1 . An old car, a few dollars in the pocket, and a sense of adventure. That’s all Tony and Maureen Wheeler needed for the
It was too amazing an experience to
Lonely Planet has gone on to
“There’s a whole world of amazing sights, hotels and travel companies out there—and we want to tell you which ones we
Tony and Maureen are continuing to travel and devote much of their spare time to
| A．savings | B．travel | C．ward | D．anniversary |
| A．divorced | B．delayed | C．married | D．separated |
| A．difficult | B．possible | C．astonished | D．meaningful |
| A．made sure | B．made up | C．made it | D．made sense |
| A．keep to | B．link to | C．turn to | D．contribute to |
| A．Forced | B．Disturbed | C．Anticipated | D．Encouraged |
| A．sold | B．acquired | C．proceeded | D．purchased |
| A．comes from | B．results in | C．looks into | D．applies to |
| A．wonderful | B．mysterious | C．actual | D．ambiguous |
| A．fight | B．compete | C．become | D．manage |
| A．printing | B．drawing | C．reading | D．writing |
| A．couples | B．travelers | C．foreigners | D．photographers |
| A．appreciate | B．own | C．store | D．think |
| A．judge | B．receive | C．accept | D．read |
| A．sure | B．pleased | C．correct | D．afraid |
| A．warning | B．telling | C．reminding | D．grabbing |
| A．exact | B．stable | C．reliable | D．simple |
| A．successful | B．urgent | C．contrary | D．charitable |
| A．country | B．world | C．office | D．company |
| A．achieve | B．do | C．start | D．claim |
2 . Deng couldn’t sleep. Tomorrow was English class. Everyone was supposed to talk about their most precious possession (宝贵的财富). He’d heard the other kids talking. Everyone
Deng had
Perhaps he could be sick. But he knew his mother wouldn’t
Suddenly he had an idea! Mr. Petrovski’s gold watch.
The next day, Deng found something on the back of the watch. It was almost
It was Deng’s
There was
| A．made | B．had | C．brought | D．borrowed |
| A．nothing | B．something | C．anything | D．everything |
| A．serious | B．afraid | C．nervous | D．proud |
| A．Instead | B．Besides | C．However | D．Otherwise |
| A．teach | B．mind | C．admire | D．allow |
| A．disappoint | B．disturb | C．follow | D．satisfy |
| A．Gradually | B．Surely | C．Truly | D．Strangely |
| A．agree | B．promise | C．pretend | D．dream |
| A．given up | B．thrown away | C．run away | D．worn away |
| A．secret | B．turn | C．message | D．error |
| A．leave | B．buy | C．lend | D．show |
| A．because | B．though | C．unless | D．until |
| A．noise | B．strength | C．warmth | D．silence |
| A．clap | B．wash | C．shake | D．raise |
| A．Honour | B．Confidence | C．Family | D．Friendship |
3 . One Sunday, Mark decided to go sailing in his boat with his friend Dan, but Dan happened to be away. Dan’s brother John offered to go instead though he did not know anything about sailing. Mark agreed and they set out to sea.
Soon they found themselves in a thick fog. Mark was sure they would be hit by a big ship. Fortunately he saw a large buoy (浮标) through the fog and decided to tie the boat to it for safety. As he was getting onto the buoy, however, he dropped the wet rope. The boat moved away in the fog carrying John, who did not know how to use the radio. He drifted (漂流) about and was not seen until twelve hours later.
Mark spent the night on the buoy. In the early morning he fell asleep. He was having a bad dream when a shout woke him up. A ship, the Good Hope, came up and he climbed onto it and thanked the captain. The captain told him that John had been picked up by another ship and the ship’s captain had sent out a message. “Without the message I would not have found you on the buoy,” he said.
