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1、学科网（北京）股份有限公司重庆市第八中学重庆市第八中学 2024 届高考适应性月考卷届高考适应性月考卷(二二)英英 语语注意事项：1.答题前，考生务必用黑色碳素笔将自己的姓名、准考证号、考场号、座位号在答题卡上填写清楚。2.每小题选出答案后，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。在试题卷上作答无效。3.考试结束后，请将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。满分 150 分，考试用时 120 分钟。第一部分 听力(共两节，满分 30 分)注意，听力部分答题时，请先将答案标在试卷上。听力部分结束前，你将有两分钟的时间将答案转涂到答题卡上。第一节 (共 5小

2、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 the man do later?A.Go to a party.B.Finish his work.C.Catch a bus.2.What could Mr.Hopkins probably be?A.A repairman.B.A salesman.C.A policeman.3.What does the man think of Jessie?

3、A.She is a coffee lover.B.She is in good shape.C.She is not serious.4.What does the man want to do?A.Have a rest.B.Talk about his day.C.Wash the dishes later.5.What does the man mean?A.He missed the speech.B.He lost his way to the train station.C.He couldnt understand what the lecture r said.第二节 (共

4、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 2 至 4 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5秒钟的时间阅读各个小题；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。听下面一段对话，回答第 6 和第 7 题。6.What is the purpose of the womans call?A.To ask the way.学科网（北京）股份有限公司B.To set a time to meet.C.To ask about a refrigerator.7.When does th

5、e store open?A.At 9:00.B.At 10:00.C.At 11:00.听下面一段对话，回答第 8 至第 10 题。8.Where has Jackson been?A.To the Forbidden City.B.To the Great Wall.C.To hutongs.9.What activity did boys always do in hutongs?A.They jumped rope.B.They played football.C.They enjoyed hide-and-seek.10.What seems rare to Westerners a

6、bout hutongs?A.Keeping traditional habits.B.People often losing their way.C.Different generations living together.听下面一段对话，回答第 11 至第 13 题。11.How does the man feel now?A.Homesick.B.Annoyed.C.Hungry.12.What festival is celebrated in the womans motherland at this time?A.Halloween.B.The Day of the Dead.C

7、.The New Yam Festival.13.What does the man suggest the woman do?A.Treat Yon Mi to lunch.B.Share something about a festival.C.Join in the International Fall Festival.听下面一段对话，回答第 14 至第 16 题。14.What is the woman most concerned with about the hotel?A.The price.B.The position.C.The environment.15.How muc

8、h will the woman pay in total?A.220.B.400.C.660.16.Where is the hotel?A.Across from a cinema.B.On the right of Hyde Park.C.Opposite Marble Arch station.听下面一段独白，回答第 17 至第 20 题。17.What is the purpose of setting up the project?A.To help students be ready for real life.B.To teach students to write appli

9、cation letters.C.To let students know about some typical jobs.学科网（北京）股份有限公司18.What is the headmaster expected to do?A.Recommend jobs to students.B.Ask the teacher to explain the project.C.Announce the news of the project clearly.19.Who will help students to write application letters?A.A member of th

10、e committee.B.The headmaster.C.A teacher.20.What is the last step of doing the project?A.Gather students opinions.B.Make a list of suitable jobs.C.Ask students to take on responsibility.第二部分 阅读(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 A、B、C 和 D 四个选项中，选出最佳选项。AI Icons&InnovatorsPower

11、ful books Elon Musk recommendsElon Musks must-read list exhibits his well-known and deep interest in science,as well as the personalities behind it.Benjamin FranklinAn American LifeBy Walter Isaacson Why Its Inspiring:Born in South Africa,Musk was always appealed to America.where he took multiple de

12、grees,founded his businesses,and gained citizenship at the age of 41.Musk sees Franklin as the type of American he himself would like to be and become:a combination of statesman,inventor,and businessman.Catherine the GreatPortrait of a WomanBy Robert K.MassieWhy Its Inspiring:Musks sister is a noted

13、 film director,his first wife an accomplished novelist,and his second wife a successful actress studying physics.Its easy to see how Musk is drawn to an historical figure who in many ways resembles the women in his life.EinsteinHis Life and UniverseBy Walter IsaacsonWhy Its Inspiring:Musks first col

14、lege degree was a BS in physics,and his companies 一 SpaceX,Tesla,and SolarCity all depend on a deep and ongoing understanding of physics and chemistry.Einstein essentially created humans modern understanding of the world,so its logical that Mus k is interested in Einsteins life and work.Howard Hughe

