1 . 阅读下面材料， 在空白处填入适当的内容(不多千 3 个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。

Returning to the United States in 1965, Waters found that sometimes it seemed       1     (likely) for her to get just fresh bread and jam as America was a land of frozen food.   She began to miss the happy days       2     she spent enjoying delicious food and cafe in France.

One day, an idea     3     (occur) to her that she could open a little restaurant and thus Chez Panisse came       4     being in 1971.     Most   ingredients   Waters   could     find     were   from     5     (industry) farms. All these ingredients tasted totally different from     6       in France, which sparked     7     search for suppliers who would grow good ingredients. “I was looking for taste, but I couldn’t find taste until I met the     8     (nineteen) local organic farmer.”Water recalls. After she went through some upsand downs,     9       (ultimate), her devotion to making the best food paid off. Throughout its         10     (exist), Chez Panisse has earned the highest praise of many critics and sometimes is ranked the best restaurant in America.

2 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
1. What was the speaker like as a child?

A．She loved math.

B．She was interested in spelling.

C．She was addicted to word games.

2. How did the speaker become a successful word game player?

A．She found spelling is similar to math.

B．She learned to speak several languages.

C．She met a great tutor in elementary school.

3. With whom did the speaker first play the game?

A．Her family.

B．Her classmates.

C．Online players.

4. Why did the speaker quit gaming?

A．She became bored with playing games.

B．She became too involved in the games.

C．She got married and became a mother.

3 . 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

A Moment of Kindness

A lioness with her cub (幼崽) was moving around in the jungle searching for their prey(猎物) . While coming out from the den (洞穴), the baby asked her mother, “Mum, why are we going out for prey when a deer is already at home? Let us eat it first, then we can search for the next.”

The mother smiled and licked her child with love and said, “No, my love! We can’t eat that deer because it has no choice but to seek our help. He is wounded and helpless. We must help him.”

The baby cub was surprised and questioned again, “Why so, Mum? That’s our food.”

“Honey, you are absolutely right! It’s our food, but this particular deer is well aware that if we want, we can kill him in a second. Do you think that he deserves to be killed when he has come to us in a hope that we would protect him?”

The baby cub couldn’t understand her mother. It kept quiet and paced with its mother. That was not a lucky day for them. They didn’t get any prey even after a long search. At last, they came back to their den.

The deer on the other hand was terrified of his own decision. He was attacked by a hunter and managed to escape. While running for his life, he saw the den and without a second thought entered it. When he realized that he was in the lion’s den, he gave up the idea of running back again. At that time, the lioness and her cub were present over there. The deer stared at the lioness with a pitiful look. Tears were rolling down.

The lioness understood his hopeless condition. She came closer to the deer, smelled it and slowly moved out of the den with her cub for hunting.

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When they returned without any food, the cub repeated the same question.

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The lioness came close to the deer after the cub fell asleep.

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4 . Rogers saw a woman sitting on the side of the road. She had long hair and expressive eyes. What he didn’t see was that she was also in ________. Her right leg was injured. She tried to stand but failed. So she dragged herself to the ________, like a badly wounded animal preparing to die. She’d called a ________, but after 30 minutes, her friend said he was lost.

At first, Rogers tried to play it cool. He ________ to ride by-at a slower speed and ________ asked if he could help. The woman ________ her problem and asked for help.

With Rogers holding her ________, she tried to hop(单脚跳) along, but the pain was too severe. After a brief discussion, Rogers decided to ________ her down the 0.6-mile trail over his shoulder.

To avoid the ________, the pair introduced themselves, discussed life goals and future plans. ________ laughed a lot along the way. 40 minutes later, they arrived at the parking lot, where her friend was waiting.

Rogers ________ loaded her into the back seat. Though she was in pain, she looked at Rogers through expectant eyes, wishing he would make the first move. Rogers also wanted to ask for her number, but felt that the ________ wasn’t right. After she was rushed to the hospital, Rogers went to get his bike.

