25-26-2-进阶综合英语（下）-期末
目录
Part I Listening Comprehension (25%)
听力音频
Section A (7%, 1 point/per)
Directions: In this section, you will hear several news reports. At the end of each news report, you will hear two or three questions. Both the news report and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D).
News Item One
Questions 1 to 2 are based on the recording you have just heard.
News Item Two
Questions 3 to 4 are based on the recording you have just heard.
News Item Three
Questions 5 to 7 are based on the recording you have just heard.
Section B (8%, 1 point/per)
Directions: In this section, you will hear several conversations. At the end of each conversation, one or more questions will be asked about what was said. Both the conversations and the questions will be spoken only once. After each question there will be a pause. During the pause, you must read the four choices marked A), B), C) and D), and decide which is the best answer.
Conversation One
Questions 8 to 11 are based on the recording you have just heard.
Conversation Two
Questions 12 to 15 are based on the recording you have just heard.
Section C (10%, 1 point/per)
Directions: In this section, you will hear several short passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear some questions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D).
Passage One
Questions 16 to 18 are based on the recording you have just heard.
Passage Two
Questions 19 to 21 are based on the recording you have just heard.
Passage Three
Questions 22 to 25 are based on the recording you have just heard.
Part II Vocabulary and Structure (10%，0.5 point/per)
Directions: For each of the following incomplete sentences, there are four words or expressions marked A), B), C) and D). Choose the one that best completes the sentence.
- Our city recently built a wonderful sports ( ) that features an Olympic-sized swimming pool and ten tennis courts.
- Her advice was completely ( ) and meant to help, but it accidentally made her friend feel worse about the situation.
- Living in a foreign country can really help ( ) a person’s character and make them more independent.
- It is never a good idea to ( ) angry thoughts about your friends; it is always better to talk things out.
- It takes a lot of time and effort to ( ) a completely new skill when you are an adult.
- After months of traveling through the jungle, his clothes were ( ) and his boots were falling apart.
- The king decided to ( ) his throne because of his failing health, leaving the kingdom to his eldest daughter.
- The sudden change in the exam schedule completely ( ); I hadn’t finished reading the final chapters.
- The extreme summer heat managed to ( ) the grass in the park, turning the entire lawn brown.
- The heavy morning fog will ( ) it nearly impossible for drivers to see the road clearly.
- The coach’s speech at halftime helped ( ), and the team came back to win the game in the second half.
- I ( ) that it will take us about forty minutes to walk to the train station from here.
- The local company uses recycled materials to ( ) high-quality wooden toys for children.
- Because of rising ( ), the price of daily groceries has gone up significantly over the past year.
- Experts believe that many behavioral problems in young dogs ( ) a lack of proper daily exercise.
- The teacher gave an ( ) answer when the students asked if the test was cancelled: “No, absolutely not.”
- The government plans to ( ) its construction project so that the new bridge opens before winter.
- To reach an agreement, both sides had to ( ) and give up some of their original demands.
- Could you please ( ) these library books on your way to the grocery store this afternoon?
- The private school is located in a(n) ( ) neighborhood where most residents live in large mansions.
Part III Reading Comprehension (30%)
Section A (10%, 1 point/per)
Directions: In this section, you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it. Each statement contains information given in one of the paragraphs. Identify the paragraph from which the information is derived. You may choose a paragraph more than once. Each paragraph is marked with a letter. Answer the questions by marking the corresponding letter(s) on the Answer Sheet.
Vote for Our Hero of the Year
[A] Every month, Reader’s Digest spotlights ordinary citizens who risk something big—their reputation, their money, sometimes even their lives—to help someone else. Here we profile seven of the most extraordinary Americans we know. Whose story inspired you the most? Cast your vote at rd.com/everyday heroes. We’ll update you on our winner in the April issue.
The Good Doctor
[B] The tiny village of Bayou La Batre, Ala., had been without a doctor for several years when Regian Benjamin turned a shuttered pharmacy into a community clinic. And in they came—patients with problems you didn’t often see in medical school: shrimp poisoning from the seafood plants, fishhooks in eyebrows, shark bites.
