《2025年天星教育金考卷一轮复习单元滚动双测卷英语》

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。
A
［2025河北衡水检测］Ministry of Stories champions the writer in every child. Co-founded by author Nick Hornby in 2010, we develop self-respect and communication skills, discover imagination and potential through innovative writing programmes for children living in under-resourced communities, working in schools and at our writing center in east London.
Our people
Day-to-day, we rely strongly on more than 200 specially trained volunteers who help with all aspects of our work. And we are always looking for more enthusiastic volunteers who are excited to work alongside our young people to help bring their stories to life.
Our method
In a range of creative writing programmes and small group mentoring, we build aspiration by valuing creativity and imagination, empowering young people to find their voice and write a brighter future for themselves. And our publishing platforms make sure their voices are always heard.
How we work with writers
We are building a national network of like-minded professionals and a growing family of organizations that support children and young people's creative writing. We have a free after-school writing workshop for children aged 6 - 15 from our east London community. We also work in partnership with schools and teachers in east London to help get your students buzzing about learning through the power of their imagination.
21. What do we know about Ministry of Stories?
A. It operates largely on a volunteer basis.
B. It aims to find innovative people to join.
C. It provides grown writers with guidance.
D. It works for the communities worldwide.
22. How does Ministry of Stories support young people?
A. By providing online lectures.
B. By offering writing workshops.
C. By organizing outdoor activities.
D. By arranging communication courses.
23. Which section of the organization's website might the text be taken from?
A. Latest News.
B. Meet Our Team.
C. About Us.
D. Join Our Writing Labs.

答案： 21.A　细节理解题。根据第二段中的“Day - to - day, we rely strongly on more than 200 specially trained volunteers... looking for more enthusiastic volunteers”可知，该组织依赖着200多名经过专门培训的志愿者，他们在工作的各个方面提供帮助，并且一直寻找更多的志愿者，所以该组织在很大程度上以志愿者为基础运作。
22.B　细节理解题。根据最后一段中的“We have a free after - school writing workshop for children aged 6 - 15 from our east London community”可知，该组织为来自伦敦东部社区的6至15岁儿童提供免费的课外写作讲习班。
23.C　文章出处题。根据文章小标题Our people、Our method、How we work with writers以及文章第一段内容可知，本文是一个位于伦敦东区的组织的相关介绍，包括其成员、方法、工作方式等，故这篇文章可能出自该组织官方网站的“关于我们”栏目。

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B
［2025山西临汾三模］When does spring begin? For some, it's the second Sunday in March. For others, it's when they first realize they've finished dinner and it's still light out. This year, impatient as ever for winter to end, I decided to skip my usual routine of calendar watching and see if I could do something to speed up spring's arrival.
It's only a three-hour flight from La Guardia (rainy, cold), New York to West Palm Beach (sunny, slight breeze), Florida and from there an hour's drive to Clover Park in Port St. Lucie, the spring training home of the New York Mets, where more than 7,000 cheery fans gathered. They were dressed in lightweight clothing, drinking Modelo Especial and snacking on peanuts, heckling(起哄) the players. Here in Port St. Lucie, spring was already happening.
Being outdoors in the sunshine and fresh air, things do feel slower and easier. I love that baseball has long been considered America's national pastime. A pastime is something that makes the passing of time pleasant. Isn't that what we're dying for in the winter months?
By the time I left Florida, it was pouring rain and even a little chilly. How was I supposed to take springtime home with me, I wondered fiercely. It was still raining in New York when I landed. Spring isn't just weather, of course, and it certainly makes no promises about rain. I'm trying to resist cliches (陈词滥调), to keep from saying something similar to “spring is a state of mind”, even though I wish it were.
I went looking for spring and I found it where spring breakers find it every year, already in full swing in the Sunshine State. My own official removal of woolen coats will occur on Tuesday, when spring finally arrives. But having experienced 24 hours of spring's full pageant (盛会), my own little preseason, I feel slightly pacified. Perhaps I can be patient as spring establishes itself, and offer the season a little grace as it clicks into place.
24. What can we learn from paragraph 1?
A. Spring falls on a fixed date.
B. Spring came late this year.
C. The author was longing for spring restlessly.
D. The author was celebrating the end of winter.
25. According to the author, Port St. Lucie is ________.
A. a fast-paced world
B. full of a joyful atmosphere
C. the birthplace of baseball
D. home to delicious food
26. What does the underlined word “pacified” in the last paragraph mean?
A. Puzzled.
B. Disappointed.
C. Curious.
D. Calm.
27. What can be a suitable title for the text?
A. In Search of Spring
B. In Praise of Spring
C. A Trip to Florida
D. A Farewell to New York

