1 . I never planned to move back to my hometown in Ohio when I came home from California! I thought I would ________ there for a few weeks and then I could leave as soon as my dad ________. But one of his doctors told me that he couldn’t live alone anymore and suggested that I take him with me.

“Two big ________,” I said to my dad one night. “Stay in Ohio alone? Or go to California with me? It’s like choosing your own adventure.”

My dad ________ for a second and replied, “Based on my ________ and age, I don’t think I can do either one.”

My dad had lived in Ohio for the past 54 years. And then at 75, I asked him to leave all his life behind and come to live with me, his 31-year-old ________ and trust me to take care of him, something I had never done before. To be honest, I was ________, too. I had to ________ apart of my life as well. But I’d rather have us be terrified together.

After sitting in silence for a few seconds, I added, “If I said you had to ________ California and live with me, how would you feel about that?”

I was ________ shocked by his answer: “Oh, great. But...”

I didn’t even let him ________ his but. It was decided. In less than a month. I cheerfully ________ his apartment up, and bought him a ticket to California.

At first, people kept asking me, “Are you ready to take on this responsibility?”

My ________ was always the same: “I’m his daughter and no one is going to ________ him as much as I do.”

Now, he is living happily with me and I’m ________ that I have done what I had to do.

1.

A．work

B．stay

C．study

D．play

2.

A．recovered

B．left

C．refused

D．agreed

3.

A．schedules

B．places

C．questions

D．surprises

4.

A．slept

B．tried

C．argued

D．thought

5.

A．health

B．income

C．job

D．experience

6.

A．son

B．daughter

C．brother

D．sister

7.

A．annoyed

B．curious

C．terrified

D．comfortable

8.

A．break into

B．go through

C．adapt to

D．give up

9.

A．lead

B．move

C．drive

D．struggle

10.

A．always

B．hardly

C．awkwardly

D．happily

11.

A．write

B．see

C．finish

D．want

12.

A．packed

B．set

C．1isted

D．dried

13.

A．price

B．answer

C．house

D．worry

14.

A．teach

B．attract

C．understand

D．love

15.

A．glad

B．regretful

C．certain

D．unaware

2 . We often try to save money for a variety of different reasons. It might be to save up for a new computer or put money aside into a rainy-day fund.     1    , but a recent study showed that over half of all 22~29-year-olds living in the UK have no savings at all. Did they max out on too many things, or are there other factors? And how can we become better savers?

First, put a stop to those impulse buys.     2    , even if it is on sale or looks like a bargain. Impulse buys are done in the heat of the moment and without thought for what it’s costing you. Encouraging yourself to question your purchase before you buy allows you to process what you are doing.

    3    . Withdraw cash before you go to a restaurant or shopping and set a fixed budget you must stick to. Also, any change that comes from your transactions when you’re using cash can be put in jar and deposited into your account.

Finally, be disciplined.     4    . It’s about sticking to it, too. You shouldn’t be dipping into your savings every time you feel like it. Setting up a standing order from your current account into your savings the moment you receive your salary will ensure you keep up the habit.     5    .

Just as the old saying goes: “A penny saved is a penny earned.” These are some of the actions we can take to help us all become better savers.

A．Learning how to save is important

B．Ask about discounts and pay in cash

C．It’s not just about creating that budget

D．Sometimes, saving money can be difficult

E．Another way is to use cash rather than card

F．Ask yourself if you really need to buy something

G．Successful savers stick to their plans and watch the money pile up

3 . Talking to someone on a train, bus, or subway can be risky yet exciting, as you never know when they’re going to get off. Starting a connection can be fun as the costs are fairly low and you can easily start and stop a conversation, or get off if things become awkward.     1    

Make eye contact. Making brief eye contact can show the persons that you’re interested and help you judge whether they are interested in you. Glance at the persons and try to hold your gaze (注视) for just a second or two.    2    If they meet your gaze, it’s likely positive. If they look away quickly or appear disinterested, it’s probably best not to approach.

Smile at the persons. If you’ve successfully met their gaze, smile at them.

    3    If they smile back, you’re likely in luck in getting them to talk to you.

If you want to start a conversation with the persons, smiling is a great way to get somebody’s attention.

