1 . You are just waking up in the spring of 2030. Your Internet of Things bedroom opens solar-powered e-windows and plays gentle music while your smart lighting displays a montage(蒙太奇) of beachfront sunrises from your recent vacation.

Your shower uses very little water or soap. It recycles your grey water and puts the extra heat back into your home's integrated operating system. While you dress, your artificial intelligence (Al) assistant shares your schedule for the day and plays your favourite tunes.

You still start your day with caffeine but it comes from your loT refrigerator which is capable of providing a coffeehouse experience in your home. A hot breakfast tailored to your specific nutritional needs (based on chemical analysis from your trips to the "smart toilet") is waiting for you in the kitchen.

When it's time to leave, an on-demand transport system has three cars waiting for you, your spouse and your kids. On the road, driverless cars and trucks move with mathematical precision, without traffic jams. Accident rates are near zero.

En route, you call your R&.D team, who are wrapping up a day's work in Shanghai. Your life-sized image will be projected,which makes your colleagues see you as if you were sitting with them. It's a bit surreal(超现实的)for them to see you in the morning light given that it's dark on the Bund, Shanghai's waterfront, though the novelty fades after a few uses.

You review the day's cloud-based data from your Shenzhen manufacturing centre, your pilot project in San Diego, and your QA team in Melbourne. The massive datasets are collected in realtime from every piece of equipment and have been beautifully summarized by your company's AI. All these facilities are closely maintained and operated via a skilled predictive analytics platform. Pleased with the team's progress, you end the call and ease into a good book. This is the future and it will be here sooner than you think.

1. What will happen when you dress yourself according to the text?

A．Your schedule is sent to your boss.

B．Bedroom opens quickly.

C．Your favourite tunes are played.

D．Your coffee is ordered and served.

2. What does the underlined word “tailored” in paragraph 3 mean?

A．Made specially.

B．Mixed similarly.

C．Produced in advance.

D．Invented traditionally.

3. Why can your colleagues see you as if you were sitting face to face though you are at home?

A．Because the team makes progress.

B．Because your images are wrapped up.

C．Because you did it ahead of time.

D．Because your life-sized picture is projected.

4. What is the text mainly talking about?

A．Why we need AI assistants.

B．What life will be like in 2030.

C．How we find meaningful work in the future.

D．How AI helps you lead an important life.

2 . Online eating shows, or Mukbang(直播吃饭), originated in South Korea and have gained popularity globally.

Many hosts of such shows have become popular for their ability to eat large amounts of food. But these shows have also received criticism for their waste of food. While some hosts actually do consume the amount of food shown, others may be faking it.

On Aug 12, CCTV exposed several Chinese hosts who were pretending to eat large amounts of food while on camera, but actually later threw it away.

To discourage this practice, many video and livestreaming platforms, including Douyin, Kuaishow and Bilibili, have removed videos that show food waste, and have promoted messages to “stop food waste and eat reasonably.”

In June 2020, the United Nations warned that the world is on the verge of the worst food crisis in 50 years.

According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, about a third of the world’s food-1.3 billion tons- is wasted every year. In China alone, 50 million tons of food ends up in landfills every year, according to Beijing News.

Recently, campaigns against food waste have been further promoted. In August, President Xi Jinping stressed the need for safeguarding food security and stopping food waste.

According to China Daily, restaurants and catering associations in more than 18 provinces and all 4 municipal cities have issued guidelines to control food waste.

In Shanxi province, local restaurants have been asked to serve half portions to avoid waste. The Wuhan Catering Association proposed that restaurants adopt the “N-1 mode”. For example, a group of 10 diners should only order enough for nine people first. More food is only brought to the table if required.

In addition, a nationwide “Clear Your Plate” campaign has been launched online. Users of Sina Weibo are encouraged to share photos or videos of empty plates after finishing their meals.

Meanwhile, new laws are also being considered, according to China daily. “We will make new laws that give clear instructions on avoiding food waste,” said Zhang Guilong from the legislative Affairs Committee of the National People’s Congress. The instructions will be detailed in every year of food production, purchasing storage, transportation, processing and consumption, according to Zhang.

1. What is CCTV’s attitude toward online eating shows?

A．Supportive.

B．Critical.

C．Objective.

D．Unclear.

2. What can we infer from Paragraph 4?

A．Most video media are contributing to stopping food waste.

