英语试卷
（满分：150分，考试时间：120分钟）
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。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。
1. What will Lucy do at 11:30 tomorrow?
A. Go out for lunch. B. See her dentist. C. Visit a friend. 2. What is the weather like now?
A. It’s sunny. B. It’s rainy. C. It’s cloudy. 3. Why does the man talk to Dr. Simpson?
A. To make an apology. B. To ask for help. C. To discuss his studies. 4. How will the woman get back from the railway station?
A. By train. B. By car. C. By bus. 5. What does Jenny decide to do first?
A. Look for a job. B. Go on a trip. C. Get an assistant. 第二节（共15小题；每小题1.5分，满分22.5分）
听下面5段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项。听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟；听完后，各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。 听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。 6. What time is it now?
A. 1:45. B. 2:10. C. 2:15. 7. What will the man do?
A. Work on a project. B. See Linda in the library. C. Meet with Professor Smith.
听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。 8. What are the speakers talking about?
A. Having guests this weekend. B. Going out for sightseeing. C. Moving into a new house.
9. What is the relationship between the speakers?
A. Neighbors. B. Husband and wife. C. Host and visitor. 10. What will the man do tomorrow?
A. Work in his garden. B. Have a barbecue. C. Do some shopping. 听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。 11. Where was the man born?
A. In Philadelphia. B. In Springfield. C. In Kansas. 12. What did the man like doing when he was a child?
A. Drawing. B. Traveling. C. Reading. 13. What inspires the man most in his work?
A. Education. B. Family love. C. Nature.
听第9段材料，回答第14至17题。 14. Why is Dorothy going to Europe?
A. To attend a training program. B. To carry out some research. C. To take a vacation. 15. How long will Dorothy stay in Europe?
A. A few days. B. Two weeks. C. Three months. 16. What does Dorothy think of her apartment?
A. It’s expensive. B. It’s satisfactory. C. It’s inconvenient. 17. What does Bill offer to do for Dorothy?
A. Recommend her apartment to Jim. B. Find a new apartment for her. C. Take care of her apartment.
听第10段材料，回答第18至20题。
18. What are the tourists advised to do when touring London?
A. Take their tour schedule. B. Watch out for the traffic. C. Wear comfortable shoes.
19. What will the tourists do in fifteen minutes?
A. Meet the speaker. B. Go to their rooms. C. Change some money. 20. Where probably is the speaker?
A. In a park. B. In a hotel. C. In a shopping centre.
第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分40分） 第一节（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
Magical History Tour
Join us for our fifth annual exploration of fascinating historic sites around Greater Portland that you've never seen or maybe didn't even know existed! The Magical History Tour is your key to unlocking fascinating historical places that are not usually open to the public. It is a self-guided adventure guaranteed to amaze and amuse both adults and children. Equipped with a map, and at your own pace, you will be greeted by guides at each location ready to share the history of the tour stop.
In the 5th year of the Magical History Tour, we will be presenting an exciting mix of both new sites and favorites from the past four years.
The Magical History Tour check - in begins at 9:45 am at Maine Historical Society’s Brown Library. At this time, you will find out where the tour will take you as you receive your map and ticket into each site.
Follow us on social media sites for updates, chances to win tickets and some other exciting opportunities; and feel free to share your tour experiences to our social media pages.
?Time: 10:00 am — 4:00 pm, Saturday, May 11, 2019 ?Location: 485 Congress Street
?Tickets: Get your tickets online, by calling us at 207-774-1822, or by visiting our Museum Store at 489 Congress Street. $25/Adult MHS Member; $35/Adult General Admission; $5/Juniors under age 18.
?Volunteering: We need volunteers for the Magical History Tour! Volunteers help for half the day of the tour and are given a free ticket to the tour to enjoy either before or after their volunteer
shift!
