汕头市潮阳实验学校2024～2025学年度第一学期
高三第二次月考英语试卷
第二部分 阅读（共两节，满分50分）
第一节 （共15小题；每小题2.5分，满分37.5分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。
A
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21．What is the aim of Be My Eyes
A．To explore new video and AI applications.
B．To facilitate help for the visually challenged.
C．To promote global communication.
D．To increase the sales of official goods.
22．Adopting Be My AI, businesses can ______.
A．tailor products to customers’ needs B．conduct automatic team training
C．gain more experienced specialists D．improve efficiency at a lower cost
23．What can readers do to support Be My Eyes
A．Purchase its service. B．Spread native languages.
C．Recommend the app. D．Upload live video.
B
As parents would always feel proud of their child, Kelli Boehle says her son Nik was an amazing and caring person. Nik was diagnosed with cancer in 2008 when he was 17. He passed away in 2012. But Nik’s kindness and generosity have lived on long after his death.
After he was diagnosed and started treatment, Nik was granted a wish experience from the Make-A-Wish Foundation. “For just this period of time, we didn’t think about cancer,” Kelli Boehle said. “All we thought about was enjoying our time together. ”
In 2009, Nik met another young man Nate, who was also going through cancer treatment. He’d been diagnosed a month after turning 18, and Nik learned he was too old to qualify for a wish. The night before Nik passed away, he asked his mother to help ensure that young adults fighting cancer could have their wishes come true too.
“It was like a seed he planted that just wouldn’t stop coming into my mind,” she said. In 2012, Kelli Boehle started Nik’s Wish. The nonprofit grants wishes to young adults between the ages of 18 and 24 who are battling cancer. Nate was the organization’s first wish recipient（接受者）. “It’s meant to bring them joy and know that they’re loved and that we’re fighting for them, too,” Kelli Boehle said.
Recently, 19-year-old Jordan Morrow received her wish to attend a Taylor Swift concert as part of a trip to Los Angeles. For Morrow, who has spent the last year battling brain cancer, going to the concert has done more than lift her spirits. “I think it’s something to get me through whatever comes my way,” she said. “And I’m thankful for Nik’s Wish for that.”
In the 11 years since Nik passed away, the organization has granted more than 300 wishes across more than 30 states. In the beginning, Kelli Boehle says she wasn’t sure she could be a wish maker and work closely with the young adults. But now, it’s her favorite thing to do.
24．What is the goal of Nik’s Wish
A．To support young adults fighting cancer. B．To cure the youth of their cancer.
C．To ease young patients of pains. D．To make commercial profits.
25．Which word best describes Kelli Boehle
A．Intelligent. B．Selfless. C．Straightforward. D．Ambitious.
26．What can we learn from Jordan Morrow’s words
A．She survived the deadly disease. B．She was granted more than one wish.
C．She lifted people’s spirits by performing. D．She was motivated by the organization.
27．What is the best title for the text
A．Pay-It-Forward: A Mother’s Last Wish
B．Nik’s Wish: Fulfilling Wishes for Young Cancer Fighters
C．Cancer Battles: Stories of Hope and Perseverance
D．Make-A-Wish Foundation: Granting Dreams to Young Adults
C
Nature is full of magic. According to a recent survey, trillions of evolution’s wonders, red-eyed periodical cicadas that have pumps in their heads and jet-like muscles in their bodies, are about to emerge in numbers not seen in decades and possibly centuries. Crawling out from underground every 13 or 17 years, with a collective song as loud as jet engines, the periodical cicadas are nature’s kings of the calendar. These black bugs with bulging eyes differ from their greener cousins that come out annually. They stay buried year after year, until they surface and take over a landscape.
This spring, an unusual cicada double population is about to invade a couple of parts of the United States in what University of Connecticut cicada expert John Cooley called “cicada-geddon”. The last time these two broods (a group of creatures) came out together was in 1803. Thomas Jefferson, the then president, wrote about cicadas in his Garden Book but mistakenly called them locusts. Usually mistaken for hungry and unrelated locusts, periodical cicadas are more annoying rather than causing great economic damage. They can hurt young trees and some fruit crops, but it’s not widespread and can be prevented.
The largest geographic brood in the nation — called Brood XIX and coming out every 13 years — is about to march through the Southeast, having already created countless boreholes in the red Georgia clay. It’s a sure sign of the coming cicada occupation. “They emerge when the ground warms to 64 degrees, which is happening earlier than it used to because of climate change,” scientists said. “The bugs are brown at first but darken as they mature.”
Soon after the insects appear in large numbers in Georgia and the rest of the Southeast, cicada cousins that come out every 17 years will inundate Illinois. They are Brood ⅩⅢ. “And when you put those two together… you would have more than anywhere else any other time,” University of Maryland entomologist Paula Shrewsbury said. “These two broods may actually overlap — but probably not interbreed in a small area near central Illinois.”
28．How are periodical cicadas different from their greener cousins
A．They appear once a year. B．They look more beautiful.
C．They have a longer life circle. D．They have stronger muscles.