[C] In 1998 Hurricane Georges roared through, smashing everything in its path. The clinic was destroyed. For two years, Benjamin made house calls in her battered pickup, working weekends as an ER physician and running up her credit cards while rebuilding her clinic.
[D] In June 2002, Benjamin, at 45, became the first woman and the first African American to be named president of the Medical Association of the State of Alabama. But her passion remains her patients. Every once in a while a headhunter calls with a job offer. For Benjamin the answer is easy: “Not interested.”
The Shadow
[E] Driving up a residential street in the quiet suburb of Clarkston, Wash., Kim Heimgartner noticed a man pulling a girl of 11 or so into a white sedan. The girl struggled, but the man yanked her by the backpack, shoved her into the backseat and sped off. “Maybe it was her dad,” Heimgartner wondered. Possibly. But …
[F] With her own six-year-old daughter in her Jeep, Heimgartner turned around and followed the sedan out of town. She dialed 911. I’ve witnessed a possible abduction, she explained, describing their remote location near a landfill. Heimgartner’s hunch was right. After a three-hour standoff with police, the kidnapper surrendered. In his car were a gun, knives, cameras, duct tape and 90 rounds of ammunition. He is now serving a 13-year, 8-month prison term. And Heimgartner knows to trust her gut instinct.
The Brave Boy
[G] “I went into the ditch and flipped over twice,” recalls Tammy hill of the accident on Thanksgiving, 2002. “Luckily, the kids were all in car seats. I went through the driver’s side window.” Hill’s seven-year-old son, Titus Adams, suddenly became the head of the family. He wrapped blankets around his two younger sisters, crawled through the broken window and wearing only his pajamas and socks, walked toward the lights of a dairy farm a third of a mile away. Weather reports showed it was below freezing, and Titus was scared of the dark. Colorado State Trooper J. R. Peters was the first officer to arrive at the accident scene. “This kid was unbelievable,” he said. Tammy’s injuries were severe, but thanks to her son, she’s going to be okay.
The Track Star
[H] All Brad Mccorkle intended that afternoon was to meet his cousin, Kim, for lunch. But when he got to Valley Bank in Davenport, Iowa, where Kim worked as a teller, a man leapt over the gate by the teller’s window and rushed past. Kim pointed at the man and mouthed to Mccorkle, a former track star, “Go get him!”
[I] Across the street, through a supermarket parking lot, over a barb-wire fence, McCorkle chased the man, cornering him in somebody’s backyard. When police arrived, they found $12,940 in the man’s pocket. Coincidentally, the pursuit lasted a quarter of a mile—McCorkle’s best distance. The robber was sentenced to ten years.
The Mountain Climber
[J] At 13,000 feet, about to summit Colorado’s Quandary Peak, Andy Kass and Matt Wisniewski felt like they were on top of the world. But in a flash, the snow beneath their feet cracked wide open, and both men were swept downhill at 50 m.p.h.
[K] Kass somersaulted some 200 feet; when he awoke, his face was bloody and his friend was gone. Dazed and shivering, he started down the mountain, hoping to find Wisniewski before sunset. But his numb fingers couldn’t grip the handholds in the cliff and bam!—he fell, dropping four stories onto solid granite, smashing his kneecap. Kass screamed out in pain, but struggled to his feet and kept going.
[L] At the bottom, he saw Wisniewski, his face blank and his body temperature dangerously low. Kass forced himself into a run, adrenaline helping him push through the pain, until he found a house with a phone to call 911. Wisniewski’s heart stopped twice while medics rushed him to the hospital. Amazingly, he recovered, marveling: “Andy ran for my life.”
The Boogie Boarder
[M] Day one of his vacation in Maui: Stephen Bona was goofing around on his boogie board when he saw something huge and gray leap out of the water about 20 yards away. Shark! Instinctively, he turned to catch the next wave in, then he heard screams. A ten-foot shark had grabbed hold of Julie Given-Glance, a 34-year-old triathlete. Her right hand was nearly severed and she was losing blood.
