Michelle Yeoh, an iconic name in Chinese cinema, made history on Sunday night by becoming the first Asian woman to win the Academy Award for best actress in the awards’ 95-year history.

The Malaysian-born actress defeated tough challengers, including two-time winner Cate Blanchett and five-time nominee (被提名人) Michelle Williams, to take home the honored award for her extraordinary performance in the multiverse (多元宇宙) comedy Everything Everywhere All at Once.

The film, where Yeoh plays a struggling laundry owner who ends up being the savior of the multiverse, swept the Oscars with a total of seven awards, including for best picture and best director, making it the biggest winner of the night.

“For all the little boys and girls who are like me watching tonight, this is a beacon of hope and possibility,” the actress said in her acceptance speech in Los Angeles, California, the United States, to emphasize that one must dream big as dreams do come true. “And ladies, don’t let anyone ever tell you (that) you’re past your golden period,” the 60-year-old added.

The actress also used her speech to honor her 84-year-old mother, Janet Yeoh. “I have to dedicate this to my mom and all the moms in the world because they are really the superheroes and without them none of us would be here tonight,” she said.

After carving a career for herself in Kungfu cinema in Hong Kong, Yeoh made her Hollywood debut (首次亮相) in the 1997 James Bond movie Tomorrow Never Dies. She gained international recognition for her role as a swords-woman in Ang Lee’s iconic film, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, which won three Oscars in 2001.

Calling the actress “a female Jackie Chan”, Sha Dan, a film critic, said that Yeoh is the film industry’s darling for not only her jaw-dropping performance in action movies, but also her performance in artistic works. Everything Everywhere All at Once seems to be specifically crafted for Yeoh because the movie reflects her decades-long efforts to raise the cultural significance of Asian-themed films worldwide, Sha added. His remarks were just part of a stir among Chinese media, with the news hashtag getting over 430 million views on the popular micro-blogging platform Sina Weibo in just three hours.

4. What can we learn about Yeoh?

A．She worked a laundry years ago.

B．She rose to fame first in Malaysia film industry.

C．She got internationally recognized for her role in her latest film.

D．Her impressive acting contributed to her winning the Academy Award.

5. Which of the following can best describe Michelle Yeoh?

A．Ambitious and honest.	B．Inspiring and grateful.
C．Warm-hearted and productive.	D．Generous and diligent.

6. What is the last paragraph mainly about?

A．The situation of action movies.

B．The road to success of Michelle Yeoh.

C．Media’s comments on Yeoh’s achievements.

D．Yeoh’s great contributions to film industry.

7. What does the author want to convey through the text?

A．Art is long and life is short.

B．Constant dropping wears away a stone.

C．Coming events cast their shadows before.

D．The flower of dreams will eventually bloom.

Researchers have created a device that uses brain waves to translate what paralyzed (瘫痪的) people who can’t speak intend to say into sentences. The device, created by a team at the University of California, San Francisco, analyzes brain waves to decode what a patient is trying to say and then displays the text on a computer screen.

Volunteering to test the device was a man in his late 30s who 15 years ago suffered a brain-stem stroke that caused widespread paralysis and robbed him of speech.

The researchers implanted electrodes (电极) on the surface of the man’s brain, over the area that controls speech. A computer analyzed the patters when he attempted to say common words such as “water” or “good”, eventually becoming able to differentiate between 50 words that could generate more than 1,000 sentences.

Prompted (提示) with questions such as “How are you today?” or “Are you thirsty?”, the device eventually enabled the man to answer “I am very good” or “No, I am not thirsty”—not voicing the words but translating them into text, the team said.

It takes about three to four seconds for the words to appear on the screen after the man tries to say them. That’s not nearly as fast as speaking, but quicker than tapping out a response.

Harvard neurologists Leigh Hochberg and Sydney Cash called the work a “pioneering demonstration”. They said, “If the technology pans out, it eventually could help people with injuries, strokes or illnesses like Lou Gehrig’s disease whose brains prepare messages for delivery but those messages are trapped.”

The team has spent years mapping the brain activity that leads to speech. How did they know the device interpreted the man’s words correctly? They started by having him try to say specific sentences such as, “Please bring my glasses,” rather than answering open-ended questions until the machine translated accurately most of the time.

