1 . Nick Dunlap, a 20-year-old sophomore (大二学生) who plays golf for the University of Alabama, won the American Express tournament at the PGA West golf course in La Quinta, California.

Dunlap’s score was one stroke (杆) better than South African professional Christiaan Bezuidenhout, who finished second. But despite defeating a host of pro-golfers, he won’t be able to take home the $1,512,000 prize because he is an amateur golfer. Instead, runner-up Bezuidenhout will receive the first-place prize. The three players who tied for third place will be paid as if they finished in a three-way tie for second place.

“I’ve learned so much today, and I’m so grateful to be here,” Dunlap said in an interview posted by the PGA Tour page on X, formerly Twitter. “To see some of the people rooting for me was really special.”

Dunlap is the first amateur to win a PGA Tour event since 1991, when a young Phil Mickelson won the Tucson Open. Dunlap is also the youngest amateur to win a tour event since 1910. Dunlap’s big win is just the latest in a string of successes that indicate a bright future for the golfer from Huntsville, Alabama.

With his win in the US Amateur championship last year, Dunlap joined Tiger Woods as the only golfers to win both that famous tournament and the US Junior Amateur championship, which Dunlap won in 2021.

The win also qualifies Dunlap to turn professional at any point and join the 2024 PGA Tour with automatic membership through the 2026 season. If he retains his amateur position through the conclusion of the 2024 tour season, he has 30 days after the end of the 2024 season to declare himself a professional for the 2025 season, or 30 days after the end of the 2025 season to declare himself a professional for the 2026 season.

1. What made Dunlap fail to win the big prize?

A．His age.

B．His skill.

C．His fame.

D．His identity.

2. What can we know about Dunlap from paragraph 4?

A．His fame starts to rise.	B．He has a promising future.
C．His victory means a lot.	D．He has priority over other players.

3. Why does the author mention Tiger Woods in paragraph 5?

A．To present the other amateurs.	B．To demonstrate Dunlap’s strength.
C．To introduce another great golfer.	D．To state Woods’ role as a role model.

4. What does the underlined word “retains” in the last paragraph probably mean?

A．Obtains.

B．Keeps.

C．Reveals.

D．Switches.

2 . Earlier this week, a mother called Meems posted a video online asking users to help her with a task. ________ four lines of a handwritten melody (旋律), Meems said in the video, “My 10-year-old daughter ________ this. Could somebody ________ this? I want to know if it makes sense.”

This was the first time that her daughter had ________ writing music. And it was clear that Meems was ________ as to what her child’s composition sounded like. After she posted the ________, Meems and her daughter ________ a large number of responses from various musicians from around the world. But perhaps the ________ came when an entire string orchestra (弦乐团) responded to Meems’ callout with a multi-part arrangement of her daughter’s ________.

Last week, Dr Hanson, a conductor and assistant professor of music at Seattle Pacific University, invited Meems and her daughter to attend the National Association for Music Education’s Northwest Division Conference where he ________ a roomful of string educators in a performance of Meems’ daughter’s composition.

Feeling ________ and moved, Meems ________ every musician who helped bring her daughter’s composition to ________. “When I posted the video, I never imagined this ________. This is what ________ does. It connects us. Thank you for creating with us.”

1.

A．Laughing at

B．Throwing away

C．Adapting to

D．Pointing to

2.

A．wrote

B．heard

C．spread

D．found

3.

A．recognize

B．teach

C．play

D．change

4.

A．allowed

B．tried

C．suggested

D．imagined

5.

A．curious

B．humble

C．honest

D．conservative

6.

A．letter

B．report

C．video

D．advertisement

7.

A．showed

B．received

C．recorded

D．estimated

8.

A．highlight

B．noise

C．news

D．decision

9.

A．behavior

B．homework

C．plan

D．composition

10.

A．conducted

B．criticized

C．praised

D．interrupted

11.

A．frightened

B．surprised

C．stressed

D．disappointed

12.

A．forgot

B．thanked

C．refused

D．cheated

13.

A．light

B．mind

C．life

D．market

14.

A．accident

B．business

C．view

D．response

15.

A．friendship

B．hope

C．music

D．knowledge

3 . Mobile Birthday Party

Book the Mobile Children’s Museum for your child’s birthday party! San Diego Children’s Discovery Museum can now bring the Museum directly to you.

Length of time:
Set-up and Clean-up: 30 minutes each
Party: 1.5 hours
Hours:
Weekends: 10:00 am-3:00 pm
Pricing:
Up to 20 guests: $300
Up to 30 guests: $400
Up to 40 guests: $500
Museum members will enjoy a 10% discount.
Birthday Party Package includes:
•Arts and Crafts activity
•Three Mobile Children’s Museum exhibits

。Ball Wall: Party guests discover the fundamentals of physics through a custom-built Ball Wall. By arranging magnetic (磁的) tracks into patterns, they must use gravity and slope to help a ball travel from one end of the wall to the other.

