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【全国百强校】上海中学2019届高三年级开学摸底考试英语试卷及答案

高三英语练习

II. Grammar and Vocabulary

Section A

Directions: Read the following passage. Fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word. For the other blanks, fill in each blank with one proper word. Make sure that your answers are grammatically correct.

Of the many factors that contribute to poor performance on standardized tests like the SAT, nerves and exhaustion, surprisingly, (21) ______ not rank very high. In fact, according to a new paper published in Journal of Experimental Psychology, a little anxiety – not to mention fatigue – might actually be a very good thing.

The study was conducted by psychology professors Phillip Ackerman and Ruth Kanfer. They recruited 239 college freshmen, each (22) ______ (agree) to take three different versions of the SAT reasoning test (23) ______ (give) on three consecutive Saturday mornings. The tests would take three-and-a-half hours, four-and-a-half hours and five-and-a-half-hours, and would be administered in a random order to each of the students. (24) ______ (boost) the stress level in the students – who had already taken the SAT in the past and gotten into college – Ackerman and Kanfer offered a cash bonus to any volunteers who (25) ______ (beat) their high-school score.

(26) ______ the test began on each of the three Saturdays, the students filled out a questionnaire that asked them about their fatigue level, mood and confidence. They completed the questionnaire again at a break in the middle of the test and once more at the end. Together, all of these provided a sort of fever chart of the students’ energy and anxiety (27) ______ the experience.

When the researchers scored the results, it came as no surprise that volunteers’ fatigue and stress rose steadily (28) ______ the test got longer. (29) ______ was unexpected was their corresponding performance: as the length of the test increased, so (30) ______ the students’ scores. The average score on the three-and-a-half-hour test was 1209 out of 1600. On the four-and-a-half-hour version it was 1222; on the five-and-a-half-hour test it was 1237.

Section B

Direction: Complete the following passages by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

Germany became the latest defending champion to crash out of the World Cup at the first hurdle, part of a trend but definitely not part of the plan when Germany arrived here.

A smooth-running ___31___ machine when it won the Cup in 2014, Germany now appears in need of a reform after losing, 2-0, to South Korea here on Wednesday and saying goodbye to Russia about three weeks earlier than many expected.

It has been the earliest exit for a German team at the World Cup since 1938, which seems even more ___32___ when you consider Hitler was then the country’s leader and only 15 teams participated.

With stars like Kroos, Mesut ?zil and Mats Hummels, Germany won every match in ___33___ for this World Cup, the first German team to do so. But it could not even ___34___ it out of the group phase in Russia.

There seems to be a World Cup curse at ___35___. Since the 1998 edition, the defending champion has been eliminated in the group phase on four occasions: France in 2002, Italy in 2010, Spain in 2014 and now

Germany.

But this team’s early exit was still a(n) ___36___ shock, and Joachim L?w, the German coach since 2006, used that same word —“schock,” in his own language — to describe the experience on Wednesday.

“The ___37___ of being eliminated is just huge,” said L?w, who added that the team deserved to go out early. “It turned ___38___. I must take r esponsibility for this.”

A four-time World Cup winner, Germany was a finalist in 2002, third in 2006 and 2010 and the champion in 2014 after dealing the host nation of Brazil a 7-1 defeat in the semifinals, the ___39___ of which still leaves many Brazilians in pain.

The Germans certainly have historical company, however. The list of defending champions to lose very early shows how ___40___ it is to maintain momentum and focus with national teams whose players practice and play together much less frequently than they do with their clubs.

The New York subway system is one of the largest in the world, ferrying nearly eight and a half million people around the city every week. Riders find more than ___41___ below the streets; among the dirt and the screech of the trains, there is also music. The subway system is like a free ___42___ hall, offering almost every kind of music.

