1 . 阅读下列短文，根据短文内容填空，在未给提示词的空白处仅填写 1 个适当的单词，在给出提示词的空白处用括号内所给词的正确形式填空。

As a   high school student, Abreu, 16, took part in different   voluntary    1     (activity). These included     helping staff at the public library, doing landscape work in public parks and serving customers at a local restaurant. He thanked his parents for inspiring him    2     (do) the right thing. He remembered when he was about 6 years old, his mother invited a disadvantaged neighborhood boy to have dinner. Upon observing the boy’s happiness, he came away with a sense of helping as many   people as   he   could. Since then,   he    3     (become) an active   volunteer in various organizations. He values the experience a lot.

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。

Chang' e 5, China's     1     (large) and most sophisticated lunar probe, consisted of four main components-an orbiter, lander, ascender and reentry capsule. It     2     (launch) by a Long March 5 heavy-lift carrier rocket on Nov. 24 at the Wenchang Space Launch Center in Hainan province. On Dec. 1, the lander-ascender combination landed on the moon,     3     (become) the world's third spacecraft to touch down on the lunar surface this century. Shortly after the landing, the probe soon began to use a drill to obtain underground samples.

3 . 假设你是红星中学高一学生李华。你的美国笔友 Jim 对你校社团的近期活动非常感兴趣。请你用英语给他写一封信，向他介绍你们社团为边远地区的学生提供在线课程的情况。具体内容包括：
1. 该活动的目的；
2. 该活动涉及的内容；
3. 你参与该活动的感受。注意：1. 词数不少于 50；
2. 开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。提示词：在线课程 online courses
Dear Jim,
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Yours,

Li Hua

4 . Most people have been taught that losing weight is a matter of simple math. Cut calories—specifically 3,500 calories, and you’ll lose a pound. But as it turns out, experts are learning that this decades-old strategy is actually pretty misguided. “This idea of ‘a calorie in and a calorie out’ when it comes to weight loss is not only outdated, it’s just wrong,” says Dr. Fatima Cody Stanford, an obesity specialist at Harvard Medical School. The truth is that even careful calorie calculations don’t always yield(产生) uniform results.

How your body burns calories depends on a number of factors. Three factors affect how your body processes calories.

Your gut microbiome (肠道微生物). Trillions of organisms live in your gut, and the important types may influence how many calories your body absorbs from food. This may occur because some types of organisms are able to break down and use more calories from certain foods than other types of organisms. Researchers have found that people who are naturally thin have different types of organisms living inside them than those who are overweight.

Your metabolism (新陈代谢). Each body has a “set point” that governs weight, says Dr. Stanford. This set point reflects several factors, including your genes, your environment, and your behaviors. A region at the base of your brain stands guard to keep your body weight from dipping below that set point—which is not really a bonus if you’re trying to lose weight.

The type of food you eat. Your food choices may also influence your calorie intake, and not just because of their specific calorie content. One 2019 study published in Cell Metabolism found that eating processed foods seems to spur people to eat more calories compared with eating unprocessed foods.

If counting calories isn’t a dependable way to manage your weight, what can you do to shed extra pounds? Dr.

Stanford recommends the following.

Focus on diet quality. When planning your meals, focus on choosing unprocessed foods, including lean meats, whole grains, and lots of fruits and vegetables in their natural form.

Exercise regularly. Aim to get at least 150 minutes of moderate-intensity exercise each week. Moderate exercise is done at a level where you can talk, but not sing.

Consult a professional. “A lot of people believe it’s a moral failing if they are unable to lose weight,” says Dr. Stanford. But it’s not. As with other medical conditions, many people will need help from a doctor. Successful weight loss may require more than just diet and exercise. “Only 2% of people who meet the criteria for the use of anti-obesity medications actually get them. This means that 98% of people who could be treated aren’t,” she says, “Don’t be afraid to seek help if you need it.”

1. What can we infer from Paragraph 1?

A．Old theories actually mislead us.

B．Losing weight lies in losing calorie.

C．Calorie calculations lead to good results.

D．Losing weight by losing calorie is outdated.

2. The processing of calories is affected by how you ______.

A．choose the types of food you consume

B．focus on the quality of your diet

C．adjust your brain to the “set point”

D．reduce the organisms living in your gut

3. The underlined word “shed” in Paragraph 6 means “______”.

A．weigh	B．produce
C．lose	D．cost

4. It is implied in the passage that ______.

A．cutting calories is essential for weight loss

B．losing weight can be double-edged

C．healthy eating keeps you losing weight

D．a healthy lifestyle is key to weight loss

5 . 阅读下列短文，根据短文内容填空，在未给提示词的空白处仅填写 1 个适当的单词，在给出提示词的空白处用括号内所给词的正确形式填空。

Nowadays, millions of people log onto TikTok (Dou Yin in Chinese) to watch something    1     (call) Mukbang (Chibo in Chinese). It might seem strange,     2       these videos are surprisingly satisfying to watch. It     3       (allow) people to “eat” with others even though they are at home alone. However, there is a dark side to Mukbang. The way people eat food in most of these videos isn’t healthy. Some Mukbangers eat too much food and it makes their audience uncomfortable. This could encourage bad habits    4     might lead to serious eating problems.

