1 . 阅读下面文本，并从每段文本方框的单词或短语中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，选项中有两项为多余选项。

A．delivered        B．mental          C．recommended          D．restrictions E．spiritual          F．tendency       G．unbearable

By the time Helen Keller was seven years old, she still couldn’t speak, read or write and needed to have everything done for her. This was because she couldn’t see or hear. With these severe     1     to her communication, Helen’s behaviour was often     2    . She was sometimes troublesome, stubborn and angry, and had a     3     to break things when no one understood her.

Helen’s parents got a superb teacher     4     to them, a woman named Anne Sullivan. Anne spelt words by writing on Helen’s hand so that Helen could get a     5     picture of the words. In this way, Helen got the world of words opened up to her.

2 . The Nobel Prize in literature has been awarded to the novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah, for his concern for refugees (难民) between cultures and continents. Gurnah, 72, is the first black writer to receive the prize since Toni Morrison in 1993, and some observers saw his selection as a corrective after years of European and American Nobel winners.

Growing up in Zanzibar, Abdulrazak Gurnah never considered the possibility that he might one day be a writer. “It never occurred to me,” he said in an interview. Then, in 1964, a violent protest forced Gurnah, when he was 18, to escape to England. Poor and homesick,he began to write something about home in his diary, then longer passages, then stories about other people. Those reflections, the habit of writing to understand and document his own lives, eventually gave rise to his first novel, then nine more. They include Memory of Departure, Pilgrims Way and Dottie, which all deal with the immigrant experience in Britain; Paradise shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1994, about a boy in an East African country hurt by colonialism; and Admiring Silence，about a young man who leaves Zanzibar for England, where he marries and becomes a teacher.

The news of Gurnah’s Nobel was celebrated by fellow novelists and academics who have long argued that his work deserves a wider audience. His longtime editor, Alexandra Pringle at Bloomsbury, said Gurnah’s win was “most deserved” for a writer. “He is one of the greatest living African writers, and no one has ever taken any notice of him and it’s just killed me. I posted a video on the social network last week and in it I said that he was one of the people that had been just ignored. And now this has happened,” she said.

1. What inspired Abdulrazak to write?

A．His good education background.

B．The stories he read about other people.

C．A protest led by people in his hometown.

D．His suffering when he first came to England.

2. What did Alexandra Pringle’s words indicate?

A．African writers should be valued more.

B．She would rather die than see him become famous.

C．Gurnah’s books have aroused little attention online.

D．Gurnah’s writing talent should be known to more people.

3. Where is this text most likely from?

A．A novel.

B．A diary.

C．A newspaper.

D．A brochure.

3 . The national statistics showing a decline in bike ridership are a bit misleading. It is indeed down in rural and suburban areas — but cities tell a different story. Biking in cities has exploded recently with millions of Americans mounting bicycles for the first time in years. Is it the start of a long-term trend?

There are good reasons to hope so. Transportation is the largest source of greenhouse emissions (排放) in the U.S., and cars and light trucks account for 58 percent of transportation emissions. Switching from cars to bikes cuts emissions much faster than switching to electric cars.

And motor vehicle accidents still kill more than 39,000 Americans a year — including more than 700 cyclists. Some 70 percent of people surveyed in the U.S. say they’re interested in biking. Why don’t they bike more? It comes down to safety. Half of the people surveyed said they were, understandably, too afraid to bike on the street.

Putting a painted biking path on a 40-mph road is not going to appeal to potential cyclists afraid of a close encounter with a car. Bike safety isn’t about painting bike paths on every street. It’s about creating bike networks that can take you safely from point A to point B. Good bike networks are made of things like greenways, protected bike paths with physical barriers separating riders from cars, and quiet streets.

The good news is that bike networks were expanding in the U.S. years ago. Between 1991 and 2021, there was a six-fold increase in painted, off-road paths, from 5,904 miles to 39,329 miles. And the increase in protected bike paths is even more dramatic: Their total length, nationwide, went from only 34 miles in 2006 to 425 miles in 2018. In fact, cities in the West and East are leading the pack, but the trend is nationwide.

1. What can we learn from Paragraph 1?

A．There is a decline in traveling.

B．America is facing an economic decline.

C．More and more people ride bikes in cities.

D．Biking cost is on an increase across America.

2. What can help to improve cyclists’ safety best?

A．A speed limit.

B．A network of bike paths.

C．More traffic lights.

D．Painted areas for cycling.

3. How does the author show the expansion of bike networks?

A．By analyzing cases.

B．By comparing results.

C．By listing figures.

