1、核心素养测评二 Module 2 My New Teachers. 阅读理解A(2023北京海淀模拟)My First Day of SchoolFear started taking over, I was walking into my first school in America. I had traveled a long distance from India in order to join my parents, who had been here for three years, hoping America would help my future. My father d
2、ecided that I would be better off going to school here, so I enrolled (登记) in the local high school in my new town. I was afraid how I would do. On the first day, I went to my second period class after I had missed my first. With anxiety, I reached for the door, opening it slowly. Without paying att
3、ention to my classmates, I went straight to the teacher and asked if this was the right class. With a soft voice he answered. “Yes. His voice comforted me a little. He gave me a sheet called Course Requirements, which I would never get in India because we didnt have anything like that. Then he asked
4、 me to choose where I would sit. I didnt actually want to pick a seat. In India we had fixed seats, so I never needed to worry about that. I spent the rest of the class taking notes from the image produced by the overhead projector. In Indian schools, we didnt use the technology we had. We had to ta
5、ke notes as the teacher spoke. It was noon. I was very confused about when I would have lunch. I went to my next class and the bell rang as I entered. I went through the regular process of asking the teacher if I was in the right class. She said, “Its still fourth period. “But the bell just rang, I
6、said. Changing from a gentle tone to a harsher (刺耳的) one, she said, “That is the lunch bell, young man. I apologized. Without another word I headed for the cafeteria. I felt lucky because we didnt have this in India. Every confusion seemed like a barrier I had to get through to reach my goal. At the
7、 end of the day, I was on my way to the bus which we didnt have in India either. I spotted my bus and sat down inside happily. I was thinking, today wasnt so bad. 【文章大意】这是一篇记叙文。作者从印度来到美国, 在美国上高中。作者记叙了第一天上学的经历和感受。1. Why did the author attend an American high school? A. His father preferred American s
8、chools. B. His mother had worked in it for 3 years. C. He had been longing to leave his homeland. D. His family wanted him to have a bright future. 【解析】选D。细节理解题。由第一段中的“I had traveled. . . join my parents. . . , hoping America would help my future. My father decided that I would be better off going t
9、o school here可知, 作者的父母希望美国会对作者的未来有好处, 在美国上学作者会更好。应选D。2. What do we know about the authors first day of school? A. He went to the wrong class for the second period. B. He met some enthusiastic teachers and classmates. C. He got the Course Requirements sheet from his classmates. D. He experienced diff
10、erences from the Indian schools in many ways. 【解析】选D。推理判断题。由第二段中的“He gave me a sheet called Course Requirements, which I would never get in India. . . I didnt actually want to pick a seat. In India we had fixed seats. . . I spent the rest of the class taking notes from the image produced by the over
11、head projector. In Indian schools, we didnt use the technology we had. 可知, 作者在美国上学的第一天, 遇到了很多和印度不一样的地方。例如: 自己选择座位, 课程安排等。应选 D。3. How did the author feel at the end of the day? A. Worried. B. Puzzled. C. Relieved. D. Excited. 【解析】选C。推理判断题。由第二段中的“I was afraid how I would do. On the first day, I went t
12、o my second period class after I had missed my first. With anxiety. . . 和最后一段中的“I spotted my bus and sat down inside happily. I was thinking, today wasnt so bad可知, 作者一开始非常害怕, 非常焦虑, 但是到了这一天结束的时候, 他感觉这一天不是那么糟糕。由此可以推知, 作者的焦虑最终得以缓解。应选C。【知识拓展】佳词积累1. anxiety n. 焦虑; 2. comfort v. &n. 舒适, 抚慰3. fixed adj. 固定
13、的4. process n. 过程5. apologize vi. 抱歉6. head n. & v. 头, 朝方向而去7. confusion n. 困惑8. barrier n. 障碍9. spot n. &v. 地点, 认出长难句分析I had traveled a long distance from India in order to join my parents, who had been here for three years, hoping America would help my future. 分析: 本句的主干是一个主谓状结构I had traveled. . .
