上师大附中2024学年第一学期期中考试高三年级英语学科I. Listening Comprehension 25%Section A 10%Directions:In Section A, you will hear ten short conversations between two speakers. At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. The conversations and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a conversation and the question about it, read the four possible answers on your paper, and decide which one is the best answer to the question you have heard.1. A. She doesn’t work hard in maths. B. She is inferior to him in maths.C. She didn’t do well in this test.D. She is good at maths.2.A. The library will be closed later this afternoon.B. The computers in the library are not working.C. The man needs his computer all afternoon.D. The woman has lent her computer to somebody else.3. A. Going to the opera is time-consuming.B. There is no time left to book opera tickets.C. She would like to go with the man to the opera.D. She will help the man pay for the opera tickets.4. A. Worth the price. B. Expensive. C. Mysterious. D. Good for health.5. A. 11 a.m. B. 12p.m. C.1p.m. D.3p.m.6. A. The woman will have to call her roommate.B. The woman may have to change her living arrangement.C. The woman does not clean her apartment often enough.D. The woman should not spend so much time on the phone.7. A. She also thinks the lecture interesting.B. She was too tired to enjoy the lecture.C. She missed the lecture this morning.D. She did not finish the reading before the lecture.8. A. Her work experience. B. The courses she has taken.C. Her knowledge of the graduate school.D. The description of her academic performance.9. A. The woman just had her coat cleaned.B. The woman is not angry with the man.C. The woman does not like to drink coffee in the afternoon.D. It was not the woman’s coat that the man spilled coffee on.10. A. She hopes to get into art school. B. She is working as a commercial artist.C. She has talents other than drawing.D. She cannot decide upon a career.Section BDirections:In Section B, you will hear two short passages and one longer conversation, and you will be asked several questions on each of the passages and the conversation. The passages and the conversation will be read twice, but the questions will be spoken only once. When you hear a question, read the four possible answers on your paper and decide which one would be the best answer to the question you have heard.Questions 11 through 13 are based on the following passage.11. A. Kids threw litter everywhere. B. The camp director gave rude orders.C. Mysterious plastic litter was found.D. Kids’ joint effort led to a clean camp.12. A. By taking pictures of the litter he picked up.B. By sharing photos of the terribly dirty planet.C. By keeping a record of crowdsourced cleaning-up.D. By inspiring kids to pick up five pieces of litter every day.13. A. There is strength in numbers. B. Birds can help to pick up litter.C. Litter is artistic and approachable.D. More straws should be used in the cafe.Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage.14. A. Alcohol and coffee. B. Coffee and chicken.C. Hotpot and drinks.D. Chicken and meat.15. A. Movies are available to people in Shanghai at midnight.B. People in Hangzhou attach great importance to dinner.C. A total of nine online platforms provided data for the report.D. People in Beijing voted Starbucks as their favorite drink.16. A. People’s eating habits in different regions of China.B. The impact of mobile payment on Chinese lifestyles.C. The differences in nightlife among residents in Chinese cities.D. The financial pressure residents felt from the nightlife activities.Questions 17 through 20 are based on the following conversation.17. A. He hasn’t found a job yet.B. He plans to start looking after the final exams.C. He’s had several interviews.D. He’s expecting an offer from The New York Times.18. A. Writer. B. Interviewer. C. Newspaper reporter. D. Teacher.19. A. New York. B. Boston. C. Chicago. D. Los Angeles.20. A. Continue his education. B. Delay his graduation.C. Change his career plan.D. Continue job hunting.I. Grammar and Vocabulary20%Section A 10%Directions:After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.Emotional DebtMany people today live under the weight of debt from loans or credit cards. As harmful as financial debt is, there is 21 that is even more damaging—emotional debt.Dr. James Richards states that emotional debt occurs when we experience emotional pain 22 remains unresolved. If the pain is not dealt with, it will affect our entire lives. Throughout the years, we have chances for happiness, love and success. But unresolved pain can emerge and cause us to respond in ways that aren’t reasonable, 23 (result) in destroyed relationships and lost opportunities.When we have a tendency 24 (respond) inappropriately, we often hurt those around us. Unfortunately, our unsettled problems sometimes become too much for them to handle and cause them to abandon the relationship.People with destructive patterns 25 check their lives for signs of unresolved pain, for your emotional debt can come from various forms of past unfair, cruel or violent treatment or neglect. The fact is 26 you are probably holding onto painful memories of controlling parents or very demanding teachers. Any negative emotion that you have controlled over the year can come back to cause harm 27 you least expect it.Recognize your feelings, but don’t focus on them all the time, because acknowledging and challenging your pain is difficult, but recognizing it is the first step 28 dealing with it. Admit you are angry about the past, and discuss it with someone you trust, or write it down because this will ease some of the danger and hatred you 29 (keep) bottled up for years. Refuse to be a victim and accept responsibility for dealing with your painful past because this puts you in charge and limits the power your emotions have over you.Take specific steps to resolve your emotional debt now 30 30 deal with the consequences later. Section B 10%Directions:Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.