听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
13. Why has the picnic been cancelled?

A．It has been raining.

B．The man has another plan.

C．The woman dislikes picnics.

14. What did the man do just now?

A．He watched a game.

B．He played soccer.

C．He did an experiment.

15. How does the woman probably feel about the exhibition?

A．Uninterested.

B．Disappointed.

C．Excited.

16. Which of the following are shown in the exhibition?

A．Jewelries.

B．Oil paintings.

C．Sculptures.

听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
17. What is the talk mainly about?

A．A lecture on success.

B．A graduation ceremony．

C．A school award ceremony.

18. What kind of school is it?

A．A girls’ school.

B．A boys’ school.

C．A mixed school.

19. Who is quoted in the talk?

A．A sportsman.

B．A teacher.

C．A singer.

20. What does the speaker say is the most important?

A．Confidence.

B．Success.

C．Trying.

If your bookshelf is looking a little empty and collecting dust, or you’re trying to start reading more, a book box will do it all for you and send you an accurate selection from your favourites.

Finding the right book subscription can be tricky, though, which is why we’ve gathered some of the best book subscription boxes in Australia for you to enjoy.

Bionic Book Subscription, $75 per six months at Etsy

This personalized book subscription service will send you books via an algorithm (算法) that learns your taste preferences to select and send books you’ll love. You can enjoy a mix of new and recent releases across fiction and contemporary classics.

Mystery Book Subscription Box, $99.95 per quarter at Isubscribe

Enjoy a great selection of pre-loved books, coming straight to your door, with a range of extras to keep you reading comfortable. You can expect to receive three or six books sent to you month by month, according to your choice.

“Purchased as a gift subscription for Father’s Day and he absolutely loves it! Such a fantastic and unique option for a book lover yourself or a loved one,” a five-star reviewer said.

Australian Magazine Subscription, $36.99 per month at Magshop

Magshop features all of the top selling Australian magazine subscriptions in one place, making it easy for you to enjoy your favourites. You’ll find all kinds of books—from entertainment, lifestyle, fashion and beauty to games and puzzles, health and fitness, cooking, homes, and so much more.

Ultimate Mystery Book Subscription Box, $190 per year at Etsy

Sent to you month by month, each box contains three or six great books with one hand-drawn bookmark, a new handmade candle in a variety of colours, smells and containers, and a new pair of socks.

“Got 2/3 books so far and I’m loving the selection! Can’t believe I got a perfect-condition hardcover on my first go. It was an amazing surprise. The custom little bookmarks are cute too. I’d recommend this subscription in a heartbeat and can’t wait to purchase a second round,” a five-star reviewer said.

21. Which one is the least costly if you subscribe for a year?

A．Bionic Book Subscription.

B．Mystery Book Subscription Box.

C．Australian Magazine Subscription.

D．Ultimate Mystery Book Subscription Box.

22. What do we know about Australian Magazine Subscription?

A．It covers a wide range of interest.

B．It contains extra hand-made items.

C．It can be purchased as a gift subscription.

D．It learns readers’ taste preferences via an algorithm.

23. What do Mystery Book Subscription Box and Ultimate Mystery Book Subscription Box have in common?

A．A supply of top-selling books.	B．A service of monthly delivery.
C．A mix of new and recent releases.	D．A selection of amazing hardcovers.

Hem an Bekele is not your typical high school student．Rather than spending his free time playing video games or staring at his phone, this 14 year-old from Fairfax, Virginia was calling professors and conducting experiments, all to create a soap that could treat skin cancer, and to make it affordable for everyone who needs it．His work won him the grand prize in this year’s 3M Young Scientist’s Challenge, a competition that encourages kids to think of unique ways to solve everyday problems.

Growing up in Ethiopia, Bekele found in pity that people working outside were likely to end up getting skin cancer．Skin cancer did have cures and was treatable in most cases．However, the average price of skin cancer treatment globally was almost $40,000．Those shocking statistics really inspired him to create a more accessible solution．He started doing experiments and working on different things, and that turned into his bar of soap as a project.

A lot of his research and development started in his family’s kitchen and in his basement．But as he reached the final of the competition, he realized that he did need to do a little bit more outside of just his house．So he reached out to people at University of Virginia and people at Georgetown, and he got a lot of assistance．The number one person would be Deborah Isabelle, who helped him organize and structure his ideas during the finalist competition．Bekele said that he definitely couldn’t have done that all by himself.

