1 . Mr. Peter Johnson, aged twenty-three, fought for half an hour to escape from his trapped car yesterday when it landed upside down in three feet of water. Mr. Johnson took the only escape way — through the boot(行李箱).
Mr. Johnson’s car had finished up in a ditch(沟渠) at Romney, Kentucky, after skidding on ice and hitting a bank. “Fortunately, the water began to come in only slowly,” Mr. Johnson said, “I couldn’t force the doors because they were jammed against the walls of the ditch and dared not open the windows because I knew water would come flooding in.”
Mr. Johnson, first tried to attract the attention of other motorists by sounding the horn(喇叭) and hammering on the roof and boot but failed. Then he began to use his own efforts to escape.
Later he said, “It was really a half penny that saved my life. It was the only coin I had in my pocket and I used it to unscrew(旋松) the back seat to get into the boot. I hammered hard with a hammer trying to make someone hear, but no help came.”
It took ten minutes to unscrew the seat, and a further five minutes to clear the boot. Then Mr. Johnson found a wrench(扳手) and began to work on the boot lock. Fifteen minutes passed by. “It was the only chance I had. Finally it gave, but as soon as I unlocked the boot, the water and mud poured in.
His hands and arms cut and hurt，Mr. Johnson got to Beckett Farm nearby, where he was looked after by the farmer’s wife, Mrs. Lucy Bates. Trembling in a blanket, he said, “That thirty minutes seemed like hours.” Only the car wheels could be seen, the police said last night. The vehicle had sunk into two feet of mud at the bottom of the ditch.
1. What happened to Mr. Johnson in the story?| A．He was lost in the ditch. | B．He was rescued by the police. |
| C．Water came flooding into his car. | D．His car was trapped in the ditch. |
| A．luckily the door was taken away in the end | B．at last the wrench went broken |
| C．the lock came open after all his efforts | D．the chance was lost at the last minute |
| A．the ditch was along a quiet country road |
| B．the accident happened on a clear warm day |
| C．the police helped Mr. Johnson get out of the ditch |
| D．Mr. Johnson had a tender wife and was well attended |
2 . Playing sports is a lot of fun. But getting hurt is unavoidable.
Wear protective equipment.
The equipment you wear depends on the sport you play. Helmets(头盔)are the most common protective equipment. They protect your head while you’re playing football, baseball and softball, biking and so on.
Warm up.
Know the rules of the games.
Traffic lights help prevent crashes between the cars that drive on the roads together. This works because drivers know the rules and follow them--at least most of the time.
Some rules have nothing to do with scoring points, They are just about protecting other people. For example, a diver would make sure that the pool is clear before diving in. Otherwise, he or she might land on someone else.
This is a really important one. If you love sports, you may get right back to the game even you’re injured. But playing when you’re hurt is a bad idea. It can lead to an even worse injury.
| A．Watch out for others. |
| B．Don’t do too much exercise. |
| C．It’s the same way with sports. |
| D．Don't play when you’re injured. |
| E．It’s not a good idea to just go to the field and start playing. |
| F．You and the other players know what to expect from each other. |
| G．Take these steps to prevent injuries so that you can stay in the game. |
3 . No one ever said science education was easy. Certainly the concepts we teach, like conservation of momentum or quantum mechanics, can be hard to grasp. But what really makes our reaching complicated is that we’re also trying to teach a deeper lesson at the same time to help students understand the nature of science itself.
All too often, young people get the impression that science is about learning certain “laws” and then applying them to different situations. After all, that’s what we make them do on tests, to show that they’ve been doing the work. But that’s not it at all. Science is the process of building these concepts through the collection of experimental evidence.
And while I’m on it, let’s call these concepts what they really are not laws, but models. Science is all about building and testing models. It’s difficult to help students understand that aspect of science when we just give them the models to begin with. Sure, in physics we often include historical or mathematical evidence to support big ideas, but that often isn’t enough.
Of course, we can’t start from scratch. If students had to build their own models from the ground up, it would be like trying to learn programming by inventing computers. As Isaac Newton is supposed to have said, we stand on the shoulders of giants. We must take models built by others and go from there.
