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★绝密考试结束前 2023年1月全国普通高等学校招生统一考试上海春考英语仿真模拟试卷（四）Listening Comprehension Section A （第1-10题, 每题1分；第11-20题，每题1.5分；共25分）Section ADirections: 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. 6:40. B.6:20. C. 6:10. D. 6:30.2. A. Cash only. B. Cash or checks. C. Checks only. D. Credit cards.3. A. He lacked money. B. He had some trouble with his lungsC. He didn't plan the trip very well D. He was in poor health4. A. At a drugstore. B. At a hotel. C. At a laundry. D. At a clothes shop.5. A. Poor. B. Excellent. C. Tired. D. Concerned.6. A. There is a single room left. B. There are some spare rooms left.C. There are some double rooms. D. All the rooms are taken.7. A. He hurt his eye. B. The clock was unusualC. The lecture was not interesting. D. The lecture lasted for an hour.8. A. Mary came to the party. B. Mary hasn’t appeared yet.C. Mary planned the party D. Mary hasn’t any imagination.9. A. Tom has no artist talent. B. Tom has improved his art.C. Tom is a very professional artist. D. Tom is a popular artist.10. A. She is excited about going home. B. She has been home for only a few days.C. She's spending time going over her accounts. D. She's counting the numbers.Section BDirections: In Section B. you will hear two short passages several and one longer conversation, and you will be asked several questions on each of them. 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 is the best answer to the question you have heard.Questions 11 through 13 are based on the following passage.A.Noise B Smoking C.Litter. D. Drinking12. A A tour guide. B. A conductor. C. A teacher. D. A lawyer13. A. To prepare people for international travel.B. To make the laws of different kinds.C. To give advice to travelers to the country.D. To inform people of the punishment for breaking laws.Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage14. A.Economic pressure. B. Job hunting after graduation.C. How to make money on campus. D. The problems facing American and Chinese students.15. A. Sensible. B. Confident. C. Ignorant. D. Negative.16. A. It is the society that causes university students to lack confidence.B. Many businesses ignore the students’ pure theory.C. The society and the young should work well together to solve the problem.D. Some American university students sell something to make money.Questions 17 and 18 are based on the following conversation.17. A. In the hospital. B. In the shopping center.C. In a school. D. In a drugstore.18. A. Three times a day, take one before each meal.B. Three times a day, take one after each meal.C. Take them for three days continuouslyD. Take them for two days without seeing the doctorQuestions 19 and 20 are based on the following conversation.19. A. It almost has a long history of 100 years.B. It's smaller than his last one.C. The windows can’t let plenty of natural light in.D. There are wonderful views of the park behind his house.20. A. Three bedrooms, two bathrooms.B.Four bedrooms, three bathrooms.C. Four bedrooms, one bathroom.D. Five bedrooms, two bathrooms.听力答案：1-5. ABABB 6-10. DCBAA 11-13. CAC 14-16. DBC 17-20.DBDA备注：听力文字稿附在文档末尾Grammar and Vocabulary （每题1分；共20分）Section ADirections: 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.People have been painting pictures for at least 30,000 years. The earliest pictures were painted by people who hunted animals. They used to paint pictures of the animals they wanted to catch and kill. Pictures of this kind ___21___ (find) on the walls of caves in France and Spain. No___22___ knows why they were painted there. Perhaps the painters thought that their pictures would help them to catch these animals. Or perhaps human beings have always wanted to tell stories in pictures.About 5,000 years ago, the Egyptians and other people in the Near East began to use pictures as a kind of writing. They drew simple pictures or signs to represent things and ideas, and also to represent the sounds of their language. The signs these people ___23___ (use) became a kind of alphabet. The Egyptians used to record information and to tell stories by putting picture writing and pictures together. ___24___ an important person died, scenes and stories from his life were painted and carved on the walls of the place where he was buried. Some of these pictures are like modern comic strip stories. It has been said that Egypt is home ___25___ comic strips. But, for the Egyptians, pictures still had magic power. So they did not try to make their way of writing simple. The ordinary people ___26___ not understand it. By the year 1,000 BC, people who lived in the area around the Mediterranean Sea had developed a ___27___ (simple) system of writing. The signs they used were very easy to write, and there were fewer of them than in the Egyptian system. This was because each sign, or letter, represented only one sound in their language. The Greeks developed this system and formed the letters of the Greek alphabet. The Romans copied___28___ idea, and the Roman alphabet is now used ___29___ the world.These days, we can write down a story, or record information, without using pictures. But we still need pictures of all kinds: drawing, photographs, signs and diagrams. We find them____30____: in books and newspapers, in the street, and on the walls of the places where we live and work. Pictures help us to understand and remember things more easily, and they can make a story much more interesting.【答案】21. have been found 22. one 23. used 24. When 25. to26. could 27. simpler 28. the 29. around 30. everywhere【解析】【导语】这是一篇说明文。讲述了人类绘画的历史发展及作用。【21题详解】考查时态和语态。句意：在法国和西班牙的洞穴墙壁上发现了这类图片。分析可知，谓语动词find和主语之间是被动关系，本句描述过去发生的动作对现在的影响，应用现在完成时的被动语态。主语Pictures为复数名词，主谓一致，故填have been found。【22题详解】考查代词。句意：没人知道为什么画在那里。分析句意可知，此处表示“没有人，没有任何人”，应用不定代词one和前文No结合，构成短语no one。故填one。【23题详解】考查时态。句意：这些人使用的符号变成了一种字母表。根据句意和后文became可知，此处描述过去发生的事情，用一般过去时，谓语动词用过去式。定语从句中use和主语是主动关系。故填used。【24题详解】考查连词。句意：当一个重要人物去世时，他生活中的场景和故事就会被画下来刻在他埋葬的地方的墙上。分析可知，an important person died和后文是时间关系，died为短暂动词，表示“当……时候”应用连词when引导时间状语从句。句首字母大写，故填When。【25题详解】考查介词。句意：据说埃及是连环画的故乡。home to“是……的故乡”是固定搭配。故填to。【26题详解】考查情态助动词。句意：普通人无法理解。根据上下文可知，此处描述过去发生的事情，用一般过去时，根据句意，应用情态动词can的could和后文构成复合谓语。故填could。【27题详解】考查形容词比较级。句意：到公元前1000年，生活在地中海周围地区的人们已经发展出了一种更简单的书写系统。根据前文developed a等句意可知，此处应用simple的比较级作定语，修饰名词。故填simpler。【28题详解】考查冠词。句意：罗马人复制了这个想法，现在罗马字母表在世界各地使用。后文名词idea特指前文提到的“想法”，故用定冠词限定。故填the。【29题详解】考查介词。句意：罗马人复制了这个想法，现在罗马字母表在世界各地使用。around the world“全世界”是固定短语，符合句意。故填around。【30题详解】考查副词。句意：我们到处都能找到它们：在书本和报纸上，在街上，在我们生活和工作的地方的墙上。根据后文in books and newspapers, in the street, and on the walls of the places where we live and work可知，此处应用副词everywhere表达“到处”，作地点状语。故填everywhere。Section BDirections: Fill in each blank with a proper word chosen from the box. Each word can be used only once. Note that there is one word more than you need.A. clarify B. consistent C. conversely D. criteria E. misinterpreted F. perceived G. qualify H. reflection I. significance J. simultaneously K. valuableIn recent years we’ve all become more health conscious. However, in doing so we seem to have____31____health. Health is no longer something everyone is born with. Health is a commodity. It is something you can have more of. And to____32____for this extra health you have to buy a tracksuit, eat vitamin pills, have a therapist and learn to do one-handed press-ups.This all sounds quite harmless — until you realise it implies that people who are not perfectly formed, who are not young, sporty and sun-tanned, are less____33____people. We all want to be healthy but we should perhaps come down off the exercise bike and____34____what the word health actually means.For a start, health is not beauty and fitness. You can have wonderful hair and huge muscles, while your internal organs are in a terrible state. The outer person is not a direct____35____of the inner person. Second, health is not a purely physical state. It’s mental as well. There are lots of fit people who are not psychologically sound and,____36____, a lot of quite seriously disabled people who are bright, happy and perfectly in tune with themselves. Besides, the____37____for physical and mental health are a matter of opinion, containing a strong social element. There’s a tribe in the Amazon rainforest which regards you as unwell if you don’t have marks of fungal (真菌) infection on your skin.Taking all this into account, health is a terribly difficult word to define. It is nevertheless of grave____38____to do so, because unless we know what health is we don’t know what to aim for. My own favourite definition of health is ‘psychological health is the ability to love and to work’. It’s an easy thing to aim for and at the same time very difficult to arrive at. There are, however, occasional moments in everyone’s life when you experience,____39____, a great love for those around you and also a great sense of personal fulfillment. These brief moments are very hard to achieve, but they are_____40_____as a more worthwhile aim in life than trying to look like a supermodel.【答案】31. E 32. G 33. K 34. A 35. H 36. C 37. D 38. I 39. J 40. F【解析】【导语】这是一篇说明文。健康不再是每个人与生俱来的东西。健康是一种商品。这是你可以拥有更多的东西。为了获得这种额外的健康，你必须买运动服，吃维生素片，请心理医生，并学会做单手俯卧撑。文章主要解释了一些和健康相关的误区和观念。【31题详解】考查动词。句意：然而，我们这样做似乎误解了健康。作谓语，结合句意表示“误解”应用动词misinterpret，结合上文have可知为to have done形式。故填misinterpreted。故选E。【32题详解】考查动词。句意：为了获得这种额外的健康，你必须买运动服，吃维生素片，请心理医生，并学会做单手俯卧撑。结合句意表示“获得”可知应填动词qualify，此处为不定式作目的状语。故填qualify。故选G。【33题详解】考查形容词。句意：这一切听起来都是无害的，直到你意识到这意味着那些身材不完美的人，那些不年轻、不爱运动、晒得黝黑的人是不那么有价值的人。结合句意表示“有价值的”可知应填形容词valuable，作定语。故填valuable。故选K。【34题详解】考查动词。句意：我们都想要健康，但也许我们应该从健身自行车上下来，弄清楚健康这个词的真正含义。结合句意表示“弄清楚”可知应填动词clarify，且should后跟动词原形。故填clarify。故选A。【35题详解】考查名词。句意：外在的人并不是内在人的直接反映。作表语，结合句意表示“反映”应用名词reflection，不定冠词提示用单数。故填reflection。故选H。【36题详解】考查副词。句意：有许多健康的人心理上并不健康，相反，有许多严重残疾的人却聪明、快乐、与自己完全合拍。修饰后文句子应用副词，结合句意表示“相反”可知应填副词conversely。故填conversely。故选C。【37题详解】考查名词。句意：此外，身心健康的标准是一个意见问题，包含了强烈的社会因素。作主语，表示“标准”应填复数名词criteria。故填criteria。故选D。【38题详解】考查名词。句意：然而，这样做是有重大意义的，因为除非我们知道什么是健康，否则我们就不知道要追求什么。作宾语，表示“重大意义”应用名词significance，不可数。故填significance。故选I。【39题详解】考查副词。句意：然而，在每个人的生活中，都有偶尔的时刻，你会同时体验到对周围人的巨大爱和巨大的个人成就感。修饰后文句子应用副词，结合句意表示“同时”可知应填simultaneously。故填simultaneously。故选J。【40题详解】考查动词。句意：这些短暂的瞬间很难实现，但它们被认为是比试图看起来像一个超模更有价值的人生目标。作谓语，结合句意表示“认为”应用动词perceived，短语be perceived as表示“被认为是……”。故填perceived。故选F。