1 . 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。

Last summer vacation, I worked as a servant at a BBQ restaurant as a part-time job. One day, a man and his son came in and spent a very long time looking through the menu. Eventually, the father came up and started asking me about ingredients because his son was allergic.

At some point, the boy, who was probably about six or seven, handed me a card that listed all his allergies. It was a lot. I don’t remember exactly, but I know eggs, gluten (面筋), and pork were on there, as well as a couple of seasoning (调味品) things, like onions. There was no way I was remembering this, and I didn’t know what the seasoning blends were off the top of my head, so I asked to borrow the card so I could go check. He agreed, and off I went.

It turned out that a lot of our seasonings and sauces used at least one thing the boy was allergic to, and the allergy to pork took over half our menu options away on its own. I spent roughly ten minutes checking basically everything to see what we could serve him safely.

I occasionally went up to update the family on what I was doing. The father seemed mildly surprised that I was going out of my way to figure this out. Eventually, I did figure out what I could serve the boy. Because one of his allergies was meat. I switched out every piece of my cutting board, wiping the table for good measure as pork grease (猪油) gets everywhere. I also cleaned the remains out of the cutting station and made sure anyone else I saw serving them did the same, but that usually took less than a minute.

The father thanked me deeply for being so accommodating. He had apparently had trouble finding a restaurant that served something his son could eat. They quickly ended up becoming regulars, and I would see them at least once a week. Since the boy already knew what he wanted and what was safe, it was much faster.

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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。

I tried to serve them well to satisfy them every time they came here.

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They appeared one afternoon and I asked why they hadn’t come here for a month.

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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。

When you travel in China, you can simply stick to popular attractions. But it can’t be     1     better choice to turn to Chinese food, where you can get bathed in truly authentic local culture.

Chinese food and the differences between Chinese and Western diets are both things that spark the     2    (curious) of most who visit China. You might even be surprised to learn that some of the Chinese dishes in America were     3    (specific) created to suit Western tastes. Moreover, when traveling through China you’ll most likely take notice of a few differences in the way food     4    (eat). For example, soup in the West is generally consumed     5     the start of a meal, while the Chinese prefer to enjoy their soup at the end.

You might also notice some distinct differences in meal preparation and cooking     6    (technique), which you may ignore when dining out in or ordering takeout from Chinese restaurants back home.

Cooking classes now     7    (become) an increasingly popular activity among those     8    (show) an interest in learning more about China’s culture through its cuisine. If you’re looking to take it a step     9    (far), keep an eye out for cooking classes held by residents in their own homes,     10     you can try your hand at cooking in the Chinese way.

5 . Seasonality is a big part of business. For some industries, seasonal patterns are a defining feature. Agriculture is one obvious example; tourism another. Western toymakers notch up a huge proportion of their annual sales during Christmas. Construction is harder during cold weather, when that industry employs fewer people.

Firms less obviously tied to the seasons can still be deeply affected by them, as a recent review by Ian Hohm of the University of British Columbia makes clear. An analysis of social-media posts on the Internet found that dieting-related posts peak in the spring, as the season of body dysmorphia(变形) approaches.

Even when overall demand doesn’t vary greatly between the seasons, preterences change. Beef-eaters buy roasts in the slow-cooking winter season and plump for steaks during the summer months. Starbucks is among those firms that make seasonality a marketing event. The pumpkin-spiced latte is a reliable sign that autumn is on its way, along with falling leaves.

Seasonality also leaves a less obvious imprint(印记) inside organisations. This week, with so many bosses stuck on a mountain for the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos, productive employees can get on with some work and lazy ones can relax. School holidays offer an obvious form of seasonality, when employees without children are upset that they are covering for colleagues on holiday, and colleagues on holiday are upset that they have children.

Pay decisions are seasonal events, too. The time when employees find out their salary rises and bonuses sets off disappointment and happiness in all workplaces. In some, they are more like tsunamis. The actual date on which bonuses are paid matters too—once the money is safely put in the bank, people are more likely to move jobs.

There are other forms of corporate seasonality. While there isn’t much research on the impact of seasonality within firms, it’s certain that they have their own annual rhythms.

1. Why do people focus on dieting in spring posts according to the analysis?

A．They want to take time to get refreshed in spring.

B．They fear the summer heat will ruin their health.

C．They fear summer will reveal their body shapes.

D．They suffer a lack of proper food during winter.

2. What does the underlined part “plump for” in paragraph 3 mean?

A．Throw away.

B．Decide on.

C．Rule out.

D．Turn up.

3. What troubles childless employees during school holidays?

A．Being unable to relax in the absence of the boss.