。Imagination Playground: Party guests use large foam (泡沫) blocks to discover the fundamentals of architecture. Skills are put to the test as kids work together to complete a challenge.

。Wind Tunnel: This exhibit allows party guests to experiment with aerodynamics (空气动力学). They can explore how lift, drag, and air pressure affect a flying object. Party guests can launch a scarf or handmade object into the wind tunnel and watch as it floats to the top or gets stuck at the bottom.

•Two Museum fun promoters
•A special gift for the birthday child
Registration

Please register at least two weeks in advance and list multiple date options.

1. How much should a museum member pay for a party up to 40 children?

A．$350.

B．$400.

C．$450.

D．$500.

2. What can children learn about in Imagination Playground?

A．Gravity.

B．Construction.

C．Experiment.

D．Wind.

3. Who is the text mainly intended for?

A．Parents.

B．Travelers.

C．Teenagers.

D．Freshmen.

4 . During winter in the Northern Hemisphere (半球), many countries have experienced freezing temperatures. Some have claimed that the cold weather can endanger the electricity supply — namely, in the form of wind turbine (涡轮机) failure. But as long as they’re weatherproofed, that isn’t the case.

People started kicking off loudly about wind power and winter back in 2021 when Texas experienced historically low temperatures, and with them, a massive power failure. Blame was quickly placed on iced-over wind turbines — and it turned into quite the political debate about the use of renewable energy — but the problem wasn’t with wind power itself. The turbines simply weren’t prepared for such low temperatures.

“The primary issue with the wind turbines in Texas is that such extreme cold weather was not expected based on the historical record of weather, and therefore the developers didn’t weatherize the wind turbines,” Michael Howland, MIT professor of environmental engineering, said. “Wind turbines operate in much colder locations than Texas, and dealing with icing is very straightforward and common through weatherization.”

According to international design standards, wind turbines should be able to operate down to temperatures as low as -20℃. However, wind farms operate successfully in places where it can get much colder than that, like the North Sea, Finland, and Sweden, the latter of which recently experienced a less-than-mild -41.6℃. In countries such as these, wind turbines are designed with what’s known as “cold-weather packages”.

Swedish power company Skellefteå Kraft has created one such package that’s designed to stop ice from even getting a chance to stick to the blades (叶片). “It involves covering the wind turbine’s blades with a thin layer of carbon fibre which is heated when necessary to prevent ice from forming,” the company website explains. “Ice sensors then detect when there is a risk of ice formation and start the de-icing system.”

Thanks to these features, turbines can keep on running in temperatures that would certainly put the rest of us off work. The events in Texas suggest that, with the recent small increase in super cold winters, specialized weather packages might end up being a more widespread necessity.

1. What do we know about Texas in 2021?

A．It lacked enough wind turbines.

B．It valued the renewable energy more.

C．It prepared well to fight low temperatures.

D．It experienced a great failure of electric power.

2. Why did the wind turbines fail in Texas?

A．Developers weatherized turbines.	B．Wind power had limitations.
C．The weather was unexpectedly cold.	D．Turbines were designed for warmth.

3. What is the author’s attitude to specialized weather packages?

A．Critical.

B．Objective.

C．Optimistic.

D．Doubtful.

4. In which section of a newspaper might the text appear?

A．Lifestyle.

B．Culture.

C．Business.

D．Technology.

5 . Driving through a West Haven crossroads, a young man named Rhett and his friends encountered something extraordinary. There, in the middle of the road, was a box filled with envelopes. But these were no ________ envelopes; each was packed with cash, ________ to a total of between $45,000 and $50,000. Rhett, ________ the moment, said, “We didn’t know until I kicked one of them and money flew out.” This ________ find quickly turned into a moral decision.

________ the life-changing amount of money at their fingertips, they chose the path of ________. Rhett humorously reflected on their ________ process, saying, “The first reaction was like, well, let’s get this to the right person.”

The rightful owner of the money, who had reported it lost, was informed of its ________. The relief and gratitude he must have felt upon hearing this news were ________. Hearing the news, Rhett’s mom definitely ________ it!

The owner’s reaction to getting his money back was one of disbelief and enormous gratitude. He planned to meet the young men to thank them ________ and offer a reward. The story of these three young men is a convincing ________ of the impact of good choices and moral courage.

Their actions ________ an inspiration to others, showing that even in the face of great temptation (诱惑), it’s possible to choose the right course of action. Despite the countless ways it could have ________ them, the young men’s decision to return the money is a powerful example of the values that truly ________.

1.

A．thick

B．ordinary

C．stamped

D．official

2.

A．amounting

B．referring

C．sticking

D．contributing

3.

A．recording

B．blessing

C．recalling

D．picking

4.

A．unavoidable

B．unconfirmed

C．uneventful

D．unexpected

5.

A．Instead of

B．Owing to

C．In addition to

D．In spite of

6.

A．integrity

B．patience

C．tolerance

D．generosity

7.

A．eye-catching

B．decision-making

C．time-saving

D．mind-blowing

8.

