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1、第1页，共10页 高高2025届高二上期届高二上期12月阶段性测试月阶段性测试 英语试卷英语试卷 考试时间：120分钟 满 分：150分 第一部分第一部分 听力（共两节，满分听力（共两节，满分 30 分）分）做题时，先将答案标在试卷上。录音内容结束后，你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的答案转涂到答题卡上。第一节（共第一节（共 5 小题；每小题小题；每小题 1.5 分，满分分，满分 7.5 分）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 三个选项中选岀最佳选项,并标在试卷的相应位置。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.

2、What does the man want to do?A.Reserve a cheap hotel.B.Go to Mexico on business.C.Relax and enjoy himself.2.What will the woman get?A.Carpet cleaner.B.A paper towel.C.A glass of wine.3.What is the woman?A.A teacher.B.A student.C.An assistant.4.Where are the speakers headed?A.To a swimming pool.B.To

3、a beach.C.To a restaurant.5.Why is the museum of great significance?A.Its a museum for old art.B.It will be built on a small island.C.Its the first of its kind in Indonesia.第二节第二节(共共 15 小题；每小题小题；每小题 1.5 分，满分分，满分 22.5 分分)听下面 5 段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的 A、B、C 三个选项中选出最佳选项。听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题 5

4、秒钟；听完后，各小题给出5 秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。听第 6 段材料，回答第 6、7 题。6.How much does an entrance ticket cost?A.Two dollars.B.Five dollars.C.Seven dollars.7.How does the woman pay?A.In cash.B.By cheque.C.By credit card.听第 7 段材料，回答第 8 至 9 题。8.Where did the tomato sauce come from?A.A local farm.仅供巴中西南大学第三实验学校使用仅供巴中西南大学

5、第三实验学校使用第3页，共10页 第二部分第二部分 阅读阅读（共两节，满分共两节，满分 50 分分）第一节第一节（共共 15 小题小题;每题每题 2.5 分，满分分，满分 37.5 分分）阅读下列短文，从每题所给的 A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。A Welcome to our stand-up comedy classes This is the workshop where beginners have grown into headliners and headliners have grown into stars.Our workshop stresses stand-up

6、comedy writing and performing the two key components of stand-up comedy.Our classes are conducted by award-winning,comedy director and writer Stephen Rosenfield and his stand-up staff.They are conducted so that when its time for your club performance,you will have solidly written,funny material and

7、you will be well rehearsed and ready to perform beyond your expectations.These stand-up comedy classes are offered to both beginners and advanced students.The workshop consists of group classes,private coaching sessions and a performance at Gotham or West Side Comedy Club.Seats available:2 Start dat

8、e:May 17th In-person show:May 20th at Gotham Comedy Club Live streamed show:May 22nd on YouTube Fees:If you are a first-time student:$410.If you are a returning student:$350.We accept cash,checks or credit cards.Your instructor:Becky Veduccio Becky has been a professional comedian,writer and actress

9、 for over 15 years.She has performed stand-up comedy in New York,Los Angeles,Las Vegas and London.Besides,she has appeared in commercials,theater and feature films.And she competed in the 2018 season of Americas Got Talent.Her film works include Return to Me,Maid in Manhattan and Random Hearts.As a

10、writer,she was chosen as one of Ps top five“Favorite Mommy Bloggers”for her humorous articles on the website.In 2015,she won the New York Press Club Award for humorous writing.As an instructor,Becky has taught stand-up comedy to every age group from elementary school kids and teenagers to university

11、 students and adults.She believes everyone has a comedic voice.21.What can be learned about the workshop?A.There are three seats left at present.B.It focuses on both writing and acting.C.There are online shows on May 20th.D.It is specially designed for headliners.22.How much will a returning student

12、 save on the fee?A.$10.B.$50.C.$60.D.$80.23.What can we say about Becky?A.She hosted Americas Got Talent.B.She contributes a lot to magazines.C.She belongs to one of the top instructors.D.She is a proficient performer.B I was driving when my phone alerted me to a new email.Filled with eager anticipa

13、tion,I pulled over,turned 仅供巴中西南大学第三实验学校使用第4页，共10页 on my hazard lights,and opened it.My emotions quickly changed as I learned,for the sixth and final time,that I had been denied a promotion to full professor.My institution didnt seem to value what I brought to the table.But when I told my family tha

14、t night,my children offered a surprisingly positive response.They were excited to see what I was going to do next,they said.They apparently knew long before I did that losing my bid for a promotion would turn out to be the best thing that could have happened to me.This had been the final step in a l

15、ong process spanning 15 months and involving so much effort.I had started by studying successful promotion bids and asking senior scholars for frank discussions about my readiness.I had carefully prepared my application packet,summarizing everything I had achieved in my career.For more than a year,I