You never know what you might ___43___, depending on the day of the week and the particular station. At a subway platform below Pennsylvania station one afternoon recently, Rawl Mitchell, an immigrant from Trinidad and Tobago, was playing the steel drums. He said he’s been performing in the subway since the mid-1990s. “The people do ___44___ the music,” he said. “They stand around listening and if it pleases them, they applaud and put their money in the case or whatever. They ___45___ clap and say things like ‘It’s nice.’ They offer me some positive feedback.”

Singer-songwriter Rosateresa, who often sings on a station at 14th Street, has been at it almost as long. She moved from Puerto Rico to study classical voice several decades ago. “My ___46___ is to sing like the jilguero, a Puerto Rican bird, which wakes up the sun,” said Rosateresa.

Mitchell and Rosateresa both perform ___47___, outside the transit authority’s official“Music Under New York” program, which sponsor 150 performances each week, by more than 200 individuals and groups.

Like Rosateresa and Mitchell, Musicians who participate in “Music Under New York” ___48___ only whatever people choose to give. Opera singers Tom McNichols and Patricia Vital, part of a group called “Opera Collective”, said they ___49___ performing in the subways, though it isn’t lucrative. “Music in general is not about money, and ‘Music Under New York’ is definitely more about making opera ___50___ than it is about making a living,” McNichols said.

III. Reading Comprehension

Section A

Direction: For each blank in the following passages 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.

(A)

You can actually catch a good mood or a bad mood from your friends, according to a recent study in the journal Royal Society Open Science. But that shouldn’t stop you from ___51___ with pals who are down in the dumps, say the study authors: ___52___, the effect isn’t large enough to push you into depression.

The new study adds to a growing body of research suggesting that happiness and sadness—as well as lifestyle and behavioral factors like smoking, drinking, obesity, fitness habits and even the ability to concentrate—can ___53___ across social networks, both online and in real life. But while many ___54___ studies have only looked at friendship data at one point in time, this is one of the few that measured social and mood changes over time.

The new research involved groups of junior-high and high-school students who took part in ___55___ screenings（筛查）and answered questions about their best friends, many of whom were also enrolled in the study. In total, 2,194 students were included in the ___56___, which used a mathematical model to look for connections among friend networks.

Overall, kids whose friends suffered from bad moods were more ___57___ to report bad moods themselves—and they were less likely to have improved when they were screened again six months to a year later. When people had more happy friends, ___58___, their moods were more likely to improve over time.

Some symptoms related to depression—like helplessness, tiredness and loss of interest—also seemed to follow this ___59___, which scientists call “social contagion.” But this isn’t something th at people need to ___60___, says lead author Robert Eyre, a doctoral student at the University of Warwick. Rather, it’s likely just a “___61___ empathetic response that we’re all familiar with, and something we recognize by common sense,” he says. In other words, when a friend is going through a rough patch, it makes sense that you’ll feel some of their ___62___, and it’s certainly not a reason to stay away.

The study also found that having friends who were clinically depressed did not ___63___ participant s’ risk of becoming depressed themselves. “Your friends do not put you at risk of illness,” says Eyre, “so a good course of action is simply to ___64___ them.” To boost both of your moods, he suggests doing things together that you both ___65___—and taking other friends along to further spread those good feelings, too.”

51. A. keeping up B. making off C. hanging out D. getting away

52. A. Thankfully B. Particularly C. Hopefully D. Totally

53. A. increase B. generate C. delay D. spread

54. A. growing B. previous C. real D. large-scale

55. A. depression B. anxiety C. anger D. friendship

56. A. assessment B. examination C. analysis D. exercise

57. A. willing B. reluctant C. able D. likely

58. A. what’s worse B. as a result C. on the other hand D. in one word

59. A. prediction B. pattern C. report D. improvement

60. A. worry about B. look for C. rely on D. put forward

61. A. social B. normal C. rough D. certain

62. A. symptoms B. responses C. recognition D. pain

63. A. eliminate B. conceal C. increase D. sugarcoat

64. A. enlighten B. entertain C. empower D. support

65. A. enjoy B. understand C. advise D. permit

(B)

Many of China’s ancient architectural treasures crumbled to dust before Lin Huiyin and Liang Sicheng began documenting them in the 1930s. The husband and wife team were by far the best-known ___66___ to operate in China. Their ___67___ have since inspired generations of people to speak out for architecture threatened by the rush toward development.