15、sHis Life and MadnessBy Donald L.Barlett学科网（北京）股份有限公司Why Its Inspiring:Despite his brilliance as an inventor and businessman,Hughes never achieved the level of technological success he sought.Today,hes remembered more for his great est failure(the Spruce Goose)than for his successes.Tesla sees Howar

16、d Hughes as a role model for what to avoid rather than follow.21.Which of the four types of people does Elon Musk want to be?A.Einstein.B.Howard Hughes.C.Benjamin Franklin.D.Catherine the Great.22.What aspect of Howard Hughes inspires Tesla most?A.His success in technology.B.His understanding of the

17、 world.C.His brilliance as a businessman.D.His failure in the Spruce Goose.23.Where is the text probably taken from?A.A review.B.A webpage.C.A biography.D.An advertisement.BMy twelve-year-old daughter,Clementine.is obsessed with the character Eleven from Netflixs Stranger Things.Sandwiched between t

18、wo brothers,Clementine is rough and awkward at times,what back in my day people called a tomboy.For a while I feared,despite all the female empowerment messages on TV and T-shirts,she was starting to think girls were stupid.Then along came Stranger Things,with its tongue-tied and bald rebel who can

19、smash train cars with the power of her mind.For the most part,Im thrilled that Clementine wants to be Eleven,who is the rare young heroine,equally brilliant and raw.and possessed of perseverance and hope,with a desire for human connection and the skill to battle the evil.She is an enormous set up fr

20、om my childhood girl-crushes including all six Iadies in Charlies Angels and the Lynda Carter version of Wonder Woman who are all competitive and smart.But its interesting to me that my daughter lit upon a character whose primary emotion is this massive anger and whose main role in the show consists

21、 of learning to channel her anger to defeat a dark force.Is Clementine seeing what she longs for or identifies with?If she had such powers,what would she want to do?Parents everywhere understand there is a mental health crisis amongst young people.Girls especially are losing hope.We just dont know h

22、ow or even what to fix.Maybe Eleven can give these girls a blueprint,or faith that they can one day be in charge again.Maybe she can encourage those girls to fight back.Somewhere deep down,they sense that rage is exactly the right thing to feel.And why waste that passion slamming doors and cursing b

23、rothers when their anger could be employed to conquer so much more?For our daughters,Eleven lays out a path into the future.Simply being ambitious and resourceful is no longer enough.Circumstances are calling for a new sort of heroine,one with a brain potent enough to make the best of her anger.24.W

24、hat can we know about Clementine according to paragraph 1?A.Clementine considers girls foolish.B.Clementine is obsessed with TV dramas.C.Clementine possesses supernatural power.D.Clementine sometimes behaves in a boyish way.25.Why is the author interested in her daughters new idol?A.Because the auth

25、or is curious about how the dark force is defeated.B.Because the author is not sure whether her daughter is powerful enough.C.Because the author tries to understand if her daughter does admire Eleven.画画学科网（北京）股份有限公司D.Because the author wants to figure out whether Eleven is a proper idol to follow.26

26、.What do the underlined words“such powers”in paragraph 2 refer to?A.Brilliance and desire.B.Competence and smartness.C.Anger and its application.D.Hope and its crisis.27.Which of following might be the authors advice for girls?A.Young girls should have their own models to follow.B.It is necessary fo

27、r girls to manage their negative emotions.C.The world never expects girls to be angry with people around them.D.Being ambitious and resourceful is no longer important for girls growth.CIn the winter of 2022,Andreas Keller decided the time was right to branch out from his day job as a scientist and l

28、aunch a new art gallery.Not just any gallery,but one devoted entirely to smell-based art.Smell has always been our underdog sense,though.Our scientific understanding of how smell works falls so far behind our grasp of hearing and vision,and smells cannot at this point be recorded or emailed or Insta

29、gram med.Its both primitive and complex,which makes it hard to study and harder still to bring into our increasingly digital existence.“When you are asked to smell art,”Keller says,“you realize how poor your perception of the world is when you limit yourself to the visual.”For several weeks,the gall

30、erys windows were covered in tin to allow for full immersion in the smell of“old banana”and“young banana”.Or the visitors may get a smell of a perfumers interpretation of what a be aver might smell like to a dog or a bees homemade perfume.Some people got very confused.Then theres always somebody who

31、 cant smell anything and thinks its a silly trick.Those visitors willing and able to stay and think carefully about a scent by the name of“sinner”often argue about what they are smelling is that hospital stuff?Church incense(熏香)?These personal responses are exactly what Keller has devoted much of hi

