1 . My husband Adlai and I often went camping to celebrate special occasions. In fact, our anniversary (周年纪念日) was coming up. But this time I felt a sense of _________ . I couldn’t help thinking about my journal (日记本).

For birthdays and anniversaries, _________ giving each other cards that we were not interested in, Adlai and I wrote letters. For nine years, I’d written almost all of mine in a journal. For our eighteenth anniversary, we had gone camping. After a hike, we returned to _________ our letters. But the campsite was _________ by a bear. Our tent fell down. Worst of all, my journal was _________. We searched for hours, but it was _________.

I never _________ . I always wanted to have back those nine years of letters! One day, I came home to find a car in our driveway. Two _________ stood in the yard with Adlai. Adlai held up a weather-beaten book. My journal! The woman and her husband had _________ it weeks earlier in the underbrush. She was __________ when reading my love letters. “We only have your first names, so it is a bit __________ to find you. Luckily, we make it,” the woman said.

As a result of their their__________, I could hug my journal again. I just couldn’t thank them more. There are always people in the world who show__________ to others. What the couple did doesn’t __________ change our lives, but it can certainly change the way we __________ about life.

1.

A．duty

B．excitement

C．loss

D．fear

2.

A．except for

B．instead of

C．with regard to

D．as for

3.

A．send

B．discuss

C．spread

D．exchange

4.

A．destroyed

B．watched

C．locked

D．examined

5.

A．waiting

B．missing

C．appearing

D．dropping

6.

A．hopeless

B．successful

C．dangerous

D．safe

7.

A．got away

B．set out

C．gave up

D．came back

8.

A．friends

B．customers

C．relatives

D．strangers

9.

A．discovered

B．hidden

C．returned

D．passed

10.

A．satisfied

B．moved

C．tired

D．frightened

11.

A．easy

B．interesting

C．boring

D．difficult

12.

A．needs

B．experiments

C．projects

D．efforts

13.

A．kindness

B．understanding

C．encouragement

D．protection

14.

A．partly

B．luckily

C．necessarily

D．secretly

15.

A．talk

B．feel

C．plan

D．hate

2 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个恰当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

China has named 24,126 primary, and middle schools across the country specialist football schools    1    (lead) youth football development, according to the Ministry of Education (MOE). It’s    2     (require) that at least one football class be offered each week in these schools so that they can encourage their students to    3    (active) participate in football training and matches.

China aims to have 50,000 schools specializing in youth football by    4     end of 2025, said Wang Dengfeng, an official with the MOE, adding that to realize this goal, the ministry will take    5    (vary) measures that include building school football fields, training football coaches and providing extra funding and policy support.    6     those measures in schools, 47 football training camps have also been built in an effort to promote the sport among young people. There will be professionals instructing playing skills and techniques. And players with outstanding    7     (perform) will also have the chance to join inter-school teams for regional competitions and even national summer camps.

In the past four years, local education departments have trained about 40,000 football teachers, 8,000 of    8     have obtained coaching certificates. Moreover, the country has stepped up its efforts in promoting football in schools     9    it set up a seven-department joint task force,    10    (include) the education, sport and finance authorities as well as the Chinese Football Association.

3 . Mark Twain looked down upon those people who think it is possible for someone to learn how to write a novel. “A man who is not born with the novel-writing gift has troublesome time of it when he tries to build a novel”, he said.

But now new technology is making a difference to help an author write a novel. Michael Green, a US data scientist-turned-novelist, felt that technology could help him.

He said that the process had become difficult to manage: “In the midst of editing, I got to the point where I started feeling like I had a lot of plots and characters” he said “I had all these documents on the deeper aspects of the world I was creating. I was worried about not being able to keep track of it all. That is when I switched into my more data science-minded approach to solving a complex problem with a lot of different places.”

Green went on to create Lynit, a digital platform to help authors plan and weave together the many elements that form a story, such as the themes, characters and major events.