29．What is a common belief on periodical cicadas
A．They are a type of locusts. B．They have underestimated advantages.
C．They are Thomas Jefferson’s inspiration. D． They only eat young trees and fruit crops.
30．What can be inferred about Brood ⅩⅨ
A．The red Georgia clay is more beneficial to them.
B．The adult ones only live 4-6 weeks before they die.
C．Climate change may be confusing their schedules.
D．They are expected to be found throughout the world.
31．What can best replace the underlined word “inundate” in the last paragraph
A．Strike out. B．Flood into. C．Give up. D．Jump at.
D
More than 5,000 math lovers together attend the Joint Mathematics Meeting every year. It’s the largest math meeting in the world. In January 2019, mathematicians flew to the meeting in Baltimore, Md. , to learn about new ideas and talk about their work. Many even came to admire the latest in mathematical art.
The meeting included an entire art exhibition. Visitors felt amazed at sculptures made from metal, wood and folded paper. One was based on a supersized Rubik’s cube. Many like triangles, were arranged in strange and surprising sizes and colors. The collection also included drawings and paintings inspired by the study of numbers, curves（曲线）and patterns.
Art and math may seem like a strange pairing. People usually experience art through their senses. They see a painting or listen to music. If this art moves them, they will have an emotional response. Working at math problems is usually viewed as something you think about—not feel. But connections between the two fields reach far back in time. Sculptors and architects in some ancient civilizations included numbers and math ideas into their works.
“A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns,” wrote British mathematician G. H. Hardy in 1940. “If a mathematician’s patterns are more permanent,” he continued, “it is because they are made with ideas.”
Henry Segerman is a mathematician and artist. When he was in high school, in England, he was good at math and art. But he had to choose. “I went in the math direction back then,” he says. He thought it difficult to succeed as an artist.
Still, Segerman’s math studies led him into the visual areas of math, such as geometry. In 2015, Segerman and some math art friends created a virtual-reality artwork. Participants can put on a pair of VR goggles to float around and through four-dimensional shapes. Art makes it possible to interact with these shapes, which would be impossible to create in our three-dimensional world. As beautiful as it is to see, Segerman’s work also offers a new view on mathematical ideas.
32．According to paragraph 1 and 2, what is special about the exhibits at the meeting
A．They are art works with high technology.
B．They reflect the long history of math.
C．They are made based on math ideas.
D．They turn abstract art into specific math.
33．Why does the author say “art and math may seem like a strange pairing”
A．They fail to bring about people’s responses.
B．They seem extremely hard to appreciate.
C．They’ve been separated since ancient times.
D．They’re experienced in different ways.
34．Henry Segerman’s story suggests that________.
A．math learning promotes the creation of art B．math makes art easier to understand
C．math is actually the origin of fine art D．one can’t easily succeed in science
35．What is the main idea of the text
A．Real artists will stand the test of math.
B．Artists make math become a kind of art.
C．Modern artists turn into mathematicians.
D．Math and art turns out a great combination.
第二节 （共5小题；每小题2.5分，满分12.5分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后的选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
It is universally acknowledged that developing a new habit takes 21 days. We probably owe this particular example of pop-psychology wisdom to Maxwell Maltz, the plastic surgeon who claimed to have observed that individuals who had had an arm or leg cut off took an average of only 21 days to adjust to the loss of a limb (肢体). 36 . And therefore it must take 21 days to change a habit, maybe, perhaps!
37 , as a new study by psychologist Phillippa Lally and her colleagues helps confirm. On average, her subjects, who were trying to learn new habits such as eating fruit daily or going jogging, took a depressing 66 days before reporting that the behaviour had become unchangingly automatic. 38 . It couldn’t be just as easy to start eating a few more apples as to start finding five hours a week to study Chinese.
Self- help culture sticks to the fiction of the 21-day rule, probably because it makes habit change sound basically easy. 39 . Our brains are designed to take short cuts, making as many behaviours as possible automatic. “Really,” asks the psychologist Ian Newby-Clark,“ what would be the point of having a habit that didn’t free up your mind to focus on more pressing matters ” Habits are meant to be difficult to change.
Another problem is that we tend to think about habit change wrongly. We want to, say, stop watching so much TV, but on the other hand, demonstrably, we also want to watch lots of TV — after all, we keep doing it. We’re stuck deep in what the Greeks called “akrasia”: deciding on the best course of action, then doing something else. 40 . Simply stop watching TV is like dealing with a leaky bathroom tap by repainting the kitchen. What’s required is an alternative way to feel relaxed and happy. Maybe by looking at the problem differently we can slip out of them.
A．The way round this is to see that habits are responses to needs
B．The 21- day rule does have some scientific basis
C．And some habits, unsurprisingly, were harder than others to make stick
D．Therefore, he reasoned the same must be true of all big changes
E．We believe that habits are purely a matter of willpower
F．This is, of course, nonsense
G．One problem with this is discouragingly simple: changing habits is hard
第三部分 语言运用（共两节，满分30分）
第一节 （共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）
阅读下面短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。
It was known that Gail Rodgers, 66, lives in a Cincinnati community that has a private pool. When she noticed the pool couldn’t open due to a shortage of 41 and heard that the local residents didn’t want to see the pool 42 , she decided to come out of retirement to become a lifeguard herself.
