尹剑锋 高洁
本试卷满分150分(不含听力),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。
1. What will the manager do tomorrow morning?
A. Have a meeting.
B. Meet the man.
C. Have an interview.
2. How much is the tour package now?
A. $2,300.
B. $2,600.
C. $3,000.
3. Where are the speakers?
A. At school.
B. At the airport.
C. In a clothing shop.
4. How does the woman feel in the end?
A. Excited.
B. Grateful.
C. Puzzled.
5. Why does the man call?
A. To call off the concert.
B. To ask about the project.
C. To put off the meeting time.
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。
听第6段材料,回答第6、7题。
6. At what time does the Swan Castle open?
A. At 9:30 am.
B. At 1: 00 pm.
C. After lunch.
7. Where will the speakers go first?
A. The Amusement Park.
B. The Art Gallery.
C. The Botanical Garden.
听第7段材料,回答第8、9题。
8. What does the woman plan to do next Friday?
A. Play football.
B. Play tennis.
C. Go swimming.
9. What is the probable relationship between the speakers?
A. Colleagues.
B. Coach and trainee.
C. Husband and wife.
聽第8段材料,回答第10至12题。
10. What does the woman probably do?
A. She is a doctor.
B. She is a teacher.
C. She is a reporter.
11.How long does it take the woman to work by bicycle?
A. About ten minutes.
B. About half an hour.
C. About an hour.
12.What does the woman say about the present traffic condition?
A. The subway is too crowded.
B. The number of buses is limited.
C. The traffic jam happens frequently.
听第9段材料,回答第13至16题。
13. Why does the woman often dine out?
A. There are varieties of restaurants.
B. She’s not interested in cooking.
C. There is little time to cook.
14. What happens to people who eat out a lot?
A. They hardly enjoy homely food.
B. They may be exposed to bacteria.
C. They will stop buying food ingredients.
15. How often does the woman eat out?
A. Every day.
B. Sometimes.
C. Five times a week.
16. What does the man suggest the woman do?
A. Cook at home.
B. Break old habits.
C. Stay away from restaurants.
听第10段材料,回答第17至20题。
17. Which course will be offered in the autumn?
A. Musical Theatre.
B. Comedy Acting.
C. Screen Acting.
18. How long does each course last in total?
A. For 30 hours.
B. For 60 hours.
C. For 90 hours.
19. How does the speaker suggest people get to the school?
A. By bus.
B. By subway.
C. By car.
20. What should people do to book the course?
A. Check in at the student hotel.
B. Fill in an online booking form.
C. Contact professional actors first.
第二部分阅读理解(共两节,满分60分)
第一节(共15小题;每小题3分,满分45分)
阅读下列短文,从每題所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中,选出最佳选项。
A
Home care is in-home personal and medical support for people with disabilities or who are otherwise unable to manage the tasks of daily life. While this type of assisted living offers independence and the ability to control schedules and routines, it may be costly, and care may not be available around the clock.
Who it’s for: Home care is a good choice for seniors or people with disabilities who have been recently hospitalized and are healing at home. This service can help these individuals back to independence.
Who it’s not for: Home care is not suitable for those who need care around the clock. It’s also not a great long-term option for those without significant income or savings.
What’s available: Home care services include both personal and medical support.
The personal services offered typically include home chores and other assistance, such as bathing, getting dressed, appointment escorting, meal preparation and delivery, laundry, fall prevention(including assistance in moving), etc.
Those who need medical care typically have access to services such as wound care, injections or administration of important medications, managing illness and chronic conditions, monitoring vitals such as blood pressure, temperature, heart rate, and breathing, assistance with taking the correct medications on time.
What it costs: According to the Genworth 2017 Cost of Care Survey, homemaker services cost about$3,994 per month, and a home health aide costs about$4,099 monthly.
