1 . 阅读短文，根据语篇要求填空，使短文通顺、意思完整。每空限填一词。

Beijing Opera is our national opera. It appeared hundreds     1     years ago. Its music and singing came from Xipi and Erhuang in Anhui and Hubei. Beijing Opera has four main roles: Sheng, Dan, Jing and Chou.     2     are different paintings on different roles’ faces and their gestures are wonderful.

Beijing Opera is     3     important part of Chinese culture. It used to be popular with old people,     4     now more and more young people are interested in it. Some of them     5     showing it to the world through short videos, pictures and music.

2 . In school, we are told to drink water between classes. Our parents ask us to bring our water bottles to school and we’re reminded by experts that water is good for our skin and helps control our weight. But how much should we actually be drinking?

For many years, people have followed the advice of drinking eight glasses of water, eight times a day, known as the “8×8 rule”. According to Jessica Brown, this seems to have partly come from a misunderstanding of old advice that was published almost 80 years ago. In 1945, a study advised drinking one millilitre (毫升) of liquid for each calorie (卡路里) of food. This is about two litres of water a day, or eight glasses per person. But, Jessica says, the reality is that different people have different needs. Weight, age and activity level all play a role in how much water someone should drink.

Then do we need to control how much water we drink? It’s not that important, according to Dr. Stanley Goldfarb from the University of Pennsylvania. He says our bodies are good at telling us when we need water. When we are thirsty, it means our bodies need more water. Our kidneys (肾脏) help us keep the water we have, even before we feel thirsty.

There are, of course, benefits to drinking water. It helps our bodies stay at the right temperature. It helps us keep away bad things in our bodies. It helps us digest (消化) food. It protects our joints (关节).

So, next time you feel thirsty, reach for a glass of water. But don’t worry if you don’t drink exactly eight glasses a day. Your body knows what it needs.

根据材料内容选择最佳答案。
1. What is the “8×8 rule” advice based on?

A．A study published in 1945.

B．A common sense among the public.

C．A recent discovery by Jessica Brown.

D．Advice given by Dr. Stanley Goldfarb.

2. What can influence how much water we should drink according to the passage?
①age ②height ③weight ④activity level ⑤color of skin

A．①②③

B．②③⑤

C．②③④

D．①③④

3. What does the underlined word “benefits” in Paragraph 4mean?

A．Methods.

B．Degrees.

C．Advantages.

D．Discoveries.

4. What does the author advise readers to do when they feel thirsty?

A．Wait until they are not thirsty.	B．Reach for a glass of water.
C．Keep doing what they are doing.	D．Drink as much water as possible.

5. What’s the best title for the passage?

A．Simple Tips for Drinking Water	B．The Science Behind the “8×8 Rule”
C．The Importance of Drinking Water	D．The Truth About Drinking Water

4 . 阅读短文，从方框中选择适当的词并用其正确形式填空，使短文通顺、意思完整。每空限填一词。每词限用一次。

eat   happen   for   it   like   subject   use   join   other   enough

At 9:31 a.m. on May 30th, 2023, China sent     1     astronauts (宇航员), Jing Haipeng, Zhu Yangzhu and Gui Haichao, into space. They     2     in the latest Shenzhou-16 mission (任务). Do you want to become astronauts     3     them? How can you become astronauts?

Be healthy. To be an astronaut, you need to be very healthy. It is important     4     you to have a healthy body. You can’t have     5     small problems. For example, you can’t have scars (伤疤). They may split (裂开) in space.

Become stronger with hard training (训练). For example, you need to be strong     6     like sports players. You will also wear a 200-kilogram uniform (衣服) and do missions under-water for six or seven hours without     7     or going to the toilet. It is     8     for these astronauts to face the space.

Learn knowledge. Learning is important, too. Astronauts study 60     9     to get ready for a mission like math, English, spacecraft design, physics and so on so that they can know what to do when something bad     10     during the mission.

5 . Everybody knows that cats like to sleep. They spend more than half of their lives sleeping and enjoying every minute of it. Other animals have different sleeping habits, however. Horses may not look like they are asleep. But they are! Horses spend about six hours sleeping every day and they do it standing up!