Reading Comprehension (41 – 55题，每题1分；56 – 70题，每题2分；共45分)Section ADirections: 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.What if the good life isn’t really…all that good What if the very things so many of us ___41___ for—a high-paying, powerful job; a beautiful house; a wardrobe (衣橱) of nice clothes in desirably small sizes; a fancy education for our children to prepare them for ___42___ on this way of life—turn out to be more ___43___ than they’re worth It’s long been believed that the psychological ___44___ associated with being a “low-status individual” —i.e., poor, grow ___45___ as people move up the social ladder. It turns out that’s true only to a point. Once you get ___46___enough, the mental and physical health ___47___ associated with greater affluence (富裕) fade away. In fact, research indicates that as you near the top, life stress ___48___ so dramatically that its harmful effects almost cancel out many ___49___ aspects of succeeding.Scott Schieman, a professor of sociology at the University of Toronto, has a phrase for this: “the stress of high status.” In 2005 and again in 2007, he surveyed 1,800 Americans of all income levels and is now ___50___ his research to more than 6,000 Canadians. What he found turns received sociological wisdom on its ear: “People with higher level of education and in higher-status occupations and mid-to-higher ___51___ groups are experiencing higher levels of ___52___,” he says.Why The very trappings of ___53___ can make life harder if you’re the sort of driven, work-devoted person that high-status individuals tend to be, another supposed benefit that can be punishing: power. Having authority over others binds people to all sorts of interpersonal ___54___ and management anxiety, ___55___ “too much” stress, Schieman says. “This is the stuff that simply keeps people up at night.”A. prepare B. intend C. strive D. waitA. carrying B. living C. taking D. comingA. depression B. trouble C. excitement D. happinessA. result B. responsibility C. benefits D. burdensA. heavier B. lighter C. higher D. lowerA. rich B. high C. old D. wiseA. state B. change C. progress D. benefitsA. reduces B. improves C. develops D. increasesA. active B. positive C. negative D. passiveA. extending B. expanding C. restricting D. targetingA. income B. status C. wealth D. powerA. advantages B. privilege C. stresses D. influenceA. success B. failure C. stress D. promotionA. conflicts B. quarrels C. communications D. relationsA. resulting from B. arising from C. pointing to D. leading to【答案】41. C 42. A 43. B 44. D 45. B 46. B 47. D 48. D 49. B 50. A 51. A 52. C 53. A 54. A 55. D【解析】【导语】这是一篇说明文。文章主要说明了长期以来，人们一直认为，作为一个“低地位的人”——即穷人——所带来的心理负担会随着社会阶梯的上升而减轻。事实证明，这只在一定程度上是正确的。事实上，研究表明，当你接近成功的顶峰时，生活压力会急剧增加，它的有害影响几乎抵消了成功的许多积极方面。【41题详解】考查动词词义辨析。句意：如果我们很多人努力追求的东西——高薪、有权势的工作；一个漂亮的房子；一大衣柜的漂亮衣服；为我们的孩子提供一种为他们继续这种生活方式做准备的高级教育，结果这些操心是值得的吗？A. prepare准备；B. intend打算；C. strive努力；D. wait等待。根据后文“for—a high-paying, powerful job; a beautiful house; a wardrobe of nice clothes in desirably small sizes; a fancy education for our children”列举了一系列很多人努力追求的物质生活。故选C。【42题详解】考查动词词义辨析。句意：如果我们很多人努力追求的东西——高薪、有权势的工作；一个漂亮的房子；一大衣柜的漂亮衣服；为我们的孩子提供一种为他们继续这种生活方式做准备的高级教育，结果这些操心是值得的吗？A. carrying搬运，继续；B. living居住；C. taking带走；D. coming来。根据后文“on this way of life”可知，这种高级教育是为了让孩子继续这种生活方式，carry on“继续”。故选A。【43题详解】考查名词词义辨析。句意：如果我们很多人努力追求的东西——高薪、有权势的工作；一个漂亮的房子；一大衣柜的漂亮衣服；为我们的孩子提供一种为他们继续这种生活方式做准备的高级教育，结果这些操心是值得的吗？A. depression沮丧；B. trouble麻烦；C. excitement激动；D. happiness幸福。根据后文“than they’re worth”可知为短语worth trouble表示“值得操心、麻烦”，呼应上文“What if the good life isn’t really…all that good (如果美好的生活不是那么美好呢？)”。故选B。【44题详解】考查名词词义辨析。句意：长期以来，人们一直认为，作为一个“低地位的人”——即穷人——所带来的心理负担会随着社会阶梯的上升而减轻。A. result结果；B. responsibility责任；C. benefits利益；D. burdens负担。根据后文“associated with being a “low-status individual””可知是穷人的心理负担，故选D。【45题详解】考查形容词词义辨析。句意：长期以来，人们一直认为，作为一个“低地位的人”——即穷人——所带来的心理负担会随着社会阶梯的上升而减轻。A. heavier更重的；B. lighter更轻的；C. higher更高的；D. lower更低的。根据后文“as people move up the social ladder”以及常识，可知，长期以来，人们一直认为，作为一个“低地位的人”——即穷人——所带来的心理负担会随着社会阶梯的上升而减轻。故选B。【46题详解】考查形容词词义辨析。句意：一旦你地位足够高，与更富裕相关的精神和身体健康益处就会消失。A. rich富有的；B. high高的；C. old老的；D. wise明智的。根据后文“as you near the top”和“the stress of high status”可知，此处指地位变高。故选B。【47题详解】考查名词词义辨析。句意：一旦你地位足够高，与更富裕相关的精神和身体健康益处就会消失。A. state状态；B. change改变；C. progress进步；D. benefits利益。结合后面一句内容可知，后文提到当你接近成功的顶峰时，生活压力会急剧增加，它的有害影响几乎抵消了成功的许多积极方面，即一旦你地位足够高，与更富裕相关的精神和身体健康益处就会消失。故选D。【48题详解】考查动词词义辨析。句意：事实上，研究表明，当你接近成功的顶峰时，生活压力会急剧增加，它的有害影响几乎抵消了成功的许多积极方面。A. reduces减少；B. improves改善；C. develops发展；D. increases增加。根据后文“so dramatically that its harmful effects almost cancel out”可知，地位越高，生活压力会急剧增加，它的有害影响几乎抵消了成功的许多积极方面。故选D。【49题详解】考查形容词词义辨析。句意：事实上，研究表明，当你接近成功的顶峰时，生活压力会急剧增加，它的有害影响几乎抵消了成功的许多积极方面。A. active活跃的；B. positive积极的；C. negative消极的；D. passive被动的。结合上文“so dramatically that its harmful effects almost cancel out many”可知，当你接近成功的顶峰时，生活压力会急剧增加，它的有害影响几乎抵消了成功的许多积极方面。故选B。【50题详解】考查动词词义辨析。句意：在2005年和2007年，他分别对1800名不同收入水平美国人进行了调查，现在他的研究范围扩大到了6000多名加拿大人。A. extending延伸、扩大……的范围；B. expanding扩展；C. restricting限制；D. targeting作为目标。根据后文“his research to more than 6,000 Canadians”指研究范围的延伸、扩大应用extend。故选A。【51题详解】考查名词词义辨析。句意：他的发现颠覆了社会学的智慧：“教育水平高、职业地位高的人，以及中高收入群体承受的压力更大，”他说。A. income收入；B. status地位；C. wealth财富；D. power力量。根据上文“People with higher level of education and in higher-status occupations and mid-to-higher”可知，这里指教育水平高、职业地位高的人，以及中高收入群体承受的压力更大。故选A。【52题详解】考查名词词义辨析。句意：他的发现颠覆了社会学的智慧：“教育水平高、职业地位高的人，以及中高收入群体承受的压力更大，”他说。A. advantages优势；B. privilege特权；C. stresses压力；D. influence影响。根据后文“can make life harder if you’re the sort of driven, work-devoted person that high-status individuals tend to be(如果你是地位高、倾向于的那种上进、投入工作的人，那么成功的外表可能会让你的生活更艰难)”可知，教育水平高、职业地位高的人，以及中高收入群体承受的压力更大。后文““too much” stress”也是提示。故选C。【53题详解】考查名词词义辨析。句意：如果你是地位高、倾向于的那种上进、投入工作的人，那么成功的外表可能会让你的生活更艰难，另一个所谓的好处可能是惩罚：权力。A. success成功；B. failure失败；C. stress压力；D. promotion提拔。根据后文“if you’re the sort of driven, work-devoted person that high-status individuals tend to be”可知，地位高、上进、投入工作的人，即取得成功的人，所以这里指对这类人来说，成功的外表可能会让你的生活更艰难，故选A。【54题详解】考查名词词义辨析。句意：席曼说，拥有凌驾于他人之上的权力会让人陷入各种人际冲突和管理焦虑中，导致“太多”压力。A. conflicts冲突；B. quarrels争吵；C. communications交流；D. relations关系。根据上文“all sorts of interpersonal”可知指各种人际冲突，故选A。【55题详解】考查动词短语辨析。句意：席曼说，拥有凌驾于他人之上的权力会让人陷入各种人际冲突和管理焦虑中，导致“太多”压力。A. resulting from起因于；B. arising from引起；C. pointing to指向；D. leading to导致。根据后文““too much” stress”可知，拥有凌驾于他人之上的权力会让人陷入各种人际冲突和管理焦虑中，导致“太多”压力。故选D。Section BDirections: 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)Margo and I were nine. Our parents were friends, so we would sometimes play together, biking past the tree-lined streets to Jefferson Park, the leisure spot of our neighborhood.I always got nervous whenever Margo was about to show up. It could be that she was both cool and gorgeous with the pink T-shirt featuring a green dragon breathing a fire of orange glitter. Or it could be the way she biked, standing up, her arms locked as she leaned above the handle bars.At the time, I fancied myself an inventor and I told Margo about an idea I had for an invention called the Ringolator, a gigantic cannon that would shoot big, colored rocks into a very low orbit, giving Earth the same rings that Saturn (土星) has. Margo just beamed brightly, shaking her head.I’d been in the park so many times before that it was mapped in my mind, so we were only a few steps inside when I began to sense that the world was out of order.“Look! There.” Margo said quietly, calmly.She was pointing. And then I realized what was different.There was a live oak a few feet ahead. Thick and ancient-looking. That was not new. The playground on our right. Not new either. But now, a guy wearing a gray suit, leaning against the trunk of the oak tree, not moving. That was new. He kept his mouth open in a way that mouth generally shouldn’t be.“He’s drunk,” I said, “and dangerously drunk.”I took two small steps backward. Maybe he was a zombie. I knew zombies weren’t real, but he surely looked like one. And if I made any sudden movements, he might wake up and attack.As I took those two steps back, Margo took two equally small and quiet steps forward. “His eyes are open,” she said.“We gotta go home,” I said.She took another two steps. This time she was close enough and she reached out to touch his foot.“He’s gone,” Margo said, as if I couldn’t tell.(From “Paper Towns” by John Green with major adaption)56. Why the author “always got nervous whenever Margo was about to show up” A. He was afraid that Margo might give him a lesson physically.B. He felt that Margo’s way of riding a bike could put them both in danger.C. He had admiration for the cool and gorgeous appearance and action of Margo.D. He didn’t like the horrifying green dragon breathing a fire of orange glitter.57. How does Margo feel about the author’s invention of a “Ringolator” A. It was a brilliant idea that may change the world.B. It sounded silly yet amusing, so she showed her kindness.C. It called for experiment in the Jefferson Park.D. It gave out beams of light and was bright.58. What happened to the man most probably A. He was playing hide and seek. B. He was a new comer to the park.C. He was already dead when found. D. He was becoming a zombie59. What can best describe Margo A. Gorgeous and timid. B. Innocent and cute.C. Bright and imaginative. D. Calm and brave.【答案】56. C 57. B 58. C 59. D【解析】【导语】本文是一篇记叙文。文章主要讲述了玛戈和作者一次在杰斐逊公园的经历。【56题详解】推理判断题。根据第二段“I always got nervous whenever Margo was about to show up. It could be that she was both cool and gorgeous with the pink T-shirt featuring a green dragon breathing a fire of orange glitter. Or it could be the way she biked, standing up, her arms locked as she leaned above the handle bars.(每当玛戈要出现时，我总是很紧张。可能是因为她穿了一件粉色T恤，上面印着一条喷着橙色闪光的绿龙，看起来既酷又漂亮。也可能是她骑车的方式，站着，双臂锁住，靠在车把上)”可推知，每当玛戈要出现的时候，作者总是很紧张，因为他很欣赏玛戈冷静、华丽的外表和动作。故选C项。【57题详解】推理判断题。根据第三段“At the time, I fancied myself an inventor and I told Margo about an idea I had for an invention called the Ringolator, a gigantic cannon that would shoot big, colored rocks into a very low orbit, giving Earth the same rings that Saturn has. Margo just beamed brightly, shaking her head.(那时，我幻想自己是一个发明家，我告诉玛戈我有一个发明的想法，叫做Ringolator，一个巨大的大炮，可以把巨大的彩色岩石发射到非常低的轨道上，给地球带来和土星一样的光环。玛戈只是灿烂地微笑着，摇着头)”可推知，玛戈认为作者发明“Ringolator”的想法听起来很傻，但很有趣，所以她表现出了她的善意。故选B项。【58题详解】细节理解题。根据最后一段““He’s gone,” Margo said, as if I couldn’t tell.(“他死了，”玛戈说，好像我看不出来似的)”可知，那个人被发现时已经死了。故选C项。【59题详解】推理判断题。根据第十段“As I took those two steps back, Margo took two equally small and quiet steps forward. “His eyes are open,” she said.(当我往后退两步时，玛戈也悄悄地向前迈了两小步。“他的眼睛是睁着的，”她说)”以及倒数第二段“She took another two steps. This time she was close enough and she reached out to touch his foot.(她又走了两步。这次她离他够近了，伸手去摸他的脚)”可推断出，在遇到未知的时候，玛戈能冷静的上去探索，并且大胆的去触碰。由此推知，她是冷静而又勇敢的。故选D项。