【高三英语二模】2020届上海长宁区高三英语二模(含答案)

2020 年长宁区高三英语在线学习效果评估试卷

（考试时间 120 分钟；满分 140 分）

I. Listening Comprehension Section A

Directions: In Section A, you will hear ten short conversations between two speakers. At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. The conversations and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a conversation and the question about it, read the four possible answers on your paper, and decide which one is the best answer to the question you have heard. 1. A.In a hotel.

B.In a garden.

C. In a park.

D. In a café.

D. Teacher and student. D. $600.

2. A. Classmates.

B.Coach and athlete. C.Partners. B. $200.

C. $300.

B.He is a fast reader. D. The book is not too long. B.Do her laundry once again.

D.Dry her clothes for twenty more minutes. B. The woman should have worn a sweater. D. The woman needn’t have brought the coat. B. Have her parents stay on campus. D. Look for vacant rooms near the campus. B. She has already finished her report. D.She will help the man with his outline. B. The departure time remains unknown. D.The mechanical problems have been fixed. B.The car has run out of gasoline. D.The man can’t read the instrument.

3. A. $150.

4. A. He hasn’t started to read.

C. The book is very attractive.

5. A. Take the clothes out of the dryer.

C. Examine the dryer for maintenance.

6. A. His sweater is not warm enough.

C.His coat is similar to the woman’s.

7. A.Call the local hotels again in a few days.

C.Phone the Lake District Inn for a reservation.

8. A.The man should have attended the class.

C. The man has enough time to finish his report.

9. A.The plane will leave at 9:30 sharp.

C.The woman has just missed her plane.

10. A. The man only filled his tank half full.

C. The car is breaking down on the way.

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Section B

Directions: In Section B, you will hear two passages and one longer conversation. After each passage and conversation, you will be asked several questions. The passages and the conversation will be read twice, but the questions will be spoken only once. When you hear a question, read the four possible answers on your paper, and decide which one is the best answer to the question you have heard.

Questions 11 through 13 are based on the following passage. 11. A. Bus tours around some fascinating European cities.

B. Voyages with interesting stops on the Danube River. C. Journeys to some magnificent opera houses in Austria. D. Bicycle rides through beautiful countryside in Germany. 12. A. Nuremberg.

B. Melk.

C. Vienna.

D. Budapest.

13. A. A good way to explore the city is going on a free bus tour. B.Ruins and remains are everywhere to be seen in the city. C. The city got its name from two once separate towns. D. It is a historic city full of a musical atmosphere. Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage. 14. A. They are the first three-brother group to row across the Atlantic. B.They crossed the Atlantic without the help of electronic devices. C.They are the only bagpipes players among the competitors. D.They arrived sixteen days earlier than their competitors. 15. A.They were left home with charging cables. C.They were damaged by salty seawater. 16. A. He designed the engine of their rowing boat. C. He organised a charity named Children First.

B. They accidentally fell into the ocean. D.They all had got dead batteries.

B. He asked his brothers to take up the challenge. D. He regarded the rowing as a precious experience.

Questions 17 through 20 are based on the following conversation. 17. A. The definition of responsibility. C. The equality of husband and wife. 18. A.Sharing housework.

B. Tending children.

B. Good manners in public.

D. Traditional views on marriage. C.Guarding home.

D. Making money.

19. A. Men should treat women like baby dolls in their family life.

B. Men should have more social responsibilities than women. C. Women should support their families as well. D. Women should be treated equally in public. 20. A.Men should observe the rule of lady first. B. Husband should treat his wife like a friend.

C. Roles of man and woman in a family should differ. D. Husband and wife should both earn their own living.

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II. Grammar and Vocabulary Section A

Directions:After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.

The family who eats together

What’s the price of a family meal? For many families in the world’s wealthiest countries, the answer seems to be, ‘too much’. For instance, in the United States, (21) is often a trendsetter in such things, the majority of families

report eating a single meal together fewer than five days a week.In fact, the frequency of shared meals(22) (decrease) in American families by 33 per cent over the last twenty years. The meals (23) from an average of 90 minutes to just 12 minutes.

