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2023 学年第二学期零陵中学高二年级期中考试
英语学科
考试时间 120 分钟，满分 140 分
I. Listening Comprehension (25%)
Section A
Directions: 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. Husband and wife. B. Boss and assistant.
C. Nurse and patient. D. Manager and customer.
2. A. At a post office B. At a flower shop.
C. At a department store. D. At a bus station.
3. A. He is unemployed at present. B. He owns a company now.
C. He still works in the agency. D. He is unable to support his family.
4. A. At 10:00. B. At 10:20. C. At 11:00. D. At 11:20.
5. A. Satisfied. B. Relieved. C. Surprised. D. Embarrassed.
6. A. The woman didn’t post any postcard from Egypt.
B. The man has never collected any postcards.
C. The woman will go to Egypt for her holiday.
D. The man begins to take up collecting postcards.
7. A. She can’t afford that much for a trip.
B. She is fortunate to have made a lot of money.
C. She doesn’t think 5,000 dollars is enough for the trip.
D. She considers 5,000 dollars only a small sum of money.
8. A. He wants to buy the new car. B. He thinks his signature is necessary.
C. He has already signed a contract. D. He doesn’t always say what he means.
9. A. The man had poor imagination because of the car accident.
B. The man must have advised the woman to wear the seat belt.
C. The woman was likely to have got seriously injured in the car accident.
D. The woman wasn’t wearing the seat belt when the accident happened.
10. A. Violence sports are the source of social instability.
B. Violence sports are to blame for crime and school bullying.
C. Violence sports serve as an escape for negative emotions.
D. Violence sports won’t attract many people’s interest in the long run.
Section B
Directions: In Section B, you will hear several longer conversation(s) and short passage(s), and you will be asked several questions on each of the conversation(s) and the passage(s). The conversation(s) and the passage(s) 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.
11. A. To explain a new requirement for graduation.
B. To interest students in a community service project.
C. To discuss the problems of elementary school students.
D. To involve elementary school teachers in a special program.
12. A. Providing jobs for graduating students.
B. Helping education majors prepare for final exams.
C. Offering tutorials to elementary school students.
D. Funding for a community service project.
13. A. He teaches part-time in a local elementary school.
B. He observes elementary school students in the classroom.
C. He helps students who need consult prepare their resume.
D. He gives support to students who participate in a special program.
Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage.
14. A. They want to eat in a fashionable way like young people.
B. They prefer to eat food that is tastier and more widely accepted.
C. They become aware of the harm processed foods do to health.
D. They try to change their way of processing foods little by little.
15. A. They contain not too many chemical additives.
B. They are cultivated in the soil rich in organic matters.
C. They produce as many calories as processed foods.
D. They are usually grown in commercial farming areas.
16. A. They are allowed to move about and eat freely.
B. They are tasty though kept in the crowded building.
C. They can hardly grow in a healthy way without good food.
D. They produce eggs which usually contain important vitamins..
Questions 17 through 20 are based on the following conversation.
17. A. It was on a cross street. B. They had no time to see it.
C. It had no parking space. D. They weren’t in favour of it.
18. A. It is too small in size. B. It blocks the air-conditioner.
C. It admits heat from the late afternoon sun. D. It stops the sun beating down on the curtains.
19. A. Parking and desk space. B. Parking and air-conditioning.
C. Privacy and cleanliness. D. A cheerful kitchen and a separate dining area.
20. A. The one on 68th Street. B. The one on 72nd Street.
C. The one on 88th Street. D. The one on 80th Street.
II. Grammar and Vocabulary
Section A
Directions: After reading the passages below, fill in the blanks to make the passages 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 who eat breakfast high in refined carbs rated less attractive
If you want to look your best in the morning, it may be worth swapping the ultra-processed pastries and fruit juice for wholemeal toast and tea without sugar. Researchers in France found that people who ate a breakfast rich in refined carbohydrates were rated less attractive than (21)________ who started the day with healthier unrefined carbs.
Scientists at the University of Montpellier believe the subtle shift in facial attractiveness may be driven by changes in blood sugar and insulin (22)________ can affect skin appearance and have longer-term effects on sex hormones.
“It's surprising to consider but our dietary choices can have rapid effects on our appearance,” said Dr Claire Berticat, an evolutionary biologist and the first author on the study. “These physiological changes could subtly alter facial features, impacting (23)________ others perceive attractiveness.”
The researchers recruited 52 men and 52 women (24)________ (age)20 to 30 and randomly assigned them to have a 500-calorie breakfast rich in either refined or unrefined carbohydrates. The refined carbs breakfast (25)________(include) a French baguette made from industrially milled flour, jam, apple or orange juice, and tea or coffee with sugar available. The unrefined carbs meal was stoneground wholemeal bread with butter and cheese, an orange or apple, and tea or coffee without sugar.