[N] The other swimmers headed back in. Common sense told Bona to follow. Instead, he paddled into the crimson waves. He slipped his board under the victim’s back and started kicking for the faraway beach. They both knew that blood attracts sharks. It took surgeons four hours to reattach Given-Glance’s hand. But a year after the attack, she planned to head back to Hawaii—back to the Pacific to swim.
The Cowgirl
[O] Just before Christmas, 2002, intruders broke into Melissa Alexander’s parents’ garage in German Township, Ohio. They’d intended to steal a car, or the presents stashed in Melissa’s mom’s trunk, or both. As two figures ran down the driveway, Melissa, pajama-clad and shoeless, dashed after them. One intruder looked back just as Melissa—all five-foot-three and 115 pounds of her—took a running jump. She tackled him as they slid across the icy ground. “Don’t even think about moving,” she said. With a 37-foot lunge line, used to tame horses, she roped the man’s hands behind his head and pinned him to the ground with her body weight. The men were found guilty of criminal trespass and theft charges.
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Given-Glance planned to go back to swim in the Pacific where she was attacked by a shark a year earlier. 【暂无答案】
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Regian Benjamin opened a community clinic in a tiny village where there had been no doctors for several years. 【暂无答案】
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It is very brave of a seven-year-old boy to crawl through the broken window of a car and walk one-third of a mile for help at a dark frozen night wearing only his pajamas and socks. 【暂无答案】
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Even when the clinic was destroyed, the good doctor still worked for the village and ran up her credit card when rebuilding her clinic. 【暂无答案】
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A woman followed the sedan into which a girl was possibly abducted, and she called 911 and her instinct was right. 【暂无答案】
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The bank robber was finally cornered by a track athlete after running a quarter of a mile and was sentenced to ten years. 【暂无答案】
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Two men were swept downhill because of a sudden snow crack under their feet when climbing a mountain peak. 【暂无答案】
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When a shark attacked a woman, Stephen Bona paddled into the crimson waves to rescue her instead of heading back. 【暂无答案】
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Here we describe seven of the most remarkable Americans who risk something big to help someone else. 【暂无答案】
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The cowgirl tackled one of the intruders as they slid across the icy ground, and she tied the man’s hands behind his head. 【暂无答案】
Section B (20%，2 points/per)
Directions: In this section, there are two passages followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D). You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.
Passage 1
In the digital age, copying someone else’s words is easy, but getting caught copying is even easier. When Melania Trump recently spoke at the Republican convention, she used some of the same words that Michelle Obama had used at the Democratic convention in 2008. Within hours, news spread around the world with the claim that Melania Trump had plagiarized Michelle Obama’s speech.
One of Trump’s aides said she unintentionally included sentences from Michelle Obama’s speech. But students and teachers at universities in the U.S. and elsewhere were shocked. They learn from their early years in school that copying another writer’s words is wrong.
The word “plagiarism” comes from the Latin word plagiarus. It means “kidnapper, seducer, plunderer, one who kidnaps the child or slave of another,” according to the Online Etymology Dictionary. We now use the word “plagiarist” to describe someone who steals another person’s written work. That person could also be called a “literary thief.”
Why is plagiarism a serious problem? Vaugina Unkefer is Manager of Academic Writing Services at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Thuwal, Saudi Arabia. Unkefer says that when students first come to the university, they do not realize how serious the problem is. “I think they don’t realize how serious an offense it is. And until they’re made aware that offense is as serious as it is, they don’t take it seriously at all.”
She teaches new students the Latin root of the word plagiarism to tell them how serious it is. “It means kidnapping. It’s our own worst fear, to have that thing that we created stolen from us, and it’s the same as our words. That thing that we created is essential to who we are, and when other people steal our words, it is as serious as if you were to steal someone’s child.”
Academics are especially aware of the nature of plagiarism, Unkefer says, because their work is essentially the creation of ideas and putting them into words. “Maybe outside the university, where your currency is not your idea, maybe it seems silly to care about this so much. But inside the university where your ideas are who you are, we absolutely must protect them. That’s why plagiarism is such a serious offense.”
- What does Melania Trump’s story tell us?
- For students in universities, copying is ( ).
- Plagiarism doesn’t contain the meaning of ( ).
- What did Unkefer want to show when she used the example of stealing other’s baby?