So perhaps we’re better off asking ourselves (24) have shortened too:

the cost of not eating together is. Once again, we could turn to the figures. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development has found that 15-year-olds who reported not regularly (25) (share) family meals were twice as likely to be absent from school. In Europe,

research has suggested that children who don’t eat dinner with their parents at least twice a week face a 40 per cent higher risk of fatness. Another study, (26) (conduct) by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse

( 滥用) at Columbia University, found that kids who eat dinner with their parents five or more times a week are (27)

(likely) to have problems with drugs and alcohol. But those numbers, impressive (28) they seem, may be beside the point. After all, having a meal together is future misfortune. The primary cost of the family meal is also the very more than just a preventive measure (29) thing that makes it important: time.

The time spent together over food leads to all the positive outcomes that are measured in the studies. That time spent together has less noticeable — but no less real — effects too. So often, (30) is at the family meal that the

family as such — the family as an organic unit with shared memories and feelings and ambitions — is made.

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Section B

Directions: Fill in each blank with a proper word chosen from the box. Each word can be used only once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

A. flexible G. restricted

B. genetically H. seldom

C.habitually I. solid

D. included J. suspects

E. populations K.variations

F. previous

Wearing shoes can weaken ankle bones

Your shoes are changing your feet. The ankles of people who 31 wear shoes are different to those of people who tend to walk barefoot. In many industrial societies, people tend to wear shoes from a young age. However, many people around the world often go barefoot, or wear only very thin footwear.

“We know that there are some 32 in the feet of modern humans, due to the use of shoes,” says Rita Sorrentino at the University of Bologna in Italy. But most 33 findings relate to the front and middle of the foot. She and her team have focused on the ankle instead. They studied 142 ankle bones from 11 34 from North America, Africa and Europe. These 35 sandal-wearing ( 穿 凉 鞋 的 ) Nguni farmers in southern Africa, people living in New York and bones from Stone Age hunter-gatherers.

The hunter-gatherers’ ankle bones were significantly shorter than those of people living in modern cities, and there were other differences in the shape. “They are mostly related to footwear-related behaviours and movement behaviours,” says Sorrentino. The hunter-gatherers walked barefoot for long distances every day over natural land. Their ankles were relatively 36 . In contrast, people who live in big cities, who wear tight footwear and walk short distances on flat surfaces like concrete roads, had more unbending ankles.

Changes to ankle bones take place over the course of a person’s life, and there is no evidence that these alterations

canbe passed on

37 .

According to Sorrentino,

38 evidence for people wearing shoes only exists for the past 10,000 years. For instance, a sandal from a Missouri cave may be 8300 years old. Early shoes were all fairly soft, so wouldn’t have

39 the motion of the ankle much.

40 that the firmness of modern

It is an open question whether shoes have disadvantages, but Sorrentino shoes causes our bones to become weaker and more likely to suffer from breaking.

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III. Reading Comprehension Section A

Directions: For each blank in the following passage 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.

Why do so few people find fulfillment in their work? Amy Wrzesniewski, a Yale School of Management professor who studies these issues, offered an explanation that made a lot of 41 . Students, she said, “think their calling is under a rock, and if they 42 enough rocks, they will find it.”

Surveys confirm that meaning is the top thing Millennials (千禧一代) say they want from a job. And yet her research shows that less than 50% of people see their work as a calling. So, many of her students are left feeling anxious, 43 , and completely unsatisfied by the good jobs and careers they do secure. What they—and many of us, I think—fail to realize is that work can be 44 even if you don’t think of it as a calling. The four most common occupations in America are retail ( 零 售 ) salesperson, cashier, food preparer/server, and office clerk—jobs that aren’t typically 45 “meaning.” But all have something in common with those professions that are, such as teachers and doctors: They exist to help others. And as Adam Grant, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, has shown, people who see their work as a form of 46 always rank their jobs as more meaningful.