For more information, email us at events@mainehistory. org or call us at 207-774-1822. 21.What's the purpose of the Magical History Tour? A. To visit some world-famous attractions. B.To provide children with history classes. C.To explore unfamiliar historic sites. D. To make some private places known to the public.
22.How much should a couple (one is MHS Member) and a kid pay? A. $55. B. $65. C. $75. D. $105. 23.What can we learn from the text?
A. You can buy a ticket by emailing. B. Volunteers can take part in the tour for free. C.Tourists will only be guided by a map. D. Only new sites are available for the tour.
B
Kyle Cassidy and three other members of the Annenberg Running Group were stretching on the grounds of the University of Pennsylvania, waiting for a few latecomers. The Penn colleagues and other community members meet three days a week for a roughly 30-minute jog and an occasional lecture. That’s right—during some runs, one of them delivers a talk. Topics range from the brain to Bitcoin.
But on this day last January, it would not be their normal run. The first clue that something was off was the man who sprinted past them. “Running at an amazing pace,” Cassidy told Runner’s World admiringly. Cassidy discovered why the sprinter was so fleet of foot when another man ran by, yelling, “Help! He took my phone and laptop!”
At that, the group did what running clubs do: They ran, trailing the suspect down the streets of Philadelphia until he ducked into a construction site. The runners split up. Cassidy ran around to the far side of the site to cut the thief off while the others wandered the neighborhood hoping he had dumped the loot (赃物) in a backyard.
No luck. So they decided to ask residents whether they’d seen the guy. When they knocked on the door of one row house, they were in for a surprise. Unknown to them, he had already emerged from the construction site—and was hiding behind a bush by that very house. As the owner opened the door, the suspect darted out from behind the bush … and right into the arms of campus police, who’d joined the chase shortly behind the runners.
The members of this running group are not hard-core athletes. But they do understand the benefit of a little exercise. “Running is typically a useless sport where you turn fat cells into heat,” Cassidy told The Philadelphia Inquirer. “But occasionally it can be useful, and here was one of those opportunities.”
24. Why do the group members gather together? A. To do some stretching. B.To deliver a lecture. C. To have a regular run. D. To cover some topics. 25. What does the underlined word “sprinted” in Paragraph 2 probably mean? A. Escaped. B. Pushed. C. Jumped. D. Dashed. 26. We can infer that the success of the chase is mainly due to _______. A. the joint efforts of the people B. the owner of the row house C. the campus police on patrol D. the assistance of the runners 27. Which of the following best describes Cassidy?
A. Athletic and generous. B. Courageous and ambitious.
D. Thoughtful and demanding. C
Pinocchio may be just a children’s fairy tale, but Spanish scientists at the University of Granada recently investigated this so-called “Pinocchio effect” and found that our noses don’t grow when we tell a lie, but actually shrink a bit.
Dr. Gómez Milán and his team developed a lie detector test that used thermography（体温计） to tell if people were lying, and found that whenever participants in their research were being untruthful, the temperature of the tip of their nose dropped up to 1.2℃, while the temperature of their forehead increased up to 1.5℃. Scientist also found that drop in temperature at nose level actually caused it to slightly shrink, although the difference is undetected by the human eye.
“One has to think in order to lie, which rises the temperature of the forehead,” Dr. Gómez Milán explained the findings. “At the same time we feel anxious, which lowers the temperature of the nose.”
For this study, researchers asked a number of 60 students to perform various tasks while their temperature is scanned by technology. One of these tasks required making a 3 to 4 minutes call to their parents or a friend and telling a significant lie. Participants had to make up the lie themselves during the call. Interestingly, this lie detector picked up the “Pinocchio effect” temperature difference in 80 percent of the test subjects, which is a better rate of success than that of any modern lie detector.
“With this method we have achieved to increase accuracy”, said Dr. Gómez Milán, who added that law enforcement interviewers could one day combine other lie detection technology with thermal imaging to achieve better results.
