1 . 阅读短文，从文后所给的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，使短文通顺、连贯。选项中有一项为多余选项。

It is time for Mrs. Brown’ s class. Mrs. Brown asks her students a question: Do smartphones bring us closer together or drive (迫使) us further apart? The students show great interest in the discussion.     1    

David:

I think smartphones drive us further apart. When you sit in a busy restaurant, watch the guests waiting for their meals.     2     They don’ t talk much to one another. Although smartphones are helpful in our everyday lives, we should not have all our communication behind a screen.     3    

Alice:

In my opinion, smartphones bring us closer together. When my family moved to Qingdao last year, I had to leave my friends in Nanjing. But smartphones help us keep in touch ( 保持联系).     4    

James:

It depends. Smartphones can bring us closer to people living far.     5     Many people talk more on their smartphones than with the people around them. It is hard to say. Still, one thing is clear: If we can use our smartphones properly, everything will be OK.

A．We also need eye contact (眼神交流) and face-to-face talks.

B．Let’s listen to what they are saying.

C．We need to travel far to meet a friend.

D．You will see almost everyone looking at the screen of their smartphone.

E．We can communicate with each other fast and easily through smartphones.

F．However, they make us further apart from those around us.

2 . 以下是一篇短文，请阅读全文，并从下列的六个句子中选择五个还原到原文中，使原文的意思完整、连贯。

You’re just about to head out for the day, but you notice you forgot to charge (充电) your phone.     1     But don’t worry, we have the top tips for how to make your phone charge faster.

Take your phone out of the case.

If you notice that your phone gets hot when you charge it, scientists suggest taking it out of its case before charging.     2     This may influence battery capacity. If you are always asking “Why is my phone so slow?” make sure it isn’t a heat-related problem from the case.

Clean out your lightning port (端口).

The problem may not be with the power of your battery itself—learning how to clean your phone’s charging port could be very important to how to make your phone charge faster. Over time, dust can accumulate (堆积) in your lightning port and block it.     3    

Get your phone out of the sun.

    4     In fact, your phone’s software may limit charging to about 80% when the phone gets hotter than the recommended temperature. One tip for making your phone charge faster to its 100% is to make sure you cool down an overheating phone by moving it out of the sun.

Plug it into a wall socket.

The USB port of your computer may be convenient when you’re working, but a socket will charge your phone faster. This is because USB ports usually only charge at 0.5 amps.     5    

A．Heat causes harm to your battery.

B．Now your battery power is running out!

C．Therefore, it’s going to take twice the time.

D．Some of the cases are made with protective materials.

E．Charging your phone when it’s inside cases may produce more heat.

F．We recommend turning off your phone and using a toothpick to gently clean it.

3 . Choose the best answer（根据以下内容，选择最恰当的答案）

Newspapers and television news programs always seem to report about the bad things happening in the society. However, there is a place where readers can find some good news. That place is a website called HappyNews.

HappyNews was created by Byron Reese, who was the founder and CEO of PageWise. Reese once said about HappyNews, “Since the news media is giving people an unbalanced (偏颇的) view of the world, it’s our duty to make a difference. Traditional media often focuses on negative (消极的) stories, but our personal experience is usually different from that. Generally, most people are good and try to help each other. Most people are honest.”

Not everyone agrees with Reese’s view, though. Many people think that news sources have a responsibility to provide news that is helpful to people. People need to know about issues or problems in today’s society. Then people are better able to make decisions about the things that influence their daily lives. According to this, Reese said, “HappyNews is not trying to stop people from learning about issues or problems. Instead, it is just trying to provide a balanced picture of today’s world.”

By the end of its first month online, HappyNews had more than 70,000 readers. About 60 percent of them were women. Something else unique makes HappyNews different from any of the other news or information websites that are on the Internet. Unlike many other websites, HappyNews gets fan mails from its readers on a daily basis. A reader said in one of them, “From HappyNews, I’ve realized that the world is not as bad of a place as I have been trained to believe.”

In the world of HappyNews, there is no bad or ugly, only good.

1. According to Reese, how is HappyNews different from other news sources?

A．It gives a balanced view of the world.	B．It focuses on negative news stories.
C．It tells Reese’s personal experience.	D．It provides people with helpful news.