That means you can find meaning in nearly any role in nearly any organization. 47 , most companies create products or services to fill a need in the world, and all employees contribute in their own ways. The key is to become more conscious about the service you’re providing — 48 and personally. How? One strategy is to constantly remind yourself of your organization’s main 49 . Life Is Good is a clothing company best known for colorful T-shirts with stick-figure designs, but its mission is to spread 50 and hope throughout the world, and that’s something even storeroom employees understand. If you work for an accounting firm, you’re helping people or companies with the 51 task of doing their taxes. Each job serves a purpose in the world.

Even if you can’t get excited about your company’s mission or customers, you can still adopt a service attitude by thinking about how your work 52 those you love. Consider a study of women working in a shoe factory in Mexico. Researchers found that those who described the work as dull were generally less productive than those who said it was 53 . But the effects went away for those in the former group who saw the work (however boring) as a way to support their families. With that attitude, they were just as productive and as the workers who didn’t mind the task.

Not everyone finds their one true calling. But that doesn’t mean we’re fated to work meaningless jobs. If we 55 our tasks as opportunities to help others, any occupation can feel more significant.

41. A.progress 42. A. carve out 43. A. frustrated 44. A. meaningful

45. A. distinguished from 46. A. understanding 47. A.In conclusion 48. A. as a whole 49. A. advantage 50. A. optimism 51. A. unpleasant 52. A. gathers

53. A. embarrassing . A. relaxed 55. A. assign

B. trouble B. turn over B. shocked B. demanding B. exposed to B. existing B.After all B. in this way B. business B. information B. dangerous B. benefits B. rewarding B. surprised B. abandon C. sense C. pile up C. inspired C. repetitive

C.associated with C. producing

C. By comparison C. in public C.objective C. designs C. productive C. worries C. rough C. confused C. neglect D.difference D. keep off D. excited D. challenging D.defined as D. giving D. In addition D.on average D.construction D. strategies D. urgent D. entertains D.temporary D.energized D. reframe

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Section B

Directions: Read the following three passages. Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statements. For each of them 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)

When an editor called to ask if I could photograph a story about fireflies in Mexico, I didn’t check my schedule before I said yes. I’d seen these insects light up the forests in Tlaxcala once before, and I jumped at the chance to go back.

I had three nights to capture the magical scene in the forest. Camera stand in hand, I hiked with my colleagues into the foggy forest at dusk. According to our guides, visitors are usually not allowed to photograph the fireflies because the presence of artificial light from electronics can affect their habits. As I started shooting, I adjusted my exposures constantly to account for the fading light. In order to get the composition that I wanted, I placed my camera stand on a steep, rocky path and had to steady it during the long exposures. Normally this wouldn’t be a big deal, but the fireflies were very interested in the camera and, by extension, in me. I stood completely still while they crawled all over me — my arms, my hair, my face — and tickled (呵痒) my nose and cheeks. From what I observed, peak firefly presence happens for only about 20 minutes each night, so I had time for just a few tries.

On the last night everything came together. The weather cooperated. I had improved my method for focusing and composing in the dark with quick flashes from a powerful flashlight — and I’d grown accustomed to insects on my face. I was rewarded with the image you see here. Each spot of light is one of several bursts that a firefly makes as it travels in a 30-second exposure. You can trace the insects’ paths: Some make small circles, like those in the bottom center of the frame, while others move steadily in one direction or another.

The first time I visited the fireflies, I didn’t have the pressure of trying to capture and convey this astonishing scene. That will always be my favorite experience with these shining creatures.

56. According to the passage, the author most probably is a(n) A. field biologist

.

D.mountain hiker

B. insect observer C. expert photographer

.