The scientists measured blood sugar levels of volunteers before and after they ate and then took headshots of the participants under controlled lighting conditions. The photos were then passed to groups of raters to estimate how old, how masculine or feminine and how attractive the individuals looked.
(26)________ (write) in Plos One, the researchers claim that eating refined carbohydrates for breakfast decreased facial attractiveness for men and women, though the longer-term effects of eating such foods, gleaned from questionnaires completed by the volunteers, were more complicated.
“The effect varies by gender and meal type, underscoring the complex relationship between diet and attractiveness,” Berticat said. “Our findings serve as a (27)________ (compel) reminder of the far-reaching impact of dietary choices not only on health but also on traits having particular social importance (28) _______ ________ facial attractiveness.”
Refined carbohydrates can produce spikes in blood sugar, which the body counters by releasing insulin. The response can drive sugar levels too low, a condition called hypoglycaemia, and affect blood flow and skin appearance. In the study, only the refined carbs breakfast produced hypoglycaemia.
David Perrett, a professor of psychology at the University of St Andrews, who has studied facial cues for health, said there should be no surprise (29)________ diet affects attractiveness. Fruit and vegetables improved attractiveness by increasing plant pigments called carotenoids in the skin, he said, (30)________ high-sugar diets could age the skin.
From: The Guardian
Section B
Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.
A.breakdown B.masterpieces C.committed D. reduced E.extreme F.allowances G.memorable H.security I. attribute J.tribute K.conducted
The little thief: How Charlie Chaplin survived his hungry childhood
A recently unearthed interview with an old friend recalls how the actor was looked after by a kindly‘foster mother' who made sure he did the right thing.
The (31) poverty endured by Charlie Chaplin while growing up in the slums （贫民窟） of Victorian London (32) him to stealing and being scolded by the woman who took care of him, according to an interview with one of his childhood friends that has remained unheard in the British Film Institute for almost 40 years.
Effie Wisdom, whose aunt gave him a home from home when he needed it most, lamented that Chaplin "had a terrible life" as a child, "always hungry", dressed in "ragged", filthy clothes - no doubt later inspiring the comic genius who created the Tramp, society's eternal victim and one of cinema's most (33) characters.
In 1983, aged 92, Wisdom gave an interview in which she recalled first meeting Chaplin when he was five and she was seven, with her aunt becoming his "foster mother", as he used to tell her.
She recalled: "My aunt used to feed him because there was no social (34) in those days, no free milk, no children's (35) , nothing. You never starved and yet you were on the breadline."
"He used to go up Lambeth Walk and pinch . He’d come home with four eggs one day in his pocket. He came home with a pair of boots one day he’d nicked."
Her aunt scolded him: "Do you want me to get the police If you go on doing this, you’ll be locked up. You realize that, don't you "
The interview was (36) by Kevin Brownlow, one of Britain's leading experts in silent films after researching Unknown Chaplin, the acclaimed three-part 1983 documentary series that he made with David Gill. It has been stored in the British Film Institute's archive （档案） ever since.
Chaplin's parents were music-hall performers and his mother was abandoned by her husband. His mother was then (37) to an asylum（精神病院）.
After Chaplin's death in 1977, Wisdom had written to his widow （遗孀）, with memories of his mother’s desperate concern for her sons, Charlie and Sydney "I told Lady Chaplin I knew Charlie when he was a little boy. I used to play with him out in the street. When his mother had a nervous (38) , she said to my aunt, ‘If I had to go away, you wouldn’t let my lovely sons go into an orphanage ’ My aunt said, ‘No, I’ll look after them, don't you worry'. My aunt looked after them, fed them and clothed them."
Chaplin never forgot that. Wisdom paid (39) to his generosity towards her after finding success in America: "He used to send my aunt so much money because she used to look after him."He also wrote to her.
Chaplin, with his derby hat （圆顶窄边礼帽），toothbrush moustache and impossibly large boots, was the protagonist in such (40) as City Lights, The Great Dictator and Limelight.
Wisdom, who left school at 13 and worked in a London pub into her 80s, recalled his natural comedic talent, "He was always falling about being funny. He'd get an old table out in the yard, and he’d get all the kids in there, and get up there, put an old pair of trousers on, an old coat and a stick when he was 12. The kids loved that, he used to fall off the table, then he’d get up." But she joked: "I never thought he'd get to where he got."
She remembered him writing to her aunt from America, telling her that he would visit on his return to England: "He said, I'm not like when I left England with nothing. I’m going on to be a rich man."
