2024-2025学年江苏省南京市河西外国语学校高一英语12月月考试卷
全卷满分：150分 考试时间：120分钟 2024.12
第一部分：听力（共两节，满分30分）（略）
第二部分：阅读（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、D四个选项选出最佳选项。
A
Start Something You Won’t Want to Stop If you are hunting for a chance to get close to some nice books, Reader’s Digest USA will never let you down. The following books are recommended by the third month of 2021.
Finding Your Lost Joy
Author: Laurel Khiabani
Price: Hardback | Paperback | E-book $ 22.99 | $ 14.99 | $ 3.99
If you suffer anxiety, or depression, this book will raise your state of mind; you can add your joyful things and make it yours.
Steerage And Amour
Author: Edward L.Divita
Price: Hardback | Paperback | E-book $ 36.99 | $ 20.99 | $ 3.99
This book talks of the history of several generations of the Italian Divita family as related to the unstable social and political climate, especially in Italy and America during the early 1900s.
Connie Gets More Than Her Backyard
Author: Patti Whitehead-Gill
Price: Hardback | Paperback | E-book $ 34.99 | $ 26.99 | $ 3.99
This tale centers on six-year-old Connie who has recently moved to a town from the city. She learns that she’s adopted, meets her best friend and falls in love with an orphan puppy.
How It Feels to Float
Author: Helena Fox
Price: Hardback | Paperback | E-book $ 23.99 | $ 13.99 | $ 3.99
If you’re looking for a moving story that explores themes of mental illness, sadness and love, pick up a copy of How It Feels to Float and follow Biz as she comes of age. This moving novel will stay with you long after you finish reading it.
21. How much should you pay for a hardback book about Italian society in the early 1900s?
A. $ 20.99. B. $ 22.99. C. $ 36.99. D. $ 34.99.
22. Who writes a story about an adopted girl?
A. Helena Fox. B. Laurel Khiabani.
C. Edward L.Divita. D. Patti Whitehead-Gill.
23. What can be known about How It Feels to Float?
A. A girl’s space adventures. B. Challenges of growing up.
C. The murder of a teenager. D. A poor girl with special powers.
B
John was part of my childhood growing up in the 1970s and a link to sunny, fun-filled days spent on the beach at Bangor in Northern Ireland where we went for our summer holidays. To many, he was a mystery. Every afternoon John would wander to the end of the pier (码头) where he fed the seagulls and delighted in the sound of their excited cries as they flew around his head.
Often I asked my family questions regarding John. Eventually I gave up as no one could tell me anything about him. As I grew up, my visits to the beach became less frequent, and my memories of John buried in a child’s imagination.
Last year memories came flooding back as I walked along the coastline, where I noticed a lady feeding the seagulls on the pier, and I decided to introduce myself. Then I came to know that the lady was John’s daughter, and after John left this world she carried out the ritual, which had held such importance for her father.
In some strange way I felt we shared a bond, each needing to remember. In return, Lucy told me of John’s life, his days in the British Navy during World War I and how he almost lost hope when his ship was attacked by a German U-boat in the North Sea and he found himself in a lifeboat with five others.
Close to death, he thought he heard the sound of wings. He put up his hands, only to catch a seagull that had landed on the side of the boat. The seagull saved the lives of the six men as it was used to catch fish, which kept them alive until they reached land. This period of John’s life was one he never talked about. But the ritual he first performed as a young man remained a part of him until he died.
Now I visit Lucy as often as I can, just to chat or very often walk along the beach to the pier end. We enjoy the comfortable silence, each lost in special memories.
24. Seeing John feeding the seagulls, the author might feel ______________.
A. proud B. worried C. curious D. guilty
25. The underlined word “ritual” in the third paragraph can be replaces by ______________.
A. law B. tradition C. interest D. procedure
26. We can infer from the text that John ______________.
A. once served in both World Wars B. was a man with a grateful heart
C. spent his childhood in Bangor D. joined the navy in the 1970s
27. What does the author mainly tell us in the text?
A. Her gratitude to a seagull that saved her life.
B. The story of how she made friends with a lady.
C. Her childhood spent on the beach at Bangor.
D. Her memories of a man who fed seagulls.
C
Have you ever been on social media and seen your favourite celebrity talking about a product? These endorsements might not be totally random, and are actually seen as a vital part of the marketing process. The question is: How do social media influencers ‘influence’ what you buy?
Human desire for status and making friends, combined with our need to belong to a group, make us susceptible to being ‘socially influenced’. Companies often use that desire to have a similar lifestyle to a celebrity we admire to hawk or launch a product. So, what do these endorsements actually do?
Firstly, they can be used to build brand awareness. A social media influencer should have a strong understanding of the platform they operate on, and therefore can create engaging content that not only adheres to the brand image, but sparks their followers’ interests in a product they might never have seen before.
Secondly, influencers can improve a company or product’s relationship with their customer base. According to In Moment’s 2018 US Retail CX Trends Report on customer loyalty, 77% of buyers have been brand loyal for more than ten years. This is also true of 60% of millennials. A popular celebrity can target key demographics and talk or blog about a product, which can create an immediate and lasting bond with the consumers.
Lastly, influencers can improve customers buying habits with seemingly ‘unbiased opinions’. We are more likely to respond to ‘peer recommendation’ than traditional ads, meaning the fact we see an influencer as a ‘friend’ can make us less likely to be sceptical about what we are seeing.
So, the next time you see a celebrity talking about a product, you might want to consider that this could be a carefully crafted marketing strategy designed to targets your core needs. If you find yourself perusing a product you’ve seen on social media, you may well have been influenced.
28. Why can social influencers make such engaging content? Because they ______________.
A. are internet celebrities
B. know how to use the platform they are working on
C. have used the products themselves
D. are involved in the making of the products
29. Which factor does not help to make ‘social influence’ so effective?
A. Being independent. B. Making friends.
C. Belonging to a group. D. Human desire for status.
30. How does seeing an influencer as a ‘friend’ affect our decision making?
A. We are not much influenced.
B. We believe everything they say.
C. We are less doubtful about adverts we are seeing.
D. We want to make friends with them.
31. What should you consider the next time you see a celebrity talking about a product?
A. It is exactly what I need.
B. We don’t need it at all.
C. There’s more to learn about the celebrity
D. Our essential needs are being targeted.
D
A 70-year-old woman wins hearts with her energetic workouts on Douyin, He Qi reports in Shanghai. Videos on the social networking platform Douyin —- also known globally as TikTok —- that show men and women with perfect physiques working out or providing fitness tips are commonplace.
Trying to stand out from the crowd amid a flood of such videos can often be difficult, but a relatively new account, which has only been active since last year, has managed to do easily. The fitness instructor behind this account is not a young woman with a slim, toned figure that would leave viewers green with envy.
