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。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。
A. Go to the zoo. B. See her sister off. C. Fly to London.
A. Outgoing. B. Stubborn. C. Quiet.
A. Take care of the garden. B. Do the washing-up. C. Go grocery shopping.
A. In a supermarket. B. In a restaurant. C. At the woman' s house.
A. A test. B. A teacher. C. A staff meeting.
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。听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟；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。
第二部分 阅读（共两节，满分50分）
4-Day Tour of Zurich If you only have 4 days to spend in Zurich, we' ve narrowed down the top places you should check out to get the best experience of your time here. Welcome to our group tour of Zurich! |
Day 1 The guide will first lead us to the splendid Mountain World of the Bemese Oberland. Then we plan to board the Cogwheel train at Lauterbrunnen to Jungfraujoch, the highest railway station in Europe. The most exciting part of this train trip is the beautiful Ice Palace on the way and we' ll have a chance to overlook (俯视) the Aletsch Glacier. |
Day 2 After breakfast, we will drive along the beautiful Lake Thun to the capital Berne. The city sits against the impressive Alps at the bend of the Aare River. After visiting the old district of the city, we will head to scenic Gruyeres, where we will visit the cheese factory and taste the famous Gruyere cheese. Later we are heading to Vaud Riviera, arriving at today' s destination Geneva. |
Day 3 First of all, we will visit the beautiful lakeside park and the famous Palace of Nations in Geneva. Then we' ll leave Geneva and drive to Montreux. On the way, we' ll see Chillon Castle, the 13th-century building which is famous for Lord Byron' s poem. After arriving at Tasch in the afternoon, we will take the train to Zermatt and stay for one night there. |
Day 4 For the last day in Zurich, you might be tired from the previous days. Zurich is known for their shopping, so this day could be shopping or window shopping! Each quarter of the city offers a unique shopping experience. You can explore Zurich' s Old Town which has smaller, traditional stores & boutiques. Or maybe you are interested in expensive items in which you can stroll through Bahnhofstrasse. Walking through different streets you will stumble upon cafes and restaurants so you can easily find a spot for lunch and dinner. |
John Todd is crazy about skiing and about having the right stuff (有必备的品质) to do it. As a boy in Finland, he would be down in the dumps when the first spring rains came to melt the freeze. He is now the world' s leading snow advisor. His business range includes ski resorts, indoor snow playgrounds and the biggest snow event of all: the Winter Olympics.
" When I was growing up, the winter arrived in mid-October and it would stay cold until May," the 64-year-old told CNN. " But around 2000, things began to change. " At 25, Todd began to coach the Finnish alpine (高山) ski team, but he quit two years later. As snow conditions worsened around the world, he decided to talk with physicists and geographers to learn about snow. " If you love snow," Todd said, " it is natural to want to organize snow. "
For those in the business of skiing, snow is not a natural phenomenon so much as a product. The sport accounts for over half of all Winter Olympic events, yet the average February temperature of host cities has risen from 0. 4℃ in the 1920—1950s, to 6. 3℃ in the 21st century. That is why every Winter Olympics since Lake Placid in 1980 has relied on artificial snow.
Snow can be made in machines that take water, mix it with compressed air and turn it into a mist of tiny drops that freeze. But they only work below certain temperatures. Todd has pioneered a technique of " recycling" snow by harvesting it and storing it. Before the Sochi games in Russia in 2014, he stored nearly 1m cubic meters of it.
For Milan, the host of the 2026 Winter Olympics, Todd recommended that the organizers combine snowmaking with snow recycling which uses much less water. " I hope the idea of storing snow will become their priority," Todd said.
Around one in ten children in the UK have dyslexia (阅读障碍) which often causes reading difficulties. Reading requires the process of matching what we see on a page with spoken language and meaning. So reading difficulties could at least in part be caused by differences in how the brain makes sense of what we see.
In our recent study, children were presented with patterns of moving dots (圆点) in child-friendly games and asked to work out their overall direction. They had to press a button to say whether the dots were going " left" or " right" . We also studied children' s brain activity. Then we measured how correct the children were and how long they took to make their responses.