(B)Acting & Musical TheaterThe Summer Acting＆Musical Theater program, which starts on Friday, July 3 and ends on Thursday, July 23, is created for talented students who have been inspired by musical theater.The program develops the abilities of experienced performers who are serious about the field and eager to work hard. Our goal is to help you grow creatively through full-time, college-level theatre training under the direction of popular professional performers and teachers.The students can improve their performance skills and can get the knowledge about the history of theater, the style of theater and so on. Students will complete the program with improved audition (试演) skills.Classes aim to improve your command of body, mind and voice. Students will take a trip to see at least one professional production with program teachers. An exhibition of the students’ class work will be presented at the conclusion of the program to family, friends, students from other Summer College programs, and the University community.Program Costs:Accommodation: $3, 359; Traffic: $2, 234.Audition requirements:Auditions should include the following video materials:●Two different songs;●One age-suitable monologue (独白);●One short dance part;●A personal statement regarding your background and training, experience in performances, and personal goals in theater;●Each part of the audition should be about one minute in length;●You should be the only person shown in the audition;●The audition is given online with your application.Typical day:9:00 am to noon classes focus on musical theater, including acting, voice, movement, dance and scene study.1: 00 to 4: 00 pm classes involve additional work in acting, movement, and voice, along with rehearsals (排练) for public performances.60. What do you know about the program A. Students can have chances to audition in films.B. The program helps students grow healthily.C. The program will last for three weeks.D. The program provides accommodation for free.61. The underlined word “production” in Paragraph 4 refers to ________.A. writing B. performance C. conference D. guidance62. The audition materials include the following EXCEPT ________.A. a performance with your partner B. a short dance part in one minuteC. an online introduction of yourself D. a suitable monologue in one minute【答案】60. C 61. B 62. A【解析】【导语】这是一篇应用文。文章通过介绍Acting&Musical Theate的相关情况，来吸引更多爱好表演的学生参加该节目。【60题详解】细节理解题。根据文章第一段“The Summer Acting&Musical Theater program, which starts on Friday, July 3 and ends on Thursday, July 23, is created for talented students who have been inspired by musical theater. (暑期表演和音乐剧节目将于7月3日、周五开始，7月23日、周四结束。该课程专为受音乐剧启发的优秀学生而设。)”可知该节目从7月3日开始到7月23日结束，持续3个星期；故选C项。【61题详解】词义猜测题。根据文章第四段“Classes aim to improve your command of body, mind and voice. Students will take a trip to see at least one professional production with program teachers. (课程旨在提高你对身体、思想和声音的运用能力。学生将与节目老师一起去看至少一部专业表演。)”因为暑期表演和音乐剧节目都属于表演节目，是供人观看的，故推知本处表述的是学生和节目老师一起去看至少一部专业表演，故推知划线单词production的意思是“表演”；故选B项。【62题详解】细节理解题。根据标题“Auditions should include the following video materials:”项下内容“You should be the only person shown in the audition (你应该是唯一出现在试演中的人)”可知只能自己一个人参与试演，不可以和搭档一起表演，故A项不包括在内；而由标题“Auditions should include the following video materials:”项下内容“One short dance part (一个小段舞蹈)”、“A personal statement regarding your background and training, experience in performances, and personal goals in theater (一份关于你的背景、训练、表演经验和在剧作的个人目标的个人陈述)”、“One age-suitable monologue (一段与年龄相匹配的独白)”和“Each part of the audition should be about one minute in length (试演的每个部分都应该有一分钟左右的时间)”可知B、C、D项均有提及；故选A项。(C)The other night I had dinner with my friend Kim, who in midlife is trying to change her career. She has spent decades as a successful photographer, but she knows it’s time to do something different. What, however, is she qualified to do, besides photography “I’m good at parties,” she told me with a shrug. “And parallel parking.” We refilled our wineglasses and laughed really hard as we dreamed up the various careers in which that particular combination might be useful.Here’s a humbling exercise: Ask yourself what you’re good at, aside from the skills you use at work. After my conversation with Kim, I put this question to a handful of friends and got responses ranging from “finding restaurants for people” to “spotting terrific old chairs.” The more I think about my own answer to this question, the more confused I seem to get.A year ago this month I left a job, and a career, that brought me great satisfaction for more than two decades. Can serendipity(意外惊喜)be a strategy It certainly worked for me. I happened to find a field in which my skills and the requirements of the job were a Venn diagram (韦恩图) with near total overlap. Like most of my friends, I spent my 20s and 30s marching determinedly along my given path, working hard, with purpose, and by the time I reached my 40s, I was able to enjoy the fruits of my labor. Isn’t that the way the American Dream goes Here’s what you learn when you wake up from that dream: hubris (自负) is the unpleasant by-product of success. If you are really good at your job for a long enough time, you begin to believe that you can be good at any job and therefore can easily jump from one thing to another, switching horses in midstream. Examples of this mistaken thinking are everywhere, from the harmlessly frivolous (Dancing With the Stars) to the dangerously serious (the current presidency). As it turns out, humility is its own kind of skill; developing it hurts, but falling on your face hurts more.Over the years a number of 20-somethings have come to me for advice, which I have dutifully given: Work hard, meet lots of people, say yes to many things. Don’t complain, put a smile on your face, and remind yourself that studying Foucault for four years in college might not prove to be particularly relevant in the working world. Swallow your pride and ask a lot of questions.What I should be telling the young and ambitious is this: being really good at one thing is fantastic until it isn’t. The day may come, in my experience, will come, when you know you want to do, want to be, something else. For example, 20-somethings, one day you might want to appear on Dancing With the Stars. I’m not sure if Sean Spicer is a fool or a genius for turning down this opportunity for his first post-Administration performance. Maybe he’s not aware that Apolo Ohno was placed first on the show.Or maybe you’ll want to run for President. Never mind that it was a President–Abraham Lincoln–who popularized the warning about switching horses in midstream. If you are a real estate tycoon and loud-mouthed TV star who made a name for yourself with a combination of instinct, bravado(虚张声势)and riding the wave of chaos you create everywhere you go, then who cares what Abe Lincoln said The White House is the logical next career step.Or, 20-somethings, maybe you’ll do both! At the same time! After all, doesn’t today’s White House sort of resemble Dancing With the Stars, if you squint(眯眼)hard and use your imagination With experts and amateurs working together, trying to make it all look graceful while the audience alternatively laughs and cries So, folks, an assignment: Ask yourself what you’re good at. As for me, aside from what I most recently did for a living–writing, editing, managing people and showing up to meetings on time–my greatest strengths seem to be making vacation packing lists and remembering which houses in my town are on the market. So I have entered this next phase of my life with gratitude (for what I’ve accomplished), humility (about all that I don’t know) and fear (see random greatest strengths). I used to be filled with optimism: if Donald Trump could become President, anything seemed possible. But with each passing month, and each new failure, my optimism dims. If he wanted to try something new, wouldn’t Dancing With the Stars have been a wiser choice 63. Which of the following statements can be inferred from the passage A. Only failure contributes to the development of one’s humility.B. Donald Trump is the very person for the US presidency.C. Career success encourages overestimate of oneself.D. College education is a must for a successful career.64. What is the writer’s attitude towards job hopping A. Check whether one’s skill meets the requirements of the potential new job.B. Seize each and every random opportunity that comes along.C. Be optimistic about the potential new job and anything is possible.D. Job hopping is such a severe danger as to be avoided.65. The writer’s implicit comment on the White House could be ________.A. It functions ideally as the political center of the United States.B. It is the logical next career step for a wealthy and famous person.C. It is as attractive and interesting as Dancing with the Stars.D. It is a stage where officials don’t know how to run the country.66. What could be implied by the underlined “it isn’t” A. What one is really good at disappears.B. One feels no more fantastic about the job.C. One’s ambition weakens as he or she ages.D. One tries to change to a new job.【答案】63. C 64. A 65. D 66. B【解析】【导语】这是一篇议论文。作者就除了在工作中使用的技能外，我们擅长的东西提出了自己的看法和见解。强调要努力地工作，结识很多人，对很多事情说“是”。不要抱怨，要在脸上露出微笑，提醒自己。以感激，谦卑和畏惧的心态来进入人生的下一个阶段。【63题详解】推理判断题。由文章第四段“If you are really good at your job for a long enough time, you begin to believe that you can be good at any job and therefore can easily jump from one thing to another, switching horses in midstream. (如果你真的很擅长你的工作足够长一段时间，你就会开始相信你可以胜任任何工作，因此你可以很容易地从一件事跳到另一件事，中途换马。)”可知，职业的成功会让人们高估自己。故选C项。【64题详解】推理判断题。由文章第三段“I happened to find a field in which my skills and the requirements of the job were a Venn diagram (韦恩图) with near total overlap. Like most of my friends, I spent my 20s and 30s marching determinedly along my given path, working hard, with purpose, and by the time I reached my 40s, I was able to enjoy the fruits of my labor. (我碰巧发现一个领域，我的技能和工作要求是一个几乎完全重叠的维恩图。和我的大多数朋友一样，我在20多岁和30多岁的时候，坚定地沿着既定的道路前进，努力工作，有目标，到了40多岁，我已经能够享受我的劳动成果了。)”可知，作者认为，跳槽时需要考虑自己的技能是否符合潜在的工作。故选A项。【65题详解】推理判断题。由文章倒数第二段“At the same time! After all, doesn’t today’s White House sort of resemble Dancing With the Stars, if you squint(眯眼)hard and use your imagination With experts and amateurs working together, trying to make it all look graceful while the audience alternatively laughs and cries (同时毕竟，如果你眯起眼睛使出想象力，今天的白宫不就有点像《与星星共舞》吗？有专家和业余爱好者一起工作，试图让一切看起来优雅，而观众却在笑和哭？)”可知，作者以《与星星共舞》为例，说明专家预期的舞台效果和实际观众感受的不一样，暗示白宫也一样，不知道如何正常的运转。故选D项。【66题详解】推理判断题。由文章倒数第四段“What I should be telling the young and ambitious is this: being really good at one thing is fantastic until it isn’t. The day may come, in my experience, will come, when you know you want to do, want to be, something else.(我应该告诉年轻人和有抱负的人：在一件事上做得真的很好，直到 。根据我的经验，当你知道你想做什么、想成为什么、做什么的时候，总有一天会到来。)”可知，文章后面讲了总有一天你会发现你想做什么，但在这之前你应该坚持做好一件事，直到你不再对这件事情感兴趣。故选B项。Section CDirections: Read the following passages. 