She added that Chaplin stayed at the Ritz（一家豪华酒店） and turned up at his aunt's home in-a chauffeur （私人司机）-driven Rolls-Royce: "He invited my aunt and my uncle and me to the Ritz. My aunt says to me, ‘Of course I'd never been in a place like that'."
From the Gardian
III. Reading Comprehension
Section A
Directions: 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.
Maps, number lines, shapes, artwork and other materials tend to cover elementary classroom walls. However, too much of a good thing may end up 41 attention and learning in young children, according to research published in Psychological Science.
Psychology researchers Anna V. Fisher, Karrie E. Godwin and Howard Seltman of Carnegie Mellon University looked at whether classroom displays affected children’s ability to maintain 42
during instruction and to learn the lesson content. They found that children in highly decorated classrooms were more distracted, spent more time off-task and demonstrated smaller learning 43 than when the decorations were removed.
“Young children spend a lot of time — usually the whole day — in the same classroom, and we have shown that a classroom’s 44 environment can affect how much children learn,” said Fisher, lead author and associate professor of psychology in the Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences.
Should teachers 45 their visual displays based on the findings of this study
“We do not suggest by any means that this is the answer to all 46 problems. Furthermore,
47 research is needed to know what effect the classroom visual environment has on children’s attention and learning in real classrooms,” Fisher said. “ 48 , I would suggest that instead of removing all decorations, teachers should consider whether some of their visual displays do make it difficult for young children to 49 .”
For the study, 24 kindergarten students were placed in 50 classrooms for six introductory science lessons on topics they were unfamiliar with. Three lessons were taught in a heavily decorated classroom, and three lessons were given in a sparse (稀疏的) classroom. The results showed that while children learned in both 51 types, they learned more when the room was not heavily decorated. Specifically, children’s 52 on the test questions was higher in the sparse classroom (55% correct) than in the decorated classroom (42% correct).
“We were also interested in finding out if the visual displays were removed, whether the children’s attention would 53 to another distraction, such as talking to their peers, or the total amount of time they were distracted would remain the same,” said Godwin, a Ph.D. candidate in psychology and fellow of the Program in Interdisciplinary Education Research.
However, when the researchers totaled all of the time children spent off-task in both types of classrooms, the rate of off-task 54 was higher in the decorated classroom (38.6% time spent off-task) than in the sparse classroom (28.4% time spent off-task).
The researchers hope these findings will lead to further studies into developing guidelines to help teachers design classrooms 55 .
41. A. attracting B. distracting C. holding D. paying
42. A. confidence B. relationship C. consistency D. focus
43. A. gains B. opportunities C. needs D. disabilities
44. A. social B. natural C. physical D. visual
45. A. turn over B. take down C. try out D. look into
46. A. athletic B. environmental C. educational D. communicative
47. A. additional B. prior C. national D. independent
48. A. However B. Besides C. Therefore D. Meanwhile
49. A. stretch B. adapt C. concentrate D. explore
50. A. decorated B. empty C. transitional D. laboratory
51. A. teaching B. classroom C. school D. personality
52. A. accuracy B. emphasis C. impact D. perspective
53. A. refer B. listen C. respond D. shift
54. A. questions B. behaviors C. incidents D. tasks
55. A. originally B. innovatively C. appropriately D. exclusively
Section B
Directions: 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)
I was about 13 when an uncle gave me a copy of Jostein Gaarder’s Sophie’s World. It was full of ideas that were new to me, so I spent the summer with my head in and out of that book. It spoke to me and brought me into a world of philosophy.
That love for philosophy lasted until I got to college. Nothing kills the love for philosophy faster than people who think they understand Foucault, Baudrillard, or Confucius better than you — and then try to explain them.
Eric Weiner’s The Socrates Express: In Search of Life Lessons from Dead Philosophers reawakened my love for philosophy. It is not an explanation, but an invitation to think and experience philosophy.
Weiner starts each chapter with a scene on a train ride between cities and then frames each philosopher’s work in the context of one thing they can help us do better. The end result is a read in which we learn to wonder like Socrates, see like Thoreau, listen like Schopenhauer, and have no regrets like Nietzsche. This, more than a book about understanding philosophy, is a book about learning to use philosophy to improve a life.
He makes philosophical thought an appealing exercise that improves the quality of our experiences, and he does so with plenty of humor. Weiner enters into conversation with some of the most important philosophers in history, and he becomes part of that crowd in the process by decoding their messages and adding his own interpretation.
The Socrates Express is a fun, sharp book that draws readers in with its apparent simplicity and gradually pulls them in deeper thoughts on desire, loneliness, and aging. The invitation is clear: Weiner wants you to pick up a coffee or tea and sit down with this book. I encourage you to take his offer. It’s worth your time, even if time is something we don’t have a lot of.
