Food festivals are common in the UK and take place in all sorts of places and at all sorts of times. Whatever your taste, there’s a food festival to match.

Meatopia

This three-day, London-based festival takes place at the end of August and is a meat lover’s paradise. In addition to a range of meat products, from juicy burgers to tender steaks, attendees can listen to live music, watch butchery demonstrations, and attend informal meat-based workshops.

The National Honey Show

If you have a sweet tooth, then it could be that the National Honey Show, which started in 1921 and is the largest event of its kind, is the place for you to be. This three-day event attracts many local entries that show their sweet golden honey, some of which is sold globally.

The Orange Sauce Festival

Held in Cambria, this sweet, fragrant festival has been running for 3 years. What attracts people most is a competition to find the best homemade orange sauce. There are thousands of participants from over 30 different countries across the globe, bringing their local snacks to share here.

The Ginger (姜) and Spice Festival

If you’d prefer something with a little more kick to it, then you could attend The Ginger (姜) and Spice Festival held in Market Drayton. Unlike other food festivals, it celebrates its town’s historic connection to Robert Clive, who returned from India with ginger. Because of this, they specialize in baking gingerbread, but also sell a range of traditional spices from mild to hot.

1. What’s the common point between Meatopia and the National Honey Show?

A．Both of them originated from London.	B．Both of them last for three days.
C．Both of them hold workshops.	D．Both of them have a long history.

2. If you want to taste different foreign food, which festival is your first option?

A．The Meatopia	B．The National Honey Show
C．The Orange Sauce Festival	D．The Ginger and Spice Festival

3. What makes the Ginger and Spice Festival different from the others?

A．It only sells spicy food.

B．The food is cooked by Robert Clive.

C．The ginger used in the festival is from India.

D．It is concerned with a historic figure.

The moment that Jiang Mengnan received the Touching China Person of the Year Award for 2021, she said she most wanted to express her gratitude to her parents. Born in 1992 in Yizhang county, Hunan Province, Jiang’s world has been silent since she was 6 months old, when some drugs she was given damaged her hearing. So, Jiang’s parents, both middle school teachers, taught her to learn vocalization and lip reading.

Jiang put her hands on the throats of her parents when they talked and felt the vibration (震动) of the vocal cords (声带) to learn to speak. When reading Pinyin, she carefully looked at the lips of other people! s pronunciations to know the formation of each syllable. Mastering a single word can take at least 1000 practice attempts for Jiang. Furthermore, different people had different mouth movements, which added difficulty to her social contacts and school life when it came to lip reading.

Through lip reading and self-study, she was able to keep up with learning and was accepted by Jilin University School of Pharmacy with a high score of 615 on the college entrance examination. In 2018, she was accepted as a PhD candidate at Tsinghua University’s School of Life Sciences.

Jiang’s story is one of victory over adversity. More importantly, she is helping inspire disabled children in her native Hunan Province and beyond to struggle for success. Because of her hearing loss, she couldn’t be a doctor. Instead, she chose pharmacy (药剂学) to help reduce people’s pain and assist their recovery. Another crucial way she aims to contribute is by teaching children in similar situations not to be limited by their disability. As often as she can, Jiang visits special education schools and meets with students. She tells them to do their best to achieve as much as a so-called healthy person.

She stressed that people with disabilities have no need to feel discouraged, as they can do the same or even better than non-disabled people around them. When God closes a door, he opens a window, and this girl believes that all challenges are gifts.

4. What causes Jiang to lose her hearing?

A．She had a genetic disease.	B．She suffered from a high fever.
C．She was injured in a car accident.	D．She took a harmful medicine.

5. What’s the main idea of the second paragraph?

A．Jiang’s advice on mastering pronunciation skills.

B．Jiang’s experiences of language learning.

C．Jiang’s attempts to overcome social anxiety.

D．Jiang’s success in the college entrance examination.

6. In what way does Jiang help disabled children?

A．By investing money in building schools for them.

B．By treating them with free medicine as a doctor.

C．By teaching them to learn lip reading.

D．By encouraging them to overcome difficulties.