57. The author placed the camera stand on a steep and rocky path to A. make up for the dying light C. obtain an ideal image

B. keep away from the annoying fireflies D. catch peak firefly presence . B. endured physically to get first-hand firefly shots D. got his most satisfying image on the second night

58. We can learn from the passage that the author A. was accused of capturing wild fireflies C.was tired of the exposure to dark forests

59. What does the author think of his experience in the forest? A. Fascinating.

B. Passionate.

C.Surprising.

D. Miserable.

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(B)

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(C)

A secretive facial recognition program “could announce the end of public anonymity ( 匿 名 ),” said Kashmir Hill in The New York Times. While police departments have used facial recognition tools for years, they’ve been limited to searching government-provided images, for example driver’s license photos. Now an app called Clearview AI can remove images of faces “from across the internet”—including social media sites like Facebook and Twitter, employment sites, even Venmo—gathering a database of more than 3 billion photos. “Until now, technology that readily identifies everyone based on his or her face has been forbidden because of its invasion of privacy.” Clearview licenses its technology to more than 600 law implementation agencies. New York City passed on the app after a 90-day test, worried about potential misuse. Clearview’s investors “predict that its app will eventually be available to the public.” Soon, “searching someone by face could become as easy as Googling a name.”

We’ve been building toward this moment for a long time, said Adrian Chen in The California Sunday Magazine. In the late 1800s, the French police officer Alphonse Bertillon devised the first “method for identifying criminals based on their physical features,” using 11 physical measurements. But scale changes everything. The Department of Homeland Security plans to scan “97 percent of all passengers on outgoing international flights.” And the technology has been improved and commercialized to the point where you can search a database and buy scans for as little as “40 cents an image if you opt for Amazon’s facial recognition software plan.”

All this has already led to growing fears about facial recognition, said Janosch Delcker and Cristiano Lima in Politico.com, but “efforts to check its spread are hitting a wall of resistance on both sides of the Atlantic.” A two-party push to limit the government’s use of facial recognition has been delayed in Congress. The European Union (EU) is discussing a five-year temporary ban, but European privacy rules contain “a broad carve-out for public authorities.” And authorities are using it: London’s police just last week enabled live facial recognition for cameras across the city.

Even if some bans on the technology succeed, said Bruce Schneier in The New York Times, we’re still building an “observation society.” Facial recognition is just one identification technology among many. An entirely unregulated data industry is already creating “descriptions of who we are and what our interests are” by tracking our movements, purchases, and interactions. “We are being identified without our knowledge, and society needs rules about when that is permissible.”

63. So far Clearview’s customers are A. investors of AI apps C. small groups of private users

. B. social media sites D. government departments

.

. By “But scale changes everything.” (paragraph 2), the author means that A.facial identification technology has gone far beyond its original purpose

B. people should be scanned through more available physical measurements

C. border security inspection has brought commercialization of identification software D. widespread cheap images are becoming a drawback for facial recognition technology

65. What can be inferred from the passage?

A. Rules concerning anti-invasion of privacy are practicable around the world. B. Facial recognition technology is too irresistible to set aside for governments. C. Efforts to stop misuse of facial identification have achieved an initial success. D. Prohibition on identification technology has gained support from governments. 66. Which of the following is the best title of the passage? A. Facial recognition is under control C.Your face is now public property

B.Get your facial identification ready D.Establish a larger face database

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Section C

Directions: Read the following passage. Fill in each blank with a proper sentence given in the box. Each sentence can be used only once. Note that there are two more sentences than you need.

A. As a result, names and files are usually arranged in alphabetic order.

B. It means words must be written using combinations of several symbols.

C. It is a set of letters or symbols in a fixed order used for writing a language.

D. Aside from the alphabet, there are two other modern writing systems.

E. Perhaps the most important divisions happened between 3000 and 2000 years ago.

F. In some parts of the world, alphabets have been imposed on people by empire builders.

How we write today

The alphabet was born about 3800 years ago. After a slow start, it has produced dozens of offspring ( 后代).

