英语试卷
第一部分 听力（共两节，满分30分）
第一节（共5小题；每小题1.5分，满分7.5分）
听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。
第二部分：阅读理解（共两节，满分40分） 第1节（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项
A
Welcome to SummerCamps.com; find and book the very best summer camps. Your children are precious so we offer the highest quality of camps that will meet each child’s needs and interests. Catalina Sea Camp
Sea Camp offers three one-week sessions to boys and girls aged 8-13 and two three-week sessions to teens aged 12-17. Our hand-picked instructors create an atmosphere of fun and excitement while leading campers to a host of ocean adventures, marine(海洋的) biology, and social summer camp activities.
Address: Toyon Way, San Bruno, California 94066
Phone: 800-645-1423 Camp Cayuga
Camp Cayuga is a private summer camp for children aged 6 to 16. The camp is on a 350-acre land in the Pocono Mountains of Northeast Pennsylvania, just outside the village of Honesdale. It’s a 3-hour drive from New York City and Philadelphia.
Address: 321 Niles Pond Road-Suite ISC, Honesdale, Pennsylvania 18431 Phone: 908-470-1224 Camp Rockmont
Camp Rockmont is a Christian summer camp for boys, aged 6-16, in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. Rockmont’s duty of developing boys into healthy young men is accomplished through age-appropriate skills, activities, and challenges that help campers to know
themselves better.
Address: 375 Lake Eden Road， Black Mountain, North Carolina 28711 Phone: 828-686-3885
Primitive Pursuits Overnight Camps
Primitive Pursuits Overnight Camps offer week-long Summer Adventure Overnight Camps in New York’s Finger Lakes to your children aged 11-15. Campers experience a week of nature-based skills training, inspiring challenges, and fun activities under the guidance of skilled instructors.
Address: 611 County Rd 13, Van Etten, New York 14889 Phone: 607-272-2292
21. Where should a girl of 7 go camping? A. Toyon Way, San Bruno. B. 611 County Rd 13, Van Etten. C. 375 Lake Eden Road, Black Mountain. D. 321 Niles Pond Road- Suite ISC, Honesdale. 22. What is special about Camp Rockmont? A. It’s targeted at older boys. B. It provides skills training. C. It is located in the mountains. D. It has something to do with religion. 23. Who is the text most likely intended for? A Campers. C. Parents
B. Educators. D. Children.
B
With the start of the new term, the students around the country exchange their fun and fashionable clothes for boring school uniforms. But not all schools are fashion deserts. Colorful sports shoes, school bags, T-shirts and even drink containers are breathing life into campuses.
\exercises on the playground,\boys wear different sports shoes and girls have different decorations in their hair. These are the areas where you can express
yourself,\
Although it might be strange for boys to talk about fashion, they do care about what they wear in school, especially shoes, according to Qing.
\friends, are becoming out-of-date,\Athens, running shoes are becoming popular in this autumn. \
\随意的) English words printed on them,\Often, the words are misspelt. Sometimes they do not even make sense, \Besides sports shoes and T-shirts, styles and colors of school bags are another opportunity for students to express their taste in fashion. Some bags are made more eye-catching by decorating them with small hanging dolls.
Other fashionable items are the colorful drink containers which are now popular among girls this term.
\as a childish regression (退化). But some girls just love it,\School attached to Xi’an Jiaotong University.
24. Which is NOT the way girls show their personality at campuses? A. They wear different sports shoes. B. They take stylish and colorful school bags. C. They have different decorations in their hair. D. They drink water from colorful drink containers.
25. What are becoming fashionable for school-boys according to this news story? A. Nike and Adidas basketball shoes. B. Baseball caps and American-style T- shirts. C. Colorful drink containers. D. Running shoes.
26. The underlined word “they” refer to ______. A. American-style T-shirts
B. The English words on the T-shirts
C. Baseball caps
D. The students around the country
27. Which conclusion of the following is WRONG? A. Students go to extremes in dressing. B. Students also like to follow fashion trends. C. Students nowadays like to be more individual.
D. Students don’t care much whether the words printed on caps or T-shirts make sense or not.
C
Have you ever wondered why certain pop songs just make you feel so good? Researchers studying the question found that uncertainty and surprise give listeners the most pleasure. The study included 80,000 chords (和弦) in 745 pop songs between 1958 and 1991.
Each song was stripped of its melody (旋律) and lyrics (歌词) so that only chords were left and the results couldn’t be misunderstood by other imaginations of the songs that listeners might have had.
They found two things. Listeners got great pleasure from unexpected chords when they knew what would happen. However, they still found it pleasant to hear familiar chords when they did not know what would follow.
Vincent Cheung, the lead researcher, said, “Pleasant songs are likely those which keep a good balance (平衡) between knowing what is going to happen next and surprising us with something we did not expect. Understanding how music starts our pleasure system in the brain could explain why listening to music might help us feel better when we are feeling blue.”
Cheung told CNN that pleasure in music is connected to expectation. The study before had looked into the effects of surprise on pleasure, but his team’s study also paid attention to the uncertainty of listeners’ expectations.
28. What does the underlined word in Paragraph 2 mean? A. Taken.
B. Added.
C. Played.
D. Recorded.
29. What does the study find? A. Expected music is exciting. C. Familiar music is boring.
B. Unexpected chords bring pleasure. D. Unfamiliar chords are hard to follow.
30. What can we learn about pleasant songs from Cheung’s words?
A. They can explain human nature. C. They make some people feel blue. 31. What is the purpose of the text?
B. They can improve our pleasure system. D. They balance expectation and surprise.
A. To introduce a scientific study’s finding. B. To show music’s importance in our life. C. To compare different studies on music.
D. To experiment music in science.
D
The world’s elderly population is increasing. The number of older people ---those age 60 years or older ---is expected to double by 2050 and is growing faster than all younger age groups across the globe. That comes with an increasing need for caregivers which can provide 24-hour care, not only at hospitals or nursing homes, but also at private homes.
Already, caregiving robots are programmed to ask questions a nurse would ask and can keep an eye on patients for falls. These robotic assistants are expected to become increasingly marketable and reach 450,000 by 2045 because of the expected caregiver shortage in the USA.
“Unluckily, the hard structure of present caregiving robots prevents them from a safe human-robot interaction(互动), limiting their assistance to only social interaction and not physical interaction,” said Ramses Martinez, an assistant professor in Purdue’s College of Engineering . “After all, would you leave babies or old people in the hands of a robot?”
Recent advances in material science have enabled the production of soft robots with deformable (可变形的) bodies or the ability to reshape when touched , but today the complex design prevents the use of this technology at home .
However, Martinez and other researchers have developed a new design method which shows promise in enabling the production of soft robots using a 3D printer. “The soft machines move like humans. Their ability to change their body structure and movement to adapt ( 适应 ) to a wide variety of environments will improve caregiving greatly,” says Martinez .
The researchers are looking for partners to test and bring their technology to market.
安徽省滁州市明光市明光中学2024-2024高一下学期第二次月考英语试卷word版