The retired IT consultant had been 43 to be a lifeguard over 50 years ago. “Now things are hugely 44 ,” Rodgers said. “The lifeguards back then would sit in the chair and might 45 the whistle occasionally to tell you to stop running around to keep safe. They actually weren’t 46 with flotation devices; all they had was a whistle. This time around Rodgers needed to 47 new skills, such as how to rescue someone in different ways, and had to pass a(n) 48 test.
The test designed to test whether a person is a certified lifeguard is no 49 . It includes swimming 300 yards, treading water (踩水), and 50 a 10-pound brick off the bottom of the pool. 51 , through tireless efforts, she earned her 52 and officially started as a part-time lifeguard on May 27. Now, she 53 when the other lifeguards need time off. Gail Rodgers is proving that you don’t have to be 54 to make a positive 55 on your community.
41．A．coaches B．viewers C．students D．lifeguards
42．A．destroyed B．transformed C．closed D．decorated
43．A．claimed B．trained C．promised D．declined
44．A．different B．difficult C．important D．urgent
45．A．wave B．deliver C．hear D．blow
46．A．equipped B．connected C．concerned D．presented
47．A．create B．learn C．desire D．recognize
48．A．mental B．intelligent C．physical D．medical
49．A．challenge B．fear C．surprise D．joke
50．A．grabbing B．throwing C．packing D．touching
51．A．Moreover B．Nevertheless C．Hence D．Somewhat
52．A．patent B．passport C．certification D．ticket
53．A．runs away B．sticks out C．drops by D．fills in
54．A．young B．old C．strong D．poor
55．A．suggestion B．impact C．impression D．comment
第二节 （共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）
阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
Zong Qinghou, the rags-to-riches founder of one of China's biggest beverage makers, who was once China's most successful man, died of an illness on Sunday at the age of 79, his company Hangzhou Wahaha Group said in 56 brief statement.
In China, Zong was known as a legendary businessman who grew his soft drinks empire from a tricycle cart hawking ice pops to school kids into a large company 57 (sell) everything from milk drinks to 58 (bottle) water. Zong was also recognized as a national hero for wrestling the full control of Wahaha, which means “laughing child”, from its French partner Danone more than a decade ago. Victory in that bitter battle boosted Zong's wealth to $8 billion, making him China's 59 (wealth) man in 2010 and again in 2012, according to Forbes.
His death was mourned across China. Condolences (吊唁) poured in from remarkable Chinese 60 (entrepreneur) including Alibaba co-founder Jack Ma and Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun. Wahaha employees and residents in the eastern city of Hangzhou laid flowers outside the company.
The beverage giant's rise was supposed 61 (represent) the can-do spirit of China's first generation of private business managers, who helped accelerate the country's explosive 62 (economy) growth in the years after they capitalized on market reforms in the late 1970s.
Despite his wealth, Zong was known for his simple lifestyle, which set him apart from many of China's new rich. He 63 (nickname) “the richest man in cloth shoes” for always sporting plain black shoes. He was also known for starting work around 7 a.m. 64 not leaving the office until 11 p.m., working for more than 12 hours a day long 65 the tiring “996” work schedule became common.
第四部分 写作（共两节，满分40分）
第一节 （满分15分）
假定你是李华，你的英国朋友 Jerry写信邀请你寒假期间去伦敦游玩，你因故无法前往，请你回信表达歉意，内容包括:
1. 谢绝的理由;
2. 提议暑假去拜访他。
注意: 1. 写作词数应为80左右;
2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
Dear Jerry,
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Yours sincerely,
Li Hua
第二节 （满分25分）
阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。
“Have you decided on your major ” my parents inquired.
“Bioengineering, of course.” I responded without the slightest hesitation.
I entered this world with Poland syndrome, a disease that prevented the formation of my right arm and pectoral muscles (胸肌). My parents, believing that playing with Lego could enhance my dexterity(灵巧), gifted me my first kit when I was five. Struggling to piece the components together, I crafted my first Lego work – a car. As I got older, I grew obsessed with Lego Technic, a more advanced range, and how to use it to build more delicate structures. By the age of nine, I had fashioned my first prosthetic arm(义肢)using Lego Technic – a simple box that perfectly accommodated my right arm.
This early creation sparked my drive for further exploration. Years later, I developed another prosthetic arm that I called the MK-1, which had fingers, a motor, a pressure sensor, a movable elbow joint, and a grabber capable of picking things up.
Before constructing it, I had already decided against traditional prosthetics. Not because they were ineffective, but because playing with Lego did significantly improve my dexterity, helping me adapt to my condition. However, a more frustrating reason was that prosthetics were too expensive. My parents and I had looked into getting one a few years earlier, only to be discouraged by the prohibitive price. So, I concluded that I might not need one because I was managing well without. Nevertheless, the joy of creating prosthetics with Lego remained, and I continued making them purely for the fun of it.