A．survival

B．progress

C．recovery

D．application

9.

A．imperfect

B．immeasurable

C．impractical

D．impure

10.

A．warned

B．doubted

C．applauded

D．advocated

11.

A．vividly

B．frequently

C．casually

D．personally

12.

A．victory

B．investment

C．response

D．reminder

13.

A．carry away

B．consist of

C．serve as

D．rely on

14.

A．recognized

B．benefited

C．honored

D．alarmed

15.

A．matter

B．arise

C．disappear

D．remain

8 . 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。

Huishan Ancient Town in Wuxi, East China’s Jiangsu province, is known as one of the four best spots in China     1     (appreciate) autumn scenery along with Anhui’s Hongcun village, Tachuan village, and Jiangxi’s Huangli. There are some ancient towns in the Jiangnan region, while Huishan town is unique. The ancient town not only has small     2     (bridge)a nd streaming rivers, but also has green mountains. In addition to delicious food, the town has     3     easy-going living environment.

Two emperors in the Qing Dynasty visited Huishan seven times     4     total and ancient literati (文人) left numerous poems and stories about the ancient town. Jichang Garden in the town is     5     (absolute) a necessary stop in autumn.     6     (build) beside Huishan Mountain, Jichang Garden     7     (transform) into a colorful palette (调色板) with mountains and rivers perfecting each other in the autumn.

The town’s 1,600-year-old Huishan Temple is home to a 600-year-old tree,     8     is still strong and covered with thick golden yellow leaves in late autumn,     9     (attract) plenty of tourists and local residents. Huishan town also has an Azalea Garden that in spring produces bright red azaleas (杜鹃花), and the view is highly    10     (impress).

9 . 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。

Bonnie raised her granddaughter alone after the girl’s parents died. She hated her granddaughter’s art and wanted her to stop drawing. But everything changed when Mr. Henderson, a famous cartoonist, appeared at her doorstep.

One day, Bonnie called out to Amy as she took the chicken out. “Dinner is ready, honey! Come soon!” But Amy didn’t answer.

Bonnie finished setting the table and served them dinner, but she still didn’t hear a response from Amy. “Amy? Honey, your dinner is getting cold! Are you coming?” she asked her 10-year-old granddaughter again.

When Amy didn’t respond, Bonnie climbed the stairs to the girl’s room and pushed the door open. Amy sat at her desk, with her headphones on. At first, Bonnie thought Amy was studying, but then she noticed the drawing sheet on the table in front of Amy. Bonnie frowned (皱眉) in anger.

“Amy!” Bonnie screamed, and the girl turned around and removed her headphones.

“Granny? I… I was just…” Amy said.

Bonnie stormed up to Amy’s desk, and the little girl tried to cover the drawing, but it was too late.

“Did you finish your math homework, little girl? Mrs. Warren called me today. And she told me you’ve been ignoring her assignments!” Bonnie said angrily.

“I’ll finish the homework,” Amy said. “I was planning on doing it once I finished the sketch (素描) I was working on, Granny.”

“I’m tired of that hobby of yours, Amy! You’re no longer doing those drawings!” Bonnie went on. “Those things you draw are not going to help you in the future! You finish your dinner, and then you’ll be doing your homework. You’re not leaving the house to play with your friends until you finish your homework. Am I clear?” Bonnie said and stormed out of Amy’s room.

Minutes later, Amy walked into the kitchen and quietly sat at the table. They began eating dinner in silence. Bonnie was already in a terrible mood, so she didn’t ask about Amy’s day like she usually did. Suddenly, the doorbell rang.

注意：1. 续写词数应为150个左右；
2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

Amy answered the door and was surprised to see Mr. Henderson.

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Bonnie hesitated for a long time and decided to ask Mrs. Warren for advice.

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10 . 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。

A total of 99 traditional culture enthusiasts, mostly in their 20s and 30s,     1     (gather) at the television show Yellow River Culture Competition, where they provided a youthful interpretation of the     2     (country) “mother river”, according to a meeting recently     3     (hold) in Beijing.

Initiated by Shandong Radio and Television Station in     4     (associate) with eight other provinces and regions along the banks of the Yellow River, the show adopted multiple formats to combine competitions and performances, such as singing folk songs and     5     (recite) poetry, to promote the history and culture of the civilizations that have thrived (繁荣) along the river for thousands of years.

The show invited four famous     6     (scholar), namely Kang Zhen, Meng Man, Li Bo and Yang Yu, as guest celebrities, sharing lesser-known knowledge about the historic moments     7     have been part of Yellow River’s cultures.

Meng Man, a professor at the Minzu University of China, quoted some of     8     most famous poems featuring the Yellow River in ancient China. “The Yellow River is the mother river of the Chinese nation and the     9     (spirit) source of Chinese civilization. Through this program, the audience can not only have a deep understanding     10     the history of the Yellow River, but also take a close look at the happy life of the people living along its banks,” she added.