    4    Make a point to appear open, comfortable and available. Do this by keeping your arms uncrossed. Stand or sit up straight and show good posture (姿势). Don’t cross your body or turn away from the persons, as these gestures can make you appear closed off or disinterested.

Approach the persons to start talking to them.     5    If you’re far away, move closer. You should be a comfortable distance where you can hear each other yet not feel awkward if the conversation doesn’t work out.

A．Use open body language.

B．Mind your manners while talking.

C．Notice how they respond to your gaze.

D．Don’t worry because you can follow some tips that make you smile.

E．Once you’ve read that the persons are interested in chatting, make a move.

F．A small but sincere smile makes you appear interested, friendly and approachable.

G．Therefore, try to get someone’s attention and start a conversation by following the tips.

4 . Software expert James Curran helped rewrite Australia’s new curriculum(全部课程)for information technology subjects. He said the changes to the current curriculum could stop teenagers avoiding computing and maths subjects in high school.“Kids are naturally curious, but we don’t set up the curriculum in a way that awakens their curiosity so that they can learn the things they want to, and the things they have to,”Curran said.“Teaching maths and computing in a new way makes a very big difference.“

As more and more high school students drop out of advanced maths subjects, Dr Curran warned that computing subjects were in an even more difficult position than them. Only 1,748 year-12 students enrolled(登记)in software design and development in New South Wales last year—about half the 3,300 who studied the subject 10 years ago. Enrolments in information technology have declined sharply,from 10,000 in 2001 to just 1,939 students in 2021.

“Students are not taking computing subjects at the senior level because the subject is a bit out of date,”Curran said.“Computing is a subject that changes all the time and needs to be changed every few years, so I would like to see a continuous process of smaller changes and updates to it.”

As schools struggle to make students stick with the subjects of information technology, engineering and maths,1,000 primary schools across Australia have signed up for a new pro-gram to get young kids interested in high-tech jobs. The program uses online lessons to show children as young as six the process of designing the Olympics logo, and how Netflix collects information to decide which movies to make.

11-year-old student Mia Lucas had fun completing a model on UX design.   It is the“user experience”process that design teams use to create products.“I’ve always been interested in creating a website or an app but didn’t know the first step in doing that,“ she said.“The pro-gram helps me a lot.”

1. What is the new curriculum supposed to be according to Curran?

A．Typical.

B．Controversial.

C．Appealing.

D．Challenging.

2. What can we know about computing subjects in Australian schools?

A．They are less popular with today’s teenagers.

B．They are valued negatively by many schools.

C．They are harder than advanced maths subjects.

D．They are keeping a continuous rate of updating.

3. How does the new program encourage the students to take computing subjects?

A．By offering high-tech jobs to them.

B．By turning lessons into virtual ones.

C．By letting them choose subjects freely.

D．By showing applications of the subjects.

4. What can be the best title for the text?

A．Australian students are deserting the computing subjects

B．A new curriculum fails to work with Australian students

C．How did an Australian student fall in love with computing?

D．Why did Australian schools stick with computing subjects?

5 . Today, we have some tips to help English learners gain confidence in their English-speaking ability.

Use positive self-talk

Believe it or not, the most important person you talk to every day is yourself. In other words, your own thoughts matter.     1     Be sure to replace unhelpful thoughts or ideas with better one.

    2    

Those who are not confident enough usually speak so softly and fast that they have to repeat themselves several times. To sound more confident, try to slow down your speech and speak loudly enough that anyone in the same room can easily hear you. Many English learners worry that speaking too slowly will make them sound inexperienced.     3    . So avoid worrying that you are speaking too slowly for the people around you.

Speak in full sentences

If you are not confident in a language, you will likely try to say as little as possible when you speak. This is a common problem for language learners.     4     Using complete sentences shows listeners that you are not Afraid to speak English.

Don’t worry too much

One of the biggest problems in speaking a second language is worrying too much about making mistakes.     5     You can also tell your sell that the purpose of speaking a language is to communicate and That/many English learners who can communicate very well make mistakes, too.

