1 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1适当单词或括号内所给单词的正确形式。

Chinese writer Hai Ya’s The Space-Time Painter won the Hugo Award (雨果奖) for Best Novelette at the 81st World Science Fiction Convention,     1     (hold)in the southwestern Chinese city of Chengdu. He became     2     third Chinese writer to win a Hugo Award after Liu Cixin in 2015 and Hao Jingfang in 2016.

“The Space-Time Painter”     3     (publish)in 2022. It was inspired by the life experience of the     4    (talent)Chinese painter Wang Ximeng during the Northern Song period(960-1127),     5     created the12-meter-long landscape painting “One Thousand Li of Rivers and Mountains.”

It tells a story about the political power struggle of the time combined     6     diverse elements such as Chinese traditional culture, history and science fiction. “Our culture and traditions are     7     (close) connected with our lives” said Hai, noting that Chinese sci-fi writers are becoming more confident in showcasing native culture and narratives. “I’m very happy that this work has received     8     (recognize), and as for my personally most satisfying work, it will always be the next one,” said the award winner.

    9     (comment)on the Chinese winners of the Hugo Awards, sci-fi writer Han Song wrote on Sina Weibo that it shows that a new force of Chinese sci-fi     10     (rise), and sci-fi has become a name card and a language for China to communicate with the world.

2 . After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.

Today’s students have a problem, and it is not the one written on the board. They were born into a world where algorithms(算法)keep them clicking, scrolling(滚屏)and swiping(刷屏)at a rapid pace. Technology, smartphones, social media, and immediate access to the Internet are hurting their ability     1    (focus)and changing the way they think.

Now teachers have a problem too. They find it particularly exhausting to ask students to read complex or long texts     2     taking regular breaks. A teacher says smartphones have clearly affected the younger generation, but how education should evolve for digital-native students was not something     3     was covered when she was getting certified(认证).

There are teachers who begin classes with meditation(冥想)exercises to help their students focus. However,     4     turns out that any sort of “tech break” could counteract(抵消)strong desires to multitask.

Students aged between 10 and 24 tend to stay away from physical books, preferring video as a source of information second only to teachers. Asha Choksi, vice-president of global research at Pearson     5     (give) the example of a teacher who films himself performing a science experiment and posts it to YouTube. When it is time for class, he uses the video to illustrate material in the textbook,     6     can seem boring to students.

Still,     7     those educators are embracing technology in the classroom to meet students’ needs, they are also finding value in traditional methods, and so suggest a “blended(混合的)learning” approach. Direct instruction from them will never be replaced in their classes. Technology     8    (favour)only when it improves a lesson in ways that are impossible offline.

Digital natives will continue to eagerly adopt new media. Teachers have no choice but to evolve. They are making an effort not only to ensure that students can take advantage of new technologies,     9     to teach students valuable skills that can help them succeed in a world constantly trying to distract them. Think of the Zuckerbergs, the Gates, the Jobs and all those pioneers in the tech world. They became successful not because they     10     code(编程); it was because they could think.

4 . 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。

Many students may feel stressed because of their parents. Most parents have good intentions,     1     some of them are not very helpful with the problems their sons and daughters have in     2     (adjust) to college, and a few of them seem to go out of their way to add to their children’s     3     (difficulty)．

For one thing, parents are often not aware of (意识到) the kinds of problems their     4     (child) face. They don’t realize that the     5     (compete) is stronger, that the required standards of work are     6     (high), and that their children may not be prepared for     7     change. They may be upset by their children’s poor grades. At their kindest, they may     8     (gentle) ask why John or Mary isn’t doing better, whether he or she is trying as hard as he or she should, and so on. At their worst, they may threaten     9     (take) children out of college or cut off living expenses.

Sometimes parents think it right and natural that they determine     10     their children do with their lives. They forget that everyone is different and that each person must develop in his or her own way.

5 . 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。

English language is closely related to the Frisian German and Dutch. England is the first country     1     (speak) English and now English is the main language of the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, and many island nations in the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean. It is also an     2     (office) language of India, the Philippines, Singapore, and many countries in sub-Saharan Africa     3     include South Africa. English is the first choice of foreign     4     (language) in most countries around the world.     5     third of the world’s population now use English, which is     6     (amaze) to us.   