21. What’s the benefit of home care?
A. Assisting people in hospital.
B. Managing people’s daily life.
C. Saving money for disabled people.
D. Helping seniors needing a temporary caregiver.
22. Who can enjoy the home care service?
A. Seniors lacking money.
B. The disabled recovering at home.
C. Individuals with busy routines.
D. Patients in need of all-day care.
23. Which medical service is available?
A. Paying for hospital treatment.
B. Preventing the spread of a disease.
C. Monitoring heart rate.
D. Having an operation in time.
B
The Music program at Grebel of the University of Waterloo continuously appeals to students who are looking for a broad music education. Student Tyler Reidy immediately felt comfortable when he arrived at Grebel for his studio audition(试演).“The professors were incredibly welcoming, the students were encouraging and excited to get to know me during my audition process, and Grebel was small enough that I was immediately drawn to the community.”Tyler maintained a strong link to the department through all four years of his university career, and he is now set to graduate this spring with a major in music.
“As I reflect on my four years here at UWaterloo, I truly believe that I’ve been spoiled with the support of my amazing professors, incredible classmates, and small class sizes.”he noted.“I’ve had the chance to perform a graduation concert, conduct and compose an honours thesis(毕业论文), compose for the on-campus orchestra, perform in a variety of concerts, and gain vast knowledge on all aspects of music.”
Pointing to classes he took, he began to think about music’s effects on the body, and took his music healing(治愈)knowledge to a new level, which led Tyler to a volunteer position at Kids Ability Centre for Child Development. He assisted during musical activities and worked to target specific behavioral and social goals as well as therapy-related(與治疗相关的)goals that included the use of singing and instruments to encourage music-making and socialization.
Now he has been accepted into the Music Therapy Master’s program at Wilfrid Laurier University.“I couldn’t imagine pursuing another field of work,”he explained.“I’ve always enjoyed connecting with people, especially with music, and want to use my love of music to help others. The uniqueness, healing and therapeutic benefits of music are endless.”
24. What could we learn from paragraph 1?
A. Tyler loved Grebel at first sight.
B. Tyler has a major in music therapy.
C. There are fewest students at Grebel.
D. The students advised Tyler to choose music.
25. What did Tyler do during his university career?
A. He organized a concert.
B. He achieved a lot in music.
C. He was often criticized by the professors.
D. He became the composer of an orchestra.
26. What inspired Tyler to be a volunteer?
A. His musical activities.
B. His social responsibility.
C. His incredible classmates.
D. His awareness of music healing.
27. What does Tyler mainly mean in the last paragraph?
A. He’ll take a job in a hospital.
B. He’ll use music to assist people.
C. He prefers connecting with people.
D. He won’t pursue his master’s program.
C
An academic paper published in Nature Human Behaviour on July 1 suggested smart technology is not making people sillier but is, in fact freeing up brain space to allow people to learn more. Authors of the paper said that despite the fierce attack of smart technology that has influenced people’s daily lives, it actually assists people to be excellent rather than become less intelligent.
For example, if a person needs directions for how to get to a nearby stadium to attend a game, without smart technology, he would have to fish out a map, figure out where the stadium is on that map, and then determine a reasonable route from his current location to his destination. However, with smart technology, the person could simply type in the location and have directions, find parking and even pick a place to eat afterward in mere minutes, freeing up room in their brains to intake other information.
The“popular narrative”surrounding smart technology is that it blocks a person’s cognitive(認知)abilities such as memory, the paper continued.“And when participants expected information to later be accessible(vs not accessible)on the computer, they were less likely to remember what its content was, but more likely to remember where it could be found. These effects were temporary and they emerged when access to digital technology or information stored inside was available, not when access was unavailable,”the paper continued.
The authors did recognize that long-term use of smart technology did reduce people’s abilities to perform cognitive tasks such as“associations of media multitasking with task switching, temporary memory and attention missing.”However, these impacts were all“relevance, not causal.”
28. Why does the author give an example in paragraph 2?
A. To make room for brains.
B. To compare different suggestions.
C. To show the way of choosing directions.
D. To present the strengths of smart technology.
29.Whatdoestheunderlinedword“emerged”inparagraph3probablymean?
