1、必修第一册必修第一册 Unit1 Teenage life 真题模拟练真题模拟练 （时间：100分钟 分值：120分） 第一部分第一部分 阅读理解阅读理解（共两节，满分（共两节，满分50分分） 第一节（共第一节（共15小题；每小题小题；每小题2.5分，满分分，满分37.5分）分） 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。 A With exams just around the corner, now is a good time to explore some of UCLs lesser-known study spaces and get down to s
2、ome revision. Here are some good choices for you. UCL Senate House Hub UCL Senate House Hub opened in 2015 and provides 144 study spaces. Whats more, you can check how many spaces are available online before you head to the place. Located on the 3rd floor of the South Block of Senate House, the cent
3、er has room for individual and group study in traditional library spaces, as well as armchairs and wi-fi coverage. UCL Eastman Dental Library The newly redecorated UCL Eastman Dental Library is located halfway along Grays Inn Road and is open from Monday to Friday, 9:00am 800pm. The library has 72 s
4、tudy spaces, and many IT facilities（equipment with access to the Internet）. The library also has a study room for meetings and a computer cluster room with a whiteboard. UCL Language & Speech Science Library UCL Language & Speech Science Library（LASS）has disabled access and has recently been
5、 decorated to add extra study spaces. With only 49 spaces, LASS is smaller than most other UCL libraries and tends to fill up quickly, so get there early to avoid disappointment. Senate House Library This one may be cheating as the Senate House Library is not technically a UCL library. However, all
6、UCL students and staff can register for free membership online. With millions of books and journals, Senate House Library offers some places a little less used by UCL students but perfect for students who want to focus on some hard work. 1The four places are mainly introduced to someone who_. Alikes
7、 learning online Bprefers to study in widely-known libraries Cloves reading Dis preparing for exams 2What should students do online before they go to UCL Senate House Hub? ACheck whether there are available seats. BTake the Membership Card. CMake an appointment in advance. DCheck the librarys openin
8、g hours. 3How many libraries can offer Internet services? AFour. BOne. CTwo. DThree. 【答案】1D 2A 3B 【语篇导读】这是一篇应用文，介绍了伦敦大学学院几个供学生复习备考的地方。 1细节理解题。根据第一段With exams just around the corner, now is a good time to explore some of UCLs lesser-known study spaces and get down to some revision. Here are some good
9、 choices for you.（随着考试的临近，现在是一个很好的时间去探索一些UCL鲜为人知的学习空间，并着手进行一些复习。这里有一些不错的选择。）可知，这四个地方主要介绍给正在准备考试的人。故选D。 2细节理解题。根据UCL Senate House Hub部分中的第二句Whats more, you can check how many spaces are available online before you head to the place（更重要的是，你可以在去那里之前上网查看有多少空位）可知，在前往伦敦大学学院参议院中心之前，学生应该在网上查看是否有空位。故选A。 3推理判
10、断题。根据UCL Eastman Dental Library部分中的The library also has a study room for meetings and a computer cluster room with a whiteboard（图书馆还有一间会议室和一间带白板电脑室）可知，只有这家图书馆有电脑和网络资源可使用。故选B。 B Gautam Shah had spent 20 years working in ITand his whole life caring about nature. He saw advances in conservation that go
11、t mentioned only in science journals, but the story lines within that data are amazing; theyre fascinating, Shah says. Theyre absolutely things that can engage an audience. Eager to use his techie skills for wildlife conservation, Shaha National Geographic explorerfounded a game company called Inter
12、net of Elephants in 2016. The Kenya-based start-up designs digital experiences to tell real conservation stories based on real data. One example: Wildeverse, an improved reality mobile app like Pokemon Go, launched in April 2020. In the game, players can track apes by collecting environmental sample
13、s such as fruit and animal waste. Rather than putting lots of high-tech tricks in a game, Shah says, the company prioritizes (优先) telling an interesting, true story through whatever technology is best suited to it. Shah believes that gaming has a unique ability to connect audiences with wildlife in
14、a deep, personal way that will show much concern and advocacy. His goal is for Internet of Elephants to reach more than 50 million people by 2027. Hopefully, he says, we can create an entire industry where creating games and these types of digital experiences about wildlife conservation becomes as c
15、ommon things as creating a wildlife documentary. 4. We can learn from paragraph 1 that Gautam Shah _. A. has got a creative idea of doing something interesting B. has found some amazing data in science journals C. thought science journals should be amazing D. had devoted his life to IT industry 5. W
16、hy did Gautam Shah found the game company? A. To improve reality mobile apps. B. To win more than 500 million online players. C. To collect money for a wildlife conservation project. D. To use digital experiences to promote wildlife protection. 6. What can the players do through the app Wildeverse?
