文档内容
英 语
2024.5
注意事项:
1.答卷前，考生务必将自己的姓名、考生号等填写在答题卡和试卷指定位置。
2.选择题的作答：选出每小题答案后，用2B铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如需改动，用橡皮擦干净
后，再选涂其他答案标号。回答非选择题时，将答案写在答题卡上。
3.考试结束后，将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。
第一部分：阅读理解（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，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。
A
Small Ways You Can Donate Money To Charity
There are plenty of innovative ways that you can help people in need, even when money is tight. Here are just a few
unique ways to give.
Food Angel, Hong Kong
Food insecurity has become a global problem for families. In Hong Kong, the people behind the Food Angel program
collect 45 tonnes of edible surplus food each week that grocery stores, restaurants and individuals would otherwise dispose of.
That includes fresh fruits and vegetables and other perishables(易腐烂的食物) that aren’t normally accepted in food-
donation boxes.The impact is significant: Volunteers make and serve around 20,000 meals and distribute more than 11,000
other meals and food packs every day.
Frigos Solidaires, France
Imagine if those in need could help themselves to food with anonymity(匿名) and dignity. Frigos Solidaires, or
Solidarity Fridges, was started with that aim by Dounia Mebtoul, a young restaurateur in Paris. Now, 130 fridges installed in
front of places such as shops and schools offer free food to the hungry across France.
Stuff A Bus, Canada
In Edmonton, the transit service parks vehicles in front of supermarkets for its annual “Stuff a Bus” campaign each
November. Volunteers collect food and cash donations from shoppers to fill buses bound for food banks. Since its start in
1995, the campaign has collected 553,000 kilograms of food and roughly half a million dollars.
Rice Bucket Challenge, India
Heard of the Ice Bucket Challenge? You take a video of yourself dumping a bucket of ice water over your head, then
nominate (指定) three more people to do the same. In some versions, the participant donates $100 if they don’t complete the
challenge.
“I thought it was an amazing way to raise awareness of ALS and raise funds,” recalls Manju Kalanidhi, a journalist in
Hyderabad, India. But it didn’t make sense in her country, where water is too precious to waste, even for a good cause. Then in
2014, it hit her: Why not make it a Rice Bucket Challenge to fight hunger? “I gave a bucket of rice to someone in need
and clicked a photo. I shared it on Facebook and said,‘This is a Rice Bucket Challenge.Why don’t you do it,
too?’”Participants donate a bucket of rice to an individual or family—no, it’s not dumped—take a photo and post it on social
media with a message encouraging others to do the same.
1.Which one can help people in need get food without hurting their pride?
A.Food Angel, Hong Kong B. Frigos Solidaires, France
C. Stuff A Bus, Canada D. Rice Bucket Challenge, India
2.What do you know about Rice Bucket Challenge in India?
A.It is an amazing way to raise awareness of ALS.
B.It was inspired by the Ice Bucket Challenge.
C.A bucket of rice is given and dumped.
学科网（北京）股份有限公司D.A bucket of water is donated for a good cause.
3.What’s the purpose of the text ?
A.To explain how important to help people in need.
B.To inspire readers to start a non-profit organization.
C.To introduce some creative ways to give away.
D.To appeal to readers to donate money to charity.
B
Which of these ingredients have you cooked with or eaten, wild rice, rabbits or roses? Actually, they were part
of Native American cuisine in the past. Sean Sherman is a chef from the Oglala Lakota tribe, who is attempting
something remarkable. Through his company and his restaurant, Sherman is bringing these ingredients back into the
public eye.
Sean Sherman grew up on the Pine Ridge Reservation. As a reservation kid, Sherman usually didn’t have
access to high-quality or tasty food. His family relied on the Commodity Supplemental Food Program, which meant
canned goods, tasteless food, and powdered milk. After high school, Sherman started working for the Forest Service.
As part of his job, he had to learn the names of the plants, which raised his curiosity about indigenous(本土的)
plants and foods.
Sherman started doing lots of research on his own, and he started his company in 2014. A few years later,
Sherman opened his restaurant Owamni, where he showed native ingredients and flavors. The most significant feature
of the restaurant is the native ingredients, none of which is related to European civilizations.
The vibe in the restaurant is totally unique as well. There, a lot of people are really struck by it, because it’s
not typical to be able to go someplace and see their native foods on the menu, see native people cooking the food
and listen to native music. Therefore, it’s a wholly unique experience and it’s something that’s really special.