14、, who引导非限制性定语从句, hoping. . . 是现在分词短语作伴随状语。翻译: 为了和父母团聚, 我从印度长途跋涉而来, 他们已经在这里生活了三年, 希望美国能帮助我的未来。背景链接出国留学低龄化及其利弊: 越来越多的学生高中(甚至初中)毕业直接出国, 他们充分接触国外的生活, 了解当地的人文地理及生活和工作上的差距, 取得更多的国外学习和生活的经验, 充分接触国外的先进文化教育理念, 及西方国家的素质教育, 充分拓展自己的国际视野, 了解国际商业文化及国际交流规那么, 但语言、生活、教学模式、学习方法等方面的差异, 会给学生带来较大压力。B If you live in Wash
15、ington, D. C. , or Redwood, Calif. , you may have glimpsed a small, boxy robot rolling along a local sidewalk, minding its own business, but attracting the attention of many a curious onlooker. The robots, which look like electric rice cookers with wheels, were part of a pilot program last year by S
16、tarship Technologies focused on delivering meals from local restaurants in dozens of cities around the world. This week, the company revealed plans to broaden its delivery service beyond food to include packages, a move that made it “the worlds first robot package delivery service. The package deliv
17、ery service is only available in some cities in the US. The wheeled robots have a top speed of 4 mph and can detect barriers from as far as 30 feet away. “The robot can operate through just about anything, says Nick Handrick, head of operations for Starships D. C. office, “If you have something in t
18、he way, its able to climb it. By giving customers control of when deliveries occur, Starship Technologies is promoting its service as a way to combat package theft. To sign up for the service, which costs a little more than $10 per month, customers need to download the companys app. Customers then c
19、reate a “Starship Delivery Address, a unique address inside a Starship facility, instead of a home address, where they can have packages sent from places such as Amazon. com. Once a package is delivered to the Starship address, customers receive a text notice that allows them to schedule a home deli
20、very via robot. The robots are opened by customers with a mobile phone code (代码). 【文章大意】这是一篇说明文。这篇文章主要讲了在美国的一些城市, 包裹可以由机器人运送。4. What do we know about Starship Technologies company? A. Its robots have taken on package delivery for a long time. B. Packages are delivered by its robots all round America
21、. C. It is the first to provide robot package delivery service. D. Its delivery service is the best of all in the world. 【解析】 选C。细节理解题。由第三段This week, the company revealed plans to broaden its delivery service beyond food to include packages, a move that made it “the worlds first robot package delive
22、ry service. (本周, 该公司公布了将送货效劳从食品扩展到包裹的方案, 此举使其成为世界上第一家提供送货机器人效劳的公司。)由此可知星际飞船技术公司是第一家提供机器人包裹递送效劳的公司, 应选C。5. What does the underlined word “combat in Paragraph 4 probably mean? A. Delay. B. Prevent. C. Report. D. Discover. 【解析】选B。词义猜想题。上文By giving customers control of when deliveries occur说通过让客户控制何时发货,
23、 推断出下文Starship Technologies is promoting its service as a way to combat package theft. 的意思是星际飞船技术公司正在推广其效劳, 作为一种打击包裹盗窃的方式。combat意思是“阻止, delay延期; prevent阻止; report报告; discover发现, 应选B。6. What can we learn about robot package delivery service? A. Customers cant open the robots without a mobile phone co
24、de. B. Starship Delivery Address is the customers home address. C. Customers have to pay a little more than $10 each time. D. Robots themselves have control over when to deliver packages. 【解析】选A。推理判断题。由最后一段The robots are opened by customers with a mobile phone code. (这些机器人由顾客用 代码翻开。), 由此可知没有 代码, 顾客无
25、法翻开机器人, 应选A。7. What may be the best title for the passage? A. Robot Delivery Service Is Taking OffB. Humans Are Being Replaced by RobotsC. Everything Can Be Done by RobotsD. Packages Can Be Delivered by Robots【解析】选D。主旨大意题。第三段中“This week, the company revealed plans to broaden its delivery service bey
26、ond food to include packages, a move that made it “the worlds first robot package delivery service信息是全文的主题句, 结合全文内容, 可知这篇文章主要讲了在美国的一些城市, 包裹可以由机器人运送了, 应选D。【知识拓展】佳词积累1. attractv. 吸引2. curiousadj. 好奇的3. deliverv. 投递4. broadenv. 拓宽5. packagen. 包裹6. availableadj. 可得到的; 有空的7. promotev. 推销, 促进8. schedulen.