17、A. Play high-tech tricks in the game. B. Tell interesting, true stories about animals. C. Find apes by following their movements. D. Have conversations with many animals like apes. 7. Which of the following words can best describe Gautam Shah? A. Considerate and ambitious. B. Creative and responsibl
18、e. C. Caring and tolerant D. Curious and generous. 【答案】4. A 5. D 6. C 7. B 【解析】 这是一篇记叙文。Gautam Shah通过创建公司让人们能够通过数字来体验动物保护，从而促进动物保护事业。 【4题详解】 细节理解题。根据第一段最后两句but the story lines within that data are amazing; theyre fascinating（但是数据中的故事情节是惊人的;他们是迷人的）和Theyre absolutely things that can engage an audience
19、.（它们绝对是能够吸引观众的东西。）可知，Gautam Shah想到不仅仅在科学杂志上刊登关于环境保护的内容，因为这很有趣。所以Gautam Shah有了做有趣事情的创意。故选A。 【5题详解】 细节理解题。根据第二段第一句Eager to use his techie skills for wildlife conservation（渴望用他的技术保护野生动物）和第二句The Kenya-based start-up designs digital experiences to tell real conservation stories based on real data. （这家总部位
20、于肯尼亚的初创公司设计数字体验，以真实数据为基础讲述真实的动物保护故事。）可知，Gautam Shah创立这家游戏公司是为了利用数字体验促进野生动物保护。故选D。 【6题详解】 细节理解题。根据第二段倒第二句In the game, players can track apes (类人猿) by collecting environmental samples such as fruit and animal waste. （在游戏中，玩家可以通过收集水果和动物粪便等环境样本来追踪猿类。）可知，通过应用wilddeverse玩家可以通过追踪猿类的活动来找到它们。故选C。 【7题详解】 推理判断
21、题。Gautam Shah通过创建公司让人们能够通过数字体验来体验动物保护，所以他很有创造力。Gautam Shah致力于动物保护，所以他很有责任心。故选B。 C We often hear that 60 is the new 50. Just check out images of your grandparents or great-grandparents and notice their stooped (驼背的) bodies, their wrinkled faces when they were barely pushing 60. What a contrast with e
22、nergetic, gym-going sexagenarians (60几岁的人) of today! A research, overseen by gerontologist Taina Rantanen, compared adults born in 1910 and 1914 with those born roughly 30 years later. Both birth groups were examined in person at age 60 and again at 70 with the same set of six physical tests and fiv
23、e measures of cognition. According to the research, the later-born group could walk faster, had a stronger hand grasp and could use more force with their lower legs. On cognitive tests, the later-born group had better verbal fluency, and scored higher on a test matching numbers to symbols. But not e
24、verything changed across the generations: measures of lung function were surprisingly not changing, and there was no improvement in the short-term-memory task of recalling a series of digits. There are many reasons why people are aging better, including improved medical care and a drop in smoking, b
25、ut the key factor shown in the study of physical function was that the later-born adults were more physically active and had bigger bodies, which suggests better nutrition. For brain function, the key seems to be more years of education. Education is a powerful influence on aging and health, says Lu
26、igi Ferrucci, scientific director of the U.S. National Institute on Aging: With more education, you are probably going to have a larger income, which means you are more likely to go to the doctor, and have good nutrition. He also points out that the average life span is seven years shorter in a poor
27、 state such as Mississippi than in a wealthier one such as California. Here we still have lots of people who cannot take the drugs they need because they cannot pay for them, he says. In short, 60 may be the new 50 for many of us but not for all. 8. How does the writer begin the passage? A. By imagi
28、ning a scene. B. By making a comparison. C. By raising a question. D. By presenting an image. 9. Which of the following is true about the research? A. Everything didnt change across the generations. B. The later-born group could hardly grasp things more tightly. C. The later-born group did worse in
29、matching numbers to symbols. D. There was a little improvement in short-term memory in both groups. 10. According to the research, what contributes most to physically aging better? A. Improved medical care. B. Education. C. Better nutrition. D. Energetic images. 11. What is the main idea of the pass
30、age? A. Many reasons contribute to peoples better physical function. B. Todays energetic sexagenarians have much better images. C. Education is the key to peoples aging better. D. People today are aging better in many ways. 【答案】8-11. BACD 【解析】这是一篇说明文。作者在文中提出根据研究表明现在老年人看起来比以前的老年人更年轻，并说明了理由。 【8 题详解】推理
31、判断题。文章第一段中notice their stooped(驼背的) bodies, their wrinkled faces when they were barely pushing 60. What a contrast with vigorous, gym-going sexagenarians(60 几岁的人) of today 中 contrast表明作者是通过比较过去的老年人和现在的老年人来开始全文的。故选 B。 【9 题详解】推理判断题。根据第二段中But not everything changed across the generations可知 A 正确。 【10 题详
32、解】细节理解题。根据第三段中 the later-born adults were more physically active and had bigger bod-ies, which suggests better nutrition可知，人们身体老年化有所改善主要的原因是因为营养更好。故选 C。 【11 题详解】主旨大意题。根据全文作者对于现在老年人老年化改善的陈述可看出文章的主要内容为 D 今天人们在很多方面老年化都有所改善。故选 D。 D A US government study has found that facial recognition technology is ge
33、tting better at identifying people wearing masks. The study is part of an ongoing research by the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The agency has examined the effectiveness of more than 150 facial recognition systems on people wearing face coverings . The systems are powered
34、 by machine learning algorithms (算法). The first results of the study were announced in July, as health officials across the world urged people to wear masks to limit the spread of COVID-19. New findings were released this week . Police agencies have long used facial recognition technology to search
35、for and help catch criminals. It can also be used to unlock phones or other electronic devices. Some robots use facial recognition technology to recognize the people they are communicating with. However, the wide use of masks in public has created major difficulties for such systems. The study looke
36、d at facial recognition systems already in use before the pandemic. It also looked at systems specially developed to work on masked faces. The NIST said it processed a total of 6. 2 million images for the experiment People in the images were not actually wearing masks. So, the researchers digitally
37、added different mask shapes to faces in the pictures for use in the study. In some cases, up to 70 percent of a persons face was covered in the images. Overall, the research shows the top-performing facial recognition systems fail to correctly identify unmasked individuals about 0. 3 percent of the
38、time and the failure rate rose to about 5 percent with masked images. Many of the lower performing algorithms, however, had much higher error rates with masked images as high as 20 to 50 percent. In the latest findings, researchers included results from 65 new facial recognition systems that have be
39、en developed since the start of the pandemic. Some of these systems performed significantly better than the earlier ones， Mei Ngan, a lead researcher on the project, said in a statement. The study also found round-shaped masks which cover only the mouth and nose led to fewer errors than wider ones t
40、hat stretch across the cheeks. The new study also ran tests to see whether different colored masks would affect error rates. The team used red, white, black and light blue. The research findings suggested that generally, the red and black masks led to higher failure rates than the other colors. 12.
