第一部分 听力（共两节，满分30分）

2026年10月

做题时，先将答案标在试卷上，录音内容结束后，你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的答案转涂到答题卡上。

第一节（共5小题：每小题1.5分，满分7.5分）

听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项。听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段录音读两遍。

1.What position is the woman applyingfor?

A.Ababysitter.B. A gamedeveloper.

2.What is the topic of theconversation?

A.Some dairy products. B. A town in Colombia.

3.How old is thewoman?

A.25.B. 30.

4.What does the woman think of themeasures?

A.Quitenecessary.B. Too strict.

5.When did Mr. Warren write his firstbook?

A.When he was in high school. B. When he was incollege.

C. A teacher.

C. A record-breaking event.

C. 50.

C. Impractical.

C. When he started working.

第二节（共15小题：每小题1.5分，满分22.5分）

听下面5段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项。听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟；听完后， 各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段录音读两遍。

听下面一段对话，回答第6和第7题。

6.What happened to the woman'sflight?

A.It failed to take off ontime.

B.It was called off withoutnotice.

C.It arrived about two hoursearlier.

7.Where does the conversation probably takeplace?

A.Ina restaurant.B. On aplane.C. At the airport.

听下面一段对话，回答第8至第10题。

8.Where does the man enjoy getting his newsfrom?

A.TheTV.B. The radio.

9.What type of news does the manlike?

A.Artnews.B. Sports news.

10.What is the man's attitude towards the news programs onTV?

A.Favorable.B.Casual.

听下面一段对话，回答第11至第13题。

11.Why does the woman make the phonecall?

A.To complain about hotelservice.

B.To arrange an importantmeeting.

C.To order a full Englishbreakfast.

12.How does the mansound?

A.Sorry.B.Worried.

13.What will the man probably donext?

A.Eathis breakfast.B. Go to thekitchen.

听下面一段对话，回答第14第17题。

14.Why did Maria go to the OxfordStreet?

A.Tomeet Jason.B. To watch a play.

15.What does Susan Hilldo?

A.She5sanactress.B. She5s a streetartist.

16.What did Susan Hill giveMaria?

A.Aring.B. A ticket.

17.What will Jason probably do?

A.Gowith Maria.B. See his friends.

听下面一段独白，回答第18至第20题。

18.When will the team return from CostaRica?

A.April6.B. July 10.

19.Where will the team go to do the secondproject?

A.Thenational parks.B. The city of SanJose.

20.What will the team do in the finalproject?

A.Planttrees.B. Feed birds.

C. The Internet.

C. Business news.

C. Unfavorable.

C. Painful.

C. Wait by the phone.

C. To do some shopping.

C. She5s a salesperson.

C. A£50 note.

C. Host a dinner.

C. July 20.

C. The east of Costa Rica.

C. Train animals.

第二部分阅读理解(共两节，满分50分)

第一节(共15小题：每小题2.5分，满分37.5分)

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳答案。

A

Riverside Arts Centre —Autumn Season 2026

Following a record-breaking summer,RiversideArtsCentrereturnswithanautumnprogrammethat balances crowd fevouriteswith less familiar offerings. Ticketsgo on sale to members on 1 Augustand to the general public on 8 August. Early booking is stronglyadvised.

Exhibition: Light and Silence

3 September - 28 October, Tuesday - Sunday, 10 a. m. - 6 p. m.

This exhibitionbringstogetherworksbytwelvecontemporaryphotographersexploringhownatural light shapes our sense of place. The centre's curator,Dr.HelenMarsh,willgiveafreeintroductory talk on5Septemberat11a.m.inthemainhall; no booking is required, but seatingis ona first-come, first-served basis. Visitors should note thatthewestwing,hometothepermanentcollection, will remain closed fbr renovation untilNovember.

Theatre: The Long Room

12 - 20 September, 7:30 p. m. (matinee 2:30 p. m. on 14 and 20 September)

A new production of Alan Reeve'scelebratedplay,directedbyPriyaNair.Theplaycontainsscenes of a disturbing nature and is not recommendedfbranyoneunder14.Runningtimeis approximatelytwohoursandfortyminutes,includingoneinterval.Tickets:£18-£32.Membersreceive a 15% discount on opening nightonly.

Workshop: Writing for Radio

3-4 October, 10 a. m. -4 p. m.

