1 . “Keep a sharp lookout,”Miller told Olden, a strong German dog, glancing toward the back seat. In the poor light, Miller could just make ou the badge (徽章) shining smartly from his partner’s collar. Suddenly the car’s headlights lit up a figure breaking the lock on the building, Miller shouted the order Go! In a flash, Olden jumped through the car’s open window and bit the suspect on the leg.

Over the next few months, Miller kept his relationship with Olden strictly professional. The dog was kept outside, regardless of the weather and the time. Sometimes during storms, Olden would stick his nose out of his doghouse and bark at the back door. Miller pretended not to hear. To test Olden’s discipline, he’d give him the order Stay“ and then he’d leave. When he returned, Olden was still glued to the spot where he had left him. At that moment Miller wanted to give Olden a hug, but instead quietly said, “Good boy.”

One afternoon, just after Miller and Olden began their shift, an urgent call came. As Miller rushed to the spot, the suspect Steve ‘s car sped away. Miller ran after Steve at a full speed. Finally Steve abandoned his car in a side street. Miller jumped out of his car and raced into it too. Turning a corner, he found a gun pointing right at his chest. Hе braced for the jolt when Steve was about to fire the gun. But suddenly a thundering bark rang out and Olden burst around the corner, tearing straight for Steve. The gunman fired and fled. It took a moment for Miller to react. Doctor told Miller the bullet, meant for him, missed Olden’s heart by an inch. Fortunately, his partner survived. After arriving home, Miller led Olden to his doghouse.Suddenly he stopped and did something he’ d been wanting to do since he saw Olden. Bending down, Miller wrapped his arms around Olden, Then the two started rolling around in the soft grass.

1. What was Olden ordered to do in Paragraph 1?

A．Be seated at the back seat.	B．Catch the potential criminal.
C．Break the lock on the building.	D．Find out his partner’s badge.

2. Which of the following best describes Miller as Olden’s trainer?

A．Kind and moderate.	B．Quiet and caring.
C．Strict and professional.	D．Smart and flexible.

3. What do the underlined words ”braced for the jolt mean in Paragraph 3?

A．Turned off the engine.	B．Caught Steve’s attention.
C．Made a narrow escape.	D．Prepared for the worst result.

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

A．A Police Dog	B．A Tough Task
C．A Perfect Match	D．A Dog Trainer

2 . Marvelous Scenic Walks Near London

There are plenty of walking routes in London. If you fancy something a bit more rural, then the green and pleasant land has plenty to offer.

Goring Gap and the Thames Path

If you’re in the mood for a gentle rural walk, the Thames Path is far from boring. The 5-mile footpath follows the curve of the river, winding past wildflower meadows (草地).

Post-walk pub: Pangbourne’s seventeenth-century pub The Swan serves high-end dishes. Bag a table on the riverside or keep toasty by one of its open fires.

Box Hill

To admire this spots rural views, first you’ve got to jump across 17 stepping stones and climb 272 steps to the top of Box Hill, where the path begins. The total distance is 6.8 miles.

Post-walk pub: The cavernous Tree on Box Hill has an attractive menu and huge beer garden, or sample a glass of Juniper Hill at Denbies Winerie.

A South Downs Ridge (山脊)

If you’ve already done the classic Seven Sisters clifftop walk or can’t face all those hills, this is a long but lovely alternative. The route covering 14.3 miles snakes along a ridge and a river valley.

Post-walk pub: There are always 10 real beers at the old-school pub The Wellington.

Chess Valley in the Chilterns

Chess Valley in the Chiltern Hills isn’t home to any chess masters, but it used to produce a kind of water plant. This walk of 4.9 miles follows the river, winding through rolling meadows and woods.

Post-walk pub: The George & Dragon is a simple old coaching pub on the High Street with a log fire, real beers and giant burgers.

1. Which of the following walks covers the shortest distance?

A．Box Hill.

B．A South Downs Ridge.

C．Chess Valley in the Chilterns.

D．Goring Gap and the Thames Path.