16、 had spent hours every day trying to prove my worth to my university.To my surprise,having a final answer brought a welcome sense of closure.As a first step toward healing,I decided to put first my own values and follow my own internal compass.I disconnected from people in my life who violated my va

17、lues,cultivated my relationships with those who share my priorities and bring out the best in me,and spent more time with my family.I founded a nonprofit that helps first-generation and low-income students and young professionals advance in the workforce while serving their community.The idea had lo

18、ng been a dream of mine,but I never pursued it because typical academic hiring and promotion dont reward such efforts.Now,such considerations were no longer my North Star.Five months after that email from top leadership,I found myself in the car again,experiencing another career-defining moment.I ma

19、y have lost my bid for a big promotion,but in the end,it brought me to the right place.24.What did the author feel after he read the email?A.Anxious and annoyed.B.Embarrassed and ashamed.C.Relieved and peaceful.D.Disappointed and sorrowful.25.What is the second paragraph mainly about?A.What contribu

20、tions the writer had made.B.What preparations the writer had made.C.How successful the career had been.D.How tiring the process had been.26.Which of the following would the writer probably agree with?A.Success is more than a title or a rank.B.Ones internal compass is to be developed.C.Serving the co

21、mmunity may heal a broken heart.D.Ones real value first lies in his family interaction.27.What can be the best title for the text?A.Emails:my North Star B.Full professor:a double-edged sword C.A career setback becomes a great opportunity D.An academic career witnesses a failed promotion C Like many

22、teenagers,I was once troubled by anxiety and dissatisfactionfeelings that my parents often 仅供巴中西南大学第三实验学校使用第5页，共10页 met with puzzlement rather than sympathy.They were already in their 50s,and having grown up in postwar Britain,they struggled to understand the sources of my dissatisfaction.“The probl

23、em with your generation is that you always desire to be happy.”my mother once said.I was puzzled.Surely happiness was the purpose of living,and we should spare no efforts to achieve it at every opportunity.I simply wasnt prepared to accept my unhappiness as something that was beyond my control.But I

24、 have noticed a shift in thinking,and I am now coming to the conclusion that my mothers judgement was spot on.Over the past 10 years,numerous studies have shown that our obsession with happiness and high personal confidence may be making us less content with our lives,and less effective at reaching

25、our actual goals.Indeed,we may often be happy when we stop focusing on happiness altogether.While greater contentment is achievable,dont expect miracle,and accept that no matter how hard you try,feeling of frustration and unhappiness will appear from time to time.In reality,certain negative feelings

26、 can serve a useful purpose.When we feel sad,its often because we have learned something painful but important,while stress can motivate you to make some changes to your life.The last thing you should do is blame yourselves for occasionally feeling bad when plans dont work out.Eventually,you might a

27、dopt the old saying“Prepare for the worst,hope for the best and be unsurprised by everything in between.”As my mother tried to teach me all those years ago,ease the pressure off yourself,and you may find that contentment arrives when youre least expecting it.28.Which of the following best explain“sp

28、ot on”underlined in paragraph 3?A.Confusing.B.Correct.C.Ridiculous.D.Controversial.29.According to the passage,which of the following mainly leads to teenagers unhappiness?A.High expectations.B.Low living purposes.C.Inadequate efforts.D.Improper preparations.30.Which of the following statements is t

29、he author most likely to agree with?A.Stress in your life will probably ruin your happiness and life.B.Higher personal confidence makes us more satisfied with our life.C.You neednt be guilty of feeling awful since you may learn a lot from it.D.If we try hard,feelings of frustration and unhappiness w

30、ill disappear from our life.31.Which of the following can be the best title for the text?A.Can we benefit from negative feelings?B.Why its time to stop fighting for happiness?C.How can we overcome our unhappiness?D.Can we generation be happier than our parents?D An artificial intelligence can decode

31、 words and sentences from brain activity with surprisingthough still limitedaccuracy.Using only a few seconds of brain activity data,the AI guesses what a person has heard.It lists the correct answer in its top 10 possibilities up to 73 percent of the time,researchers found in a study.仅供巴中西南大学第三实验学校

32、使用第6页，共10页 Developed at the parent company of Facebook,Meta,the AI could eventually be used to help thousands of people around the world unable to communicate through speech,typing or gestures,researchers report on August 25 at arXiv.org.Most existing technologies to help such patients communicate r

33、equire risky brain surgeries to implant electrodes.This new approach“could provide a practical path to help patients without the use of invasive methods,”says neuroscientist Jean-Rmi King,a Meta AI researcher in Paris.King and his colleagues trained a computational tool to detect words and sentences

