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。

The annual Halloween arrived, during which kids dressed in traditional clothes went to neighbors’ houses to ask for candy.

Allison lived in a small town. That day after dinner, Allison put on her dress her father had just bought for her. The dress was cheap and second-hand because her family was poor. But Allison still thanked her dad and said, “Everyone will love my dress!” Then, she left for neighbors’ houses to ask for candy.

On the way, she came across Anna and her friends and wanted to join them. “No! Look at your dress! It’s ugly!” Anna said. Her friends also laughed. “Look at our dresses, especially mine! It’s new and beautiful,” Anna added. Her friends nodded, and in some way they were right. Anna’s dress was shiny and looked expensive. She always had the best clothes because her parents were rich.

Allison was shocked and sad. The kids not only disliked her dress but made fun of it. “You can’t come with us!” Anna stressed. “We would never hang out with you!” The other kids agreed and laughed. They all left to start collecting candy for the night while Allison was left alone, embarrassed in the middle of the street.

Anyway, she knew all the neighbors. She often helped around carrying their groceries and helping them with their gardens. People around there knew her. She didn’t need to hangout with Anna or her friends. “I’ll go just alone,” the little girl said to herself and started walking.

She as well as Anna and her friends walked in the same direction: towards their first neighbor Mrs Vaughan’s house. But Allison walked behind and kept her distance from them. And she stopped when Anna and her friends were near Mrs Vaughan’s house.

Just then, Mrs Vaughan looked out of her window. She noticed that Allison was being excluded by Anna and her friends. She knew it was probably because of Allison’s poor dress. She immediately felt pity for Allison, who often helped her and other neighbors. She decided to give Allison much more candy as a reward and teach Anna and her friends a lesson.

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When Anna and her friends knocked on her door, Mrs Vaughan opened it.

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Anna looked up and said, “Our clothes are more beautiful! But you gave Allison more candy! Why?”

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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。

3D bio-printing inside the human body could be possible thanks to a new soft robot. The device features    1    printing head directly mounted onto the tip of a soft robotic arm. This printing head,     2     consists of soft artificial muscles that allow it to move in three directions, works very    3    (similar) to conventional desktop 3D printers.

The soft robotic arm can bend and twist and can be made at any length    4     (require). The printing nozzle (喷嘴) can be programmed to print per-determined shapes, or operated manually.     5     addition, a research team used a machine learning-based controller which can aid the printing process.

The team    6    (explain) how the device could potentially be used as an all-in-one surgical tool to perform a range of    7    (function). They said this could be especially important in surgery    8    (remove) certain cancers.

The ability to carry out such multi-functional procedures    9    (demonstrate) on a pig’s intestine (肠) last month and the researchers say the results show that the device is a     10    (promise)candidate for the future development of an all-in-one endoscopic surgical tool. The next stage of development for the system is in vivo (活体的) testing on living animals to demonstrate its practical use.

4 . During my stay at the University of Michigan, one of the senior professors asked me to join a seminar on culture and emotion. In a general________of self-introductions, I introduced myself in a(n)________Dutch way as one of those who are “interested in culture and emotion”. The professor supplemented (补充) my self-introduction to________American standards, saying I was one of the world’s experts on the________. In response, I looked down in________, and thought that “expert” was a big word.

When I lived in North Carolina, my new friends came over to ________. Conversations were full of interest and energy, and there was a lot of ________. At the end of the evening, when my guests left, they thanked me for the dinner. My heart________, because I was born and raised in the Netherlands, where “thanking for dinner” means the relationship is ________. Emotions are different enough to feel out of________when you move from one culture to another. The professor at the University of Michigan meant to make me feel________, but instead made me uncomfortable. My friends meant to show ________, but they made me think they were distancing themselves from me.

We think about emotions as feelings deep inside us, but in________, our emotions happen in interactions with others. In my own culture, it was hard to observe the________emotions of others, but I was able to see them when I moved to the US—a different________from where I was raised.

1.

A．analysis

B．state

C．letter

D．round

2.

A．understated

B．interesting

C．dramatic

D．proud

3.

A．set

B．fit

C．evaluate

D．recommend

4.

A．approach

B．situation

C．topic

D．course

5.

A．curiosity

B．pity

C．disappointment

D．embarrassment

6.

A．play

B．dine

C．work

D．perform

7.

A．support

B．noise

C．fun

D．arguing

8.

