugh or cry or leave us deep in thought?
Production, 20 percent
We’re not judging you on how fancy your equipment is and we don’t expect you to be an expert on recording and editing sound, but we hope you’ll try.
Some podcasts may use a narration format. Others may be more of an interview format. If you use sound apart from interviews and narration, make sure it is clear and smooth.
21. Who are qualified to submit the podcast to the competition?
A. Editors. B. Student. C. Parents. D. Teachers.
22. What is a requirement for the entries?
A. They should be more than eight minutes. B. They must be well structured and edited.
C. They must be produced with special sound effects. D. They have to adopt an interview format.
23. Which statement is NOT true about the competition?
A. October 28 is the deadline for all the participants to hand in their entry.
B. The content of a podcast must be educational as well as entertaining.
C. It doesn’t matter whether students are using equipment of high quality
D. Winners are evaluated in different aspects other than the script or format.
B
The most important life lesson I’ve learned from running is to run at my own pace. This lesson has guided me in many ways. In particular, it made me challenge the fixed expectations of retirement and aging.
Running is a metaphor (隐喻) for life. I realized this while training for a marathon to celebrate my 60th birthday. All the other runners being faster than me made me embarrassed, but my coach shared some valuable advice: run at your own best pace — setting a goal or target time could be a limitation. He was right. Over time I ran more easily and faster. I also enjoyed the experience much more.
I have applied this principle to other areas of my life. Finding a rhythm is not about efficiency or how many things I can get done in a day. It has more to do with what I decide to do at this stage in my life. Running carries its own set of expectations, including what people at certain life stage should be doing or not doing. Expectations at my age can center on how leisure time is spent, decisions about employment, and even the role of a grandparent.
I used to think it was young people who bore the impact of peer pressure, but older adults can experience it too. This is ironic, because often later in this life is a time when we tend to care less about the opinions of others.
I’m not suggesting we postpone dreams. Of course, we should do what matters to us, but it’s easy to view retirement as another occupation with benchmarks (基准) to be met. It’s a comparison trap that makes what someone else does the reference point.
Forget what others are doing. Their pace is not necessarily the pace you should run at. Run at your own way. Our bodies know what they need. Our hearts know what they need. In living life on our own terms, we will likely feel stronger in body, mind and spirit.
24. What motivated the author to participate in marathon?
A. Her keen wish to celebrate her 60th birthday. B. Her strong curiosity for fighting against aging.
C. Her eager interest in doing regular exercise. D. Her urgent need to enhance her health and mind.
25. What do the underlined words “this principle” in paragraph 3 probably refer to?
A. Setting a target time. B. Finding your limitation.
C. Enjoying your decisions. D. Running at your own pace.
26. What does the author think of peer pressure?
A. Its impact is only limited to young generations. B. Even senior citizens cannot avoid it completely.
C. Its existence is too ridiculous to explain. D. It ends if we stop pursuing our dreams.
27.What might the author intend to convey through her experience?
A. Look before you leap. B. Birds of a feather flock together.
C. It’s never old late to learn. D. Don’t follow the crowd.
C
On January 7, David Bennett went into the operating room at the University of Maryland Medical Center for a surgical procedure never performed before on a human. The 57-year-old Maryland resident had been hospitalized for months due to a life threatening disease. His heart was failing him and he needed a new one.
Bennett’s condition left him unresponsive to treatment and ineligible (不合格) for the transplant list or an artificial heart pump. The physician-scientists at the center, however, had another-also-risky-option: transplant (移植) a heart from a genetically-modified pig.
“It was either die or do this transplant,” Bennett had told surgeons a day before the operation. “I want to live. I know it’s a shot in the dark, but it’s also my last choice.”
It took the medical team eight hours to finish the operation, making Bennett the first human to successfully receive a pig’s heart. “It’s working and it looks normal. We are thrilled, but we don’t know what tomorrow will bring us. This has never been done before,” Barkley Griffith, who led the transplant team, told the New York Times.
While it’s only been five days since the operation, the surgeons say that Bennett’s new pig heart has been, so far, functioning as expected and his body wasn’t rejecting (排斥) the organ. They are still monitoring his condition closely.
“I think it’s extremely exciting,” says Robert Montgomery, transplant surgeon and director of the NYU Langone Transplant Institute, who was not involved in Bennett’s operation. The result of the procedure was also personally meaningful for Montgomery, who received a heart transplant in 2018 due to a genetic disease that may also affect members of his family in the future. “It’s still in the early days, but still the heart seems to be functioning. And that in and of itself is an extraordinary thing. Up to now most experimental heart transplant procedures have been done between pigs and other animals. This is the first time that surgeons have taken it into a living human.”
