1 . The Covid-19 pandemic has forced millions of us to participate in one of the biggest social experiments of our time: what would happen if office workers largely abandoned their workplaces and began working from home?    1    

One thing seems clear: more people working remotely has brought some benefits for the environment. Wildlife has be enable to reclaim urban spaces while people have been tapping away at their home keyboards, with less commuter (通勤者) traffic.

    2    The major benefits of home working include people having more flexibility to do jobs around their family, and balance exercise and leisure time, thus being able to wear whatever they like, controlling their own heating and lighting and not having to commute.

Many people have also been able to get more done while working remotely.    3     “There used to be a lot of resistance to working from home because managers thought employees would just go of off and watch soap operas, but there’s a lot more trust now,” says Sue Williamson at the University of New South Wales in Canberra, Australia.

    4    Many people forced to work from home have reported feeling isolated and finding it harder to switch off due to the unclear boundary between work and home life.    5    This is probably because it’s hard to get those accidental conversations between people that spark ideas when everyone is physically separated.

As vaccines help to control Covid-19, many organizations are hoping to reap the best of both worlds by letting employees work from home on some days and travel to the office on others.

A．But what about the benefits to people?

B．More than 2 years in, it is time to reflect.

C．After a severe period, there is no turning back.

D．However, the experiment hasn’t been all positive.

E．It is time to reset and rethink how we actually work.

F．Many managers have also reported declines in innovation.

G．The productivity level is found to rise as they work from home.

2 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. What is the man?

A．A nurse.

B．A doctor.

C．An IT worker.

2. Who would be the last to get the medicine?

A．A woman of 89.

B．A hospital cleaner.

C．A college student.

3. Which medicine did the man prefer?

A．The British one.

B．The German one.

C．The American one.

3 . 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。

Barbara, a middle school teacher, lives in Manhattan’s Upper West Side. Seeing stores in her neighborhood shutting down because of COVID-19     1     (make) her sad. “Every day, seeing more and more empty stores, I don’t know what     2     (tell) to my students,” Barbara said. “If you see a problem, you can sit at home and express your     3     (unhappy) and you can try to do something about it.”

So she started a project     4     was called Art on the Ave. It turned empty stores into art exhibit (展览) space. The first show was called “The Art of Healing”, and featured 55 works of art by 41 artists across 12 stores in the Upper West Side.     5     (take) part in the project, the artists all had to be based in New York,     6     their pieces could not be priced above $5,000.

People     7     (walk) by scanned QR codes (扫描二维码) in the windows. They could listen to artists’ words or buy a piece that caught their eye. By the end of the exhibit, more than 12 works of art     8     (sell), bringing in $60, 000 for the creators.

“The Art of Healing” was    9     success, and so was the second exhibit, “Awakening”,     10     (hold) in the West Village.

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。

Jake’s Ice Cream, located in the city of Falls Church, has employed 12 adults with disabilities.

“The     1     (inspire) comes from my nephew Jake, who this place     2     (name) after,” owner Robin Rinearson said.

“Jake is 29 years old. He’s got cerebral palsy (脑瘫). He had a job for eight years working for a company with 17 other young adults with disabilities. And     3     COVID hit, that company     4     (basic) remained open, but they sent all the 18 people with special needs home,” Rinearson said.

She was angry at     5     (see) her nephew remain     6     (employed) for a year and a half. She thought she needed to come up with a business for Jake and other people like him.

She decided to open an ice cream shop     7     the name of Jake.

Up to now, she     8     (hire) 12 people with special needs. Their work     9     (responsibility) include making and scooping (舀) ice cream, creating cupcakes and operating the register.

“For some of these young adults, it’s a long learning journey,     10     you know what? They can do it,” Rinearson said.

Now Jake’s Ice Cream has 28 flavors of ice cream available along with cakes.