Led by award-winning radio dramatist TomFielding,thistwo-dayworkshopisaimedatwriterswho already have some experience and wish to developtheirskillsforthemedium.Participantsareasked to submit a short sampleofwritingasreservationinadvance.Placesarestrictlylimitedto14 and are allocated on a first-come, first-served basis. Fee: £85 (members £70), including lunch on bothdays.

Family Event: Tales from the River

18 October, 11 a. m. and 2 p. m.

A storytelling session fbr children aged 5-10 and their femilies,inspiredbylocallegends.Eachsession lasts about 50 minutes. Admission is free, butticketsmustbebookedinadvanceowingtolimited capacity. Children must be accompanied by an adult at alltimes.

For full details and booking, visit riversidearts.org.uk or call the box office on 555-0192 (Tuesday

-Saturday, 10 a. m. - 5p. m.).

21.What is true of the exhibition Light andSilence?

A.It can be visitedonMondays.B. It is held mainly in the westwing.

C. It requires booking for the curator's talk. D. It leaves out part of the centre's usual displays.

22.What do the Writing fbr Radio workshop and Tales from the River have incommon?

A.They both charge afee.

C. They are both intended for adults.

23.What is the main purpose of thetext?

A.To persuade readers to becomemembers.

B.To review the centre's summerprogramme.

C.To provide information about upcoming events.

D.To explain a change in the centre's openinghours.

B. They both offer lunch.

D. They both require advance booking.

B

Last summer, I volunteered at a small woodworking studio in the old part of our city. It was therethat I met Mr. Chen, a 5 8-year-old master craftsman whose hands toldstoriesof decades working with wood. While his workshop was filled with traditional tools,whathecreatedwasanythingbutconventional wooden furniture that perfectly blended classic craftsmanshipwithcontemporarydesign.What struck me most was Mr. Chen's unique perspective on what hecalledccnew-eracraftsmanship” Though he learned woodworking from his father asateenager,heneverconfinedhimselftooldmethods. Recognizing the changing preferences ofyoungercustomers,hespenteveningsteachinghimself3Dmodelingsoftwareandweekendsresearchingsustainablematerialslikebamboo composites and water-basedfinishes.

I witnessed his innovative approach firsthandwhenayoungcoupleaskedforacustombookshelf for their small apartment.Theyneededsomethingspace-efficient,eco-friendly,andeasytotearapartfor potential moves. Mr. Chen embraced the challengeenthusiastically.

Over the next week, he created multiple digital prototypes, experimented with three different typesof wood, and reinvented traditional techniques to create interlockingjointsthatrequirednometalfasteners. I often found himworkinglate,hisexperiencedhandscarefullytestingeachcomponent.When I asked why he invested such extraordinary effort intowhatseemedlikeasimpleproject,hepausedfromhis work andsmiled.ccTruecraftsmanshipisn't about blindly repeating what our ancestorsdid J he explained. ccIfs about understanding the essence of tradition while having the courage to adaptit for today?s world/5 To illustrate his point, heshowedmetwobookshelves—onehemadetwenty years ago, beautiful in its solid construction, and the newprototype,whichusedthirtypercentlessmaterial while being equally steady and more functional for modernliving.

Through Mr. Chen's example, I cametounderstandthatnew-eracraftsmanshiprepresentstheperfect marriage of dedication and innovation. Ithonorsthepastwhileembracingthefuture,provingthat excellence comes not from doing one thing forever, but from doing it well with an ever-evolvingspirit.

24.Why are traditional tools mentioned in Paragraph1?

A.To stress Mr. Chen's source ofinspiration.

B.To highlight the wisdom of pastgenerations.

C.To promote the spirit of traditionalcraftsmanship.

D.To contrast with Mr. Chen's modern and creativeideas.

25.Why does the author list specific requests from the youngcouple?

A.To reveal the great skills of today ?s craftsmen.

B.To display the shift of traditionalcraftsmanship.

C.To imply the need for craftsmen to go with thetimes.

D.To distinguish modern approaches from traditionalones.

26.What does “true craftsmanship^^ mean in Mr. Chen'sviewpoint?

A.Creating resource-efficientproducts.

C. Adapting traditional wisdom for modern use.

27.What does Mr. Chen's storyshow?

A.The best of bothworlds.

C. The value of old methods.

B.Persisting through testing andeffort.

D. Combining digital and traditional techniques

B. Two sides of a coin.

D. The limit of newness.

c

For decades, marine researchers have faced major obstacles in ocean conservation.Remote,darkcoastal waters shelter rare marine species, largely inaccessible to humandivers.Traditionalcamerasperform poorly in dim conditions, and costly human surveys cover less than 3 percent of global shallow marineareasyearly.Tosolvetheseproblems,amodernAIbioacoustics（生物声学的）monitoring system has been developed to boost conservationefficiency.

