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一、阅读理解
Are you ready to take the Duolingo English proficiency test? It might be a smart decision if you’re applying to mostly institutions that accept it.
About Duolingo English Test (DET)
The Duolingo English Test is an English proficiency test that many institutions in the United States and Canada use to determine foreign candidates’ qualification for admission.
This exam is comparable to other English language proficiency tests like TOEFL and IELTS. It assesses one’s abilities to speak, listen, write, and read English; however, the significant distinction is that you do not have to go to a test center for DET. Students can take the test from the comfort of their own homes. All they need is a computer and access to the Internet.
Duolingo English Test Sections
Before the exam begins, each test laker will overview the test and the various criteria. Here is the outline overview structure of the test. 1. Quick Setup
At the start of the test, each applicant has 5 minutes to complete the introductory tasks. Ensure that their laptop or computer, camera, speakers, and microphone are all 21working properly.
Provide their government-issued identification card. Read through Duolingo’s exam rules and regulations. 2. Adaptive Questions
Candidates win have 45 minutes to attempt the questions displayed on the screen while staying within the time limit.
3. Video Interview & Writing Sample
The Duolingo English Test prompts candidates to answer one of two questions chosen at random from a pool of hundreds of questions in the last 10 minutes of the Duolingo English Test.
In the following 10 minutes, candidates will have 30 seconds to select between the two options.
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The Duolingo English test will give the video-speaking sample 1-3 minutes, while the writing sample is 3-5 minutes.
Scoring Guide for the Duolingo English Test
Candidates will not be put at a disadvantage for providing wrong or partially correct responses. Partially accurate answers may even earn candidates half credit.
Candidates who miss a question, on the other hand, may lose a higher percentage of their score than those who answer a question wrong. Hence, applicants must respond to all of the questions.
1．What can we know about Duolingo English Test? A．It assesses people’s abilities to work in English. B．It determines local students’ qualification for admission. C．It is used to test foreign students’ English language level. D．It is used as an online test for TOEFL and IELTS. 2．What should candidates prepare before the test? A．Introduction to the task. B．Adaptive questions to be raised. C．ID card and enough money. D．Computer equipment needed.
3．Which is the worse choice for a candidate? A．Missing a question. B．Answering a question wrong. C．Providing a partially correct response. D．Responding to all of the questions.
Xing Eryang, who founded the Douban topic in 2021, is a 31-year-old female resident in Beijing and is amazed to find her “slash (斜杠) life” philosophy echoed by so many of her peers.
After graduating in 2014, Xing landed her job at a public institution. While staying diligent about her daytime work, she is developing her hobbies, including stand-up comedy, sharing video blogs and podcasting (播客), into secondary careers during her downtime.
“I prefer the word ‘slash’ because a diverse lifestyle is like using a knife to cut our life into different parts. One part works hard during the daytime, while the other part can still
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chase after truth, goodness and inner beauty during our personal time,” she explains.
A 26-vear-old woman nicknamed Weiheng, from Guangzhou, and Tang Yuhan, a 27-year-old man in Anhui province, are both participants in the online thread, with their stories obtaining thousands of likes so far.
The two are both musicians in their spare time, even though they are thousands of miles apart and have different jobs in media and finance. Weiheng is now a lead singer in a band after work, while Tang plays the guitar in a death metal group.
Their passion for music has grown since college and they didn’t abandon their enthusiasm, even after entering the workplace. Though they both faced doubts and worries from their family and colleagues at first, they stuck to their beliefs and won the respect and understanding of others.
The two music enthusiasts make use of their nighttime to rehearse and then perform on holidays and weekends. Weiheng’s band, Flouting Soul, has released eight songs and signed a contract with a music agency, ready to launch albums and get down to a concert tour.
The “slash life” craziness shows that along with China’s economic development, our society is becoming more and more diversified, and it welcomes everyone’s self-fulfillment. Young people no longer have to rely on work and money for their sense of self-worth. They lend to practice a carpe diem (及时行乐) philosophy and create their own identities. 4．Why did Xing call her life a “slash” one?
A．Because her life is cut into different parts by an invisible slash. B．Because she preferred the word “slash” when she was young. C．Because she developed her hobbies into secondary careers. D．Because Douban requires her to choose “slash” as a topic. 5．What does Tang Yuhan think of his slash life? A．Disgusting. B．Favourable. C．Funny. D．Frustrating.