At the hospital, the girl looked for Rogers on Facebook. No luck. At the same time, Rogers was ________ her online, with no luck, either. On the trail, they’d fallen so deeply into conversation that such details as last names had seemed ________. So she contacted the local newspaper, which published her story the next day. Rogers happened to read the article.

Immediately, he got in touch with her and arranged their first ________: a trip to the same spot after her recovery.

1.

A．shape

B．love

C．shock

D．pain

2.

A．roadside

B．tree

C．car

D．meeting

3.

A．doctor

B．friend

C．policeman

D．coach

4.

A．pretended

B．stopped

C．wanted

D．forgot

5.

A．occasionally

B．secretly

C．rudely

D．casually

6.

A．solved

B．hid

C．explained

D．missed

7.

A．arm

B．leg

C．head

D．hair

8.

A．throw

B．carry

C．kick

D．drag

9.

A．delay

B．heat

C．embarrassment

D．misunderstanding

10.

A．All

B．She

C．He

D．Both

11.

A．violently

B．carefully

C．abruptly

D．impatiently

12.

A．payment

B．ceremony

C．timing

D．answer

13.

A．talking with

B．searching for

C．turning to

D．fighting with

14.

A．unimportant

B．curious

C．interesting

D．serious

15.

A．conference

B．marriage

C．work

D．date

5 . As a qualified teacher of art and design, Theresa Harwood offers short online courses on drawing and painting to help students both young and old develop into confident artists.

Academic drawing course

This course is for absolute beginners of any age who are not sure on what to do or how to use a pencil. The course will be limited to only six participants, 5 sessions, once a week.

Start date: June 5

Time:10:00 am～11:00 am

Price: $380

Water color painting course

This course is for anyone who is interested in developing skills for water colour painting. Through a series of 6 projects we learn wet on wet and wet on dry. The course will be limited to only twelve participants. 6 sessions, once a week.

Start date: April 23

Time:4:30 pm～5:30 pm

Price: $380

Landscape drawing course

This course is suitable for anyone from 11 to 90 years who are interested in developing skills for landscape drawing. The only requirement of the course is that you want to learn to draw! The course will be limited to only ten participants. 5 sessions, once a week.

Start date: May 24

Time:8:00 pm～9:00 pm

Price: $380

Western art history course

This course is for students, aged between 9 and 12 years. It looks at the fun facts of the key artworks of each art movement and explains why the artists painted certain views or people. The course will be limited to only eight participants. 6 sessions, once a week.

Start date: May 7

Time:10:30 am～11:30 am

Price: $380

These courses have limited spaces and are often sold out quickly, so do book your spot soon!

1. How many students are admitted for each academic drawing course?

A．6.

B．8.

C．10.

D．12.

2. When does the landscape drawing course start?

A．On April 23.

B．On May 7.

C．On May 24.

D．On June 5.

3. Which course just accepts schoolchildren?

A．Water color painting.	B．Western art history.
C．Landscape drawing.	D．Academic drawing.

6 . 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。

Melia and her father had just finished building a tree house in the backyard. Melia wanted to decorate the walls, and instead of buying things, she decided to make her own art.

Melia enjoyed making collages using a combination of photos she had taken and pieces of fabric. For her tree house, she thought she would use pictures from magazines instead. She could collect used magazines from neighbors, so the pictures would be free. And to create a collage of all her favorite things, she could add pretty leaves, and fruits of pine tree from the yard.

For several days, Melia collected bits of nature to use for the collage. She also collected magazines from the neighbors. She piled both at the front door, as her plan was to make the collage over the weekend. Oddly, though she added to the piles each day, many of the leaves were gone, and the pile of magazines was a mess.

“Dad? Mom?” Melia asked. “Have either of you been taking the supplies for my collage off the door?” “Now, why on earth would we do that?” her dad answered with a question. “I don’t know, but what I do know is that someone is spoiling my art project! It’s my mission to find out who and why!” Melia declared.

