1 . 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。

The 2020 Nobel Peace Prize went to the UN World Food Programme (WFP) on Friday, 9 October. The agency was recognized for its efforts to fight hunger, for its contribution to     1     (improve) conditions, for peace in conflict-affected areas and for acting as     2     driving force to prevent the use of hunger as a weapon of war and conflict. The efforts of WFP focus on emergency assistance, development aid and special operations, two thirds of     3     are made in conflict-affected countries. In those countries, people are three times more likely to suffer poor nutrition     4     those living in countries without conflict do.

David Beasley, WFP Executive Director, said the     5     (announce) made by the Norwegian Nobel Committee turned the global spotlight on the 690 million people     6     (expose) to severe levels of food insecurity. “Every one of them has the right to live peacefully and without hunger.”

Mr. Beasley also noted that the Nobel Peace Prize was not     7     (simple) WFP’s. He said, “WFP     8    (work) closely with governments, organizations and individuals whose love for helping hungry people equals     9     (our). We could not possibly help anyone without them. And the daily work of our members     10     (drive) by our core values of integrity and humanity.”

2 . 阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。续写的词数应为 150 左右。

I will never forget the day I passed my driving test and got my license. The instructor just informed me that I passed and was reviewing the driver restrictions with me as I was full of smiles. Meanwhile, I looked over at my dad and he was staring at his phone with a strange look. “Excuse me sir, but I must take this call…” my father rudely interrupted. “Hello?”, he answered the phone. The look on his face was unforgettable as he turned as white as a ghost. My first thought was that someone was in the hospital or had died. Although it turned out that everyone was safe, little did I know that phone call would change my attitude to life forever.

The call was from the North Middleton Fire Department and they informed my father that he needed to get to the house as soon as possible. My dad was about to shut his phone when suddenly I heard my sister on the phone. All I could hear was her crying hysterically and screaming “Fire”! I had one thought going through my head at that moment, and it was my niece, Myleeah. Did my sister get her out of the house in time? She was only six months old and I adored her more than anything in the entire world. We ran out of the office both in complete shock. Needless to say, my dad was driving like crazy.

At this point I didn’t even know how to prepare myself. The thought of my house burning to the ground didn’t seem to be real. The drive from the office to my house was only a fifteen-minute drive, but it felt like forever. Finally after running red lights and driving off the side of the road, we were half a mile away from the house. All we could see was black smoke and floating ashes filling the sky. This was when reality hit me and I thought not only might I lose my home, but also my baby niece. I began to break down in tears and pray that everyone was safe.

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We finally pulled into my neighborhood which was full of fire trucks, police cars, and black ash.

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I finally found my sister sitting in our neighbor’s yard with black ash all over her.

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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。

The site of Sanxingdui is recognized as one of the most important ancient ruins    1    (date) back 4,800 years. Chinese archaeologists launched a second excavation in March after 35 years, which has brought    2    (grow) interest to this ancient land．

Travelers from across the country    3    (come) to get a glimpse of the prehistorical mysteries on the first day of China's five-day Labor Day holiday this year. The museum,    4    (situate) in the northeast of the Sanxingdui site, looks to make the tour more    5    (enjoy) by rolling out over 300 different types of cultural and    6    (create) products. Unearthed from Sanxingdui’s No.2 pit, the ivory beads are    7    the shape of a long drum, painted with black circles.

Ivory was    8    symbol of wealth in ancient China. Jewellery made from ivory     9    (belong) to the noble class and were    10    (most) placed in bronze vessels as offerings to the gods．

4 . Google is getting further into the business of saving lives. The internet giant announces that users of its Android phones in New Zealand will receive warnings of damaging earthquakes about to strike their locations. And those earthquakes will be detected not by the usual seismometers, but by the phones themselves.

Traditional warnings, even if they only come seconds before a quake hits, can buy people enough time to survive the quake. These systems are practical, but they are difficult and expensive to develop. One system, known as ShakeAlert, cost $60 million to build and needs more than $30 million annually to operate. Such an earthquake warning system as developed by Google can cut down this expense and has great potential globally.

A phone-based network makes earthquake detection possible because modern devices are equipped with motion sensors that monitor movement, such as when a user picks up or rotates the phone. Those sensors can also be programmed to detect the distinctive shaking caused by the pressure and waves of earthquakes.