A. Appeared.
B. Lasted.
C. Failed.
D. Changed.
30. Which word best describes the author’s attitude to smart technology?
A. Skeptical.
B. Objective.
C. Tolerant.
D. Supportive.
31. Which of the following can be the best title for the text?
A. The Popularity of Smart Technology
B. The Development of Smart Technology
C. Smart Technology not Making us More Stupid
D. Smart Technology Influencing our Intelligence Greatly
D
Extreme heat often brings extreme wildfires, and this year is no exception, with all-time heat waves fueling enormous outbreaks of fires in the western United States and Canada, as well as across the Mediterranean and in Siberia. But the strongest wildfires can have the opposite effect on temperatures, cooling Earth’s surface both regionally and globally.
Dense(浓密的)wildfire smoke can temporarily block sunlight near the ground, causing regional temperatures to drop by several degrees. Wildfire smoke can also have global cooling effects by making clouds in the lower atmosphere more reflective or blocking sunlight in the upper atmosphere, similar to what a volcanic eruption does.
New research on Australia’s 2019~2020 bush fire season pointed to another, potentially far more significant, way that wildfire smoke could cool Earth’s surface. Its effect is far too small to counteract(抵消)human-caused global warming. But with fire seasons growing more intense around the world, the search for answers is growing increasingly urgent.
Smoke particles act as seeds for water vapor to form clouds that are smaller and reflect more sunlight. While smoke tends to rain out of clouds fairly quickly, the Australian bush fire continued for months, pumping more and more cloud-brightening smoke into the atmosphere.“It’s not a big effect, but when you consider the entire South- ern Ocean, it adds up,”one of the researchers says. While this research highlights the cooling effects of smoke in the lower atmosphere, on occasion, wildfire smoke can reach even higher altitudes into the stratosphere(平流層), the layer that starts about 10 miles up. There, it can have additional effects on the climate. Smoke reaches the stratosphere when heat from a powerful wildfire creates an updraft that combines with small drops of water in the atmosphere to generate towering thunderclouds.
However, scientists have only recently begun studying these effects.“We might still be in the initial stage of understanding how large and how important the effects of these wildfires are,”scientists say.
32. How does wildfire smoke reduce the heat on the earth’s surface?
A. By absorbing sunlight in the lower atmosphere.
B. By reflecting sunlight into the atmosphere.
C. By stopping sunlight near the ground.
D. By making clouds in the upper atmosphere.
33. What can we learn about Australian bush fire according to the text?
A. It caused serious effects than human activities.
B. It cooled Earth’s surface more efficiently.
C. It delivered more smoke into the atmosphere.
D. Its smoke spread over the entire Southern Ocean.
34. What can we infer from the last paragraph?
A. The importance of wildfires is completely ignored.
B. Human’s understanding of wildfires is still limited.
C. Scientists fully understand the effects of wildfires.
D. Wildfires are the consequences of global warming.
35. Where does the text probably come from?
A. A geographic textbook.
B. A research report.
C. A biology magazine.
D. A science fiction.
第二節(共5小题;每小题3分,满分15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。
The environment around us is not only our home but everything that keeps us alive. Therefore, caring for the environment is something that should be a basic part of us. Our interaction with the environment should be in a way that we use the resources that nature provides, but in a sustainable manner. 36
We only have one earth as our home. Although some of us may take this lightly, it is critical to know that we don’t have anywhere else we can run to. If we spoil what we have here, we will suffer the consequences of our actions. When cutting down all treesfor our short-term goals, we will suffer global warming, lack of rainfall to grow our food, and many other unpleasant situations. 37
Caring for the environment protects the ecosystem and humanity. 38 For example, if we pollute the water bodies with plastic or leaked oil, we kill the species that live there. Therefore, as we produce, consume and dispose of waste materials, we should think of how it will affect the ecosystem.
39 One evident thing is that we only live because nature offers us resources. Whether we want to hear it or not, if nature is gone, we will also disappear with it. Therefore, caring for the environment is a great way to show that we care and appreciate it. Everything that keeps our lives moving comes from nature. 40 If we preserve the environment, then we are giving back to the planet.