As the years passed, my creations evolved from MK-1 to the more advanced and comfortable MK-V. It featured a control unit that could send and receive orders from sensors on the arm to the motors, with cables that contract like muscles.
One day, a couple with their eight-year-old son, who lost both arms in an accident, reached out to me after learning about my creations. Short of money, they couldn’t afford well-functioning prosthetics. “Daniel,” the father earnestly asked, “we were wondering if you could possibly help build a set of prosthetics for our son.”
注意:
1. 所续写短文的词数应为150左右；
2. 续写部分分为两段，每段的开头语已为你写好。
Paragraph 1:
I knew it would be a challenging and demanding task, but I responded with a “yes”.
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Paragraph 2:
I rushed to the boy’s home and secured the prosthetics onto him!
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
汕头市潮阳实验学校2024～2025学年度第一学期
高三第二次月考英语试卷参考答案
题号 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
答案 B D C A B D B C A C
题号 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40
答案 B C D A D D F C G A
题号 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50
答案 D C B A D A B C D A
题号 51 52 53 54 55
答案 B C D A B
A篇
【导语】这是一篇应用文。短文介绍了一款应用程序——Be My Eyes。
21．细节理解题。根据文中“Be My Eyes’ goal is to make the world more accessible to people with vision loss.”（Be My Eyes的目标是让视力受损的人更容易进入这个世界。）可知，Be My Eyes 的目的是帮助视力受损的人获得帮助，故选 B。
22．细节理解题。根据文中“Connecting your customer service with Be My AI can solve up to 90% of cases automatically and save your time and costs by 60%.”（将您的客户服务与Be My AI连接可以自动解决高达90%的案例，并节省60%的时间和成本。） 可知，采用 Be My AI 可以提高效率并降低成本，故选 D。
23．细节理解题。根据文中“Invite your friends, family or co-workers. Share” （邀请你的朋友、家人或同事。分享。）可知，读者可以通过推荐该应用来支持 Be My Eyes，故选 C。
B篇
【导语】这是一篇记叙文。文章讲述了Kelli Boehle创办非盈利组织Nik’s Wish，帮助与癌症作斗争的年轻人实现愿望的故事。
24．细节理解题。根据文章第四段“In 2012, Kelli Boehle started Nik’s Wish. The nonprofit grants wishes to young adults between the ages of 18 and 24 who are battling cancer.(2012年，Kelli Boehle创办了Nik’s Wish。这家非营利组织向年龄在18到24岁之间与癌症作斗争的年轻人提供愿望。)”可知，这个组织的目标是支持年轻人对抗癌症。故选A。
25．推理判断题。根据文章第三段“The night before Nik passed away, he asked his mother to help ensure that young adults fighting cancer could have their wishes come true too.( 尼克去世的前一晚，他请求母亲帮助确保那些与癌症作斗争的年轻人也能实现他们的愿望。)”和文章第四段““It was like a seed he planted that just wouldn’t stop coming into my mind, ” she said. In 2012, Kelli Boehle started Nik’s Wish. The nonprofit grants wishes to young adults between the ages of 18 and 24 who are battling cancer.(“这就像他种下的一颗种子，一直萦绕在我的脑海里，”她说。2012年，Kelli Boehle创办了Nik’s Wish。这家非营利组织向年龄在18到24岁之间与癌症作斗争的年轻人提供愿望。)”可知，Kelli Boehle创办非盈利组织，帮助与癌症作斗争的年轻人，由此可推知，她是无私的。故选B。
26．推理判断题。根据文章第五段“For Morrow, who has spent the last year battling brain cancer, going to the concert has done more than lift her spirits. “I think it’s something to get me through whatever comes my way, ”she said. “And I’m thankful for Nik’s Wish for that. ”(对莫罗来说，去年她一直在与脑癌作斗争，去听音乐会不仅仅是提振了她的精神。她说:“我认为这是一种让我度过难关的东西。”“我很感谢尼克的愿望。”)”可推知，从Jordan Morrow的话中，我们可以知道她受到组织的激励。故选D。
27．主旨大意题。根据文章第四段“In 2012, Kelli Boehle started Nik’s Wish. The nonprofit grants wishes to young adults between the ages of 18 and 24 who are battling cancer.(2012年，Kelli Boehle创办了Nik’s Wish。这家非营利组织向年龄在18到24岁之间与癌症作斗争的年轻人提供愿望。)”可知，文章主要讲述了文章讲述了Kelli Boehle创办非盈利组织Nik’s Wish，帮助与癌症作斗争的年轻人实现愿望的故事。故选B。
C篇
【导语】本文是一篇说明文，主要讲述了周期性蝉的生活习性和它们与其他蝉的区别，以及它们可能对环境产生的影响。