答案： 24.C　细节理解题。根据第一段中的“This year, impatient as ever for winter to end... do something to speed up spring's arrival”可知，和往年一样，作者迫不及待地希望冬天结束，今年作者决定不再按惯例盯着日历看，而是看看自己能不能做些什么来加速春天的到来。所以作者焦急地盼望着春天的到来。
25.B　细节理解题。根据第二段中的“cheery fans... Here in Port St. Lucie, spring was already happening”所描述的景象可知，作者认为圣露西港充满欢乐的气氛。
26.D　词义猜测题。根据上文“But having experienced 24 hours of spring's full pageant( 盛会 ), my own little preseason”和下文“Perhaps I can be patient as spring establishes itself”可知，在经历了长达24个小时的春天盛会之后，作者提前感受到了春天的美好，因此感到内心平静，可以保持耐心，不再那么急切地期待春天的到来。故可推知，pacify意为“使平静”，与D项词义相近。
27.A　标题判断题。根据文章第一段作者焦急地盼望着春天的到来和文章最后一段描述作者找到了春天可知，本文主要描述了作者对于春天的渴望和寻找春天的过程。A项“寻找春天”能概括文章主旨，适合作本文标题。

C
［思辨能力］［2025河南信阳一模］Recent psychological research suggests that illeism can bring some real cognitive benefits. Put simply, illeism is the practice of talking about oneself in the third person, rather than the first person.
The rhetorical device is often used by politicians. In his account of the Gallic War, for example, the emperor Julius Caesar wrote “Caesar avenged the public” rather than “I avenged the public”. The small linguistic switch seems to make the statement more like historical fact recorded by an impartial(公正的) observer.
Why does illeism work? Igor Grossmann from the University of Waterloo in Canada seems to have an answer. Grossmann first drew on the work of numerous philosophers to decide on a series of “metacognitive components (元认知成分)”, including intellectual humility, acknowledgement of others' viewpoints and search for compromise that are commonly considered to be essential for wise decision making.
In one of his first studies, Grossmann asked participants to think out loud about their responses to various dilemmas while independent psychologists rated their spoken responses according to these criteria. Grossmann found that these tests of wise reasoning were better than IQ tests at predicting people's overall life satisfaction and the quality of their social relationships. This suggested the studies were capturing something unique about their reasoning skills.
Grossmann's later studies revealed that the wisdom of people's reasoning can depend on the context. In particular, he found that their wise reasoning scores tended to be much higher when considering other people's situations than their own personal dilemmas. Grossmann called this “Solomon's Paradox” after an ancient king, who was famous for advising others wisely, while making a series of disastrous personal decisions that ultimately left his kingdom in chaos.
The problem seems to be that when making personal choices, we become too absorbed in our emotions, which cloud our thinking and prevent us from putting our issues in perspective. By switching to the third person, our descriptions of the situation will start to sound as if we are talking about someone else rather than ourselves. This sense of detachment (超脱) would allow us to see the bigger picture, rather than getting caught up in our own feelings.
28. What belongs to illeism according to the passage?
A. Using “she” to talk about others.
B. Describing oneself with adjectives.
C. Referring to others by their names.
D. Using “he” to discuss personal feelings.
29. Why do politicians often use illeism in their speeches?
A. To make their words more emotional.
B. To make their language more complex.
C. To add a sense of humor to their speeches.
D. To make their statements sound objective.
30. What components are crucial for wise decision making according to Grossmann?
A. Quick thinking and decisiveness.
B. Personal experience and humility.
C. Open-mindedness and compromise.
D. Emotional intelligence and creativity.
31. Why did the participants face “Solomon's Paradox”?
A. Because they ignored others' perspectives.
B. Because they were bad at decision making.
C. Because they assumed they were always right.
D. Because they were too attached to personal emotions.