B．We should eat up all the food on the table.

C．It’s hard to carry out "Clear Your Plate campaign.

D．All the videos that show food waste have been removed.

3. What can we do to avoid food waste?

A．We can adopt the “N+1 mode”.

B．We can eat more food than we need.

C．We can choose not to watch online eating shows.

D．We can ask the restaurants to serve us half portions.

4. What’s the passage mainly about?

A．Online eating shows should be banned.

B．New laws should be made to avoid food waste.

C．Measures are being taken to stop food waste.

D．We should share photos or videos of empty plates.

3 . An Aussie family vacation has been saved thanks to a kind-hearted stranger. He helped the stranded (陷于困境的) travelers after learning about their _______on social media.

The Melrose family had been in the middle of a 2, 500-mile road trip across Australia last week when their car_______in the middle of the Northern Territory.

Daryn Melrose, his wife, and two daughters had _______their home in Gippsland with two boats in tow (拖在后面) so they could _______in the national minnow sailing championships in Darwin.

Since the youngsters had spent all year_______for the tournament, they were_______when they realized that all of their efforts would be in vain — with 620 miles standing between them and Darwin, it seemed as if they had no _______ but to give up their _______of competing.

Upon learning about their _______, ABC News made a social media post in the ________ that one of their readers would be willing to________ the Melrose family.

Darwin resident Rodney Sims had been ________ his news feed when he saw the appeal for help and recalled (回想起) a time when he had been in the same situation.

“About 30 years ago, strangely enough, I was in a ________situation with a broken-down car and someone helped me out...this was my time to________,” Sims said.

Sims then jumped in his truck and ________all the way down to where the family was staying in a Tenant Creek motel. After fastening their boats to his ________, he brought the Melroses all the way back to Darwin, ________to a shocking 1,250-mile round-trip journey.

Needless to say, the Melroses were extremely ________by the stranger’s act of kindness.

“What a fantastic effort,” Daryn said.“My daughters and I could not be more________for his efforts,” he added. “They got here ________and are hoping for good results after their competitions.”

1.

A．disadvantages

B．troubles

C．conversations

D．purposes

2.

A．caught up

B．turned up

C．fell down

D．broke down

3.

A．left

B．lost

C．shared

D．abandoned

4.

A．serve

B．survive

C．compete

D．develop

5.

A．training

B．arguing

C．designing

D．searching

6.

A．determined

B．independent

C．heartbroken

D．ashamed

7.

A．reason

B．choice

C．question

D．doubt

8.

A．jobs

B．hobbies

C．members

D．dreams

9.

A．instruction

B．dilemma

C．behavior

D．preference

10.

A．manner

B．theory

C．hope

D．order

11.

A．help

B．expect

C．beat

D．admit

12.

A．preparing for

B．caring about

C．checking with

D．looking through

13.

A．similar

B．defensive

C．common

D．particular

14.

A．speak out

B．give back

C．hold on

D．set out

15.

A．ran

B．cycled

C．walked

D．drove

16.

A．pole

B．machine

C．truck

D．boat

17.

A．exposing

B．increasing

C．spreading

D．amounting

18.

A．amused

B．touched

C．confused

D．embarrassed

19.

A．silent

B．responsible

C．grateful

D．anxious

20.

A．in time

B．in turn

C．in secret

D．in short

4 . Summer is the season of mosquitoes. And mosquito bites are truly the worst-not only are they huge and painful, but they itch(发痒) like nothing else. And once you start scratching (挠), it’s hard to stop.

You can blame female mosquitoes for the trouble we all face. There is something that enters the skin while the mosquito is enjoying its blood meal. This is the protein that leads to the allergic reaction and itching. Basically, our immune systems see the protein as an enemy. This causes the local reaction we see as the bug bite. Our bodies are just particularly sensitive to mosquito bites. Other bug bites may not have the same effect on your immune system. Bees for example, are likely to produce more pain than an itch.

Scratching a mosquito bite is a double-edged sword. It feels so good, but it also makes the itch way worse. When you scratch, you may release more local histamine, the chemical in the skin that causes the itching, and you may also be spreading the allergen under the skin. If you tend to scratch until you bleed you’re putting yourself at risk for skin infections.

You’re not imagining it -mosquito bites do itch more at night. Most people itch more at night because we are less distracted as we try to fall asleep.