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.We are a nation of unhealthy sleepers. Ten percent of us are insomniacs, many more wake up constantly throughout the night, and a growing number of us are simply too obsessed with smartphones to put them down and go to bed.But what’s the worst kind of sleep for your health: the kind where you keep a normal bedtime but are constantly up every few hours, or the kind where you go to bed late and only get a few hours of shut-eye. ___67___.Reporting in the journal Sleep, lead author Patrick Finan, an assistant professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and his colleagues conducted one of the first studies comparing the two types of sleep—interrupted sleep and abbreviated sleep—in a group of 62 healthy men and women who were good sleepers. The participants spent three days and nights in a sleep lab and answered questions about their mood every evening before dozing off. While they slept, the researchers measured their sleep stages so they could document when and how much of each stage of sleep, from light to deeper slumber, each volunteer got every night. A third were randomly assigned to be woken up several times a night; another third were not allowed to go to sleep until later but weren’t woken up. ___68___.When Finan compared the three group’s mood ratings, he found that the interrupted and short sleepers both showed drops in positive mood after the first night. But on the next nights, the interrupted sleepers continued to report declining positive feelings while the short sleepers did not—___69___This drop in positive mood occurred regardless of what the participants reported on the negative scale. So having disrupted sleep, says Finan, may have a stronger effect on dampening positive mood than it does on increasing negative emotions.When he looked at the brain patterns of the two disrupted sleep groups, he found that those who woke up repeatedly showed less slow wave sleep, or the deep sleep that is normally linked to feeling restored and rested, than those getting the same amount of sleep but in a continuous session. “We saw a drop in slow wave sleep large and sudden,” says Finan. “___70___”A. After a bad night’s sleep, you are unlikely to be in the best of moods. B. They stayed at about the same level they had reported after the first night. C. The final, control group was allowed to sleep uninterrupted throughout the night. D. Scientists might finally have an answer. E. They feel more and more frustrated emotionally. F. It was associated with a striking drop in positive mood, very different than in the other group.【答案】67. D 68. C 69. B 70. F【解析】【导语】这是一篇说明文。作者指出当前本国睡眠问题严重，科研人员似乎找到了问题的原因所在，故本文主要介绍研究实验。【67题详解】上文“We are a nation of unhealthy sleepers. (我们是一个睡眠不健康的国家)”以及“But what’s the worst kind of sleep for your health:(但是什么样的睡眠对你的健康最有害:)”说明空格前在陈述问题；下文“Reporting in the journal Sleep, lead author Patrick Finan, an assistant professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and his colleagues conducted one of the first studies comparing the two types of sleep—interrupted sleep and abbreviated sleep—in a group of 62 healthy men and women who were good sleepers.(第一作者、约翰·霍普金斯大学医学院助理教授帕特里克·菲南和他的同事在《睡眠》杂志上发表了报告，他们在一组62名睡眠良好的健康男女中进行了第一批比较两种睡眠中断睡眠和缩短睡眠的研究)”说明有研究人员正在研究此问题，旨在找到病症原因。故可推测空格处承前启下，指出科学家似乎找到了我们睡眠问题的答案。选项D“Scientists might finally have an answer.(科学家们也许终于有了答案)”符合语境。故选D项。【68题详解】上文“The participants spent three days and nights in a sleep lab and answered questions about their mood every evening before dozing off.(参与者在睡眠实验室度过了三天三夜，每天晚上睡前回答关于他们情绪的问题)”以及“A third were randomly assigned to be woken up several times a night; another third were not allowed to go to sleep until later but weren’t woken up.(三分之一的人被随机分配，每晚被叫醒几次；另外三分之一的人直到后来才被允许睡觉，但没有被叫醒)”可知还有三分之一的参与者未提及，应该会在空格处被提及。选项C“The final, control group was allowed to sleep uninterrupted throughout the night.(最后一组，对照组被允许整夜不间断地睡觉)”正好谈论的就是剩下的三分之一参与者作为对照组的安排，符合语境。故选C项。【69题详解】上文“But on the next nights, the interrupted sleepers continued to report declining positive feelings while the short sleepers did not(但在接下来的晚上，睡眠中断的人继续报告积极情绪下降，而睡眠不足的人则没有)”可知，睡眠不足的人在接下来的晚上没有出现积极情绪下降的情况；选项B“They stayed at about the same level they had reported after the first night.(他们保持在第一晚后报告的水平)”也指出这批参与者保持原样，未呈现下降趋势，可填于破折号后的第三空上解释上文的内容。故选B项。【70题详解】上文“We saw a drop in slow wave sleep large and sudden,(我们看到慢波睡眠突然大幅下降)”可知科研人员此处话未说完，后文肯定还是接着这突然大幅下降慢波睡眠，选项F“It was associated with a striking drop in positive mood, very different than in the other group.(这与积极情绪的显著下降有关，与另一组有很大不同)”中包含代词it，即之前文提到的“慢波睡眠突然大幅下降”符合语境。故选F项。IV. Summary Writing (10分)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.Losing your ability to think and remember is pretty scary. We know the risk of dementia (痴呆) increases with age. But if you have memory slips, you probably needn’t worry.There are pretty clear differences between signs of dementia and age-related memory loss.After 50, it’s quite common to have trouble remembering the names of people, places and things quickly.The brain ages just like the rest of the body. Certain parts shrink, especially areas in the brain that are important to learning, memory and planning. Changes in brain cells can affect communication between different regions of the brain. And blood flow can be reduced as blood vessels narrow.Forgetting the name of an actor in a favorite movie, for example, is nothing to worry about. But if you forget the plot of the movie or don’t remember even seeing it, that’s far more concerning.When you forget entire experiences, it’s a red flag that something more serious may be involved. Forgetting how to operate a familiar object like a microwave oven, or forgetting how to drive to the house of a friend you’ve visited many times before can also be signs of something going wrong.But even then, people shouldn’t panic. There are many things that can cause confusion and memory loss, including health problems like temporary stoppage of breathing during sleep, high blood pressure, or depression, as well as medications (药物) like antidepressants. Defense against memory loss is to try to prevent it by building up your brain’s cognitive (认知的) reserve.Read books, go to movies, take up new hobbies or activities that force one to think in novel ways. In other words, keep your brain busy and working. And also get physically active, because exercise is a known brain booster.71._______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________【答案】A possible version:People aged 50 and over tend to develop memory problems, because changes in brain cells have affected brain’s communication within, and that the narrowing of vessels reduces the blood flow. However, signs of memory loss do not necessarily lead to the condition itself. Anyway, trying to think creatively and getting physically active help to keep your brain healthy effectively.【解析】【导语】本文是一篇说明文。文章主要介绍了50岁及以上的人容易出现记忆力问题，因为脑细胞的变化影响了大脑内部的交流，血管的狭窄减少了血流。然而，记忆丧失的迹象并不一定会导致这种情况本身。无论如何，试着创造性地思考和积极锻炼有助于有效地保持大脑健康。【详解】1.要点摘录①After 50, it’s quite common to have trouble remembering the names of people, places and things quickly.②Changes in brain cells can affect communication between different regions of the brain. And blood flow can be reduced as blood vessels narrow.③There are many things that can cause confusion and memory loss, including health problems like temporary stoppage of breathing during sleep, high blood pressure, or depression, as well as medications (药物) like antidepressants.④Read books go to movies, take up new hobbies or activities that force one to think in novel ways.⑤And also get physically active, because exercise is a known brain booster.2.缜密构思将第1、2两个要点进行重组，将第3个要点进行释义，将第4、5两个要点进行整合。3.遣词造句People aged 50 and over tend to develop memory problems, because changes in brain cells have affected brain’s communication within, and that the narrowing of vessels reduces the blood flow.However, signs of memory loss do not necessarily lead to the condition itself.Anyway, trying to think creatively and getting physically active help to keep your brain healthy effectively.【点睛】[高分句型1] People aged 50 and over tend to develop memory problems, because changes in brain cells have affected brain’s communication within, and that the narrowing of vessels reduces the blood flow. (运用了because引导的原因状语从句)[高分句型2] Anyway trying to think creatively and getting physically active help to keep your brain healthy effectively .(运用了动名词短语作主语)V. Translation (第1-2句，每句3分；第3句，4分；第4句5分；共15分)Directions: Translate the following sentences into English, using the words given in the brackets.72. 记着每餐饭前30分钟吃药。(take) （汉译英）【答案】Remember to take the pill/medicine 30 minutes before every meal.【解析】【详解】考查祈使句、不定式作宾语和固定短语。根据句意可知，该句表示对别人的叮嘱，应用祈使句，且是肯定句式。祈使句的肯定句构成为：实义动词原形+其他，或Be+形容词/名词，或Let+宾语+动词原形+其他。表强调时，还可借助于助动词do，构成Do+动词原形+其他的结构。根据汉语提示，“记着”的英文表达为remember，后接动词作宾语时，可接不定式remember to do，表示“记得要做某事”。 “吃药”的英文表达为短语take the pill/medicine，该句表示“记得要去吃药”，故用不定式来作remember的宾语。“每餐饭前30分钟”的英文表达为30 minutes before every meal。故答案为Remember to take the pill/medicine 30 minutes before every meal.73. 既然你被自己心仪的学校录取了，何不请每个人吃一个冰淇淋？(treat) (汉译英)【答案】Since/Now that you have been admitted into/to your dream/ideal university, why not treat everyone to an ice-cream 【解析】【详解】考查固定句型、状语从句和时态语态。此处为since或now that引导的原因状语从句，表示“被录取”短语为be admitted into/to，此处应用现在完成时的被动语态；表示“心仪的学校”翻译为your dream/ideal university；表示“何不做某事”短语为why not do sth.；表示“请每个人吃一个冰淇淋”翻译为treat everyone to an ice-cream。故翻译为Since/Now that you have been admitted into/to your dream/ideal university, why not treat everyone to an ice-cream 74. 我没想到由于当地的环境日趋恶化，这批大豆无论在质量和大小上都属于下等。(inferior) （汉译英）【答案】It didn’t occur to me that due to the worsening of the local environment, the soybeans were inferior in both quality and size.【解析】【详解】考查动词、名词和固定句型。分析句子可知，这里时态应用一般过去时，表示“我没想到”应用It didn’t occur to me that，为固定句型；表示“由于当地的环境日趋恶化”应用介词短语due to the worsening of the local environment；表示“这批大豆无论在质量和大小上都属于下等”应用句子the soybeans were inferior in both quality and size。故翻译为It didn’t occur to me that due to the worsening of the local environment, the soybeans were inferior in both quality and size。75. 无论手头事情多么重要或微不足道，我们都应该谨慎对待我们做的每一个决定，因为失之毫厘，差以千里。(difference) (汉译英)【答案】No matter how significant or insignificant the matter at hand is, we should be cautious about every resolution (that) we make, becasue one false step will make a great difference.##However significant or insignificant the matter at hand is, we should be cautious about every resolution (that) we make, becasue one false step will make a great difference.【解析】【详解】考查时态、让步状语从句，形容词短语、介词短语、定语从句和原因状语从句。陈述客观现象，谓语动词用一般现在时。“无论……多么……或……”表达为No matter how...or...或者however...or...，引导让步状语从句，how或however后接形容词；“手头的事情”表达为 the matter at hand，介词短语at hand为后置定语，修饰让步状语从句的主语the matter；“重要”表达为形容词significant，“微不足道”表达为形容词insignificant，都作为让步状语从句的表语。“谨慎对待”表达为形容词短语be cautious about，后接宾语“每一个决定”，可表达为名词every resolution；“我们做的”表达为we make，修饰every resolution，为限制性定语从句，先行词为物，且在从句中作宾语，关系代词that，也可省略，从句中用一般现在时，表经常性。“因为”表达为连接词because，引导原因状语从句；“失之毫厘，差以千里”，根据所给词difference，表达为one false step will make a great difference”，叙述一般真理可用情态动词will，后接动词短语make adifference，作宾语。结合其他汉语提示，故翻译为：No matter how significant or insignificant the matter at hand is, we should be cautious about every resolution (that) we make, becasue one false step will make a great difference./However significant or insignificant the matter at hand is, we should be cautious about every resolution (that) we make, becasue one false step will make a great difference.VI. Guided Writing （25分）Directions: Write an English composition in 120-150 words according to the instructions given below in Chinese.假设你是明启中学高三学生李明，最近英国朋友Bill发来邮件，说想学中文，有两种课程二选一，请你推荐一个。内容包括：1. 你的推荐2. 