5 . COVID-19的爆发造成了方方面面的影响，而我们也在生活中做出了许多改变。在这些做法中，哪些是你希望延续的？请你以此为主题给学校英语校报Your Voice 专栏写一篇文章投稿。内容包括：
1. 疫情给你生活造成的影响；
2. 你希望延续的做法；
3. 你的理由。
注意：
1. 写作词数应为80左右；
2. 可适当添加细节，以使行文连贯；
3. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
参考词汇：疫情 pandemic
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6 . If you have a high temperature or are recovering from heart surgery, it is difficult to be fully focused at work. Sick days are meant to prevent people from hurting themselves, their co-workers, or customers on the job. However, working from home has changed this logic.

The work-from-home revolution has raised the bar for what counts as being sick. At the height of the pandemic people worked from home even with serious symptoms such as fever, shortness of breath or nausea. Many still do. Nicholas Bloom of Stanford University has been tracking work- from-home habits since before the Covid-19 popularized them. In a recent working paper, he presents the results of a randomized controlled trial at a large multinational company, where sick days fell by 12% for employees working from home two days a week relative to those coming in full time.

To be in bed not doing anything means discomfort both physically and mentally. Salaried workers, who are often evaluated on the basis of their attendance, find it hard to call in sick for a few days now that they don’t need to worry about spreading germs in the office. For high-achievers, putting in the hours is not a chore but a way of life. As the economic recession (萧条) puts future job security into question, showing yourself to be useful becomes even more important.

Though all this is understandable, it is also troubling. Being even mildly sick can impair brain function. It is difficult to exercise proper judgment if one cannot focus on the task at hand. It is why people with lower oxygen concentration sometimes remove protective clothes atop Mount Everest; some freeze to death. Firing off emails while feeling dizzy will put the body under further stress. Soldiering on (硬挺) may make the employee both sicker and less productive for longer. Digital presenteeism (超时工作), for that is what such persisting amounts to, is in no one’s interest.

1. How has the work-from-home revolution affected employees?

A．It has heightened their enthusiasm.

B．It has made it harder to ask for sick leave.

C．It has popularized relevant studies.

D．It has improved their welfare.

2. What can we learn from the study of Nicholas Bloom?

A．Whether to take a sick or not is a random choice.

B．The Covid-19 has popularized work-from-home habits.

C．Those who work full time in office tend to get more sick leave.

D．Work-from-home habits mostly happen in big companies.

3. What might be the biggest concern for the salaried workers on a medical leave?

A．Endangering their current jobs.

B．Bringing germs to the office.

C．Failing to be high-achievers.

D．Feeling uncomfortable in bed.

4. What will the author probably talk about next?

A．The importance of staying healthy.

B．The future of flexible working habit.

C．The proper attitude towards taking a sick leave.

D．The benefits of working from home.

7 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. What is the man?

A．A nurse.

B．A doctor.

C．An IT worker.

2. Who would be the last to get the medicine?

A．A woman of 89.

B．A hospital cleaner.

C．A college student.

3. Which medicine did the man prefer?

A．The British one.

B．The German one.

C．The American one.

8 . When the COVID-19 pandemic start, chef Kim Calichio’s life changed overnight. Calichio’s business stopped completely, leaving her with no _________. Her husband, Omar, also a chef, continued working in narrow space that put him at _________ in the spreading virus.

In an industry where people _________ live paycheck to paycheck and many don’t qualify for unemployment benefits. Calichio knew many restaurant workers _________ a safety net. So, in early March 2020, the couple _________ a Go Fund Me with the idea of purchasing groceries wholesale (以批发价) and _________ them directly to those in _________ in their Astoria Queens community. Within a week, they raised $ 10.000.

“We thought the pandemic was going to be over soon.” Calichio said. “So, we thought, ‘We’ll _________ this 10 grand (一千美元) and then go back to work. ’   And that never _________.”

Soon, they realized the need extended beyond their community, and the program quickly grew to __________ anyone in Queens. So the non-profit The Connected Chef was born. It delivers— __________ groceries to 550 households each week.