(A)A. claimedB. cuisineC. securingD. addingE. fuelingF. madeG. opponent H. seed I. historic J. tough K. venueZheng Secures Historic Tennis Gold for ChinaChina’s women’s ace Zheng Qinwen has carved her name in tennis history after winning the country’s first singles Olympic gold medal in Paris on Saturday, 31 her meteoric career rise with another major accolade(荣誉).China’s world No. 7 Zheng was the sixth 32 in the 64-draw Olympic tournament. She lived up to her favorite status in the final against Donna Vekic of Croatia at the Roland Garros Stadium, beating her 21st-ranked 33 four times while conceding only one of her service games to prevail 6-2,6-3 at the iconic site of the red clay Grand Slam to win the gold medal.It was only China’s second Olympic gold medal in tennis, following a women’s doubles title won by Li Ting and Sun Tiantian at Athens 2004, and the first in singles.After 34 the win with a forehand winner down the line, Zheng lay down on her back to rousing cheers across the Court Philippe-Chatrier, soaking up the 35 moment for her own career and for the sport’s profile in China.It was the second Olympic tennis medal won by the Chinese delegation in Paris, after mixed doubles pair Zhang Zhizhen and Wang Xinyu 36 a silver medal in Friday’s final, which was won by Czech team Katerina Siniakova and Tomas Machac at the same 37 .“Nothing can describe my feeling right now, it’s unreal. I’ve always been hoping to get a medal for China. Finally I 38 it.” an emotional Zheng said during the on-court interview.“I did everything I could. I think my country will be proud of me, I feel proud of myself. The success is for all my team members, my families and whoever supported me, not just for me.I just fought every single match. There were two matches that I almost lost on my way to the final, especially 0-4 down in the second set against Iga (Swiatek) in the semis. I feel the energy of all the support, knowing that I play for my country. I just never gave up and tried to find every single solution,” Zheng said of her 39 path to success.And for the celebration? The 21-year-old native of Hubei province just wants to join her family and enjoy some home. 40“I haven’t thought about it yet. For sure to eat some Chinese food, after having eaten chicken and rice every day here, nothing much of flavor,” she said with a grin.III. Reading Comprehension (45%)Section A 15%Directions: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.As newborns, we enter the world by inhaling. In leaving, we exhale. (In fact, in many languages the word “exhale” is synonymous with “ 41 .”) Breathing is so central to life that it is no wonder humankind long ago noted its value not only to survival but to the 42 of the body and mind and began controlling it to improve well-being.As early as the first millennium B.C., both the Tao religion of China and Hinduism placed importance on a “vital principle” that flows through the body, a kind of energy or internal breath. The Chinese call this energy qi, and Hindus call it prana (one of the key concepts of yoga). A little later, in the West, the Greek term pheuma and the Hebrew term ruah both 43 the breath and the divine presence.44 for how to modulate(调节) breathing and influence health and mind appeared centuries ago as well. Pranayama(“breath retention”) yoga was the first to build a theory around respiratory(呼吸的) control, holding that 45 breathing was a way to increase longevity.In more modern times, German psychiatrist Johannes Heinrich Schultz developed “autogenic training” in the 1920s as a method of 46 . The approach is partly 47 slow and deep breathing and is probably still the best-known breathing technique for relaxation in the West today.Yoga and meditation have inspired many of the breathing exercises used today. The 48 of controlled respiration were first theoretically suggested centuries ago by the practitioners of pranayama yoga.What is the best time to 49 slow-breathing techniques? One is during occasional episodes of 50 —for example, before taking an exam, competing in a sporting event or even attending a routine meeting at work. These exercises may also help when insomnia strikes. In 2012 Suzanne M. Bertisch of Harvard Medical School and her colleagues reported, based on survey data, that more than 20 percent of American insomniacs do these breathingexercises to have a 51 sleep.But respiratory techniques do not work only for acute stresses or sleep problems; they can also relieve chronic anxiety. They are particularly 52 in people with psychiatric disorders such as phobias(恐惧症), depression and post-traumatic