The results have shown that children with and without dyslexia didn' t seem to differ in how they first processed visual information, but instead differed in how they made decisions about it. Children with dyslexia seemed to see the moving dots just as easily as children without dyslexia, but took longer to decide in which direction they were moving. And when children made decisions on the direction of dot movement, brain activity in children with dyslexia increased more slowly.
Although words don' t move, differences in these motion (运动) tasks could influence children' s ability to read. That' s because the sounds that make up language change quickly over time—just like moving dots—so they depend on the brain processes that can discern these changes. If children with dyslexia are slower to make decisions about the direction of dot movement, they may also find it more difficult to tell apart sounds in spoken words. In turn, this could make reading more difficult as it is so dependent on spoken language and meaning.
The study is helping us to build a better picture of how the brain develops differently in children with dyslexia. Our findings prove that dyslexia could influence more than just a child' s reading ability. It is important that we all bear this in mind when supporting children with dyslexia.
Imagine that you need milk, so you go to the grocery store to pick some up. When you get to the dairy section, there are so many choices that you are dumbfounded (目瞪口呆).
This phenomenon is known as the paradox of choice and it is becoming a concern in the modern world, where more and more options are becoming easily available to us. The paradox of choice stipulates (规定) that while we might believe that being presented with multiple options actually makes it easier to choose one that we are happy with, and thus increases consumer satisfaction, having an abundance of options actually requires more effort to make a decision and can leave us feeling unsatisfied with our choice. When the number of choices increases, so does the difficulty of knowing what is best. Instead of increasing our freedom to have what we want, the paradox of choice suggests that having too many choices actually limits our freedom.
American psychologist Barry Schwartz published The Paradox of Choice: Why More is Less, in 2004. He identified that the range of choices available these days is far greater nowadays; he found that instead of increasing decision satisfaction, having too many options made people less likely to be satisfied with the decision they had made. While freedom is important, Schwartz explains that there is a fine line between having the freedom to choose and being paralyzed (麻痹的) in the face of too many options.
While many studies have demonstrated the more options are available, the less satisfied with the decisions people make, the paradox of choice has been criticized for not having enough concrete and scientific evidence behind it and critics often offer countering evidence, such as the fact that Starbucks, which boasts a menu with hundreds of possibilities and customizations, is an incredibly popular and profitable company.
Barry Schwartz acknowledges that these controversial findings are likely apparent. He suggests that if all the studies based on the ways that options impact choice are combined, we will likely find that sometimes more options leads to increased satisfaction, sometimes it leads to diminished satisfaction.
第二节（共5小题；每小题2. 5分，满分12. 5分）
Your algebra (代数) teacher wears clothes from 1985 and always mispronounces your name. Your English teacher loves to start classes with pop quizzes. It can be hard to think of these givers of grades as real people. , just like you. So how can you get along with your teachers? Here are some tips.
First, show up for class on time with all assignments completed. . Obviously, your teachers are really interested in their subjects or they wouldn' t have decided to teach them! Showing the teacher that you care—even if you' re not a math whiz (奇才) or fluent in French—sends the message that you are a dedicated student. . Use this time to get extra help, ask questions, inquire about a career in the subject, or talk about your progress in class. You may be surprised to learn that your teacher is a bit more relaxed one-on-one than when lecturing in front of the whole class.
. Do you dislike the subject? Or do you like the subject but just can' t warm up to the teacher? If you find a subject hard, talk to your teacher about extra tutoring. If you find it boring, talk to your teacher about ways to see the subject in a different light. For instance, you may hate math, but learning how to calculate averages and percentages can help you in everything from sports to leaving a tip.
Teachers are there for more than just homework, and they know about more than just their subject matter. . Undoubtedly, there will be a few teachers along the way who you' ll always remember—and who might change your life forever.
A. But we all have our favorite teachers
B. Be respectful, smart and show an interest in the subject
C. They can help you learn how to function as a lifelong learner
D. If you' re having problems with a teacher, try to figure out why
E. If you feel uneasy with your teacher, pick your battles carefully
F. But they eat pizza, watch movies, and enjoy sports on the weekends
G. You can also schedule a private conference during a teacher' s free period
第三部分 语言运用（共两节，满分30分）
My family and I were taking a well-deserved vacation to Disneyland. I had never been there before and was eagerly 1 the magic. There was another reason that this trip was 2 . My father was a workaholic who worked long hours. I 3 to spend time with him.
