北京市中国人民大学附属中学2024-2025学年高二上学期12月统练英语试题（含答案）

1 人大附中2024—2025学年度第一学期高二年级英语统练 考试时间：60分钟 满分：100分 注意：请将II卷答案写在答题纸上，请将I卷答案填涂到机读卡上。 I卷（共52分） 第一部分：完形填空（共10小题；每小题2分，共20分） In interviews, famous people often say that the key to becoming both happy and successful is to “do what you love.” But mastering a skill, even one that you deeply love, calls for plenty of drills. Any challenging activity — from computer programming to playing a musical instrument to athletics — requires ___1___ practice. A perfect golf swing or faultless butterfly stroke (蝶泳) takes countless hours of practice and repetitions to perfect. Anyone who wants to have a good command of a skill must go through the ___2___ of practice, critical feedback, polish, and increasing improvement again, again, and again. Some people seem able to concentrate on practicing an activity like this for years and take pleasure in their gradual improvement. Yet others find this kind of focused, time-intensive work to be ___3___ or boring. Why The distinction may depend on the ability to enter into a state of “flow,” the feeling of being completely involved in what you are doing. Flow states can happen in the course of any activity, and they are most common when a task has definite goals and where the individual is able to ___4___ their performance to clear and immediate feedback. Csikszentmihalyi suggested that those who most ___5___ entered into flow states had an “autotelic personality” — a tendency to seek out challenges and get into a state of flow. While those without such a personality see difficulties, autotelic individuals see opportunities to build skills and they have low levels of self-centeredness. Such people, with their ability to focus on tasks rather than rewards have a great ___6___ over others in developing their innate (天生的) abilities. But how can we get into flow state for an activity so that we enjoy both the process of improving skills and the ___7___ of being a master Obviously for those of us who don’t necessarily possess an autotelic personality, there is evidence that flow states can be ___8___ by environmental factors. For instance, in Montessori schools, students do not study by following direct instruction. Instead, they are encouraged to develop and pursue personal petition is ___9___ and grading is not emphasized. Students are grouped together according to shared interests, rather than separated by ability. While there isn’t yet a pill that can turn dull practice into an exciting activity for anyone, it is comforting that we seem to be able to advance into flow states. By giving ourselves unstructured, open-ended time, minimum distractions and task set at moderate level of _____10_____, we may be able to love what we’re doing while we put in the hard work practicing the things we love doing. 1. A. fixed B. concentrated C. paralleled D. instructed 2. A. transformation B. substitute C. cycle D. condition 3 A. poisonous B. r ... ...