1 . SEA Summer High School Programs 2022

Science at SEA

Science at SEA is a four-week program for rising high school juniors and seniors, as well as recent high school graduates, which focuses on the coastal and offshore marine(海洋的) environment around Cape Cod, Massachusetts. The program includes a shore component on the SEA campus in Woods Hole and a sea component aboard the Sailing School Vessel (SSV) Corwith Cramer.

July 21- August 13            Expense: $4, 000

SEA Quest

SEA Quest is a two-week program that welcomes high school students and recent graduates. Participants will gain hands-on experience conducting field research, sailing a tall ship, and understanding of the complexities of creating and managing marine reserves. They return home with a broader sense of the ocean’s importance to our planet and the need to preserve this precious resource for future generations. Life here is fast-paced. No prior sailing experience is necessary. Strong desire to learn is required!

July 11 - July 22             Expense: $ 3, 200

SEA Cape

This three-week summer program at SEA offers current high school students the opportunity to study the marine environment from a variety of perspectives: scientific, historical, and literary. Participants live and study at our campus in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.

June 27 - July 14            Expense: $ 3, 800

SEA Expedition

This two-week summer program for high school students, including graduating seniors, is centered on learning by doing. SEA Expedition is a multidisciplinary experience that welcomes students to participate in every aspect of a challenging offshore sailing , and occurs entirely aboard the ship SSV Corwith Cramer. Life at sea is fast-paced and tough.

July 5 - July 17             Expense: $ 3, 500

1. Which program lasts the longest?

A．Science at SEA.	B．SEA Quest.
C．SEA Cape.	D．SEA Expedition.

2. What is necessary for participants in SEA Quest?

A．Previous experience in sailing.

B．Great eagerness to study the sea.

C．Ability to conduct scientific experiments.

D．Knowledge of sea resources preservation.

3. What is special about SEA Expedition?

A．It offers opportunities of sailing.

B．It entirely takes place on a ship.

C．It features many relaxing activities.

D．It allows graduates to participate in.

4. If one plans to learn about the historical development of sea, he can join_____.

A．Science at SEA.	B．SEA Quest.
C．SEA Cape.	D．SEA Expedition.

5. What do SEA Quest and SEA Expedition have in common?

A．Previous experience in sailing is needed.

B．Participants can enjoy a relaxing life there.

C．Participants can learn about the important role of sea.

D．They provide participants a chance to drive the ship.

3 . The first drawings on walls appeared in caves thousands of years ago. Later the Ancient Romans and Greeks wrote their names and other things on buildings. Modern graffiti (涂鸦) seems to have appeared in Philadelphia in the early 1960s, and by the late sixties it had reached New York. The new art form really took off in the 1970s, when people began writing their names on buildings all over the city. In the mid seventies it was sometimes hard to see out of a subway car window, because the trains were completely covered in paintings known as masterpieces.

Art galleries in New York began buying graffiti in the early seventies. But at the same time, John Lindsay, the then mayor (市长) of New York, declared (宣布) the first war on graffiti. By 1980s it became much harder to write on subway trains without being caught, and instead many of the graffiti artists began using roofs of buildings or cloth.

The debate over whether graffiti is art or vandalism (故意破坏公共财物罪) is still going on. Peter Vallone, New York city councilor (市议员), thinks that graffiti done with permission can be art, but if it is on someone else’s buildings it becomes a crime. On the other hand, Felix, a member of the Berlin-based group Reclaim Your City, says that artists are getting cities for the public back from advertisers, and that graffiti stands for freedom and makes cities livelier.

For years graffiti has help a few people gain international fame. Jean-Michel Basquiat began writing graffiti on the street in the 1970s before becoming a famous artist in the 1980s. Works by the British artist Banksy have been sold for over £100,000. Graffiti is now sometimes big business.

1. What can be learned about graffiti in the 1970s?

A．It went through a hard time.	B．It first reached New York.
C．Modern graffiti first appeared.	D．Modern graffiti became really popular.

2. How did things change after the first war on graffiti?

A．Graffiti was considered illegal on subway trains.

B．Graffiti disappeared from subway trains.

C．New York looked a lot cleaner.

D．Graffiti was accepted as an art form.