The day finally arrived. Excited, I threw in my favorite autograph book and then 4 the suitcase zipper around the overflow (溢出) of items. I didn' t get any sleep that night. After a brief breakfast we 5 the open road. It was all 6 driving for the first hours until I unexpectedly felt a sharp jerk (甩动), We switched to the side of the road, and my dad said the engine was 7 . We were in the middle of four lanes of traffic, so the easiest thing to do would be to 8 someone down and get a ride into 9 .
An hour later, my dad was still waving his hands at every passing car. Finally, my father 10 and decided to walk into town. I was certain it was a very long distance. But my father just said that he wouldn' t let anything ruin this 11 . My heart ached as he began to walk away from our car. My dad has a back problem, and he was too 12 to admit that he couldn' t even walk a couple of miles.
Then I saw a figure out of the window. It was a lone trucker. He had walked across four lanes of traffic to get to us. The feeling I felt at that moment is 13 . I was truly touched that this man cared so much. He didn' t even know us, and he didn' t expect anything 14 .
Father got his ride back to town, and our car was repaired. My visions of Mickey were rekindled (重新点燃), as was my 15 that angels do exist. None of this would have been possible if that man hadn' t given us the gift that he owns—the gift of kindness.
第二节（共10小题；每小题1. 5分，满分15分）
This winter, the city of Harbin has spared no effort to show sincerity and creativity in entertaining tourists from all over the world. Currently, Chinese netizens (网民) have regarded the city a generous big brother who is doing everything possible (entertain) guests with its unique charms and creative ideas. Over the past months, Harbin (receive) over 3 million tourists, creating a revenue (财政收入) of 5. 9 billion yuan. Both numbers reached the (history) height. With tens of thousands of tourists flocking into (涌入) the Harbin Ice-Snow World, the park (undoubted) has become a star of the city' s winter tourism. This winter, it has built nearly 1, 000 ice and snow sculptures a diverse range of activities are on offer to entertain tourists.
To " rescue" tourists are not used to the cold weather, the city built many temporary heated rest rooms, providing warm drinks for free. Frozen pears, a local specialty, (cut) into the shapes of flowers so that tourists could enjoy them conveniently. (touch) by the city' s " small details" , tourists share their heart-warming moments online, which in turn draws more curious tourists to the city, (push) the city to the top of trending topics on the Internet.
第四部分 写作（共两节，满分40分）
1. 介绍自己的comfort food；
2. 陈述理由。
注意：
1. 词数应为80左右；
2. 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Never in my wildest imagination did I picture myself standing on the back of a running horse. I' m not a cowgirl and don' t even ride horses for pleasure. But I was doing a television fitness show, and someone in the group had the bright idea that we should go to the rodeo (牛仔竞技表演) grounds and ask the trick riders if they could teach me a stunt (特技表演) to do on camera. We could use this short video as the new opening to the show. I agreed the stunt would be eye-catching and prove how flexible a fit person can be.
That was how I ended up at the rodeo grounds with a camera group, watching the remarkable performances of three talented young cowgirls. Once their show was over, we approached them, detailing our ideas for the television show.
The cowgirls asked me which particular stunt I was interested in learning. I especially liked one stunt—one of the girls led a horse to continuously and slowly run around the grounds while one of the other girls ran across the grounds toward a small trampoline (蹦床). It was timed perfectly so that she jumped onto the trampoline, up into the air, and then onto the horse' s back. As she landed on its back, she stood up and stretched her arms outward as the horse continued slowly running. It looked impressive. They talked me through the necessary moves, stressing the timing since I would need to be in the air at the correct time when the horse ran past. I would judge the speed of the horse and my own speed to jump onto the horse on time.
It was clearly challenging. I was a little hesitant, afraid of being unable to do that well and slowing down the filming. But I knew the most important thing for me was to concentrate on the task at hand.
注意：
1. 续写词数应为150左右；
2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
The first time out, I hit the horse' s back part and fell to the ground. At 6:00 pm, we completed the stunt filming, with my knee injured. |