stress disorder(创伤后压力). In 2015 Stefania Doria and her colleagues at Fatebenefratellie Oftalmico Hospital in Milan, Italy, offered 10 training sessions to 69 patients with anxiety or depressive disorders. The rescarchers observed a significant 53 in symptoms at the end of the sessions.But why confine breathing techniques to 54 emotions? It is also worth applying them during pleasurable moments, to take the time to appreciate and remember them. In short, one can pause and breathe for 55 as well as to calm down.41. A. changing B. recovering C. dying D. destroying42. A. strengthening B. maintaining C. building D. functioning43. A. dealt with B. referred to C. led to D. consisted of44. A. Policies B. Recommendations C. Clues D. Habits45. A. labored B. slowed C. deepened D. controlled46. A. relaxation B. development C. illustration D. communication47. A. based on B. intended for C. adapted to D. compared with48. A. difficulties B. performances C. benefits D. harms49. A. improve B. master C. apply D. pioneer50. A. thrill B. stress C. excitement D. calm51. A. restless B. dreamy C. light D. profound52. A. sensitive B. powerful C. effective D. safe53. A. decrease B. discovery C. difference D. development54. A. diverse B. delicate C. personal D. negative55. A. anxiety B. enjoyment C. fear D. reliefSection B 22%Directions: Read the following three passages. Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage you have just read.(A)It’s normal for young children to cheat when they’re playing board games. As they grow older, they realize that the fun is actually in taking part in the game, not necessarily in winning it. By the time they reach their teens, they have usually learned not to cheat. Sadly, this was not the case for a player in a national board game championship held annually in the US. The player wanted to win so much that he turned to cheating.The board game was Scrabble. In the game, players have to make words from individual letters on small squares called “tiles,” and then put the words on a board. Two of the most useful tiles in the game are the blanks, which are tiles without any letters on them. A blank isn’t worth any points, but a player can use it to replace any letter of the alphabet.The cheater in this particular competition was a 15-year-old boy from Orlando, Florida. He had surprisedorganizers in the early stages of the competition by beating some of the best players, despite the fact that he had never played in competitions before. This made some of the other players suspicious, including the man who caught him, 43-year-old Arthur Moore. Moore had already played the boy the day before, and Moore had won the game, although the boy had had both of the blank tiles. In Scrabble, before a new game starts, the players put the tiles from the previous game back into a small bag. This time, Moore had a good look at the tiles on the table before he and his opponent put them in the bag to start the game. He was not surprised to see that the two blanks were together on the table in front of the boy. As the two players were putting the tiles into the bag. Moore watched the boy’s left hand. He saw the boy pick up the two blanks, and put his hand under the table. This was the signal for Moore to call one of the organizers and accuse the boy of cheating.When the boy was taken away for questioning, he admitted to taking the two blanks during the game and hiding them under the table. As a result of his cheating, the competition director disqualified him and banned him from playing in the competition again.56. According to the passage, why do young children cheat in board games?A. They are eager to win.B. They dislike the games.C. They don’t know what cheating is.D. They don’t want to take part in the games.57. Why are the two blank tiles most useful in Scrabble?A. They are the most obvious tiles in the game.B. Players can decide how many points they are worth.C. Players earn more points if they leave the tiles unused.D. They can be used when players don’t have the right letter.58. The word “suspicious” (in paragraph 3) most probably means “ ”.A. supportiveB. disappointedC. mistrustfulD. honoured59. How did the boy cheat?A. By putting the tiles into his own bag.B. By hiding the blank tiles for future use.C. By cooperating with his opponent secretly.D. By lying that he had never played the game.BEssential oils can have a major impact on your mood and health. “When you apply an oil to your skin, it affects your physical state. When you inhale them, it affects your mental state,” says the “grande dame” of aromatherapy Jeanne Rose, author of The Aromatherapy Book: Applications and Inhalations.A few drops of eucalyptus on your skin will help heal a burn and smelling a pine tree might make you think of childhood Christmases. You can put a few drops on a tissue, or add some to water to spritz around the room or use in a diffuser (喷雾器) or vaporizer.Be very careful, however, when applying oils to the skin. Always dilute them in another oil, like palm coconut or olive to prevent burns or allergic reactions.