1、英语试卷 本试卷分选择题和非选择题两部分。满分150分。考试用时120分钟。注意事项：1答卷前，考生务必将自己的姓名、考生号等填写在答题卡和试卷指定位置上。2回答选择题时，选出每小题答案后，用铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案标号。回答非选择题时，将答案写在答题卡上。写在本试卷上无效。3考试结束后，将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。第一部分 阅读理解(共两节，满分50分)第一节(共15小题；每小题2.5分，满分37.5分) 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。AAmsterdam Destination GuideAmsterd
2、am is one of the most popular travel destinations in the world，famous for its beautiful canals，top art museums and cycling cultureHere are some key points for your trip to AmsterdamMustSee AttractionsBegin with the Old Centre，which is full of traditional architecture，shopping centers，and coffee shop
3、s. Dont miss the Dam Square and the areas around Spui and NieuwmarktYou11 also want check out Amsterdams Museum Quarter in the South District，which is great for shopping at the Albert Cuyp Market and having a picnic in the VondelparkThe top museums to visit are the Rijksmusuem，the Ann Frank House，an
4、d the Van Gogh MuseumIf You Have TimeThe Canal Ring is a UNESCO World Heritage Site that was originally built to attract wealthy home owners and is a place for celebrity spotting and nightlife todayThe P1antage area has most of the citys museums，including the Jewish Historical Museum，the Scheepvaart
5、 Museum，and the botanical gardens TransportationAmsterdam Airport Schiphol is located about 15 kilometers southwest of city centerYou can catch a train from Schiphol to Amsterdam Central Station，which has many connecting routesParking is difficult in the city center，so cycling is incredibly popular
6、here，and its easy to find cheap bike rentals around town.Money Saving TipsUnless you really want to see the tulips blooming，avoid booking between mid-March and mid-MayThis is when hotel and flight prices surgeLook for accommodations in Amsterdams South District，where rates are generally cheaper than
7、 in the city centerBuy train tickets at the machine instead of the counter to save a bit of money1Where can visitors have a picnic? AThe Old Centre BThe Museum QuarterCThe Vondelpark DThe Plantage area2Why is cycling so popular in the city center?AIts difficult to park cars there BIt has too many co
8、nnecting routesCIts too far from the airportDIts very cheap to purchase a bike3How can visitors save money according to the authors advice?ABooking in MidApril BBuying train tickets at the counterCParking in the city centerDBooking hotel in the South DistrictBFive years ago，Yellow-Purple tore a flex
9、or tendon(屈肌腱)，making it difficult to use her left legThe little penguin was having a hard time walking and swimmingYellowPurple lives with a large group of African penguins at Mystic Aquarium in Mystic，ConnecticutAfrican penguins are an endangered speciesThey are beautiful，black and white birds tha
10、t are about two feet tall when fully grown，and they are very popular with the Aquariums visitorsThe staff at the Aquarium made a little support boot for YellowPurple from plasticThis supported her left ankle and made it much easier for her to do all the things that penguins like to doYellowPurple wa
11、s getting along fine with her boot，but then DrJen Flower，Chief Clinical Veterinarian at Mystic Aquarium，heard about 3 D printing technologyShe decided to use it to help better the bootLuckily，Mystic Aquariums Vice President of Education &Conservation，Kelly Marls，knew that Mystic Middle School had re
12、cently acquired a 3D Systems printerKelly reached out to the school and arranged a meetingSue Prince，Library Media Specialist at Mystic Middle School，and seven middle school students visited Yellow-Purple to learn what was needed，and then contacted the supplier of their 3 D printer，ACT GroupWith ACT
13、 Groups help，the students learned how to scan YellowPurples existing foot cast，then use that data to create a more efficient boot with sculpting softwareThe final boot design was printed on a 3D printer using multiple materials，allowing the boot to be flexible enough for comfortable movement，yet har
14、d enough to support the injured tendonThe students were thrilled when they saw YellowPurple walking almost back to normalIt was a great way to put science into practiceCelebrities like Ashton Kutcher shared YellowPurples story on Facebook，inspiring more than 1.5 million combined views4What can we le
15、arn about African penguins?AThey are very large in number BThey are dangerous speciesCThey are beautiful when youngDThey are attractive to visitors5Who came up with the idea of an updated support boot?AThe ACT Group BDrJen FlowerCKelly MatisDSue Prince6What preparation work was done before the stude
