1 .

A．Preparing his school project.	B．Catching the school bus.
C．Making the final touch on the food.	D．Handing in his homework.

2 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。1.

A．Making the wearer feel tired.

B．Gradually weakening an adult’s eyes.

C．The loss of vision in children.

D．Permanent change of the eye structure.

2.

A．Working hard.	B．Wearing sunglasses.
C．Watching TV in poor light.	D．Reading in bed.

3.

A．Ways of choosing eye glasses.

B．Suggestions of eyesight protection.

C．Untruths of eye glasses and eyesight.

D．Proven facts of the benefits of eye glasses.

3 .

A．Tony hopes to change his role in the play.

B．Tony lacks confidence in playing the part.

C．Professor Wright will help Tony remember the lines.

D．Professor Wright will give Tony hints during the show.

4 .

A．The mall must be overcrowded.

B．It’s hard to find the way in the mall.

C．They should come to the mall some other day.

D．They can get into the mall through the south gate.

5 .

A．Return the dog to her relative.	B．Place a ban on dogs.
C．Clean her apartment.	D．Stay with her relative.

6 .

A．The play started early.	B．She went back to get her ticket.
C．Tom walked with her to the bus stop.	D．It was a long way from the theatre.

7 . Directions: Read the following passage. Summarize the main idea and the main point(s) of the passage in no more than 60 words. Use your own words as far as possible.

Drawing High Schoolers to Science

A group of educators and plant scientists at Michigan State University (MSU) are connecting to reshape science classes. And this particular partnership isn’t just helping students get a better understanding of biology; it’s turning them into young scientists, even if only during class.

It doesn’t take long to see that the curriculum born from this collaboration makes for a much different experience than the traditional high school biology classes. For starters, it has a comic book for a workbook. Secondly, students are getting their hands dirty growing plants. MSU researchers are also studying the plant. The high schoolers are asking some of the same questions professional plant scientists are trying to answer.

“We’re getting them engaged with science in science practices, not just having them learn about science,” says Hildah Makori, a researcher at MSU. “They learn to look at things differently. That’s a life-time impact.”

The main characters of the comic book are a pair of young field scientists. They invite the high school students to help with plant research inspired by a real project at MSU. By growing their own plants, the students learn about genetics, evolution and how these interact with the environment.

The team has seen how this practice could keep students in the driver’s seat of their learning. To help the characters out, students set up different experiments to test their ideas.

The program is working. “This comic personally gave me a click that sparked my curiosity,” reads one student’s survey response. “The comic book put a lot of creative atmosphere into the story instead of just looking at words, instead of just listening to the teacher talk,” says another.

Teachers also had positive reviews. In a survey, one remarked how helpful it was to have the comic to refer to. The students could see the comic’s characters doing something in the lab and realize, “I’m able to do this right here at my table and I can do the same thing,” the teacher says.

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8 . I write this on a spring morning, in the van I have called home for two years now.

From one small window, I have a view of joggers pounding the sunny path by the Oxford Canal, and the other looks onto the busy railway line along which trains travel from Southampton Docks to Birmingham.

The woods where I’ve parked my van have grown up between them. This ancient van, a vehicle designed for freedom and the open road, has proved a stable solution for surviving the current housing crisis.

I became a travel writer after my studies ended, committing to brief “residencies” with museums and art centres—where temporary accommodation is often provided in exchange for producing new work about a community. Over the years that followed, living and working on location in the polar regions or Scandinavia or the Alps, not settling down for very long, meant wherever I landed was always “home”.

During the pandemic it was necessary to adopt a more permanent engagement with locality. Oxford had often drawn me back. It’s a crossroads of reality and the imagination, the perfect city for a writer.

It takes a surprising amount of work to keep a tiny home in order: buying a used van online; ensuring the smooth running of a gas cooker and car batteries; fetching water and emptying the mobile toilet. I began to enjoy taking care of my immediate surroundings. Over the summer, I worked to turn waste-ground into a wild garden, replacing weeds with wild plants.

I made friends with the self-sufficient boaters living nearby, always ready to share knowledge on the low-carbon simplicity of life without electricity. I’ve learnt that comfort can be found away from the bright infrastructure of urban life: in watching the birds that nest in the tree and the foxes playing in the woods at dawn, in making a cup of coffee on a spring morning.

My step away from conventional housing has been a necessary act of personal economy, but the benefits include taking nothing for granted, and unexpected delight.

1. Why did the writer make the van his home?

A．Because the feature of the van and that of his occupation are matching.

B．Because the van is equivalent to a crossroads of reality and the imagination.

C．Because the views of joggers and trains outside the van can relieve his pressure.

D．Because living and working on location in the polar regions are appealing to him.

2. What does “immediate surroundings” in Paragraph 6 refer to?

A．a used van

B．a gas cooker

C．a wild garden

D．a mobile toilet

3. Which of the following is the benefit of unconventional housing?

A．Joining joggers to do exercise.	B．Keeping a tiny home in order easily.
C．Improving the economy of Oxford.	D．Embracing delightful surprises.