Google has built quake-sensing capabilities directly into its more than 2 billion active Android phones. When a Android phone detects an earthquake signal, it sends word, along with a rough location, to a central server and more than 100 phones need to sound the alarm before Google believes it. Android phones have been publicly detecting earthquakes worldwide since last year and have detected more than 1000 quakes. The warnings have performed well in terms of speed and accuracy when compared with ShakeAlert. Regardless of it, false alarms haven’t been too hard to weed out.

The Android system still has a lot to prove, including its ability to detect quakes that start in less populated regions. New Zealand will pose a particular challenge, because much of its population is gathered in a few cities. That means phones might not warn of a quake that starts far from downtown until after the trembling has already begun. Until the system’s performance is clear, Google should be cautious of promising too much.

1. What can we learn from the text?

A．Traditional earthquake warnings are ineffective.

B．Residents in New Zealand have benefited from the new warning system.

C．Motion sensors are built in Android cellphones.

D．ShakeAlert system cost $90 million in total.

2. Compared to traditional warnings, which is NOT the advantage of Android warning system?

A．Speedier

B．Cheaper

C．More accurate

D．More practical

3. What can we infer from the underlined sentence in Paragraph 4?

A．It is too hard to identify false alarms.	B．Some false warnings are easy to get rid of.
C．False warnings happen frequently.	D．It is impossible to avoid issuing false warnings.

4. What’s the best title of the article?

A．Google’s Effort to Detect Earthquakes	B．Google’s Promise to Save More Lives
C．Google’s New Challenge in New Zealand	D．Google’s Announcement about New Zealand

5 . “Buzz. Buzz. The queen is that way,” said one honey bee to another. “Pass it on.” Honey bees can’t speak, of course, but scientists have found that the insects combine teamwork and chemicals to relay the queen’s location to the rest of the community, revealing an extraordinary means of long distance, mass communication.

Individual honey bees communicate with the chemical called pheromones, which scientists have long known. But just how these individual signals work together to gather tens of thousands of bees around a queen has remained a mystery.

In the new study, Dieu My Nguyen, a scientist at the University of Colorado, and his colleagues focused on a colony of western honey bees, the most common honey bee species in the world. The researchers set up a flat, pizza box–size arena with a transparent ceiling, in which the bees could walk around, but not fly. They put the queen bee into a cage on one side and released the worker honey bees on the other. The scientists then recorded the insects’ movements from above with a camera and an AI software tracking bees that were releasing pheromones.

Once the first worker honey bees located the queen, they began to gather chains of evenly spaced bees that extended outward from the queen, with each bee sending out pheromones to its neighbor down the line. The findings are the first direct observations of this collective communication in honey bees. Like smelly bread crumbs, the branching communication lines guided far-off honey bees back to the queen’s location — a feat no single bee could achieve alone.

Mark Carroll, an insect biologist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, cautions that the work was done in a closed, practically 2D space. In reality, he notes, honey bee colonies are 3D, and they often have to fight with elements like wind and rain, which make communicating more complicated. “The next step will be to observe natural honey bee swarms and see if they’re actually doing this.” he says.

1. What is the focus of the new study?

A．Why worker bees gather around a queen bee.

B．How pheromones function in a bee’s body.

C．Why insects’ mass communication is limited to short distances.

D．How the queen’s location is passed on to the rest of the colony.

2. What is mainly talked about in Paragraph 3?

A．The process of the experiment.	B．The equipment required for the experiment.
C．The technique used in the experiment.	D．The species chosen for the experiment.

3. What does the underlined word “feat” in Paragraph 4 refer to?

A．Direction.

B．Movement.

C．Location.

D．Relay.

4. What’s Mark Carroll’s attitude to the study?

A．Doubtful.

B．Reliable.

C．Realistic.

D．Influential.

6 . I grew up as a country girl. My sister and I didn’t play video games. We didn’t have cable TV. Summers were filled with swimming in the pond and picking wild blackberries for Grandma to make a pie. Autumn was filled with corn mazes and crunching through leaves in the woods. And winter was all about building igloos near the frozen lake.

My high school had zero diversity. Most people here could visit their entire extended family within 30 miles’ drive. And many were perfectly happy with the prospect of staying in rural northeast Ohio forever.

It was in high school that I began to realize that I wanted something beyond what I knew inside my Midwest bubble. I loved reading and learning about new places, so I spent the rest of my high school career saving up so that I could go on a Lord of the Rings–themed tour of New Zealand when I graduated.

After that initial trip to New Zealand, I was fully infected with the travel bug. I joined my college marching band simply because it would mean international performance tours every two years. And I began to realize that I couldn’t imagine my life without travel in it.