28. Why does the writer talk about Pinocchio in the first paragraph? A. To tell a fairy tale. B. To introduce the topic. C. To talk about a scientist. D. To give an example. 29. What is “Pinocchio effect”?
A. Our noses will grow when we tell a lie. B. Our noses will shrink when we tell a lie.
C. The temperature of the forehead falls if we lie. D. The temperature of the student rises for anxiety. 30. How did Dr. Gómez Milán feel about the lie detector?
A. Doubtful. B. Surprised. C.Puzzled. D. Confident. 31. What lesson can we learn from the text?
A. A lie will travel very hard. B.Once a liar always a liar.
C. A lie never lives to be old. D. Many ways to bring a liar to light.
D
East Africa is experiencing the worst desert locust outbreak in decades. Climate events have accelerated breeding of the pest across the region, and with a sudden rise in the locust population expected in coming weeks, urgent actions and funds are needed to prevent a human crisis.
Twenty million people in six of the eight East African countries are most affected by an ongoing desert locust outbreak at risk of serious food insecurity. Considered among the most destructive of moving pests, an adult locust can consume 2g of plants per day, affecting crops and grasslands. A group typically holds 20 to 150 million locusts per square kilometer and can move hundreds of kilometers per day, invading areas covering millions of square kilometers. An active
C. Helpful and humorous.
group, therefore, can destroy crops and grasslands within a very short period of time.
That global warming could increase the risk of desert locust crisis was proposed over ten years ago, and in February, the UN Secretary-General António Guterres stated that the current outbreak is linked to the effects of climate change: “warmer seas mean more perfect breeding ground for locusts”. The outbreak has its origins in 2018, when a series of windstorms in the Arabian Peninsula (阿拉伯半岛) enabled the warm and wet conditions the desert locust requires to breed and band undetected in remote regions. Though our focus here is migration west, dreadful outbreaks of the desert locust have been experienced to the east.
The situation is going out of control. A rescue operation and financial support admit no delay. The Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) can take out only US $138 million for rapid response and immediate action — controlling the spread of the desert locust and safeguarding livelihoods. They say the maths is clear: about half the funding (资助) is needed for supervision, ground and sky control, and uniting efforts; the other half is needed for livelihoods and food security of farmers. As for the huge gap, they have called on the international community to act now through funding. However, by the end of February, just US $69 million had been promised.
This most alarming crisis has developed and is worsening in East Africa. The funds needed to control the situation become very difficult to achieve and the gap is a big concern. 32. Why does the crisis happen in East Africa?
A. There is a big population there. B. There are large deserts and grasslands. C. Good climate for breeding plays a role. D.Africa lies west of Arabian Peninsula. 33. Why does the writer list those figures in Para 2?
A.To help us understand how locusts live. B. To warn of the terrible damage by locusts.
C. To show how many locusts there are now. D. To draw a picture of the present Africa. 34. What can we infer from the text?
A. The crisis is not noticed until recently. B. Locusts are all from the Arabian Peninsula.
C. The crisis has been the focus of the world. D. More fund is needed to prevent the crisis. 35. Which is the best title for the text?
A. Funding Gap for Locust Crisis B. Global warming, a world problem C. Killing locusts before too late D. Africa, a crisis-stricken place
第二节 (共5小题；每小题2 分，满分10分)
根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
Many people often find themselves waking up in the middle of the night, unusually awake and excited. __36__. That’s really frustrating. However, there is no need to worry. Here are some effective ways to help you fall asleep again.
Remain in bed. For you to fall asleep, your heart rate needs to slow down. When you get up, your heart rate goes up. So, avoid going to the bathroom during the night if you can. Do not eat too little or too much for dinner. Do not drink and fill your bladder（膀胱） before bed. __37__. It may make you fall asleep faster, but it may also disrupt your sleep later in the night.
Stay in the dark. When you cannot sleep, LED lights on printers and cable boxes may be the reason. The same is true for light streaming in through cracks in curtains. __38__. You should
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