28. What do the words “a shot in the dark” underlined in Paragraph 3 mean?
A. Something that costs a fortune. B. Something impossible to succeed.
C. Something drawing public attention. D. Something with an uncertain outcome.
29. What is Barkley Griffith’s attitude to Bennett’s post-operation condition?
A. Negative. B. Cautious. C. Optimistic. D. Uncaring.
30. What is the text mainly about?
A. The heated debate over the pig heart transplant.
B. David Bennett’s contribution to medical research.
C. The first experimental pig heart transplant in the world.
D. The first successful pig heart transplant into a living human.
31. In which section of a magazine may this text appear?
A. Political Affairs. B. Global Entertainment. C. Sci-Tech Front. D. Financial Window.
D
Women were less likely than men to support the Vietnam war, the Gulf war, or the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq. They commit far fewer murders. They are less likely to favor strikes. For some scholars, these are grounds for thinking that a world run by women would be more peaceful.
But European history suggests otherwise, according to political scientists Oeindrila Dube and S. P. Harish. They studied how often European rulers went to war between 1480 and 1913, and found that states ruled by queens were 27% more likely to get involved in wars than those ruled by kings.
This was not all the queens’ fault: men, seeing them as soft targets, tended to attack them. Frederick the Great of Prussia once declared: “No woman should ever be allowed to govern anything.” Shortly after becoming king, he attacked the newly crowned Archduchess of Austria, Maria Theresa, and seized Silesia province. Despite years of war, she never recovered it.
But perceived weakness is not the whole story. Queens, the researchers found, were more likely to gain new territory. Catherine the Great expanded her empire by some 200,000 square miles. And married queens were more aggressive than single queens or kings, whether single or married.
The authors suggest several reasons for this. First, married queens may have been able to form more military alliances (联盟), making them confident enough to pick fights. Their husbands had often served in the army before they married, and were well placed to strengthen military ties between their homelands and their wives’ states.
Second, unlike most kings, queens often gave their husbands a lot of power, putting them in charge of foreign policy or the economy. During the 1740s, Maria Theresa’s husband, Francis I, reformed the Austrian economy and raised money for the armed forces while his wife ruled much of central Europe. Prince Albert was Queen Victoria’s most trusted adviser, shaping her foreign policy until his death in1861. This division of labor, the authors suggest, freed up time for queens to pursue more aggressive policies.
The modern era, too, has witnessed female leaders in wars: Golda Meir and the Yom Kippur war, or Margaret Thatcher and the Falklands. The number of countries led by women has more than doubled since 2000, but there is plenty of room for improvement: the current level of 15 represents less than 10% of the total. A world in which more women took power might be more equal. Whether it would be more peaceful is a different question.
32. The underlined “perceived weakness” in paragraph 4 means that ________.
A. women were less likely to support wars B. women could not recover lost territory
C. women commit far fewer crimes D. women were soft targets
33. Why were married queens more likely to gain new territory?
A. Because their military alliances picked fights for them.
B. Because they were ambitious and aggressive by nature.
C. Because their husbands were supportive in state governing.
D. Because they centralized all power into their own hands.
34. What is the purpose of mentioning the two female leaders in the last paragraph?
A. To imply there is room for improvement in gender equality.
B. To indicate more females become leaders in modern times.
C. To illustrate female leaders cannot prevent wars in modern times.
D. To suggest female leaders have their share of wars in modern times.
35. According to the passage, we can safely conclude that ________.
A. married women are not fit to govern their states on their own
B. female leaders should be responsible for all wars throughout history
C. the world wouldn’t be more peaceful even if more women took power
D. the division of labor allows queens to survive economic crisis
第二节 (共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分)
根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
Many people wonder what they can do to become well-rounded and competitive while increasing their rate of success.   36  
Be willing to expand your mind. Rid yourself of assumptions and convictions so that you can be open and receptive to new information.   37   You will eventually come across information that challenges your worldview. Rather than remaining resting in your comfort zone, use this time to stop, reflect and shed light on these ideas in a way that can develop and expand your vision.
After the mind has been ready, the next step is application.   38   Learning information you can use in your daily life is very important to having a continuous desire to further advance your education. Skill-based learning, for example, is useless if it isn’t applied. Reading a book on automobile repair isn’t the same as physically changing the oil or tire on your car. Reading about art isn’t the same as picking up a brush. If your knowledge can be directly applied in a functional and fun fashion, put it into practice! Many people learn by being hands-on.
Surround yourself with like-minded individuals and try to always take something valuable away from your daily interactions.   39   If you come across anything that confuses you, ask them! Never be too prideful, for each question you don’t ask is a missed opportunity!
  40   Commit to expanding your mind, continuing your education and becoming a student of life. Use the world as your classroom, and always come away with a lesson. Remember to cultivate your mind so it is prepared to expand, blossom and grow. And share your fountain of knowledge.