Fish also sleep every day but they have a strange habit. They don’t close their eyes when they are sleeping. When ducks sleep, they keep one eye open and one half of their brain (大脑) awake. It helps them stay alert (警惕的) and watch out for dangerous animals.

So what about us? Well, most people sleep for about a third of their lives. The number of hours you sleep, however, has to do with your age. Most newborn babies sleep a lot. They spend about 75% of their time sleeping every day! As we get older we need less sleep. Children need about eleven hours and adults sleep for eight hours every night. So, yes, you spend many hours a year doing nothing—sleeping in bed!

But you are not just asleep—you are not really doing nothing. Your body and your mind relax during this time, but a lot of things happen during sleep. Dreams are one way that the mind relaxes after a busy day. A person spends about 20% of every night dreaming. That means you have about four or five dreams every night or about 1 ,600 dreams a year.

根据材料内容选择最佳答案。
1. From the passage, we know that a horse ________.

A．sleeps with one eye open	B．keeps standing up when sleeping
C．spends half of its life sleeping	D．doesn’t close its eyes when sleeping

2. What animals sleep with one eye open and one half of their brain awake?

A．Fish.

B．Cats.

C．Ducks.

D．Horses.

3. According to the passage, how long do most new-born babies sleep one day?

A．About 12 hours.

B．About 14 hours.

C．About 16 hours.

D．About 18 hours.

4. What is the last paragraph mainly about?

A．How we can have a good sleep.

B．Why some people don’t have dreams.

C．How many dreams we have every night.

D．What our body and mind are doing when we’re sleeping.

5. Where does the passage probably come from?

A．An art book.

B．A storybook.

C．A science book.

D．A medical book.

6 . Our eyesight (视力) is very important to us, so it’s our lifelong job to protect it. The good news is that if we do a few simple (简单的) things every day, we can keep it good easily.

In our everyday life, we can improve and protect our eyesight by eating lots of fresh fruits and vegetables. It is especially (尤其) important for us to eat vegetables like carrots and sweet potatoes. And we need to protect our eyesight when we spend a lot of time in bright sunlight. The best way to do this is by wearing sunglasses that have 100% UV (紫外线) protection. What’s more, we should not spend too much time in front of the computer or television. That is why doctors advise if we have to use a computer for a long time, we should take a short rest every fifteen or thirty minutes.

And it is also important to protect our eyesight when we work with dangerous chemicals. For this reason, we should always wear goggles (护目镜) in chemistry labs at work or at school.

If we do these few simple things, we can protect our eyesight well. As the popular English saying goes, “It’s all fun and game, until someone loses his eyesight”. When people say this, they mean that losing eyesight is a very bad thing.

根据材料内容，选择最佳答案。
1. What is the structure of the text?

A．

B．

C．

D．

2. How many pieces of advice does the writer give us to protect our eyesight?

A．Two.

B．Three.

C．Four.

D．Five.

3. What does the underlined word “That” refer to?

A．We should eat lots of fresh fruits and vegetables.

B．We should take a short break every fifteen or thirty minutes.

C．We should not spend much time in front of a computer or TV.

D．We should do a few simple things every day to keep our eyesight.

4. Which of the following is NOT TRUE according to the text?

A．Protecting eyesight is not a difficult thing for us.

B．Fruits and vegetables are good for our eyesight.

C．Light can do harm to our eyesight sometimes.

D．We can’t work with dangerous chemicals.

5. Which is the best title for the passage?

A．Fun and Games with Our Eyes.	B．Caring for Our Eyes.
C．The Risk of Hurting Our Eyes.	D．Using Our Eyes Safely.

7 . In the World Internet Conference people have seen lots of cool technology. What are they? Let’s take a look.

Type with eyes Many disabled people cannot move their hands. They find it hard to type on a computer. China’s tech company Tencent showed eye-controlling technology. By looking at the screen and moving their eyes, people can type words easily. The worker at the conference showed people how to type “hello”.

Magic mirror (镜子) for health Scan (扫描) your face, and then it will know a lot about your health. This is what the magic mirror can do. It’s an AI health check system, and it will know your blood pressure and the risks of some diseases. At the conference, many people tried it to check their health.