D．By showing the effect.

4. What’s the main idea of the passage?

A．America is becoming more bike-friendly.

B．Travelling by bike helps reduce pollution.

C．Reasons and solutions for biking accidents.

D．Americans are troubled with biking problems.

4 . 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。

Every time my family makes special plans, they end up getting canceled due to some incidents. Every time that happens, my parents would tell us to look on the bright side and make the best of a bad situation. However, I never managed to do that until this spring.

On a sunny morning last month , my aunt Jen invited us to the annual outdoor spring celebration at her farm. Since my family hadn’t done anything different for ages, the whole family was very excited and everyone pulled his own weight to make sure everything goes as planned. In order to add more fun to this exciting trip, my little sister Indi and my little brother Tex even joined me to make an extra-special treat — cupcakes.

The picnic intended to go from twelve to three. After double checking the car, my parents loaded books,games,picnic blanket,and a whole big pack of food into the car. The moment of our departure finally arrived as the clock struck 11. However,everything went wrong the instant we bravely drove off. First, we had to stop and wait for Tex to find his shoes. Next, as we were driving down the road, we had to go back to the house because my mom forgot her wallet. Then, about halfway to Aunt Jen’s house, we had to drive far out of our way to find a place for Indi to use the bathroom. After that, my parents decided it’d be quicker to take this one little side country road as a shortcut. But the shortcut ended up turning into a long cut! We drove forever on a winding road with wildflower field spreading endlessly out on both sides and the deep green pine trees going on and on within our sight. Spotting hundreds of birds flying in the sky, I was seized by a growing sense of desperation for I entirely had no idea when we could hit our destination.

注意：
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, our car started making a strange noise.

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At first, we kids weren’t exactly jumping up and down about the idea.

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5 . It takes a lot of training and experience to become a public speaker. However, there are slight differences when it comes to presenting to a virtual audience.

Maintaining eye contact is one of the most important skills you need to master as a public speaker.     1     Instead, you are required to look directly into the camera.     2    

There is no room for small talks when making an online presentation.     3     Ensure that your speech or presentation has a flow that the audience can follow without getting lost. You should also note that audience members are not prohibited from leaving and there’s no social pressure to keep them there. So be sure not to bore them with too many irrelevant stories.

At times, especially during bigger events, there may be many tools and software features that you need to enable to be at your best.     4     During such situations, you can talk through the disturbance as you work to get the problem fixed. The audience might be more willing to wait for you as you work on your technical problem, unlike when you decide to just go quiet without letting them know why.

    5     This is all thanks to the convenience virtual events have brought to us. Nevertheless, you will still need to stay ahead of the trends to boost your online presentation skills.

A．If it is a virtual event, you need to be precise and to the point.

B．Now more and more people continue following the new trend.

C．This way, your eyes will appear to be looking directly at your viewers.

D．However, we all know how technology is, and the fact is that it might fail us.

E．Furthermore, adapting your delivery to audience reaction was also demanded.

F．So it will help to get familiar with the tools and software before the presentation.

G．When presenting online, however, you are not always able to see your audience.

6 . When Shanghai introduced a new garbage-sorting policy (垃圾类政策) in July last year, the city’s residents (居民) took some time to get used to it. They joked that every time they took out their garbage, the staff (工作人员) standing by the bins would ask, “What kind of garbage are you?”

Starting on May 1, Beijing joined many Chinese cities by introducing a new garbage-sorting policy, People’s Daily reported. Residents should sort their garbage into four groups: kitchen, recyclable, hazardous (有害的) and other waste.

These groups are represented (代表) by four different colors of trash bins—green, blue, red and gray. Those who fail to sort their trash correctly may be fined up to 200 yuan, Xinhua reported.

Some cities like Shanghai and Qingdao sort their trash differently. These cities use four different groups: wet, recyclable, harmful and dry. Although their names are different, the groups are actually the same. In fact, wet garbage in Shanghai is kitchen garbage in Beijing. And dry garbage is the same as other waste, China Youth Daily reported.

To help residents sort their trash correctly, the Beijing government is offering online guidelines (指导). If people don’t know how to throw away garbage, they can search for it on the WeChat account Guanchenglishi (管城理市) to find out. By searching a keyword or taking a photo, people can immediately find out which group their waste belongs to.

1. If people don’t follow the garbage-sorting policy, __________.

A．they will have to stand by the bins	B．they won’t be allowed to throw trash away
C．they won’t be noticed	D．they may face fines

2. According to the passage, which of the following cities have the same names for garbage groups?

A．Beijing and Shanghai.	B．Beijing and Qingdao.
C．Shanghai and Qingdao.	D．Qingdao and Wuhan.

