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。

One day a man named Steve Gowan was fishing in the Thames Estuary in Britain. By the end of the day, besides fishes and sea weeds, he fished a message bottle. He opened it carefully and inside the bottle was a brief loving letter from a British soldier named Hughes to his wife:

Dear Wife, I am writing this note on this boat and dropping it into the sea just to see if it will reach you. If it does, sign this envelope on the right hand bottom corner where it says receipt. Put the date and hour of receipt and your name where it says signature and look after it well.

Ta-ta sweet, for the present. Your Hubby

Also attached was a covering note intended for the finder of the bottle:

Sir or madam, would you kindly forward the enclosed letter and earn the blessing of a poor British soldier on his way to the front this ninth day of September, 1914. Signed Private T. Hughes.

Actually, as Hughes crossed the English Channel from Southampton to St. Nazaire on 9 September, 1914, at 7:52 p.m., he dropped a message in a green beer bottle over the side of the ship and he died two days later in the war.

85 years later, the bottle was finally caught by Steve Gowan, the fisherman. Steve Gowan examined the letter carefully. It had the soldier’s name and army number, so he supposed that the message should be real. But how could he deliver it to the intended recipient? In 1999, the internet was still in its early years. No way would he be able to find Hughes’s possible surviving family that way! So, what to do?

Well, he put an advertisement in a local paper! The story captured so many hearts and minds that it gained national coverage. Somewhere along the way, through magic and luck, he learned that Hughes’s daughter, Emily, was still alive in New Zealand!

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Right away, Gowan and journalists managed to get in touch with Emily.

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The local paper decided to offer Mr. Gowan an air ticket to deliver the letter in person.

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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。

James Cameron was born in 1954. A science fiction fan as a child, he grew up to become one of the most outstanding film-makers in Hollywood. At first he studied physics at California State University,     1     he left to follow his cinematic dream. When he was working     2     a truck driver, Cameron would stop the truck by the side of the road to work on screenplays,which     3     (contribute) to his success. In 1978, Cameron made his first film called Xenogenesis. The film helped him get a job with New World Pictures, a company run by    4     (know) B-movie director Roger Corman. Years later, Cameron began his masterpiece Titanic, a movie about unlucky lovers    5     (trap) aboard the Titanic ocean liner. Titanic eventually became     6     first film to earn nominations.For his work on the film, he took home three Oscars.

Even though he    7     (win)countless awards, he still tries hard to be a director truly committed to his work. Perhaps that is the reason why he is so famous     8     (global).He can create new kinds of films and take our     9     (imagine)to places     10     we have never been before.

3 . A shortage of semiconductors (半导体) has helped firms such as Nvidia, whose chips (芯片) power everything from video gaming to machine learning and data centres. But boom time for sellers means misery for buyers. Carmakers, whose products have become computers on wheels, are among the victims. Analysts say the industry might build around 5 million fewer cars this year, all for want of the chips. Apple and Microsoft have also warned that they will be affected.

The shortage is the result of a sudden rise in demand. Chipmaking has been enjoying strong growth for decades as computers have stepped into every corner of society. But there was a strong upward trend during the pandemic. Locked-down consumers shopped online, had meetings remotely, and killed time with video-streaming and videogaming.

The crisis has had three consequences, two encouraging and one less so.

The first is an investment boom. Big producers such as Intel, Samsung and TSMC are planning to spend hundreds of billions of dollars on extra capacity (产能) over the next few years. As in many markets, high prices are the best cure for high prices.

The second is that the chip industry’s customers are adapting. too. When demand fell early in the pandemic, carmakers cut their orders with chipmakers. Following Tesla, Volkswagen has announced plans to develop driver-assistance chips in-house.

Unwelcome effect has been a sudden rise of techno-nationalism. America is planning to hand out billions of dollars to attract chipmakers back from East Asia. Europe wants to double its share of global production, to 20%，by 2030. Even Britain has declared the fate of a small chip factory in Wales to be a matter of national security.

Chips have come to occupy what used to be called the “commanding heights” of an economy, in the way that car factories did in the 20th century. But as last century’s governments discovered, subsidies (补贴) lend 10 oversupply. Personally, the chip shortage is mostly a self-solving problem. Governments should resist the temptation to scc themselves as saviours (救星).

1. What is the main cause of the sudden shortage of chips according to the passage?

A．Economic crisis	B．The outbreak of the pandemic.
C．Governments’ control.	D．Great demand in online products.

2. What is the discouraging result of the chip shortage according to the passage?

A．Hot investment in chips.	B．Carmakers’ adaptation to the market.
C．Arise of techno-nationalism.	D．Realization of technological globalization.

3. What does the author tend to think in the last paragraph?

A．Markets are the cure for the chip shortage.

B．Government subsidies will lead to waste.

C．The government should rescue the market.

D．Car factories in the 20th century were on the rise.

4. Which would be the best title for the passage?

A．Chip Shortage—A Self-solving Problem

B．Techno-nationalism—A War without Smoke

C．Challenges—Promises of New Opportunities

D．High Prices—the Best Cure for High Prices

4 . During this holiday, my family took a trip to Tanzania. Getting there was really an adventure! We took fifteen different planes. The ride was difficult, but the scenery was amazing. When we arrived, the time difference was difficult to deal with, but after a few nights I got used to it. We stayed in a safari resort (游猎度假村). There were all kinds of noises. But they weren’t ones I was used to hearing; the noises came from animals and insects.

On our first day, we saw a herd of giraffes and two rhinos (犀牛). Our guide Mishi told us that the two black rhinos had been caught and brought here because they were in danger of dying out due to poachers (偷猎者), who wanted them for their horns (角). The two rhinos are not in a zoo but in guarded pens (牲畜栏) of about 100 acres.

The next day, Mishi took us to a river. In it, there are big crocodiles (鳄鱼) and even bigger hippos. After we took pictures, Mishi brought us to a suspension (悬挂) bridge. My family was very nervous about crossing it after seeing what was in the river and there was a sign saying “No more than one person on the bridge each time”. Mishi finally promised us that it was not dangerous, and she was right! We all made it to the other side in one piece.

After we explored a little in the area, we found a long line of ants. I noticed that a few were bigger than the others and these bigger ants were walking next to the line, as if keeping the others in order. Mishi told us that they were called Army Ants and were used by old Tanzanian tribes (部落) for medical treatment. They could live with nature harmoniously.

After many days of fun and great adventure, our trip was over. I am looking forward to going back someday.

1. What did the author have to adapt to at the beginning of his trip?

A．The difficult ride.	B．The time difference.
C．The surrounding noises.	D．The remote (遥远的) resort.

2. Why are the two black rhinos caught and kept in pens?

A．To attract tourists.	B．To get their horns.
C．To protect them from poachers.	D．To prevent them attacking the local people.

3. What can we learn about the bridge mentioned in paragraph 3?

A．It is safe to cross.	B．It has a long history.
C．It can bear great weight.	D．It crosses a lifeless river.

4. What is the best title for the text?

A．The Lovely Wild Animals	B．An Unforgettable Experience
C．Living with Nature Harmoniously	D．An Adventurous but Amazing Trip