2. What do the listed scenic walks in the text have in common?

A．The pubs are pretty and old-fashioned.

B．Visitors can relax at special pubs after walks.

C．There are rivers winding through the meadows.

D．The food served there is expensive and of high quality.

3. Where is this text probably taken from?

A．A geography book.	B．A travel brochure.
C．A fashion website.	D．A science magazine.

3 . Be it sugar or social media, the response in our brain is the same: It produces a “feel-good” chemical called dopamine. It first brings about pleasure, but it doesn’t last very long. It is then followed by pain so that we have to search for the pleasurable things again.

“This cycle of pleasure and pain made sense in the time of early humans when we had to constantly search for our basic needs-food, water, shelter,” says Dr. Anna Lembke, a Stanford Medical School researcher. “But our brains weren’t adjusted to put out the ‘fire of dopamine’ caused by pleasurable things that are so easily available in modern life.”

In addition, when we’re repeatedly exposed to pleasure-producing things, we’re not able to take joy in the same rewards. Instead, we need stronger and stronger stimulus (刺激) just to feel good. Otherwise, the cycle will lead us to anxiety, depression and many other problems.

“This is a universal problem—not one limited to those struggling with the disease of addiction. If we want to stay mentally healthy, we must rethink how to break the cycle in a dopamine-overloaded world,” says Lembke.

Her suggestions for the addicts?

Take a 30-day break from anything that we rely on for pleasure. This doesn’t mean going cold turkey forever. But this first month is key to breaking the pleasure-pain cycle and it’s a lot easier to cut out an addictive behavior entirely at first. Then re-introduce the pleasurable things little by little, like just a few bites of ice cream at a time or just one hour online a night.

Another strategy is to create physical distance between us and our addiction. That could mean just removing the addictive thing from our personal space. For someone who’s addicted to video games, that could mean a separate laptop for work and one for play.

“In a time of abundance, we have to strike a pleasure-pain balance, which means intentionally avoiding pleasure and seeking the kind of purposeful pain that keeps us healthy, such as exercise,” Lembke says. “By doing so, we will reset reward pathways and eventually be a lot happier. It’s not easy, but it’s well worth doing in the long term.”

1. What can we learn about dopamine from the text?

A．It has always been harmful to humans.

B．It gives us less joy for the same rewards.

C．It can be caused by anything available.

D．It can lead to a lasting good feeling.

2. What do the underlined words “going cold turkey” probably mean?

A．Abandoning.

B．Waiting.

C．Cooking.

D．Repeating.

3. What does Dr. Anna Lembke suggest we do in the long term?

A．Avoid pleasure in life.

B．Set a strict limit on pleasurable things.

C．Change reward pathways.

D．Expose ourselves to repeated rewards.

4. Which of the following is a suitable title for the text?

A．Ways to Live With Dopamine in Peace

B．Tips on Getting Rid of Social Media Addiction

C．Strategies for Making Most of the Modern Life

D．The Need to Strike a Pleasure-pain Balance

4 . There is a curious love triangle that sits at the center of the new documentary Fire of Love. It’s between a man, a woman and a volcano. Well, all of them are volcanoes.

Their names might not be especially well-known today, but in the 1970s and ‘80s, French scientists Katia Krafft and Maurice Krafft were very famous for their photographs and writings about the volcanoes. When they died in 1991 on Mount Unzen in Japan, their deaths were covered globally. But their story has somewhat faded in the public memory in the past three decades? though Werner Herzog did spotlight them in his 2016 documentary Into the Inferno.

The Kraffts? who first bonded over Mount Etna and Mount Stromboli and were married in 1970, witnessed about 140 eruptions on every continent except Antarctica and won an Emmy for their National Geographic documentary Mountains of Fire. They would famously drop everything to get to an active volcano, and were often the first on site. They were also known for their willingness to get dangerously close.