Jointly created by environmental tech teams and marine reserves, this innovativesystemadoptslow-cost underwater microphones to record complexoceansoundscapes.Equippedwithadvancedmachine learning technology, it is able to identify various marinespeciesaccordingtotheiruniqueacoustic（声音的）featuresautomatically.Comparedwithtraditionalapproaches,itreducessurvey costs by 62 percent and expands detectable sea areasbyover18times.Inspiredbydolphins'echolocation, its bionic algorithm （算法）can block interference from waves and ship engines, accurately recognizing faint and mixed underwatersounds.

In a 12-month field study off Ghana's western coast, Dr. Lena Marquez5s team placed46solar-poweredhydrophones（水听器）.TheAIuncoveredthreelocallyextinctfishspecies,missedbyhuman divers' annual searches for five years. It also locates hidden seagrass and coral habitats overlooked byhumans. Guided by its data, localfishermenadoptedseasonalfishingbans,raisingyoungfishpopulations by 41 percent in eightmonths.

Nevertheless, the system has two noticeable limitations. Itfailstoidentifysilentmarinecreatures such as shellfish with no acoustic signals. Additionally,itshigh-precisionanalysisdemandssteadyinternet access and basic digital training, which many remote island regions lack. To overcome these obstacles, researchers are optimizing offline data processingsystemsandofferingfreeprofessionaltraining for coastal residents in relevantregions.

This bionicAItechnologymarksasignificantbreakthroughinmarineecologicalprotection.Rather than isolating technology from natural ecosystems, it learns and follows natural biological rulesto repair damaged ocean habitats. As affordable hydrophones and open-source AI programs gain global popularity, local coastal communities are empowered to guardmarineresourceseffectively,turningabstract ocean protection theories into practical dailyaction.

28.What is a key advantage of the new AIsystem?

A.It functions well in darkenvironment.

B.It can operate without any workers onsite.

C.It makes marine surveys much moreefficient.

D.It's able to cover less than half sea areaworldwide.

29.What can we learn about the field study inGhana?

A.It improved adult fish populationquickly.

B.It was influenced by local fishingactivities.

C.It relied on human divers' repeatedsearches.

D.It found some previously unseen local fishspecies.

30.What is one shortcoming of the bioacousticsystem?

A.It cannot work inbright seawater.B. It is unable to detect soundless sealife.

C. It ignores humanfishing activities.D. It needs no digital training for users.

31.Whichof the following is the best title for the text?

A.AI Technology Empowers OceanConservation

B.New Rules for Global OceanFishing

C.Hidden Marine Habitats Discovered byDivers

D.Advanced Ways to Improve InternetService

D

You walk into a clothing store and spot a leather coat marked $1,800. You immediately label itextremely pricey and move on. Later that day, you find an identical coat onsalefor$650,andyouinstantly think you have found anincrediblesteal.Whatyoumaynotrealizeisthatyourjudgmenthas beenmisled by the anchoring bias （锚定偏见）.

The anchoring bias was first identified by psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky in

their research on intuitive （直觉的）reasoning. It describes the human tendency to rely heavily on the first piece of information we encounter-calledananchor-andevaluateeverysubsequentdetailagainst that fixed referencepoint.

Consider bargaining for a second-hand vehicle. If a seller openswithahighaskingprice,thatnumber becomesyour mentalanchor. Even if you negotiate the price far lower, you will still view thefinal deal as a win compared to the original figure, ignoringthecar's truemarketvalue.Theoppositeholds true: A surprisingly low initial offer causes the seller to undervalue their own property. This trapdoes not only appear in shopping; it influences salary negotiations, exam score judgments, and even predictions about globalstatistics.

The bias exists becausehumanbrainsnaturallyconservementalenergy.Recalculatingvalue requires heavy cognitive effort, so weautomaticallyleanonthefirstavailablereferencepointratherthan conducting fully independent analysis. When we are setting plans ormakingestimatesaboutsomething, we interpret newer information from the reference point of our anchor instead of seeing it objectively. This can affect our judgmentandpreventusfromupdatingourplansorpredictionsasmuch as weshould.

Avoiding the anchoringbiasentirelyisn'tpossible,givenitswidespreadimpactand howpowerful it is. Like all cognitivebiases,theanchoringbiasissubconscious,meaningit'sdifficulttointerrupt.Yet one evidence-based and straightforward strategy to fight againsttheanchoringbiasistocomeup with reasons whythatanchorisinappropriateforthesituation.Meanwhile,consideringmultipleoptions is always a good idea to aid indecision-making.