A. Go ahead and challenge yourself today.
B. Create a to-learn list just as you would a to-do list.
C. There are so many things they can do to achieve their goal.
D. You can find a large number of outstanding people in your school.
E. This at times may even contradict what you have always believed to be true.
F. Many people are professionals in their field and have valuable information and insight to share.
G. An often overlooked yet simple way to improve is to increase your knowledge by being a self-starter.
第三部分 英语知识运用 (共两节，满分45分)
第一节 完形填空(共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分)
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
The passengers on the bus watched with sympathy as Susan made her way carefully up the steps. She paid the driver and then, using her hands to   41   the seats, settled in one of them.
It had been a year since Susan became blind. As a result of an accident, she was suddenly thrown into a world of   42  . Susan’s husband Mark watched her   43   into hopelessness and he was   44   to use every possible means to drag her out.
Finally, Susan felt ready to return to her job, but how would she get there? She used to take the bus, but she was now too   45   to get around the city by herself. Mark   46   to ride the bus with Susan each morning and evening   47   she could manage it by herself.
For two weeks, Mark   48   Susan to and from work each day. He taught her how to rely on her other   49  , specifically her hearing, to determine where she was and how to adapt to her new   50  .
At last, Susan decided that she was ready to try the trip   51  . Monday morning arrived. Before she left, she hugged her husband   52  , with her eyes filled with tears of gratitude. She said good-bye and, for the first time, they went their   53   ways. Four days went perfectly, and a wild excitement took   54   of Susan. She was doing it!
On Friday morning, Susan took the bus to work as usual. As she was about to getting   55   the bus, the driver said, “Miss, I sure   56   you.” Curious, Susan asked the driver why.
“You know, every morning for the past   57  , a fine-looking gentleman in a military uniform has been standing across the corner over there, watching you until you enter your office building   58  ,” the bus driver said.
Tears of   59   poured down Susan’s cheeks. She was so lucky, for he had given her a gift more powerful than   60  . That is the gift of love that can bring light where there is darkness.
41. A. touch B. grab C. count D. feel
42. A. weakness B. sickness C. darkness D. sadness
43. A. run B. sink C. jump D. step
44. A. inspired B. determined C. honored D. pleased
45. A. tired B. astonished C. depressed D. frightened
46. A. volunteered B. attempted C. continued D. struggled
47. A. when B. as C. until D. after
48. A. drove B. directed C. accompanied D. sent
49. A. feelings B. organs C. skills D. senses
50. A. position B. environment C. status D. role
51. A. on her own B. in person C. to her benefit D. on foot
52. A. politely B. calmly C. briefly D. tightly
53. A. opposite B. separate C. fixed D. lonely
54. A. charge B. place C. advantage D. hold
55. A. on B. away C. off D. into
56. A. respect B. envy C. know D. support
57. A. week B. month C. day D. season
58. A. safely B. excitedly C. hurriedly D. calmly
59. A. joy B. sorrow C. rage D. fright
60. A. courage B. will C. sight D. wisdom
第II卷
第二节 (共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分)
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。
“Seeing printed media being    61   (gradual) replaced by new media made me feel that something precious in my memory    62   (be) lost. I don’t want them to disappear,” he said,    63   (add) that publishing marriage announcements evokes    64   warm feeling toward newspapers while bringing a sense of vintage elegance.
The price for publishing a marriage announcement differs by number of words, space and printing house. It ranges from around 100 yuan to more than 10,000 yuan. Customers can    65   pay for the service online or by phone. Globally, many newspapers also provide sections to publish marriage announcements, along with births and    66   (die).
Meng Si,    67   works for an online platform    68   (associate) with newspaper publishing services, told Xinhua News Agency recently that there has been a    69   (notice) increase in inquiries and orders for marriage announcements. The customers are predominantly young people in    70   20s, with some even making appointments one or two months in advance.
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）
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。错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加:在缺词处加一个漏词符号(∧),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:在错的词下画一横线,并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意: 1.每处错误及修改均仅限一词；
2.只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
I have watched a plenty of documentaries about Shanghai and I had been dying to go there. If I have a chance to go sightseeing there, I’ll make a detailed plan based on my knowledge about the city. I’ll walk along the Bund, which I can see many western-style buildings. For lunch, we would like to eat some delicious snack in Yu Garden. After lunch, I plan to visit the Oriental Pearl TV Tower, which is the seventh high tower in the world. Besides, I will also climb to the top of that tower to have a view of the whole modernly city. Only by this way can I have better understanding of it. I hope my wish to visit Shanghai will be realizing this year.
第二节 书面表达(满分25分)
假定你是李华，你作为高三学生代表受邀在开学典礼上发言，请撰写一篇发言稿，内容包括：
1.高三学习中可能面临的困难或挑战（至少两点）；
2.解决办法；
3.期望与祝福。
注意：
1.词数100左右；
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Dear teachers and my fellow students,
Good morning. __________________________________________________________________________________
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Thank you for listening.