16、nts got the ACT Groups help?AThey reached school on time BThey held a meeting to discuss the problemCThey paid a visit to YellowPurpleDThey contacted the ACT Group for supplies7What is the best title for this text?AThe development of 3D printingBA penguin benefiting from high-techCAn effort to put s
17、cience into practiceDA software that can designCWe spend a third of our adult lives working and another big part preparing for our careersHistorically，work was rarely seen as a source of meaning and purposeDuring the vast majority of our 300，000-year human evolution(进化)，work was in fact pretty simpl
18、eWe worked to eat and avoid being eatenMeaning and purpose came from somewhere else，like spirituality，art，religion，or scienceThe idea that we are meant to find meaning at work or to find work meaningfulis a rather modern，if not postmodern，inventionOnly one hundred years ago it would have been freque
19、nt to see a worker who returned from a typical workday at a factory complain to their folks that they didnt earn much or they were worn out and rare to see that they complain they didnt experience a sense of purposeSimilarly，the idea that we ought to bring our“whole self”to work is a pretty novel an
20、d recent form of career adviceIts origins can be traced to William Kahn who invented the concept of employee engagement 30 years agoHis point was that employees differ in the degree to which they identify with their work roleSome see work as merely a job and clock in and out every day，without bringi
21、ng their whole self to workWork is just not a core aspect of their identity，and their concept of themselves is built on other social categories like mother，husband，American，Christian，captain of the local soccer team，etcOthers，however，have very low psychological distance with their work role，seeing i
22、t as essentially intertwined(交融的)with who they areThey dont just come to work，they are fully devoted to their careers and have a spiritual type of connection with their jobsThey are，it seems，almost possessed by work and are the type of workaholics(工作狂)most companies long for8Why did we spend much of
23、 our adult lives working?ATo prepare for future careers BTo find the water sourcesCTo help us evolveDTo make us survive9Why did the writer mention the worker a century，ago?ATo help us find meaning at workBTo prove that the idea was modernCTo show us the bad old daysDTo complain about the experience1
24、0Which of the following might William Kahn agree with?AEmployees have different understandings about their work roleBEvery employee must bring their whole self to workCTo be devoted to work is a pretty novel ideaDWorkerscore identity is built on art categories11What kind of employees do most compani
25、es favour?AThose who see work as a jobBThose who identify with their work roleCThose who are fully devoted to their workDThose who possess experienceDWearing a headset to play a virtual-reality game is funAs you move your head around，you can see the scene from different anglesYoure in a fake environ
26、ment that seems so realBut the power of VR may go well beyond entertainmentIt just might help people who suffer from long time of pain，a new study finds“If VR can reduce some types of pain，it could become a new cure with fewer side effects than drugs，”says Sam Hughes，a psychologist at Imperial Colle
27、ge London“And it would be 1ess expensive”Hughesgroup studies bone and muscle painOne example is sciaticaSciatica is a form of pain doctors call chronic pain，which is different from the hurt you feel when you hit your knee against a table or put your hand in very hot waterIt is fairly long-1ived pain
28、 and may even spread from an initial site to other body partsThe researchers tested the pain-altering effect of virtual realityEach volunteer accepted some form of temporary painThe pain came from a special cream applied to the skinThe cream contained capsaicinItthe chemical in hot peppers that burn
29、s your mouthThey then showed the volunteers a movieEach volunteer would see the movie twiceonce in 3D，while wearing a VR headset，and once on a normal 2 D screenThe researchers randomly decided for each volunteer whether they watched the 2D or 3D version firstUsing the 2D movie as the comparison allo
30、wed them to isolate the effect of VRWatching the movie in VR reduced the pain in the skin area better than did viewing the movie in 2DVR helped them tolerate more pain in the area of the creamed skinHowever，that pain reduction ended a few minutes after removing the VR headsetsThe researchers wondere
31、d how well VR might reduce other types of pain12Whats one of the advantages of VR to reduce pain?AIts much safer BIts more convenientCIts much fasterDIts more efficient13What does the underlined word chronic mean in Paragraph 3?Asudden B1ong-term C1ight Dsharp14Why was the special cream used in the