1. Why didn’t Mark and Dan go sailing together?| A．Dan asked his brother to go instead. | B．Mark would like to go with John. |
| C．Mark was in some other place. | D．Dan was in some other place. |
| A．there wasn’t room for both John and Mark on the buoy |
| B．Mark thought it safe to stay on the buoy but John didn’t |
| C．John couldn’t control the boat and drifted away |
| D．John had to stay in the boat to radio for help |
| A．John radioed to the Good Hope to get him. |
| B．John told people where to look for him. |
| C．He shouted when he caught sight of the Good Hope. |
| D．The captain saw him as the fog cleared. |
4 . The flying fox is not a fox at all. It is an extra large bat that has got a fox’s head, and that feeds on fruit instead of insects (昆虫). Like all bats, flying foxes hang themselves by their toes when at rest, and travel in great crowds when out flying. A group will live in one place for years. Sometimes several hundred of them occupy (占据) a single tree. As they return to the tree toward sunrise in the morning, they quarrel among themselves and fight for the best places until long after daylight.
Flying foxes have babies once a year, giving birth to only one each time. At first the mother has to carry the baby on her breast wherever she goes. Later she leaves it hanging up, and brings back food for it to eat. Sometimes a baby bat falls down to the ground and squeaks (尖叫) for help. Then the older ones swoop (俯冲) down and try to pick it up. If they fail to do so, it will die. Often hundreds of dead baby bats can be found lying on the ground at the foot of a tree.
1. The passage tells us that there is no difference between the flying fox and the ordinary bat in________.| A．their size | B．the way they rest |
| C．the kind of food they eat | D．their appearance |
| A．lose a lot of their young |
| B．fight and kill a lot of themselves |
| C．move from place to place constantly |
| D．double (翻一番) their number every year |
| A．fly out toward the sun | B．look for a new resting place |
| C．come back to their home | D．go out and look for food |
| A．when there is not enough food | B．only when it is dark |
| C．to protect their homes from outsiders (外来者) | D．to occupy the best resting places |
1.写信目的；2. 个人优势； 3.希望获准。
参考词汇：2022年北京冬奥会 the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics
注意：1.词数100左右； 2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
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6 . Having a microchip implanted in a man’s brain may be common in sci-fi movie plots, but it may soon become an actual possibility.
Elon Musk -- a US tech tycoon, founder of Space X -- has been working on this technology. On Aug 28, Musk gave a display of the chip, which was implanted into the head of a pig named Gertrude. The chip, developed by Musk’s company Neuralink, is just as small as the size of a coin. But don’t let its size fool you. The tiny chip has over 3,000 electrodes(电极) attached to flexible threads(线), which can monitor about 1,000 neurons(神经元). It collects neural signals from an area of the brain, and then wirelessly transmits those signals to nearby computers, according to MSN. That enabled researchers to monitor Gertrude’s brain activity while she was walking around in the display.
Though the technology is still in its early stage, it is encouraging for humans. This technology would solve a lot of brain injuries and is essential for AI symbiosis(共存关系), which will allow the human brain to combine with an artificial intelligence. When the device can be applied to humans, its main goal will be to help those who have mobility difficulties. Musk hopes this technology can also be used to help those with hearing and eyesight issues.
Although such a device could repair those problems, putting it into practice is by no means a piece of cake. Currently, the device can transmit signals from about 500 neurons in the pig’s brain. Compared to 80 billion neurons in a human brain, this number is extremely tiny. And to cover the whole human brain also means the electrodes have to be much smaller.
Also, implanting the chip into the brain poses a potential danger. There is a risk of the immune system attacking this foreign body. Right now, the hope of controlling the brain by controlling just a few neurons seems overly optimistic. “There are still so many technological challenges, especially the possible risks it may cause, to overcome before Neuralink can put its devices to the purposes,” Yuan Lanfeng, an associate professor at the University of Science and Technology of China, told China Daily.
1. What do we know about Elon Musk’s microchip？| A．It was inspired by sci-fi movie plots. | B．It is able to collect wireless signals. |
| C．It is tiny in size but powerful in function. | D．It has been implanted into a human’s brain, |
| A．The operation of the chip in Gertrude’s brain. |
| B．The attachment of electrodes to flexible threads. |
| C．The development of neurons inside Gertrude’s brain. |
| D．The transmission of signals from a nearby computer |
| A．To monitor animals’ brain activity. |
| B．To help people with mobility problems. |
| C．To develop a cure for immune system problems. |
| D．To contribute to the research on AI technologies. |
| A．Disapproving. | B．Indifferent. | C．Optimistic. | D．Concerned. |
7 . The 2021 Nobel Prize in literature has been awarded to the 73-year-old novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah, for his firm and passionate descriptions of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gap between cultures and continents.