Bekele’s award-winning soap is a compound based bar of soap and it’s charged with different cancer fighting chemicals．The color of the soap is a bit of a dark type of white and it has a rough surface, which could be a good exfoliant（去角质剂）．It does have a strong medicine smell and feel a bit stickier．The whole point of it is that even once you wash off the soaps, the medicinal parts will stay on your skin．It can activate the body’s immune cells to defend cancer.

Bekele won 25,000 prize money and he was going to use it to continue research．He said, “I still need a lot of resources to be able to conduct this research, so this money will definitely help me achieve it.”

24. Why did Heman Bekele start working on creating the soap?

A．Because he thought it was a fun project.

B．Because he wanted to win a science competition.

C．Because he found skin cancer treatment unaffordable.

D．Because he wanted to create a unique soap for everyone.

25. What can we learn from Bekele’s preparations for the final?

A．Well begun is half done.	B．Learn humbly, ask willingly.
C．Actions speak louder than words.	D．Hope for the best, prepare for the worst.

26. What is paragraph 4 of the text mainly about?

A．What features the soap has.	B．How the soap is used.
C．What chemicals the soap contains.	D．How the soap is produced.

27. Which words can be used to describe Bekele according to the passage?

A．Patient and talented.	B．Friendly and ambitious.
C．Cautious and generous.	D．Caring and devoted.

Fashion designers have a big say in what’s considered beautiful. They pick who’s in their shows and ads, shaping what’s celebrated as beauty. But this power also means responsibility — it can be used to leave people out or lift them up.

When I was young, fashion was my world. I pored over various fashion magazines at my local bookstore, desiring to be tall, thin, and have long, shiny hair to fit the ideal. I wanted to be like those models, so I stopped eating. It was a tough time; my eating disorder consumed me. It took years to break free from its control, allowing me to focus on my true passions.

For so long, the fashion industry has worked hard to set an ideal of beauty that celebrates thin, young, white, and able-bodied models as the ideal. It’s impossible not to be exposed to images of models that have been photoshopped to where there’s not a single spot in sight. This idea is everywhere, and it hurts people. Shockingly, around 91% of women are unhappy with their appearance. It’s sad that teens grow up in a society where they deny themselves.

There’s progress — models and musicians promote body positivity. However, the pressure to meet unrealistic standards remains. Changing these standards involves bravely celebrating diverse beauty. True inclusivity goes beyond appearances. It requires diverse decision-makers, photographers, and casting directors cooperating. Young designers often overlook this crucial aspect. Hiring plus-size or transgender photographers, diverse casting directors, or makeup artists who understand the importance of accommodating to various skin tones, is vital for an overall approach.

We aimed to redefine the “bikini body” standards. However, the goal isn’t for the consumer’s body to change but for clothes to accommodate all sizes. We need more fashion for everyone, no matter their size or where they shop. It’s our responsibility as designers to challenge this narrow beauty definition. My hope is for future teens to escape the pressures I faced, developing a fashion industry celebrating diverse identities.

28. What does the underlined phrase “pored over” in paragraph 2 probably mean?

A．Classified carefully.	B．Read attentively.
C．Compared thoroughly.	D．Recommended sincerely.

29. What is the impact of the initial beauty ideals set by the fashion industry?

A．Causing self-denial.	B．Generating individuality.
C．Focusing on true passions.	D．Contributing to self-confidence.

30. What can be inferred about true inclusivity?

A．It encourages personal effort.	B．It satisfies traditional standards.
C．It focuses on physical appearances.	D．It calls for diversity and cooperation.

31. Which of the following will the author probably agree with?

A．Customers will change their body shapes.

B．Future teens will redefine fashion standards.

C．Fashion should celebrate everyone’s uniqueness.

D．“Bikini body” standards should be strengthened.

Power often boosts an employee’s creativity because being powerful liberates the individual from restrictions. However, new research shows that employees who are not in positions of power can become more creative when given time to “warm up” to a task by engaging in the creative task more than once.

“This is important because when people with more power are able to express their creative ideas more than those with less power, which leads to a rich-get-richer dynamic that strengthens these power imbalances,” said Brian Lucas, assistant professor in the Cornell University. “Understanding ways to boost the creativity of lower power workers can help them find the right way to deal with this low-power disadvantage,” Lucas said.