“As the author gets a new idea that they want to bring into the story they are able to input it into a natural framework,” he said “piece by piece they are adding to the story. As new ideas come in, they change, maybe by creating new nodes (节点) new relationships.”

Once the book has been published, technology is also playing an ever-increasing role in publicity and connecting with readers. Websites and APPs from specialist firms allow authors to participate in live-question-and-answer sessions with their audience. Michael Green believes technology will become even more important as a new generation of tech savvy (精通技术的) writers becomes more well known.

“What I’m finding with the Generation Z and even younger writers is that they are looking for technology to give them guidance,” he said, “They see it as a tool to learn and grow with rather than extra work.”

1. What difficulty did Green face in writing his book?

A．He felt that he was not creative enough

B．He would reduce important plots

C．He had trouble organizing his thoughts.

D．He was afraid the characters wouldn’t attract readers

2. What is an advantage of technology according to the text?

A．It creates new relationships for others

B．It can generate images based on words

C．It can translate thoughts into sentences

D．It brings authors closer to their readers

3. Which of the following would Green most probably agree with?

A．Tech-savvy writers become known thanks to technology

B．Young writers rely too heavily on technology.

C．Technology should be prevented as extra work

D．New technology matters to growing young writers

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

A．What Can We Learn from Mark Twain?

B．Can Technology Help Authors Write a Book?

C．How Can Authors Become Skilled in Technology?

D．Do We Really Need Technology as Our Guidance?

4 . 假设你是红星中学高一学生李华。你的英国笔友Jim对中国传统节日春节很感兴趣，发来邮件询问相关信息。请你给他回邮件，内容包括：
1.春节的基本信息；
2.春节的庆祝活动及意义；
3.邀请他有机会来中国过春节。
注意：1.词数100左右；
2.开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。
Dear Jim,
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Yours,

Li Hua

6 . Barditch High School decided to have an All-School Reunion.Over 450 people came to the event. Here were tours of the old school building and a picnic at Confederate Park. Several former teachers were on hand to tell stories about the old days. Ms. Mabel Yates, the English teacher for fifty years, was wheeled to the park.

Some eyes rolled and there were a few low groans(嘟囔声)when Ms.Yates was about to speak. Many started looking at their watches and coming up with excuses to be anywhere instead of preparing to listen to a lecture from an old woman who had few kind words for her students and made them work harder than all the other teachers combined.

Then Ms.Yates started to speak: “I can’t tell you how pleased I an to be here. I haven’t seen many of you since your graduation. But I have followed your careers(事业)and enjoyed your victories as well as crying for your tragedies(不幸). I have a large collection of newspaper photographs of my students. Although I haven’t appeared in person. I have attended your college graduations, weddings and even the birth of your children, in my imagination.

Ms. Yates paused and started crying a bit. Then she continued:“It was my belief that if I pushed you as hard as I could, some of you would succeed to please me and others would succeed to annoy me. Regardless of our motives(动机), I can see that you have all been successful in your chosen path.””There is no greater comfort for an educator than to see the end result of his or her years of work. You have all been a great source of pleasure and pride for me and I want you to know I love you all from the bottom of my heart.“

There was a silence over the crowd for a few seconds and then someone started clapping. The clapping turned into cheering, then into a deafening roar(呼喊). Lawyers, truck drivers, bankers and models were rubbing their eyes or crying openly with no shame all because of the words from a long forgotten English teacher from their hometown.

1. What activity was organized for the school reunion?

A．Sightseeing in the park.

B．Telling stories about past events.

C．A picnic on the school playground.

D．Graduates’ reports in the old building.

2. What can be inferred from Paragraph 2?

A．Most people had little interest in the reunion.

B．Some people got tired from the reunion activities.

C．Many graduates disliked Ms. Yates’ ways of teaching.

D．Some graduates were too busy to listen to Ms. Yates’ speech.