34、 on 56,000 hours of speech recordings from 53 languages.The tool,also known as a language model,learned how to recognize specific features of language.With the help of a computational method,the team tried to decode what participants had heard using just three seconds of brain activity data from eac

35、h person.The team instructed the AI to match the speech sounds from the story recordings to patterns of brain activity that the AI computed as corresponding to what people were hearing.It then made predictions about what the person might have been hearing during that short time,given more than 1,000

36、 possibilities.The correct answer was in the AIs top 10 guesses up to 73 percent of the time,the researchers found.The new study is“decoding of speech perception,not production,”King notes.Though speech production is the ultimate goal,for now,“were quite a long way away.”32.What is the main idea of

37、paragraph 1?A.The principle of human brain activity.B.The limitation of human brain activity.C.The definition of the artificial intelligence.D.The new function of the artificial intelligence.33.Whom might the AI be beneficial to?A.People unable to hear.B.People who cant move around.C.People who are

38、unconscious.D.People unable to communicate normally.34.What is the purpose of paragraph 4?A.To analyze the features of the study.B.To state the significance of the study.C.To introduce the process of the study.D.To present the achievement of the study.35.What can we infer about the AI from the passa

39、ge?A.It performs well in the speech production.B.Its accuracy is far from the researchers satisfaction.C.It will help patients avoid dangerous brain surgeries.D.Its language learning ability is beyond expectation.第二节（共第二节（共 5 小题；每小题小题；每小题 2.5 分，满分分，满分 12.5 分）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

40、项。My,what a big beak you have!For humans,adapting to climate change will mostly be a matter of technology.More air conditioning,better-designed houses and bigger flood defenses may help to make the effects of a warmer world less harmful.仅供巴中西南大学第三实验学校使用第7页，共10页 36 In a paper published in Trends in E

41、cology&Evolution,a team led by Sara Ryding,a PhD candidate at Deakin University,shows that is already happening.Climate change is already altering the bodies of many animal species,giving them bigger beaks(喙),legs and ears.In some species of Australian parrot,for instance,beak size has increased by

42、between 4%and 10%since 1871.Another study,this time in North American dark-eyed juncos,another bird,found the same pattern.37 All that is perfectly consistent with evolutionary theory.“Allens rule”,named for Joel Asaph Allen,who suggested it in 1877,holds that warm-blooded animals in hot places tend

43、 to have larger body parts than those in temperate(温带的)regions.38 Being richly filled with blood vessels,and not covered by feathers,beaks make an ideal place for birds to get rid of heat.Fennec foxes,meanwhile,which are native to the Sahara Desert,have strikingly large ears,especially compared with

44、 their Arctic cousins.Ms.Ryding is not the first researcher to take that approach.But it is hard,when dealing with individual species,to prove that climate change was the cause of an anatomical(解剖学的)changes.All sorts of other factors,from changes in prey to the evolving reproductive preferences of m

45、ales or females,might have been driving the changes.39 The team combined data from different species in different places.Since they have little in common apart from living on a warming planet,climate change is the most reasonable explanation.40 That may change as warming accelerates.Since any evolut

46、ionary adaptation comes with trade-offs(妥协),it is unclear how far the process might go.Bigger beaks might make feeding harder,for instance.Larger wings are heavier,and bigger legs cost more energy to grow.AHowever,looking at the bigger picture makes the pattern clearer.BFor now,at least,the increase

47、 is small,never much more than 10%.CAnimals will have to rely on changing their bodies or their behaviors.DIt seems that the future world is going to be hotter than humans are used to.ETherefore,the negative effects of a warmer world are visible in these animals bodies.FSuch adaptations boost an ani

48、mals surface area relative to its body,helping it to release extra heat.GSimilar trends are seen in mammals,with species of mice and bats evolving bigger ears,legs and wings.第三部分第三部分 语言知识运用（共两节，满分语言知识运用（共两节，满分 30 分）分）第一节第一节（共（共 15 小题；每小题小题；每小题 1 分，满分分，满分 15 分）分）阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的 A、B、C、D 四个选项中，选出可以填入空

49、白处的最佳选项。Five years ago,a friend asked me to look after his cat while he went on holiday,and I realized the idea had potential on a bigger scale.So I moved to London and decided to 41 cat sitting.For me,cat sitting is about 42 two groups of people who need what the other can offer.I get to stay in pe

50、oples 43 without rent while theyre on holiday.The owners get 44 cat sitting.It also means that there is someone to keep an eye on their homes while they are away.It seems a fairer 45 than just watering plants or walking dogs Im more of a cat person.I have always loved cats,and their gentle temper ma