67 Near the beginning of this period, the Phoenician alphabet — a direct offspring of the first

one — gave rise to the Greek and Aramaic alphabets. The Greek alphabet then led to a huge variety of forms, from the Cyrillic family used in south-east Europe and northern Asia to the Latin/Roman family that includes English, German and French. The Aramaic alphabet, meanwhile, developed into a group that includes the Hebrew and Arabic alphabets. It probably also gave rise to the Brahmi script, another distinct type of alphabet that is itself the parent of dozens more used across south and South-East Asia.

68 In the first — of which Chinese text is the only real example still in use — signs

represent full words. In the other, signs represent syllables ( 音 节 ). Japanese uses many Chinese “word” characters, but has two other writing systems based on syllable signs. The few other syllable-based systems include the Cherokee one used in the south-east US.

The variety and global dominance of the alphabet isn’t necessarily a sign of its superiority to other writing systems, says Amalia Gnanadesikan, recently retired from the University of Maryland. 69 For instance,

they are used across north Asia, Africa and the Americas because of Russian and western European expansionism.

The fact that alphabets use a smaller set of characters than other writing systems isn’t entirely beneficial either, says Gnanadesikan. 70 Take the phrase “dog bites man”. Someone learning Chinese has to

understand just three signs — rather than 11 letters — to read and write the sentence. “So you get a very rapid ability to translate what you’re learning into use,” she says. Moreover, children in Japan learn the hiragana (平假名) syllable-based writing system so easily that they can often start reading aged 3.

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IV. Summary Writing

Directions: Read the following passage. Summarize the main idea and the main point(s) of the passage in no more than 60 words. Use your own words as far as possible.

Scottish summers set to keep getting warmer, study shows

Cold, wet summers could become a thing of the past in Scotland, according to a new study. Researchers from Edinburgh and Oxford universities and the Met Office, the UK’s official weather service, say that summer temperatures of 30°C could become common in the future because of climate change.

Climate change is long-term changes in the world’s weather patterns, including rising temperatures. Human activities such as burning fossil fuels (coal, oil and natural gas), farming and cutting down forests are a major cause of changing weather patterns around the world. When fossil fuels are burned, for example, they release gases such as carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. These gases are called greenhouse gases. Their emissions contribute to climate change.

People experienced hot and dry conditions during a heatwave in the summer of 2018. The team found that climate change would lead to those conditions becoming more frequent in Scotland. Lead researcher Professor Simon Tett, from Edinburgh University, said that carbon dioxide emissions had to be cut around the world in order to prevent this from getting worse.

The study also looked into the direct effects of the unusual weather in 2018 on people, animals and landscapes in Scotland. Among these were a thirty per cent increase in demand for water, an increase in harmful insects such as flies and mosquitoes, and a fall in the amount of peas, potatoes, carrots and onions that were harvested. The populations of some types of birds declined because of a lack of water. There was also disturbance to trains because rails were bent by the heat.

Tett explained, “Despite its cool climate, Scotland must start to prepare now for the impact of high temperature extremes. The bottom line is that heatwaves have become more likely because of the climate change caused by human activities.”

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V. Translation

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

72. 我真不明白为啥他总是对别人的家事指手画脚。(affair) 73. 生活中我们要学会倾听，即便是与自己相悖的意见。(opposing) 74. 在英国除了急症，没有预约有病也看不了。(unless)

75. 这对夫妇刚要吃饭，门铃响了，是女儿送给他们的纪念日鲜花到了。(Scarcely)

VI. Guided Writing

Directions:Write an English composition in 120-150 words according to the instructions given below in Chinese.