Native cuisine allows native people to explore their histories and cultures. It supports local businesses and
comes with a host of health benefits. “We should have native restaurants in every city to show the diversity and
flavors of all the different tribes across North America and thus have a future where native cuisine is more
widespread, and ingredients are more familiar and well known,” Sherman explains.
4.When did Sean Sherman become interested in native foods?
A. As he was a reservation kid.
B. Before he entered high school.
C. When he worked as a chef in a restaurant.
D. When he was working in the forest department.
5. What is the most important feature of Sherman’s restaurant?
A. The ingredients used are native.
B. Native music is played all the time.
C. Diverse ingredients are combined in each dish.
D. It is a reflection of modern native civilization.
6. What does the underlined word “vibe” in paragraph 4 mean?
A. Service. B. Decoration. C. Scenery. D. Atmosphere.
7. Why does Sherman suggest each city should have native restaurants?
A. To boost the profits of local businesses.
B. To help native people to honor their history.
C. To present and promote the native cuisine.
学科网（北京）股份有限公司D. To serve foods with various health benefits.
C
In the 1950s, British historian Northcote Parkinson came up with a concept which was later known as Parkinson’s Law
of Triviality（琐事）. It states that the amount of time spent discussing an issue in an organization is oppositely associated
with its actual importance.
Parkinson’s Law of Triviality is also known as “bike-shedding”(车棚), after the story Parkinson uses to illustrate it. He
asks readers to imagine a financial committee meeting to discuss a three-point agenda. The points are as follows: A proposal
for a £10 million nuclear power plant; A proposal for a £350 bike shed; A proposal for a £21 annual coffee budget.
What happens? The committee ends up running through the nuclear power plant proposal in little time. It’s too advanced
for anyone to really dig into the details. The discussion soon moves to the bike shed. Here, everyone’s an expert. In the end,
the committee runs out of time and decides to meet again to complete their analysis.
Bike-shedding happens because the smaller a matter is, the more people will have an opinion on it, even when there is no
genuine value to add. When something is outside our circle of competence, like a nuclear power plant, we don’t even try to
express an opinion. But when something is comprehensible, everyone wants to show that they know about the topic at hand.
How can we avoid bike-shedding? The main thing you can do is to have a clear purpose. Priya Parker, the author of The
Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters, says that any successful gathering needs to have a focused purpose.
“Specificity,” she says, “is a crucial element.”
When it comes to choosing your list of invitees, Parker writes, “if the purpose of your meeting is to make a decision, you
may want to consider having fewer cooks in the kitchen.” Getting the result you want—a thoughtful, educated discussion
about that power plant—depends on having the right people in the room.
8. What is Parkinson’s purpose of presenting the imaginary meeting?
A. To state a fact. B. To clarify a concept.
C. To make a prediction. D. To introduce a new point.
9. What can be inferred from Paragraph 4?
A. The more you know, the less you speak.
B. What is simple for you may be tough for others.
C. What is important may achieve less involvement.
D.The more you put in, the better your result will be.
10. Which is the author’s suggestion for a successful meeting?
A. Planning before the meeting. B. Getting the right people to the table.
C. Spending less time on the minor issues. D. Taking different opinions into account.
11. What can be a suitable title for the text?
A. Purpose: The Key to an Effective Meeting.
B. Talent: A Crucial Element in Organizations.
C. Bike Shed Effect: Less Time on Unimportant Things.
D. Nuclear Power Plant: The Less-known Proposal.
D
Goldfish may seem like simple creatures swimming in a glass tank, but they possess a rather complicated navigation
system, as discovered by researchers at the University of Oxford. Led by Dr. Adelaide Sibeaux, the study aims to shed light on
our understanding of how fish, and potentially humans, estimate distances using what could be described as an internal GPS.
Writing in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Sibeaux and colleagues report how they created a tank in their
experiment with 2cm-wide black and white vertical stripes (垂直条纹) on the walls, connected by similar stripes across the
floor. The team trained nine goldfish to swim a set distance of 70cm and then return to their starting point when waved at. The
experiment aimed to investigate how the fish would estimate this distance without any gestures, under different patterns.
Over multiple trials, the goldfish averaged a swim distance of 74cm, give or take 17cm, when presented with the vertical
学科网（北京）股份有限公司2cm-wide stripes. However, when the stripe pattern was altered to either narrower vertical stripes, checked patterns, or
horizontal stripes（水平条纹）, the fish’s behavior changed significantly. Narrower vertical stripes led them to overestimating
the distance by 36%, while horizontal stripes resulted in highly inconsistent estimations.