3. What is Peter Vallone’s opinion about graffiti?

A．Graffiti protects the streets from advertisements.

B．Graffiti can be beautiful if it is done by a skilled artist.

C．Graffiti is a crime if it is done without permission.

D．Graffiti can be useful for cities if it expresses good messages.

4 . A shy 15-year-old boy was heartbroken to hear that his favorite teacher was retiring (退休). Kim-or “Miss K” as he called her-was stepping down from her position as an educator so she could devote her time to Beat Nb: a charity that raises money for medical research.

To help Miss K, Waylon decided to take the pig he’d raised and auction (拍卖) it off at the county fair and donate (捐赠) all the money — but after several people heard about his unselfishness, the auction took a very unexpected turn.

The boy had emailed his situation to several companies who would be buying — hoping they would bid (出价) higher than the usual price of $3-to-4 per pound. His plan worked. When the bidding kicked off, the price jumped to $11 but then one of the bidders, Dan, had an idea and struck a deal with his competition. He won the bidding on the pig then he donated it back to be auctioned again. The second winner bought it for $10 a pound, but then he gave it back, too.

Finally, a third competitor, Dave Moll, was free to buy — then, he, too, unexpectedly donated the pig back — for a third time. Dave Moll, who is Waylon’s father’s employer, said, “I hadn’t planned to spend that much money or give the pig back. But that’s what the people ahead of me did, and I felt like it was the right thing to do, so I did.”

The pig was finally bought and sold a fourth time for $5.50 per pound, meaning that Waylon managed to raise $10.070 for his teacher’s charity. “I did not see that happening,” Waylon said. “Usually they just sell it once! My dream got bigger and bigger every time they said, ‘Give it back.’”

“I’m so proud of him,” Miss K said. “He doesn’t know the influence that he is having. Someday he will.”

1. Why did Waylon auction his pig off?

A．To beat his stage fright.	B．To buy Miss K a present.
C．To make money for his education.	D．To help Miss K raise money.

2. Why did Waylon send emails to several companies?

A．To sell the pig at a better price.

B．To tell them how good the pig was.

C．To ask them if they would buy the pig.

D．To tell them where the auction would be held.

3. What does the underlined phrase “struck a deal” in paragraph 4 mean?

A．Broke a deal.	B．Reached an agreement.
C．Went on strike.	D．Made an appointment.

4. What can we infer from paragraph 5?

A．Waylon’s father is a good employee.

B．The pig was bought by Dave Moll at last.

C．People didn’t expect Dave Moll to return the pig.

D．Dave Moll didn’t want to keep the pig himself at first.

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Don’t waste your money on this magazine. 60-70 percent of it are advertisements, and the articles offer little useful information. It might be suitable for children, but not adults who are serious about educating themselves about dogs.

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Dog World has many very interesting and thought-provoking (令人思考的) articles for people involved in dog showing, breeding (饲养), performance events, etc. However, over half of the magazine is devoted to breeder ads, which is boring. Still, as a whole, I recommend (推荐) it for the articles. Good articles, but tons of ads.

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My new favorite magazine! Beautiful photos, smart and interesting articles, fashion, art, interviews with famous people... all with a dog focus! Cover models range from Paris Hilton and Tinkerbell to Virginia Madsen and her dogs. Thanks to Modern Dog I now know how to give a dog-friendly cocktail party and how to actually get my dog to come when she’s called. Surely worth checking out.

1. Dog World is recommended for its ________.

A．wonderful articles	B．fashionable cover
C．low price	D．good paper quality

2. According to the text, Modern Dog ________.

A．has lovely dog pictures on the cover	B．is interesting but not helpful
C．has some photos but no articles	D．has interviews with famous people

3. Which of the following magazines are recommended by the reviewers?

A．Bark and Dog Fancy.	B．Bark and Modern Dog.
C．Dog Fancy and Dog C. World.	D．Dog Fancy and Modern Dog.

6 . My high school life has been filled with many ups and downs, whether it was social or academic. Even chough my current high school was not my first choice, I never regretted attending Southside High School. “Since you have chosen it. then it is the best for you,” said my parents.