假如你是明启中学的学生李平，写信给你在海外的笔友王平，与他分享这段时间在线学习生活的感受。你的 必须包括：

 在线学习与在校学习的不同；  你更偏爱的学习方式，并说明理由。 （信的开头已经为你写好。）

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信

2020 年长宁区高三英语在线学习效果评估试卷 参（2020/04/10 版）

I. Listening Comprehension

1-5 BDBCA 6-10 ACCBB 11-13 BBC

14-16 ADD 17-20 CDCA

II. Grammar and Vocabulary

21. which

26. conducted

27. less likely

28. as 36-40 ABIGJ

29. against

30. it

22. has decreased

23. themselves

24. what

25. sharing

31-35 CKFED

III. Reading Comprehension

41-45 CBAAC 46-50 DBACA 60-62 DAC

51-55 ABBDD 63-66 DABC 67-70 EDFB

56-59 CCBA

IV. Summary writing

A study shows that Scotland is expected to have hotter and drier summers due to global climate change resulting from harmful human activities like greenhouse gases emission. Moreover, it reveals that the dryness and hotness of 2018 summer directly caused disastrous consequences to creatures, vegetation and transportation in Scotland. Actions should be taken before things get worse. （57 words） V. Translation

72. I really don’t understand why he always tells /he is always telling others what to do/ what they should

do about their family affairs.

73. We should learn to listen to others in our daily life, even to those opposing opinions/ points of view. 74. In the UK, you cannot go to hospital without an appointment when you are sick unless it is an

emergency case.

75. Scarcely had the couple started to eat when the doorbell rang, and it turned out to be the delivery of the

flowers from their daughter for their anniversary. VI. Guided Writing

略

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2020 年长宁区高三英语在线学习效果评估试卷 听力部分现在开始

Listening Comprehension Section A

Directions: In Section A, you will hear ten short conversations between two speakers. At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. The conversations and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a conversation and the question about it, read the four possible answers on your paper, and decide which one is the best answer to the question you have heard.

1. M: This must be a good season for fruits. Your apples and oranges look especially good. W: Yes, the weather has been great, so I don’t have to water them as often. Q: Where does this conversation most probably take place?

2. M: How can I make up the class I missed? I had an accident in last week’s football game.

W: Well, we just finished Unit 10, so I’d like you to review that unit and answer the questions on page 35. Q: What’s the probable relationship between the two speakers? 3. M: Your new bag looks nice. How much is it?

W: I’ve got three of them. 300 dollars each. But it’s buy-two-get-one-free. Q: How much does one bag actually cost?

4. W: How did you ever manage to get through all 1000 pages of that new novel? M: It took a while. But once I had started it, I couldn’t put it down. Q: What does the man mean?

5. M: You’d better not keep the clothes in the dryer for longer than 40 minutes. W: Oh, no, I’ve already had them in there for an hour. Q: What will the woman most probably do next? 6. W: Hey, that’s a great sweater. It looks really warm.

M: Yeah, but I wish I had brought a coat like you did. It’s freezing today. Q: What does the man imply?

7. W: My parents will come next weekend. But all the hotels near the campus are full.

M: Why not call the Lake District Inn? It’s a little bit far but always gets a few vacant rooms. Q: What does the man suggest the woman do?

8. M: I’ve been working on this report all day. At this rate, I’ll never get it done by tomorrow. W: You weren’t in class today. The deadline has been extended a week. Q: What does the woman imply?

9. W: Is this the check-in counter for Flight 930 to Atlanta?

M: Yes, but the flight is delayed because of some mechanical problems. Please wait for further information. Q: What can you learn from the conversation? 10. M: Hurry! Get the car started！We would be late!

W: Oh-no! The needle is on “Empty”. I thought the tank was half full! Q: What is their problem?

Section B

Directions: In Section B, you will hear two passages and one longer conversation. After each passage and conversation, you will be asked several questions. The passages and the conversation will be read twice, but the questions will be spoken only once. When you hear a question, read the four possible answers on your paper, and decide which one is the best answer to the question you have heard.

Questions 11 through 13 are based on the following passage.