3. We can learn from Ms. Yates’ speech that she       .

A．went to her students’ weddings

B．gave her students advice on their careers

C．attended her students’ college graduations

D．kept learning about her students’ progress

4. Which of the following can best describe Ms. Yates?

A．Good-tempered and devoted.	B．Strict but caring.
C．Proud and generous.	D．Mean but patient.

7 . 语法填空

Festivals are celebrated all around the world. No matter how different they may seem, the spirit of     1    (share) joy, gratitude, love or peace is common in all festivals. Of all the traditional festivals, the harvest festival can     2    (find) in almost every culture. People celebrate it     3     (show) that they are grateful for the year’s supply of food. Customs play a     4    (significance) role in festivals, but sometimes they can change over time. One example is Halloween,     5    slowly became an exciting festival for children, in spite     6    its religious origins.

Festivals are becoming more and more commercial, with businesses     7    (take) advantage of the celebrations. Online shopping websites and social media apps have made it much     8    (easy) for the public to spend more on gifts for their loved ones. Festivals are an important part of society. They reflect people’s wishes,     9    (believe), faiths, and attitudes towards life. And if you study festivals     10    (careful), you may be surprised to find that different cultures actually have a lot in common after all.

8 . James Cook and his wife Samantha Jones started their beekeeping work eight years ago and have gained much experience. They are _______at solving the problems their bees face. The year 2020 was their year to go into business _______after working several years for other beekeepers, when they were in California’s huge farms.

In the spring, the farms were full of white flowers that _______into nuts. The crop was possible because of the many beekeepers who _______ with their hives (蜂巢) to pollinate (授粉) the nation’s crops.

Then the coronavirus (冠状病毒) health crisis hit. Cook and Jones became _______. “Do we stay? Do we go?” they asked each other. By that time, they had taken their hives from California’s San Joaquin Valley to another temporary home. Their plan was to let the bees _______the agricultural work and their contact with farm chemicals. So, they decided to _______the coronavirus restrictions in California. There, they set out to create their _______, Bird and the Bees Honey.

This summer, Cook and Jones and their small crew worked day and night to build a honey _______. They were ________tired and in debt because they took ________to get the business up and running. But they were also ________. Unlike other agricultural crops, honey can be ________for a long time. That is a good thing for Cook and Jones, because coronavirus restrictions have left them with fewer places to sell their products.

Cook, who is 35, said, “Starting a business in these difficult times is hard but it pays to do it. The experience will make us ________.” I think beekeeping taught me --you kind of need to look for the ________and the beauty that you can find,” he says.

1.

A．sad

B．expert

C．amazed

D．confused

2.

A．on a large scale

B．for fun

C．on their own

D．as usual

3.

A．turn

B．break

C．get

D．put

4.

A．admitted

B．declined

C．refused

D．travelled

5.

A．occupied

B．impressed

C．concerned

D．inspired

6.

A．get into

B．recover from

C．suffer from

D．bring about

7.

A．get rid of

B．lay down

C．put off

D．wait out

8.

A．fame

B．brand

C．solution

D．life

9.

A．factory

B．honor

C．family

D．food

10.

A．rarely

B．extremely

C．merely

D．gradually

11.

A．notes

B．medicines

C．loans

D．breaks

12.

A．hopeful

B．stressed

C．regretful

D．vengeful

13.

A．harvested

B．made

C．picked

D．stored

14.

A．healthier

B．happier

C．tougher

D．poorer

15.

A．comfort

B．honey

C．money

D．optimism

9 . The Walt Disney Company wasn’t about to let COVID-19 stop the company from developing. In the past year, some Disney theme park innovation (革新) have been designed.

For example, Disney had always encouraged face-to-face interactions between cast members and customers. It made perfect sense since Disney spends so much time training its workers in providing good customer service. In fact, Disney is known for pleasing its guests, which explains why it scores so high in customer satisfaction surveys. Well, COVID-19 turned personal interactions into problematic exchanges, as they increased the risk of spreading COVID-19. So, quickly, Disney added cast member virtual chat to its app My Disney Experience. Now, you can rely on a cast member’s knowledge whenever you have a question about Disney visit. It's like having a tour guide on your phone!