56. Who opened the door to philosophy for the author
A. Foucault. B. Eric Weiner. C. Jostein Gaarder. D. A college teacher.
57. Why does the author list great philosophers in paragraph 4
A. To compare Weiner with them.
B. To give examples of great works.
C. To praise their writing skills.
D. To help readers understand Weiner’s book.
58. How does the author like The Socrates Express
A. Its views on history are well-presented.
B. Its ideas can be applied to daily life.
C. It includes comments from readers.
D. It leaves an open ending.
59. What does the author think of Weiner’s book
A. Objective and plain. B. Daring and ambitious.
C. Serious and hard to follow. D. Humorous and straightforward.
(B)
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60. If Karen is addicted to railway journeys, ________ are most likely to be her favourites.
A. Cairns and the Ghan
B. Uluru and Melbourne
C. Melbourne and the Ghan
D. Cairns and the Great Barrier Reef
61. If you have decided to join the tour, which of the following statements is true？
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B. You will enjoy a day trip to Daintree Rainforest, a world heritage.
C. You may choose to stop in both Singapore and Dubai at no extra cost.
D. You will be offered a meal with drinks when heading north by train in the Ghan.
62. If Jonathan and his two male friends, who have booked the travel, will depart UK on April 5th, 2025, with a two-night stopover in Bangkok, then at least how much will they have to pay for the whole trip in total
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(C)
Flinging brightly coloured objects around a screen at high speed is not what computers’ central processing units were designed for. So manufacturers of arcade machines invented the graphics-processing unit (GPU), a set of circuits to handle video games’ visuals in parallel to the work done by the central processor. The GPU’ s ability to speed up complex tasks has since found wider uses: video editing, cryptocurrency mining and most recently, the training of artificial intelligence.
AI is now disrupting the industry that helped bring it into being. Every part of entertainment stands to be affected by generative AI, which digests inputs of text, image, audio or video to create new outputs of the same. But the games business will change the most, argues Andreessen Horowitz, a venture-capital (VC) firm. Games interactivity requires them to be stuffed with laboriously designed content: consider the 30 square miles of landscape or 60 hours of music in “Red Dead Redemption 2” a recent cowboy adventure. Enlisting AI assistants to churn it out could drastically shrink timescales and budgets.
AI represents an “explosion of opportunity” and could drastically change the landscape of game development. Making a game is already easier than it was: nearly 13,000 titles were published last year on Steam, a games platform, almost double the number in 2017. Gaming may soon resemble the music and video industries in which most new content on Spotify or YouTube is user-generated. One games executive predicts that small firms will be the quickest to work out what new genres are made possible by AI. Last month Raja Koduri, an executive at Intel, left the chip maker to found an AI-gaming startup.
Don’t count the big studios out, though. If they can release half a dozen high-quality titles a year instead of a couple, it might chip away at the hit-driven nature of their business, says Josh Chapman of Konvoy, a gaming focused VC firm. A world of more choices also favors those with big marketing budgets. And the giants may have better answers to the mounting copyright questions around AI. If generative models have to be trained on data to which the developer has the rights, those with big back-catalogues will be better placed than startups. Trent Kaniuga, an artist who has worked on games like “Fortnite”, said last month that several clients had updated their contracts to ban AI-generated art.
If the lawyers don’t intervene, unions might. Studios diplomatically refer to AI assistants as “co-pilots”, not replacements for humans.
63. The original purpose behind the invention of the graphics-processing unit (GPU) was to _______.
A. speed up complex tasks in video editing and cryptocurrency mining
B. assist in the developing and training of artificial intelligence
C. disrupt the industry and create new outputs using generative AI
D. offload game visual tasks from the central processor.
64. How might the rise of AI-gaming startups affect the development of the gaming industry
A. It contributes to the growth of user-generated content.
B. It facilitates blockbuster dependency on big studios.
C. It decreases collaboration between different stakeholders in the industry.
D. It may help to consolidate the gaming market under major corporations.
65. What can be inferred about the role of artificial intelligence in gaming
A. AI favors the businesses with small marketing budgets.
B. AI is expected to simplify game development processes.
C. AI allows startups to gain an edge over big firms with authorized data.
D. AI assistants may serve as human substitutes for studios.
66. What is this passage mainly about
A. The evolution of graphics-processing units (GPUs).
B. The impact of generative AI on the gaming industry.
C. The societal significance of graphics-processing units(GPUs).
D. The challenges generative AI presents to gaming studios.
Section C
Directions: Read the following passage. 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.
Sanxingdui, located in China and the source of nearly 13,000 artifacts which have been recovered to date, poses almost as many questions now as the day it was found.