28．细节理解题。根据第一段中“Crawling out from underground every 13 or 17 years, with a collective song as loud as jet engines, the periodical cicadas are nature’s kings of the calendar. These black bugs with bulging eyes differ from their greener cousins that come out annually. They stay buried year after year, until they surface and take over a landscape. (每隔13或17年，蝉就会从地下爬出来，发出像喷气发动机一样响亮的集体歌声，它们是自然界的日历之王。这些眼睛凸出的黑色虫子与它们每年出现的绿色表亲不同。它们年复一年地埋在地下，直到浮出水面，占据一片土地。)”可知，这些眼睛凸出的黑色昆虫与它们每年出现的绿色表亲不同。它们年复一年地被埋在地下，直到重新出现，占据一片土地。这说明周期性的蝉生命周期更长。故选C。
29． 细节理解题。根据第二段中“Usually mistaken for hungry and unrelated locusts, periodical cicadas are more annoying rather than causing great economic damage. (周期性的蝉通常被误认为是饥饿的不相干的蝗虫，它们更令人讨厌，而不是造成巨大的经济损失。)”可知，人们普遍认为周期性蝉是蝗虫的一种。故选A。
30．推理判断题。根据第三段中““They emerge when the ground warms to 64 degrees, which is happening earlier than it used to because of climate change,” scientists said. (科学家们说：“当地面升温到64度时，它们就会出现，由于气候变化，这种情况比以前发生得更早。”)”可知，气候变化可能影响了周期性的蝉的出现时间，即，气候变化可能正在混淆它们的周期时间。故选C。
31．词句猜测题。根据最后一段中“Soon after the insects appear in large numbers in Georgia and the rest of the Southeast, cicada cousins that come out every 17 years will... (这些昆虫在乔治亚州和东南部其他地区大量出现后不久，每17年出现一次的蝉表亲将……)”和“And when you put those two together… you would have more than anywhere else any other time (当你把这两者放在一起时，你会比其他任何时候都有更多的昆虫。)”可知，这些昆虫数量很多，每17年出现一次的蝉的表亲就会淹没伊利诺伊州，划线词的含义为“涌入，淹没”。A. strike out罢工；B.flood into涌入；C.give up放弃；D. jump at纵身一跃。故选B。
D篇
【分析】这是一篇说明文。文章讲述了，很多艺术作品的设计都基于数学方法，这证明了数学与艺术的完美结合。
32．推理判断题。由第二段“The meeting included an entire art exhibition. Visitors felt amazed at sculptures made from metal, wood and folded paper. One was based on a supersized Rubik’s cube. Many like triangles, were arranged in strange and surprising sizes and colors. The collection also included drawings and paintings inspired by the study of numbers, curves（曲线）and patterns.”（会议包括一个完整的艺术展览。游客们对由金属、木材和折叠纸制成的雕塑感到惊讶。一个是基于一个超大的魔方。许多像三角形，排列在奇怪和令人惊讶的大小和颜色。这些收藏品还包括以研究数字、曲线和图案为灵感的绘画作品。），可知这个展览会上的展品许多都与数学有关，可推断出会上的展品都是根据数学的概念或想法而制作的。故选C项。
33．推理判断题。由第三段中的“People usually experience art through their senses. They see a painting or listen to music. If this art moves them, they will have an emotional（情感上的）response. Working at math problems is usually viewed as something you think about—not feel.”（人们通常通过感官来体验艺术。他们看一幅画或听音乐。如果这门艺术打动了他们，他们会有一种情绪化的反应。做数学题通常被认为是你思考而不是感觉到的事情。），可知艺术是一种情绪化的反应，数学是一种理性化思考，艺术和数学的体验方式是不同的，所以作者认为它们的结合可能看起来很奇怪。故选D项。
34．推理判断题。由最后一段中的“Still, Segerman’s math studies led him into the visual areas of math, such as geometry. In 2015, Segerman and some math art friends created a virtual-reality artwork. Participants can put on a pair of VR goggles to float around and through four-dimensional shapes. Art makes it possible to interact（互动）with these shapes, which would be impossible to create in our three-dimensional world.”（不过，塞格曼的数学研究使他进入了数学的视觉领域，比如几何。2015年，塞格曼和一些数学艺术朋友创作了一幅虚拟现实艺术作品。参与者戴上一副四维形状的护目镜。艺术使与这些形状的互动成为可能，这在我们的三维世界中是不可能创造的。），可知塞格曼把他的数学思维运用进了艺术创作中，创作出了三维世界中不可能创造的事物，塞格曼的故事说明数学学习可以推动艺术创作。故选A项。
35．主旨大意题。由第一段中的“Many even came to admire the latest in mathematical art.”（许多人甚至开始欣赏最新的数学艺术。），第二段讲的“会上的展品都是根据数学的概念或想法而制作”，第三段中的“Art and math may seem like a strange pairing.”（艺术和数学似乎是一对奇怪的组合。）和“But connections between the two fields reach far back in time.”（但这两个领域之间的联系可以追溯到很久以前。），第五六段讲的“塞格曼学习数学可以推动艺术创作的故事”，可知本文主要介绍的内容是：很多艺术作品的设计都基于数学方法，这证明了数学与艺术的完美结合。故选D项。
七选五
【导语】本文是一篇说明文。本文探讨了关于习惯改变的一些常见误解，特别是“21天养成一个新习惯”的说法。