A．sank

B．melted

C．raced

D．opened

9.

A．harmonious

B．normal

C．strong

D．distant

10.

A．date

B．shape

C．place

D．sight

11.

A．reliable

B．good

C．serious

D．careful

12.

A．gratitude

B．respect

C．admiration

D．affection

13.

A．total

B．advance

C．detail

D．reality

14.

A．unbelievable

B．pure

C．invisible

D．powerful

15.

A．level

B．culture

C．standard

D．value

5 . Born in 1961, Snoussi, a Frenchman, first came to China in 1983. At that time, he was a law student at Aix-en-Provence University and accompanied his father on a business trip to China.

    1    In March 2006, Snoussi moved to Ningbo to help his father who had set up his export business. After living there for more than seven years, Snoussi realized that what he missed most was a traditional French bakery.“    2    , which made Chinese, Korean, or European-style bread, but we couldn’t find that specific French taste. It was unlike our daily bread,because in my home country, bread is a bit like rice in China,” he explained. In June 2013,Snoussi opened an authentic (正宗的) French bakery in Ningbo. Though he had no baking experience, he quickly learned the ropes from a French baker.    3    .

What makes Mon Epoque unique is its authentic French identity, which guarantees a genuine French taste every day. “We are one of the few French bakeries in China that directly imports flour from France, produced in the Cognac region from French wheat.    4    . These are the two most important ingredients in baking. This allows us to guarantee the same taste and quality day in, day out. We pay attention to the quality and the taste of our products so that our patrons can experience the same feeling every day,” he said.

    5    . In 2008,he donated over 30,000 yuan($4,300)to Wenchuan in Sichuan Province. In Ningbo, he donated T-shirts for students with disabilities and gave scholarships to outstanding students at a school. For several years, he sponsored (赞助) the Pink Ribbon Campaign organized by a team of foreign women to raise awareness about breast cancer. He also sponsored activities to encourage more people to look after stray dogs.

A．This French baker was famous for his unique bakery

B．Snoussi is keen on social activities in Ningbo

C．The butter used is also imported from France

D．Snoussi enjoys helping people in need

E．This visit was a culture shock for him

F．He named his brand Mon Epoque

G．We had good bakeries in Ningbo

6 . The idea that the normal human body temperature is about 37℃ was first presented by the German physician Carl Reinhold August Wunderlich in 1851. Since then, it’s become so widely accepted that it serves as a touchstone for health—a diagnostic tool used by physicians and parents as a basic indicator of whether someone is sick or well. However, it turns out that this well-established fact isn’t, in fact, correct—or, to put it more accurately, human beings have been getting cooler over the years.

Recent studies have shown that temperature records of groups of people have tended to run low compared to the accepted norm (标准), so the Stanford team, led by Julie Par-sonnet,MD, professor of medicine and of health research and policy, decided to do a more in-depth study to compare modern measurements with historical records to try to identify body temperature trends and, perhaps, uncover the reason why this cooling is happening.

For their research, the Stanford team looked at three distinct data sets from two historical periods. After going through 677,423 temperature measurements, the team found that men born in the 21st century had an average body temperature of 0.6℃ lower than that of those born in the early 19th century while modern women showed an average decrease of 0.03℃ compared to those born in the 1890s.

As to why this is happening, the researchers say that the most likely mechanism is a reduction in the human metabolic rate (代谢率) due to environmental factors: One possibility is that improvements in public health over 200 years have reduced the incidence of inflammations (炎症),which promote metabolism. This combined with people living more comfortable lives in more stable environments means that the body doesn’t have to work as hard to stay warm, so the average temperature falls.

”The environment that we’re living in has changed, including the temperature in our homes, our contact with microorganisms (微生物) and the food that we have access to. All these things mean that although we consider human beings as the same for all of human evolution, we’re not the same. We’re actually changing physiologically,” Parsonnet said.

1. What is Carl Reinhold August Wunderlich’s achievement?

A．He set up standards for human health services.

B．He predicted trends in human body temperature.

C．He first used body temperature as a health indicator.

D．He proposed the standard human body temperature.

2. What can we learn about the Stanford team’s study?

A．It shows women have a lower body temperature than men.

B．It proves human body temperature has dropped at a faster rate.

C．It compared historical and current human body temperature data.

D．It suggested updating the definition of the average body temperature.

3. Which of the following is thought to cause the decrease in human body temperature?

A．The improved living conditions.