Born in Zanzibar in 1948, Gurnah arrived in England as a refugee in the late 1960s. At the age of 21, he began to write in English. He worked as a professor of English and Postcolonial Literature at the University of Kent until his recent retirement this year.
Gurnah is the first black African author to have won the award since Wole Soyinka in 1986. He has published 10 novels and a number of short stories. The theme of the refugee’s sufferings runs through his works. His 1994 novel Paradise, which told the story of a boy growing up in Tanzania in the early 20th century, won the Booker Prize and marked his breakthrough as a novelist. And his most recent work Afterlives picks up the narrative of Paradise and takes place during the German colonization of Africa. His novels open our eyes to a culturally diversified East Africa unfamiliar to many in other parts of the world.
Gurnah said his award would mean issues such as the refugee crisis and colonialism, which he had experienced, would be “discussed”. “These are things that are with us every day. People are dying; people are being hurt around the world. We must deal with these issues in the kindest way.” He said, “The world is much more violent than it was in the 1960s, so there is now greater pressure on the countries that are safe. They unavoidably draw more people.”
In an interview in 2016, when asked if he would call himself an “author of postcolonial and/or world literature”, Gurnah replied, “I would not use any of those words. I wouldn’t call myself a something writer of any kind. In fact, I am not sure that I would call myself anything apart from my name.”
1. Which is the key factor for Abdulrazak Gurnah to win the prize?| A．His telling the colonialism truth. | B．His outstanding writing skill. |
| C．His excellent novel Paradise. | D．His deep love for his homeland. |
| A．He values his fame as a novelist. |
| B．He is the first black author to win the Nobel Prize. |
| C．He focuses mainly on the spread of Africa culture. |
| D．He arouses the public’s attention on the refugee issue. |
| A．Enthusiastic and kind. | B．Courageous and committed. |
| C．Responsible and generous. | D．Ambitious and professional. |
| A．A Particular Interview with Abdulrazak Gurnah |
| B．Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Battle against Colonialism |
| C．Abdulrazak Gurnah Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature |
| D．Some Facts People should Know about 2021 Nobel Prize |
8 . Don’t you want to talk less and smile more? That seems to be Amazon’s vision for the future of the smart home. According to the company, talking to their devices is just a temporary stage. Next, their gadgets (小玩意) will just know what we want and do it for us without a single command. To plot this route, the consumer tech giant showed off a series of new gadgets at its annual hardware event in September, 2020.
This vision of a smart home has been the road map for home automation for decades. A true smart home doesn’t just react to commands, it can foresee what will happen and take action accordingly. This could include lights switching on when you arrive home, heating turning off when the house is empty, or security drones (无人机) activating when somebody breaks in. Amazon says it’s ready for this domestic revolution, even if it’s still a few decades off.
Connectivity is the guarantee of a true smart home. The updated Echo smart speaker line that was recently displayed doesn’t just have a showy new look, it comes with a suite of tech to keep everything connected. This extended network, which will be launched in the US in later 2021, is designed to support expanding the smart home out to the smart garden and the smart driveway and beyond to the smart neighbourhood.
At the event, Amazon also showed off an actual robot. The Ring Always Home Cam ($ 250, coming in 2021) was perhaps the most fancy offering from the event, and certainly raised a fair number of eyebrows. At roughly 13cm high, the Always Home Cam is a drone with a camera. It rises up from its docking station and flies on pre-set paths. If a security event is detected, it will send warnings to your phone.
Ultimately, a true smart home won’t just rely on voice commands or drones. The less aggressive tech such as sensors, computer vision, and AI will work together to respond to our needs without violating our privacy. But, as Limp says, the true smart home “is a long-term vision, and there’s still lots to be done to make that a reality”.