36．根据前文“We probably owe this particular example of pop- psychology wisdom to Maxwell Maltz, the plastic surgeon who claimed to have observed that individuals who had had an arm or leg cut off took an average of only 21 days to adjust to the loss of a limb (肢体). (我们可能要把这个流行心理学智慧的特别例子归功于整形外科医生Maxwell Maltz，他声称自己观察到，失去一条胳膊或一条腿的人平均只需要21天就能适应一条肢体的失去。)”可知，此处陈述了Maxwell Maltz的观点。D选项“Therefore, he reasoned the same must be true of all big changes(因此，他推断所有大的变化都是如此)”承接前文，选项中的he指代前文的Maxwell Maltz，符合语境。故选D。
37．根据前文“And therefore it must take 21 days to change a habit, maybe, perhaps!( 因此，改变一个习惯必须花21天，也许，也许！)”以及后文“as a new study by psychologist Phillippa Lally and her colleagues helps confirm. On average, her subjects, who were trying to learn new habits such as eating fruit daily or going jogging, took a depressing 66 days before reporting that the behaviour had become unchangingly automatic. (如同心理学家Phillippa Lally和她的同事的一项新研究帮助证实的。她的研究对象试图养成新习惯，比如每天吃水果或慢跑，他们平均花了令人沮丧的66天时间才报告说，这些行为已经变成了习惯性的行为。)”可知，Maxwell Maltz认为改变一个习惯必须花21天时间，但是Phillippa Lally和她的同事的一项新研究证实了Maxwell Maltz所提出的观点是错误的。F选项“This is, of course, nonsense(当然，这是无稽之谈)”直接反驳了第一段的观点，this指代前文的观点的内容即改变一个习惯必须花21天，该选项符合语境。故选F。
38．根据后文“It couldn’t be just as easy to start eating a few more apples as to start finding five hours a week to study Chinese.( 开始多吃几个苹果不可能像开始每周抽出五个小时学习中文那么容易。)”可知，此处强调多吃几个苹果不可能像每周抽出五个小时学习中文那么容易。C选项“And some habits, unsurprisingly , were harder than others to make stick(不出所料，有些习惯比其他习惯更难坚持)”直接指出了不同习惯养成的难易程度不同，照应后文中将吃苹果和学韩语相对比的例子。故选C。
39．根据前文“Self- help culture sticks to the fiction of the 21- day rule, probably because it makes habit change sound basically easy.(自助文化坚持21天规则的虚构，可能是因为它使习惯改变听起来基本上很容易。)”强调自我帮助文化坚持“21天规则”的虚构，可能是因为它想让习惯改变听起来很容易。G选项“One problem with this is discouragingly simple: changing habits is hard(一个简单得令人沮丧的问题是：改变习惯很难)”可知，该选项指出了坚持21天规则的一个主要问题，即改变习惯很难，对上述观点进行了反驳，指出了改变习惯的真正难度。故选G。
40．根据前文“Another problem is that we tend to think about habit change wrongly. We want to, say, stop watching so much TV, but on the other hand, demonstrably, we also want to watch lots of TV —— after all, we keep doing it. We’re stuck deep in what the Greeks called “akrasia”: deciding on the best course of action, then doing something else. (另一个问题是，我们倾向于错误地思考习惯的改变。比如说，我们想停止看那么多电视，但另一方面，很明显，我们也想看很多电视——毕竟，我们一直在看电视。我们深陷希腊人所说的“akrasia”：决定最好的行动方针，然后做其他事情。)”可知，前面提到的是我们在习惯改变上的错误思维方式，即想要做某事（如少看电视），但实际上却继续做其它的事。A选项“The way round this is to see that habits are responses to needs(解决这个问题的方法是认识到习惯是对需求的反应)”针对前文的问题提出了解决方案即要理解并满足我们的真正需求，而不是简单地错误地改变某个习惯。故选A。
完形填空
【导语】本文是一篇记叙文。文章叙述了66岁的Gail Rodgers因游泳池缺少救生员而重新成为救生员的故事，展现了无论年纪大小都可以对社区产生正面影响的主题。
41．考查名词词义辨析。句意：当她注意到泳池因为救生员短缺而无法开放时，并听说当地居民不希望泳池关闭，她决定重出江湖，自己成为一名救生员。A. coaches教练；B. viewers观众；C. students学生；D. lifeguards救生员。根据下文“become a lifeguard herself”可知，这里表达的是救生员短缺。故选D。
42．考查动词词义辨析。句意：当地居民不希望看到泳池关闭。A. destroyed毁坏；B. transformed改变；C. closed关闭；D. decorated装饰。结合上文提到缺少救生员，结合下文“she decided to come out of retirement to become a lifeguard herself.”可知，这里应是居民不想泳池关闭。故选C。
43．考查动词词义辨析。句意：这位退休的IT顾问在50多年前接受过成为救生员的训练。A. claimed宣称；B. trained训练；C. promised许诺；D. declined婉拒。结合下文“be a lifeguard over 50 years ago”可知，这里是表示接受过救生员训练的背景。故选B。
44．考查形容词词义辨析。句意：事情变化很大。A. different不同的；B. difficult困难的；C. important重要的；D. urgent紧急的。根据后文“This time around Rodgers needed to new skills, such as how to rescue someone in different ways, and had to pass a(n) test.”可知，道事情已经今非昔比。故选A。
45．考查动词词义辨析。句意：救生员那时会坐在椅子上，可能偶尔吹哨子来让你停止跑动。A. wave挥动；B. deliver传递；C. hear听见；D. blow吹。根据空格后“whistle(哨子)”可知，常用搭配为blow the whistle，意为“吹哨子”。故选D。