According to the researchers, the goldfish appeared to be using an “optic (光学的) flow mechanism” based on the visual
density of their environment. They kept track of how frequently the vertical pattern switched between black and white to
estimate how far they had traveled. The study suggests that different optic flow mechanisms are used by mammals, including
humans, based on angular (有角度的) motion of visual features. The study implies that the use of visually based distance
information could have emerged early in the evolutionary timeline.
“This study is novel because, despite knowing that fish respond to geometric information regarding direction and
distance, we don’t know how they estimate distances,” Professor Colin Lever, although not involved in the study, said, “it’s
exciting to explore fish spatial mapping because fish navigation evolved earlier and better than most mammals.”
12. Why did Dr. Adelaide Sibeaux conduct the study on goldfish?
A. To test the accuracy of goldfish’s internal GPS.
B. To create an advanced navigation system for humans.
C. To uncover how an inbuilt GPS helps calculate distances.
D. To explore the relationships between goldfish and humans.
13. What can we learn about the experiment?
A. People gestured the goldfish throughout the experiment.
B. The tank was decorated with colorful background patterns.
C. Goldfish tended to underestimate distances with horizontal stripes.
D. The change in the tank setting led to the goldfish’s incorrect judgment.
14. What can be concluded from paragraph 4 ?
A. Optic flow mechanism is unique to humans.
B. Mammals developed flow mechanism long before goldfish.
C. Goldfish evaluated the distance with multidimensional visual information.
D. Visual density of the environment strengthened the locating ability of goldfish.
15. What attitude does Professor Colin hold towards the study?
A. Objective. B. Ambiguous. C. Disapproving. D. Favorable.
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。
A garden is a project that often requires a fairly large initial investment of both time and money from the start—as well as
a commitment to maintain it. 1 6 . Those who like their home garden find it rewarding both as a place to relax, and as a
fun and healthy hobby.
If you’re lucky enough to have a backyard, you can imagine the enjoyment you’d receive from changing that dusty,
weedy dead space into a green, relaxing environment. 17 . With regular, low-level maintenance it will continue to
thrive(茁壮成长）and provide you with pleasure.
So, how can you build a pleasant home garden? Some clever gardeners use drought-resistant plants such as cacti(仙人
掌), and a little bit of watering and inspiration to produce spaces that are both relaxing and pleasing to the eye. 1 8 .
1 9 . If you put in the plants and walkways yourself, it will be good for your health. Many people find that spending
a while digging holes for trees or pulling weeds is easier to stomach than half an hour on a running machine, and who can
blame them? It might take a while to see the fitness results, but a few days’ work can literally transform your yard.
There are many popular home garden books and magazines. 2 0 , as many books contain detailed plans for complex
projects. Use these resources as a starting point and put together something uniquely yours—within the limits of your time
and budget.
A. A trip to the library can help you get started
B. However, it is a deserving challenge for many people
学科网（北京）股份有限公司C. A home garden can be a good workout as well as a place to relax
D. The shape of the space is often as important as its contents or size
E. Some do it for exercise and spend a little time outdoors on a sunny day
F. No matter what the circumstances, it’s possible to create a lovely home garden
G. Many gardeners also enjoy employing touches such as stone paths to create a nice atmosphere
第二部分: 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，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
Born with no right leg, Anthony Robles, one of the best wrestlers in the NCAA, started wrestling when he was in high
school. When his cousin first 2 1 him to wrestling, Robles wasn't a/an 2 2 . However, he gradually fell in love with it
and he has been doing it ever since .
While some people might have 23 his decision to take on the sport, his family was a huge 24 of support and
encouragement. He said: “They 25 in me from a young age that I could do whatever I 26 _ my mind to. “They
didn't give me any special 2 7 . They raised me like others .”
While the physical aspects of the sport seemed to be the most challenging part, at one point Robles realized he needed to
be 28 tougher. After 29 seventh at nationals in his junior year, he took a 3 0_ from wrestling for a little while. He
said. “I was 3 1 . That really just helped me to mentally get back to the sport.”
Then came the last match. Robles was so scared that he was almost starting to cry. When he defeated defending
national champion 7-1, the 32 were quite different. “I couldn't even 33 it. ” He said, “It was just a great
experience.”
