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2024-2025 学年度第一学期五校第二次联考

高二英语

命题人：东莞市第六高级中学黄婕关海银审题人：东莞市第六高级中学劳玉梅

说明：本试卷共四大部分，满分 150 分；考试时间 120 分钟

第一部分听力（共两节；满分 20 分）

第一节听力理解（共 5小题；每小题 2分，满分 10 分）

共两小段，每段播放两遍；请根据各段播放内容及其相关小题，在 5秒钟内从题中

所给的 A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

听第一段对话，回答第 1~2 题。

1. How might the man like That’s Incredible?

A. Scary. B. Amazing. C. Boring.

2. What will the man do tonight?

A. Go to Shanghai.

B. Watch a program.

C. Prepare for a business trip.

听第二段对话，回答第3~5题。

3. How many people were killed by the storm in Madagascar?

A. 19. B. 48. C. 130.

4. What difficulty does Malawi meet now?

A. Its main highway is cut off.

B. Another storm is hitting the country.

C. The government is unwilling to send food.

5. What may the speakers talk about next?

A. Causes of natural disasters.

B. Effects of extreme weather events.

C. Measures to protect the environment.

第二节听取信息 (共5小题;每小题 2分,满分 10 分）

听下面一段独白。请从所听到的内容中获取必要的信息，填入答题卡标号为 6~10

的空格中。听录音前，你将有 10 秒钟的阅题时间，录音读两遍。

The Speaker’s Experience of Learning Arabic in Cairo

Reason

Due to the passion of her Arabic lecturer

6.____________

Difficulty in finding a hotel and accommodation

Intense 7.____________

The disconnection between the written and the 8.____________ forms

of Arabic

One experience

She was invited to a local’s home for a traditional Arabic meal and was

able to confidently 9.____________.

It allowed her to learn and grow in 10.____________ways.

第二部分

第一节（共 10 小题；每小题 2.5 分，满分 25 分）

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出最佳选项，并在

答题卡上将该项涂黑。

Zlotkowski, a high school girl who lives on Isleboro Island, off Maine’ midcoast, spent

her summer helping her mom Kimberly sell seafood at their local farmers’ market. It was

there that they met another vendor (小贩) selling homemade goat cheese. A quick taste and

the family fell in love with it.

“Mom. Let’s get some goats so we can have cheese,” said Zlotkowski. Understandably,

her mom wasn’t sold on the idea, but it happened that Kimberly was looking to clear some

land. Zlotkowski saw her opening.

“Goats eat a lot of plants that other livestock (牲畜) won’t touch. They’re also able to

access brushy areas that are inaccessible to some larger equipment, and they naturally

fertilize while they work,” Zlotkowski explained to her mother. Then she suggested, “Why

not get some goats to clear the land, and we would also benefit from their milk and cheese?”

Kimberly got on board, and Grazy Goat Girls was born.

Over the fall, Zlotkowski acquired five goats, and she has been getting the animals

adapted to their new environment. She has let the goats clear some of her mom’s land in a

safe and eco-friendly manner, inspecting their progress and timing, to help her handle

inquiries from people throughout the region about clearing their properties.

With two years left of high school, Zlotkowski is growing her landscaping business

slowly, balancing the goats with seeing her friends and attending school activities. She wants

to see how big she can make Grazy Goat Girls before leaving for college. When she’s not

there, Zlotkowski will have to find someone to care for her goats until she can come back.

“After college, I’m hoping I can come back and start a farm as a landscaper,” says

Zlotkowski.

11. What impressed Zlotkowski at the local market?

A. Working as a vendor was no easy job.

B. Homemade goat cheese was delicious.

C. Seafood was less popular than cheese.

D. Many vendors sold homemade goat cheese.

12. What does the underlined phrase “wasn’t sold on” in paragraph 2 mean?

A. Was attracted by. B. Was impatient with.

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C. Was uninterested in. D. Was influenced by.