答案： 28.D　推理判断题。根据第一段中的“Put simply, illeism is the practice of talking about oneself in the third person, rather than the first person”可知，illeism就是用第三人称而不是第一人称谈论自己的行为。D项“用‘他’来讨论个人感受”属于illeism。
29.D　细节理解题。根据第二段所举的例子以及“The small linguistic switch seems to make the statement more like historical fact recorded by an impartial( 公正的 ) observer”可知，小小的语言转换似乎使这句话更像是一个公正的观察者所记录的历史事实。因此，政客们“(过多地)使用第三人称自称”是为了让他们的陈述听起来更加客观。
30.C　细节理解题。根据第三段中的“Grossmann first drew on the work of numerous philosophers to decide on... wise decision making”可知，Grossmann首先借鉴了许多哲学家的工作，确定了一系列“元认知成分”，这些成分包括智力上的谦逊、承认他人的观点和寻求妥协，通常被认为是明智决策的必要条件。因此，思想开放和妥协对于明智决策很重要。
31.D　推理判断题。根据第五段中的“their wise reasoning scores tended to be much higher... Grossmann called this ‘Solomon's Paradox’”可知，当考虑到他人的处境时，参与者的明智推理得分往往比对他们自己的困境时的得分高得多，这是所谓的“所罗门悖论”；再根据最后一段中的“when making personal choices... prevent us from putting our issues in perspective”可知，当我们做出个人选择时，我们变得过于专注于我们的情绪，这蒙蔽了我们的思维，阻止我们正确看待问题。故可推知，参与者面临“所罗门悖论”是因为他们太执着于个人情感。

D
［2025浙江温州一模］Have you ever noticed how the email icon on many computers and smartphones is of an envelope? Or how camera phones make the sound of a real camera clicking when you take a photo, even though there's no shutter to open or close? These are examples of skeuomorphs(拟物化设计), which is when new things take on the appearance or sound of the object they've replaced.
Why would new things want to look like something old? It's all to do with human psychology. Psychologist James Gibson says one of the ways people understand the world is through affordances—objects whose shape tells you how to use them. When creating new digital technologies, inventors used skeuomorphs so people would know how to use their products. By showing people an image of something they already knew how to use, it made using a computer or smartphone easier.
However, as people became more familiar with modern technology, some designers argued that skeuomorphs were no longer necessary. Indeed, the younger generation don't need visual references to older items they've never used. This led to something called flat design, where computer desktops and smartphone home screens started to do away with skeuomorphism.
Skeuomorphs made a comeback, though, with smart watches. Many smart watches took on the appearance of an old fashioned watch, with a clock face. This was to encourage people who didn't like digital watches to consider buying a smart watch.
While these are the ways skeuomorphs are used today, that doesn't mean it's only a modern phenomenon. In fact, the word was first used in 1899 by the archaeologist Henry Colley March, who realized that some ancient artefacts(人工制品) kept the appearance of older objects, even though there was no practical reason for them to do so. When ancient Greek builders moved from using wood to stone, they recreated some of the characteristics of wooden buildings. From ancient Greek architecture to 21st century technology, skeuomorphs have been a key feature of scientific progress. So, when you wonder about the objects of the future, take a look around. Chances are that they will look a lot like the objects of the past.
32. What's the feature of skeuomorphs?
A. It's user-friendly.
B. It's safety-centered.
C. It's energy-saving.
D. It's cost-effective.
33. Why did some designers think skeuomorphs unnecessary?
A. Users became accustomed to technology.
B. These products were expensive to design.
C. Young people rejected traditional designs.
D. The existing standards had been updated.
34. What is expected of using skeuomorphs in smart watches?
A. To improve battery life.
B. To reduce production costs.
C. To appeal to those fond of digital watches.
D. To encourage people to turn to smart watches.
35. What is the last paragraph mainly about?
A. The prediction about future objects.
B. The key feature of scientific progress.
C. The design philosophies of skeuomorphism.
D. The ever-lasting presence of skeuomorphs.

答案：
32.A　推理判断题。根据第二段中的“When creating new digital technologies, inventors used skeuomorphs so people would know how to use their products”可知，人们将拟物化设计运用在新的数字技术上，这样人们就会知道如何使用这个产品。故可推知，拟物化设计是对用户友好的。
33.A　细节理解题。根据第三段中的“However, as people became more familiar with modern technology... were no longer necessary”可知，随着人们对现代科技的熟悉，一些设计师认为没有必要再使用拟物化设计。
34.D　细节理解题。根据第四段中的“This was to encourage people who didn't like digital watches to consider buying a smart watch”可知，智能手表采用拟物化设计，模仿传统手表的样子，是为了鼓励不喜欢电子表的人考虑购买智能手表。
35.D　段落大意题。最后一段先指出拟物化设计并非只是一个现代现象，然后追溯了它的历史渊源，最后点明其重要性，表明拟物化设计从过去到现在再到未来会一直存在。