2 . 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。

Gan De was an ancient Chinese astronomer born in the State of Qi. Along with Shi Shen, he is believed to be the first       1     history known by name to produce a star catalogue (星表). He made fairly     2     (detail) observations of the five major planets during the     3     (four) century.

Gan De may have been the first to describe one of the     4     (satellite) of Jupiter (木星), usually invisible without the aid of telescopes. He gave the following     5     (describe) of Jupiter’s journey: Every 12 years Jupiter returns to     6     same position in the sky; every 370 days it disappears in the fire of the Sun in the evening to the west, 30 days later it reappears in the morning to the east... In 1981, Gan’s work     7     (identify) by Xi Zezong as describing a naked-eye observation of either of the two     8     (large) and brightest satellites in summer 365 BC.

Gan was one of the earliest practitioners of Chinese astronomy. As the earliest attempt     9     (document) the sky during the Warring States period, Gan De’s work possesses high scientific value. He wrote two books, the Suixing Jing and the Tianwen Xingzhan,     10     sadly both texts have been lost. Some of his works’ titles and fragments (片段) quoted from them are known from later texts.

3 . 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。

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“I’m not going back to group therapy (治疗). I refuse to be treated like that.” The voice was so loud that I had to hold the phone away from my ear.

Alicia Gonzalez suffered from depression. This was her second month at the homeless shelter, where I work as a case manager.

Alicia had been a nurse for 10 years. Her work was intense and demanding, and she loved it. To her, the trauma (精神创伤) she’d suffered was that her son lost his life in a car crash. With her brain overloaded by the trauma, she couldn’t focus on her work. Finally, she had to quit her job. With no income, she couldn’t pay her rent. For almost three years, Alicia lived in her truck. Alicia told me all this at our first meeting.

“I want to help you,” I said. “There are lots of resources here. All I ask is that you tell me what’s going on with you. That way I can make sure you’re getting the services you need.”

“I’ll try,” she said. “It’s just hard. I used to feel as though what I did mattered. Now...” Her voice became quiet. Before I could say something, she stood and walked out of the room.

Two months later, I still felt as if I hadn’t gotten through to Alicia. Sometimes the things sending her into a violent anger were so minor—a piece of rubbish someone had dropped on the floor—it was hard for me to think of coping skills that didn’t sound like I was criticizing her.

Maybe this latest talk in group therapy was the last straw (稻草). “Finding something small you can feel good about can help you cope with anger,” I suggested. “It doesn’t need to be some huge thing.” Even as I said it, I wondered, “Was that really the best advice I could come up with?” Alicia took a long deep breath. “I know,” she said.

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2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

A few weeks later, I saw her in the hallway with a rubbish bag.

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In March, Alicia was offered a job doing housekeeping at the shelter.

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6 . 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。

Within the next month, billions of cicadas (蝉) will appear in the United States. When a lot of cicadas get together, they can create a loud sound that might make you think there’s a generator    1     (run) somewhere in the neighborhood. So should we be     2     (scare)?

Not at all. Cicadas are harmless and their only     3     (defend) is their numbers. This group of cicadas is     4     (official) known as Brood X. You might think they are newborns, but they may be     5     (old) than you are. That’s because they’ve been hiding below ground for nearly 17 years.

Cicada eggs hatch into nymphs (蛹),     6    spend more than a decade below ground taking in juices out of tree roots. Then they pop out of the ground, climb up a tree trunk,     7    transform into adults with wings. The adults live four to six weeks, during which the females will lay eggs in tree     8     (branch). By July the adults will be gone, and the nymphs will start falling to the ground to move down into the soil.

While some people dislike the appearance     9     cicadas, it should be a cause for celebration. The cicada varieties exist only in the US. In other words, we’ re witnessing something that no one else in any other part of the world     10    (get) to see.

8 . When you see the Lion of Judah you do not think “e-commerce”. Its lower decks (甲板) have 467 beds where passengers sleep when travelling up the Amazon River. But when the Amazon’s largest department store, Bemol, started delivering to customers in the rainforest, these three-decker passenger boats were its chosen means of transport.

Bemol sold fridges and televisions in the traditional way from its stores in Manaus until 2018, when one of the founders’ grandsons, Denis Minev, took over. He suspected there were hundreds of thousands of customers up and down the Amazon that Bemol wasn’t reaching and decided to go to them.

But delivering parcels in the rainforest is difficult and expensive. Consumers in far places either had to pay up to 30% of the product’s price for shipping and wait a month or longer for the postal service to deliver it or spend money and time on shopping trips to Manaus. Mr Minev made what sounded like an impossible promise: to deliver an order placed online within a week for not more than the “Manaus price”.                                                                                          

Mr Minev’s experience at a cooking-gas firm, also owned by his family, showed him how challenging the Amazon’s delivery could be. So rather than bu his own boats, risking crashes, fuel theft and high debt, Mr Minev oulsourced (外包) delivery to the brightly painted ships that carry people and provisions around the region.                                          

To encourage Amazonians to place their first online orders, Bemol set up Wi-Fi in every town where it launched e-commerce. Amazonians who lack savings or credit cards can use zero-interest loans starting at $26 to finance their purchases; 85% of Bemol’s online sales are paid for in this way. Bemol allows returns, but encourages customers to accept vouchers (代金券) instead. “The traditional e-commerce model without a physical presence doesn’t work in the Amazon,” says Mr Minev.