The fast-food chain invited a makeup artist to create a wearable mask based on the iconic Sanxingdui gold foil mask.
C. Starbucks’ collaboration with rural artists in Yunnan successfully launched the coffee chain in the guochao sphere.
D. This can be seen as the international fast-food chain’s exploration of the guochao trend.
E. Like temples, museums, especially that of history or traditional Chinese culture, have been a key element for guochao marketing.
F. The exhibitions in this large-scale museum date back to the Bronze Age, covering a wide range of relics, such as bronze masks, jade articles, and some gold objects.
As guochao 3.0, spearheaded by the New Chinese Style in fashion, continues to grow, we see many global brands trying to tap into the interest in traditional culture and aesthetics. 67. ________
McDonald’s has recently launched a partnership with the Sanxingdui Museum, a historical ruins-turned-museum in Sichuan, with a new flavour of burger and packaging. 68. ________At the end of March, McDonald’s teased that it would launch a collaboration with the Sanxingdui Museum in Guanghan, Sichuan. The collaboration is centred around the McSpicy chicken thigh burger (different from the UK chicken breast version), as Sichuan is known for its hot and spicy food. Not only is the regular McSpicy brought back with exclusive bronze-looking Sanxingdui-themed packaging, a Sichuan-style hot pot flavour has also been added to the menu to add authenticity to the collab. The iconic “Ba da ba ba ba” jingle was also modified to become “ba la ba ba ba” (“吧辣吧吧吧”, with “la” meaning hot and spicy).
Along with the Sanxingdui Museum, McDonald’s released a couple of microdrama commercials. 69. ________ The microdrama ads show office workers wearing the mask while enjoying the McSpicy burger at work. One of the episodes gained over 42,000 likes on Douyin, TikTok’s Chinese sister app.
Sanxingdui (“三星堆”, lit. Three Star Mount) is the ruins of the ancient Shu civilization. It is known for its idiosyncratic bronze ware. The museum went through a creative rebranding in 2020, resulting in several collaborations over the years, most recently an online-to-offline collab with the popular video game Genshin Impact.
Museum collaborations, especially with historical museums, have been popular among brands but as part of the “guochao 3.0” trend, as it adds cultural credibility to their “guochao” efforts. It is still not common for international brands. The country of origin fit between partners in a co-branding campaign is a key element, however, sometimes other aspects of fit can make up for it. 70.________Other international brands have already experimented with museum collaborations. Interestingly many of the latest examples involve the Palace Museum in Beijing as partners.
IV．Summary Writing
71. 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.
The Problem With Fast Fashion
There's nothing quite like new clothes, is there The UK certainly loves them. According to a report by the Environmental Audit Committee （EAC）, the UK consumes five times more clothes today than it did in the 1980s. That's more than any other nation in Europe and amounts to around
26.7 kg per person.This results in 235 million garments being dumped into landfills - victims of fast fashion.
Fast fashion is defined as "an accelerated fashion business model "involving "increased numbers of new fashion collections every year," "quick turnarounds（周转期）"and "lower prices," according to the EAC. Globalization means that clothing is made in countries where labour is cheaper. These savings are passed on to consumers, who then consider the clothes they own disposable - easily replaceable with something more trendy. And that creates problems.
First, there're the environmental costs. Manufacturing any kind of textile costs resources. For example, synthetic fibres, which are made from plastic, have a larger carbon footprint than natural ones. Natural fibres, although more carbon-efficient, still require more water to grow. And further resources are used as the cloth is dyed, made into clothing and transported to retail for sale. Secondly, the fast-fashion industry is under pressure to put the latest trending items on shelves faster, which can lead to workers being exploited and forced to labour in poor working conditions. In countries such as Bangladesh, Ethiopia and the Philippines, workers are paid wages that are insufficient to live on. One worker in Ethiopia told the BBC that they had to deal with intolerable conditions, such as withheld overtime payments, verbal abuse, and unsanitary toilets.
So what can be done in the UK to reduce clothing waste The EAC has recommended eighteen improvements to the UK government, from increasing tax on purchases to fund recycling centres to introducing more sewing lessons in schools, encouraging a make do and mend attitude when things become worn out.
V. Translation
Directions: Translate the following sentences into English, using the words given in the brackets.
让我们拭目以待该名运动员能否打破世界纪录。(remain)
教育工作者有责任和义务提倡独创性，激发创造力，鼓励创新。(It)
74.在过去的一年里，坚定的韧性帮助我们度过了暴风雨时期的起起落落。（ups and downs)
75.观众被美妙的钢琴曲吸引住了，钢琴家表演结束的时候，他们几乎忘了向他鼓掌。(applaud)
VI. Guided Writing
Directions: Write an English composition in 150-180 words according to the instructions given below in Chinese.