3. Kitchen garbage in Beijing is the same as ________ in Shanghai.

A．wet garbage	B．dry garbage
C．recyclable garbage	D．harmful garbage

4. What do we know from this passage?

A．Beijing uses four different groups: kitchen, recyclable, hazardous and dry.

B．Garbage-sorting is being carried out all over China.

C．Guanchenglishi can help residents in Beijing with the garbage-sorting.

D．Residents in Beijing are troubled by garbage-sorting.

7 . 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。

When I was in primary school, I disliked doing exercise. I felt tired when I did any kind of exercise. My parents were really     1     (worry) about my health. One day, after having supper, my father     2    (come) and asked me to have a walk with him in the park. I agreed and we went     3     together. It was hard for me to walk for half an hour. I wanted to give up,     4     my father encouraged me to keep on walking. From then on. I was often asked to walk with my parents. To my surprise, I could walk for an hour in the     5    (five) month. How     6    (pride) I felt! I loved taking exercise gradually. Now I am     7     excellent runner in my school. I take part in the school sports meeting every year.

During all our life, we may face a lot of     8    (difficulty). Don’t be afraid of     9    (they). Please try to face them     10    (brave). After you overcome what you used to be afraid of, you may find how great you are!

8 . There are only 24 hours in a day, and usually about a third of that is spent sleeping. So is it possible to make use of this time and learn a new skill or even a language? In other words, is sleep learning possible?

Many studies have found that a basic form of learning, called conditioning, can happen during sleep. In a 2012 study published in the magazine Nature Neuroscience, for example, Israeli researchers found that people can learn to connect sounds with smells during sleep. The scientists played a tone (声音) to sleeping study participants (参与者) while putting some rotten (腐烂的) fish beside their beds. Once awake, when hearing the tone the people held their breath in anticipation (预判) of a bad smell.

“This was a clear finding showing participants formed new memories during sleep.” said Andrillon, a scientist in this field.

Although the new memory was implicit (暗示性的), it could influence how people behave, researchers found in a 2014 study published in the Journal of Neuroscience. In that research, after spending a night in a room full of cigarette (香烟) smell mixed with rotten eggs or fish, smokers use fewer cigarettes.

Andrillon and his team members have found that learning in sleep can also go beyond simple conditioning. In their 2017 study published in Nature Communications, participants were able to pick out sound features that they had heard during sleep.

Leaning abilities in sleep may spread to learning of words. In a study published in Current Biology, researchers played pairs of made-up words and their supposed meanings, like “guga” means elephant, to sleep participants. After this, when awake, the participants did better in picking the right translation of made-up words in a multi-choice test.

So far, research suggests it may be possible to learn about the tone and pronunciation of a language or even the meaning of words while sleeping, although it is to a weaker level than what we do during the day without noticing.

1. What is the main purpose of the text?

A．To show that sleep learning is possible.	B．To study how to make use of sleep learning.
C．To report some famous research findings.	D．To prove sleep learning is implicit and weak.

2. What does the phrase “new memories” in the third paragraph refer to (指的是)?

A．Connection between participants and scientists.	B．Connection between sounds and smells.
C．The tone’s influence on the rotten fish.	D．The rotten eggs’ influence on cigarettes.

3. What is the main idea of the last two paragraphs?

A．Sleep can do good to learning.	B．Language learning can happen in sleep.
C．People learn in sleep in a different language.	D．Sleep learning is better than daytime learning.

10 . 今年以来，数位中科院院士相继离世，在社会各界纷纷表达惋惜之余，“谁是真正的偶像”的话题被再度热议。为此，Teens英文报特辟了主题为“Who You Admire Most”的专栏，请你用英语写一篇短文投稿。以下信息非限定性内容，仅供参考：

Actors/Singers/...	Scietists/Doctors/...
•Jackie Chan (Chinese kung fu superstar) •Date of birth: Apr 7, 1954 Hong Kong •Achievements: act in mearly 100 films; many awards; many years of charity work; help people in over 30 countries	•Yuan Longping (Father of Hybrid Rice) •Date of firth: Sept. 7,1930 (Beijing) •Achievements: develop a new type of hybrid rice (1970s; 20%more per unit); the World Food Prize(2004); save millions of lives

注意事项：
1.短文须自拟，要求观点明确、语句通顺、意思连贯、符合题意；
2.词数在90个左右，短文标题已给出，不计入总词数；
3.短文必须写在答题卡指定的位置上。
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