Becoming China’s first architectural historians was no easy ___68___. The buildings they wanted to

___69___ were centuries old, often in shambles and located in distant parts of the country. In many cases, they had to journey through ___70___ conditions in the Chinese countryside to reach them.

___71___ China’s outlying areas during the 1930s meant traveling muddy, poorly maintained roads by mule, or on foot. This was a(n) ___72___ undertaking both for Liang, who walked with a bad limp（跛）after a motorcycle accident as a young man, and Lin, who had a lung disease for years. Inns were often unimaginably dirty, food could be tainted（污染的）, and there was always ___73___ of violence from rebels, soldiers and bandits.

Their greatest discovery came on an expedition in 1937 when they dated and extremely ___74___ catalogued Foguang Si, or the Temple of Buddha’s Light, in Wutai County, Shanxi Province. The breathtaking wooden temple was ___75___ in 857 A.D., making it the oldest building known in China at the time. (It is now the fourth-oldest known).

Liang and Lin crawled into the temple’s most ___76___ areas to determine its age, including one aerie inhabited by thousands of bats and millions of bedbugs, covered in dust and littered with dead bats. Liang wrote of the ___77___ in an account included in “Liang and Lin: Partners in Exploring China’s Architectural Past,” the English-language story of their lives written by Wilma Fairbank, their close friend and correspondent.

“In complete darkness and amid the ___78___ smell, hardly breathing, with thick masks covering our noses and mouths, we measured, drew, and photographed with flashlights for several hours,” Liang wrote. “When ___79___ we came out to take a breath of fresh air, we found hundreds of bedbugs in our backpack. We ourselves had been badly bitten. Yet the ___80___ and unexpectedness of our find made those the happiest hours of my years hunting for ancient architecture.”

66. A. architects B. historians C. preservationists D. travellers

67. A. documents B. efforts C. operations D. encouragements

68. A. achievement B. dream C. determination D. breakthrough

69. A. construct B. develop C. announce D. save

70. A. opposing B. unexpected C. unfamiliar D. dangerous

71. A. Exploring B. Touring C. Developing D. Overlooking

72. A. unadvisable B. priceless C. demanding D. worthless

73. A. tolerance B. accusation C. suspicion D. risk

74. A. efficiently B. carefully C. merrily D. creatively

75. A. built B. ruined C. discovered D. recorded

76. A. untidy B. ancient C. forgotten D. important

77. A. crawl B. experience C. prospection D. exploitation

78. A. unknown B. disgusting C. hard D. thick

79. A. at last B. in contrast C. in result D. with effort

80. A. misery B. result C. reflection D. importance

Section B

Direction: Read the following passages. Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statements. For each of them in passage A, B and C, 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)

Sandra Boynton, a children’s author, has in more recent years branched out into kids music. Her most recent album Hog Wild!, for example, features Samuel L. Jackson as a Tyrannosaurus Rex. She talked in an interview about how to tap into kids' imaginations and how to make scary things less threatening for them.

In your years of writing and illustrating children’s books, have you noticed anything that really sparks a child’s imagination?

I think maybe there’s no basic difference between what fascinates a child and what fascinates the rest of us. We’re all drawn to things that wake us up, things that grab our attention through our hearing or our sight or our sense of touch. We’re curious about the world as it is, and we’re curious about what could be. Imagination follows curiosity pretty naturally.

It doesn’t feel to me like it’s been a long time that I’ve been drawing and writing things. It doesn’t feel like a short time, either. It just feels like what I do. I make thin gs. I’m a permanent Kindergartner, I guess.

You often take a threatening figure like a Tyrannosaurus Rex or a monster and make him cute. Do you have any suggestions for how to make children less afraid of things?