Lucas and his colleagues conducted two studies to reach their conclusion．In the first study, they divided the creative idea generation session into two rounds consisting of a one-minute “warm up” followed by a second round in which the participants could take as long as they wanted．Participants were randomly assigned to a high-power condition or a low-power condition, and feelings of power were generated with a role manipulation (操纵) where participants were given a leadership role and control over resources (high power) or an employee role with no control over resources (low power). The study found that high-power individuals were more creative than low-power individuals in the warm-up round．There was no difference, though, in creativity in the second round.

In the second study, the researchers gave them a different creative task and increased the number of rounds from two sessions to five, taking as long as they like to complete the task. Similar to the first study, the study found that high-power individuals were more creative than low-power individuals in the first round．But the creativity of low-power individuals caught up to the creativity of the high-power individuals after the first round.

“The low-power warm-up effect suggests a simple intervention that empowers all employees to tap their creative potential and overcomes power imbalances in the workplace: when pursuing creative work, let employees warm up first,” Lucas said.

32. Why does Locus think it important to boost the creativity of lower power workers?

A．It maintains power imbalances.

B．It motivates their ambition to catch up.

C．It creates a competitive work environment.

D．It encourages a workplace with more equality.

33. How did Lucas and his co-authors stimulate feelings of power in the participants?

A．Through a creative task with time limits.

B．Through providing them with different positions.

C．Through a competition between leaders and employees.

D．Through assigning them to different conditions intentionally.

34. How did the second study differ from the first study?

A．It had fewer rounds.	B．It involved more participants.
C．Participants had a changed task.	D．Participants’ creativity gap became wider.

35. Which of the following is the best title for the text?

A．Power tends to encourage creative ideas.

B．Changing tasks boosts all the employees’ creativity.

C．Warm-up time corrects creativity power imbalances.

D．Low-power individuals outperform the high-power ones.

With everything going on in the world, it’s no wonder so many of us are struggling to sleep.     36     And it’s hard to fall back asleep again. However, simple steps before bed can help.

Test your pillow. If you bought your pillow in 2022, it’s already old. The National Sleep Foundation suggests replacing your pillow every one to two years.     37     “When your brain is sending pain signals, it can’t send sleep signals,” says Dr Michael J Breus, a clinical psychologist and sleep specialist.

Get an hour of sunlight each day. Morning sunlight is important for good sleep. “It stops producing melatonin in your brain, which, helps relieve the sleepy morning feeling,” Breus says. It also sets a mental time r to produce melatonin, the so-called sleep hormone, that evening. Aim for 15 to 30 minutes of direct light first and two 15-minute outdoor breaks during the day.     38    

Skip salty snacks before bed. In a Japanese study, researchers followed 321 patients with high-salt diets and sleep issues for 12 weeks.     39     And those who consumed more salt woke up more often to go to the bathroom.

    40     If you need to air complaints to your family, don’t wait until night. Tough discussions are less likely to disturb your sound sleep if you initiate them earlier. Arguments can activate your sympathetic nervous system, which disturbs sleep. Some research even suggests that going to bed angry may make you bad-tempered the next morning.

A．Avoid arguments with your family.

B．Handle your troubles before dinner.

C．It signals your brain that it is time to be awake.

D．It contributes to good health when exposed to light.

E．It’s normal to wake up at night, especially as you age.

F．A used one in the past can cause neck pain and restless sleep.

G．When people cut them down, their average toilet trips decreased.

It was a winter after noon when I tripped over a high kerb (马路牙子). Suddenly, I was flying through the air. It was only the next morning when I tried to take a photo of some splendid sunlight _________ into my kitchen, that I had to face the reality: I could no longer lift my camera, let alone use it. Later, a hospital appointment _________ my worst fear — the arm needed total rest.

Soon I became impatient. I couldn’t travel much. Surfing online, I _________ the concept of gratitude intervention, a method to boost _________ and well-being by being grateful. I had never been wildly _________ about the concept of counting one’s blessings. However, a Californian psychologist, Sonja Lyubomirsky, has _________ research into something much more creative — using a daily photography _________ as a tool for enhanced gratitude.

Lyubomirsky’s instructions are _________, but not necessarily easy to carry out. Take photographs throughout the day of things central to who you are. Reading how participants assigned to the gratitude interventions _________ experienced enhanced positive emotions, a sense of connectedness, more support, and less __________, I decided to carry on.