6 . 阅读下列短文，根据短文内容填空，在未给提示词的空白处仅填写 1 个适当的单词，在给出提示词的空白处用括号内所给词的正确形式填空。

Why is the Forbidden City called “purple forbidden city”? If you have visited it, you may find that the palace    1     (paint)   mainly   in   two   colors,   yellow   and   red.   Red,   the   color   of   fire,   shows   happiness   and    2     (succeed), while yellow, the color of the sun, was only used by the emperors, who were regarded as the Sons of Heaven. Ancient Chinese astronomers believed that Polaris (北极星), “Ziwei star”, was in the center of heaven and the heavenly emperor lived in the Ziwei Palace. So the palace for the emperor on Earth should be like the one in heaven. That is    3     “purple” is in the name.

7 . A walking tour in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado

Rocky Mountain National Park covers about 41square miles with dozens of mountain peaks. More than 250 species of birds will delight your senses and more than 900 types of wildflowers will keep you marveling(感到惊奇) at their beauty.

Your Colorado walking tour officially begins. To ensure that you arrive on time we strongly suggest that you arrive one day before the departure date.

Day 1   The trip begins at 1: 00 p. m. Travel by bus to Rocky Mountain National Park. Check in our accommodations, enjoy a fresh lunch and head into the park for our first hike.

Day 2   During today’s hike we will cover 3.8 miles. We’ll stop to enjoy both “The Pool” and Fern Falls on our way to Fern Lake. You’ll enjoy every minute of today’s hike and then spend a relaxing evening in the town of Estes Park.

Day 3   Glacier Gorge, the main section of the Park, has some of the most beautiful attractions in the Park. Today we’ll push our boots up the trail to Black Lake, about 4.7 miles. With views of Longs Peak, we’ll hike past a major waterfall and several smaller lakes before arriving at Black Lake.

Day 4   Today we’ll head to Wild Basin, southeast of the main park area, for a hike to Ouzel Lake. Wild Basin traverses(穿过) through Aspen forest past rushing streams, to a high mountain lake where we will enjoy a picnic lunch.

Day 5   The Flat Top Mountain area will delight your senses with thick forests and meadows of abundant wildflowers. Our feet will carry us for about 8.8 miles.

Day 6   Catch the Estes Park Shuttle to Denver International Airport or continue on your own to other adventures!

1. Where will people sleep on the second day?

A．By Black Lake.	B．By Fern Lake.
C．On Flat Top Mountain.	D．In the town of Estes Park.

2. When will people hike in Glacier Gorge?

A．Day 1.

B．Day 2.

C．Day 3.

D．Day 4.

3. What can people enjoy in the Flat Top Mountain area?

A．Lots of flowers.	B．Major waterfall.
C．Rushing streams.	D．A lake.

4. Who will be interested in the text?

A．The people who like hiking.	B．The teachers.
C．The gardeners.	D．The managers.

8 . Over the past half-century, scientists have settled on two reasonable theories related to baby talk. One states that a young child’s brain needs time to master language. The second theory states that a child’s vocabulary level is the key factor. According to this theory, some key steps have to occur in a logical sequence before sentence formation occurs.

In 2007, researchers at Harvard University, who were studying the two theories, found a clever way to test them. More than 20,000 internationally adopted children enter the U.S. each year. Many of them no longer hear their birth language after they arrive, and they must learn English more or less the same way infants(婴儿) do. International adoptees don’t take classes or use a dictionary when they are learning their new tongue. All of these factors make them an ideal population in which researchers could test these competing theories about how language is learned.

Neuroscientists Jesse Snedeker, Joy Geren and Carissa Shafto studied the language development of 27 children adopted from India between the ages of two and five years. These children began learning English at an older age than US natives and had more mature brains. Even so, just as American-born infants, their first English sentences consisted of single words. The adoptees then went through the same stages as typical American-born children, though at a faster clip. The adoptees and native children started combining words in sentences when their vocabulary reached the same sizes, further suggesting that what matters is not how old you are or how mature your brain is, but the number of words you know.

This finding—that having more mature brains did not help the adoptees avoid the baby talk stage—suggests that babies speak in baby talk not because they have baby brains, but because they have only just started learning and need time to gain enough vocabulary. Before long, the one-word stage will give way to the two-word stage and so on. Learning how to chat like an adult is a gradual process.

But this finding also raises an even older and more difficult question. Adult immigrants who learn a second language rarely achieve the same proficiency in a foreign language as the average child raised as a native speaker. Researchers have long suspected there is a “critical period” for language development, after which it cannot proceed with full success to fluency. Yet we still do not understand this critical period or know why it ends.

1. What is the writer’s main purpose in Paragraph 2?

A．To argue that culture affects the way children learn a language.