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Every summer, Europeans and tourists from all over the world sail by boat down the Danube River. Their trips often begin in Nuremberg, Germany, where they can visit the Imperial Castle and the ancient city wall. From Nuremberg, the boats proceed down the Danube to Melk, which for centuries was one of Europe’s most important religious centers. Among the interesting sights in Melk is its famous church tower. After Melk, the boats pass through wine country to Vienna. Called the “City of Waltzes”, Vienna has a magnificent opera house and an imperial palace. A side trip from Vienna takes visitors into the Austrian great mountains. The tour bus trip offers magnificent views of the surrounding countryside.

From Vienna, the boats sail to Budapest, the capital of the central-European country of Hungary. The city’s name combines those of “Buda” and “Pest”, once separate towns on either side of the Danube River. In 1873, these towns were united and their names combined into one. Budapest boasts a history that’s more than 2,000 years old and it has lots of famous historic sites. There you can explore many hundreds of years of history, art and culture. One great way of doing so is through guided walking tours. Some of these tours are free, led by local people who have extensive knowledge of their city. Numerous wars and natural disasters destroyed much of the original Castle Quarter. Still, beauty and charm remain.

Now listen again, please.

Questions:

11. What does this passage mainly talk about?

12. Which city can be described as a religious centre?

13. What can be learned about Budapest from the passage? Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage.

Three Scottish brothers have successfully rowed across the Atlantic Ocean in just 35 days, smashing three world records in the process. The MacLean brothers—Ewan, aged 27, Jamie, 26, and Lachlan, 21—began their 3,000-mile journey on 12 December 2019 in La Gomera, an island in Africa. Their marathon adventure ended on 16 January in Antigua, an island in the Caribbean.

The MacLeans are the first three brothers known to have rowed an ocean together, and they are also the youngest and fastest group ever to row across the Atlantic. Their speedy crossing was completed six days quicker than the previous record for a group of three.

The brothers travelled in a boat called Broar and they faced many challenges during their journey. For the final 20 days of the adventure they had to make do without their phones because their charging cables had been damaged by a combination of sunshine and salty seawater. To keep themselves entertained, they played the bagpipes, a traditional Scottish musical instrument that they had brought with them.

Ewan, who works as a design engineer, had to be convinced by his brothers to take a break from his job in order to take on the challenge. He told reporters, “No doubt, this was the invaluable experience of my life.” The brothers are using their success to raise money for several charities, including Children First—a charity for young people in Scotland. Now listen again, please.

Questions:

14. Why is the Maclean brothers’ success so special?

15. What happened to their phones according to the passage?

16. What can we know about the eldest brother Ewan from the passage?

Questions 17 through 20 are based on the following conversation.

M: I still don’t understand what it is that you’re talking about. What is the equality of the genders anyway?

W: I’m not sure I can give you a perfect dictionary definition, but I’ll tell you how I feel. I want both of us to share all

responsibilities equally. Both of us will contribute to the life that we share. M: But I earn enough money for both of us. And what about the home?

W: I want to contribute financially so that we can both stand on our own feet; both of us will clean the house; both of us

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will raise the children, and so on. It may not be exactly equal, but we can try.

M: I was raised to treat women with a certain respect: to stand when they enter a room, to open car doors for them, to let

them sit first and eat first.

W: I think those things are old-fashioned. I’m perfectly able to open doors for myself, and do all sorts of other things.

And babies, it makes me feel uncomfortable when you treat me as though I were a china doll. I’m not more special than you. I’m your equal.

M: It sounds as though you think men and women—or in our case, boys and girls—can be friends just like two girls or

two boys can.

W: I certainly do. And I think we’ll all be better for it. Now listen again, please.

Questions:

17. What are the two speakers talking about?

18. What is a husband’s role in a family from the man’s point of view? 19. Which of the following is fair according to the woman?

20. Which of the following is old-fashioned in the eyes of the woman?

That’s the end of listening comprehension. 听力部分到此结束。

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