七七 | 2023屆T8聯(lián)考英語(yǔ)

1??A

There are many podcasts（播客）that teach English and you can listen to them anytime. Here is a list of some of the best podcasts that you must see.

Learn English Podcast

This podcast has three levels.The first is for beginners，the second is for intermediates（中級(jí)學(xué)生）and the third is for upper intermediates. If a person wants to learn Business English，then episodes are also made for him. Every podcast is short but veryinformative. Worksheets（活頁(yè)練習(xí)題）and vocabulary tasks are also included.

21. Which podcast provides exercises going with it ?

• A. Speaking Broadly.
• B. Elementary Podcast.
• C. The English We Speak.
• D. Learn English Podcast.?

Speaking Broadly

This podcast is made for advanced learners. Explained through discussion and interviews, each episode has non-native English speakers and every recording also has expert feedback. You will see some common mistakes made by English learners and you can improve your English by learning from those mistakes.

22. What do we know about Speaking Broadly?

• A. It records just expert speakers.
• B. It targets beginners.
• C. It presents some typical mistakes.?
• D. It provides feedback from listeners.

The English We Speak

This podcast airs one episode daily and every episode is only three to four minutes, which talks about phrases and idioms.There are two people in each episode who communicate with each other. Whatever level you are, you will find it rewarding.

Elementary Podcast

This podcast is mainly for beginners and intermediate level learners. The length of apodcast is around 25 minutes but you can pause it anytime and continue whenever youwant. The hosts of each episode are different.

23. What do The English We Speak and Elementary Podcasts have in common?

• A. They are both interactive.
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• B. They cater for beginners.?
• C. They have the same length.
• D. They share the same contents.
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2??B

Leaving our hostel in the centre of Phnom Penh, we climb inside our small Tuk Tukcabin attached to the back of Kiwi's motorbike; a bottle of water in one hand and asurgeon-style mask in the other we set off on our 45-minute commute. It is a familiar startto the day for me and two other volunteers. We are setting out to work in an orphanage just outside Cambodia's capital city.

• orphanage：n. 孤兒院

24.Where was the author going ?

• A. To Samrong Orphanage.?
• B. To the oasis of Samrong.
• C. To the capital of Cambodia.
• D. To the centre of Phnom Penh.

The morning rush hour in Phnom Penh is crowded and chaotic. Kiwi directs our path between the trucks, 4×4 Lexus’ and countless motorbikes, which often carry entire families. We reach the dusty highway，masks and sunshades firmly in place to protect oureyes and lungs. A mixture of concrete buildings and huts exist along the side of the roadamong a sea of rubbish.The residents often smile and wave as we pass by.

25. What word can be used to describe Kiwi?

• A. Disciplined.
• B. Confident.?
• C. Devoted.
• devoted：adj. 奉獻(xiàn)的
• D. Ambitious.

We turn onto a farm track. The last part of our journey is a roller coaster, jumping out of potholes（路面坑洼）and turning to avoid falling off the sinking road. We pass huts onstilts（木樁），skinny cows and farm yards where children jump and scream upon seeing us. The stream along the side of the road is almost bone dry and vegetation is rare across the fields.

• roller coaster：過(guò)山車(chē)
• bone：adv. 非常
• vegetation：n. 植被

26. What did they see along the farm track?

• A. Dry bones.
• B. Shy children.
• C. Almost bare fields.?
• bare：adj. 貧瘠的
• D. A roller coaster beside it.

Finally we arrive at our destination: the oasis（令人快慰的地方）is Samrong Farm. By the gates，a group of 10-year-old children compete in the area of marbles. We're greeted bythe shouts of “Cha, cha（short for ‘teacher’）!” from several other kids gathering round.As we climb out of our vehicle，the sun is already hot and the oasis is as dry as the fields surrounding it. In such conditions you would imagine life to be hard，but you wouldn't know it to see the warm smiles and hear the laughter of the residents at Samrong Orphanage.

Compared to children in the Western World they have little and yet they give so much in generosity of spirit and enthusiasm for every day. Despite the journey, it is so good toarrive at work in the morning.

27. What can we learn from the story?

• A. Enthusiasm of the children.?
• B. Comfort of riding a motorbike.
• C. Beauty of working in the morning.
• D. Pleasure of being in a different culture.

3??C

There seems to be a lot of talk these days about what is fair，and what is not. Most people tend to believe life should be fair. Some of the 99 % seem to belleve ne nas soneLIwtreated them unfairly, and some of the 1% feel life hasn't treatted them fairly enough. My questions are these:What is fairness? Is life fair? Should life be fair?