B．Staying in step with the change of the seasons.

C．Accompanying the children of their colleagues.

D．Sharing the work of the employees with children.

4. What can be a suitable title for the text?

A．Companies Have Their Own Seasonal Rhythms

B．School Holidays Have an Effect on Companies

C．Corporate Seasonality Has Vast Social Effect

D．Employees Must Watch Beyond the Seasons

6 . My mother was born on a farm in Wisconsin in 1897. She attended college in Milwaukee.

One of my earliest memories, when I was about 3, was on a bitter cold day in 1932, the middle of the Great Depression. A man knocked on our back door and asked my mother for something to eat, as he hadn’t eaten for three days. Mom gave him a plate of stew (炖菜) plus two slices of bread. When he took the plate and fork, tears streamed down his cheeks.

At age 21, in 1918, my mother began employment with a local charity in northern Georgia. She was assigned alone to create valuable programs for a small community. She often told us the stories about those old days after she retired. In her later years, my mother established Georgia’s Garden Club, the Professional Women’s Club, the town’s first lending library and other “firsts”.

There were quite a lot of people at her funeral in 1990, when she passed away at 93. My sister and I moved among her many friends, exchanging memories about her. At one point, we saw a stranger with tears on his face. We approached him and my sister asked, “Did you know my mother well?” He replied, “I owe my life to her!” He told us that when he was a young child, in 1918, his family of seven all came down with the flu. The “new lady from the charity” heard about their illness and came to help. He said, “We’d never have made it without her loving care.”

Amazingly, the night before I had read a brief account of that very incident in one of my mother’s diaries. I’m certain I have a responsibility to inform the world of what my mother’s life in northern Georgia was like.

1. Why does the author mention the story that happened in 1932?

A．To complain about the Great Depression.

B．To explain there were many poor people.

C．To prove his family was so wealthy then.

D．To show his mother was very sympathetic.

2. What can best describe the author’s mother in her later years?

A．Ambitious and active.	B．Traditional but brave.
C．Determined and humorous.	D．Demanding but straightforward.

3. How might the author and his sister feel after hearing what the stranger said?

A．Puzzled.

B．Grateful.

C．Proud.

D．Sad.

4. What is the author likely to talk about next regarding his mother?

A．Her education experiences.	B．Her childhood memories.
C．The challenges in her career.	D．The stories in her programs.

9 . A New Jersey high schooler, Selina Zhang is no stranger to the spotted lanternfly (斑衣蜡蝉). The now 18-year-old first noticed it when visiting a market near her hometown of Annandale in primary school. It jumped from a plant to a plant to feed on their sap (汁液), affecting over 70 species. In its wake, the plants became stressed, which increased their chances of falling ill and being attacked.

“As I got older, I wanted to take concrete action,” says Zhang. “So I’ve built ArTreeficial, a solar -powered, self-cleaning and artificial -intelligence-driven tree that attracts the spotted lanternfly and removes it using an electric shock.”

On top of conducting an extensive literature review of existing researches, Zhang carefully observed the spotted lanternflies in the wild for weeks, tracking how they grew over time and how they travelled over unfamiliar structures. She took over 500 photos of them, which she logged in a personal database.

Zhang wanted to create a tree-like structure that copied the tree of heaven, a known host plant of the spotted lanternfly, as the primary lure (诱饵) for her trap. So, she uprooted the umbrella from her family’s yard and got to work. First, she used ultrasound to give off a smell made from the essence of the tree of heaven from ArTreeficial’s trunk to attract them. Second, she designed a double-layered electric net for the tree, which would use machine learning to shock spotted lanternflies once they landed on the tree. Then, Zhang used her database of photos to inform and program her AI model.

Zhang’s net s are divided into multiple squares going up and down the structure. When a spotted lanternfly steps on the inner net, the Al model operates. Electricity courses through that particular section, while the rest remain inactive, and the insect is attacked.

Julie Urban, a spotted lanternfly expert at Pennsylvania State University, says that Zhang’s AI approach is incredibly innovative and could be useful in multiple environments.

1. Why does the spotted lanternfly jump onto the plants?

A．To avoid falling ill.	B．To satisfy its hunger.
C．To attract other species.	D．To play with them.

2. What did Selina Zhang do for her invention?

A．She conducted field observation.	B．She copied online photos.
C．She referred to others’ database.	D．She consulted researchers.

3. What is probably the key to attracting the spotted lanternfly?

A．The electricity.

B．The net.

C．The smell.

D．The umbrella.

4. What is Julie Urban’s attitude towards Selina Zhang’s invention?

A．Critical.

B．Unclear.

C．Unconcerned.

D．Approving.