32、experiment?ATo find chemicals in hot peppers BTo bring comfort to volunteersCTo burns the volunteersmouthDTo cause some temporary pain15How was the test carried out?ABy giving numbers BBy using examplesCBy making a comparisonDBy presenting research findings第二节(共5小题；每小题2.5分，满分12.5分) 根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出
33、能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。Life in Death ValleyDeath Valley is a huge place，extending more than 225 kilometers across the southern part of California into the neighboring state of NevadaAs beautiful as this place is，its name provides evidence of very real danger 16 It has nearly 1.4 million hectares of
34、 desert and mountains that reach more than 3，000 meters into the skyDeath Valley can be dangerously cold during the winter monthsStorms in the mountains can cause sudden floods on the floor of the valleyBut，during summer months，the air temperature has been as high as 57 degrees Celsius17 The extreme
35、 heat of Death Valley has once killed peopleIn many areas of Death Valley，it is easy to see where the ground has been pushed up violently by movement deep in the EarthThis has created unusual and beautiful rock formations，with colors of red，brown，gray，yellow and blackIn other parts of Death Valley，t
36、here are lines in the rock. The lines are evidence of the past presence of water18 Much of Death Valley is flat and extremely dryIn some areas the ground is nothing but saltHowever，it would be wrong to think that nothing lives in Death Valley 19 Wildflowers grow very quickly after even a small amoun
37、t of rainSeveral kinds of birds live in Death ValleyVisitors might see the dog-1ike animal called the coyote，or wild bighorn sheep，or other animals like the desert tortoiseThroughout history，Native Americans found ways to survive in Death ValleyRock art and other remains show that humans lived in th
38、e valley as far back as 9，000 years agoNowadays，more than one million people visit it each year 20 The sun slowly turns the valley a gold color that deepens to a soft brown，then changes to a dark redAs night comes，the mountains turn a dark purple color，then black AThe valley is full of lifeBThe sett
39、ing sun is visitorsfavoriteCImages here seem to change each minuteDDeath Valley，is a place of strange and silent beauty EDeath Valley doesnt forgive those who are not carefulFDeath Valley is a land of beautiful yet dangerous extremesGThe area was deep under an ocean for many thousands of years第二部分 语
40、言运用(共两节，满分30分)第一节(共15小题，每小题1分，满分15分)阅读下面短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。We walked slowly through the wet grass，our eyes searching for the enemySuddenly， machine-gun fire broke the quietWe hit the ground， 21 from the shots by a low stone wallAs I ordered two soldiers to help me locate and 22 the
41、machine gunI heard 23 and then I was on my back“Lieutenant(中尉)!Lieutenant! Youve been hit!”one soldier criedTwo medics rushed me to an aid 24 A doctor slapped a bandage on my bloody knee；then the medics drove me to a 25 field hospitalThey carried me into a tent where dozens of 26 soldiers were lined
42、 up on the groundI watched the nurses working 27 things went blackWhen I woke upI was lying on a bed wearing nothing but a blanket“Wake up，Lieutenant!”a nurse shouted“Youve got to get on a planeyoure 28 to a hospital in England!”I 29 All my worldly possessions lay in a mountainous heap of equipmentI
43、 could replace everything 30 the photo of my new bride，Ellen，which I always carried with me“Im not going until I get my wifes picture”I said“Its in the gas mask cover you 31 from me”I knew the nurse could make me go， 32 instead she said，“OK，I11 see if I can find it”then ran out to search through the
44、 33 Time stood still until finally she came running 34 back“Ive got it!”she shouted，waving the picture in her upraised handThat photograph 35 me through tough timesNow69 years laterit sits on my bedside table21Aescaped Bsheltered Cremoved Dprevented22Aknock out Bsearch for Cstay away Drun towards23A
45、a thunder Ba scream Ca crash Dan explosion24Aschool Bstation Cprogram Dadvisor25Aruined Bfamous Cnearby Dadvanced26Awounded Bbrave Cdead Dcured27Abecause Bthough Cafter Dbefore28Adriving Bconnecting Cflying Dengaging29Ahesitated Bopposed Cpanicked Dwhispered30Awith Bby Cfor Dexcept31Atook away Bcarr
46、ied out Ccleared up Dkept back32Aso Band Cor Dbut33Atents Bhills Cpiles Dbeds34Abreathlessly Bdisappointedly Cnervously Dmysteriously35Abenefited Bcomforted Creminded Dchallenged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。“Theres no place like home”This English saying has much truth in