“A rule of thumb is 15 drops per one ounce of cream, oil or lotion,” says Sylla Sheppard-Hanger, the founder and director of Atlantic institute of Aromatherapy in Tampa, Florida.Here’s the oil to reach for when you need to:Digest a big meal: A few drops of diluted peppermint. “It calms down the digestive system,” Rose says.Forget it’s freezing outside: “Conifer oils, like pine, black spruce, cedar and Christmas fir, can help combat seasonal affective disorder when inhaled,” Rose says. Citrus oils like orange or tangerine, which are reminders of summertime, are also good.Settle down after a big party: Sweet marjoram and lavender are sedatives. “They’ll knock your kids right out,” Sheppard-Hanger says.Get out of bed on a dark, cold morning: Peppermint, or any mint really, can provide a morning jolt when inhaled.Kill germs: Spray citrus oils or tree oils like pine, to help clean the air during sickness. Decongest a nose: Eucalyptus, spruce or rosemary work for this. Try inhaling a few drops on a tissue to help with clogged nasal passages due to a cold.60. What kind of readers is likely to buy The Aromatherapy Book: Applications and Inhalations?A. Gardeners providing related raw materials for manufacturers of essential oils.B. Researchers dedicated to inventing new essential oils to keep people in good health.C. Common people hoping to improve health condition with essential oils.D. Psychotherapist seeking treatments for serious mental and physical disorders.61. What is the appropriate way of using essential oils?A. Spritz the oil directly around a room.B. Mix them with cream in proportion.C. Smell the fragrance from the bottle.D. Apply oils to treat skin allergy.62. The oils that can relieve your symptom of a bad cold are .A. peppermint oilsB. conifer oilsC. citrus oilsD. spruce oilsCMany early approaches to language technology—and particularly translation—got stuck in a conceptual dead end: the rules-based approach. In translation, this meant trying to write rules to analyse the text of a sentence in the language of origin, breaking it down into a sort of abstract “interlanguage” and rebuilding it according to the rules of the target language. These approaches showed early promise. But language is full of ambiguities and exceptions, so such systems were hugely complicated and easily broke down when tested on sentences beyond the simple set they had been designed for.Nearly all language technologies began to get a lot better with the application of statistical methods, often called a “brute force” approach. This relies on software scanning vast amounts of data, looking for patterns and learning from precedent. For example, in parsing language (breaking it down into its grammatical components), the software learns from large bodies of text that have already been parsed by humans. It uses what it has learned to make its best guess about a previously unseen text. In machine translation, the software scans millions of words already translated by humans, again looking for patterns. In speech recognition, the software learns from a body of recordings and the transcriptions made by humans.Thanks to the growing power of processors, falling prices for data storage and, most crucially, the explosion in available data, this approach eventually bore fruit. Mathematical techniques that had been known for decades cameinto their own, and big companies with access to enormous amounts of data were ready to benefit.The final advance, which began only about five years ago, came with the arrival of deep learning through digital neural networks (DNNs). These are often claimed to have qualities similar to those of the human brain: “neurons” are connected in software, and connections can become stronger or weaker in the process of learning. But Nils Lenke, head of research for a language technology company, explains matter-of-factly that “DNNs are just another kind of mathematical model,” the basis of which had been well understood for decades. What changed was the hardware being used.Almost by chance, DNN researchers discovered that the graphical processing units (GPUs) used to produce graphics in applications like video games were also brilliant at handling neural networks. The technique has already produced big leaps in quality for all kinds of deep learning, including decoding handwriting, recognising faces and classifying images. Now they are helping to improve all manner of language technologies, often bringing enhancements of up to 30%. That has shifted language technology from usable at a pinch to really rather good. But so far no one has quite worked out what will move it on from merely good to reliably great.63. According to the passage, which of the following is a problem of the rules-based approach?A. Rules are difficult to identify in some languages.B. It is impossible to find all the rules in a language.C. The rules are often misinterpreted by researchers.D. There are always rules too abstract to understand64. has a part to play in enabling the “brute force” approach to gradually bear fruit.A. The increasing amount of dataB. The falling prices of scanning softwareC. The availability of recordings and transcriptsD. The wider knowledge people have of language65. Which of the following is Nils Lenke most likely to agree with about DNNs?A. They are a big breakthrough.B. They depend more on hardware.C. They are not innovative by nature.D. They haven’t been scientifically proved.66. What does the writer imply about GPUs?A. They are inferior to DNNs in their quality of deep learning.B. They have made language technology reliably greater