1 . 听下面一段对话，回答以下小题。
1. Which is NOT the reason why the man dislikes the city?

A．The air is not fresh.

B．It’s too noisy.

C．Housing is expensive in the city.

2. How does the woman feel about moving?

A．She is eager to move to the countryside.

B．She prefers to move to another city.

C．She doesn’t really want to move.

3. What does the man plan to do?

A．Move out of the city.

B．Find a new job.

C．Buy a house in the city.

2 . 听下面一段对话，回答以下小题。
1. Whom did people usually marry in Russia in the past?

A．Those with the same interests.

B．Those with the same background.

C．Those with the same profession.

2. What did the woman do when she met her husband?

A．She was a scientist.

B．She was a teacher.

C．She was a musician.

3 . How to Get More Sleep

It’s common in today’s stress-filled world to get by on six hours of sleep or less a night. For most of us, lacking sleep harms more than just the brain.     1     . If you’re lacking sleep out of choice, it may be time to rethink that decision. In the meantime, you can try some healthy sleep habits.

    2     . Your brain needs to be trained to go to sleep and wake up at certain time every day of the week, including weekends.

Create a good sleeping environment. Keep it cool—the temperature between 16℃ and 20℃is best for good sleep.     3     or work in your bedroom and let your brain think of the room as only for sleep. Ban all light, including the blue light of mobile phones or laptops, which may signal your body to wake up.

Rethink coffee in the afternoon, evening wine or medicine before sleep. Coffee can make it hard to sleep. Using alcohol to sleep will cause you to wake up within a few hours. When you fall asleep anyway, it’s typically of poor quality.     4     . They only mask the problem, experts say, and may be dangerously addictive.

    5     . If you’re not asleep within 15 to 20 minutes of your head hitting the pillow, get up and go into another low-lit room. Instead of turning on the television or looking at your phone or laptop, do something mindless, like folding clothes. Once you feel sleepy, head back to bed.

And don’t be annoyed. It never puts anyone to sleep. Keep training your brain, and it will respond in some way that you need.

A．Don’t watch TV

B．Don’t lie in bed not sleeping

C．Make a sleep schedule and stick to it

D．Moreover, you had better forget sleeping pills

E．It is important to consider sleep and physical activity together

F．Short sleepers have more risks of many diseases and even death

G．But in reality, only people with a short sleep gene have that ability

4 . “The only way to accomplish something is through hard work,” says actor Greg Tarzan Davis. “The first step is to get started.”

In a virtual interview, I asked Davis about his life and career. He grew up in a large family in New Orleans, Louisiana. After earning a degree in elementary education at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, Davis became a teacher. He always encouraged his young students to follow their dreams.

One day, he decided to take his own advice. Although he enjoyed teaching, he had been enthusiastic about acting. “The first step is always the hardest,” Davis said. “But once you get past it and stay consistent, I promise, you will achieve your goal.”

At the age of 29, Davis had roles in Top Gun: Maverick and Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One. He also starred in Grey’s Anatomy, a TV series about a group of young doctors. For 2022’s Top Gun, the actor learned how to fly a fighter jet in order to play the role of Lieutenant Javy “Coyote” Machado.

Davis sees the connection between acting and teaching. “As an actor, you’re required to dig deep into the depths of your childlike imagination when playing different roles,” he said. “What I learned the most as a teacher was how to be free with my mind and imaginative with my thoughts by simply observing my first-grade students and listening to the big ideas they had, which were so real to them.”

Davis still keeps an eye on the future. He is motivated by a desire to help the next generation follow their dreams. “The people who come after me inspire me,” he said. He wants to show others, especially kids, that anything is possible. He hosted movie screenings in New Orleans as a way to give back to the community that nurtured him as a child.

1. What did Davis encourage his students to do?

A．Value time and energy.	B．Become film stars.
C．Go after their goals.	D．Work hard at their lessons.

2. Which idiom best matches Davis’ choice of the new career?

A．No pains, no gains.	B．It is the first step that costs.
C．Think carefully before you act.	D．Where there is a will, there is a way.

3. What do acting and teaching have in common?

A．They need a lot of patience.	B．They are related to imagination.
C．They bring a sense of achievement.	D．They help realize the author’s dream.

4. What does the underlined word “nurtured” mean in the last paragraph?

A．Brought up.

B．Watched over.

C．Looked for.

D．Took control of.

5 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. How long will the cycling holiday last?

A．Fourteen days.

B．Ten days.

C．Eight days.

2. Which meal does the woman need to pay for during the trip?

A．Breakfast.

B．Lunch.

C．Supper.

3. What will the woman do during the cycling holiday?

A．Take her own bike.

B．Cycle in the dark.

C．Visit a theater.

6 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. What is Michael’s problem?

A．He’s not sure about his future.

B．He has no interest in studying.

C．He isn’t allowed to attend a film school until he’s eighteen.

2. What does Michael often do after school?

A．He plays football.

