1 . 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。

I've always loved the ocean. In the    1     (seven) grade,I started volunteering at the Monterey Bay Aquarium in California. I was upset to learn that many sea animals eat plastic garbage,     2     (think)it is food.

I decided to do something     3     (educate) people about this problem. I held presentations at schools to teach kids about plastic waste. I wanted to reach businesses too. I decided that if I learned of a company    4     used a lot of plastic, I'd send it an email urging it to cut back.

One day, I saw a commercial for a health-care company. People in the ad were using plastic straws （吸管）.   I found the contact information of the company    5     emailed its president. I told him how     6     (harm) plastic could be to the environment and asked him to consider using more eco-friendly options. I was so    7     (excite) when he wrote back to me.He said he would make sure that the company cut its use of plastic straws in half.

I kept going. Whenever I heard of businesses using plastic, I'd send an email. One of the biggest companies I wrote to     8     (be) Alaska Airlines Paris. A company     9     (represent) wrote back and told me the airline was switching over     10     plastic to paper cups on all of its 1,200 daily flights.

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。

One Direction was one of the most popular bands, and it was made up of five artists. After years of breaking records, the band started to slow down. In early 2015, it     1     (announce) on Facebook that Zayn Malik, one of the members, would be leaving the band. In his first interview after leaving the band, Zayn Malik said that the reason why he left was     2     it didn't fit his style. And he said he “never     3     (true) spoke to Harry”, his former bandmate and that he had never been under the     4     (impress) they would keep in touch after Malik left the band. “Our relationships     5     (change) since we were in a band together, but I think that's just life,” said Malik. This came as     6     surprise to fans because in the Facebook post announcing his departure, Malik wrote that he had “four friends for life”. In contrast to the pop music of One Direction known for     7     (produce), Malik shared an R&B album in 2016 and his     8     (late) album Nobody Is Listening, in 2021.

Speaking with Vogue UK, he referred     9     One Direction as a “machine”. He discussed the band's sudden rise to fame and busy touring     10     (schedule) by saying, “I wasn't really ever able to enjoy the experience. The machine had gone too fast.”

3 . 阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容 (1个单词) 或括号内单词的正确形式。

Earthquake -proof (抗震的) buildings

There are a number of ways     1     buildings can be made strong enough to stand up to earthquakes. The simplest way is to make them much     2     (strong). A building strong enough not     3     (destroy) by a large earthquake, however, would probably look more like a bunker (地堡) than a nice place to live     4    

So engineers have looked for other ways. One is to make the building that can swing (摇摆) from side to side.     5     is to design it so that it doesn't sit directly on the ground but on something that allows it to move a bit with the earthquake. If only a small part of a building     6     (fall) down in an earthquake, damage can be     7     (great) reduced, so buildings are often designed to do this as well.

However,     8     (make) new earthquake -proof buildings is expensive, but with the     9     (develop) of science and technology more efforts will be made to solve     10     problem in the future.

4 . 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。

Heard of the “metaverse” lately? It has been hard not to. Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg mentioned the latest buzzword (热词) 16 times on a meeting     1     (hold) last month. The future of Facebook, he said, is a metaverse—a virtual environment     2     you can be physically present (身临其境) to hang out, play games, work and create.

But he didn’t coin the term. Neal Stephenson’s 1992 science fiction is regarded the original     3     (inspire) for the concept. Tech giants want to play a role—preferably a     4     (lead) one. Companies ranging from Intel Corp.     5     Unity Software made relevant plans last year. Apple Inc. is reported     6     (work) on AR devices of its own currently.

But a world through VR has plenty of drawbacks. There is still ongoing debate as to     7     prolonged use of VR is safe. Some suggest parents avoid     8     (expose) children to VR as their eyes are still developing. Plus, that its target population interact little with people in real life     9     (cause) concern in the past few years.

Big tech can     10     (eventual) build the metaverse. But consumers will have to look before they leap.

5 . 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。

While English speakers look back to the time of Shakespeare and Milton 400 years ago as a Golden age, Chinese look back far     1     (far), to the Tang dynasty 1, 200 years ago as their Golden age of literature.