- Where does the article come from probably?
Passage 2
English learners can improve their ability to remember words by making connections to what they already know. That idea comes from Sarah Lynn, an educational consultant and teacher at the Harvard University Bridge Program. She says that she wants to help learners to take control of their learning. Learning begins with the learner, she adds, not with the teacher.
We all know that remembering new words is difficult is because the learning process takes effort. This process takes effort because you are growing new connections in your brain when you learn new information, says Sarah Lynn. Scientists who study the brain call these connections dendrites. They say that dendrite connections grow thicker and stronger with practice.
This mental strengthening process is why some teachers, such as Sal Khan of Khan Academy, say that training your brain is like training your muscles: you put your brain under stress and it adapts over time. Lynn suggests that making strong connections in the brain is important for retrieval—the ability to remember words. So, if learning takes effort, and it requires people to develop connections in their brains, what can you do to improve your ability to remember words?
Lynn has several recommendations, which we will explore in future Education stories. Her first recommendation is this: make connections when you first learn a word. Our minds, she says, carry a large amount of information. By linking new information to background knowledge, you may be able to remember new information better.
Sarah Lynn is not the only person who recommends that English learners make connections. Experts who study learning strategies—the thoughts and actions that can help people learn better—also recommend making connections.
One learning strategy approach, the Cognitive Academic Language Learning Approach (CALLA), calls this “Using Background Knowledge.” CALLA founder Anna Uhl Chamot says that learners should think about and use what they already know to help them do a task. They can also use new information to clarify or modify what they know already. English learners can use this idea to improve their ability to remember new words, Lynn says.
- Ability of words learning can be enhanced by ( ).
- The connections between new words and background knowledge will become ( ) with more practice.
- What does retrieval mean in Paragraph 3 Sentence 2?
- What is critical to CALLA?
- What’s the best title of this article?
Part IV Word Bank（10%，1 point/per）
Directions: In this part, there is a passage with 10 blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Each choice in the blank is identified by a letter or letters. Please mark the corresponding letter(s) for each item on the Answer Sheet. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.
A) Compounded
B) Allowances
C) incentive
D) keep track of
E) Permission
F) withdrawals
G) pace
H) operation
I) credit
J) protested
K) statements
L) principal
M) balance
N) defect
O) instinct
To avoid this problem with my two children, I started my own bank. It’s called the First National Bank of Dave. I set up an account for each child, using the same computer program I use to (66) my checkbook. Because I wanted my kids’ deposits to grow at a (67) that would hold their attention, I offered an attractive interest rate — five per cent a month. (68), that works out to an annual rate of more than 70 per cent. (69) are deposited automatically on the first day of each month. The kids can also make other deposits, or (70) whenever they like.
The Bank of Dave has been in (71) for four years, instantly turning both my children into keen savers. My son still comes to me with change he has found on the floor of the car, saying, “And (72) this today.” Both kids’ accounts grew so fast that after two years I had to roll back my monthly interest rate to three percent. The kids (73) when I announced the change, but they nodded solemnly when I explained that the law of supply and demand applies even to money. The kids help me calculate their interest — a useful lesson in averaging and percentages. I give them unlimited access to their funds, no questions asked, and I provide printed (74) on demand.
The high rate of interest is not the only attractive feature of the Bank of Dave. Equally important from the kids’ point of view is that their accounts belong to them. When they (75), they harvest the benefit; when they want to spend, they don’t need permission. Children who have no control over their own funds have no incentive not to beg for money and then spend every dollar that comes into their hands.
Part V Translation（10%）
Directions: Please translate the following passage into English.
以前，我一直把考高分当作第一要务，一旦拿不到满意的分数就灰心丧气、眉头紧锁。但后来我逐渐意识到，与分数相比，学习中的自立更为重要。我需要主动探寻学习的意义，用目标驱动自己应用课堂知识，并继续学习课堂上未曾讲授的知识与技能。我相信，随着时间的推移，我的学习能力会在这样的反思中慢慢进化。
Part VI Writing（15%）
Directions: You are going to write an essay about Your Definition of Security in Life. The essay should be no fewer than 120 words and no more than 180 words.