2. Some people don’t like HappyNews probably because ________.

A．HappyNews doesn’t seem like traditional media

B．HappyNews doesn’t report international news

C．HappyNews doesn’t tell important issues or problems

D．HappyNews doesn’t attract men readers

3. The underlined word “unique” in paragraph 4 probably means ________.

A．special

B．interesting

C．strange

D．awful

4. Which of the following is TRUE about HappyNews after its first month online?

A．It had about seven thousand readers.	B．Most of its readers were women.
C．Its readers sent in bad letters every day.	D．Reese used it to create other websites.

5. Which of the following news items can probably be found on HappyNews?

A．Plastic pollution in the ocean	B．Luke Smith wins competition
C．3 injured in serious car crash	D．The great Garden Bank robbery

6. What can be the best title for the passage?

A．How to Be Happy	B．Why Women Like HappyNews
C．Newspapers vs. Online News	D．Not the Normal News

4 . 阅读下面短文，根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入一个最恰当的单词，每个空格只填1个单词。

Helpful Hotline

A telephone hotline has recently gone viral (走红). It was created by students at West Side Elementary School in Healdsburg, California. People can call to get cheerful advice from students.

The hotline is in English and Spanish. Children with happy voices share positive (积极的) messages with callers. For example, by pressing “3”, you can hear a group of kids say, “You can do it! Keep trying! Don’t give up!” Pressing “4” triggers the sounds of children giggling (咯咯笑) and laughing—a sound certain to bring a smile to anyone’s face.

Most people agree that with concerns (担心) like COVID-19 and extreme (极端的) weather, recent years have been stressful (令人有压力的). “To hear the pure joy from kids is comforting,” Jessica Martin told local news website 10TV News. She teaches art at West Side Elementary School and worked with the students on this project.

The basic question she had for them was: “What could you say to help or encourage someone else?” Students thought of what they would like to say. Then Martin recorded each one and sorted out (分类) the recordings into different parts of the telephone hotline.

Pressing “1” brings up ideas for people who feel upset or nervous. Helpful suggestions include punching (击打) your pillow, doing flips (翻转) on a trampoline (蹦床) or getting a cookie.

Pressing “2” results in “words of encouragement and life advice”, like “The world is a better place with you in it.”

The hotline soon got thousands of calls an hour. Words of the hotline spread on social media. The hotline is popular with stressed adults, hospital patients, older people in nursing homes and others who just want to hear some happy voices.

Title: Helpful Hotline
Introduction	Students from California created the project to give cheerful advice to people. It is both in English and Spanish. By     1     different numbers, callers can hear children’s encouraged words and sounds which make them     2    .
Background of the project	Worrying about COVID-19 and extreme weather, people face a lot of     3    . With the help of hotline, they can feel     4     from sounds of kids.
The process of making the hotline	Think of what they would like to say to help     5    .     6     each one. Put the recordings into different parts.
7     to use the hotline	If you press “1”, you can get helpful suggestions,     8     punching your pillow, doing flips on a trampoline or getting a cookie. If you Press “2”, you can hear children encourage or     9     you to face life bravely.
Influence of the hotline	The spread on social media     10     to its popularity among different kinds of people who wants to get happiness.

5 . 如今，手机在人们的生活中被广泛使用，许多中学生也拥有了自己的手机。在本周的英语主题班会上你们班将邀请每位同学针对此现象发言谈谈自己对中学生使用手机的看法。请你以“My opinions on School Students Using the Mobile Phone”为题，根据下图中的要点提示写一篇发言稿介绍你的观点。

要求：所给内容必须涵盖，同时可以适当扩展；表达观点清楚、有条理，词数100个左右；不得出现真实的个人信息。

My Opinions on Middle School Students Using the Mobile Phone

As we know, cell phones are playing an important part in our daily life now. More and more students are having phones.

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6 . Long ago, it took ages to send a message. Today, with the Internet, we can ________ send someone on the other side of the world messages by email. ________ a message that arrived earlier this week was not so quick. It was ________ from the English city of Bath in 1916. It then ________ in the post and was finally delivered 107 years later to an address in London. The UK’s Royal Mail said, “It was uncertain what happened.” It said it was ________ that the letter finally arrived, but had no idea why it was more than a century late. It said it might have ________ behind a piece of furniture.

People used to write ________ on paper. They put a letter in an envelope and stuck a ________ bought from a post office on it. They then put it in a postbox in the street. A postman collected the envelope and it began its journey. It ________ a few days to reach its destination (目的地) if the address was in the same country. If the address was overseas, it went by ship and took weeks. Air mail is now transported by airplane.

________, there was a little problem with the 107-year-late letter. The person to whom it was delivered passed away in 1951.

1.

A．patiently

B．quickly

C．carefully

D．correctly

2.