A smart helmet When delivery (递送) people send food around, they often use their phones while riding. It’s very dangerous. To be safer, a new helmet came out. Connecting (连接) with the cellphone, it can “talk”—it tells the delivery people new orders and the addresses. The delivery people can also take orders and answer messages by talking to the helmet. If the wearer has an accident, the helmet can also make a call for help right away!

根据材料内容选择最佳答案。
1. The eye-controlling technology can help disabled people _______.

A．check their eyes

B．move their eyes

C．move their hands

D．type words on computers

2. A man who wants to know something about his health may be interested in _______.

A．the smart helmet	B．the magic mirror
C．eye-controlling technology	D．all of the above

3. What can a smart helmet do?

A．It can talk with the wearer about daily life.

B．It can tell the wearer new orders and addresses.

C．It can help the wearer know the risks of diseases.

D．It can shout for help if the wearer has an accident.

4. Which of the following is TRUE?

A．With the magic mirror, people won’t get sick.

B．Eye-controlling technology helps people to think better.

C．A man who can’t move his hands may like eye-controlling technology.

D．The smart helmet is designed for people who like using phones while riding.

5. In which section of a newspaper can you read the text?

A．Technology.

B．Travel.

C．Health.

D．Culture.

8 . Qomolangma is the third mountain of the Himalayas, so it is called the Third God Mountain in Tibetan language.

Qomolangma is very famous and it is higher than any other mountain in the world. Its newest height is 8,848. 86 meters, which was announced on December 8th, 2020. At the height of 8,000 meters, there is only 30% O₂ and the human body can only stand this height for a few days, so it is dangerous for humans to climb higher. But many climbers want to challenge themselves in the face of difficulties. As Alan Arnette, a mountain climber from America, said “Climbing mountains drives you to look deep inside yourself, and lets you find out whether you are healthy enough and strong enough in mind when you want to stop.”

It’s a good thing that Qomolangma gives people a chance to become strong-willed when trying to achieve their dreams. ▲ because many people leave their waste behind, such as water bottles and plastic bags. They cause the environmental pollution for Qomolangma. Many local farmers said their sheep and cows would die after eating the plastic bags and it was too difficult to clean them up. Luckily, many volunteers from all over the world came to Qomolangma to join in the clean-up activity. A volunteer advised, “When climbing Qomolangma, mountain climbing lovers should always take good care of themselves, and at the same time, take good care of Qomolangma.”

根据材料内容选择最佳答案。
1. What’s the newest height of Qomolangma?

A．8,000 meters

B．8,844.43 meters.

C．8,848.86 meters.

D．8,848.84 meters.

2. According to Alan’s words,          to climb mountains.

A．you had better forget	B．you will be in great danger
C．you need to be healthy enough	D．you’ll know better about yourself

3. Which can be the best sentence for ▲ ?

A．However, these years, Qomolangma is in danger

B．Climbers are easy to fall down on the mountain

C．It is very hard to take in air as you get near the top

D．But it shows that humans can sometimes be stronger

4. What does the underlined word “them” refer to in Paragraph 3?

A．Local farmers.	B．Cows and sheep.
C．Plastic bags.	D．Water bottles.

5. Where do you think we can see the text?

A．In a storybook.	B．In a newspaper.
C．In a guidebook.	D．In a fiction novel.

9 . All over the world in the twenty-first century, people can get new energy in many ways.

Energy from the wind. People use the power of the wind.     1     However, if the wind does not blow, there is no wind energy.

    2     When water moves from a high place to a lower place, it has the power to make electricity. Waterpower produces enough energy for 40,000 people in a town.     3     However, people have to build dams (大坝) to use this energy, and building dams is very expensive.

Energy from the earth. There is heat in the rocks under the earth. Scientists use the heat to make geothermal (地热的) energy.     4     This kind of energy is cheap, but it is only possible in a few places in the world.

Energy from the sun. Solar panels (太阳能电池板) on the roofs of houses and buildings can turn energy from the sun into electricity.     5     Solar power is clean and plentiful, but when the weather is bad, it can’t produce power.

根据材料内容，从下面五个选项中选出能填入文中空缺处的最佳选项，使短文意思通顺、内容完整。

A．San Francisco gets half of the energy from geothermal power.

B．Waterpower gives energy without pollution.

C．These panels can create enough energy to heat the whole house during winter.

D．It is a clean source of energy, and there is lots of it.

E．Energy from the water.