A. Clean environment means healthier lives.
B. Therefore, if we love our lives, we must love nature.
C. This is a major reason why we should look after the earth.
D. Protecting the environment is an excellent way to give back.
E. Almost all our activities affect the ecosystem in one way or the other.
F. Here is a guide to what sustainability means and how to practice it daily.
G. The various things we use come from raw materials we get from forests.
第三部分语言知识运用(共两节,满分55分)
第一节(共20小题;每小题2分,满分40分)
阅读下面短文,從短文后各题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中,选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
Going to university might be the first time you’ve lived by yourself. For many, it’s41 as an exciting prospect-gaining your independence and getting you on 42 for your future. However, my experience of university wasn’t what I thought it’d be. It made me feel 43 . I felt unable to share how I was feeling with anyone and didn’t know where I could turn to for 44 .
Things were getting45 . One day I was on my way back to campus when I had a sudden thought that 46my life would be a way out. I was in my own world when a lady standing nearby47up to me and said:“Are you OK?”
Although I didn’t say much back to her, the small talk instantly 48 my thoughts that I would kill myself. This exchange and the 49 this lady showed to me helped me re-centred. It made me realize it’s OK to50 out for help. I spoke to my tutors and they helped with my 51 . I also shared my feelings with my loved ones. By seeking help and being 52 about what I was feeling, I created a strong support network that I could 53 on when I needed to.
When I heard that a charity provided training to help people in trouble, I knew I had to 54 instantly. I wanted to equip myself to 55others who might be feeling like I did back then. If we spot someone who might look 56 , or even makes us feel concerned, saying something as 57 as:‘Have you got the time?’might make a huge 58 to that person’s day, and their life.
So, if you ever notice someone who you think might be59 , try talking to them. You already have everything you need to save a life. 60 it from me. Starting a conversation can be all that it takes.
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。
China, possessing a vast territory and with a recorded history of over 3,000 years, has created its unique and outstanding culture. Its architectural art is 61 particularly beautiful branch in the tree of Chinese culture.
Generally speaking, there were about seven major independent architectural systems in the ancient world, some of 62 have long stopped existing, or have not been widely spread, such as ancient Egyptian, West Asian, Indian and American structures. Only Chinese, European and Islamic structures 63(consider)to be the world’s three major architectural systems. In China, architecture and culture are tightly related to each other. In a sense, architecture is the carrier of culture. 64(style)of Chinese ancient architecture are rich and varied, such as temples, imperial palaces, and folk houses, which greatly reflect ancient thought—the 65(harmony)unity of human beings with nature.
Chinese people don’t lay emphasis 66 strong self-expression but seek modesty and gentleness. The influence of this spirit on architecture is characterized by 67(pursue)sense and connotation(內涵). Usually, the front of Chinese architecture is simply plain walls that cannot catch your eyes, but you can patiently walk in the farthest inside 68(find)its best feature.
Many clever laboring people 69(create)many wonders so far. Ancient architectural miracles range from the Great Wall, the White Horse Temple, the Mogao Caves, the Summer Palace and the Forbidden City. Chinese architecture has continued over a long period of time and will 70(consequent)produce brilliant achievements.
第四部分写作(共两节,满分35分)
第一节短文改错(共10小题;每小题1分,满分10分)
假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文,请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误,每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加:在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧),并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除:把多余的词用斜线(\)划掉。
修改:在错的词下画一横线,并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意:
1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词;
2.只允许修改10处,多者(从第11处起)不计分。
Recently, there is a heating discussion about whether it’s appropriate to make students’grades public.
Opinion vary from person to person. Some people firm believe that making grades known to everyone do serve as a significant role in promoting their study. And only in this way can they have a passion in learning. Moreover, others argue that students’scores are the matter of personal privacy. By doing so, it will be hurt the students’self-esteem and make them lose self-confidence.
As far as I’m concerned, every coin has two sides. However, I hold the belief that it is accept to make students’grades known the public.
第二节书面表达(满分25分)
假定你是李华,你校将举办校园文化饮食节。请写一封邮件邀请你的外籍教师Simon来参加,并品尝中国传统饮食及当地特色风味小吃。
内容包括:
1.时间地点;
2.活动内容;
3.期待回复。
注意:
1.词数100左右;
2.可以适当增加细节,以使行文连贯。