B．The contact with other creatures.

C．The decline in physically demanding work.

D．The adaptation of humans to climate change.

4. Which one could be the best title for the text?

A．What exactly is normal human body temperature?

B．Why does human body temperature need measuring?

C．Human body temperature has decreased over the years

D．Human body temperature changes with the environment

7 . PFAS are found in nonstick pans, water-proof fabrics and food packaging. They’re called forever chemicals because of their ability to stick around and not break down. Now, using a bit of heat and two relatively common compounds, researchers have degraded (降解) the chemical in the lab.

While some scientists have found relatively simple ways of breaking down select PFAS, most degradation methods require harsh processes using intense pressure — in some cases over 22 mega-pascals — or extremely high temperatures — sometimes upwards of 1,000℃ — to break the chemical bonds.

William Dichtel, from Northwestern University in Evanston, and his team experimented with two substances found in nearly every chemistry lab; sodium hydroxide (氢氧化钠), also known as lye, and a solvent (溶剂) called DMSO. The team worked specifically on a group of forever chemicals which contain a large percentage of PFAS.

When the team combined chemicals with the lye and DMSO at 120℃ and with no extra pressure needed, the carbolic acid (羧酸) fell off the chemicals and became carbon dioxide. “What happened next was unexpected, ” Dichtel said. The loss of the acid helped degrade the chemicals into fluoride ions (氟离子) and smaller carbon-containing products, leaving behind no harmful by-products.

“It’s a neat method; it’s different from others that have been tried,” says Chris Sales, an environmental engineer at Drexel University in Philadelphia who was not involved in the study. “The biggest question is how this could be adapted and scaled up. Understanding this mechanism is just one step in undoing forever chemicals,” Sales said.

This process wouldn’t work to deal with PFAS in the environment, because it requires a concentrated amount of the chemicals, but it could one day be used in wastewater treatment plants, where the pollutants could be filtered out of the water, concentrated and then broken down.

1. What can we learn about the previous ways to break down PFAS?

A．They’re eco-friendly.	B．They’ve been widely used.
C．They’re difficult to operate.	D．They’re regarded as useless.

2. What did the team do in their experiment?

A．They experimented with different solvents.

B．They tried two very common substances.

C．They tested every group of forever chemicals,

D．They exposed chemicals to extreme temperatures.

3. What made the researchers most surprised in their experiment?

A．Environmentally-friendly reactions occurred.

B．The carboxylic acid became carbon dioxide.

C．No extra pressure was needed for the trial.

D．The lye and DMSO could work at 120℃,

4. What can we infer from Chris Sales’ words?

A．It is difficult to deal with PFAS in the environment.

B．This mechanism will soon be used in the environment.

C．The method will be applied to different kinds of chemicals.

D．More research is needed before the method is widely used.

8 . 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。

When Thompson was very young, his parents died. He lived a poor life with his grandmother. She took good care of Thompson and he became understanding and kind. They lived in an old house. When it rained, the house leaked and it became a nightmare to them. Thompson wanted to put tiles (瓦片) on the house so that they could survive the rainy season and the cold winter.

So Thompson started collecting disused tiles everywhere. One day, he came to a construction site about three miles from his house. Because the site was boarded up, he could only look around the outside of it. He took a stick and searched for something he could use as tiles. Suddenly, a tile appeared in front of him. He jumped for joy and rushed to pick up the tile. At that moment, a voice came from the construction site. A man with a helmet shouted, “What are you doing? Are you stealing something?” Thompson felt frightened and explained, “No, sir, I’m picking up rubbish.” The man added, “Do you treat new tiles as rubbish? It seems that you are stealing something. Just drop what you are holding and get out of here.” Thompson felt upset, but had no choice but to leave.

The next day, Thompson looked around for tiles as usual. This time he came to a place where rubbish was piled up. As it happened, it was seen by the man who Thompson met at the construction site. Actually, the man’s name was David and he was an architect. He was curious about Thompson’s behaviour and wondered if he had misjudged him the day before.

To find out what was going on, David chose to follow Thompson in silence. After an hour or so, David followed Thompson to the old house. He saw Thompson placing the tiles he had picked up on the dilapidated (破旧的) roof. David felt sorry for Thompson and realized that he had misunderstood him. David started understanding Thompson’s reason for picking up the tiles.

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David decided to help Thompson.

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In the late afternoon, Thompson and his grandmother returned home.

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