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。

Two things changed my life: my mother and a white plastic bike basket. I have thought long and hard about it and it’s true. I would have been a different person if my mom hadn’t turned a silly bicycle accessory (配饰) into a life lesson I carry with me today.

My mother and father were united in their way of raising children, but it mostly fell to my mother to actually carry it out. Managing the family budget must have been a very hard task, but she made it look effortless. If we complained about not having what another kid did, we’d hear something like, “I don’t care what so-and-so got for his birthday, you are not getting a TV in your room, a car for your birthday, a lavish sweet 16 party.” We had to earn our allowance by doing chores around the house. I can still remember how long it took to polish the legs of our coffee table. My brothers can no doubt remember hours spent cleaning the house. Like the two little girls growing up at the White House, we made our own beds. We had to keep track of our belongings, and if something was lost, it was not replaced.

It was summer and, one day, my mother drove me to the bike shop to get a tire fixed — and there it was in the window. White, shiny, plastic and decorated with flowers, the basket winked at me and I knew — I knew — I had to have it.

“It’s beautiful,” my mother said when I pointed it out to her, “What a neat basket.”

I tried to hold off at first, and I played it cool for a short while. But then I guess I couldn’t pretend to ignore it any longer: “Mom, please can I please, please get it? I’ll do extra chores for as long as you say. I’ll do anything, but I need that basket. I love that basket.”

I was desperate.

“You know,” she said, gently rubbing my back while we both stared at what I believed was the coolest thing ever. “If you save up you could buy this yourself.”

“By the time I make enough it’ll be gone!”

“Maybe Roger here could hold it for you,” she smiled at Roger, the bike guy.

“Mom. Someone else will buy it.”

“There might be another way,” she said.

注意：
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。

My mother bought the beautiful basket but hid it, and I was determined to make enough money.                      

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However, the unthinkable happened — a neighborhood girl appeared with the exact same basket.                         

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2 . 假如你是某国际中学的学生会主席李华。最近你校将开展英语选修课，你受学生会委托在校英语报上写一则通知，内容包括：
1. 课程开设目的；
2. 课程介绍；
3. 报名方式和截止日期。
注意：1. 词数80左右；
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

Notice

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3 . You are what you eat-and what you eat may be encoded in your DNA. Studies have indicated that your genes play a role in determining the foods you find delicious or disgusting. But exactly how big a role they play has been difficult to figure out. “Everything has a genetic component even if it’s small,” says Joanne Cole, a geneticist at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. “We know that there is some genetic contribution to why we eat the foods we eat. Can we take the next step and actually locate the regions in the genome (基因)?”

New research led by Cole has gotten a step closer. Through a large-scale genomics analysis, her team has identified 481 genome regions that were directly linked to dietary patterns and food preferences. The findings, which have not yet been peer-reviewed, were presented last month at the American Society for Nutrition’s annual conference.

The team based the new study on a 2020 Nature Communications study by Cole and her colleagues that used data from the U.K. Biobank, a public database of the genetic and health information of 500,000 participants. By scanning genomes, the new analysis was able to identify 194 regions associated with dietary patterns and 287 linked to specific foods such as fruit, cheese, fish, tea and alcohol. Further understanding how genetics impact how we eat could reveal differences in nutritional needs or disease risks.

“One of the problems with a lot of these genomics studies is that they’re very small. They don’t have enough people to really be able to identify genes in ways that are credible. This study had a huge group of people, so it’s really powerful.” says Monica Dus, a geneticist at the University of Michigan. “The other thing that I thought was really great is that there are so many different features that they’re measuring related to diet including cholesterol (胆固醇), the body and socioeconomic backgrounds.” As the research advances, Dus says, such genome analysis could potentially assist health care providers and even policymakers to address larger issues that affect food access and health.

It’s definitely true that it may contribute to making sure there aren’t food deserts-areas which have limited access to fresh, healthy and affordable food or to making sure that there’s a higher minimum wage so that everyone can afford to eat, although the journey ahead remains lengthy and challenging.

1. How did researchers conduct the present study?

A．By involving a substantial number of participants.

B．By directly analyzing the data from a public database.

C．By building on a previous study based on large-scale data.

D．By identifying genome regions associated with dietary patterns.

2. Which statement will Monica Dus probably agree with?

A．Powerful participants were involved in the current study.