27、 &v. 安排长难句分析Customers then create a “Starship Delivery Address, a unique address inside a Starship facility, instead of a home address, where they can have packages sent from places such as Amazon. com. 分析: 此句是一个主谓宾结构Customers create sth. 后面的 a unique address是同位语, where引导定语从句, 句中含有have sth. done结构。翻
28、译: 然后, 客户创立一个“星船送货地址, 一个位于星船设施内的唯一地址, 而不是一个家庭地址, 在那里他们可以从Amazon等地发送包裹。背景链接 5G和人工智能助力快递等众多行业。随着5G技术和人工智能的开展, 互联网+和AI+如火如荼, 科技创新不断颠覆我们的认知, 智慧金融、自动驾驶、智能零售与物流、智慧城市、机器人医生、5G全息通话等, 5G+AI“硬核科技不断跨界融合, 开启未来生活。. 完形填空Several years ago, my company experienced a slowdown in business. We hoped that it was only 1.
29、 We had work enough for only four days of the week. So we decided that we would 2 from Monday to Thursday, and take Fridays to do 3 projects in our hometown. One day, we went to a very old gentlemans 4 to do a total cleanup. When we arrived, an elderly woman 5 us at the door. We thought she was the
30、wife, but it turned out she was the 6. She was 75, and her father 97! Soon, we began to 7 the house and the yard. It was 8 how much work a group could get done when everyone was working 9. That gentlemans house went from dirt to a sparkling clean palace by the time we 10. The thing I most remember a
31、bout that day, 11, was not the great cleaning job that we did, but something 12. When we walked into the house, I noticed the wonderful drawings that 13 the walls. The daughter told us that her father had 14 them, and that he hadnt 15 art until he was 80 years old. I was 16: these drawings were work
32、s of art that could have easily been hanging in a museum. At the time, I was in my early 30s and wanted to do something that would 17 my creative and artistic competence more than being president of a company would 18. I had felt that it was too 19 to make a change at this “advanced stage of my life
33、. Boy! My 20 belief system got expanded that afternoon! 【文章大意】这是一篇记叙文。本文主要讲的是几年前, 作者公司生意下滑, 于是, 作者利用周五的时间和同事一起去了家乡做公益志愿活动, 帮助老人做清洁工作。在一位老人的家中无意间看到了老人的画作, 非常吃惊于老人的艺术天分, 而老人的女儿告知作者老人是从八十岁开始学习艺术的。作者从这件事得到启发, 自己有限的信念得到了扩展。1. A. temporaryB. easyC. properD. impossible【解析】选A。temporary暂时的; easy容易的; proper适宜
34、的; impossible不可能的。根据上文可知作者的公司不景气, 作者希望那只是“暂时的。2. A. restB. playC. startD. work【解析】选D。 rest休息; play玩耍; start开始; work工作。根据上文only four days of the week可知一周只从周一到周四工作。3. A. research B. service C. design D. class【解析】选B。 research研究; service效劳; design设计; class班级。根据下文作者去家乡一位老人家里清扫卫生可知, 他们周五去家乡做一些效劳工程。4. A. c
35、ompany B. house C. office D. room【解析】选B。company公司; house房子; office办公室; room房间。根据下文do a total cleanup可知是去一位老人的房子进行大扫除。5. A. showedB. helpedC. invitedD. greeted【解析】选D。 show展示; help帮助; invite邀请; greet问候; 打招呼。句意: 当我们到的时候, 一位年长的女士在门口给我们打招呼。6. A. colleagueB. wifeC. daughterD. partner【解析】选C。colleague同事; wi
36、fe妻子; daughter女儿; partner伙伴。根据下文She was 75, and her father 97! 可知她是老人的女儿。7. A. sellB. buy C. clean D. tour【解析】选C。sell出售; buy购置; clean清扫; tour旅行。句意: 很快, 我们开始清扫房子和庭院。8. A. amazingB. amusing C. boringD. tiring【解析】选A。amazing令人惊异的; amusing 有趣的; boring无聊的; tiring累人的。句意: 当每个人都在一起工作时, 一个团队能完成多少工作是令人惊讶的。9. A
37、. individuallyB. together C. alone D. equally【解析】选B。 individually分别地; together一起; alone单独地; equally平等地。作者不止一个人去了老人的家, 所以是一起工作的。10. A. finishedB. washedC. started D. arrived【解析】选A。finish完成; wash洗; start开始; arrive到达。句意: 我们完工时, 那位先生的房子从土堆变成了一座闪闪发光的干净宫殿。11. A. howeverB. thereforeC. insteadD. moreover【解析