6．What is the purpose of the last paragraph? A．To provide career guidance. B．To analyze a cultural difference. C．To conclude from the phenomenon
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D．To share a unique life experience. 7．What is the main idea of the text?
A．Xing Eryang founded the Douban topic “slash life”. B．Young people prefer “slash life” to their real lives. C．China’s economy develops fast due to “slash life”. D．“Slash life” trend allows workers to chase their dreams.
The African penguin is expected to go extinct in the wild in just over a decade, given its current population decline. The main reason is a lack of food caused by disturbance to ocean conditions from global heating and competition from the commercial fishing industry. According to a study, scientists have identified a possible additional cause, one that is an entirely new threat and that further prevents the penguins from finding food: noise pollution from marine (海洋的) ships in a bay.
Since 2016, a new shipping practice has started at Algoa Bay. The bay offers ship-to-ship refueling for ships anchored offshore. Since the start of this practice, marine traffic in the bay has doubled. The number of bulk carriers (散货船) pulling into the bay has increased by ten times as much. Thus the noise levels in the area had doubled and the population of penguins has dropped sharply. High noise levels affect the ability of marine animals to find food, communicate or navigate properly.
Researchers used data from ship identification tools to estimate underwater noise from passing ships. They also attached underwater microphones and accelerometers (感应器) to some of the penguins. Recording the noise will tell researchers what the penguins are hearing, if they’re talking while hunting, if they’re changing their movements in response to noise, and if the noise is drowning out their hunting conversations. This will allow researchers to determine whether the sound disturbance is a direct cause of the penguins’ ongoing difficulties in finding sufficient food.
The study is the first to explore he effects of ocean traffic noise pollution on seabirds and the consequences of offshore shipping activities on underwater noise levels. Experts are considering proposing various global best-practice approaches to reduce some of the impacts of noise pollution, such as policies that limit the number and size of ships allowed into a bay of this kind. “We also need more scientific monitoring of noise, before these measures are put in place and afterward, so that we have a proper understanding of what works.” a researcher
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said.
8．What is caused by the noise pollution? A．The penguins’ lack of food. B．The penguins’ proper navigation. C．People’s communication disability. D．The commercial competition.
9．Why did scientists attach microphones to penguins?
A．Because they wanted to study the way of relieving marine traffic pressure. B．Because they could determine and analyze the source of ocean noise pollution C．Because it helped to calculate underwater noise levels caused by different ships. D．Because the impact of ocean on penguins’ hunting behavior could be found. 10．How can the noise pollution be reduced? A．By exploring the real effects of ocean traffic. B．By restricting the ships to go into the bay. C．By banning all the offshore shipping activities. D．By increasing ship-to-ship refueling activities. 11．What will researchers probably do next? A．Evaluate the risk of the noise. B．Establish a monitoring system. C．Put the measures in place. D．Try to understand what happens.
Have you ever lost something in a hard-to-reach space, like behind a couch or a cupboard? Wouldn’t it be nice to just be able to squeeze in and out? New innovations in the field of robotics will soon be able to make this mice idea into a reality.
In a study published on Jan 25 in the science journal Matter, engineers from The Chinese University of Hong Kong and Carnegie Mellon University in the US have developed small robots that can quickly change back and forth from liquid to solid states.
According to the website Mashable. the scientists were inspired by sea cucumbers. They are able to change the stiffness (僵硬度) of their body or reduce the potential for physical damage. The robots in the study were made from gallium (镓), a soft meta with a low melting point of 30 C． The scientists then used changes in the magnetic field to control the magnetic
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particles inside the gallium material to provide heat. This heat then allowed the robots to change between solid and liquid states as well as to move around.
As the website Tech Xplore pointed out, other similar materials require external heat sources such as heat guns and electrical currents to induce a change of states; but now, the robots can use a heat source inside itself to change states independently. During the robots” experimental trials. the scientists conducted a number of tests. These tests included having the robots melt into liquid and re-form to escape a prison-like cage. It can remove a foreign object from and deliver medicinal drugs to a model stomach. The robot is also able to build and repair hard-to-reach circuits. The robots’ ability to switch between states of matter allows for a number of possible uses and advancements in different fields, such as the biomedical and circuit assembly (组装) industries.