B．The methods employed for the previous studies were credible.

C．The genome analyses have helped address larger social issues.

D．Various features linked to diet were considered in the present study.

3. What is the text mainly about?

A．The benefits of latest large-scale diet-related genome analyses.

B．The contribution of genes to diet patters and food preferences.

C．The significance of a newly published diet-related genome discovery.

D．The introduction of a research on identifying diet-related genome regions.

4. Which one might the passage come from?

A．National Geographic	B．Sports Illustrated for kids
C．Scientific American	D．The Wall Street Journal

4 . 假定你是李华，暑假参加了澳大利亚游学活动，回国后给host family写一封信表示感谢，要点如下：
1.感谢他们一家的照顾；
2.分享游学体会；
3.询问你寄的礼物（汉语词典）是否收到；
4. 邀请他们一家来中国游览。
注意：
1.词数100左右。
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
3.开头和结尾已为你写好，不计入总词数。
Dear Helen，
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Looking forward to your reply.

Yours,

Li Hua

6 . 假定你是李华，你的英国朋友David在中国旅行，他对中国菜很感兴趣，你所在的学校将在下周举办“中华美食节”，请你写封电子邮件邀请他参加这个活动。要点如下：
1.活动时间地点；
2.活动内容；
3.期待参加。
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。
参考词汇：中华美食节Chinese Food Festival
Dear David,
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Yours,

Li Hua

7 . 你校正举办以“我所了解的艺术家”为题的英语征文活动，请根据以下要点写一篇短文投稿：
1. 人物简介；
2. 影响或启示。
注意：
1. 词数100左右；
2. 标题已为你写好。

An Artist I Know

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10 . 任务型阅读

One late afternoon, Tina was driving on a highway when a severe snowstorm hit with no sign before. In a short time, the heavy snow, coupled with the strong wind, turned everything into white and made the road extremely dangerous.

Tina later found out that this kind of storm is called a “Saskatchewan screamer”, which comes on extremely fast with high winds. It’s really frightening and deadly to be caught in such extreme weather.

Unable to see the road clearly, Tina had to stop her car and call 911. The operator told her that phone calls for help kept flooding in and all the rescuers had been called out. She suggested that Tina should wait out the storm in her car rather than risk driving on or going out. She took Tina’s information and told her that an officer would call her back. Tina waited anxiously for almost two hours, but nobody called her yet to check in. “The storm showed no sign of stopping. What was worse, it was getting dark. I couldn’t see anything outside the car since the snow had covered all the windows. The wind was still howling and the temperature was getting lower and lower in the car. I had no idea whom I could turn to for help,” Tina later wrote in a Facebook post. “Alone and cold，I began to panic, worrying about getting hit by an oncoming vehicle, getting buried in a snowbank, having my tailpipe blocked by the snow... I was really worried I couldn’t ever make it home to my family."

That was when Tina realized that it was no use waiting passively for help. She decided to do something herself. So she took out her cellphone, logged on to the Google Map and determined her location. She found online a neighborhood Facebook group for the area that she was passing through and shared a comment about her trouble with her location marked on the map. Then all she could do next was sitting in the car, praying someone could make a response to her as early as possible.

Fortunately, Tina’s request reached 80-year-old retired rescuer Frank.

1. 根据文本内容从方框中选择适当的词并用其正确形式填入文本图示中，每词限用一次，两词为多余选项。

request        die               succeed               luck                 call                  pray warn            worry            wait                    failure             adjust             decide
Tina was driving on a highway when a snowstorm hit without ________ . Tina found the storm ________ a "Saskatchewan screamer comes on extremely fast with high winds.		It is really frightening and ________ to be caught in such extreme weather.
Tina a called 911 and the operator suggested her ________ out the storm in her car. Tina waited ________ for almost two hours but ________ to get the response.		The weather conditions got worse and worse. Tina worried if she could go back home ________.
Tina made a ________ to do something for herself. She uploaded a comment about her trouble with location.		Then she just sat in the car and ________ someone could make a response as soon as possible.
________, Tina’s request reached 80-year old retired rescuer Frank.		……

2. What was the major problem Tina faced?
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3. After waiting for almost 2 hours who would help her? Then what did she decide to do?
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4. Was it easy for Frank to rescue Tina? Why?
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5. What will Tina think of the experience and Frank?
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