Who would want to steal this stuff? She had a plan. She cleaned up the rest of the leaves and threw the ruined magazines in the recycling bin. She started collecting old magazines again, hoping to set a trap. Even if she had to stay up all night, Melia was determined to solve the case.

Once she had collected a large pile of magazines, Melia formed several piles at the front door. She placed them close to the window so that she could catch the thief. She asked her parents if she could sleep on the sofa. “I know they’re used magazines, but I need them for my art project. I have to solve this case!”

Melia was determined to catch the thief, but she had a difficult time staying awake. Within a few hours, she nodded off. Just as the sun was rising, a slight sound awoke her.

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Melia looked through the window, and her eyes opened wide!

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Melia ran back into the house, shouting, “It’s a squirrel! Wake up! Come to the tree house and look!”

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7 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. What is the movie the speakers mention based on?

A．A real life event.

B．A good novel.

C．A famous play.

2. What does the man say about the box office of the movie?

A．It has got to the top.

B．It is beyond his expectation.

C．It will continue to grow.

3. What type of movies does the man prefer?

A．Thrillers.

B．Science fiction movies.

C．Comedies.

8 . Be it sugar or social media, the response in our brain is the same: It produces a “feel-good” chemical called dopamine. It first brings about pleasure, but it doesn’t last very long. It is then followed by pain so that we have to search for the pleasurable things again.

“This cycle of pleasure and pain made sense in the time of early humans when we had to constantly search for our basic needs-food, water, shelter,” says Dr. Anna Lembke, a Stanford Medical School researcher. “But our brains weren’t adjusted to put out the ‘fire of dopamine’ caused by pleasurable things that are so easily available in modern life.”

In addition, when we’re repeatedly exposed to pleasure-producing things, we’re not able to take joy in the same rewards. Instead, we need stronger and stronger stimulus (刺激) just to feel good. Otherwise, the cycle will lead us to anxiety, depression and many other problems.

“This is a universal problem—not one limited to those struggling with the disease of addiction. If we want to stay mentally healthy, we must rethink how to break the cycle in a dopamine-overloaded world,” says Lembke.

Her suggestions for the addicts?

Take a 30-day break from anything that we rely on for pleasure. This doesn’t mean going cold turkey forever. But this first month is key to breaking the pleasure-pain cycle and it’s a lot easier to cut out an addictive behavior entirely at first. Then re-introduce the pleasurable things little by little, like just a few bites of ice cream at a time or just one hour online a night.

Another strategy is to create physical distance between us and our addiction. That could mean just removing the addictive thing from our personal space. For someone who’s addicted to video games, that could mean a separate laptop for work and one for play.

“In a time of abundance, we have to strike a pleasure-pain balance, which means intentionally avoiding pleasure and seeking the kind of purposeful pain that keeps us healthy, such as exercise,” Lembke says. “By doing so, we will reset reward pathways and eventually be a lot happier. It’s not easy, but it’s well worth doing in the long term.”

1. What can we learn about dopamine from the text?

A．It has always been harmful to humans.

B．It gives us less joy for the same rewards.

C．It can be caused by anything available.

D．It can lead to a lasting good feeling.

2. What do the underlined words “going cold turkey” probably mean?

A．Abandoning.

B．Waiting.

C．Cooking.

D．Repeating.

3. What does Dr. Anna Lembke suggest we do in the long term?

A．Avoid pleasure in life.

B．Set a strict limit on pleasurable things.

C．Change reward pathways.

D．Expose ourselves to repeated rewards.

4. Which of the following is a suitable title for the text?

A．Ways to Live With Dopamine in Peace

B．Tips on Getting Rid of Social Media Addiction

C．Strategies for Making Most of the Modern Life

D．The Need to Strike a Pleasure-pain Balance

9 . There is a curious love triangle that sits at the center of the new documentary Fire of Love. It’s between a man, a woman and a volcano. Well, all of them are volcanoes.