13. What can be a suitable title for the text?

A. Zlotkowski: a schoolgirl-turned-landscaper

B. Raising goats: an emerging trend on the market

C. Zlotkowski: a student who saves local livestock

D. Grazy Goat Girls: a teenager-inspired workshop

Suppose you are out shopping and come across a friend who starts telling you a story

that seems to be dragging on and on. You want to seem interested, so you offer the

occasional “Oh” or “I see”. To your surprise, though, this person angrily stops in his tracks

and says, “Sorry if I’m boring you!”

Where did this come from? Clearly, your body language must have betrayed (出卖) you.

The idea that verbal and nonverbal messages can conflict was the inspiration for a recently

published study from Yale University’s Lucylle Armentano. As part of her study of

communication in relationships, Armentano’s research also examined communication

channels in people meeting for the first time.

To test the role of a mismatch between verbal messages and nonverbal messages on

emotional communication, Armentano and her partner created experimental conditions to see

what happens when someone asks for help from strangers. The research team created

videotapes of a Yale student expressing nervousness in his words, with gestures, or both. The

gestures included running his hands through his hair, grabbing his arms, and facially

expressing uneasiness. The key question was whether the other participants, another 82 Yale

students, would believe the student and provide the help he was requesting. They needed to

give their responses.

Turning to the findings, those nonverbal cues ( 线索 ) for nervousness had a greater

impact on helping behavior than the verbal cues. Surprisingly, helping behavior was the

highest when verbal expressions of nervousness were low but nonverbal cues were high.

Recognizing that your body language can outweigh your words means that you need to

be mindful of what your body is doing when you’re interacting with others. Generally, when

someone is speaking to you, you want to look like you’re interested. Not only should you

maintain eye contact, but you should keep your body still and face toward that person. If

you’re not trying to look interested, it may be more polite to say you have to be somewhere

else.

14. What is paragraph 1 mainly about?

A. The obvious advantages of body language.

B. A situation where body language is a must.

C. The proper way to interact with old friends.

D. An example of the verbal-nonverbal mismatch.

15. What were the 82 Yale students asked to do?

A. Respond to the student’s request. B. Identify the types of body language.

C. Express nervousness in their words. D. Try to win the nervous student’s trust.

16. What does the author intend to do in the last paragraph?

A. Make a prediction. B. Offer some advice.

C. Present some facts. D. Give some warnings.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is showing promise in earthquake prediction, challenging the

long-held belief that it is impossible. Researchers at the University of Texas, Austin, have

developed an AI algorithm ( 算法 ) that correctly predicted 70% of earthquakes a week in

advance during a trial in China and provided accurate strength calculations (计算) for the

predicted earthquakes.

The research team believes their method succeeded because they stuck with a relatively

simple machine learning approach. The AI was provided with a set of statistical features

based on the team’s knowledge of earthquake physics, and then instructed to train itself using

a five-year database of earthquake recordings. Once trained, the AI provided its prediction by

listening for signs of incoming earthquakes within the background rumblings (隆隆声) in the

Earth.

This work is clearly a milestone in research for AI-driven earthquake prediction. “You

don’t see earthquakes coming,” explains Alexandros Savvaidis, a senior research scientist

who leads the Texas Seismological Network Program (TexNet). “It’s a matter of milliseconds,

and the only thing you can control is how prepared you are. Even with the 70% accuracy,

that’s a huge result and could help minimize economic and human losses and has the

potential to remarkably improve earthquake preparation worldwide.”

While it is unknown whether the same approach will work at other locations, the

researchers are confident that their AI algorithm could produce more accurate predictions if

used in areas with reliable earthquake tracking networks. The next step is to test artificial

intelligence in other places. UT’s Bureau TexNet in Texas has 300 earthquake stations and

over six years’ worth of continuous records, making it an ideal location for these purposes.

Eventually, the authors hope to combine the system with physics-based models. This

strategy could prove especially important where data is poor or lacking. “That may be a long

way off, but many advances such as this one, taken together, are what moves science

forward,” concludes Scott Tinker, the bureau’s director.

17. How does the AI forecast earthquakes?

A. By identifying data from the satellites.

B. By analyzing background sounds in the Earth.

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