Actually, I think kids kind of like being afraid of things, as long as someone calm is right there with reassurance. Hugging helps.

What have you learned about childhood from writing kids’ books?

Accessing childhood has actually never been that hard. It’s adulthood that’s still perplexing. I wou ld guess that most children’s book writers are that way. I’m really writing books and making music for my own child-self. But I’m certainly delighted and grateful that my books work for people other than just me. It keeps me from having to find an actual job.

A lot of authors are worried that children spend too much time on digital devices rather than with books, but you seem to have embraced it. Why?

When the interactive book app universe was new, I was, as a creator of things, curious. My background is theater, and I thought it could be interesting to try to figure out how to create content that’s both theater-like and book-like. I found a superb partner in this, the insanely ingenious Loud Crow Interactive in Vancouver. We worked intensively together fo r a couple of years and made five very cool apps. I’m proud of them. But now, having too often seen very young kids sitting idly, staring at screens, I have my doubts.

81.What does Sandra Boynton think about imagination?

A. It fascinates both adults and children.

B. It can be waken up by attention to senses.

C. It can be naturally aroused out of curiosity.

D. It lasts for long in a permanent kindergartner.

82.When writing children’s books, Sandra ______.

A. finds herself confused about remembering childhood

B. agrees with other book writers that writing is hard

C. puts herself in a child’s place and thinks like a child

D. is delighted that she doesn’t need to find another job

83.Sandra thinks the apps she made with her partner were cool because they were ______.

A. new ways to increase interactions between users

B. interactive by combining theatre and book

C. beneficial with the content both theatre-like and book-like

D. created by an insanely ingenious expert and friend

84.We can conclude from the interview that ______.

A. Sandra is good at making a threatening figure cute

B. kids are always calm instead of being afraid of things

C. digital devices have been embraced by most of the authors

D. there were no interactive book apps before Sandra’s apps

Caroline Leavitt

Cruel Beautiful World

Steven Price

By Gaslight

GeFei

The Invisibility Cloak

Tim Harford

Messy

85.Which author does NOT tell a story in his / her work listed above?

A. Caroline Leavitt

B. Steven Price

C. GeFei

D. Tim Harford

86.Jack is an American who would like everything to be neat and tidy. He loves reading novels with ironic

humor and detective stories. He is going to work and live in Beijing for the next three years, and he is very curious about the place he is soon heading to. Which book will he most likely choose to read now?

A. Cruel Beautiful World

B. By Gaslight

C. The Invisibility Cloak

D. Messy

87.This page is intended for people who want to ______.

A. buy newly-published books at a discount

B. recommend books to friends and family

C. know what books are worthwhile to read

D. understand the current trend in literature

(C)

To be really happy and really safe, one ought to have at least two or three hobbies, and they must all be real. It is no use starting late in life to say “I will take an interest in this or that.” Such an attempt only aggravates the strain of mental effort. A man may acquire great knowledge of topics unconnected with his daily work, and yet hardly get any benefit or relief. It is no use doing what you like; you have got to like what you do.

Broadly speaking, human beings may be divided into three classes: those who are toiled to death, those who are worried to death and those who are bored to death. It is no use offering the manual labourer, tired out with a hard week’s sweat and effort, the chance of playing a game of football or baseball on Saturday afternoon. It is no use inviting the politician or the professional or business man, who has been working or worrying about serious things for six days, to work or worry about trifling things at the weekend. As for the unfortunate people who can command everything they want, who can gratify every caprice and lay their hands on almost every object of desire — for them a new pleasure, a new excitement is only an additional satiation. In vain they rush frantically round from place to place, trying to escape from the avenging boredom by mere clatter and motion. For them discipline in one form or another is the most hopeful path.