Up until the junior year I did not realize my capabilities (能力) as a student. Being in the IB Program, I was old that my junior year would be the toughest in all the years of high school. With this “little” piece of information, I walked into my junior year, afraid of my grades. As weeks went by, I started to believe that the junior year was not as hard as everyone had said, but I was wrong. My grades were rapidly declining (下降) and by the end of the first term I had had five Cs in seven of my classes! I could not believe it — I did not want to believe it. I tried my best to get my grades up myself without any help from anyone, but my pride just made my grades worse. And I had to miss out on one of the most important speech and debate competitions all year: States. I was heartbroken. I realized that I could not survive my junior year on my own, so I had to get help fast.

Once I got a tutor, my grades went from Cs, Ds; and even some Fs, to nothing but As and Bs. I slowly started to gain my confidence back in all of my classes and even myself. By the time the third and fourth quarter came around, I had been on the honor roll twice, and I was receiving awards from speeches and debates, tennis and school Southside has taught me to always keep my head up and never give up on myself no matter what life throws at me. I am proud to be a Southside Tiger.

1. What can we learn from the first paragraph?

A．The writer always thought Southside fligh School was the best.

B．The writer’s parents persuaded her Into attending Southside High School.

C．The writer has met many challenges since she attended high school.

D．Life has become easier since the writer came to Southside High School.

2. How did the writer feel when she walked into her junior year?

A．Excited.

B．Worried.

C．Curious.

D．Uninterested.

3. What important lesson has the writer learned at Southside High School?

A．Students should face challenges bravely.

B．Students should be careful in choosing school.

C．Students should be proud of their school.

D．Students should better learn about life.

7 . From my second grade on, there was one event I feared every year: the piano recital(独奏会). A recital _______ I had to practice a boring piece of music and perform before strangers. Each year I would ask my father if I could skip the recital “just this once”. And each year he’d shake his head, mattering(嘀咕)something about building self-confidence and working toward a _______.

So it was with really great _______ that I stood in church one recent Sunday, video camera in hand, and _______ my 68-year- old father sweating in his shirt before rising to play the piano in his very first recital.

My father had longed to play music since childhood, but his family was poor and couldn’t _______ lessons. He could have gone on regretting it, as too many of us do. But though he was rooted in his past, he wasn’t _______ there. When he retired three years ago, he _______ his church music director to take him as a student.

For a moment after my father sat down at the keyboard, he simply stared down at his fingers. Has he forgotten the _______? I worried, remembering those split seconds _______ ago when my mind would go blank and my fingers would ________. But then came the beautiful melody(旋律), from the ________ fingers that once baited(装饵于)my fishing lines. And I ________ he had been doing what music teachers always stress: ________ the music and pretend the others aren’t there.

“I’m ________ of him for starting something new at his age,” I said to my son Jeff.

“Yeah, and doing it so ________,” Jeff added.

With his first recital, my father taught me more about courage and determination than all the words he used those 30-plus years ago.

1.

A．reflected

B．explained

C．meant

D．proved

2.

A．goal

B．stage

C．journey

D．chance

3.

A．trouble

B．satisfaction

C．strength

D．disappointment

4.

A．kept

B．sent

C．watched

D．felt

5.

A．miss

B．afford

C．select

D．understand

6.

A．educated

B．protected

C．stuck

D．spoilt

7.

A．allowed

B．invited

C．inspired

D．persuaded

8.

A．words

B．videos

C．notes

D．lessons

9.

A．decades

B．weeks

C．hours

D．moments

10.

A．play

B．freeze

C．click

D．adjust

11.

A．same

B．warm

C．different

D．dirty

12.

A．predicted

B．realized

C．imagined

D．insisted

13.

A．pass over

B．turn up

C．bring in

D．concentrate on

14.

A．ashamed

B．aware

C．tired

D．proud

15.

A．casually

B．anxiously

C．nicely

D．frequently

8 . 阅读下面课内节选文本，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出一个或多个正确的选项。

My favourite player was LeBron James. Paul’s favourite player was Tyrone Bogues, a guy who played for the Charlotte Hornets, although we actually agree that they are both champions. Bogues was only 1.6 metres tall, which made him the shortest player ever in the NBA. Guess what? Paul was only 1.6 metres tall, too! Paul knew that being shorter than other players meant that he had to practise more. During all those hours of doing jump shots on his own, he used Bogues as his inspiration. Paul once said, “If Bogues could make it, why not me?”