1. According to Amazon’s vision, a true smart home ______.| A．is already available to the consumers last September |
| B．will be active and predictive |
| C．will be limited to indoor activities |
| D．can only act at its owner’s request |
| A．it only connects things in one’s own home | B．it is necessity for a true smart home |
| C．it has an attractive new look | D．it enjoys great popularity |
| A．Call the police. | B．Detect invaders. | C．Send messages | D．Take photos. |
| A．Introducing the company of Amazon. |
| B．Advertising the benefits of the smart home. |
| C．Talking about how Echo smart speaker line works. |
| D．What the true smart home is like and some related gadgets. |
James Selton was one of the rudest boys in the village where he lived: If a person in the street was well dressed, he would cry out, “Dandy(花花公子)!” If a person’s clothes were dirty or torn, he would throw stones at him, and annoy him in every way.
One afternoon, just as the school was over, a stranger passed through the village. His dress was plain and somewhat old, but neat and clean. He carried a walking stick in his hand, on the end of which was a parcel, and he wore a round hat.
No sooner had James seen the stranger than he winked to his playmates, and said, “Now for some fun!” He then silently went toward the stranger from behind, knocked off his hat, and ran away.
The man turned and saw him, but James was out of hearing before the man could speak. The stranger put on his hat, and went on his way. Again James approached; but this time, the man caught him by the arm, and held him tightly. However, he contented himself with looking James a moment in the face, and then pushed him away. As soon as the naughty boy found himself free again, he began to throw dirt and stones at the stranger.
But James was very frightened when the man was struck on the head by a brick and badly hurt. All the boys ran away, and James slipped across the fields to his home.
As he drew near the house, his sister Caroline came out to meet him, holding up a beautiful gold chain and some new books for him to see. She told James that their uncle, who had been away several years, had come home, and was now in the house; that he had bought beautiful presents for the whole family; that he had left his carriage at the inn, a mile or two off and walked on foot so as to surprise his brother, their father.
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。
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She said while he was coming through the village, some wicked boys threw stones at him.
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His uncle went up to him but quickly stepping back he cried,
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10 . On September 2nd, BUAA (北京航空航天大学) welcomed its first 2021 student. His name is Xing Yifan, coming together with his parents ahead of time.
"Yifan is 18 years old, but he weighs only 18 kilograms. When 6 months old, he suffered from LAMA2 (渐冻症), a type of disease that no more than a hundred people have got in the country. However, with his strong will, he made one amazing achievement after another in learning. In this year's college entrance exam, he entered BUAA with a score of 645.
Because of the illness, Yifan can only sit alone for a while, unable to stand and walk like other children. In class, he could only put his head on the table and his eyes can only scan half the pages of the book. He couldn't turn over the book with one hand. And he could only sit and listen to a class for up to 30 minutes, with the remaining 15 minutes to lie down to listen to his teacher.
But these did not scare Yifan, with only a little muscle strength left in his hands, he finished one test paper after another, more than 20 a day, often till one or two o'clock in the morning. Finally, he successfully completed the 2021 college entrance examination.
To live is much more difficult than others. Why does he have to learn? The family said because of the serious disease, he was deprived (剥夺) of the right to walk, run, jump, but he can no longer be deprived of the right to education. Xing Yifan decided to let himself be Hawking of China, and change his life with knowledge.
He came to BUAA and stayed in the love dormitory on the first floor. Xing Yifan said he was feeling particularly warm with all the help. He was expecting new college life and hoped to know more students, and take part in lots of activities. Life kisses him with pain, but he sings.
1. What can Xing Yifan do according to the text?| A．Sit alone for 45 minutes at a time. |
| B．Walk and run faster than others. |
| C．Turn over the book with one hand. |
| D．Lie down to listen during the class. |
| A．Easy-going. | B．Warm-hearted. |
| C．Hard-working. | D．Simple-minded. |
| A．His parents didn't support his learning. |
| B．He faced up to his difficulty positively. |
| C．He was forced to learn by his parents. |
| D．He was once refused to learn at school. |
| A．BUAA. a university filled with love and care |
| B．A disabled boy, being the first student of BUAA |
| C．LAMA2, attacking no more than a hundred people |
| D．A disabled boy, making a surprising achievement |