通过比较说明理由课程1听说 课程2故事读写教授内容 日常会话 课时 周一，周四 晚上7：30-8：30 共8周 授课方式 全中文 教授内容 故事阅读及写作 课时 每周五 7：30-8：30 共16周 授课方式 中英文________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________【答案】Dear Bill,I’m more than glad that you are so interested in learning Chinese. Two courses are provided for foreigners—one is Listening and Speaking, the other is Story Reading and Writing. I advise you to choose the latter one.Compared to Listening and Speaking, which is just teach you some simple daily dialogues, Story Reading and Writing can take you to enjoy more skills of the use of Chinese. Besides, this course takes place on Friday nights, just taking up your little spare time. What’s the most important is that it is taught both in Chinese and English, which makes no difficulty for you to understand what the teachers explain in classes.Hope my suggestions can be of great help to you.Yours,Li Ming【解析】【导语】本文是应用文。要求考生给想学中文的英国朋友Bill推荐一个学习汉语的课程。【详解】1.词汇积累非常：more than→very建议：advise→suggest此外：Besides→what’s more有很大帮助的：be of great help→be greatly helpful2.句式拓展简单句变复合句原句：Besides, this course takes place on Friday nights, just taking up your little spare time.拓展句：Besides, this course takes place on Friday nights, which just takes up your little spare time.【点睛】【高分句型1】I’m more than glad that you are so interested in learning Chinese.（由that引导的宾语从句）【高分句型2】Compared to Listening and Speaking, which is just teach you some simple daily dialogues, Story Reading and Writing can take you to enjoy more skills of the use of Chinese.（由which引导的非限制性定语从句）【高分句型3】What’s the most important is that it is taught both in Chinese and English, which makes no difficulty for you to understand what the teachers explain in classes.（由What引导的主语从句，that引导的表语从句，which引导的非限制性定语从句和what引导的宾语从句）【高分句型4】Hope my suggestions can be of great help to you.（由省略连词that引导的宾语从句）附：听力文字稿：Listening ComprehensionSection ADirections: 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. M:When does the last bus leave W: You've just missed it by 10 minutes.The last bus left at 630 .Q:What time is it now/2. M: Do you accept credit cards W: No. I'm sorry. we don't.We take either cash or checks.Q: Which of the following will the woman accept 3.W:Jack, when did you get back from your vacation M:A couple of days ago. I had planned to stay a little longer,but I ran out of money.Q:Why did the man return early from his holiday 4. M:I want my shirt cleaned and ironedW:No problem. Please tell me your name and room number.Q:Where does this conversation probably take place 5.W:What a wonderful piano concert Lang Lang held this evening!M: Right. The entire audience felt the same way .Q: How did the audience find the piano concert 6. M: I sent a letter to make a reservation for a single room a few days ago.W:I'm sorry. Your request arrived too late.There are some conferences in town this week.Q: What can we learn from the woman 7. W:The lecture this morning was rather boring M:I can't agree more. I had one eye on the clock the whole time.Q: What does the man mean 8. M: I can't imagine what happened to Mary W: Neither can 1.I'm sure she planned to come to the party.Q: What can be concluded about Mary 9 M: It seems that Tom will become a famous artistW:I'm a professional artist and I doubt how much talent Tom really has.Q:What conclusion can you draw from the woman's remarks 10.M:Is your roommate looking forward to going home for the summer W:She is counting the days.Q: What can be inferred about the woman's roommate .Section BDirections: In Section B. you will hear two short passages several and one longer conversation, and you will be asked several questions on each of them. 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 is the best answer to the question you have heard.Questions 11 through 13 are based on the following passage.Good afternoon, and welcome to England. We hope that your visit here will be a pleasant one. Today, I would like to draw your attention to a few of our laws.The first one is about drinking. Now, you may not buy alcohol in this country if you are under 18 years of age. nor may your friends buy it for youSecondly,noise.Enjoy yourselves by all means, but please don't make unnecessary noise,particularly at night. We ask you to respect other people who may wish to be quiet.Thirdly. crossing the road. Be careful. The traffic moves on the left side of the road in this country. Use pedestrian crossings and don't take any chances when crossing the road.My next point is about liter. It is an offence to drop litter in the street. When you have something to throw way. please put it in your pocket and take it home, or put it a litter bin.Finally.as regards smoking. it is against the law to buy cigarettes or tobacco if you are under 16 years of age.I’d like to finish by saying that if you require any sort of help or assistance, you should contact your local police station, who will be pleased to help you.(Now listen again, please!)Questions:11.What is the fourth law mentioned in the speech 12. Who do you think is most likely to make the speech 13. What is the main purpose of this speech Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage.More than 20 Chinese and American experts discovered that young people of both countries are facing the tame problems of economic and social pressures and lack of confidenceUnder economic pressure American young people have to work hard and most students have to take part-dime work in order to support themselves.“In these circumstances,”an American expert said,"young people lack confidence, which was not the case in the 1960s when young Americans thought themselves capable of doing anythingIn spite of the different conditions in China, the Chinese young people are also facing economic pressures and are worried about the future.Trading has appeared in many Chinese universities as students with something to sell try to make money on campus.Moreover, college students have begun to doubt whether what they are learning in class will help them find work, as many businesses totally ignore students of pure theoryIn order to solve these problems, the Chinese and American experts agreed that youth organizations should call on the whole society to create favorable conditions for the healthy growth of young people, as well as to encourage them to meet the urgent needs of society.(Now listen again, please!)Questions:14.What is the passage mainly about 15. Which of the following can best describe the young Americans in the 1960's 16. What conclusion can we draw according to the experts’ opinions Questions 17 and 18 are based on the following conversation.W:Good afternoon. Can I help you M: I need some remedies for an upset stomach.W:Are you also suffering from pain and fever M: Yes. and I also have the runsW:I’ll give you some tablets that should make you feel better One moment, please. Here you are. Take these tablets three times a day. Swallow them with water M: When should i take them W: Tike one after each meal.M: Hew long should I continue taking them W: Take them for tee days if your symptoms persist for more than two days. you should see a doctor. Also, be sure to drink plenty of water to prevent dehydration.M: Thank you for your advice.(Now listen again please!)Questions:Where does the conversation probably take place 18: How should the man take the tabletsQuestions 19 and 20 are based on the following conversation.Have you moved into your new house yet,Michael M: We just moved in yesterday, actuallyW;So: what do you think about the place Are you glad that you moved in .M: Ir's great! Unfortunately, we're going to spend a fortune doing everything up.W:How old is the house then M: It's about 200 years old. It has a lot of history!W: Sounds fascinating Where is your new house located M: It's just off of the Ring road.W: Do you have a big yard M: It's bigger than our last one.I've got flowers in the front, and fruits,vegetables and a fish pond in the back W:Is your house well-lit M:Oh,yes.Our windows let plenty of natural light in. They’ve also got wonderful views of the park behind our houseWillow many rooms does your house haveM:Right now , there are three bedrooms,two bathrooms,a kitchen,a sitting room a dining room, and a living room. We're hoping to add on a green room and a guest bedroom.M: Sounds great!(Now listen again, please!)Questions:19. What can we learn about the man's new house 20.What's the number of the bedrooms and the bathrooms respectively 2023年1月全国普通高等学校招生统一考试上海春考英语仿真模拟试卷（四）参考答案Listening Comprehension Section A （第1-10题, 每题1分；第11-20题，每题1.5分；共25分）1-5. ABABB 6-10. DCBAA 11-13. CAC 14-16. DBC 17-20.DBDA备注：听力文字稿附在文档末尾Grammar and Vocabulary （每题1分；共20分）Section A【答案】21. have been found 22. one 23. used 24. When 25. to26. could 27. simpler 28. the 29. around 30. everywhereSection B【答案】31. E 32. G 33. K 34. A 35. H 36. C 37. D 38. I 39. J 40. FReading Comprehension (41 – 55题，每题1分；56 – 70题，每题2分；共45分)Section A【答案】41. C 42. A 43. B 44. D 45. B 46. B 47. D 48. D 49. B 50. A 51. A 52. C 53. A 54. A 55. DSection B【答案】56. C 57. B 58. C 59. D【答案】60. C 61. B 62. A【答案】63. C 64. A 65. D 66. BSection C【答案】67. D 68. C 69. B 70. FIV. Summary Writing (10分)【参考答案】People aged 50 and over tend to develop memory problems, because changes in brain cells have affected brain’s communication within, and that the narrowing of vessels reduces the blood flow. However, signs of memory loss do not necessarily lead to the condition itself. Anyway, trying to think creatively and getting physically active help to keep your brain healthy effectively.V. Translation (第1-2句，每句3分；第3句，4分；第4句5分；共15分)72 【答案】Remember to take the pill/medicine 30 minutes before every meal.73 【答案】Since/Now that you have been admitted into/to your dream/ideal university, why not treat everyone to an ice-cream 74 【答案】It didn’t occur to me that due to the worsening of the local environment, the soybeans were inferior in both quality and size.75 【答案】No matter how significant or insignificant the matter at hand is, we should be cautious about every resolution (that) we make, becasue one false step will make a great difference.