What I’d like to suggest is that this actually provides a great way into the adventure of science and an opportunity to meet our objectives as educators. If you can create a situation that challenges students’ assumptions and produces conceptual conflict, that’s a great opportunity for learning.
1. What is the misunderstanding of teaching science?| A．It’s complicated. | B．It focuses on the nature of science. |
| C．It’s very difficult. | D．It lies in teaching and testing “laws”. |
| A．Encouraging students to always start from scratch. |
| B．Providing students with some models to follow suit. |
| C．Guiding students to begin with models built by others. |
| D．Offering students proof to support important concepts. |
| A．To explain the experiment. | B．To praise his opinion. |
| C．To show the achievement. | D．To support the argument. |
| A．Science teaching | B．Concept building |
| C．Science learning | D．Concept conflicting |
Economic development is necessary if we want to
Big challenges, however, can sometimes lead to great
Kunming, the capital of Yunnan Province, is the economic and cultural
Kunming’s mild climate makes it a good place
In addition to its
6 . 19-year-old Torri together with three other teenage girls drove through Florida last February.
But
If the accident had happened a few weeks
| A．Slowly | B．Quickly | C．Suddenly | D．Immediately |
| A．anger | B．screams | C．excitement | D．pity |
| A．sliding | B．arranging | C．inspiring | D．causing |
| A．jumped | B．went | C．crashed | D．discovered |
| A．Hopefully | B．Luckily | C．Sadly | D．Actually |
| A．apart from | B．along with | C．except for | D．but for |
| A．decided | B．tried | C．managed | D．hesitated |
| A．before | B．when | C．until | D．unless |
| A．rolling | B．shaking | C．lying | D．sitting |
| A．noise | B．value | C．hope | D．sign |
| A．sooner | B．later | C．earlier | D．quicker |
| A．medicine | B．education | C．edition | D．law |
| A．suitable | B．specific | C．powerful | D．precious |
| A．striking | B．packing | C．kissing | D．breathing |
| A．attempt | B．success | C．practice | D．movement |
| A．coughing | B．laughing | C．greeting | D．sneezing |
| A．fallen | B．worked | C．quit | D．ended |
| A．rushed | B．packed | C．dragged | D．delivered |
| A．study | B．challenge | C．guidance | D．treatment |
| A．shocked | B．frightened | C．embarrassed | D．delighted |
7 . The Nobel Prizes, whose winners are announced in September, may be the world’s most desired awards. As soon as new winners are named, critics start comparing the winners’ achievements with those of past ones.
The Nobel Foundation’s rules prevent disclosure of the selection process for 50 years. A full explanation of why, for example, Stephen Hawking wasn’t awarded the Prize will have to wait until 2068. But once this rule ends, the foundation shows who offered nominations and whom they supported. Its data start in 1901 and end in 1953 for medicine; 1966 for physics, chemistry and literature; and 1967 for peace.
The requirement for entry to a Nobel nomination is low. For the peace prize, public officials and experts offer names to a committee that picks the winner. For the others, Swedish academies seek names from thousands of people, mostly professors, and hold a vote for the winner. On average, 55 nominations per year were applied for each prize in 1901-1966.
Candidates with lots of nominations don’t mean victory. Historically, candidates put forward by past winners went on to win at some point in the future 40% more often than those whose nominators never won a Nobel did. And people whose nominators became winners later on also won unusually often. According to the Nobel Foundation’s online report, all 11 of Einstein’s nominees won a prize. Some were already famous, like Max Planck; others, like Walther Bothe, were less-known. These two cases show that his support seems to have been decisive. So getting lots of nominations doesn’t mean having won a Nobel Prize--unless the nominations come from other winners.