46．考查动词词义辨析。句意：他们当时没有配备漂浮设备；仅有的装备就是个哨子。A. equipped装备的；B. connected连接的；C. concerned关心的；D. presented出现的。结合下文“flotation devices(漂浮设备)”可知，此处是指装备的东西，be equipped with，意为“配备有”。故选A。
47．考查动词词义辨析。句意：这一次，Rodgers需要学习新的技能，比如如何以不同的方式营救他人。A. create创造；B. learn学习；C. desire渴望；D. recognize识别。结合下文“new skills”可知，这里是表达需要再次在学习新的技能。故选B。
48．考查形容词。句意：她还必须通过体能测试。A. mental心理的；B. intelligent智能的；C. physical身体的；D. medical医学的。结合下文“ It includes swimming 300 yards, treading water (踩水), and a 10-pound brick off the bottom of the pool.”可知，应该要表达必须通过体能测试。故选C。
49．考查名词词义辨析。句意：测试是否有认证救生员不是玩笑。A. challenge挑战；B. fear害怕；C. surprise惊讶；D. joke玩笑。结合下文“ It includes swimming 300 yards, treading water (踩水), and a 10-pound brick off the bottom of the pool.”可知，测试游泳300码、踩水、潜水，都显示出测试的严肃性。故选D。
50．考查动词词义辨析。句意：它包括游泳300码、踩水以及从泳池底部拾起一个10磅重的砖块。A. grabbing抓取；B. throwing投掷；C. packing打包；D. touching接触。结合下文“a 10-pound brick off the bottom of the pool.”可知，救生员需要从水下捞起重物，即抓起砖块，结合水中拾物常用“grab”。故选B。
51．考查副词词义辨析。句意：然而，通过不懈努力，她获得了证书。A. Moreover此外；B. Nevertheless然而；C. Hence因此；D. Somewhat有点。结合下文“through tireless efforts, she earned her 12 and officially started as a part-time lifeguard on May 27.”可知，前后主次句关系，是表转折。故选B。
52．考查名词词义辨析。句意：她获得了她的资质证书。A. patent专利；B. passport护照；C. certification认证，资质证书；D. ticket票。结合下文“officially started as a part-time lifeguard on May 27.”可知，获取的救生员资质，提到的应该是拿到资质证书。故选C。
53．考查动词短语搭配。句意：她会在其他救生员需要休息的时候替班。A. runs away逃跑；B. sticks out突出；C. drops by顺路拜访；D. fills in填补，替代。结合下文“when the other lifeguards need time off”可知，这里表示“替班”，即替换时的填补。故选D。
54．考查形容词词义辨析。句意：Gail Rodgers正在证明，你不需要年轻就能对你的社区产生积极影响。A. young年轻的；B. old年老的；C. strong强壮的；D. poor贫穷的。结合文章第一句“Gail Rodgers, 66, lives in a Cincinnati community that has a private pool”提到Gail Rodgers在66岁时仍然申请救生员资质帮助社区的游泳池，强调年纪不是阻碍发挥正面作用的因素。故选A。
55．考查名词词义辨析。句意同上。A. suggestion建议；B. impact影响；C. impression印象；D. comment评论。结合“positive”以及文章大意，叙述了66岁的Gail Rodgers因游泳池缺少救生员而重新成为救生员的故事，这里是指对社区产生积极“影响”，短语make a positive impact on，意为“对……有积极的影响”。故选B。
语法填空
56. a 57. selling 58. bottled 59. wealthiest 60. entrepreneurs
题号 考查目的 题号 考查目的
56 不定冠词表示泛指“一个”的考查 61 固定搭配（suppose的用法）
57 注意物是逻辑主语，也有用主动的情况 62 名词转形容词（economic和economical的区别）
58 注意过去分词做前置定语；常见词性的活用 63 谓语的考查（时态、语态、主谓一致缺一不可）
59 根据句意判断形容词的比较等级 64 连词（and和or表示并列时的区别）
60 结合including后内容和构词法提示，判断提示词为名词，且用复数 65 状语从句引导词（根据句意使用恰当的时间状语从句引导词，注意与when、after的区别）
61. to represent 62. economic 63. was nicknamed 64. and 65. before
应用文
需要用到的各种英文表达
heartfelt thanks - 衷心的感谢
kind invitation - 亲切的邀请
winter vacation - 寒假
unable to make it - 无法成行
prior commitments - 之前的承诺
family matters - 家庭事务
immediate attention - 立即关注
propose to reschedule - 提议重新安排
summer vacation - 暑假
vibrant city - 充满活力的城市
quality time - 高质量的时间
unforeseen circumstances - 意料之外的情况
unavoidable personal engagements - 不可避免的个人事务
genuinely looking forward to - 真诚期待
appreciate your understanding - 感谢你的理解
写作提纲
提纲一：表达感谢和对邀请的兴奋
开头感谢Jerry的邀请。
表达对伦敦之行的兴奋和期待。
说明自己对这次旅行的向往。
提纲二：说明无法成行的原因
引入无法接受邀请的遗憾。
解释因家庭紧急事务或不可预见的个人原因无法在寒假期间出行。
强调这些原因的重要性和无法推迟的现实。
提纲三：提议暑假拜访并表达期待
提出暑假期间拜访Jerry的建议。
表达对在夏天体验伦敦和与Jerry相聚的期待。
结尾感谢Jerry的理解，并期待未来相聚的机会。
下水文1
Dear Jerry,
I hope this letter finds you in the best of spirits. I am truly delighted to receive your invitation to visit London during the winter vacation. However, I regret to inform you that I won't be able to make it this time around. Unfortunately, I have some prior commitments and family matters that require my immediate attention, which I cannot postpone.