##However significant or insignificant the matter at hand is, we should be cautious about every resolution (that) we make, becasue one false step will make a great difference.VI. Guided Writing （25分）【参考答案】Dear Bill,I’m more than glad that you are so interested in learning Chinese. Two courses are provided for foreigners—one is Listening and Speaking, the other is Story Reading and Writing. I advise you to choose the latter one.Compared to Listening and Speaking, which is just teach you some simple daily dialogues, Story Reading and Writing can take you to enjoy more skills of the use of Chinese. Besides, this course takes place on Friday nights, just taking up your little spare time. What’s the most important is that it is taught both in Chinese and English, which makes no difficulty for you to understand what the teachers explain in classes.Hope my suggestions can be of great help to you.Yours,Li Ming附：听力文字稿：Listening ComprehensionSection ADirections: 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. M:When does the last bus leave W: You've just missed it by 10 minutes.The last bus left at 630 .Q:What time is it now/2. M: Do you accept credit cards W: No. I'm sorry. we don't.We take either cash or checks.Q: Which of the following will the woman accept 3.W:Jack, when did you get back from your vacation M:A couple of days ago. I had planned to stay a little longer,but I ran out of money.Q:Why did the man return early from his holiday 4. M:I want my shirt cleaned and ironedW:No problem. Please tell me your name and room number.Q:Where does this conversation probably take place 5.W:What a wonderful piano concert Lang Lang held this evening!M: Right. The entire audience felt the same way .Q: How did the audience find the piano concert 6. M: I sent a letter to make a reservation for a single room a few days ago.W:I'm sorry. Your request arrived too late.There are some conferences in town this week.Q: What can we learn from the woman 7. W:The lecture this morning was rather boring M:I can't agree more. I had one eye on the clock the whole time.Q: What does the man mean 8. M: I can't imagine what happened to Mary W: Neither can 1.I'm sure she planned to come to the party.Q: What can be concluded about Mary 9 M: It seems that Tom will become a famous artistW:I'm a professional artist and I doubt how much talent Tom really has.Q:What conclusion can you draw from the woman's remarks 10.M:Is your roommate looking forward to going home for the summer W:She is counting the days.Q: What can be inferred about the woman's roommate .Section BDirections: In Section B. you will hear two short passages several and one longer conversation, and you will be asked several questions on each of them. 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 is the best answer to the question you have heard.Questions 11 through 13 are based on the following passage.Good afternoon, and welcome to England. We hope that your visit here will be a pleasant one. Today, I would like to draw your attention to a few of our laws.The first one is about drinking. Now, you may not buy alcohol in this country if you are under 18 years of age. nor may your friends buy it for youSecondly,noise.Enjoy yourselves by all means, but please don't make unnecessary noise,particularly at night. We ask you to respect other people who may wish to be quiet.Thirdly. crossing the road. Be careful. The traffic moves on the left side of the road in this country. Use pedestrian crossings and don't take any chances when crossing the road.My next point is about liter. It is an offence to drop litter in the street. When you have something to throw way. please put it in your pocket and take it home, or put it a litter bin.Finally.as regards smoking. it is against the law to buy cigarettes or tobacco if you are under 16 years of age.I’d like to finish by saying that if you require any sort of help or assistance, you should contact your local police station, who will be pleased to help you.(Now listen again, please!)Questions:11.What is the fourth law mentioned in the speech 12. Who do you think is most likely to make the speech 13. What is the main purpose of this speech Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage.More than 20 Chinese and American experts discovered that young people of both countries are facing the tame problems of economic and social pressures and lack of confidenceUnder economic pressure American young people have to work hard and most students have to take part-dime work in order to support themselves.“In these circumstances,”an American expert said,"young people lack confidence, which was not the case in the 1960s when young Americans thought themselves capable of doing anythingIn spite of the different conditions in China, the Chinese young people are also facing economic pressures and are worried about the future.Trading has appeared in many Chinese universities as students with something to sell try to make money on campus.Moreover, college students have begun to doubt whether what they are learning in class will help them find work, as many businesses totally ignore students of pure theoryIn order to solve these problems, the Chinese and American experts agreed that youth organizations should call on the whole society to create favorable conditions for the healthy growth of young people, as well as to encourage them to meet the urgent needs of society.(Now listen again, please!)Questions:14.What is the passage mainly about 15. Which of the following can best describe the young Americans in the 1960's 16. What conclusion can we draw according to the experts’ opinions Questions 17 and 18 are based on the following conversation.W:Good afternoon. Can I help you M: I need some remedies for an upset stomach.W:Are you also suffering from pain and fever M: Yes. and I also have the runsW:I’ll give you some tablets that should make you feel better One moment, please. Here you are. Take these tablets three times a day. Swallow them with water M: When should i take them W: Tike one after each meal.M: Hew long should I continue taking them W: Take them for tee days if your symptoms persist for more than two days. you should see a doctor. Also, be sure to drink plenty of water to prevent dehydration.M: Thank you for your advice.(Now listen again please!)Questions:Where does the conversation probably take place 18: How should the man take the tabletsQuestions 19 and 20 are based on the following conversation.Have you moved into your new house yet,Michael M: We just moved in yesterday, actuallyW;So: what do you think about the place Are you glad that you moved in .M: Ir's great! Unfortunately, we're going to spend a fortune doing everything up.W:How old is the house then M: It's about 200 years old. It has a lot of history!W: Sounds fascinating Where is your new house located M: It's just off of the Ring road.W: Do you have a big yard M: It's bigger than our last one.I've got flowers in the front, and fruits,vegetables and a fish pond in the back W:Is your house well-lit M:Oh,yes.Our windows let plenty of natural light in. They’ve also got wonderful views of the park behind our houseWillow many rooms does your house haveM:Right now , there are three bedrooms,two bathrooms,a kitchen,a sitting room a dining room, and a living room. We're hoping to add on a green room and a guest bedroom.M: Sounds great!(Now listen again, please!)Questions:19. What can we learn about the man's new house 20.What's the number of the bedrooms and the bathrooms respectively ★绝密考试结束前 2023年1月全国普通高等学校招生统一考试上海春考英语仿真模拟试卷（四）Listening Comprehension Section A （第1-10题, 每题1分；第11-20题，每题1.5分；共25分）Section ADirections: 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. 6:40. B.6:20. C. 6:10. D. 6:30.2. A. Cash only. B. Cash or checks. C. Checks only. D. Credit cards.3. A. He lacked money. B. He had some trouble with his lungsC. He didn't plan the trip very well D. He was in poor health4. A. At a drugstore. B. At a hotel. C. At a laundry. D. At a clothes shop.5. A. Poor. B. Excellent. C. Tired. D. Concerned.6. A. There is a single room left. B. There are some spare rooms left.C. There are some double rooms. D. All the rooms are taken.7. A. He hurt his eye. B. The clock was unusualC. The lecture was not interesting. D. The lecture lasted for an hour.8. A. Mary came to the party. B. Mary hasn’t appeared yet.C. Mary planned the party D. Mary hasn’t any imagination.9. A. Tom has no artist talent. B. Tom has improved his art.C. Tom is a very professional artist. D. Tom is a popular artist.10. A. She is excited about going home. B. She has been home for only a few days.C. She's spending time going over her accounts. D. She's counting the numbers.Section BDirections: In Section B. you will hear two short passages several and one longer conversation, and you will be asked several questions on each of them. 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 is the best answer to the question you have heard.Questions 11 through 13 are based on the following passage.A.Noise B Smoking C.Litter. D. Drinking12. A A tour guide. B. A conductor. C. A teacher. D. A lawyer13. A. To prepare people for international travel.B. To make the laws of different kinds.C. To give advice to travelers to the country.D. To inform people of the punishment for breaking laws.Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage14. A.Economic pressure. B. Job hunting after graduation.C. How to make money on campus. D. The problems facing American and Chinese students.15. A. Sensible. B. Confident. C. Ignorant. D. Negative.16. A. It is the society that causes university students to lack confidence.B. Many businesses ignore the students’ pure theory.C. The society and the young should work well together to solve the problem.D. Some American university students sell something to make money.Questions 17 and 18 are based on the following conversation.17. A. In the hospital. B. In the shopping center.C. In a school. D. In a drugstore.18. A. Three times a day, take one before each meal.B. Three times a day, take one after each meal.C. Take them for three days continuouslyD. Take them for two days without seeing the doctorQuestions 19 and 20 are based on the following conversation.19. A. It almost has a long history of 100 years.B. It's smaller than his last one.C. The windows can’t let plenty of natural light in.D. There are wonderful views of the park behind his house.20. A. Three bedrooms, two bathrooms.B.Four bedrooms, three bathrooms.C. Four bedrooms, one bathroom.D. Five bedrooms, two bathrooms.Grammar and Vocabulary （每题1分；共20分）Section ADirections: 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.People have been painting pictures for at least 30,000 years. The earliest pictures were painted by people who hunted animals. They used to paint pictures of the animals they wanted to catch and kill. Pictures of this kind ___21___ (find) on the walls of caves in France and Spain. No___22___ knows why they were painted there. Perhaps the painters thought that their pictures would help them to catch these animals. Or perhaps human beings have always wanted to tell stories in pictures.About 5,000 years ago, the Egyptians and other people in the Near East began to use pictures as a kind of writing. They drew simple pictures or signs to represent things and ideas, and also to represent the sounds of their language. The signs these people ___23___ (use) became a kind of alphabet. The Egyptians used to record information and to tell stories by putting picture writing and pictures together. ___24___ an important person died, scenes and stories from his life were painted and carved on the walls of the place where he was buried. Some of these pictures are like modern comic strip stories. It has been said that Egypt is home ___25___ comic strips. But, for the Egyptians, pictures still had magic power. So they did not try to make their way of writing simple. The ordinary people ___26___ not understand it. By the year 1,000 BC, people who lived in the area around the Mediterranean Sea had developed a ___27___ (simple) system of writing. The signs they used were very easy to write, and there were fewer of them than in the Egyptian system. This was because each sign, or letter, represented only one sound in their language. The Greeks developed this system and formed the letters of the Greek alphabet. The Romans copied___28___ idea, and the Roman alphabet is now used ___29___ the world.These days, we can write down a story, or record information, without using pictures. But we still need pictures of all kinds: drawing, photographs, signs and diagrams. We find them____30____: in books and newspapers, in the street, and on the walls of the places where we live and work. Pictures help us to understand and remember things more easily, and they can make a story much more interesting.Section BDirections: Fill in each blank with a proper word chosen from the box. Each word can be used only once. Note that there is one word more than you need.A. clarify B. consistent C. conversely D. criteria E. misinterpreted F. perceived G. qualify H. reflection I. significance J. simultaneously K. valuableIn recent years we’ve all become more health conscious. However, in doing so we seem to have____31____health. Health is no longer something everyone is born with. Health is a commodity. It is something you can have more of. And to____32____for this extra health you have to buy a tracksuit, eat vitamin pills, have a therapist and learn to do one-handed press-ups.This all sounds quite harmless — until you realise it implies that people who are not perfectly formed, who are not young, sporty and sun-tanned, are less____33____people. We all want to be healthy but we should perhaps come down off the exercise bike and____34____what the word health actually means.For a start, health is not beauty and fitness. You can have wonderful hair and huge muscles, while your internal organs are in a terrible state. The outer person is not a direct____35____of the inner person. Second, health is not a purely physical state. It’s mental as well. There are lots of fit people who are not psychologically sound and,____36____, a lot of quite seriously disabled people who are bright, happy and perfectly in tune with themselves. Besides, the____37____for physical and mental health are a matter of opinion, containing a strong social element. There’s a tribe in the Amazon rainforest which regards you as unwell if you don’t have marks of fungal (真菌) infection on your skin.Taking all this into account, health is a terribly difficult word to define. It is nevertheless of grave____38____to do so, because unless we know what health is we don’t know what to aim for. My own favourite definition of health is ‘psychological health is the ability to love and to work’. It’s an easy thing to aim for and at the same time very difficult to arrive at. There are, however, occasional moments in everyone’s life when you experience,____39____, a great love for those around you and also a great sense of personal fulfillment. These brief moments are very hard to achieve, but they are_____40_____as a more worthwhile aim in life than trying to look like a supermodel.Reading Comprehension (41 – 55题，每题1分；56 – 70题，每题2分；共45分)Section ADirections: 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.What if the good life isn’t really…all that good What if the very things so many of us ___41___ for—a high-paying, powerful job; a beautiful house; a wardrobe (衣橱) of nice clothes in desirably small sizes; a fancy education for our children to prepare them for ___42___ on this way of life—turn out to be more ___43___ than they’re worth It’s long been believed that the psychological ___44___ associated with being a “low-status individual” —i.e., poor, grow ___45___ as people move up the social ladder. It turns out that’s true only to a point. Once you get ___46___enough, the mental and physical health ___47___ associated with greater affluence (富裕) fade away. In fact, research indicates that as you near the top, life stress ___48___ so dramatically that its harmful effects almost cancel out many ___49___ aspects of succeeding.Scott Schieman, a professor of sociology at the University of Toronto, has a phrase for this: “the stress of high status.” In 2005 and again in 2007, he surveyed 1,800 Americans of all income levels and is now ___50___ his research to more than 6,000 Canadians. What he found turns received sociological wisdom on its ear: “People with higher level of education and in higher-status occupations and mid-to-higher ___51___ groups are experiencing higher levels of ___52___,” he says.Why The very trappings of ___53___ can make life harder if you’re the sort of driven, work-devoted person that high-status individuals tend to be, another supposed benefit that can be punishing: power. Having authority over others binds people to all sorts of interpersonal ___54___ and management anxiety, ___55___ “too much” stress, Schieman says. “This is the stuff that simply keeps people up at night.”A. prepare B. intend C. strive D. waitA. carrying B. living C. taking D. comingA. depression B. trouble C. excitement D. happinessA. result B. responsibility C. benefits D. burdensA. heavier B. lighter C. higher D. lowerA. rich B. high C. old D. wiseA. state B. change C. progress D. benefitsA. reduces B. improves C. develops D. increasesA. active B. positive C. negative D. passiveA. extending B. expanding C. restricting D. targetingA. income B. status C. wealth D. powerA. advantages B. privilege C. stresses D. influenceA. success B. failure C. stress D. promotionA. conflicts B. quarrels C. communications D. relationsA. resulting from B. arising from C. pointing to D. leading toSection BDirections: 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)Margo and I were nine. Our parents were friends, so we would sometimes play together, biking past the tree-lined streets to Jefferson Park, the leisure spot of our neighborhood.I always got nervous whenever Margo was about to show up. It could be that she was both cool and gorgeous with the pink T-shirt featuring a green dragon breathing a fire of orange glitter. Or it could be the way she biked, standing up, her arms locked as she leaned above the handle bars.At the time, I fancied myself an inventor and I told Margo about an idea I had for an invention called the Ringolator, a gigantic cannon that would shoot big, colored rocks into a very low orbit, giving Earth the same rings that Saturn (土星) has. Margo just beamed brightly, shaking her head.I’d been in the park so many times before that it was mapped in my mind, so we were only a few steps inside when I began to sense that the world was out of order.“Look! There.” Margo said quietly, calmly.She was pointing. And then I realized what was different.There was a live oak a few feet ahead. Thick and ancient-looking. That was not new. The playground on our right. Not new either. But now, a guy wearing a gray suit, leaning against the trunk of the oak tree, not moving. That was new. He kept his mouth open in a way that mouth generally shouldn’t be.“He’s drunk,” I said, “and dangerously drunk.”I took two small steps backward. Maybe he was a zombie. I knew zombies weren’t real, but he surely looked like one. And if I made any sudden movements, he might wake up and attack.As I took those two steps back, Margo took two equally small and quiet steps forward. “His eyes are open,” she said.“We gotta go home,” I said.She took another two steps. This time she was close enough and she reached out to touch his foot.“He’s gone,” Margo said, as if I couldn’t tell.(From “Paper Towns” by John Green with major adaption)56. Why the author “always got nervous whenever Margo was about to show up” A. He was afraid that Margo might give him a lesson physically.B. He felt that Margo’s way of riding a bike could put them both in danger.C. He had admiration for the cool and gorgeous appearance and action of Margo.D. He didn’t like the horrifying green dragon breathing a fire of orange glitter.57. How does Margo feel about the author’s invention of a “Ringolator” A. It was a brilliant idea that may change the world.B. It sounded silly yet amusing, so she showed her kindness.C. It called for experiment in the Jefferson Park.D. It gave out beams of light and was bright.58. What happened to the man most probably A. He was playing hide and seek. B. He was a new comer to the park.C. He was already dead when found. D. He was becoming a zombie59. What can best describe Margo A. Gorgeous and timid. B. Innocent and cute.C. Bright and imaginative. D. Calm and brave.(B)Acting & Musical TheaterThe Summer Acting＆Musical Theater program, which starts on Friday, July 3 and ends on Thursday, July 23, is created for talented students who have been inspired by musical theater.The program develops the abilities of experienced performers who are serious about the field and eager to work hard. Our goal is to help you grow creatively through full-time, college-level theatre training under the direction of popular professional performers and teachers.The students can improve their performance skills and can get the knowledge about the history of theater, the style of theater and so on. Students will complete the program with improved audition (试演) skills.Classes aim to improve your command of body, mind and voice. Students will take a trip to see at least one professional production with program teachers. An exhibition of the students’ class work will be presented at the conclusion of the program to family, friends, students from other Summer College programs, and the University community.Program Costs:Accommodation: $3, 359; Traffic: $2, 234.Audition requirements:Auditions should include the following video materials:●Two different songs;●One age-suitable monologue (独白);●One short dance part;●A personal statement regarding your background and training, experience in performances, and personal goals in theater;●Each part of the audition should be about one minute in length;●You should be the only person shown in the audition;●The audition is given online with your application.Typical day:9:00 am to noon classes focus on musical theater, including acting, voice, movement, dance and scene study.1: 00 to 4: 00 pm classes involve additional work in acting, movement, and voice, along with rehearsals (排练) for public performances.60. What do you know about the program A. Students can have chances to audition in films.B. The program helps students grow healthily.C. The program will last for three weeks.D. The program provides accommodation for free.61. The underlined word “production” in Paragraph 4 refers to ________.A. writing B. performance C. conference D. guidance62. The audition materials include the following EXCEPT ________.A. a performance with your partner B. a short