1. Which of the following has the closest meaning to the word “disclosure” in paragraph 2?| A．Track. | B．Record. | C．Announcement. | D．Development. |
| A．The nominators are not always famous. |
| B．It is the most valuable award in the world. |
| C．Candidates will never know why they failed. |
| D．There are 55 Nobel Prize winners during 1901 to 1966. |
| A．It is who nominates that matters. |
| B．Einstein was once a Nobel Prize winner. |
| C．The more nominations, the more chances to win. |
| D．Candidates nominated by past winners can always win. |
| A．To remember some Nobel winners. |
| B．To predict who will be the next Nobel winners. |
| C．To analyze why some nominees failed the Nobel Prizes. |
| D．To inform readers of more information about the Nobel Prizes. |
8 . Since “SQUID GAME” appeared in mid-September, the show has taken the world by storm, producing millions of videos on TikTok. In Paris fights broke out as fans tried to crowd into a shop where visitors could take photos with staff dressed like the characters from the show.
“Squid Game”, which takes its name from a common Korean schoolyard game, follows a group of heavily-indebted losers who are dressed in green sportswear and fight for a nearly $40 million prize.
The global strong interest for the show confused people in South Korea. “Nobody around me understands why it was so popular, and neither do I,” says In-young, a 26-year-old from Seoul who stopped watching after a couple of episodes (集) because it upset her to see her childhood games described as a cruel struggle for survival, though she admitted the show in some way made sense for ordinary South Koreans struggling with unaffordable housing and low-paid jobs.
One Korean critic (评论家) guesses that the mix of violent entertainment with a very popular comments explains the show’s attraction to Western audiences, who are used to such themes from American productions such as “The Hunger Games”.
No doubt the attractive shape of the design, the grand clothing and scenes as well as the translation of different languages also help. The popularity of “Squid Game” is a reflection of South Korea’s outsize cultural power on the global stage. It may also have benefited from “Parasite”, a film about social injustice, which won the Oscar for best picture in 2020. But most of all, it shows that, like love and money, complaints about unfairness have no language.
1. Why does the author mention fights in Paris in paragraph 1?| A．To introduce the topic. |
| B．To emphasize the value of the show. |
| C．To show the popularity of the show. |
| D．To state the cruel situation in Paris. |
| A．Few Korean people like to watch the show. |
| B．In-young misses her childhood games very much. |
| C．In-young’s childhood games are cruel and violent. |
| D．The show reflects the reality of Korean to some degree. |
| A．Positive. | B．Negative. | C．Objective. | D．Doubtful. |
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10 . Sitting on the peaceful coast of Galapagos Islands, Ecuador, watching the sun move quietly into the sea, you shouldn't forget that Charles Darwin arrived here in 1835. He stayed on the islands for five weeks, observing various animals. This finally inspired his famous work, On the Origin of Species. You can certainly follow Darwin's footsteps and enjoy a trip from four to seven days to the islands.
The islands are certainly a paradise for wildlife, as there are no natural killers on the islands and the number of boats and visitors is under government control. Though you cannot walk freely as Darwin did about 200 years ago, each day is as impressive as it could be.
The most well-known animal of the Galapagos is the giant tortoise, which can be seen moving slowly around the highlands of Sanra Cruz, the second largest island there. Some of these creatures are so old that they might have been seen in their youth by Darwin himself.
Despite strict control over activities and timing, your stay on the Galapagos will be remembered as a chain of incomparable pictures: diving with sea lions that swim and play within inches of you; feeling small sharks touch your feet as you swim; and, most magically, seeing a whale and her baby surface with a great breath of air.
Travelling between the islands and observing the wildlife that so inspired Darwin, you will feel as though you are getting a special view of an untouched world. At night you will sleep on board the ship, leaving the wildlife in complete occupation of the islands, which are as undisturbed now as they have been since the beginning of time.
1. What do we know about Darwin's visit to the islands?| A．He completed his famous book on the islands. | B．He studied different creatures on the islands. |
| C．He was amazed by the beauty of the islands. | D．He enjoyed his travel around the islands. |
| A．Boats are not allowed to approach the islands. |
| B．Wildlife on the islands have no natural enemies. |
| C．People cannot walk around the islands as they wish. |
| D．Tourists are not allowed to kill wildlife. |
| A．To promote Charles Darwin's book On the Origin of Species. |
| B．To make people interested in the wildlife on the islands. |
| C．To attract people to visit the Galapagos Islands. |
| D．To raise readers' awareness of wildlife protection. |