I got a great education from both my little rural high school and my little rural Ohio college. But, the more I traveled, the more acutely aware I became of the fact that traveling made up for my education in a way that textbooks and PowerPoint presentations in lecture halls just simply could not.

So, is travel the best education? Well, I don’t know if it deserves the superlative of the “best”. But travel is definitely really valuable and a necessary part of becoming a global citizen of the world.

1. Which word best describes the author’s childhood?

A．Lonely.

B．Carefree.

C．Difficult.

D．Bittersweet.

2. What can be inferred about the author as a high school student?

A．She liked to judge others.	B．She was in favor of a rural life.
C．Her idea of traveling took roots.	D．She was never concerned about money.

3. Why is traveling important to the author?

A．She could apply the knowledge from the textbooks.

B．She could go on international performance tours.

C．She could receive scholarship where she traveled.

D．She could learn beyond the school and textbooks.

4. What message is mainly conveyed in the text?

A．East and west, home is the best.	B．He who doesn’t advance loses ground.
C．Life without travel can only call it survival.	D．A person to travel, perhaps lonely, may be free.

7 . Located in the Atlantic Ocean halfway between Norway and Iceland, the Faroe Islands are a still-somewhat-undiscovered destination. Known for sweeping landscapes and sometimes-harsh weather, these islands definitely deserve a spot on your bucket list.

Fun things available here

·See the famous Mulafossur Waterfall in Gasadalur

·Hike to Trælanípa to see the Sørvágsvatn, the “floating lake”

·Hike to the Kallur Lighthouse on Kalsoy

·Go sea kayaking

·Attend a music festival (I loved the G! Festival)

·Drive out to the town of Gjógv

·See Saksun Church and the surrounding scenery

·Explore the capital city of Tórshavn

Getting around

Renting a car and driving is the best way to fully experience the Faroe Islands. Public transport does exist, but buses don’t run to most places very frequently. It is recommended that you book your car ahead of time, especially during the summer. (Search for rental cars here.)

Where to stay

Thanks to the roads, bridges, and tunnels, nothing is very far away in the Faroe Islands. You can get from Tórshavn to Tjørnuvkí or Gjógv in just over an hour— meaning you could easily base yourself in Tórshavn for your whole trip if you wanted.

If you do feel like staying outside of the capital for a night or two, consider making Gjógv your second base: Funningur is the only accommodation available in Gjógv, but it’s lovely. A nice guesthouse and restaurant sitting on a hill overlooking the village. (Read reviews on TripAdvisor | Book here)

1. Which of the following fun things on Faroe Islands are NOT mentioned?

A．Enjoy music.	B．Tour around the capital city.
C．Hike to the mountains.	D．Appreciate water scenery.

2. For a whole-trip plan, it’s convenient for visitors to live in           .

A．Gjógv

B．Tórshavn

C．Trælanpía

D．Tjørnuvkí

3. What’s the possible title of the passage?

A．A Travel Guide to Faroe Islands	B．Top Things to Do on Faroe Islands
C．Some Quick Facts about Faroe Islands	D．The Best Destination for Your Bucket List

8 . The complaints started a few weeks after Frances moved into her new apartment. Last year, the health-care worker and her roommate began _______ messages from the building's security officer, passed on from the woman living in the unit below — they were too _________, moved chairs too often and their guests talked and laughed loud.

To Frances, the noises were part of everyday living. Her roommate tended to drop things. Frances' children _________ visited and ran around. "It was _________”says Frances. "Anything we did caused her to complain - and she owns and we rent, so if we couldn't solve it, we assumed it was we who would have to move.”

To make matters worse, Frances and her neighbor couldn't talk to each other. The key fobs for their building allowed _________ only to their own floors. Though they lived just meters _________ they had no way to reach out and bridge their divide---across which Frances could feel bad feelings _______, “When you don't know the person, you expect the worst," says Frances. "We thought this neighbor _________ us."

Frances had no way to know what her neighbour was thinking about or what she was like, so she found it easy to presume the worst. Social psychologist call it fundamental attribution （归因）error”, the act of believing that what a person does reflects their real _________ . "If we experience something as being negative __________ the effect it has on us, we automatically assume negative intention on the other person's part," __________ a conflict consultant. And that can create a spiral （螺旋形）of   __________ without end. If colleagues make a paperwork mistake, we think they are__________, when they might just be overworked. If someone __________ us off in traffic, we suppose they are careless, ________ possibly dealing with an emergency.

1.

A．accepting

B．taking

C．receiving

D．admitting

2.