38、】选A。however然而; therefore因此; instead而不是; moreover而且。句意: 然而, 那天我记得最深刻的事情, 并不是我们所做的清洁工作。前后文为转折关系故用转折连词。12. A. similarB. familiarC. differentD. absurd【解析】选C。similar相似的; familiar熟悉的; different不同的; absurd荒唐的。让作者印象深刻的并不是他们出色的清洁工作, 而是另一些不同的事情。13. A. builtB. facedC. madeD. decorated【解析】选D。 build建造; face面对; m
39、ake制造; decorate装饰。句意: 当我们走进房子的时候, 我注意到那些装饰墙壁的精美图画。14. A. coloredB. paintedC. observedD. purchased【解析】选B。color染色; paint画画; observe观察; purchase购置。女儿告诉作者是她的父亲画的。15. A. appealed toB. given upC. kept toD. taken up【解析】选D。 appeal to呼吁; give up放弃; keep to保密; take up开始从事。句意: 他直到80岁才开始学艺术。16. A. disappointedB
40、. embarrassedC. shockedD. satisfied【解析】选C。disappointed失望的; embarrassed为难的; shocked吃惊的; satisfied满意的。根据下文these drawings were works of art that could have easily been hanging in a museum可知作者对老人拥有出色的绘画才能却80岁才开始从事绘画, 感到很吃惊。17. A. useB. lackC. add D. provide【解析】选A。use使用; lack缺少; add增加; provide提供。作者想到自己想要
41、做一些能够运用到自己创作和艺术能力的事情。18. A. continueB. allowC. failD. process【解析】选B。continue继续; allow允许; fail失败; process处理。句意: 当时, 我30岁出头, 想做一些能充分发挥我的创造力和艺术才能的事情, 不仅仅是作为一家公司的总裁所允许去做的事情。19. A. activeB. simpleC. difficultD. strange【解析】选C。difficult困难的; simple简单的; active活泼的; strange陌生的。句意: 我原来觉得在我人生的这个“高级阶段做出改变太困难了。20.
42、 A. openB. socialC. newD. limited【解析】选D。open公开的; social社会的; new新的; limited有限的。句意: 那天下午, 我有限的信仰体系得到了扩展! 作者从老人八十岁学习艺术的事件中得到启发, 让自己“有限的信念得到了扩展, 应选D。【知识拓展】佳词积累1. creativeadj. 有创造力的2. artisticadj. 艺术性的3. advancedadj. 先进的, 高级的4. expand v. 扩展5. temporary adj. 暂时的6. colleague n. 同事7. familiar adj. 熟悉8. absu
43、rd adj. 荒唐的9. purchase n. & v. 购置品, 购置10. appeal n. & v. 吸引力, 吸引11. provide v. 提供长难句分析At the time, I was in my early 30s and wanted to do something that would use my creative and artistic competence more than being president of a company would allow. 分析: that 引导定语从句, more than 意为“不仅仅。翻译: 当时, 我30岁出头,
44、 想做一些能充分发挥我的创造力和艺术才能的事情, 而不仅仅是作为一家公司的总裁所允许去做的事情。背景链接“志愿者(英语Volunteers)是一个没有国界的名称, 指的是在不为任何物质报酬的情况下, 为改良社会而提供效劳、奉献个人的时间及精神的人。志愿效劳的精神概括起来是: 奉献、友爱、互助、进步。. 语法填空阅读下面短文, 在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。Sales of new energy vehicles (NEVs) in China more than doubled in October, 2023, while overall auto sales went
45、up 1. (steady). Some 92, 000 NEVs were produced in October, up 85. 9 percent year on year, and 91, 000 2. (sell), up 106. 7 percent from last October. Total auto sales remained stable, with some 2. 7 million vehicles sold last month, up 2 percent year on year. Meanwhile, a total of 2. 6 million auto
46、 vehicles in October 3. produced, up 0. 7 percent from the same period last year. However, on a month-on-month basis, auto sales dropped 0. 2 percent, while auto 4. (produce) was down 2. 5 percent in October. In the 5. (one) ten months of the year, auto output and sales increased by 4. 3 percent and
47、 4. 1 percent year on year 6. 22. 96 million and 22. 93 million, respectively (分别). China has made every effort to encourage the use of NEVs, the aim of 7. is to deal with pressure on the environment by offering tax exemptions (免税) and 8. (discount) for the car purchases, and 9. (order) government organizations to buy more NEVs. In the latest move, Chinese banking a