A．Read out aloud

B．Speak more loudly and slowly

C．So pay attention to what you tell yourself

D．But speaking too fast may cause more mistakes

E．As your skills grow, your confidence will grow, too

F．Our tip is to speak in complete sentences and give longer responses when possible

G．You should keep in mind that making mistakes is a natural part of the learning process

6 . 4月23日为世界读书日（World Book Day），你校英文报将举办以“Form a Habit of Reading”为主题的英语征文活动，请你写一篇短文投稿。内容包括：
1.阅读的重要性；
2.如何获得书籍；
3.倡议养成读书的好习惯。
注意：
1.词数100左右；
2.短文的题目和首句已为你写好。

Form a Habit of Reading

As the World Book Day is approaching, reading is appealing to more and more people.

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7 . Imagine that you take a walk around your yard or nearby park and immediately, the sounds of an insect band surround you. Produced by the muscular movements of insects called treehopper (角蝉), this imagined soundscape comes from vibrations(共鸣、振动)that flow across the surface of plants. But it is not at all like the familiar vocalizations of crickets(蟋蟀); instead, it’s something richer, more varied. Some sounds are song-like, others are similar to the noises of machines or musical instruments. The noise made from even a single plant may be “as noisy as a busy street”.

In An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us, Pulitzer prize-winning science journalist Ed Yong explains that, on a real walk instead of this one we’ve imagined, humans would not be able to hear the treehoppers’ music without special equipment. In the company of scientists with a laser vibrometer(振动计), a device that changes the treehopper vibrations into sounds audible to human ears, Yong gets to hear them in the wild and in the laboratory. He is shocked by the attractive sounds.

In this book that follows on from 2018’s I Contain Multitudes, Yong writes in a perfect balance of scientific severity and personal awe as he invites readers to grasp something of how other animals experience the world. Communicating through surface vibrations is a rather cool example that extends beyond treehoppers to elephants and spiders, and to this fact about frogs. Attuned to vibrations entering the eggs, frog hatches quickly if a snake shows up with a hard bite, but ignore rain, wind, footsteps and even an earthquake.

My admiration for the book is, well, immense. Like many thousands of other people, I have relied throughout the course of COVID-19 on Yong’s reporting at The Atlantic as he cracked open the fast-changing world of pandemic science. Now, with An Immense World, Yong brings into beautiful focus a host of other animal sensory worlds that co-exist with ours, and how we may protect them.

1. How does the soundscape come about according to paragraph 1?

A．It comes from humans’ muscles.

B．It arises from the vocalizations of crickets.

C．It comes from an imaginable world.

D．It arises from vibrations flowing across the surface of plants.

2. Why can Yong hear the treehopper’s music?

A．Because of a laser device.

B．Because of the surface of plants.

C．Because of the nature of the insects.

D．Because of the special imaginable environment.

3. What can we learn about An Immense World?

A．It appeals to all kinds of peoples.

B．It is aimed at protecting the animals.

C．It is scheduled to be published next year.

D．It describes a virtual world full of animals.

4. What is the text?

A．A news report.	B．A historical novel.
C．A book review.	D．A personal biography.

8 . When our first grandchild, Noah, was born, we didn’t know what to expect. We thought he would be ________ and develop like others.________ , that was not the case.

Noah had a lot of health ________ from the very beginning, one of which was failure to ________ naturally.

We take a lot for granted(想当然)when we have children, and one is their eating. ________ 一 Noah wasn’t able to suck(吸)like most ________ . While in the hospital, a feeding ________ had to be put in. Though this was needed, it ________ our hearts to see what all Noah went through.

One day I was in the grocery store. A young mother was walking by with her ________ baby. The baby started to cry out loud. Then, in a bored voice, the mother looked at me and ________ that now she had to ________ the two-month-old baby again. I knew she was taking feeding her baby as an inconvenience but not something to be thankful for.

I understood the mother, but I ________ with her what Noah was going through. I said, “You have no idea how ________ my daughter would be to feed Noah like you’re able to. ”

Noah is unique and 13 years old now. He has come a long way. I’m thankful he can do things today that I didn’t know he would ever be ________ enough to do.

Today, let’s take some time to ________ things we often take for granted and be thankful.

1.

A．clever

B．healthy

C．handsome

D．honest

2.

A．Surely

B．Usually

C．Strangely

D．Unfortunately

3.