Still, in the words of senior author Carmel Majidi at Carnegie Mellon University, for now these are all just “proofs of concept” which show the abilities of these new kind of robots.
12．Why can the robots switch between solid and liquid? A．Because they consist of a unique metal and magnetic particles. B．Because they can reduce the potential for physical damage. C．Because they are able to change the stiffness of their body. D．Because they have external heat sources any time any where.
13．What does the underlined word “induce” in Paragraph 4 probably mean? A．witness B．remove C．cause D．accept
14．What will be the function of the robot? A．To help scientists inspire sea cucumbers. B．To put a couch into a hard-to-reach space. C．To get rid of foreign objects from an organ. D．To assist people in escaping a prison-like cage. 15．Where is the text probably taken from? A．A health report B．A science fiction.
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C．A Chemistry textbook. D．A scientific magazine.
If you want to memorize something quickly and thoroughly, repetition won’t cut it____16____Below are some universal steps to mastering the art of recalling so that you can start memorizing a ton of data in a short amount of time.
Make preparations.
Pay close attention to which environment you choose. For most people, this means choosing an area with few distractions. Figure out what is most beneficial to your learning so that you can get started. Next, start drinking some tea.____17____.
Record what you’re memorizing.
This is especially useful if you’re trying to memorize information from a lecture. Use a tape recorder to track all of the acquired facts being spoken and listen to it. If you’re trying to memorize a speech, record yourself reading the speech aloud and listen to yourself speaking.
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Before you start trying to recall everything from memory, write and re-write the information. Now that you have everything written down in one set of notes, separate them into sections. You can use color coding to differentiate between subjects. This will help you become more familiar with what you’re trying to memorize.
Apply repetition to accumulated memorization.
____19____. As you memorize each set of text, accumulate it by adding the new information to what you’ve just learned. This will keep everything within your short-term memory from fading. Keep doing this until you have memorized that section and you are able to recall the entire thing. Do not move on to another section until you have memorized that one completely.
Teach it to someone (or yourself ).
The most effective method for me when I was in school was to teach the information to someone else. ____20____. If what you’ve learned needs to be recited literally, then do this in front of someone as well in order to get a feel for what it will be like to recite the text to the intended audience.
Take a break.
Finally, let your mind breathe. Go for a short time without thinking about what you just
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learned and come back to it later on. You’ll find out what you really know, of course, and this will help you focus on the sections you might be weakest at. A．Recall entire sections.
B．However, recalling something will.
C．Write everything down and section your notes.
D．You can lecture the knowledge to someone sitting right in front of you. E．For each line of text, repeat it a few times and try to recall it without looking.
F．While doing unrelated tasks, go over the information by listening to your tape recordings. G．Many scientific studies have confirmed green tea as a natural fuel for improving memory.
二、完形填空
This party sounded so fun! Annie stood at Michael’s front____21____waiting excitedly for him to answer. “Just be yourself.” Annie’s dad had advised when he’d dropped her off. But who else could she be but herself? Michael opened the door, ____22____Annie with a welcoming smile. Bu when she followed him in, she felt____23____She didn’t recognize a single kid. And they were all older! As she sat down, every kid stared at her. Her colorful new____24____, she believed, was stupid compared with the other girl’s tasteful dresses in soft golden colours. The thought made her ashamed. Michael told others she was____25____. But after that introduction, Annie felt even worse as all the kids looked at her doubtfully. She sat there with a frozen smile on her face, feeling anything but herself. The kids all started to eat, chatting and joking as they____26____their mouths. “Pass me some of those strange____27____” a girl said to her. All at once, without any____28____from her own mind, Annie blurted out the words, “They’re not exactly bananas. They look like bananas, but they taste____29____different. Some people call them plantains or the potato of the tropics.” Now all the kids were_____30_____Annie again, but this time their faces were interested and_____31_____. Someone asked her more about plantains, and she_____32_____everything she knew about them, which was a lot. They started asking her questions. They wanted to know about her family and her pets. A girl 试卷第8页，共12页
even_____33_____Annie for her dress.