47、it：the best place 36 (surround)by our loved ones and with a roof over our headAnd for many young adults，its the only affordable place to stay：somewhere where they can receive firstclass service 37 mum and dadBut this comes at a price!In some countriesits quite traditional for people in their late 38
48、 (teen)and early 20s to live at home with their parents，but in other places，flying the nest to start their own 39 (depend)life is very desirableWithout complaining，you can come and go 40 you wishBut theres been a growing trend，in the UK at least，for young people to return home to live-or not to leav
49、e home at a11According to a survey，about a quarter of young adults 41 (age)20-34 live at home，and that figure has been growingMany returning adult children enjoy home comfortsThese include cooked meals，a full fridge and cleaning，as well as their bills being covered by what is 42 (common)called“the h
50、otel of mum and dad”But for the“hoteliers”，mum and dad，the survey found the average cost to them has gone up sharply，and that they are sacrificing luxuries and holidays 43 (look)after their“big kids”With parents spending around1，886 on takeaway food，44 (buy)new furniture and upgrading their Wi-Fi fo
51、r the benefit of their children，its easy for the returning children to put their feet up and make themselves at homeThats before they learn 45 home truththat one day it might be their own kids who11 be checking into the hotel of mum and dad!第三部分 写作(共两节，满分40分)第一节(满分15分)假如你是李华，你的美国朋友George在纽约所住的小区中有多人
52、感染新冠病毒而发病。请你给他写一封邮件安慰他并告知注意事项。 注意：1词数80左右： 2可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯； 3参考词汇：新冠病毒novel coronavirus。 第二节(满分25分) 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，续写的词数应为150左右。It was Grosss idea to go into Torngat Mountains National Park in Canadas ArcticOnly a few hundred people went to the park each year，and Gross wanted t
53、o be part of that clubChase did，too，but she worried about hiking in polar bear countryTwo Sierra Club guides were the leadersGross，then 60，worked for a housing nonprofit in San FranciscoChase，59，a medical consultant from North CarolinaThe pair had guided 13 trips togetherJoining them were Larry，63，a
54、 New York City lawyer；Frankel，65，an exercise physiologist(生理学者)from Oregon；Dyer，48，a legal aid lawyer from Maine；and Isenberg，55，a physician from ArizonaChases husband，Mendez，63，a qualityimprovement consultant，would be joining them as wellOn Sunday，July 21，2013，a floatplane carrying the Club party w
55、ent down toward the eastern shore of the TorngatsThe first thing the group did was set up camp 150 yards from the shoreAt 4 am，Mendez stepped out of his tentand saw that they werent alone“Polar bear on the beach!”he yelledA mother and her cub(崽)were walking along the shore in the early-morning light
56、Over dinner，they laughed，sharing stories of their past trips and lives back homeThey didnt talk much about the bear that was observing themIt seemed almost like a piece of the landscapejust another detail in the impressive settingMendez felt reassured by their bear interactions that dayThe mother an
57、d cub werent interested in themBut Dyer couldnt shake his unease“Why dont we post a watch?”he askedBut Gross wasnt worried“Thats what the fence is for”he told DyerThey fell asleep listening to the wavesAt 3：30 amChase woke to screamsFrom the window of her tent，she saw a polar bear a few feet awayIt
58、was down on all fours，eyes level with her，huge and white except for the black of its eyes and nose“Gross!”she screamedThe bear tore at a neighboring tent and dragged something into the darknessGross grabbed his flare gun，ran out in his long underwear，and aimed at the bearThe animal was 75 feet away，
59、heading westParagraph 1：He saw that what was in the bears mouth was not a thing at allit was DyerParagraph 2：The bear dropped Dyer hard and fled注意： 1所续写短文的词数应为150左右；2续写部分分为两段，每段的开头语已为你写好。答案第一部分阅读理解（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） 1 -5 CADDB 6-10 CBDBA 11 -15 CABDC 第二节（共5小题;每小题2.5分，满分12.5分） 16
60、-20 FEGAC第二部分语言运用（共两节，满分30分） 第一节（共15小题,每小题1分，满分15分） 21 -25 BADBC 26 -30 ADCCD 31 -35 ADCAB 第二节（共10小题,每小题1.5分，满分15分）36. is surrounded 37. from 38. teens 39. independent 40. as41. aged 42. commonly 43. to look 44. buying 45. a第三部分写作 y -H- 第一PDear George,I，m sorry to learn from your email that many peo
61、ple in your neighbourhood have got infected with the novel coronavirus. Novel coronavirus is the danger to the health of human beings. However, there is no sense worrying too much about it. In China, we have gone all out and succeeded stopping it from spreading. I advise that you wear masks when going out and wash your hands regularly. Do not go where it*s crowded. If we defend ourselves correctly, Pm sure we will win.With best wishes.Yours sincerelyLi Hua第二节（开放性，答案略）