4. What’s the writer’s attitude towards living in the van?

A．Cautious.

B．Ironical.

C．Favorable.

D．Neutral.

9 . I’m pretty good at sticking with things even when they get hard. Bad relationships, unpleasant workplaces, ______ sports — I’ve hung on for months and even years longer than I should have, convinced the situation would ______ if I refused to give up.

After all, isn’t every success story littered with ______? Didn’t Beyoncé lose Star Search, and didn’t Oprah get fired from her first TV job? Quitting is a sign that you lack patience and strong will, or so I was raised to believe.

______, if I look back on all the things I eventually quit, my only regret is that I didn’t do it sooner. I’ve wasted immeasurable time and energy dragging my heels, determined that I could ______ everyone if I just kept going.

All of us are constantly making tricky choices between going further into familiar territory and ______ to expand our horizons. This is known as the exploration-exploitation trade-off. When we are younger, it’s advantageous to go far on the side of exploration, trying lots of new things because we have plenty of time to ______ later. But as we age, it’s often smarter to double down.

Of course, this doesn’t mean you shouldn’t quit something just because you’ve put a lot of time into it. Economists call this the sunk cost fallacy (谬误): People are more likely to ______ something if they’ve invested a lot of money or effort into it, even when it’s clear that they should ______ their losses and jump ship. This practice is normal and ______, but it’s also unreasonable. If an activity or relationship is making you miserable, that’s important information you shouldn’t ignore.

If you don’t get energy out of doing something, it can be a(n) ______ that this is not for you or that there’s something better you could be doing. Or it could be a sign that you should ______ your goals. Maybe your yogurt startup might not win over investors, but you could still make and sell yogurt at the farmers’ market on weekends.

In fact, dogged persistence in the face of energy-sucking disappointment can ______ depression, and then make you suffer from diseases in the long run.

But the good news is that people can learn to pay better attention to these moments when they’re happening and make ______. The art of quitting isn’t about just letting go whenever there’s an obstacle. It’s about being able to let go when there’s no ______ to success anymore.

1.

A．engaging

B．demanding

C．inevitable

D．leisure

2.

A．worsen

B．occur

C．improve

D．continue

3.

A．frustrations

B．determinations

C．attempts

D．inspirations

4.

A．Therefore

B．Additionally

C．For example

D．However

5.

A．amaze

B．scare

C．distress

D．compliment

6.

A．breaking up

B．looking up

C．standing up

D．backing up

7.

A．venture

B．specialize

C．explore

D．relax

8.

A．benefit from

B．approve of

C．stick with

D．withdraw from

9.

A．evaluate

B．avoid

C．overlook

D．cut

10.

A．human

B．crazy

C．sensible

D．tricky

11.

A．indication

B．desire

C．occasion

D．recognition

12.

A．accomplish

B．upgrade

C．modify

D．maintain

13.

A．prevent

B．trigger

C．relieve

D．contract

14.

A．researches

B．choices

C．changes

D．resolutions

15.

A．shortcut

B．barrier

C．guarantee

D．pathway

10 . Directions:   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.

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Diary

Kyra Peralte thought keeping a diary might help her sort out her troubled feelings. In April 2020, the mother of two in New Jersey, started writing about the challenges of handling work, marriage and motherhood during a global crisis.

Writing released emotions, but Peralte, now 46, wanted to know how other women were doing. So she made an unusual offer. She invited women from near and far to fill the     1     (remain) lined pages of her notebook with their own stories. She named the project The Traveling Diary.

So many wanted to participate     2     Peralte decided to create a website (thetravelingdiarytour.com) for people to add their names to the queue. She came up with a system: each person     3     (get) to keep the diary for three days and fills as many pages as she wishes. Then she is responsible for mailing it to the next person.

So far, more than 2,000 women from 30 countries     4     (participate). Of course, not all those entries could fit in just one journal. More than 50 of these notebooks are currently     5     use. About 20 completed ones are back in Peralte’s possession.

Each participant fills the pages with her own handwriting, narrating her experiences, recounting obstacles she faced, and sharing     6     (learn) lessons.

Kirsty Nicol, 31 from London, received the journal in March 2021. She said reading the entries allowed her to transport her into the lives of     7     and find bits of wisdom they left.

One such pearl came from a woman in Australia. She had written: “Working with the setbacks. Not against them. Patience and gratitude. It’s a dance. Life is moving and we     8     stamp our feet in rejection, or we can gracefully embrace the mess, tidying as we go.”

“It has really evolved into a community,” Peralte says. She sends participants a weekly newsletter and often hosts online meetings so the women get the chance to get to know one another more, share stories and feel     9     (distant). Some of the women, she says, have even become close friends. Her spontaneous idea, she says, has had a profound effect on the women     10     were part of it. “The Traveling Diary is making sisters out of strangers.” She says.