1. What does the underlined word “them” in paragraph 2 refer to?

A．The founders of Bemol.	B．Bemol’s stores in Manaus.
C．Customers along the Amazon.	D．Passengers on the Lion of Judah.

2. What promise did Mr Minev make to online consumers in far places?

A．They can obtain a discount of 30%.

B．They can return products within a month.

C．They can pay after receiving their ordered products.

D．They can enjoy market prices and a fast delivery service.

3. What does the last paragraph mainly talk about?

A．Bemol’s ways to increase online sales in the Amazon.

B．Difficulties of launching e-commerce in the Amazon.

C．The trend of placing online orders among Amazonians.

D．The influence of e-commerce on Amanianc

4. What can be the best title for the text?

A．The rise of e-commerce	B．The challenge for Bemol
C．Department stores online	D．Parcels in the rainforest

9 . Adolescence (青春期) is a stressful time. From friends to families, from home to school, stressful situations become common. Now, a new study shows an unexpected factor (因素) might cause teens to respond strongly to stress.

Jonas Miller, a psychologist at Stanford University, wanted to know whether air pollution might affect teens’ response to stress. his team recruited (招募) 144 tweens and teens for the study, most of whom lived in or near San Francisco, which ranks among the ten U.S. cities having the worst air quality. The researchers used data on air pollution collected by the city to see how polluted the air was near each recruit’s home. They then collected physical. and social information about the students and invited them to participate in a stressfuf.test.

Before the test, the researchers used sensors to record participants’ heart rate and sweat levels for five minutes-as they rested. Then the test began. A researcher read aloud the beginning of a story and told each participant to make up an exciting ending, which they would have to memorize and present aloud to a judge. After finishing this task, the judge had the participant do math problems. If they made a mistake, they had to start over. The whole time, sensors recorded heart rate and sweat levels.

At rest, all the students had similar heart rates and sweat levels, Miller found. But as the test got tough, kids from neighborhoods with more air pollution reacted more strongly to stress. Their heartbeats became irregular. They sweated more than teens who lived in cleaner places.

Miller looked at other possible causes of those strong reactions in the students. including their height and weight, stage of adolescence, family income and neighborhood. None of them explained the stronger stress response. Such responses are linked to negative feelings, Miller notes. Over time, these responses can “contribute to problems with both physical and mental health”.

“This is an interesting study,” says Anjum Hajat, an epidemiologist who studies the causes of disease. Miller’s study “provides unique evidence of the negative health impacts of air pollution among adolescents,” Hajat says.

1. What did Miller’s study intend to find out?

A．The factors increasing teens’ stress.

B．The level of air pollution in San Francisco.

C．The effect of air pollution on teens’ feelings of stress.

D．The relationship between air pollution and teens’ physical health.

2. What were participants asked to do in the stressful test?

A．Retell an exciting story.	B．Invent an ending to a story.
C．Make up an amusing story.	D．Find the mistakes in a story.

3. What did Miller take into consideration when analyzing his research results?

A．Parents’ income.	B．Parents’ education.
C．Children’ s mental health.	D．Child-parent relationship.

4. What is Hajat’s attitude toward Miller’s study?

A．Skeptical.

B．Conservative.

C．Uncaring.

D．Positive.

10 . Children’s books that teach kids to love animals

“Before You Were Mine”

written by Maribeth Boelts; illustrated by David Walker G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books

“Boelts’s restrained (婉约的) text and Walker’s affecting illustrations combine to touch the hearts of dog-loving children who will almost certainly give their pets an extra hug afterwards. A note on adopting a shelter pet follows this powerful emotional offering.”        

-- Kirkus Reviews   

“Hachiko”

written by Pamela S. Turner; illustrated by Yan Nascimbene Candlewick Press

“This touching tale of a dog’s devotion to -his master is a well-known story in Japan, told here in the first person through the eyes of a fictional boy named Kentaro. The boy and many others care for the dog, who becomes a celebrity due to his faithful nature, with a statue of the dog put up in the station even before the dog’s death from old age.”

-- School Library Journal

“A Boy and a Jaguar”

written by Alan Rabinowitz, illustrated by Citia Chien Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

“It’s a picture book about Alan Rabinowitz’ s own childhood. Rabinowitz grew up with a severe stutter (口吃的), something he had to overcome before he could pursue career that has made him a voice for the endangered animals.”

-- NPR

“Talking Tails”

written by Ann Love & Jane Drake; illustrated by Bill Slavin Penguin Random House

“Amusing ink-and-watercolor illustrations from Slavin are integrated into the text of this entertaining look at the history of pet keeping. With information about keeping fish, birds, horses and ferrets (雪貂), most of the space is devoted to cats and dogs.”

-- Publishers Weekly

1. What do the first two books have in common?

A．Both tell a well-known true story.	B．Both tell a touching story about dogs.
C．Both are published by the same press.	D．Both are written by the same person.

2. Which of the following tells the author’s own story?

A．“Hachiko”.	B．“Talking Tails”.
C．“A Boy and a Jaguar”.	D．“Before You Were Mine”.

3. Who illustrates the book about the history of pet keeping?

A．Bill Slavin.

B．Catia Chien.

C．David Walker.

D．Yan Nascimbene.