still retain all the details and appear perfectly clear. You’d need a microscope to see the details shown in Scheer’s prints.

Scheer’s work is not only a new form of art. He can also be congratulated for making a valuable contribution to the record of moths where he lives. He has helped identify more than a thousand different species. “Not from Alaska or the Amazon,” Klingensmith says. “All from one backyard.” 56. What do people mean by saying “No, that can’t be a moth.”? A. The images are not those of moths.

B. The moths can only be found in American. C. The images seem too beautiful to be moths. D. The moths can’t be found everywhere.

57. It can be inferred that Scheer tried to drink less coffee when he was arranging moths on a scanner in order to .

A. keep his eyes focused B. keep his fingers twitched C. keep his hands still D. keep his mind clear

58. The underlined word “overwhelming” in Paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to . A. interesting B. amazing C. confusing D. discouraging

59. The images keep all the details even when increased 2,700 percent because . A. there is a great deal of information on the CD

B. the moths have very bright colors and clear patterns C. high quality paint is used to create images

D. a microscope is used to examine the details of images

B

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60. According to the text, the following people will get some useful advice from this webpage EXCEPT . A. elderly people B. disabled people C. office workers D. professional athletes 61. Couch to 5K is a . A. health website B. search engine C. fitness programme D. physical activity guideline

C

“Ready?” “Ready.” “Now?” “Soon.”

“Do the scientists really know? Will it happen today, will it?” “Look, look; see for yourself!” It rained.

It had been raining for seven years; thousands upon thousands of days filled from one end to the other with rain, with the drum of water, with the sweet crystal fall of showers and the continuous storms so heavy that huge waves over the islands. A thousand forests had been destroyed under the rain and grown up a thousand times to be destroyed again. And this was the way life was forever on the planet Venus, and this was the schoolroom of the children of the rocket men and women who had come to a raining world to set up civilization (文明) and live out their lives.

“It’s stopping, it’s stopping!” “Yes, yes!”

Margot stood apart from them, from these children who could never remember a time when there wasn’t rain and rain and rain. They were all nine years old, and if there had been a day, seven years ago, when the sun came out for an hour and showed its face to the stunned world, they could not remember.

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Sometimes, at night, she heard them stir, in remembrance, and she knew they were dreaming and remembering gold or a yellow crayon or a coin large enough to buy the world with. She knew they thought they remembered a warmness, like a blushing in the face, in the body, in the arms and legs and trembling hands. But then they always awoke to the endless shaking down of clear bead (珠子) necklaces upon the roof, the walk, the gardens, the forests, and their dreams were gone.

Now the rain was getting lighter, and the children were crushed in the great thick windows.

Margot stood alone. She was a very frail girl who looked as if she had been lost in the rain for years and the rain had washed out the blue from her eyes and the red from her mouth and the yellow from her hair. Now she stood, separate, staring at the rain and the loud wet world beyond the huge glass.

“What’re you looking at?” said William. Margot said nothing.

“Speak when you’re spoken to.” He gave her a shove (推搡). But she did not move; rather she let herself be moved only by him and nothing else.

They edged away from her, they would not look at her. She felt them go away. And this was because she would play no games with them in the echoing tunnels of the underground city. If they tagged her and ran, she stood after them and did not follow. When the class sang songs about happiness and life and games her lips barely moved. Only when they sang about the sun and the summer did her lips move as she watched the windows.

And then, of course, the biggest crime of all was that she had come here only five years ago from Earth, and she remembered the sun and the way the sun was and the sky was when she was four in Ohio. And they, they had been on Venus all their lives, and they had been only two years old when last the sun came out and had long since forgotten the color and heat of it and the way it really was. But Margot remembered. 62. By “a coin large enough to buy the world with”, the author suggest . A. the coin used on Venus B. a child’s colored pencil C. the high price of Venus D. a child’s drawing of the sun 63. The children disliked Margot mainly because she . A. was older than they were B. liked the continuous rain C. knew what the sun look like D. had brought the rain with her

64. The underlined phrase “Margot stood apart from them” suggests she stayed away from them. All the following sentences suggest the same thing EXCEPT “ ”. A. she felt them go away. B. Her lips hardly moved.