We clearly have no choice about how we come into this world. We have nitte cnolce eanly tlife. But as we grow older, choices abound. l have long believed that while we have no control over the beginning of our life, the majority of us have the ability to influence the outcomes we attain. Fairness is a state of mind, and most often, an unhealthy state of mind. Our state in life cannot, or at least should not, be blamed on our parents, our teachers, or our society—it's largely based on the choices we make, and the attitudes we adopt.

• state：n. 狀態(tài)

28. What does the underlined word“abound”in Paragraph 2 mean?

• A. Change fully.
• B. Remain the same.
• C. Exist in numbers.?
• D. Disappear completely.

Life is full of examples of the uneducated, the mentally and physically challenged people born into war-torn areas，who could have complained about life being unfair, but who instead chose a different path. Regardless of the challenges they faced, they had the character to choose contribution over complaint.

l agree that challenges exist. l agree that many have an uphill battle due to the severityof the challenges they face. What I disagree with is the attempt to use fairness to solve all problems in the world. Rules and orders don't create fairness, but people's desire and determination can work around most life challenges.

lt doesn't matter whether you are born with a silver spoon，plastic spoon，or no spoonat all. A friend of mine came to this country from Africa in his late teens barely spoke the language, drove a cab while working his way through college, and is now the president of a technology services firm. Stories such as this are all around us—they are not miracles, nor are they the rare exception. They do, however, demonstrate blindness to the mindset of the fairness.

• mindset：n. 觀念模式
• miracle：n. 奇跡

29. What opinion does the writer agree with?

• A. Most of us can influence the results we achieve.?
• B. Our background determines our choices.
• C. People's desire and determination create unfairness.
• D. We should depend on fairness to solve all problems.

30. What is the primary purpose of the text?

• A. To promote efforts over complaint.?
• B. To stress the importance of fairness.
• C. To share an inspiring story of a friend.
• D. To prove that fairness is a state of mind.

31. Which of the following can be the best title for the text?

• A. Fairness Is Justice
• B. Life Is Not Fair—Deal With It?
• C. Fairness Comes First
• D. Fairness Creates Chances

4??D

You've stopped at a café on your way to work, and next thing you know，your lattefoam is staring at you.You've had the same furniture for years，but today your cupboardlooks sad.You're lying in the park with your friends，and now Jesus is floating by in theclouds—are they seeing him too? !

32. What is the function of the first paragraph?

• A. To present a finding.
• B. To warn the readers.
• C. To introduce the topic.?
• D. To arouse the readers' awareness.

Why do we see human faces everywhere?

Until now, it has been unclear as to why the brain processes visual signals andrepresents them in our mind as human faces. However, researchers from the School of Psychology at the University of Sydney have tried evaluating this phenomenon.

The facial recognition response happens fast, only taking a few hundred milliseconds. From an evolutionary perspective, the researchers suggest that the benefit of“nevermissing a face”outweighs（超過(guò)）the error where lifeless objects are seen as faces. Despite knowing that the object you are seeing is not a human face, the perception（知覺(jué)）of a facestays.This is known as“face pareidolia”.

33.How do the researchers, from an evolutionary perspective, understand the facial recognition response?

• A. Our brain is good at processing signals.
• B. The image of a human face will last long.
• C. Our brain wrongly interprets signals as human faces.
• D. There might be risks when lifeless objects are not seen as faces.?

Pareidolia refers to the tendency to impose a meaningful interpretation on an unclear stimulus（刺激物），making one see an object, pattern or meaning when there is none.Pareidolia was originally considered a symptom of mental disorder，but it is now viewed asa normal human tendency.

34. What happens in a pareidolia?

• A. People suffer mental disorder.
• B. People see an unclear stimulus.
• C. People imagine seeing a human face.
• D. People interpret things meaningfully.?

Pareidolia has been investigated by scientists and has been present in art and literaturefor a long period of time.In Shakespeare's Hamlet，Hamlet demonstrates his supposedmadness in his exchange with Polonius by telling him that he can see a camel in the sky.

The researchers set out to investigate whether a detected pareidolia face would be castoff as a false detection or be analysed for a facial expression. The study participants werepresented series of faces and asked to rate each face expression on a scale from angry tohappy.The series involved a mix of both real and pareidolia faces.

The researchers have found that pareidolia faces are not cast off as false detections, but rather undergo an internal“facial expression analysis”，in the same way a real facewould. This is likely because humans are deeply social beings. Additionally，they found that biases（成見(jiàn)）often seen when judging human faces in the analysis of the pareidolia faces.

So, the next time that you see an angry tree, don't be surprised and remember it's notpersonal.

35. What can be inferred about participants seeing real human faces in the research?

• A. They discount the facial expressions.
• B. They prefer real faces to false ones.
• C. They tend to make biased judgment.?
• D. They compare real faces to pareidolia ones.