Despite my inability to join you now, I am eager to accept your invitation for another time. I propose that we could plan my visit during the summer vacation instead. I am looking forward to experiencing the vibrant city of London in the warmer months and to spending quality time with you.
Thank you for understanding, and I am excited about our future plans.
Yours sincerely,
Li Hua
下水文2
Dear Jerry,
I am writing to express my heartfelt thanks for your kind invitation to visit London during the winter break. It is an opportunity I have been looking forward to with great enthusiasm.
However, I must convey my sincere apologies for not being able to join you this time. Due to unforeseen circumstances and unavoidable personal engagements, I find myself unable to travel during the winter holidays.I am hopeful that we can reschedule my visit to a more convenient time, preferably during the summer vacation. I am excited about the prospect of exploring the rich history and culture of London and catching up with you in person.
Please accept my apologies and know that I am genuinely looking forward to our reunion in the summer. I appreciate your understanding and patience.
Yours sincerely,
Li Hua
读后续写
I knew it would be a challenging and demanding task, but I responded with a “yes”. The boy lifted his head with his once lifeless eyes now glittering with a spark of hope. I beamed at him with a radiant smile and without any delay, embarked on the task. The subsequent days witnessed how I carefully selected the Lego pieces that catered to the boy’s interests and intricately integrated practical components to enhance its flexibility. Days turned into weeks, and the boy-customized prosthetics finally took shape. It’s time for them to fulfill their intended purpose.
I rushed to the boy’s home and secured the prosthetics onto him. Holding breath, we anxiously awaited the result — they worked! The room erupted with cheers! The boy expressed his gratitude and sprinted to his parents to envelop them in the biggest hug he hadn’t been able to give for years. The scene was truly inspiring. Never had I imagined that my creations, born out of mere fun, would someday make such a profound difference. It is on that day that I made up my mind to commit myself to making a lasting impact in the realm of prosthetic innovation.
【导语】
本文以事件发展为线索展开，讲述了作者通过使用乐高技术构建自己的义肢，并逐渐发展出更先进的版本。作者对乐高技术的探索和创造激发了他的进一步研究动力。最终，作者利用自己的技能帮助一对失去双臂的夫妇为他们的儿子建造了一套功能良好的义肢。
【详解】
1.段落续写：
①由第一段首句内容“我知道这将是一项具有挑战性和要求很高的任务，但我回答说“是的””可知，第一段可描写作者给了孩子坚定的目光并开始了工作，经过几周的时间使定制假肢最终成型的故事。
②由第二段首句内容“我冲到男孩的家里，把假肢固定在他身上。”可知，第二段可描写孩子戴上假肢后，第一次拥抱了父母，他们感到很感激。那一刻作者意识到了自己的爱好居然对别人有那么大的影响，并决定致力于假肢创新领域。
2.续写线索：坚定的微笑——开始工作——选材、组装——最终成型——孩子戴上假肢——拥抱父母——感激——作者决定致力于假肢创新领域
3.词汇激活
行为类
①期望：hope/anticipation
②吸引力：interest/fascination
③能够：be able to/have the capability to
情绪类
①焦急地：anxiously/restlessly
②下定决心：make up one's mind/ set one's heart on something
【点睛】[高分句型1]. The boy lifted his head with his once lifeless eyes now glittering with a spark of hope.（使用了with复合结构作状语）
[高分句型2]. The boy expressed his gratitude and sprinted to his parents to envelop them in the biggest hug that he hadn’t been able to give for years.（使用了以hug为先行词、关系代词that为引导词的定语从句）

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