7. What does Jiang’s story tell us?

A．Never judge a book by its cover.	B．Hard work pays off.
C．Practice makes perfect.	D．Actions speak louder than words.

Tropical (热带的) rainforests are disappearing at a surprising rate, and according to a new report by Rainforest Foundation Norway, humans are to blame. The world’s dependence on coal, farming, soy, palm oil and mining has resulted in two-thirds of Earth’s tropical rainforests being completely destroyed.

Tropical rainforests once covered 14.5 million square kilometers of Earth’s surface, but now, just one-third of that remains undamaged. Of the original area tropical rainforests once occupied, 34% is completely gone and 30% is suffering from damage. All that remains is roughly 9.5 million square kilometers, and 45% of that is in a poor state, the report says.

Researchers blame human consumption for the loss. While agriculture has always been a main factor of rainforest loss, the report said that energy consumption, international trade and the production of beans and palm oil, logging (伐木) and mining have been the largest threats over the past century. A significant number of U.S. products rely on resources from tropical rainforests. The country heavily relies on palm oil, rubber and cocoa, all of which come from forests around the world.

Tropical rainforests are home to more than half of the Earth’s biodiversity and have more carbon in living organisms than any other ecosystem. Along with supporting significant animal life, tropical rainforests are also necessary for slowing down global warming. “We expect that upcoming UN climate and biodiversity summits (峰会) provide specific targets and measures to protect tropical rainforests,” said Anders Krogh, who wrote the report.

The researchers also believe that the loss of tropical rainforests puts the whole world at the risk of future pandemics (流行病). The outbreak of COVID-19 should bring rainforest protection to the top of the agenda of all policy makers.

8. What can we know from the figures in paragraph 2?

A．The severe destruction of rainforests.

B．The forest coverage rate on Earth.

C．The process of rainforest loss.

D．The reason for the disappearance of rainforests.

9. What’s the purpose of mentioning America’s dependence on rainforest resources?

A．To emphasize the effects of farming on tropical rainforests.

B．To display the richness of rainforest resources.

C．To show human’s consumption of rainforest resources.

D．To explain the relationship between humans and nature.

10. Which one will be influenced by the decline of tropical rainforests according to Paragraph 4?

A．Global climate.	B．Human diet.
C．Economic development.	D．Social structure.

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

A．How to Protect Rainforests	B．Reduce Human Consumption
C．Tropical Rainforests are Disappearing	D．Rainforests and Global Warming

46. 众所周知，现在的野生动物越来越少了，有一些野生动物面临灭绝的趋势，请写一篇有关保护野生动物的演讲稿。内容包括：
1. 野生动物濒临灭绝的现状；
2. 野生动物濒临灭绝的原因；
3. 拯救措施。
注意：
1. 写作词数应为80左右；
2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
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47. 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。

Once upon a time, there lived a wise man. His son, however, was very lazy and wasted his time sleeping. The years passed, and he recognized the need to give something to his son so that he could take care of himself and his family.

One day, he called his son to his room and said, “My son, you are no more a kid now. I want you to find the real purpose of your life.” Then he handed his son a bag. The son opened it. Inside were some food, a little money and a map. His father continued, “I want you to go and find a treasure. I have drawn a map of the place where the treasure is hidden. You need to go and find it.” The son loved this idea. The next day, he set out on a journey to find the treasure. He had to travel really far across forests and mountains. Along the way, he used up the money and even starved sometimes. Luckily, he was helped by some with food and by some with money.

Finally, after a long year, he reached his destination (目的地). He searched and searched but found nothing. He spent two days looking and digging for the treasure. By the third day, he was so tired that he decided to leave.

On his way back, he met the same people who had helped him earlier. This time he stayed a few days with them and helped them in some way or another. He realized how nice they had been to a stranger who had nothing to offer them in return.

When he reached home, he realized it had been two years since he left the place. He walked straight into his father’s room. “Father!” he said. The father immediately jumped to his feet and hugged his son.

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

The father asked his son whether he had found the treasure.

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The son replied, “Although it was hard, I did enjoy the journey on my way.”

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