A．tests

B．records

C．problems

D．puzzles

4.

A．walk

B．grow

C．think

D．speak

5.

A．ability

B．need

C．habit

D．method

6.

A．students

B．parents

C．babies

D．pets

7.

A．tool

B．spoon

C．bowl

D．bottle

8.

A．encouraged

B．changed

C．calmed

D．broke

9.

A．polite

B．brave

C．newborn

D．patient

10.

A．explained

B．noticed

C．warned

D．promised

11.

A．feed

B．watch

C．support

D．remember

12.

A．discussed

B．imagined

C．discovered

D．shared

13.

A．stressed

B．satisfied

C．shocked

D．worried

14.

A．strong

B．quick

C．active

D．wise

15.

A．set aside

B．search for

C．think about

D．go through

9 . More and more research is showing that the key to lifelong good health is what experts call “lifestyle medicine”—making simple changes in diet, exercise, and stress management. To help you turn that knowledge into results, we’ve put together this manageable list of health and wellness tips to keep healthy.

Give yourself a break

“I spend countless hours doing cardio(健心运动)and never seem to lose that last ten pounds!” is a common complaint I hear from clients. Give yourself permission to shorten your workouts.     1    . Your body can plateau(处于停滞状态)If not given adequate rest to restore itself, ultimately leading to a decline in performance. Breaking down your routine into various training modes can help prevent overtraining.     2    .

Think small

    3    . If you have a can of soda at lunchtime every day, have a glass of water two days a week instead. Starting with small, painless changes helps establish the mentality that healthy changes are not necessarily painful changes. It’s easy to build from here by adding more healthy substitutions.

    4    

You can do all the right things—but if you have personal relationships with people who have unhealthy habits, it is often a hard battle.     5    . Get your family or friends involved with you when you walk or plan healthier meals. Making healthy changes with a loved one can bring you closer together and motivate you.

A．Keep good company.

B．Get rid of unhealthy habits.

C．Doing so gives your workouts a new purpose.

D．Believe it or not, overtraining could be the problem.

E．You can also help balance your program by simply incorporating more variety.

F．The healthiest people are those who have relationships with other healthy people.

G．Try to focus first on one small unhealthy habit and turn it into a healthy, positive habit.

10 . Here are some hostels (旅社) that will help you save money when you’re traveling in Toronto, Canada.

HI Hostel Toronto

HI Hostel Toronto really gets what travelers need. The hostel is in a central location close to everything you need (shopping, restaurants, subway and more). It’s very easy to meet people here because there is a bar that hosts live music. The beds are super comfortable so you can have a good sleep. Free breakfast is included.

Beds from $45 every night.

Two Peas Pod Hostel

Two Peas Pod Hostel runs a store and a café. They have a super rooftop (屋顶) (you can see the CN Tower from it) and a mini movie theater. Their beds are super cool and comfortable. They have lockers underneath them so you can keep all your things safe. It’s almost like staying in a modern hotel but with the fun of a hostel. Enjoy a great stay with free breakfast.

Beds from $59 every night.

The Only Backpacker’s Inn

This is your standard backpacker hostel. They have a bar and a café. There’s no free breakfast but the money you save makes up for that. It’s located near the subway so you can easily get around the city. It’s a good choice for travelers to meet people.

Beds from $37 every night.

The Parkdale Hostellerie

This is the most affordable hostel with free breakfast in the city. It’s not as central as the other hostels but that also makes one of its advantages: it is far from noise. The hostel is not the most modern but it has a welcoming, homey feel.

Beds from $26 every night.

1. What can travelers do at HI Hostel Toronto?

A．Drink coffee at a café.	B．Watch a live music show.
C．See the CN Tower on the rooftop.	D．Watch a film at a mini movie theater.

2. What makes The Only Backpacker’s Inn different from the others?

A．It runs a store and a café.	B．It offers comfortable beds.
C．It doesn’t offer free breakfast.	D．It’s close to public transportation.

3. Which hostel should you choose if you want to live in a quiet place?

A．HI Hostel Toronto.	B．Two Peas Pod Hostel.
C．The Only Backpacker’s Inn.	D．The Parkdale Hostellerie.