There is also the Walk-Up Waitlist. Before 2020, Disney had made strict rules for its Table Service restaurants. Once something sold out, would-be diners had no means of booking a table. COVID-19 has affected park guests, though. Some of them booked tables but then decided not to eat there. This cost Disney money, and it prevented you from dining at your favorite places. So, restaurant managers felt unhappy about the poor business practice, and Disney’s IT department reached a solution. The Walk-Up Waitlist in My Disney Experience allows you to add your name at a restaurant. A previously booked restaurant will find a table for you to dine there. My Disney Experience shows the waiting time. You’ll know whether the wait will fit with your tour. For Disney, the Walk-Up Waitlist improves services and can make it earn more money while increasing customer satisfaction.

In the face of COVID-19, Disney somehow made its parks better and more modern. The company is really worth praising for such great innovations.

1. What can park guests do with the Walk-Up Waitlist?

A．Check whether there's a meal left.	B．Know when to dine in the booked restaurant.
C．Dine at any restaurant at any time.	D．Book as many tables as they can.

2. Which of the following can best describe the Walk-Up Waitlist?

A．It benefits both Disney and its customers.

B．It is supposed to be used at a restaurant only.

C．It is aimed at more customers during COVID-19.

D．It allows Disney to have the most guests at a time.

3. What is the best title of this passage?

A．How Disney Keeps Its Park Popular.

B．How Disney Controls the Flow of Traffic.

C．Ways to Tour Around Disney During COVID-19.

D．Disney’s Innovations Responding to COVID-19.

10 . Precision (精确) agriculture is a method of growing crops. Farmers use technology to collect very precise or exact measurements about their land. It tells farmers how they planted seeds, used fertilizers and chemical pesticides, and so on. Farm equipment can plant different amounts of seeds and leave different amounts of fertilizer in different parts of a field. Water measuring equipment can tell farmers how much water their plants are getting.

But some of this technology is too costly for small farmers, especially in developing countries. Ranveer Chandra, the Microsoft researcher from India, is working to develop low-cost, high-tech tools for farmers. He developed a system that connects soil sensors to other sensing equipment through unused television (TV) channels. These unused TV signals, known as “white space” frequencies (频率), can provide Internet connection over long distances. Some hospitals and schools in rural areas are already online with white-space connections, Chandra noted.

Each soil sensor provides information about conditions on the farm. To connect all the areas into a big picture, a drone aircraft takes photographs from high in the air. Artificial intelligence (AI) compares these photos to the sensor data. AI then can create maps of where the soil is too acidic or needs more water. Similar technology can also help farmers watch their animals. Video cameras connected to computers and linked to the Internet can help farmers recognize sick cattle, for example.

However, the level and speed at which new farming skills and technologies will spread remains unclear. Bruce Erickson is a precision farming expert at Purdue University in Indiana. He told the CSA the one problem faced by any new farming technology is getting people to use it with their existing methods. Different countries have different farming methods and different ways of doing business. “It takes people to carry out new farming practices,” Erickson said.

1. How is Paragraph 1 mainly developed?

A．By following the order of space.	B．By giving specific examples.
C．By making comparisons.	D．By listing data.

2. What did Ranveer Chandra research?

A．How to design AI for making maps.

B．How to profit from the used TV signals.

C．How to develop a drone aircraft for farming.

D．How to lower the cost of farming technology.

3. What is Paragraph 3 mainly about?

A．The future of artificial intelligence.

B．The process of using white-space connections.

C．The practical application in precision agriculture.

D．The achievement in designing high-tech farming tools.

4. What can we infer about the future of precision agriculture from the last paragraph?

A．It needs time to be readily accepted by modern farmers.

B．It depends on the development of new farming technology.

C．It will revolutionize the traditional farming.

D．It has to gain support from agricultural experts.