It may also be said that rational, industrious, useful human beings are divided into two classes: first, those whose work is work and whose pleasure is pleasure; and secondly, those whose work and pleasure are one. Of these the former are the majority. They have their compensations. The long hours in the office or the factory bring with them as their reward, not only the means of sustenance, but a keen appetite for pleasure even in its simplest and most modest forms. But Fortune’s favoured children belong to the second class. Their life is a natural harmony. For them the working hours are never long enough. Each day is a holiday, and ordinary holidays when they come are grudged as enforced interruptions in an absorbing vocation. Yet to both classes the need of an alternative outlook, of a change of atmosphere, of a diversion of effort, is essential. Indeed, it may well be that those whose work is their pleasure are those who most need the means of banishing it at intervals from their mind.

88.What does “are toiled” in the 2nd paragraph mean?

A. have hobbies

B. feel pleased

C. work very hard

D. are busy

89.Which is NOT true based on the first two paragraphs?

A. Being late in life to attempt to cultivate hobbies adds to mental stress.

B. Great knowledge irrelevan t to the daily work can’t guarantee benefit.

C. Those tired out for a week’s labour are reluctant to play football on weekends.

D. Unfortunate people need discipline to help them build up hope.

90.For those whose work is work and whose pleasure is pleasure, they ______.

A. are very willing to work long hours in the office or the factory

B. earn a large amount of money due to their hard work for a long time

C. are keen to enjoy the pleasure when they are off duty

D. usually enjoy themselves in the simplest and most modest forms

91.Which statement will the author agree with according to the 3rd paragraph?

A. The first class are lazy and the second class are bound to succeed.

B. The second class never need holidays because their life is harmonious.

C. The minority are more favoured by fortune because they never stop working.

D. One really needs alternation for a change in order to work better.

(D)

Ladies and gentlemen,

I feel that this award was not made to me as a man, but to my work - a life's work in the agony（痛苦）and sweat of the human spirit. But I would like to use this moment as a climax from which I might be listened to by the young men and women already dedicated to the same agony and sweat, among whom is already that one who will someday stand here where I am standing.

Our tragedy today is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it. Because of this, the young man or woman writing today has forgotten the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat.

He, the writer, must learn them again. He must teach himself that the worst of all things is to be afraid; and, teaching himself that, forget it forever, leaving no room in his workshop for anything but the old truths of the heart, the old universal truths lacking which any story is short-lived and doomed - love and honor and pity and pride and sympathy and sacrifice. Until he does so, he labors under a curse（诅咒）. He writes not of love but of desire, of defeats in which nobody loses anything of value, of victories without hope and, worst of all, without pity or sympathy. His griefs grieve on no universal bones, leaving no scars. He writes not of the heart but of the glands（腺体）.

Until he relearns these things, he will write as though he stood among and watched the end of man. I decline to accept the end of man. It is easy enough to say that man is immortal simply because he will endure. I refuse to accept this. I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of sympathy and sacrifice and endurance. The poet's, the writer's, duty is to write about these things. It is his privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart, by reminding him of the courage and honor and hope and pride and sympathy and pity and sacrifice which have been the glory of his past. The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the pillars to help him endure and prevail.

92.The word “that” in the 2nd paragraph probably means ______.

A. the agony and sweat of the human spirit

B. the general and universal physical fear

C. the sustenance and endurance for a long time

D. the human heart in conflict with itself

93.According to the speaker, the old truths of the heart are so important that ______.

A. they are love, honor, pity, pride, sympathy and sacrifice

B. they prolong a writer’s life and pr otect him from curses

C. they are the soul of a real and powerful piece of writing

D. they can effectively stop the trend towards the end of man

94.How can poets / writers help man endure and prevail?

A. By inspiring man with his past glories through words.

B. By helping man endure the end through endless voices.

C. By recording sympathy, sacrifice and endurance in his soul.

D. By building spiritual pillars through immortal hearts.

95.The speaker may probably agree that ______.