随着全球化进一步发展，我国非遗之一的地方戏剧文化正在遭受前所未有的冲击。作为中国十大戏曲之一的沪剧也面临着消亡的危机。针对这种现象，我校此次校园文化节准备推广沪剧，请你为此设计一个活动方案。
内容包括：1. 沪剧文化现今状况 2. 活动的主题 3. 活动的安排 4. 活动的意义高二下零陵中学期中考试答案
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1-5 DCBBC 6-10 CADBC 11-13 BCD 14-16 CBC 17-20 DCAB
II. Grammar and vocabulary
Section A
People who eat breakfast high in refined carbs rated less attractive
If you want to look your best in the morning, it may be worth swapping the ultra-processed pastries and fruit juice for wholemeal toast and tea without sugar. Researchers in France found that people who ate a breakfast rich in refined carbohydrates were rated less attractive than 21.those who started the day with healthier unrefined carbs.
Scientists at the University of Montpellier believe the subtle shift in facial attractiveness may be driven by changes in blood sugar and insulin 22.that can affect skin appearance and have longer-term effects on sex hormones.
“It's surprising to consider but our dietary choices can have rapid effects on our appearance,” said Dr Claire Berticat, an evolutionary biologist and the first author on the study. “These physiological changes could subtly alter facial features, impacting 23.how others perceive attractiveness.”
The researchers recruited 52 men and 52 women 24.aged 20 to 30 and randomly assigned them to have a 500-calorie breakfast rich in either refined or unrefined carbohydrates. The refined carbs breakfast 25.included a French baguette made from industrially milled flour, jam, apple or orange juice, and tea or coffee with sugar available. The unrefined carbs meal was stoneground wholemeal bread with butter and cheese, an orange or apple, and tea or coffee without sugar.
The scientists measured blood sugar levels of volunteers before and after they ate and then took headshots of the participants under controlled lighting conditions. The photos were then passed to groups of raters to estimate how old, how masculine or feminine and how attractive the individuals looked.
26.Writing in Plos One, the researchers claim that eating refined carbohydrates for breakfast decreased facial attractiveness for men and women, though the longer-term effects of eating such foods, gleaned from questionnaires completed by the volunteers, were more complicated.
“The effect varies by gender and meal type, underscoring the complex relationship between diet and attractiveness,” Berticat said. “Our findings serve as a pelling reminder of the far-reaching impact of dietary choices not only on health but also on traits having particular social importance 28.such as facial attractiveness.”
Refined carbohydrates can produce spikes in blood sugar, which the body counters by releasing insulin. The response can drive sugar levels too low, a condition called hypoglycaemia, and affect blood flow and skin appearance. In the study, only the refined carbs breakfast produced hypoglycaemia.
David Perrett, a professor of psychology at the University of St Andrews, who has studied facial cues for health, said there should be no surprise 29.that diet affects attractiveness. Fruit and vegetables improved attractiveness by increasing plant pigments called carotenoids in the skin, he said, 30.while high-sugar diets could age the skin.
From: The Guardian
Section B
A
A.breakdown B.masterpieces C.committed D. reduced E.extreme F.masterpieces G.memorable H.security I. attribute J.tribute K.conducted
The little thief: How Charlie Chaplin survived his hungry childhood
A recently unearthed interview with an old friend recalls how the actor was looked after by a kindly‘foster mother' who made sure he did the right thing.
The (31)E.extreme poverty endured by Charlie Chaplin while growing up in the slums （贫民窟） of Victorian London (32)D. reduced him to stealing and being scolded by the woman who took care of him, according to an interview with one of his childhood friends that has remained unheard in the British Film Institute for almost 40 years.
Effie Wisdom, whose aunt gave him a home from home when he needed it most, lamented that Chaplin "had a terrible life" as a child, "always hungry", dressed in "ragged", filthy clothes - no doubt later inspiring the comic genius who created the Tramp, society's eternal victim and one of cinema's most (33)G.memorable characters.
In 1983, aged 92, Wisdom gave an interview in which she recalled first meeting Chaplin when he was five and she was seven, with her aunt becoming his "foster mother", as he used to tell her.
She recalled: "My aunt used to feed him because there was no social (34)H.security in those days, no free milk, no children's (35)F.allowances, nothing. You never starved and yet you were on the breadline."
"He used to go up Lambeth Walk and pinch . He’d come home with four eggs one day in his pocket. He came home with a pair of boots one day he’d nicked."
Her aunt scolded him: "Do you want me to get the police If you go on doing this, you’ll be locked up. You realize that, don't you "
The interview was (36)K.conducted by Kevin Brownlow, one of Britain's leading experts in silent films after researching Unknown Chaplin, the acclaimed three-part 1983 documentary series that he made with David Gill. It has been stored in the British Film Institute's archive （档案） ever since.