Our coach was not so sure. Paul had to try out many times just for making the team. He was still usually on the bench, being just a replacement, which was really tough on him. Everyone knew Paul had real skills, and was someone who worked really hard and had a strong desire to play for the team. However, Paul didn’t get a chance.

Which words best describe Paul?

A．Smart and brave.	B．Inexperienced and shy.
C．Skilled and hard-working.	D．Strong-willed and independent.

9 . 阅读下面课内节选文本，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出一个或多个正确的选项。

Zhang Tian graduated from university and got a teacher’s certificate last year. His parents, like most, hoped he would go to a big city to find a teaching job. Likewise, his friends all left his hometown for work in Shanghai or Beijing. Zhang Tian felt differently, however. He wanted to start a new lifestyle. He had met wonderful teachers from small villages during his early school years and he was inspired by them to go and teach where he was needed the most. For that reason he applied for and became a volunteer teacher in a village school. Bringing with him lots of books, clothes, and two pairs of trainers, Zhang Tian travelled to the village with an eager heart. He imagined all sorts of exciting things about living independently and teaching in a village.

However, not everything lived up to Zhang Tian’s hopes. The school was much smaller than he had expected, with only three classrooms. In front of the classrooms, there was a playground which got dusty on windy days and muddy on rainy days. Living in the village was more challenging than he had thought. The power and water supplies were unstable, so he could only shower every three or four days, and he had to learn how to cook. The thought of leaving once flashed through his mind, but he quickly gave up on the idea and found ways to deal with the challenges.

1. What do we know about Zhang Tian’s volunteering job?

A．He decided to leave after a second thought.

B．He was encouraged by his friends and parents.

C．He found it challenging after knowing the real situations.

D．He used to have high expectations for teaching in a village.

2. What challenges did Zhang Tian meet?

A．He had to cook by himself.

B．The school was poorly equipped.

C．The living condition was undesirable.

D．He couldn’t pay for the water and power.

10 . The Great Fire of London started in the very early hours of 2 September 1666. In four days, it destroyed (破坏) more than three-quarters of the old city, where most of the houses were wooden and close together. Over one hundred thousand people became homeless, but only a few lost their lives.

The fire started on Sunday morning in the house of the King’s baker (面包师) in Pudding Lane. The baker, with his wife and family, was able to get out through a window in the roof. A strong wind blew the fire from the bakery into a small hotel next door. Then it spread quickly into Thames Street. That was the beginning.

By eight o’clock three hundred houses were on fire. On Monday nearly a kilometer of the city was burning along the River Thames. Tuesday was the worst day. The fire destroyed many well-known buildings, old St Paul’s and the Guildhall among them.

Samuel Pepys, the famous writer, wrote about the fire. “People threw their things into the river. Many poor people stayed in their houses until the last moment. Birds fell out of the air because of the heat.”

The fire stopped only when the King finally ordered people to destroy hundreds of buildings in the path of the fire. With nothing left to burn, the fire became weak and finally died out.

After the fire, Christopher Wren, the architect, wanted a city with wider streets and fine new houses of stone. In fact, the streets were still narrow, but he did build more than fifty churches, and one of them was new St Paul’s.

The fire caused great pain and loss, but after it, London was a better place: a city for the future and not just of the past.

1. Where did the fire begin?

A．In Pudding Lane.	B．In the palace.
C．In a hotel.	D．In Thames Street.

2. What was the writer of the passage most sorry for?

A．Many people lost their lives.

B．Many famous buildings were destroyed.

C．The birds in the sky were killed by the fire.

D．The King’s favourite bakery was burned down.

3. Why did the writer mention Samuel Pepys’ words?

A．Because Pepys help put out the fire.

B．Because Pepys also wrote about the fire.

C．To give readers a clearer picture of the fire.

D．To show that poor people suffered most from the fire.

4. How was the fire put out according to the text?

A．The king and his soldiers came to help.

B．All the wooden houses in the city were destroyed.

C．People managed to get enough water from the river.

D．Houses standing in the direction of the fire were pulled down.