Next steps include ways to improve the device’s speed, accuracy and vocabulary size — and maybe one day allow a computer-generated voice rather than text on a screen — while testing a small number of additional volunteers.

8. What do we know about the device in the text?

A．It can make paralyzed people speak again.

B．It was implanted into a man’s heart.

C．It can produce words on a screen.

D．It can help restore patients’ lost memory.

9. What does the underlined word “differentiate” in paragraph 3 mean?

A．learn

B．distinguish

C．organize

D．speak

10. Which of the following may the researchers of the team agree with?

A．The device may have a promising future.

B．The device can do anything for paralyzed people.

C．In the future the device can produce pictures on a computer.

D．In the future the device can be affordable to more people.

11. What may be the best title of the text?

A．Researchers Found Good Methods to Help Paralyzed Patients.

B．Device Uses Brain Waves of Paralyzed Man to Help Him Communicate.

C．Paralyzed Man Communicates Normally with a Speech-aided Device.

D．Repeated Questions Given to Paralyzed Man Make Device More Intelligent.

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。

Tianshui in Northwest China’s Gansu Province is sweeping social media with one of its unique dishes. This city is stepping into the spotlight now that its local street dish malatang has become increasingly     36     (influence) on social media.

According to the China News Agency, one restaurant owner in Tianshui     37     (note), “we have been serving at least 400 customers a day, as people from other provinces drive to the city to get     38     taste of the local cuisine.” “There has been a long queue outside my restaurant even on weekdays,” said the shop owner. The growing     39     (popular) of this kind of street food can also be reflected in its main ingredient, the Gangu chili pepper, or lamb’s horn pepper, grown in Gangu county, a place well-known     40     the “Hometown of Chili Peppers” in China.

The sales of products such as the broth for Tianshui malatang and Gangu chili peppers have been surging recently. In some places, the sales of Gangu chili peppers     41     (increase) tenfold in the past two weeks. Young customers born in the 1990s have become the leading force for its consumption,     42     (account) for 40 percent of chili pepper product sales. At the same time, related hashtags such as “going for malatang in Gansu by high-speed train” have been trending on China’s Sina Weibo,     43     on the short video platform Douyin, the topic Tianshui has been viewed more than 12 billion times.

The successful tourism experience     44     (earn) by the cities of Zibo and Harbin has paved the way for Tianshui,     45     the culinary dish is becoming a main force for the city to stand out.

46. 假设你是高三学生李华，你校为帮助高三学生缓解紧张学习所带来的心理压力，于上周举办了心理健康周(Psychological Health Week)活动，请给你的美国好友John写信介绍此活动，要点如下：
1. 活动的目的;
2. 活动的内容;
3. 活动的意义。
注意：词数80左右;开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。
Dear John,

How are you doing?

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Looking forward to your reply.

Yours truly,

Li Hua

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。

One day I got stuck in the Tube on my way to work.

The Tube—that’s what most people call it—is London’s underground railway system.

It was about nine o'clock in the morning, the middle of the rush-hour. Nobody had expected something unusual would happen later and everyone was doing their usual: a pretty girl gave her boyfriend sweet kisses one after another. Sitting next to me, a young woman with a suitcase and a baby took a scarf out of her suitcase and made her baby a nest, so that it could lie more comfortably. In fact, the train had just left Green Park Station when, instead of speeding up, it started to slow down and then came to a stand-still.

Ten minutes passed, though it seemed like half a day. the train didn’t move. Had the railwaymen forgotten all about our existence? Had there been a crash on the line in front? How serious was the breakdown? We had no means of knowing. However, to anxious people who are stuck in the Tube, I suppose it doesn’t really matter what it is that has broken down. What they care is when they can get out of the trouble.

Twenty minutes passed. All hope of getting to work on time had long since gone. Had the train really broken down? Several people thought so, but they were wrong. A railwayman at last came down the length of the train to tell us that the power supply had failed, and that we were not to worry as they were working to put it right.

We could not leave the train, as it had stopped in the tunnel (隧道), not at a station. There was nothing else to do. The weak signal disabled cellphones. Besides, the train was getting hot and stuffy (闷). I even began to wonder if we were going to stay there for the rest of the day.

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

The hopeless waiting in the darkness drove us crazy.

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As a commuter (上班族) who traveled to work on the train every day, I thought it my duty to do something.

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