Their names might not be especially well-known today, but in the 1970s and ‘80s, French scientists Katia Krafft and Maurice Krafft were very famous for their photographs and writings about the volcanoes. When they died in 1991 on Mount Unzen in Japan, their deaths were covered globally. But their story has somewhat faded in the public memory in the past three decades? though Werner Herzog did spotlight them in his 2016 documentary Into the Inferno.

The Kraffts? who first bonded over Mount Etna and Mount Stromboli and were married in 1970, witnessed about 140 eruptions on every continent except Antarctica and won an Emmy for their National Geographic documentary Mountains of Fire. They would famously drop everything to get to an active volcano, and were often the first on site. They were also known for their willingness to get dangerously close.

Filmmaker Sara Dosa once met the Kraffts while making an earlier film about Iceland many years ago. In 2020, with the help of Image’ Est, a French museum, and Maurice Krafft^’s brother, Bertrand Krafft, Dosa and her team were able to get access to over 180 hours of footage shot by the Kraffts. So Dosa decided to make something about the Kraffts in the true spirit of the Kraffts.

“We wanted to let them play themselves. We see them as the authors of their own story,“ Dosa said. ”This is a co-creation, shot by them and starring them. We’re just stringing together the pieces of their life for the audience to connect with.”

However, Fire of Love is anything but a filmed Wikipedia(维基百科)page. Dosa and her team have drawn on the techniques of French New Wave films to help shape the style of their film, including playful multiple screens.

1. Where did Katia Krafft and Maurice Krafft pass away?

A．On Mount Etna.	B．On Mount Stromboli.
C．On Mount Unzen.	D．On Mount Krakatoa.

2. Why were the Kraffts considered as volcanoes?

A．They were enthusiastic about studying volcanoes.

B．They were well-known for their short-lived marriage.

C．Their deaths were related to the biggest volcano.

D．Their love story appeared in many volcano books.

3. Who directed the film Fire of Love?

A．Bertrand Krafft.

B．Sara Dosa.

C．Werner Herzog.

D．Katia Krafft.

4. What is the text?

A．A love story.

B．A biography.

C．A documentary.

D．A film review.

10 . 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。

It had been 5 years since Zahida’s husband passed away due to a heart attack. Every day, she buried herself in her embroidery (刺绣), feeling her waist ache due to the long hours of work. She would grow tired faster these days.

The doorbell rang. Her son Aamer returned from the office. Entering the house, Aamer threw his bag at a sofa. “I have told you again and again not to throw things everywhere!” Zahida complained. “Mom, why do you find fault with unimportant things every day? Boss at office, you at home... Oh so tiring!” Aamer slammed (砰地关上) the door to his room.

Such unpleasant exchanges always happened now. Zahida would often recall the days of Aamer’s childhood fondly, which would bring smile to her face. She could remember the days when the little Aamer had parted unwillingly on his first day to school or had shouted excitedly at spotting a sleepy bear during a visit to the zoo. Zahida wondered if Aamer too could recollect these memories or had piled them in a forgotten corner of his mind.

Following a quiet dinner that night, Zahida happened to pass Aamer’s room. She could hear Aamer’s voice floating out. “Yes, yes... you do understand that she is a picky woman. She cannot adjust easily anywhere. You must take care of that...”

Zahida was caught by a sudden sense of anxiety. A few days ago, a neighbor’s children sent her neighbor off to an old age home. They were too busy to have time for the old woman. What did Aamer talk of? Was she also...? No, surely Aamer couldn’t be doing that. Zahida retired to bed.

“Please be sure to deliver the tickets for our trip to Egypt as soon as possible,” Aamer continued.

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A few days later, a postman rang the doorbell when Aamer was away for work.

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“Mom, here... Look what I’ve got in the envelope!” Aamer shouted with joy like a child.

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