Filmmaker Sara Dosa once met the Kraffts while making an earlier film about Iceland many years ago. In 2020, with the help of Image’ Est, a French museum, and Maurice Krafft^’s brother, Bertrand Krafft, Dosa and her team were able to get access to over 180 hours of footage shot by the Kraffts. So Dosa decided to make something about the Kraffts in the true spirit of the Kraffts.

“We wanted to let them play themselves. We see them as the authors of their own story,“ Dosa said. ”This is a co-creation, shot by them and starring them. We’re just stringing together the pieces of their life for the audience to connect with.”

However, Fire of Love is anything but a filmed Wikipedia(维基百科)page. Dosa and her team have drawn on the techniques of French New Wave films to help shape the style of their film, including playful multiple screens.

1. Where did Katia Krafft and Maurice Krafft pass away?

A．On Mount Etna.	B．On Mount Stromboli.
C．On Mount Unzen.	D．On Mount Krakatoa.

2. Why were the Kraffts considered as volcanoes?

A．They were enthusiastic about studying volcanoes.

B．They were well-known for their short-lived marriage.

C．Their deaths were related to the biggest volcano.

D．Their love story appeared in many volcano books.

3. Who directed the film Fire of Love?

A．Bertrand Krafft.

B．Sara Dosa.

C．Werner Herzog.

D．Katia Krafft.

4. What is the text?

A．A love story.

B．A biography.

C．A documentary.

D．A film review.

5 . An artificial intelligence can decode (解码) words and sentences from brain activity with surprising—though still limited—accuracy. Using only a few seconds of brain activity data, the AI guesses what a person has heard. It lists the correct answer in its top 10 possibilities up to 73 percent of the time, researchers found in a study.

Developed at the parent company of Facebook, Meta, the AI could eventually be used to help thousands of people around the world unable to communicate through speech, typing or gestures, researchers report on August 25 at arXiv.org.

Most existing technologies to help such patients communicate require risky brain surgeries to implant electrodes. This new approach “could provide a practical path to help patients without the use of invasive methods,” says neuroscientist Jean-Rémi King, a Meta AI researcher in Paris.

King and his colleagues trained a computational tool to detect words and sentences on 56,000 hours of speech recordings from 53 languages. The tool, also known as a language model, learned how to recognize specific features of language. With the help of a computational method, the team tried to decode what participants had heard using just three seconds of brain activity data from each person. The team instructed the AI to match the speech sounds from the story recordings to patterns of brain activity that the AI computed as corresponding to what people were hearing. It then made predictions about what the person might have been hearing during that short time, given more than 1,000 possibilities. The correct answer was in the AI’s top 10 guesses up to 73 percent of the time, the researchers found.

The new study is “decoding of speech perception, not production,” King notes. Though speech production is the ultimate goal, for now, “we’re quite a long way away.”

1. What is the main idea of paragraph 1?

A．The principle of human brain activity.

B．The limitation of human brain activity.

C．The definition of the artificial intelligence.

D．The new function of the artificial intelligence.

2. Whom might the AI be beneficial to?

A．People unable to hear.	B．People who can’t move around.
C．People who are unconscious.	D．People unable to communicate normally.

3. What is the purpose of paragraph 4?

A．To analyze the features of the study.	B．To state the significance of the study.
C．To introduce the process of the study.	D．To present the achievement of the study.

4. What can we infer about the AI from the passage?

A．It performs well in the speech production.

B．Its accuracy is far from the researchs’ satisfaction.

C．It will help patients avoid dangerous brain surgeries.

D．Its language learning ability is beyond expectation.

6 . The Best Hiking Near New York City

If you want to go hiking near New York City, you’re in luck. These trails can met your needs.

Ice Caves and Verkeerderkill Falls Trail Hike

Along the seven-mile tail, you get to get through the passages of the Ice Caves and walk past Verkeerderkill Falls. The trail is the highest waterfall trail in the Shawangunks. Take the Short Line bus from New York to nearby Ellenville and then take a 14-minute taxi ride to Sam’s Point Preserve.