32.What do the underlined words "an incredible steal- in paragraph 1mean?

A.A real bargain. B. A freeitem.

33.What is the cause of the anchoringbias?

A.Reference pointloss.

C. Brain's energy-saving nature.

34.What is a good way to deal with the anchoringbias?

A.Ignoring itsreasons.

C. Seeking its impacts.

35.What is the purpose of thisarticle?

A.To show how to bargainwisely.

C. To warn against quick decisions.

C. An identical product. D. An unexpected gift.

B. Independentanalysis.

D. Brain's heavyburden.

B. Weighing various choices.

D. Interrupting relevant thoughts.

B. To explain a hidden mental trap.

D. To criticize a common phenomenon.

第二节（共5小题；每小题2.5分，满分12.5分）

阅读下面短文，从短文后的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。

Something annoying about learning: the things that make learning feel productiveareusuallythethings that slow it down. You sit down,yougrind throughthematerial,andbytheend ofthe session, you feel like you've got it. And then two weeks later-gone.36

The fix is oneofthemostwell-supportedfindingsinlearningscience:spacedrepetition.Insteadof bunching all your practice together in one session,youspreaditoutovertime.Inthe1880s,Hermann Ebbinghaus discovered what is now called the forgetting curve （曲线）.Without any review, youloseinformationfast.Roughlyhalfwithinthefirsthour.Seventypercentwithinaday.Ninety

percent within a week.

37_Your brain is doing exactly what it's supposed to do - choosing whattofocuson.Youencounter an enormous amount of informationeveryday,andyourbrainhastodecidewhatmattersand what doesn't. If you only see something once and never come back to it, yourbrainreasonablyconcludes it's notthat important.38When you encounter the same material again, your brain essentially says, “Oh, this keeps coming back. Must be important.Each time you successfully recallsomething after a gap, you reset the forgettingcurve.

So how long should you wait betweensessions?Theoptimalgapisroughly10-20%ofthetime you want to remember the material. A basic progression mightlooklikethis:firstreview1 day afterinitial learning, second review 3-5 days later, third review 1-2 weeks later, fourth review 1 month later,and subsequent reviews everyfewmonths.39You're not trying to prevent forgetting; you're trying to practice retrieving after some forgetting has occurred. As long as you get itright,theexact intervals are lesscritical.

You don't need to overcomplicate this. Start with something simple and build from there.

40It'sthatyou'rewillingtodothethingthatfeelsharderinthemomentbecauseyou understand it produces better results in the long run. Thafs true for spacing. Honestly, it's true for mostof learning.

A.Spacing delivers a fairly differentsignal.

B.That sounds terrible, but this isn't a designflaw.

C.This isn't a feilure of effort but a feilure ofstrategy.

D.Despite this, the science of the brain tells a differentstory.

E.The most important thing isn't the specific strategy youuse.

F.Forgetting establishes necessary conditions for strongerre-learning.

G.But here's what matters more than any specific schedule: theprinciple.

第三部分语言知识运用（共两节，满分30分）

第一节（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）

阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

The walk I'd plotted was 22 miles to the coast. It is enough to get my legsand feet41.But thereal42for me was walking to a definite point in our country's outline as it would be

something interesting I could bring up in conversation.

I waswonderingifI'd have the endurance and determinationto do it. I am, after all, in my late40s.I43the coast at 7:00 am. I was, for the day, an arrow. My line of hiking was as straight

and short as I could make it.

Time on the road seemed to havepassed quickly.44the five-hour mark, I was in a good state of body and mind. The45of the usual routine had been eased by daydreams. From this pointon, the46seemed to change. The banks on either side were larger, and the grasses longer, even though the sea was still miles off.

Thingswere getting47, with hardly anything in sight. Despite feeling like I was nearly there, I still had four miles to go. My kneeshurt. I48the painkillers down with my secret weapon: coffee. Studies have showncaffeine49endurance and it kept me going.

Try as I might, I still couldn't see my walk's end. I could evensmell a50in the air, but the horizonremained51in salt marsh （盐沼地）.Thenalmost without realizing it, I was "there9.