English belongs     7     the Indo-European family of languages and is therefore related to most other languages spoken in Europe and Western Asia from Iceland to India. During the course of hundreds of years, English words have been     8     (slow) changed from the forms     9     (find) in Sanskrit, Greek, Latin, Russian and German to forms, as in Chinese and Vietnamese. The German and Chinese words for the word “man”     10     (be) a typical example. German has five forms: Mann Mannes, Manne, Männer, Männern. Chinese has one form: ren. English stands in between, with four forms: man, man’s, men, men’s.

6 . Directions: After reading the two passages below, fill in the blanks to make the passages coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.

In Canada you can find dogs, cats, horses etc. in almost every family. These are their pets. People love these pets and have them as their good friends.     1     they keep them in their houses, they take them to animal hospitals to give them injections (注射) so that they won’t carry disease afterwards. They have special animal food stores,     2     they can get animal food in almost every kind of store. Some people spend around two hundred Canadian dollars a month on animal food.     3     you visit people’s houses, they would be very glad to show you their pets and they are very proud of them. You will also find that almost every family has a bird feeder in their garden. All kinds of birds are welcomed to come and have a good meal. They are free to come and go and nobody     4     (allow) to kill any animal in Canada. They have a law    5     killing wild animals. If you killed an animal, you would be punished. If an animal happened to get run over by car, people would be very sad about it.

People in Canada have many reasons to like animals. One of them might be: Their family ties are not as close as     6    . When children grow up, they leave their parents and start their own life. Then the old will feel lonely. But pets can solve this problem. They can be good friends and never leave them alone.

7 . 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。

Bridges made out of living roots (根) of trees have been put forward for UNESCO’s World Heritage List.

The root bridges are in the Meghalaya region of northeast India. The region gets a lot of rainfall and is one of the wettest     1     (area) on Earth. That creates     2     number of lakes, rivers and waterfalls,     3     (make) it difficult to build roads. However, for hundreds of years the local Khasi people have been trying     4     (they) best to grow root bridges across rivers and streams to make it much     5     (easy) for them to move around the area.

The bridges     6     (build) by stretching (延伸) the roots of living trees over the river and winding them around bamboo structures to guide them in the right     7     (direct). The roots can take up to 20 years     8     (grow) into a complete bridge.

The India government has suggested Meghalaya’s root bridges should be added     9     the UNESCO World Heritage List.     10     means they will be recognized officially. They will attract more tourists and money to the area, just like Egypt’s pyramids (金字塔) or the Great Barrier Reef in Australia.

Morningstar Khongthaw from Meghalaya said, “We want to spread this knowledge so that future generations will benefit.”

8 . 阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。

I was pushed into writing the “top ten problems the young face” after I attended a school programme, where I had the opportunity to interact with many     1     (teenage). Each conversation was only adding one more item to the list of problems.

About two     2     (three) of girls in year nine to year twelve “worry about their appearance” . While there were no gender differences in worries about school, girls are     3     (anxiety) about getting along with parents and what to do when they are older. Girls are     4     (prove) to worry more about personal problems and romantic relationship, and are more     5     (concern) about their own images in peer group. In fact, the only thing     6     boys worry about more than girls is succeeding in their physical activities.

    7     parents need to do is to look at ways to help teens and take     8     (responsible) for what we are exposing our teens to right now. We cannot afford     9     (ignore) the parental duties of bringing them up well from the time they are young. Televisions, computers and other gadgets that they spend most of the time     10     cannot give them a bright future.

9 . 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。

Mark Twain was born in Florida on November 30^th, 1835.He     1    （bring）up in Hannibal, Missouri, along the Mississippi River, where he got great     2     （beneficial）for his later writing career. He is best known for his     3     （novel）which were set in his boyhood world on the river, such as The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. He loved the river so much that even his pen name was     4     （concern）with the river. The phrase "mark twain" means that the water is two fathoms in depth.

The play The Million Pound Bank Note has attracted the attention of a great number of readers. It was the summer of 1903, when two     5     （wealth）brothers made a bet. One of them doubted    6     a man could survive a month in London     7     a million pound bank note. At this moment, they saw a penniless man     8     （wander）on the pavement. It was Henry,     9    American businessman, who was lost in London.

    10     （obvious）, the play is very attractive to readers. If you are interested, you can give it a try.