Yellow Trail at Mount Beacon

Consider this 2.5-mile trail if you don’t have enough time. You can go on a quick but difficult hike there that sends you straight up to the Mount Beacon. You can take in beautiful views similar to its more popular neighbors there. You can even watch the sunset. To get there, take Metro-North to Beacon and take a 5-minute walk to the beginning of the trail.

Stairway to Heaven Trail

The trail lies about 50 miles outside the city, but it allows you to get everything you ever wanted in a hike. You’ll get good exercise if you choose the 7.3-mile “Stairway to Heaven”. Take NJ Transit bus route 196 or 197 to Warwick, New York, and it’s just a 10-minute taxi ride to the beginning of the trail.

Camp Smith Trail

This three and-a-half-mile hike is great for a day trip by yourself. With fairly easy landform (地形), even your four-legged friend can join you on the trail. Take the Metro-North Hudson Line to Peekskill Station for free buses or trains to the Bear Mountain Inn. And you can hike up to see unbelievable Hudson Valley view.

1. What can you do if you choose Yellow Trail at Mount Beacon?

A．Watch the waterfall.

B．Enjoy the beauty of nature.

C．Experience mountain biking.

D．Have team sports in the wild.

2. Which trail best suits those who want to hike with their pet dogs?

A．Ice Caves and Verkeerderkill Falls Trail Hike.

B．Yellow Trail at Mount Beacon.

C．Stairway to Heaven Trail.

D．Camp Smith Trail.

3. What do the four trails have in common?

A．They can be easy to get to.

B．They are near the city center.

C．They are suitable for small kids.

D．They attract many hikers every year.

7 . There are many options for recycling an old cellphone. Let’s take a closer look at how to properly deal with it.

If you have an old cellphone to recycle, you could start by checking with your cellular carrier (运营商).     1     Or they offer at least ways to help you find recycling options. That may include takeback programs from local electronics recycling operations.

    2     Some zoos in the U.S. and Canada accept cellphone donation for recycling. They use the money to save endangered great apes. Other groups raise money with cellphone recycling to support health care workers in developing areas.

Another option is Call2Recycle, a national consumer battery recycling program.    3     Call2Recycle works with thousands of partners across the world to create a network of drop-off sites for recycling batteries and cellphones.

Actually, unless a cellphone no longer works, the best way to get rid of it often is to find someone else who wants or needs it. If your phone works but doesn’t have much trade-in value, you could check with friends and family to see if anyone might be interested in yours.     4    

Aside from trading, donating, recycling, or gifting your old phone, you could also just keep it and repurpose it yourself.     5     It can be used to store and play music, serve as an extra camera, or even let you surf the Internet when connected to WiFi.

A．Unusable cellphones can also be donated.

B．Some have buy-back or trade-in programs.

C．And all you need to do is find a place and put it away.

D．If the phone still works, you could sell it on the Internet.

E．You can also find someone who needs it at local senior centers.

F．A smartphone without service can still be useful in several ways.

G．It accepts all types of cellphones and batteries whatever models.

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。

“Everybody in the world should receive a standing ovation（鼓掌）at least once in their life.” Marv said to Scruff and Max. “People like you can’t get a standing ovation.” Scruff and Max rebuted（反驳）him. Marv ignored them and walked away, thinking, “I will show them that I can receive a standing ovation!”

Every year on the final school day, one child is awarded The Edward Yellow Award. This award is awarded to the school topper. Marv desperately wanted this award.

Marv didn’t have normal legs like others. He walked in a very unusual way. Everyone did not go close to Marv. He was home-schooled till 4th grade as his parents were a little nervous to send him to a regular school. So he started formal education from 5th grade. He really liked the teachers in his school. One of his favorite teachers was Mrs. Harsia, who teaches maths and he really liked this subject. Mrs. Harsia used to call him the “Math Wiz”. Though he was disabled, he had a sharp mind to do difficult mathematics calculations.

5th grade’s math’s final assessment was coming up and he was teamed up with Scruff, who had developed a liking for Marv due to Marv’s brilliant maths.