B．He goes to acting classes.

C．He watches English plays.

3. What advice does the woman give Michael?

A．Talking with his friends.

B．Performing in the school play.

C．Staying at school until he’s eighteen.

7 . 听下面一段较长对话,回答以下小题。
1. Why does the man give up the tickets in the lower part?

A．The tickets have been sold out.

B．He prefers the seats in the center.

C．There are no four seats together.

2. How will the man get the tickets?

A．He will collect them himself.

B．The woman will mail them to him.

C．He will ask his friends to pick them up.

3. When will the man get to the theater on Thursday night?

A．By 6:00.

B．By 7:00.

C．By 8:00.

8 . 听下面一段较长对话,回答以下小题。
1. Why did the man miss the meeting this morning?

A．He went to see a doctor.

B．He had to pick up Ms. Tan.

C．He had an appointment with Joan.

2. Who will prepare the report for the man?

A．Mr. Lee.

B．Lisa.

C．Joan.

3. Where could Mr. Lee be now?

A．In his office.

B．At the airport.

C．In the meeting room.

9 . If you desire to write for magazines, you’ll have to adapt to a medium that’s been rapidly transformed by digital technology. Many of today’s magazines are primarily consumed online.     1    . Here are some writing tips to help you break into the world of magazine writing.

Become a specialist.     2    . ESPN’s Brian Windhorst was well-versed in all professional sports, but he strategically chose basketball when he began penning articles for ESPN The Magazine. If you have specialized know-how in a particular discipline, lean into it. Specialization can help you break through as a new writer.

    3    . It’s always better to have more sources, quotes, and statistics than you can use in your story. Often times a magazine writer’s document of notes will be longer than the first draft of their story. If you have a great article planned, the urge to start writing immediately can be intense.     4    , make sure you are truly overloaded with the facts that will populate your story.

Consider the magazine’s target audience. A magazine’s most important relationship is with its readers. If you meet those readers on their terms, you could have a long career in magazine journalism. For instance, if you’re writing pop astronomy articles for national magazines like Wired or Discover, you cannot weigh down your prose with technical terms that interfere with your storytelling.     5    , you should absolutely pepper your article with tech specs. It’s what your readers want.

A．But before you begin

B．Today’s media world values specialization

C．Do more research than you think you need

D．Keep track of personnel changes during writing

E．If you writing for trade magazines in the telescope industry

F．On the other hand, new online publications are seeking new writers

G．Follow a publication’s submission guidelines while expressing ideas

10 . Nearly every family trip we went on when I was a kid was spent flying across the plane from Boston to Rio de Janeiro, and then driving to the tiny town where my grandparents grew up in Minas Gerais. There you’ll find rolling hills as far as you can see. That’s where my cousins live, work and grow coffee. That trek — a five-hour flight, then an eight-hour flight, and then a road trip — was always just the lead-up to the last leg of the journey.

I here we’d drink the coffee out of little glass cups and get to catching up by the wood stove. My brother and I would sometimes wander out while the adults were talking. Coffee in Minas Gerais is usually served sickly sweet, but never with milk, and never iced, even in the middle of summer.

Most of the highest-quality beans in Minas Gerais are sold abroad. When I was a kid especially, there wasn’t really a coffee culture in Brazil the way there is in New York or Boston.

But in college, I worked at a cafe. There I was taught to notice all those things I’d never learned about coffee, even though I’d seen the coffee fruit on the trees and watched firsthand as my cousins spread the fruit onto big, wavy multicolored sheets under the sun to dry.

I learned then that my cousins’ process for preparing coffee was just one of many ways to do it — you could dry it in the sun or in a big machine, or it could be fermented, or washed first. All these methods could change the way the coffee tasted. I also learned that different regions have different taste profiles. I learned to think about tasting coffee as playing a word-association game. What does it make you think of? What memory comes up for you?

Today when I get up and make my first cup of coffee, I do it like performing a sacred ritual. I know that those beans traveled far, and were cared for. They were grown, and watered, and dried, and then roasted. Someone probably lost sleep over them when frost was in the forecast. And when I take my first sip, I make sure to let my brain go blank, listen to the coffee and see where it takes me.

1. What was the author’s family journey to Minas Gerais like?

A．Short but tiring.	B．Long but exciting.
C．Long and wearing.	D．Short and appealing.

2. What does paragraph 5 mainly talk about?

A．What effect the coffee culture had on the author.

B．Why coffee from different regions tastes different.

C．How the author’s cousins’ farming differs from other regions’.

D．What the author obtained during his dealing with coffee.

3. Why does the author make coffee with great respect?

A．It’s a kind of coffee culture.

B．It is his daily routine.

C．The coffee comes from his hometown.

D．It takes great effort to grow and produce coffee.

4. What message is conveyed in the author’s story?

A．Live to learn.	B．Love what you do.
C．Cherish something after knowing it.	D．Prepare before acting.