Taking a single photo was painful, but the __________ to find anything to feel grateful about, and then to record it, started to greatly __________ both my mood and my images. I began to photograph the __________ of my days. Despite everything, I found I could find magic in the daily routines. Life seems repetitive and __________ when you don’t notice the __________ of each moment and the constant small changes that are going on all around you. Don’t just take my word for it — experience it for yourself.

41.

A．winding

B．streaming

C．sticking

D．knocking

42.

A．confirmed

B．removed

C．relieved

D．overcame

43.

A．broke into

B．made up

C．took down

D．came across

44.

A．dream

B．thought

C．mood

D．desire

45.

A．enthusiastic

B．confused

C．nervous

D．particular

46.

A．consulted

B．imagined

C．pioneered

D．observed

47.

A．lesson

B．skill

C．plan

D．practice

48.

A．complex

B．simple

C．normal

D．abstract

49.

A．occasionally

B．hardly

C．significantly

D．slightly

50.

A．interruption

B．loneliness

C．willingness

D．motivation

51.

A．struggle

B．excuse

C．opportunity

D．promise

52.

A．keep

B．balance

C．ruin

D．improve

53.

A．details

B．surprises

C．changes

D．achievements

54.

A．wonderful

B．meaningful

C．unfair

D．boring

55.

A．pain

B．anxiety

C．uniqueness

D．challenge

阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

The Analects of Confucius (《论语》) records the words and deeds of the ancient Chinese philosopher Confucius,     56     (write) somewhere between the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period more than 2,000 years ago. It     57     (highlight) the political and moral ideas of Confucius and Confucianism.

Ren is a core concept in the book adopted by Confucius with original meaning of loving others.     58     (represent) a high moral standard, it includes all virtues. Confucius stresses that self-discipline is     59     must for practicing the rules of propriety (礼) and achieving ren.

Society has developed greatly and huge changes     60     (occur) as well after the birth of the Analects of Confucius. Nevertheless, it contains lots of ideas beyond the passage of time, some of     61     are still relevant today. For example, Confucius analyzes the relationship between learning and thinking by saying that learning without thinking leads to confusion while thinking without learning ends in puzzlement. Besides, the Analects of Confucius also     62     (vivid) shows the images of Confucius’s students. Zi Lu is straightforward, Zi Gong is smart, and Yan Hui is mild and capable. Confucius insists on treating students     63     individuals to achieve full potential, which is     64     (consist)with some of the modern educational thoughts.

The Analects of Confucius is a fine example of world literature, and the publication of its     65     (version) in various languages will further enhance cultural exchanges between China and the world.

67. 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。

In a very cold January, a puppy wandered around Mr. Lacey’s house, where he lived with his wife Mamie and their daughter Doris. Icicles (冰锥) hung three feet or more from the roofs of houses and snow swallowed up cars.

The puppy had been abandoned, and it made its way down the road toward the Laceys’ small house, with its ears down and trembling from shyness and cold. Doris, whose school had been called off because of the snow, was clearing the steps when she spotted the puppy on the road.

“Come on, little dog!” she called it over. The puppy shyly wagged its tail when Doris approached. As soon as Doris put the dog down in the kitchen, her mom, Mrs. Lacey, asked where the dog came from. Mr. Lacey, who was cleaning his fingernails with his pocketknife at the table, said, “I don’t know where it came from, but I know for sure where it’s going.” Doris hugged the puppy hard against her. She said nothing.

Because of the snowy weather, Mr. Lacey couldn’t take the puppy to the shelter right away. So, it stayed in the basement, and Doris fed it leftovers, even though her mom didn’t want to waste food. Doris thought the puppy was around six months old and would be quite noisy sometimes. Surprisingly, the puppy behaved well, didn’t cry or make trouble in the basement, and only followed Doris upstairs when she invited it. Doris often found it on the basement steps listening to the kitchen talk and smelling the food. She felt the puppy wanted company.

Even after a week, Doris didn’t name the dog, knowing her parents wouldn’t let her keep it. Her father made so little money that any pets were out of the question. Desperate to keep the dog, Doris tried to convince her parents by praising the dog’s good behavior and expressing her love for it, but her parents didn’t give a definite answer.

Despite her efforts, Doris secretly wished the bad weather would never go away, fearing the puppy’s unavoidable trip to the shelter. However, nine days after the dog had arrived, the sun was shining.

注意：
1. 续写词数应为150个左右；
2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

Doris knew it was time to say goodbye to the dog and felt rather worried.

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Doris put her hand to her mouth and couldn’t believe what she had heard.

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