“Ha, you are with the fat guy!” Max teased（取笑）Scruff.

“Stop teasing him,” Scruff said, “How would you feel if somebody called you this name?”

Max silently walked away.

Scruff asked Marv to start to do their project. Marv thought many great ideas. “Ah, this looks so awesome Marv!” Scruff said, “You ‘really are a Math Wiz!” They soon became good friends.

One day, Marv heard someone scream on the campus. He ran towards the voice. A girl was crying, her knee bleeding. In no time, Marv took out his handkerchief and covered the girl’s knee to stop bleeding.

“What is your name?” Marv asked.

“Kate. I know you are Marv. My brother often mentions you.” the girl responded.

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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。

Just then Max came running.

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Dr. Frederick, the headmaster, gave a speech at the awarding ceremony.

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9 . 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。

Nuo Opera is a traditional drama popular in Xiangdong district of Pingxiang, Jiangxi Province. In ancient days, performing Nuo Opera     1     (think) to drive away monsters and diseases. Nowadays, it is a custom for local people     2     (perform)the opera during traditional festivals to pray for good luck. The craft of creating masks,     3     (date) back more than 1,000 years, was recognized     4     the national intangible cultural heritage in 2006. Nuo Opera mask carving is classified into two different     5     (category) in Xiangdong — the school of the Tang Dynasty     6     the school of the Song Dynasty.

Chen Quanfu is an inheritor (继承人)of the Tang Dynasty school. He said, “The two schools share one thing in common that they both emphasize innovation and meticulousness (精雕细琢).” Chen first.     7     (start) to learn the craft from his father in his childhood. He added that what should be passed down to future generations is a meticulous spirit that ensures the constant     8     (improve) of the craft over the long term. Peng Guolong, an inheritor of the Song Dynasty mask carving school, is skilled at innovating traditional masks’ design. “I like adding some characteristics or details to the figures looks to make them much     9     (lively),” he said. Chen and Peng pass the skills on to their followers, some of     10     work in Guangdong and Fujian Provinces as professional mask carvers.

10 . On a hot summer day, little Max and his mother were on holiday in a lake house. Max decided to go for a ________, so he ran out to the ________ lake.

Max swam far without ________ that he swam right into the middle of that lake. Max’s mother ________ out of the window and saw an alligator(鳄鱼) ________ Max.

She ran toward Max, shouting that an alligator was nearing him and asking him to swim back. Hearing this, Max got ________ and made a U-turn to swim towards his mother but it was too ________. Just as the mother reached Max and grabbed his ________, the alligator caught his legs. That began a pull ________ between the two. The alligator was too strong but the mother was too ________ to let her son go.

At the crucial point, a hunter happened to ________ and heard the scream. The hunter ________ toward the lake. He raised his gun, took ________ at the alligator and shot it.

Fortunately, after getting treated for weeks in hospital, Max ________.

A reporter interviewed Max. Max lifted his legs with ugly scars(疤痕). But then, with ________ he said, “Look! I have great scars on my arms too, I have them because my mom wouldn’t let me go.”

1.

A．hike

B．picnic

C．camp

D．swim

2.

A．cool

B．fare

C．crowded

D．warm

3.

A．remembering

B．guessing.

C．realizing

D．promising

4.

A．jumped

B．looked

C．climbed

D．remained

5.

A．surrounding

B．challenging

C．approaching

D．entertaining

6.

A．alarmed

B．depressed

C．inspired

D．embarrassed

7.

A．dark

B．late

C．deep mad

D．heavy

8.

A．legs

B．clothes

C．arms

D．shoulders

9.

A．game

B．match

C．choice

D．war

10.

A．passionate

B．anxious

C．hopeless

D．impatient

11.

A．slide away

B．pass by

C．work out

D．stand up

12.

A．wandered

B．stepped

C．raced

D．struggled

13.

A．turn

B．place

C．order

D．aim

14.

A．understood

B．survived

C．quit

D．continued

15.

A．pride

B．kindness

C．courage

D．difficulty