41、How does the author mainly present the study finding? A. By giving definitions and examples. B. By giving examples and a brief description. C. By presenting data and making a comparison. D. By giving definitions and presenting data. 13. According to the study, what has affected the effectiveness of
42、facial recognition? A. The speed of the machine learning algorithms. B. The operators skill in performing algorithms. C. The number of the tested people. D. The diversity of face coverings. 14. Who is the most difficult to recognize? A. A girl wearing a white round-shaped mask. B. A lady with a red
43、mask stretching across her cheeks. C. A man wearing a light blue mask covering his mouth and nose. D. A man wearing a black mask with his nose and mouth covered up . 15. What is the authors attitude towards the facial recognition systems? A. Objective B. Negative C. Uncaring. D. Doubtful. 【答案】12. C
44、13. D 14. B 15. A 【解析】 这是一篇说明文。美国政府的一项研究发现，面部识别技术在识别戴口罩的人方面正变得越来越好。 【12题详解】 推理判断题。根据第三段最后两句Overall, the research shows the top-performing facial recognition systems fail to correctly identify unmasked individuals about 0. 3 percent of the time and the failure rate rose to about 5 percent with masked
45、 images. Many of the lower performing algorithms, however, had much higher error rates with masked images as high as 20 to 50 percent.（总的来说，研究表明，表现最好的面部识别系统不能正确地识别出大约0. 3%个未被蒙面的人。而在使用蒙面图像的情况下，失败率上升到5%左右。然而，许多表现较差的算法，对蒙面图像的错误率要高得多高达20%到50%。）可知，作者主要通过提供数据和对比的方式来呈现研究结果。故选C。 【13题详解】 细节理解题。根据最后一段倒数第三句The
46、 new study also ran tests to see whether different colored masks would affect error rates. （这项新研究还进行了测试，看不同颜色的口罩是否会影响错误率。）和倒数第四句The study also found round-shaped masks which cover only the mouth and nose led to fewer errors than wider ones that stretch across the cheeks.（研究还发现，圆形口罩(只覆盖嘴和鼻子)比宽口罩(覆盖脸颊
47、)产生的错误要少。）可知，口罩的多样性影响面部识别的有效性。故选D。 【14题详解】 推理判断题。根据最后一段最后一句The research findings suggested that generally, the red and black masks led to higher failure rates than the other colors.（研究结果表明，一般来说，红色和黑色面具比其他颜色的面具失败 率 更 高 。 ） 和 倒 数 第 四 句 The study also found round-shaped masks which cover only the mouth
48、 and nose led to fewer errors than wider ones that stretch across the cheeks.（研究还发现，圆形口罩(只覆盖嘴和鼻子)比宽口罩(覆盖脸颊)产生的错误要少。）可知，一位戴着红色宽口罩的女士会最难识别。故选B。 【15题详解】 推理判断题。全文只是介绍了对人脸识别系统的研究，并没有表达作者的个人观点，所以作者对人脸识别系统持客观态度。故选A。 第二节（共第二节（共5小题；每小题小题；每小题2.5分，满分分，满分12.5分）分） 阅读短文，根据短文内容，从短文后的七个选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
49、 One truth about modern life is that nobody has any time. 16 So lets try a simple thought experiment.Imagine that you came into possession of a magical new set of technologies that could automate or promote every single part of your job. 17 Maybe youd pick up a hobby,or have more children,or learn t
50、o relax and enjoy yourself in the additional leisure.But what if I told you that you wouldnt do any of those things:You would just work the exact same amount of time as before. 18 But there are simple reasons for this.Better technology means higher expectations and higher expectations create more work.For m