阅读下面短文，从每小题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出能填入相应空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将相应字母编号涂黑。

Making magic, making progress

I walked into a wild third-grade classroom. Loud music was playing, kids were throwing a football, and students were dancing wherever they could find ________. I was a mid-year replacement（替补）. The previous（之前的）teacher said he could no longer teach these children and left the job during the holiday break. As soon as I walked into the room, I understood ________ he left.

I sat down ________ in my chair and began reading their names softly. I then ________ a mirror on the wall next to the blackboard.

I then asked the children to come up one by one, tell me their names and what they wanted to learn about. It was a ________ task, because only two children said they wanted to learn anything!

I set rules for the classroom and talked to the students’ parents in the hope that I could ________ these noisy kids. But it was the mirror that saved the day—no, the year!

The mirror allowed me to see my students’ every ________ while I was writing on the blackboard. They soon became puzzled as to how I knew who was misbehaving while I looked at the blackboard. When one student finally asked me, I told him I had a special teacher’s ________ in the back of my head that my hair covered.

At first they did not ________ me. But they did begin to behave better, especially while I wrote on the blackboard. They were starting to believe that I had magical vision（视力）. I never told them differently. Why mess up a ________ thing?

1.

A．chance

B．time

C．space

D．suit

2.

A．when

B．where

C．why

D．how

3.

A．happily

B．angrily

C．cheerfully

D．quietly

4.

A．put up

B．put down

C．put away

D．put on

5.

A．easy

B．difficult

C．simple

D．special

6.

A．repair

B．beat

C．attack

D．fix

7.

A．face

B．move

C．smile

D．decision

8.

A．eye

B．ear

C．hand

D．nose

9.

A．like

B．obey

C．believe

D．follow

10.

A．bad

B．good

C．famous

D．healthy

David Bennett, a 57-year-old man from the US, received the world’s first pig heart transplant in January, 2022. He died two months later, on March 9.

It may sound like a failure, but it actually is a big step forward for xenotransplantation（异种器官移植）.

Xenotransplantation has been a hot topic in medical research for many years, as doctors and scientists look for ways to solve the big problem of organ transplant waiting lists. In the US alone, over 100,000 patients are on a list waiting for new organs. Many of them will die before getting their chance to receive a heart, lung or kidney. Therefore, medical science has turned to animal organs.

Doctors have experimented with xenotransplantation since the early 20th century. There are few success stories. Usually, patients’ bodies reject（排斥）the animal organs. Bennett lived much longer than other xenotransplant patients. That’s because scientists removed pig genes（基因）that would cause fast rejection. Then they added human genes to help the body accept the organ.

“A lot of new information will come out that will help the field move forward at a faster speed.” Muhammad Mohiuddin, director of the transplant program, told The Guardian.

In another xenotransplant success, in 2021, doctors at New York University joined gene-edited pig kidneys to a human patient’s blood vessels（血管）outside of the body. Also that year, doctors at the University of Alabama put the gene-edited pig kidneys inside a patient’s body.

Though these recent successes were short-lived, they show that there may be a way forward for xenotransplants.

16. What does the underlined “It” in paragraph 2 refer to?

A．Xenotransplantation.	B．The world’s first heart transplant.
C．The transplant program.	D．The pig heart transplant Bennett received.

17. Why do scientists focus on xenotransplantation?

A．Because it can make people live longer.

B．Because new organs are in short supply.

C．Because human bodies reject the animal organs.

D．Because many people die after receiving a new organ.

18. What made Bennett live much longer than other xenotransplant patients?

A．The transplanted organ was put outside of his body.

B．Human genes that would cause fast rejection were removed.

C．The transplanted heart was gene-edited to avoid fast rejection.

D．The transplanted organ came from a pig instead of other animals.

19. What can we infer from the passage?

A．The recent xenotransplantation successes were meaningless.

B．Over 100,000 patients are waiting for new organs around the world.

C．Doctors at New York University put pig kidneys inside a patient’s body.

D．Doctors have experimented with xenotransplantation for about 100 years.

20. What do the recent xenotransplantation successes show us?

A．Xenotransplantation is developing step by step.

B．Patients receiving xenotransplantation won’t die.

C．Xenotransplantation does harm to people’s health.

D．Xenotransplantation is sure to solve all the problems.

以下是一则短文，请阅读短文，并从下列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。并在答题卡上将相应的字母编号涂黑。

There are not many nations that can say their national dish has become international.     26     Both are famous all over the world, and both have made the history of Italian food. People have been eating pizza, in one form or another, for centuries. They eat it everywhere—at home, in restaurants, or on street corners.