Where I had hoped to see the52, I saw salt marsh, like chocolate milkshake. Feelinglike

a bit of a fool, I headed down into the nearest marsh and left my boot prints in the mud. The seven- and-a-half:hour walk hadhurtmy53, but I'd acted on an old idea, done it, and54it off my list. I am now free to think of new ones and move on, in this dawn of possibilitieswe all face. Lifeistoo short to let ideas stagnate （停止）；now's the time to turn them to55.

第二节(共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分)

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。

For Spanish scholar Ana Maria, traditional Chinese poetry is more than literature ——it is a bond connecting two distantcivilizationsthrough56(share) feelings and lasting charm.

Her work, River Echo: Selected ClassicalChinese Poems.57(publish) in 2024 and quickly won several important awards. It collectsmasterpieces by58(literature) masters including Tao Yuanming, Du Fu, Li Bai, and Su Shi, spanning from the Tang Dynasty (618-907) to the Qing Dynasty (1636-1912).

"Translating ancient Chinese poems into modem Spanish was a huge challenge, because Spanish literatureis59(relative) short-lived, while Chinese poetry has thousands of years ofgrowth,

with rich styles and many distinguished poets J AnaMaria says.60(link) different cultures, she carefully keeps the emotion and rhythm of the originalswhilemixingthemwiththebeautyofSpanish poetry, creating a warm dialogue that bridges cultures. She also adds notes to explain historicaleventsand61(poet) lives.

For Ana Maria, translation is not only aboutwordsbutaboutpassingonthoughtsandfeelingsacrosslanguages.Inthistask,shetriestoshowtheheartoftheoriginalwork,whetheritisa poem

62athinker?sideas.Therefore,whenthetranslationreachesreaders,itgainsnewlife,

63(present) Chinese culture from her specialview.

Ana Maria hopes her work willhelplocalpeoplebetterunderstandChineseculture,justasshesaid -Poetry is64a stream that crosses mountains and rivers andflows into65heart of a foreignland.

第四部分写作(共两节，满分40分)

第一节(满分15分)

假定你是李华，你校外教Chns打算把学生课堂表现计入学期总分，并占较大比重。这引发了你的思考。请你给他写一封邮件，内容包括：

(1)你的看法； (2)你的建议。

注意(1)写作词数应为80左右。

(2)请按如下格式在答题纸的相应位置作答。

Dear Chris,

I'm Li Hua from Class1. 

Yourssincerely,

LiHua

第二节（满分25分）

阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。

Myphone buzzed.Itwas a text from Angus Menzies,my best friend sincechildhood. Our plan togocanoeing（划独木舟）near our hometown of Ottawa, was a go.

We had similar canoe trips before. Whenever we hung out, we'd drum up some adventure, maybe

to prove we could handleadversity.AngusandIwerecomplementary.Icanbecautioustothepoint of timidity, while Angus is quicktotakeonunknownchallenges,oftensuccessfully,butsometimeswith serious consequences. I felt luckytohavealifelongfriendship,wherebeingmyselfwithhimhelps me discover who I am and who I couldbe.

Now Angus and I stood in his garage andpackedourgear:paddles,twolifejackets,applesand beer. "We'll only be gone a few hours J Angus told Robin, his wife. As I had arranged with Cornelia,I would only be gone 24 hours, a mini vacation that seemed impossibly exciting after months close tohome helping care for our 2-year-old daughter. We loaded the canoe into the truck. When we pulled inatthelaunchspot（下水点）,thebeachwasdeserted.Wepushedoffintothedarkbluewater.Steering

toward the channel, Angus said: "That's where we're going - the Deschenes Rapids.”

Twenty minutes later the sun was beating down, the breeze gone. Soon I saw a thin white line onthe water - rapids. I saidthatifwecouldseethechop fromthisfaraway,theymightbedangerous andwe shouldcheck them before venturing on. Angus pushed tokeep going, and I agreed. Beforelongwe heard a deep rumbling, the sound of the rapids. I prickledwithfear,butwepressedon.Afewminuteslater,wecrossedalineofsmallredbuoysthatneitherofusrecognizedasourlastwarning.

Thewaterturnedfromdeepbluetobrown.Wepaddledovera3-footswell（涌浪）andcamedown

with a smack as a bigger wave sped toward us. We hit it high and at an angle. As the canoe tipped over,I leaped clear, hitting the cold, rushing water, my glasses and shoesgone.

注意：

（1）续写词数应为150左右。

（2）请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

Paragraph 1: As if out of another dimension, I heard Angus 勺 calm and confident voice, “hold on to the canoe.

Paragraph 2: We yelled and whistled, and the boat, piloted by Robin and firemen came over.