A key feature of Chinese poetry is     2     it is concise (简洁的). Each character places a thought, an impression, an image. Emphasis is put on use of rhythm and sometimes in a     3     (balance) look of the characters so that it is     4     (visual) pleasing on paper.

Amazing 48, 000 poems have survived from the many Tang dynasty poets. After the Tang, poets struggled     5     (establish) a modern style that was not rooted in the glories of the past. Later the style of the Song dynasty did become a popular form. So many people enjoy such     6     (popular) because it was more fluent and less rigid than that of the Tang.

Many poems contain specific events from Chinese history, and that makes understanding these poems     7     challenge to non-Chinese. Translating Chinese poems into English     8     (cause) all sorts of problems. For many years, writers have tried to convey the spirit of poems     9     different ways. Although much is lost in translation, the core (核心) meaning can     10     (catch) and appreciated.

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。

The Palace Museum in Beijing released its calendar for 2022 on September 6 although the Year of the Tiger is still more than four months away. “The calendar has become a new way for many people     1     (record) their life,” Chen Lihua, editor-in-chief of the calendar, says.

Though printed calendars seem to have lost     2     (they) functionality in the digital era, the museum s delicate calendar has become     3     item to collect. On each page of the new calendar, a tiger-themed cultural relic of the Palace Museum is introduced,     4     (range) from a jade ornament (翡翠) in the shape of a tiger dating back some 5,000 years     5     paintings created by modern Chinese masters such as Qi Baishi and Zhang Daqian.

“The tiger is     6     stands for strength and energy in traditional Chinese culture.” Chen says, “We want to reflect tiger-related culture from various     7     (aspect).”

As the 2022 Winter Olympics     8     (schedule) to be held in China in February, a section of the calendar will introduce royal winter sports during the Qing Dynasty through art pieces.

In spite of the established reputation, creativity is still     9     (bad) needed for new editions of the annual calendar. Other than new design of pages, augmented (增广的)reality is now being used, making it     10     (access) for readers to have a better view of the moving pictures of cultural relics by scanning QR codes.

10 . Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, used one word that best fits each blank.

Mutton’s Not Just a Winter Delicacy Anymore

Winter is often deemed the best season to eat mutton, but that is not the case in Shanghai.

The annual mutton festival began today in Zhuanghang Town, Fengxian District,     1     highlight of the city’s summer rural tourism market.

Running until August 22, the festival features tasting and cooking events     2     agriculture-related activities.

The history of eating mutton in sanfu,     3     (hot) period of summer, in Zhuanghang dates back to the Yuan Dynasty (1279-1368). The Zhuanghang goat is both delicious and nutritious.

Mutton braised in soy sauce and plain boiled mutton are popular in Zhuanghang during the festival. A must-have accompaniment to mutton is shaojiu (a Chinese rice spirit); the tradition of tasting mutton with shaojiu is listed as an intangible cultural heritage of Shanghai.

Mutton has a reputation for its tender taste, marbled texture, rich flavors and thick soup. According to the principles of traditional Chinese medicine, goat meat, like beef and lamb, is considered a “hot” food and thus     4     (avoid) or taken in smaller quantities on hot sweltering days of summer.

But for hundreds of years, the people of Zhuanghang town in Fengxian district     5     (eat) goat meat during the summer. They eat locally produced goat meat     6     they sip homemade shaojiu or huangjiu (yellow rice wine). This hearty mix of alcohol and goat meat promotes sweating,     7     some traditional medicine practitioners believe helps the body expel toxins and prevent illnesses in the forthcoming winter. Goat meat is also believed to be an excellent way of building up “energy” in the body that will last through the winter season. That’s why eateries in Zhuanghang are usually packed with diners during summer.

Li Yingchun, boss of a local goat meat restaurant in Zhuanghang, claims that his restaurant receives 8,000 to 10,000 customers on average every weekday. The number     8     reach as high as 12,000 on weekends, according to a daily report.

The Fengxian District Culture and Tourism Bureau said it is with the help of the traditional festival which caters to the travel, dining, entertaining and leisure demand of tourists     9     rural revitalization will be achieved.

    10     Zhuanghang, Zhangze Town in Songjiang District also has the tradition of eating mutton in sanfu. Its own mutton festival kicks off on Saturday and runs until October.