If you’ve ever wondered why some mosquito bites itch more than others, it totally depends on your body. Everyone responds differently to mosquito bites. While some people may have a minimal reaction, others may experience serious reaction. It just depends on your body’s immune system. People with so-called atopic traits, who are highly sensitive, are more likely to develop more serious local reactions after the mosquito bites.

1. What accounts for the itch you feel after a mosquito bite?

A．The blood type.	B．The sensitivity of our skin.
C．The change of temperature.	D．The protein from mosquitoes.

2. Why do mosquito bites itch more when scratch them?

A．Scratching them helps the blood to flow quicker.

B．Your skin will be infected after you scratch them.

C．Scratching them causes a special chemical to let out.

D．You focus more on mosquito bites when you are scratching them.

3. Why are some people bothered less by mosquito bites than others?

A．Their body’s immune system is less sensitive to the bites.

B．They pay less attention to the mosquito bites.

C．Their skin is thicker than others.

D．They get used to the bites.

4. What is the text mainly about?

A．The cure for mosquito bites.	B．The itch caused by mosquito bites.
C．Why mosquito bites itch less than bee bites.	D．How people respond to mosquito bites differently.

5 . 阅读下面材料,在空白处填入适当的内容(不多于 3 个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式

As we all know, the Spring Festival is     1     most important festival in China. It is meant     2     (celebrate) the lunar calendar’s new year. During the Spring Festival, family get together and have a big meal in many places.     3     many people like best is setting off fireworks, which is one of the most popular     4     (activity) during the festival, though it may cause air pollution. Dumplings are the most     5     (tradition) food. Children are fond     6     the festival very much, because they can have delicious food and wear new clothes. They can also get some money from their parents, which is given to children for good luck. The Spring Festival     7     (last) about 15 days long when people visit relatives and   friends     8     (happy)with the words “Best Wishes”. Nowadays more and more people are enjoying the Spring Festival around the world. People hold the belief     9     the Spring Festival and other traditional Chinese Festivals will not     10     (replace) by the foreign festivals like Christmas.

6 . Yesterday   I had a walk with a friend in the street. When we were passing by a house, I _____ a BlackBerry cellphone. I picked it up and it still _____ ! I started checking the contact     list and calling numbers. I wanted to   see _____ I could   get   some information   about   the   owner of the   phone. _____, only one   person   answered   and   she didn't   recognize the _____ that I was calling from. In the end, she said, "It is just so nice that   you are trying to _____ whose phone it is."

Since that lady didn't know whose phone it was, my friend _____ me to go back   to the   street. I _____ We went back to the street and to the house _____ which we had found the BlackBerry cellphone.   I _____ the door.   Two   college students _____ and said they hadn't       lost their phones. But when I told them the story and _____ some names on the contact list, one of them said that he _____ had those names so it must be the phone of one of his _____.

They said it was _____ that I took the time to find the _____. I really didn't have anything to say because   in   my mind   I was   just   doing the _____ thing.   I never   considered _____ the phone—it wasn't mine. I immediately tried to find the owner because that is exactly what I would want _____ to do if any of my family members _____ their phones.

1.

A．bought

B．dropped

C．repaired

D．found

2.

A．rang

B．sang

C．worked

D．shook

3.

A．that

B．if

C．what

D．how

4.

A．Probably

B．Interestingly

C．Finally

D．Unluckily

5.

A．number

B．street

C．man

D．name

6.

A．talk about

B．think of

C．find out

D．care about

7.

A．advised

B．pushed

C．helped

D．showed

8.

A．laughed

B．understood

C．argued

D．agreed

9.

A．at the back of

B．in front of

C．on the top of

D．far away from

10.

A．turned to

B．looked for

C．knocked on

D．broke into

11.

A．answered

B．shouted

C．ran

D．passed

12.

A．spelled

B．wrote

C．mentioned

D．remembered

13.

A．sometimes

B．also

C．hardly

D．always

14.

A．kids

B．parents

C．students

D．friends

15.

A．exciting

B．necessary

C．wonderful

D．impossible

16.

A．phone

B．information

C．buyer

D．owner

17.

A．important

B．right

C．strange

D．brave

18.

A．giving

B．borrowing

C．mending

D．keeping

19.

A．them

B．him

C．someone

D．myself

20.

A．lost

B．described

C．needed

D．lent