32、s academic life to studying:Why do various individuals seem to understand the same smells differently,or interpret the same smells in different ways,or not notice some of them at all?Such questions are at the heart of the larger problem of how smells are coded by the brain.Perhaps scientist will soo

33、n catch wind of the answers,as the pandemic has also brought a flood of new funding to this field.Progress in this field may depend on unusual creativity and cooperation,between perfumers and language experts,artists and engineers.“Perception is a philosophical as well as a scientific problem.”Kelle

34、r says.28.Which of the following can replace the underlined word“underdog”in paragraph 2?A.Acquired.B.Strong.C.Natural.D.Ignored.29.Why did some visitors think they were fooled?A.Because they felt sick.B.Because they smelt nothing.C.Because they were limited to the visual.D.Because they were immerse

35、d in the smell of banana.30.What can be inferred about the science of smell?A.It is coded by the brain in different ways.B.It has suffered from lack of funds for a long time.学科网（北京）股份有限公司 C.It has the potential to answer philosophical questions.D.It needs the teamwork of professionals in various fie

36、lds.31.What is the best title for the text?A.Sniffing Out the Science of SmellingB.Smelling Experiment A Silly TrickC.Interpreting Smells in Different WaysD.Arguing About Smelling A Hospital StuffDA team of urban planners and information scientists at Tsinghua University in China has found that an A

37、I-based urban planning system could outperform human experts in creating urban planning designs.In their study,the group untroduced the factors for the ideal urban plan and how well their AI did when tested.For much of history,cities have been left to grow organically immediate needs were determined

38、 and urban planners attempted to fulfill those needs.Such a random approach to urban growth has often led to less-favored results.In more recent times,city officials and other planners have attempted to take a more logical approach to the problem by creating designs that account for livability and p

39、ollution controls.This has resulted in the development of urban planning as a science and the emergence of urban development professionals.This science can be complicated due to the increasing number of variables that must be accounted for as a new development expands.In this new effort,the research

40、 team attempted to apply AI to ease the burden.In hope that residents of the planned community could travel from their homes to essential services within 15 minutes,the researchers trained the system with prior plans crafted by humans along with factors that are believed to be good design features s

41、uch as the inclusion of parks,general greenery,bike paths and places for entertainment,thus improving their quality of life.Once the system was built,the research group used it to first design a small-size city block.They would adjust the system for further improvements and gradually increased the s

42、ize and studied its results.It turned out that the plans the system developed were as good or better than those created by humans yet a huge reduction in time(from hours to seconds).The team concludes that their system is not meant to replace human urban planners,but to free them from the mundane(单调

43、的)parts of urban planning,allowing them to focus on overall concepts.Hopefully,it would be an efficiency booster,if done right.32.Why was urban planning often unsatisfactory in history?A.Urban growth was not well-organized.B.Urban planning experts were in shortage.C.City officials failed to meet res

44、idents needs.D.City officials ignored the factors for ideal urban plan.33.What factors did the research team consider when training the AI system?A.Large community and eco parks.B.Economic development and job opportunities.C.Smooth traffic and advanced green belt.D.Convenient transport and public se

45、rvices.34.What is the main advantage of the AI-based urban planning system?A.It reduces the burden on human urban planners.B.It guarantees optimal results for urban development.学科网（北京）股份有限公司C.It ensures faster completion of urban planning projects.D.It eliminates the need for any human involvement i

46、n planning.35.What is the authors attitude towards the AI system?A.Dismissive.B.Approving.C.Critical.D.Ambiguous.第二节 (共 5小题;每小题 2.5 分,满分 12.5 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 friendships hit rough patches.Sometimes it is worth the emotional strain to work through your problems,while a

47、t other times,especially when a friendship is harmful,it isnt.36 Here are some tips for reference.Reflect and write down the good.Before you face a difficult conversation with a friend,pause and reflect first.Think of a specific moment that this friendship has brought you joy or excitement.Using tha

48、t memory as inspiration to write down things you appreciate about a friend.37 Even if there is still tension,that appreciation will go a long way to building mutual understanding.Choose a different way to communicate.If repair efforts have not worked via your usual tech channels,try another way to c

49、ommunicate.38 Send some postcards,deliver exquisite handicrafts or mail someone a book you think they would enjoy.Attached with these gifts,a hand-written letter explaining why you think the relationship feels awkward and why you want to repair it is highly recommended.39 If you take a step back fro

50、m the friendship and notice that its doing more harm than good,for example,your friend isnt rooting for your success,bullies you,is inconsiderate,or you feel drained or misunderstood by them,it might be time to end instead of mend.40 In other words,the good does not necessarily outweigh the bad if t