Chaplin's parents were music-hall performers and his mother was abandoned by her husband. His mother was then (37)C.committed to an asylum（精神病院）.
After Chaplin's death in 1977, Wisdom had written to his widow （遗孀）, with memories of his mother’s desperate concern for her sons, Charlie and Sydney "I told Lady Chaplin I knew Charlie when he was a little boy. I used to play with him out in the street. When his mother had a nervous (38)A.breakdown, she said to my aunt, If I had to go away, you wouldn’t let my lovely sons go into an orphanage ’ My aunt said, ‘No, I’ll look after them, don't you worry'. My aunt looked after them, fed them and clothed them."
Chaplin never forgot that. Wisdom paid (39)J.tribute to his generosity towards her after finding success in America: "He used to send my aunt so much money because she used to look after him."He also wrote to her.
Chaplin, with his derby hat （圆顶窄边礼帽），toothbrush moustache and impossibly large boots, was the protagonist in such (40)B.masterpieces as City Lights, The Great Dictator and Limelight.
Wisdom, who left school at 13 and worked in a London pub into her 80s, recalled his natural comedic talent, "He was always falling about being funny. He'd get an old table out in the yard, and he’d get all the kids in there, and get up there, put an old pair of trousers on, an old coat and a stick when he was 12. The kids loved that, he used to fall off the table, then he’d get up." But she joked: "I never thought he'd get to where he got."
She remembered him writing to her aunt from America, telling her that he would visit on his return to England: "He said, I'm not like when I left England with nothing. I’m going on to be a rich man."
She added that Chaplin stayed at the Ritz（一家豪华酒店） and turned up at his aunt's home in-a chauffeur （私人司机）-driven Rolls-Royce: "He invited my aunt and my uncle and me to the Ritz. My aunt says to me, ‘Of course I'd never been in a place like that'."
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Section B
31-35 EDGHF 36-40 KCAJB
III. Reading comprehension
Section A
41. B 42. D 43. A 44. D 45. B 46. C 47. A 48. C 49. C 50. D
51. B 52. A 53. D 54. B 55. C
Section B
A 篇 56-59 C D B D
B 篇 60-62 A D C
C 篇 63-66 DABB （静安二模）
Section C
67-70 EDBC
IV. Summary Writing 10分
71. The pursuit of fast fashion in the UK has led to the over consumption of clothing. Consumers have been misled into thinking clothes are disposable because of their low prices and quick tuma rounds, which has thus created more waste. Consequently, problems like pollution and workers being exploited have arisen. The UK government has been advised to work to solve the problem. （60 words）
V. Translation 15分（3+4+4+4）
让我们拭目以待该名运动员能否打破世界纪录。(remain)
It remains to be seen whether the athlete can break the record.
教育工作者有责任和义务提倡独创性，激发创造力，鼓励创新。(It)
It is educators’/ teaching staff’s responsibility and obligation to promote originality, inspire creativity and encourage innovation.
74.在过去的一年里，坚定的韧性帮助我们度过了暴风雨时期的起起落落。（ups and downs)
Over the past year, the keen resilience have helped guide us over the ups and downs of what was certainly a stormy time.
75.观众被美妙的钢琴曲吸引住了，钢琴家表演结束的时候，他们几乎忘了向他鼓掌。(applaud)
Attracted by the beauty of the piano music, the audience almost forgot to applaud the pianist when he finally finished it.录音文字
I. Listening Comprehension
Section A
l. W: Morning, sir. I want to complain about the milk. When I opened it at home yesterday, there was a bad smell.
M: Oh, I’m terribly sorry about that. I’ll deal with it right away.
Q: What’s the most probable relationship between the two speakers
M: Excuse me, do you know where I can find pencil boxes
W: Yes, they are on the next floor, the stationery department.
Q: Where does the conversation most probably take place
M: Do you know what Mike does to support his family
W: He used to work in an agency, but now he is self-employed.
Q: What does the woman say about Mike
M: Hello. This is David Smith. I have an appointment with Doctor Jones for 10 o’clock, but I’m afraid I’ ll have to be about 20 minutes late.
W: That’s all right, Mr Smith. Doctor Jones doesn’t have another appointment until 1l o’clock.
Q: When will Doctor Jones most probably meet Mr Smith
M: What a pity! Jack failed to win that science award at last.
W: I can’t believe it! I thought for sure he would.
Q: How does the woman feel on hearing the news
W: I’ll send Jason a postcard from Egypt when I go there on my vacation.
M: I’m sure he’ll be very glad to get it. He has a collection of postcards from different countries.