than ever.C. They have achieved limited success regarding language technology.D. They help enhance language technologies by means of image classification.Section C 8%Directions:Read the following passage. Fill in each blank with a proper sentence given in the box. Each sentence can be used only once. Note that there are two more sentences than you need.A. This is a trend that is only expected to continue.B. But if we wish to keep any real measure of biodiversity on the planet, we may have to lean on zoos far more than many people realize.C. Those species that are held in zoos are already protected from any such events and trends.D. Many others are already extinct in the wild and only survive thanks to populations kept in captivity.E. Climate change has harmed over half mammal species on the endangered species list.F. However, despite their high numbers in collections around the world, they are the most threatened mammalian group on the planet.The World Needs ZoosZoos play an important role in the world for conservation and education. They are particularly important for endangered species. Many animals are critically endangered and may go extinct in the wild, but in zoos, they are going strong. 67 Even those critical of zoos often recognize that it is better to have species preserved somewhere than lose them altogether. In fact, species that are common can also come under serious threat before people realize it.Take the ring-tailed lemur of Madagascar for example. These lemurs are almost common in zoos as they breed well in captivity and the public are fond of them. 68 A recent survey suggests that up to 95 percent of the wild populations have been lost since 2000. This means that the remaining individuals are at serious risk. One bad year or a new disease could wipe out those which still remain in the wild.Such trends are not isolated. The giraffe is another very common species in zoos. Unlike the lemurs, giraffes are widespread in the countries across much of sub-Saharan Africa. Yet giraffe populations have gone down by a third in the last thirty years. While less dramatic than the drop in lemur numbers, this is obviously a major loss and again, whole populations (which some scientists think are of unique subspecies) are on the verge of extinction.69 Ongoing and future issues from climate change can have unexpected effects on wildlife. It will become more difficult for conservationists to predict which species might be at risk. As it is, experts are struggling to continue monitoring the species that are already known to be vulnerable, so it is easy to see why common species might be overlooked. People might not take the great loss of local species seriously on the assumption that these animals are heavily populated elsewhere, but unfortunately that is not always the case.There will, I suspect, always be resistance to the argument for keeping animals in captivity and I will not defend the zoos that are badly managed and in desperate need of improvement or closure. 70 If even common species can lose their population in only several years, it may be too late to save them in the wild.第Ⅱ卷（共25分）IV. Summary Writing 10%Directions: Read the following passage. Summarize the main idea and the main point(s) of the passage in no more than 60 words. Use your own words as far as possible.71. Are we greening our cities, or just greenwashing them?Architecture and urban design is chasing a green fever dream. Everywhere you look, there are plans for “sustainable” buildings, futuristic eco-cities and aquaponic (复合养殖)farms on the roof, each promising to add a green touch to the modern city.All of these are surely good ideas at some level. They are trying to repair some of the damage our lifestyle has done to the planet. But, despite the rhetoric of reuniting the city with nature, today’s green urban dream is too often about bringing a technologically controlled version of nature into the city and declaring the problem solved, rather than looking at the deeper causes of our environmental and urban problems.One of the most striking examples is Apple’s “spaceship” campus now under construction in Silicon Valley. Though it seems to be sustainable and energy efficient—80 percent of its 175-acre site is preserved for landscaping, it is by any measure a huge, expensive and massively resource-intensive project. As a suburban white-collar workplace, it must include vast garages for 13,000 Apple employees. Thus, it will leave no smaller environmental footprint than a traditional office park.Designing a perfect green building or eco-city isn’t enough to save the world. Although our buildings, like our cars, have been inefficient environmentally, architecture isn’t directly responsible for humanity’s disastrous environmental impacts. An economic system based on the destruction of nature is the real problem. No green building can help us repair the ecological damage we have caused, nor can any number of aquaponic farms bring us back to the real nature.Instead of adding “nature” to the urban lifestyle, architects may work to design better relationships between our cities and nature and to promote just relationships between the people in them.V. Translation 15% (3+3+4+5)Directions: Translate the following sentences into English, using the words given in the brackets.72.高额的旅行支出是对公司资源的巨大耗费。