C. she stood after them and did not follow. D. she would play no games with them.

65. Which of the following can be the best title of the text? A. Margot Remembered B. The Rain C. The Outsider D. The Sun Never Comes 第四部分 任务型阅读(共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）

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Imagine O and Aarti are taking a really hard math test in December. After the test, what do they think?

O has a fixed mindset, the belief that your intelligence is “fixed”. You’re either smart or dumb. And if you’re smart, everything is easy for you.

Aarti has a growth mindset, the belief that your intelligence can grow. Not everyone can become a genius (天才) or a star athlete, but they can improve the skills they have and develop new ones.

So which is right? It’s Aarti. believe it or not, research shows that you really can get smarter by working hard, practicing and challenging yourself.

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Your brain is made up of 86 billion cells called neurons. They’re wired together by axons in a network that transmits (传输) electrical and chemical signals. A single neuron in your brain can be connected to 10,000 other neurons! When you think, feel, move, or use your sense, signals travel through this network.

Brain researchers have found that when we learn, new connections form between neurons, old connections grow stronger, and unused connections are destroyed. Learning is like exercise for your brain. If you work it out more, your network of will improve.

Your mindset can affect your performance at school, in sports and the arts, and even how you act and feel. Dr. Carol Dweck, a psychology professor at Stanford University, has discovered that people with a fixed mindset deal with problems in a much different way from those with a growth mindset.

People with a fixed mindset arc very concerned with grades and how smart they look compared to other people. They tend to give up on difficult problems. When they make mistakes, they think it means they’re not smart. They’re afraid of challenges, because if they don’t do well, they might look dumb.

People with a growth mindset are concerned with learning, not grades. They jump right in and work hard on difficult problems. They learn from mistakes by trying different problem-solving strategies or asking for help. They like challenges, because they want to stretch and improve their abilities.

Dweck and her team discovered that middle school students with a growth mindset do better in math; those with a fixed mindset do worse. Why? Kids with both mindsets do fine in elementary school, but middle school math is much harder. So while the growth-mindset kids carry on and work harder, the fixed-mindset kids may just give up. And their grades suffer.

And Dweck’s team discovered something even more important than that. The team taught those middle schoolers about mindset and how the brain works. They talked about the dangers of labeling (贴标签) people “dumb” or “smart”. And they discovered that - with some work - kids can choose to have a growth mindset and do better in school. Everyone has some of each type of mindset: they’re like voices in your head. The trick is to recognize your fixed mindset voice and your growth mindset voice. When you hear your fixed mindset voice telling you you’re dumb, or that you’ll look stupid if you ask for help, or that learning a new skill is hard, talk back to it! You’re not dumb ? you just haven’t learned how to do it yet. Asking for help isn’t stupid - it’s smart. And learning a new skill is hard -but won’t it be worth it?

Mindset Really 66. ▲ An introduction to mindset The major difference of the two mindsets lies in whether it is possible for intelligence to 67. ▲ Neurons are 68. ▲ by axons to form a network where electrical and chemical signals are transmitted. Learning results in a 69. ▲ network of neurons. People with a fixed mindest are more 71. ▲ to give up on difficult problems. On the other 72. ▲ , the growth-mindset people take immediate 73. ▲ to work on difficult problems. Your mindset can be changed through learning. When you’re 74. ▲ between your fixed mindset voice and growth mindset voice, listen to the latter only. It will be worth it to 75. ▲ the challenges and learn a new skill How the brain works How problems are 70. ▲ with different mindsets A more imporyant finding 第五部分 词汇检测（共5小题；每小题1分，满分5分） 请根据所给的首字母提示，在空格处写出一个形式上和语义上均符合要求的单词并把该单词的整形式写在答题纸上相应题号的横线处，每个空格只填一个单词。

76. My parents make it clear that they can’t t ▲ such rude behavior in our house. 77. What a c ▲ . I was thinking about Roy when he arrived! 78. It is beyond argument that there has been great improvement and the new method is s ▲ to the old one.

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