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。

Long Chenchen, the mascot for China’s upcoming Dragon Spring Festival Gala,     1     (release) recently, with a lot of design details showing the aesthetics of Chinese cultural elements.

    2     (celebrate) the year 2024, “Long Chenchen” has been designed as a cute yet lively dragon, colored orange and red and with a pair of doll eyes. The     3     (seem) cute-looking dragon takes inspiration from Chinese archaeological discoveries. The design of its nose was inspired by a dragon-shaped jade item that was discovered in the Erlitou Ruins,     4     major site in Luoyang, Central China’s Henan province that witnessed the rise and fall of the Xia and Shang dynasties. The fire shape pattern on its shoulder was inspired by a bronze piece with cloud patterns dating back to the Spring and Autumn Period,     5     multiple materials appeared and social changes were underway.

    6     receiving many likes, the mascot has also sparked criticism. Some netizen doubt the dragon character might have been synthesized (合成) by artificial intelligence.     7     (admit) that it has some “imperfections”, CMG, a design studio said it was created by designers “one stroke after another” and that “all the details about the dragon, including its patterns, colors and face, have been revised by designers through a lot of versions.”

Along with such verbal     8     (explain), a short video showing the design team working on the mascot has been posted on Sina Weibo by CMG. The media group’s response to the character’s design has become a     9     (trend) topic on Sina Weibo and has been viewed by more than 200 million netizen. “    10     it was created by AI or human beings, I think the mascot has successfully delivered the spirit of the dragon.” one netizen posted on Sina Weibo.

2 . One day, I was standing on the boat when a very large female leopard seal swam by. I put on my diving gear and got my camera. I was ___________. My mouth was dry. At first, I couldn’t even move. But I knew it was time to___________this mysterious creature.

I jumped into the freezing water. Immediately, the seal swam toward me. Then she put my entire camera—and much of my ___________— into her mouth. Although the seal was putting me at risk, I tried not to ___________ any fear. After a few seconds, she let go of my head. She ___________  me a few more times and swam away. Then she ___________ with a live penguin. She even tried to show me how to___________it. She tried to push the penguin into my camera — she thought the camera was my___________! The seal thought I was just another large animal, and she was trying to___________me, I realized.

By now, she didn’t seem very____________. She stayed by me for four days. One time, she noticed another leopard seal ____________ behind me. She made a deep, threatening sound and ____________ the other seal away.

Those four days were the most incredible experience I ever had as a wildlife ____________. I got some amazing pictures. I also learned that animals do not always behave the way we____________. My relationship with this powerful and ____________ animal will stay with me forever.

1.

A．amused

B．enthusiastic

C．cautious

D．frightened

2.

A．approach

B．rescue

C．treat

D．hunt

3.

A．leg

B．head

C．body

D．neck

4.

A．feel

B．arouse

C．reveal

D．overcome

5.

A．attacked

B．threatened

C．disturbed

D．confused

6.

A．disappeared

B．communicated

C．returned

D．competed

7.

A．digest

B．eat

C．seize

D．injure

8.

A．mouth

B．eyes

C．nose

D．stomach

9.

A．discipline

B．adopt

C．observe

D．feed

10.

A．powerful

B．dangerous

C．sensitive

D．gentle

11.

A．come across

B．come back

C．come over

D．come up

12.

A．drove

B．directed

C．took

D．waved

13.

A．manager

B．painter

C．advocate

D．photographer

14.

A．demand

B．work

C．expect

D．react

15.

A．intelligent

B．accessible

C．primitive

D．anxious

3 . 假定你是李华，你校公众号英语专栏正在开展“我最喜爱的一道年夜菜”征稿活动，请你根据以下内容投稿：
1．菜品介绍；
2．推荐理由；
3．年夜饭意义。
注意：
1．写作词数应为80左右；
2．请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

My Favorite Spring Festival Eve Dish

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4 . Plato believed that men are divided into three classes: gold, silver and bronze. Vilfredo Pareto, an Italian economist, argued that “the vital few” contributed to most progress. Such viewpoints are taboo (禁忌) today in public life. Politicians avoid talking of a “leadership class” or “the vital few”. School recruitment turns away from picking winners. Universities welcome the masses: more people now teach at British universities than attended them in the 1950s.

In the private sector, things could hardly be more different. The world’s best companies struggle tirelessly to find and keep the vital few. They offer them fat pay packets, extra training, powerful instruction and more challenging assignments. Private-equity (私人股权) firms rely heavily on a few stars. Firms in emerging markets are desperate to find high-flyers who can cope with rapid growth and fast-changing environments competently.