Now Robles is ready for the next page in his life, “I really want to help other people achieve things in their lives that
others might say are _ 34 .” Robles plans to put his amazing attitude and energy to 3 5 as a motivational(激励) speaker.
21.A. showed B. recommended C. introduced D. attracted
22.A. partner B. fan C. master D. audience
23.A. questioned B. admired C. honored D. affected
24.A. amount B. source C. flood D. supply
25.A. planted B. breathed C. delivered D. registered
26.A. exchange B. improve C. bury D. apply
27.A.effect B. credit C. confidence D. treatment
28.A. gradually B. obviously C. formally D. mentally
29.A. succeeding B. going C. finishing D. becoming
30.A. break B. job C. bus D. flight
31.A. cut out B. left out C. stressed out D. checked out
32.A. decisions B. emotions C. approaches D. goals
33.A. impressed B. concentrated C. design D. believe
34.A. useless B. extra C. confusing D. impossible
35.A. rest B. place C. use D. test
第二节 （共10小题，每小题1. 5分，共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。
Over 400 pieces or sets of Dehua white porcelain (德化白瓷) are on display in the National Museum of China in
Beijing, with the exhibition 3 6 (run)from Aug 26 for three months.
学科网（北京）股份有限公司Dehua white porcelain is famous for its pure white color. According to Chen Chao, 37 artist dedicated to porcelain
research, Dehua porcelain is 38 .(extraordinary) pure and white because the kaolin (高岭土) in Dehua county in
Fujian has a low percentage of iron, 39 (make) the porcelain stainless (无瑕的) like white jade.
Sitting in Quanzhou city, 40 the ancient Maritime Silk Road started, Dehua white porcelain
41 (sell) well at home and abroad since the Song Dynasty (960-1279). In 2006, Dehua white porcelain was listed as a
national intangible cultural heritage.
42 the past glories, Dehua craftsmen (工匠) never stop refining (精进)their skills. One 43 ( impress)
skill is “the eggshell technique”(薄胎技艺). Chen said that it is just one of the 44 __ (achievement) that Chinese porcelain
craftsmen have made on the long path of innovation.
“Combining traditional Chinese artistic skills with modern disciplines (学科), we will create even more outstanding
works 45 ( increase) the cultural confidence of the Chinese people.” said Chen.
第三部分 写作（共两节，满分40分）
第一节（满分15分）
假定你是李华，你的英国笔友Peter在来信中提到，他要开设一门选修课来帮助英国学生更好地了解中国文化，
请给他回信，内容包括:
1. 你对选修课的建议及理由；
2. 你的祝愿。
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 Peter,
Yours,
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。
They’d been planning this forever. From her birth, most likely. Mya’s mother, Helena loved hosting parties. And Aunt
Beatrice loved birthdays. Together, they’d make her Sweet Sixteen a hundred times bigger, bolder, and brighter than it needed
to be. They selected a theme every year and stuck to it. Her fourteenth had been the “Snow White” and her ninth had been the
“Frozen”. They never told her what the theme was the day before. She’d just wake up her birthday morning, a brand new
birthday outfit(一套服装）laid neatly on her dresser (an outfit related to the theme, of course) and she would open her door to
see the adventure that lay ahead of her that day.
Mya had a few guesses as to what this year’s theme would be. A play on the words “Sweet Sixteen” was likely—a
学科网（北京）股份有限公司candy themed party, perhaps? But she’d had a baking party a few years ago—and Helena was anything but repetitive. Mya
didn’t have any interest in cars, so she doubted a sports—car party was on the menu. She’d tried to look through her mother’s
purchase history online, but her mother had been careful enough to delete everything recent. So the only clue left was the
birthday outfit she would receive the next morning.
May 1st, Mya woke. The bright sunlight begged her eyes to open and she loved the day that her birthday took place. It
was always nice out on May 1st and it never rained. This morning was no different than her previous birthdays. She sat up in
her bed and looked to her dresser before slipping out of bed and inspecting the outfit. She unfolded it and held it against her
body, seeing how it was like. It reached down, just above the ankle. Mya dressed, eyed herself in the mirror and found it was
not so much a pretty outfit as she had received before. It was totally one for blue-collar workers!
注意：
1. 续写词数要求应为 150 左右；
2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
Suddenly her thoughts were interrupted by a knock on the door.
With everything done, her face shone with a sweet smile.
学科网（北京）股份有限公司