dance part in one minuteC. an online introduction of yourself D. a suitable monologue in one minute(C)The other night I had dinner with my friend Kim, who in midlife is trying to change her career. She has spent decades as a successful photographer, but she knows it’s time to do something different. What, however, is she qualified to do, besides photography “I’m good at parties,” she told me with a shrug. “And parallel parking.” We refilled our wineglasses and laughed really hard as we dreamed up the various careers in which that particular combination might be useful.Here’s a humbling exercise: Ask yourself what you’re good at, aside from the skills you use at work. After my conversation with Kim, I put this question to a handful of friends and got responses ranging from “finding restaurants for people” to “spotting terrific old chairs.” The more I think about my own answer to this question, the more confused I seem to get.A year ago this month I left a job, and a career, that brought me great satisfaction for more than two decades. Can serendipity(意外惊喜)be a strategy It certainly worked for me. I happened to find a field in which my skills and the requirements of the job were a Venn diagram (韦恩图) with near total overlap. Like most of my friends, I spent my 20s and 30s marching determinedly along my given path, working hard, with purpose, and by the time I reached my 40s, I was able to enjoy the fruits of my labor. Isn’t that the way the American Dream goes Here’s what you learn when you wake up from that dream: hubris (自负) is the unpleasant by-product of success. If you are really good at your job for a long enough time, you begin to believe that you can be good at any job and therefore can easily jump from one thing to another, switching horses in midstream. Examples of this mistaken thinking are everywhere, from the harmlessly frivolous (Dancing With the Stars) to the dangerously serious (the current presidency). As it turns out, humility is its own kind of skill; developing it hurts, but falling on your face hurts more.Over the years a number of 20-somethings have come to me for advice, which I have dutifully given: Work hard, meet lots of people, say yes to many things. Don’t complain, put a smile on your face, and remind yourself that studying Foucault for four years in college might not prove to be particularly relevant in the working world. Swallow your pride and ask a lot of questions.What I should be telling the young and ambitious is this: being really good at one thing is fantastic until it isn’t. The day may come, in my experience, will come, when you know you want to do, want to be, something else. For example, 20-somethings, one day you might want to appear on Dancing With the Stars. I’m not sure if Sean Spicer is a fool or a genius for turning down this opportunity for his first post-Administration performance. Maybe he’s not aware that Apolo Ohno was placed first on the show.Or maybe you’ll want to run for President. Never mind that it was a President–Abraham Lincoln–who popularized the warning about switching horses in midstream. If you are a real estate tycoon and loud-mouthed TV star who made a name for yourself with a combination of instinct, bravado(虚张声势)and riding the wave of chaos you create everywhere you go, then who cares what Abe Lincoln said The White House is the logical next career step.Or, 20-somethings, maybe you’ll do both! At the same time! After all, doesn’t today’s White House sort of resemble Dancing With the Stars, if you squint(眯眼)hard and use your imagination With experts and amateurs working together, trying to make it all look graceful while the audience alternatively laughs and cries So, folks, an assignment: Ask yourself what you’re good at. As for me, aside from what I most recently did for a living–writing, editing, managing people and showing up to meetings on time–my greatest strengths seem to be making vacation packing lists and remembering which houses in my town are on the market. So I have entered this next phase of my life with gratitude (for what I’ve accomplished), humility (about all that I don’t know) and fear (see random greatest strengths). I used to be filled with optimism: if Donald Trump could become President, anything seemed possible. But with each passing month, and each new failure, my optimism dims. If he wanted to try something new, wouldn’t Dancing With the Stars have been a wiser choice 63. Which of the following statements can be inferred from the passage A. Only failure contributes to the development of one’s humility.B. Donald Trump is the very person for the US presidency.C. Career success encourages overestimate of oneself.D. College education is a must for a successful career.64. What is the writer’s attitude towards job hopping A. Check whether one’s skill meets the requirements of the potential new job.B. Seize each and every random opportunity that comes along.C. Be optimistic about the potential new job and anything is possible.D. Job hopping is such a severe danger as to be avoided.65. The writer’s implicit comment on the White House could be ________.A. It functions ideally as the political center of the United States.B. It is the logical next career step for a wealthy and famous person.C. It is as attractive and interesting as Dancing with the Stars.D. It is a stage where officials don’t know how to run the country.66. What could be implied by the underlined “it isn’t” A. What one is really good at disappears.B. One feels no more fantastic about the job.C. One’s ambition weakens as he or she ages.D. One tries to change to a new job.Section CDirections: Read the following passages. 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.We are a nation of unhealthy sleepers. Ten percent of us are insomniacs, many more wake up constantly throughout the night, and a growing number of us are simply too obsessed with smartphones to put them down and go to bed.But what’s the worst kind of sleep for your health: the kind where you keep a normal bedtime but are constantly up every few hours, or the kind where you go to bed late and only get a few hours of shut-eye. ___67___.Reporting in the journal Sleep, lead author Patrick Finan, an assistant professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and his colleagues conducted one of the first studies comparing the two types of sleep—interrupted sleep and abbreviated sleep—in a group of 62 healthy men and women who were good sleepers. The participants spent three days and nights in a sleep lab and answered questions about their mood every evening before dozing off. While they slept, the researchers measured their sleep stages so they could document when and how much of each stage of sleep, from light to deeper slumber, each volunteer got every night. A third were randomly assigned to be woken up several times a night; another third were not allowed to go to sleep until later but weren’t woken up. ___68___.When Finan compared the three group’s mood ratings, he found that the interrupted and short sleepers both showed drops in positive mood after the first night. But on the next nights, the interrupted sleepers continued to report declining positive feelings while the short sleepers did not—___69___This drop in positive mood occurred regardless of what the participants reported on the negative scale. So having disrupted sleep, says Finan, may have a stronger effect on dampening positive mood than it does on increasing negative emotions.When he looked at the brain patterns of the two disrupted sleep groups, he found that those who woke up repeatedly showed less slow wave sleep, or the deep sleep that is normally linked to feeling restored and rested, than those getting the same amount of sleep but in a continuous session. “We saw a drop in slow wave sleep large and sudden,” says Finan. “___70___”A. After a bad night’s sleep, you are unlikely to be in the best of moods. B. They stayed at about the same level they had reported after the first night. C. The final, control group was allowed to sleep uninterrupted throughout the night. D. Scientists might finally have an answer. E. They feel more and more frustrated emotionally. F. It was associated with a striking drop in positive mood, very different than in the other group.IV. Summary Writing (10分)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.Losing your ability to think and remember is pretty scary. We know the risk of dementia (痴呆) increases with age. But if you have memory slips, you probably needn’t worry.There are pretty clear differences between signs of dementia and age-related memory loss.After 50, it’s quite common to have trouble remembering the names of people, places and things quickly.The brain ages just like the rest of the body. Certain parts shrink, especially areas in the brain that are important to learning, memory and planning. Changes in brain cells can affect communication between different regions of the brain. And blood flow can be reduced as blood vessels narrow.Forgetting the name of an actor in a favorite movie, for example, is nothing to worry about. But if you forget the plot of the movie or don’t remember even seeing it, that’s far more concerning.When you forget entire experiences, it’s a red flag that something more serious may be involved. Forgetting how to operate a familiar object like a microwave oven, or forgetting how to drive to the house of a friend you’ve visited many times before can also be signs of something going wrong.But even then, people shouldn’t panic. There are many things that can cause confusion and memory loss, including health problems like temporary stoppage of breathing during sleep, high blood pressure, or depression, as well as medications (药物) like antidepressants. Defense against memory loss is to try to prevent it by building up your brain’s cognitive (认知的) reserve.Read books, go to movies, take up new hobbies or activities that force one to think in novel ways. In other words, keep your brain busy and working. And also get physically active, because exercise is a known brain booster.71._______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________V. Translation (第1-2句，每句3分；第3句，4分；第4句5分；共15分)Directions: Translate the following sentences into English, using the words given in the brackets.72. 记着每餐饭前30分钟吃药。(take) （汉译英）73. 既然你被自己心仪的学校录取了，何不请每个人吃一个冰淇淋？(treat) (汉译英)74. 我没想到由于当地的环境日趋恶化，这批大豆无论在质量和大小上都属于下等。(inferior) （汉译英）75. 无论手头事情多么重要或微不足道，我们都应该谨慎对待我们做的每一个决定，因为失之毫厘，差以千里。(difference) (汉译英)VI. Guided Writing （25分）Directions: Write an English composition in 120-150 words according to the instructions given below in Chinese.假设你是明启中学高三学生李明，最近英国朋友Bill发来邮件，说想学中文，有两种课程二选一，请你推荐一个。内容包括：1. 你的推荐2. 通过比较说明理由课程1听说 课程2故事读写教授内容 日常会话 课时 周一，周四 晚上7：30-8：30 共8周 授课方式 全中文 教授内容 故事阅读及写作 课时 每周五 7：30-8：30 共16周 授课方式 中英文________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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