A. the award was not fair because his life was too painful

B. young writers now are too fearful to bear the agony and sweat

C. the biggest obstacle to good writing is the writer’s fear

D. writing about man’s soul signals his final prevalence

(E)

By now you’ve probably heard about the“you’re not special” speech, when English teacher David McCullough told graduating seniors at Wellesley High School: “Do not get the idea you’re anything special, because you’re not.” Mothers and fathers present at the ceremony — and a whole lot of other parents across the Internet —took issue with McCullough’s ego-puncturing words. But lost in the uproar was something we really should be taking to heart: our young people actually have no idea whether they’re particularly talented or accomplished or not. In our eagerness to elevate their self-esteem, we forgot to teach them how to realistically assess their own abilities, a crucial requirement for getting better at anything from math to music to sports. In fact, i t’s not just privileged high-school students: we all tend to view ourselves as above average.

Such inflated self-judgments have been found in study after study, and it’s often exactly when we’re least competent at a given task that we rate our performance most generously. In a 2006 study published in the journal Medical Education, for example, medical students who scored the lowest on an essay test were the most charitable in their self-evaluations, while high-scoring students judged themselves much more stringently. Poor students, the authors note, “lack insight” into their own inadequacy. Why should this be? Another study, led by Cornell University psychologist David Dunning, offers an enlightening explanation. People who are incompetent, he writes with coauthor Justin Kruger, suffer from a “dual burden”: they’re not good at what they do, and their very ineptness prevents them from recognizing how bad they are.

In Dunning and Kruger’s study, subjects scoring at the bottom of the heap on tests of logic, grammar and humor “extremely overestimated” the ir talents. Although their test scores put them in the 12th percentile, they guessed they were in the 62nd. What these individuals lacked (in addition to clear logic, proper grammar and a sense of humor) was “metacognitive skill”: the capacity to monitor how well they’re performing. In the absence of that capacity, the subjects arrived at an overly hopeful view of their own abilities. There’s a paradox here, the authors note: “The skills that engender competence in a particular domain are often the very sam e skills necessary to evaluate competence in that domain.” In other words, to get better at judging how well we’re doing at an activity, we have to get better at the activity itself.

There are a couple of ways out of this double bind. First, we can learn to make honest comparisons with others. Train yourself to recognize excellence, even when you yourself don’t possess it, and compare what you can do against what truly excellent individuals are able to accomplish. Second, seek out feedback that is frequent, accurate and specific. Find a critic who will tell you not only how poorly you’re doing, but just what it is that you’re doing wrong. As Dunning and Kruger note, success indicates to us that everything went right, but failure is more ambiguous: any number of things could have gone wrong. Use this external feedback to figure out exactly where and when you screwed up.

If we adopt these strategies — and most importantly, teach them to our children —they won’t need parents, or a commencement（毕业典礼）speaker, to tell them that they’re special. They’ll already know that they are, or have a plan to get that way.

96.Which can be the best title of this passage?

A. Special or Not? Teach Kids To Figure It Out

B. Let's Admit That We Are Not That Special

C. Tips On Making Ourselves More Special

D. Tell The Truth: Kids Overestimate their Talents

97.The author thinks the real problem is that ______.

A. we don't know whether our young people are talented or not

B. young people don't know how to assess their abilities realistically

C. no requirement is set up for young people to get better

D. we always tend to consider ourselves to be privileged

98.Which is NOT mentioned about poor students according to the passage?

A. They usually give themselves high scores in self-evaluations.

B. They tend to be unable to know exactly how bad they are.

C. They are intelligently inadequate in tests and exams.

D. They lack the capacity to monitor how well they are performing.

99.We can infer from the passage that those high-scoring students ______.

A. know how to cultivate clear logic and proper grammar

B. don't know how well they perform due to their stringent self-judgement

C. don't view themselves as competent because they know their limits

D. tend to be very competent in their high-scoring fields.

100.The strategies of becoming special suggest that ______.