A．noisy

B．joyous

C．impolite

D．strict

3.

A．officially

B．hardly

C．naturally

D．occasionally

4.

A．interesting

B．moving

C．frustrating

D．irritating

5.

A．way

B．access

C．road

D．route

6.

A．out

B．apart

C．down

D．above

7.

A．disappearing

B．rewarding

C．damaging

D．increasing

8.

A．hated

B．feared

C．liked

D．annoyed

9.

A．intelligence

B．character

C．appearance

D．ability

10.

A．in terms of

B．in search of

C．in charge of

D．in case of

11.

A．questions

B．asks

C．explains

D．argues

12.

A．discussion

B．competition

C．cooperation

D．conflict

13.

A．upset

B．cheerful

C．lazy

D．tired

14.

A．calls

B．cuts

C．sees

D．sets

15.

A．rather than

B．apart from

C．other than

D．more than

9 . 阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。续写的词数应为150左右。

I discovered my love for writing while working on my undergraduate degree in English. I fell in love with children's literature and knew that was what I wanted to do with my life: write for children. So I wanted to learn how to write. But life kept me busy, and my dream stopped.

Two decades later, I wanted to sign up for a university's writing program for adults to accept the education of writing. 1 hoped to greatly improve my writing skills and then start my writing journey. So I applied to a university for such a writing program.

But after several days of taking the courses, I found the learning tasks were too heavy in light of my busy family life, so I dropped out of the program.

Over the next few years, I applied to several universities^’ writing programs again. However, still due to the busy family life, I gave up after only a few days of taking the courses. And I knew I would never apply to a school again. I had closed that door.

Two years ago, my husband got a new job, requiring us to move from our home in Texas to Washington, D.C. it wasn't an easy move. The family part was the problem. No one would be moving with us. All our children had grown up. So when we sat down for dinner in our new home-the big, empty and quiet house, only my husband and me, I didn't know how to deal with the quiet life.

One morning, I woke up from a dream. In my dream, I had contacted the last university's writing department, asked to rejoin their writing program for adults, and was allowed. The dream had shaken me. So, before I got out of bed or changed my mind, I picked up my phone and sent an e-mail asking what I would need to do to reapply.

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1.续写词数应为150左右：
2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
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Hours passed and there was no reply.
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Then a few weeks later, I began my courses.
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10 . Forget smart phones and smart glasses. One day, we might have smart tattoos (纹身）. The company NewDealDesign came up with an idea for a product called UnderSkin. The device would look like a pair of tattoos on your palm and the side of your thumb, but it would actually be a very thin computer implanted just below your skin. It would draw power from your body's energy, and you could use it to unlock doors, monitor your health, exchange and store information, or even express your personality. UnderSkin is just an idea -you can't go out and get one -but the technology exists to make it work. “We assume it is about five years from being real,” says designer Gadi Amit.

Writer and technology entrepreneurs Amal Graffstra already has a chip called a radio-frequency identification (RFID) tag (标签） implanted in his hand. “I use it to log into my computer. I also use it to share contact details with people,” he says. The chip is about the size of a grain of rice and responds to radio signals with a unique identification number.

If a computerized tattoo or embedded tag isn't crazy enough for you, what about a brain chip? The company Intel is working on technology that would let you control your devices with your mind. Dean Pomerleau, one of the researchers, explains, “We're trying to prove you can do interesting things with brain waves. . . Imagine beingx k w able to surf the Web with the power of your thoughts. ”

Do you think embedded chips sound cool or creepy? Some doctors are concerned about people hurting themselves while getting devices implanted. They argue that medical procedures are meant to heal sick People and not to give healthy people special powers. Others worry about hacking and privacy -could someone hack in and steal your identity, or even control your mind? On a more philosophical level if you e a computer inside your body, are your still human? Or are you a cyborg (半机械人）

What do you think-would you want a computer under your skin?

1. What can we learn about Underskin according to the passage?

A．It is a pair of tattoos on your palm.

B．It may come into being in five years.

C．It is able to respond to radio signals.

D．It can be charged through a computer.

2. Amal Graffstra is mentioned in Paragraph 2 to show

A．there exists the technology to produce Underskin.

B．Amal Graffstra can have access to advanced products.

C．the RFID tag is quite useful for people in life.

D．people tend to share contact details with people.

3. What does the underlined word "creepy" in Paragraph 4 mean?

A．Amazing

B．Attractive

C．Horrible

D．Useless

4. What's the author's attitude towards the implanted computer?

A．Positive

B．Negative

C．Objective

D．Indifferent