Few people know more about how companies manage talent than Bill Conaty and RamCharan. Mr. Conaty led the human-resources department at General Electric (GE) for 14 years. Mr. Charan has spent the past few decades presenting proposals to some celebrated entrepreneurs. Their recent book, The Talent Masters, provides a nice mix of portraits of well-known talent factories, such as GE and Procter & Gamble (P&G宝洁).

Successful companies make sure that senior managers are involved with “talent development”. Jack Welch and A. G. Lafley, former bosses of GE and P&G, claimed that they spent 40% of their time on personnel. Andy Grove, who ran Intel, a chipmaker, obliged all the senior people, including himself, to spend at least a week a year instructing high-flyers. Nitin Paranjpe, the boss of Hindustan Unilever, recruits people from campuses and regularly visits high-flyers in their offices.

Elitism (精英主义) has its own drawbacks. In their rush to classify people, companies may miss potential stars. Those who are singled out for special treatment can become too full of themselves. It may also lead to social inequality and the concentration of power. Since elitism tends to focus only on the interests of a few, they may ignore the needs and voices of the majority, leading to discontent and resistance in society.

1. The change that occurred in British universities reflects that         .

A．more students enroll for schools	B．people of today are much cleverer
C．UK attaches importance to education	D．elitism in public organizations declines

2. Which people belong to “high-flyers” based on the passage?

A．Potential clients.	B．Faithful employees.
C．Capable managers.	D．Celebrated politicians.

3. How is paragraph 4 mainly developed?

A．By listing examples.	B．By classification.
C．By analyzing causes.	D．By describing a process.

4. Which statement can be inferred from the passage?

A．Discrimination in workplaces will get more serious.

B．Famous companies’ elitism management is worth trying.

C．The talented masters offer advice to some leading bosses.

D．Elitism may get some potential talented people excluded.

5 . Digital reading appears to be destroying habits of “deep reading”. Astonishing numbers of people with years of schooling are actually illiterate and ignorant. This month’s Ljubljana Manifesto (宣言) explains: “The digital field may promote more reading than ever in history, but it also offers many temptations to read in a superficial(肤浅的)and scattered manner— or even not to read at all. This increasingly endangers higher-level reading.”

That’s frightening, because “higher-level reading” has been essential to civilization. It enabled the enlightenment and an international increase in empathy. Without it, we would suffer a lot. As the Ljubljana Manifesto notes, “one-third of Europeans struggle even with lower-level reading skills.” More than one-fifth of adults in the US “fall into the illiterate/functionally illiterate category”. Separately, post-pandemic reading scores for American 13-year-olds are the lowest in decades. And the Washington-based Center for Global Development recently estimated that literacy in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa among those with five years of schooling has decreased by 10% this past half century.

Experts in the Ljubljana Manifesto record the demerits of digital reading: “Recent studies of various kinds indicate a decline of critical and conscious reading, slow reading, non-strategic reading and long-form reading.” When you read a book on paper, you can be entirely inside the experience, absorb hundreds of pages of details thoroughly and begin to capture the world’s complexity. But online, says Maryanne Wolf of UCLA, we are “skimming, scanning, scrolling(滚屏)”. The medium is the message: doing deep reading on your phone is as hard as playing tennis with your phone. Recently, a bright 11-year-old told me I was wasting time on books: he absorbed more information faster from Wikipedia. He had a point. But digital readers also absorb more misinformation and seldom absorb fine perspectives.

In short, as professors from Northwestern University foresaw in 2005, we are returning to the days when only an elite (精英) “reading class” consumes long texts, which is a worrying problem.

1. What can we learn about digital reading from paragraph 1?

A．Digital reading has solved the problem of illiteracy.

B．Digital reading has lessened the practice of deep reading.

C．Digital reading has made deep reading accessible to wider readers.

D．Digital reading has aroused a greater appreciation for deep reading.

2. What is the purpose of the figures used in paragraph 2?

A．To display the popularity of digital reading.

B．To highlight the advantages of deep reading.

C．To present the unfavorable situation of literacy.

D．To stress the illiterate’s lower-level reading skills.

3. What does the underlined word “demerits” in paragraph 3 mean?

A．Effects.

B．functions

C．Features.

D．Drawbacks.

4. What might be talked about in the following paragraph?

A．Advantages of digital reading.	B．Benefits of higher-level reading.
C．Ways to encourage digital reading.	D．Measures to practice deep reading.

7 . What are the speakers mainly discussing?

A．A play.

B．An actor.

C．A case.

8 . 假定你是李华，你校组织了一次“拒绝校园霸凌”(Say No to Campus Bullying)的主题活动，你代表你班发表相关的倡议演讲。
内容包括：
1.倡议主题介绍
2.倡议内容
3.呼吁大家抵制校园霸凌
注意：
1. 词数80左右；
2.可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

Say No to Campus Bullying

Dear fellow students, good morning!
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