A．But

B．And

C．If

D．So

3.

A．emailed

B．posted

C．given

D．carried

4.

A．broke down

B．got away

C．got lost

D．went off

5.

A．sad

B．satisfied

C．happy

D．sorry

6.

A．fallen

B．hidden

C．set

D．come

7.

A．books

B．notebooks

C．reports

D．letters

8.

A．picture

B．stamp

C．note

D．card

9.

A．spent

B．paid

C．used

D．took

10.

A．However

B．Suddenly

C．Luckily

D．Especially

7 . Most of Marcia’s friends had a cell phone (手机), but Marcia’s mom didn’t want to buy her one. She didn’t want Marcia to play video games on the phone. Also,     1     Internet worried her. One day, Marcia’s mom had a talk     2     Marcia’s dad. “If Marcia has a cell phone, how can we know who she is talking to? Video games are bad for her. The Internet can be     3     (danger) and out of control (控制). We should just keep her away from the Internet, and I’m not buying her a cell phone     4     she is eighteen. This is the only way I can be sure that Marcia’s mind stays     5     (health),” said Marcia’s mom.

Marcia’s dad disagrees with Marcia’s mom. Although he     6     (agree) that there were some dangers of using a cell phone, he liked the Internet, and found it very useful. “The problem is,” he said, “we just can’t stop Marcia from     7     (use) the Internet, because she needs to know more about the world. She needs to have something interesting     8     (share) with her friends. What is more, I think video games are not that bad. Of course, it is no good to play     9     (they) too much. When played in moderation (适度), they are fun. I think Marcia     10     (need) a cell phone. We can’t take those things away.”

8 . 如今，随着智能手机(smart phones)的普及，玩手机成瘾的人不少,，智能手机给我们生活带来便利的同时也带来危害。请以“Look Up, Please!”为题，根据以下提示写一篇短文。

要求：
1. 短文须包含所给内容，适当发挥，语句通顺，语法正确；
2. 不能出现真实的姓名和学校名称；
3. 词数90左右。短文开头已为你写好，不计入总词数。

Look Up, Please!

Today more and more people can’t live without smart phones.

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9 . 教育部曾发布《加强中小学生手机管理工作的通知》，要求中小学生原则上不带手机进校园。智能手机带给学生巨大方便的同时，也存在着不少弊端。请你根据下面表格的信息，以Smart phones为题，写一篇英语短文， 谈谈智能手机的利弊，并号召学生合理使用智能手机。

好处	1、学习方面：上网课、搜寻资料…… 2、生活方面：看电影、听音乐……
弊端	1、健康方面：熬夜，花太多时间打游戏； 2、学习方面： 课上使用，考试舞弊。
建议	……

要求：内容完整，语法正确，表达通顺，行文连贯，书写规范。词数 80左右。
参考词汇：舞弊cheat

Smart phones

As we know, smart phones are popular with students these days. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Good luck with everything!

Yours,

Li Hua

10 . 阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，从各题所给的A、B、C和D项中选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

The mobile phone is a great invention. For most people, they enjoy doing _________ on the mobile phone. However, more and more students can’t help playing on their mobile phones when they are at school. Some parents worry that mobile phones may be bad _________ their children’s study.

Some schools in Jilin brought in phone-free classes to make students study better. After _________ the rule, students can’t use phones in the class. A student from Jilin Huaqiao University of Foreign Languages said, “We put _________ smartphones into a bag after we come into the classroom. The teacher lets one student be his or her helper. _________ helper needs to make sure that every student hands in his or her smartphone in every class.”

“Students _________ spend less time on smartphones with the help of the rule. The rule is _________ able to make students talk with teachers more and work together with them better,” said a teacher.

“We only allow students _________ smartphones when they need to search for some information online in class.”

The mobile phone makes people’s lives more interesting, _________ it is not perfect. Not all of the information on the mobile phone is true. What’s more, if we can’t use the mobile phones correctly, it may cause some __________ serious effects.

1.

A．interesting nothing

B．nothing interesting

C．interesting something

D．something interesting

2.

A．at

B．for

C．on

D．of

3.

A．set

B．to set

C．setting

D．sets

4.

A．we

B．our

C．us

D．ours

5.

A．A

B．An

C．The

D．/

6.

A．can

B．should

C．must

D．need to

7.

A．too

B．also

C．as well

D．either

8.

A．use

B．using

C．to use

D．to using

9.

A．and

B．or

C．but

D．so

10.

A．another

B．other

C．others

D．the others