A. we need internal honesty with ourselves and external honesty from others

B. the best way to get better is to carefully study past success and failure

C. through comparison with others, one will know where and when he fails

D. neither parents nor a commencement speaker can tell whether one is special

Section C

Directions: Complete the following passage by using the sentences given below. Each sentence can be used

When we talk about healthy brain ageing we are really discussing one of two things: how to minimise ongoing damage to the hardware of the brain, mostly by keeping its blood supply as good as possible; or how to improve the operation of the brain’s software. ___________101__________ There is currently no magic

bullet to protect the brain, but one area that has been best researched, and about which we can say with reasonable confidence, “this will help”, is mental activity.

There is plenty of evidence that older people who stay mentally active, by learning a new language, doing crosswords or taking part in other intellectually challenging activities, preserve full cognitive function for longer. They have spent more time doing cognitively demanding activities over a lifetime, and they are, to some extent, buffered from the physical effects of brain ageing and degenerative diseases. We call this buffer “cognitive reserve” – a back-up reservoir of brain function that can protect from the consequences of brain damage, allowing us to continue to perform well. For example, people with a higher IQ, longer education or cognitively challenging employment have been found to have a lower risk of developing dementia. ___________102__________ In fact, studies have found that people with higher cognitive reserve who do get dementia exhibit less severe symptoms even when they have more brain damage than those with lower cognitive reserve.

__________103___________ The more we understand about its role in protecting our brain and how to boost our reserve, the more effective we will be in designing interventions to keep the human brain healthier for longer.

The good news is that cognitive reserve isn’t exclusive to those who have the IQ of a genius or who’ve devoted their life to theoretical physics. ___________104__________ Therefore, taking part in cognitively challenging activities, learning new skills and continuing to “use it or lose it” probably applies no matter how old you are. Crucially, it’s never too late to start.

V．Translation

Directions: Translate the following sentences into English, using the words given in the brackets.

1.直到这一刻，亨利才意识到以往那种无忧无虑的日子结束了。(Not)

2.我突然意识到我们能够帮助父母做点简单的家务，比如把脏衣服分成几堆。(strike)

3.没有一个孩子在成长过程中不犯任何错误，关键在于能否吃一堑，长一智。(learn)

4.这个宏伟的古镇重建计划由于缺乏资金而被暂时搁置，因为它表面上看上去很完美，但实际还需要充

分的讨论。(surface)

Keys:

I.Listening Comprehension (25)

1-10 CDAAC BABBD 11-20 ABCDDDCCAB

II.Grammar and Vocabulary

Section A (10)

21. may 22. agreeing 23. given 24. To boost 25. (would) beat

26. Before 27. throughout / during 28. as 29. What 30. did

Section B (10+10)

(A) 31-40 AD C A BC BD AB D AE AC B

(B) 41-50 AC D C B E BD BC AB AD AE

III.Reading Comprehension

Section A (15+15)

(A) 51-65 CADBA CDCBA BDCDA

(B) 66-80 CBADD ACDBA CBBAD

Section B (24*2)

(A) 81-84 CCBA (B) 85-87 DCC (C) 88-91 CDCD

(D) 92-95 DCAC (E) 96-100 ABCDA

Section C 101-104 E C (AB) A

IV.Translation(4+4+4+5=17)

1.直到那一刻，亨利才意识到以往那种无忧无虑的日子结束了。(Not)

Not until that moment did Henry realize that gone were the previous carefree days.

2.我突然意识到我们能够帮助父母做点简单的家务，比如把脏衣服分成几堆。(strike)

It suddenly struck me that we were able to help our parents do some simple housework such as sorting dirty clothes into piles.

3.没有孩子在成长过程中不犯任何错误，关键在于能否吃一堑，长一智。(learn)

No children make no mistake while they are growing up and the most important thing is whether they can learn from (the) mistakes.

4.这个宏伟的古镇重建计划由于缺乏资金而被暂时搁置，因为它表面上看上去很完美，但实际还需要充

分的讨论。(surface)

The giant project of rebuilding the old town is temporarily suspended for lack of money, because it seems perfect on the surface but in fact needs discussing fully.

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