“You are the_____34_____of the night!” Michael said when the evening was over. Annie sighed, relaxed and happy. She wasn’t sure about being a star, but Daddy was right, she’d_____35_____to be herself after all. 21．A．yard 22．A．praising
B．door B．presenting
C．stairs C．satisfying C．ashamed C．dress C．dedicated C．opened C．apples C．warning C．generally B．attending to
D．street D．greeting D．thrilled D．coat
D．knowledgeable D．shut D．bananas D．waiting D．seemingly C．looking at
23．A．embarrassed B．sad 24．A．hairstyle 25．A．shy 26．A．covered 27．A．potatoes 28．A．idea 29．A．slightly
B．socks B．outgoing B．stuffed B．tomatoes B．voice B．totally
30．A．looking down upon
31．A．friendly 32．A．repeated 33．A．praised 34．A．soul 35．A．managed
D．caring about B．weary B．memorized B．criticized B．star B．pretended
C．swollen C．forgot C．condemned C．middle C．planned
D．dirty D．recited D．thanked D．end D．attempted
三、用单词的适当形式完成短文
阅读下面短文，在空白处填人1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
Taijiquan is an especially helpful exercise to both the old and young. UNESCO describes it as “a traditional physical practice”. It____36____(characterize) by relaxing, circular movements that work in harmony with breath regulation and the cultivation of a____37____(moral) acceptable and neutral mind.
One’s understanding of Taijiquan can evolve____38____the practice continues. As an adolescent, it might be more of a martial art that strengthens your body and improves fighting skills. As one’s experience grows, it becomes easier____39____(appreciate) its cultural implications.
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Taijiquan can teach people to stay calm during life’s ups and downs and to embrace the world with an open mind. Taijiquan also____40____ (feature) the interaction effect between movement and stillness, emptiness and reality, opening and closing, and rigidity and gentleness,____41____ is “a perfect picture of harmonious coexistence and unity in diversity”.
Taijiquan requires its practitioners to be upright and peaceful and act from ____42____ perspective of others, which reflects Confucianism’s emphasis ____43____ self-cultivation and humanity.
The leisure of Taijiquan and Olympic spirit, originated from western ____44____ (country), are two different kinds of life concepts under different culture background. Nowadays, widespread Taijiquan shows that these two kinds of culture are in the process of _____45_____ (blend) which are the inheritance of Chinese traditional culture and the complementation of world Olympic Spirit as well.
四、图表作文
46．最近。你班进行了一个参与家务劳动的调查，请你根据调查结果在你的博客上用英语写一篇博文。 每周做家务1小时以十 5% 每周做家务小于1小时 65% 完全不参与家务劳动 30% 要点包括：1.调查结果，2. 你的感受。
注意：1.词数80左右，2.可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
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五、读后续写
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47．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。
Boys like to be considered to be popular with others. Martin was such a young and generous boy, who thought he had loads of good friends in school. He was always showing off to his family members that he had the maximum number of friends in school. Also, he claimed how friendly he was with everyone. His family members wanted him to recognize the reality, thus not being cheated in the future.
One day as he was talking triumphantly about his friends at home again, his father called him for a bet. Father said, “Martin, I bet you for the cycle you wanted.” Martin. “What’s the bet?” Father thought for a while and answered, “I bet you do not have as many friends as you think. Everyone is not your real friend. I’m sure many of them are nothing more than your classmates, in other words, they are just your fair-weather friends.” Martin, without a second thought, accepted the challenge.
However, he had no idea how to test whether his classmates were real friends or not, so he asked his father about the testing way. A bright smile spread across the face of his father, “Wait a minute. I have just exactly what you need. It is a special item in my collection. Let me go and bring it.” Martin waited curiously. Several minutes later, Martin’s father returned, walking towards him, looking like he was carrying something heavy. But Martin could not see anything.
His father explained, “You see, this is a magic chair. It is invisible, and it is rather difficult to sit on it. You take this to your school. If you manage to sit on it, the special chair will activate its magic. Then you will be able to tell who are your real friends.”
The next day, brave and determined, Martin took the magic invisible chair to school. 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:
During lunchtime, he gathered his friends and asked them to form a circle.
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Now he could find out who were his real friends.
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