Calichio says 125 households have __________ the free program. They are now in a better place where they can __________ groceries on their own. Although this work started __________ the pandemic, for Calichioi is far from over. “Until we’re able to create something that is self-sustaining, this work will __________,” she said.

1.

A．income

B．food

C．employees

D．options

2.

A．ease

B．risk

C．rest

D．fault

3.

A．obviously

B．typically

C．secretly

D．willingly

4.

A．held

B．built

C．stressed

D．lacked

5.

A．started

B．managed

C．secured

D．reported

6.

A．selling

B．introducing

C．delivering

D．returning

7.

A．danger

B．need

C．amazement

D．anger

8.

A．spend

B．donate

C．collect

D．save

9.

A．ruled

B．changed

C．happened

D．answered

10.

A．comfort

B．charge

C．rescue

D．serve

11.

A．expensive

B．healthy

C．free

D．dirty

12.

A．adopted

B．refused

C．studied

D．quit

13.

A．plant

B．create

C．buy

D．borrow

14.

A．in response to

B．in terms of

C．at the cost of

D．with the exception of

15.

A．finish

B．fail

C．begin

D．continue

9 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
1. What is the speaker mainly talking about?

A．The trend of loneliness nowadays.

B．The new treatment for loneliness.

C．The way to communicate with others.

2. What will lonely people be like five years later?

A．Dying of heart disease.

B．Being stuck in depression.

C．Making more mistakes at work.

3. How many office workers are feeling lonely in Britain?

A．Two fifths.

B．Three fifths.

C．A quarter.

4. What does the speaker mean about loneliness?

A．It will come to an end soon.

B．It’s a cure to some health problems.

C．Humans will struggle with this for a long time.

10 . As more Americans are vaccinated (接种疫苗) against COVID-19, reunions among loved ones are becoming increasingly frequent and, for many, hugging is the main event.

Alcantara, a student at Loyola Marymount University, US, and her grandmother live a 25-minute drive apart in the San Fernando Valley. But they hadn’t been in the same room since February 2020.

When Alcantara graduated from high school last spring, she stood on her grandma’s front porch in her cap and gown (学位服), so the older woman, her only living grandparent, could see her through the window.

But by April 3, her grandmother’s 95th birthday, Alcantara had been fully vaccinated. They could safely embrace. “It felt like time hadn’t really moved, but I know so much time has passed,” said Alcantara. “Just putting her head over my head, I just felt so warm and so loved.”

Many of the newly vaccinated can recall their first hugs. Those who declared themselves non-huggers before 2020 say they’ve been transformed by a year of “touch deprivation (剥夺)”. Some friends are going so far as to plan hug dates. Most humans expect physical touch from friends and family and feel they need it to maintain their close relationships, experts say. Hugs are a way of saying hello, offering support, asking for love, sharing joy and communicating emotions that may not be translated into words.

For most of the past year, people were warned to stay six feet away from everyone outside their household. But as vaccinations picked up pace, it was believed that it’s safe for vaccinated people to be in close contact with small numbers of other people.

That opened the door for hugging. Grandmother and grand-daughter plan to restart their Saturday dates. There will be more hugs.

1. When could Alcantara and her grandmother have healthy contact with each other?

A．Since February 2020.	B．By the time Alcantara graduated.
C．Before April 3.	D．Since her grandmother’s 95th birthday.

2. What made those Americans declaring themselves non-huggers before 2020 change?

A．They recalled their first hugs.

B．They were newly vaccinated.

C．They were going to plan hug dates.

D．They had been unable to touch others for a year.

3. Which of the following is NOT the benefit of hugging mentioned in the article?

A．Greeting others.	B．Sharing happiness.
C．Asking for advice.	D．Providing support.

4. Which of the following can be used as the best title of the article?

A．A year of “touch deprivation”.	B．Reopen the door of embrace.
C．Vaccinated against COVID-19.	D．Alcantara and her considerate grandmother.