    27     Long ago, pieces of flatbread, topped with mushrooms and herbs（香料）, were a simple and tasty meal. They were mostly for those who didn’t have enough money to buy plates, or who were on the go. In the 18th century, Naples, in southern Italy, had become one of the largest cities in Europe, and it was growing fast. Lots of city people were poor and they were always rushing around to look for work. They needed food that was cheap and easy to eat.     28     They were inexpensive, used easy-to-find ingredients（原料）, and could be made with plenty of tastes.

It was in America that pizza found its second home. In 1905, the first pizzeria（披萨店）, Lombardi’s, was opened in New York City.     29     It was increasingly considered as a fast, funny food. People might like New York-style thin pizza, or Chicago deep-dish thick pizza. Some want extra cheese on their pizzas while others only like vegetables.     30    

For a lot of people in western countries, when they cannot decide what to eat, they order pizzas.

A．The secret is, almost everyone likes pizzas.

B．The word “pizza” came from the Latin word “pinsa” meaning flatbread.

C．It became a great success.

D．Italy has two such dishes, spaghetti（意大利面）and pizza.

E．Soon, pizza spread across the country with the rapid development of the city.

F．Pizzas were cut to meet the customers’ needs.

阅读以下中华成语故事，根据学生英语学习中常见的五种现象，选出与其情形类似的成语故事，并在答题卡上将相应的字母编号涂黑。
31. Some students may be lucky to get the right answers. But if they depend only on luck, failure may come.
32. Some students seem to be able to remember the English texts in groups. But if they asked to do it alone, they can’t.
33. Some students pretend（假装）that they know the grammar rules but in fact, they don’t.
34. “Because” and “so” shouldn’t be put together. But some students often add “so” to the sentence with “because”.
35. Students need to learn a lesson from mistakes so that they won’t make them next time.

A．A sheep keeper found a sheep was gone and he discovered there was a hole in the sheep fold. So he fixed it right away. As a result, the rest of the sheep were safe.

B．A hard-working young man was so poor that he had to make a small hole in the wall to get light from next door at night. He read a lot of books and became an important officer at last.

C．A rabbit knocked into a tree and died. A farmer nearby enjoyed the rabbit for dinner and waited for more at the same place every day. However, no rabbits came and his fields went worse.

D．A man wanted to steal a big bell next door. However, he had to make a lot of noise so he covered his ears with pieces of clothes, thinking if he couldn't hear the noise, neither could others.

E．The old king liked group music. A man knew this and joined the musical team. But the new king enjoyed music played alone. The man without musical ability was afraid and ran away.

F．Several men were drawing snakes on the floor. One man was the first to finish a snake but he didn't win because he added feet to his snake.

阅读下面短文，在空白处填入一个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式， 并将答案写在答题卡规定的位置上。

Spring View On war-torn land streams flow and mountains stand; In spring town grass and weeds are overgrown. Sad over the years, flowers make us shed tears; Hating to part, hearing birds breaks our heart. The beacon fire has gone higher and higher; Words from home are worth their weight in gold. I cannot bear to scratch my grey hair; It grows too thin to hold a light hairpin.

Poet Du Fu(712—770) wrote this poem in springtime, when he     36     (catch) by An Lushan’s rebel army (叛军) and locked up in Chang’an, the capital city at     37     time. The poem shows his love for his motherland and how he missed his family.

The poet     38     (use) imagery of flowers and birds to express his feelings, which is seen as classic. The spring flowers and birds     39     (be) joyful, but in the eyes of the sad poet, they reminded him of the past and made him cry. Flowers came to life again in spring,     40     the broken country could not be easily restored (恢复). This shows his care for his country and his people.

The birds were singing     41     (free), while the poet lost his freedom. He was alone     42     any relatives or friends. Thus the     43     (bird) singing frightened him. This shows that he missed his family. His depressed (绝望的) feeling got even     44     (deep) in the next lines. As the war was going on, it was hard     45     (receive) letters from family members. The letters were as valuable as gold.

46. 假如你是李华，你的英国笔友John下个月将作为交换生来你的学校。他想了解你校社团并计划加入其中一个，请根据提示给他写一封邮件，向他简要介绍并推荐其中一个。

要点：
1. 名称：武术社；京剧社；……（至少补充1个）
2. 内容： ①练习中国武术；②学唱京剧；③……
3. 推荐理由： ①丰富课余生活；②……；③……
要求：
1. 80词左右，开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数内；
2. 文中不得出现真实姓名和校名；
3. 可适当增加细节，以使条理清楚、行文连贯；
4. 标点正确，书面整洁。
参考词汇：武术社Wushu Club       京剧社Peking Opera Club       丰富enrich
Dear John,

I am excited to have you with us next month and I know you are very interested in the clubs in our school.__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Look forward to meeting you soon!

Yours,

Li Hua