B．To give reasons why adopted children were used in the study.

C．To reject the view that adopted children need two languages.

D．To justify a particular approach to language learning.

2. What does the Harvard finding show?

A．Language learning takes place in ordered steps.

B．Some children need more conversation than others.

C．Children with more mature brains skip baby talk stage.

D．Vocabulary makes little difference to sentence formation.

3. When the writer says “critical period”, he means a period when_______.

A．children start to learn a second language

B．immigrants want to learn another language

C．adults need to be taught by native speakers

D．language learners may achieve native-like fluency

4. What does this passage mainly talk about?

A．What is baby talk.

B．Why babies learn a second language easily.

C．What affects children’s language development.

D．How children expand their vocabulary gradually.

9 . Many people have felt isolated and afraid during the pandemic this year, and the Weber family is no different. But 11-year-old Emerson Weber has a hobby that has turned into a remarkable antidote. Emerson writes letters — lots of letters. One day last spring, she even wrote to Doug, her mail carrier. “I want to thank you for taking my letters and delivering them,” she said. “You are very important to me.”

In no time at all, Emerson’s simple thank-you note was shared around the United States Postal Service (USPS). Many of the workers who read it wrote her back. Her father was so moved by the response that he took to Twitter to share his appreciation for the outpouring of love.

“Emerson, my 11-year-old, is on a bit of a wild ride with the USPS and our local mail carrier, Doug.” The next day after Emerson gave Doug the letter, a package arrived with two letters. Doug had shared Emerson’s letter with his supervisor, Sara, and they both wanted to share how touched they were.

The next week, they got a letter addressed to “Mr. and Mrs. Weber”. It seemed that Sara had shared Emerson’s note as a “Token of Thanks” in the internal USPS newsletter, and there were postal folks that wanted to thank her.

That day, the family saw Doug getting out of the truck with two BOXES of letters from around the country. These letters were so deeply human. They were filled with family, pets, hobbies, community, and an overwhelming sense of kindness.

But there was something more in these letters. People felt seen — some for the first time in a long time. “I work alone in a small rural post office ...” “My kids all live far away ...” “Not a lot of people think about how hard we work ...”

One wrote, “I can’t tell you how much it means to read your letter ...”

With dozens of new pen pals, Emerson did what she does best.

She wrote.

She acknowledged that there WERE a lot of letters, but she read them all.

“I’m not sharing this because I’m a proud dad,” her father wrote on Twitter. “I’m sharing it because it is relatively easy, if we take the time, to give others the one thing they need to be well — human connection. Emerson does this boldly. Her lesson to me was simple: It’s the small things that matter most.”

Send a letter. Make a call. Take a step of boldness. For yourself or for others.

1. Mr. Weber shared Emerson’s story on Twitter because ________.

A．he was moved by the readers’ response

B．he wanted more people to read the letter

C．he took great pride in being Emerson’s father

D．he was thankful to Doug for delivering letters

2. What do the letters in the passage symbolize?

A．A sense of community.

B．The company of family.

C．A bond between people.

D．The outpouring of courage.

3. Which of the following words can best describe Emerson?

A．Selfless and patient.	B．Smart and mature.
C．Determined and proud.	D．Loving and grateful.

10 . An Unexpected Gift

Twelve-year-old Mathew Flores is different from other kids. He loves junk (垃圾) mail, and these advertisements were the only reading materials _______ to him. Once he asked his mailman if he could offer him some.

The question _______ the mailman. He asked the boy the reason, and then recorded his _______ in his Facebook. “Today while delivering mail, I saw a boy reading ads, and he asked me for extra mail. Actually he wants to go to the library, but his family is very poor and can’t _______ the bus.”

The mailman then asked his Facebook friends if they could _______ some books for the boy. He wrote, “Most kids want electronic products! But what he wants is books. It’s great to see his rare _______, and you may have seen him smile when I said I could help him!” “He is counting on me,” he concluded. “So I am counting on you!”

The mailman thought the Facebook post might _______ 50 to 60 books. But his _______ was passed on quickly. People from around the world, including the UK, Australia and India, have sent books. Hundreds of books have been delivered to the boy’s door, with hundreds more _______ on their way.

When books first started arriving, Flores was shocked by what happened. “I thought they were ________, but they indeed were for me.” He says that he can’t wait to share the books with other kids, and has promised to read every one.

1.

A．natural

B．available

C．common

D．familiar

2.

A．frightened

B．disappointed

C．surprised

D．amused

3.

A．response

B．effort

C．decision

D．comment

4.

A．own

B．take

C．share

D．afford

5.

A．adjust

B．examine

C．spare

D．publish

6.

A．desire

B．effect

C．purpose

D．value

7.

A．give away

B．bring in

C．take on

D．put up

8.

A．belief

B．spirit

C．secret

D．request

9.

A．only

B．nearly

C．still

D．thus

10.

A．mistaken

B．helpless

C．unusual

D．awkward