Q: What can be learned from the conversation
M: Do you want to go on a trip with us to New Zealand this spring It will cost about 5,000 dollars a person.
W: 5,000 dollars Do you think I’ve just inherited a large fortune
Q: What can be inferred about the woman
M: I don’t know whether Keven favours the new car or not.
W: He said he liked it. But he didn’t want to sign a contract.
Q: What can be concluded about Keven from the conversation
W: Thanks to the seat belt, otherwise I would have been seriously injured in the car accident.
M: Yes. I can hardly imagine what would happen if you hadn’t taken my advice.
Q: What can be learned from the conversation
W: Violence sports like boxing should be banned. If so, there would be less violent crime and less school bullying.
M: That’s a nice argument, but these traditional sports win many people’s heart and provide a way to release negative emotions.
Q: What does the man actually mean
Section B
Questions 11 through 13 are based on the following passage.
Community service is an important part of education here at our university. We encourage all students to volunteer for at least one community activity before they graduate. A new community program called “One on One” helps elementary students who’ve fallen behind. You education majors might be especially interested in it because it offers the opportunity to do some teaching—that is, tutoring in math and English.
You’d have to volunteer two hours a week for one semester. You can choose to help a child with math, English, or both. Half-hour lessons are fine, so you could do a half hour of each subject two days a week.
Professor Green will act as mentor to the tutors—he’ll be available to help you with lesson plans or to offer suggestions for activities. He has office hours every Tuesday and Thursday afternoon. You can sign up for the program with him and begin the tutoring next week.
I’m sure you’ll enjoy this community service and you are sure to gain valuable experience at the same time. It looks good on your résumé, too—showing that you’ve had experience with children and that you care about your community. If you’d like to sign up, or if you have any questions, stop by Professor Green’s office this week.
Questions:
11. What is the main purpose of this talk
What is the function of the program mentioned in the passage
What does Professor Green do according to the passage
Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage.
Increasingly, over the past ten years, people — especially young people — have become aware of the need to change their eating habits, because much of the food they eat, particularly processed foods, is not good for the health. Consequently, there has been a growing interest in natural foods: foods which do not contain chemical additives and which have not been affected by chemical fertilizers widely used in farming today.
Natural foods, for example, are vegetables, fruit and grain which have been grown in soil that is rich in organic matters. In simple terms, this means that the soil has been enriched by unused vegetable matter, which provides it with essential vitamins and minerals. This in itself is a natural process compared with the use of chemicals and fertilizers, the main purpose of which is to increase the amount — but not the quality — of foods grown in commercial farming areas.
Natural foods also include animals which have been allowed to feed and move freely in healthy pare this with what happens in the mass production of animals like chickens: there are battery farms, for example, where thousands of chickens live crowded together in one building and are fed on food which is little better than rubbish. Chickens kept in this way are not only tasteless as food; they also produce eggs which lack important vitamins.
Questions:
Why have people become more interested in natural foods
Which of the following statements is TRUE of natural foods
What can be inferred about chickens on battery farms according to the passage
Questions 17 through 20 are based on the following conversation.
M: Well, Shirley, now that we’ve seen the three apartments, which one do you like best
W: I don’t know, Brad. I know one thing. I didn’t like the one on the 68th Street.
M: Neither did I. Let’s cross that one off. That leaves the 72nd Street one and the 80th Street one.
W: The one on the 80th Street has a better view, and a very cheerful kitchen.
M: Yes, and I like the carpeting in the hall. It was clean. But there was no good place to put a desk.
W: That’s true. You should always put it in a corner of the living room, but then you wouldn’t have any privacy, and the bedroom was too small.
M: Right. And I do need to be able to leave my work out on the desk without having it looked into by visitors.
W: Oh, Brad, we don’t have that kind of visitors! But I do agree the desk shouldn’t be in the living room. It is a constant reminder of unfinished work. What about the 72nd Street apartment It has a dining area. We could eat in the kitchen, and put the desk in the dining area. It’s more private there.
M: Yes, that sounds OK. Only, what I didn’t like about that place was the west window. It gets quite hot in the late afternoon with the sun beating down on the window.
W: Didn’t you notice the air conditioner
M: No. Was there one
W: Yes. And we could improve on the curtains, too.
M: That place did have the best parking facilities of the three.
W: Yes. I think that apartment is best for your needs. There’s good parking, and there’s a semi-private area for your desk. That takes care of the daily activities.
M: OK. Let’s take that one.
Questions:
Why did Brad and Shirley give up the apartment on the 68th Street
According to the man, what is wrong with the west window of the 72nd Street apartment
Which considerations are crucial in Brad and Shirley’s choice of an apartment
Which apartment do the speakers decide to rent

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