1 . The entire country struggled with the never-before-seen heat of the July 2022 heatwave, but for the disabled, the heat hit even harder. The climate crisis is a threat to everyone’s health, but according to a report in 2021, people with disabilities are more vulnerable to the extreme weather events and natural disasters that result from the climate crisis.

Professor Kristie Ebi of the Centre for Health and the Global at the University of Washington, described the topic of heatwaves and disabled people as being an important issue. “Groups at higher risk during periods of high temperature include people with chronic (慢性的) medical conditions, people who take certain medications that can reduce the ability of the body to sweat, and the disabled”, notes Ebi, going on to describe the different threats that heatwaves pose to different types of disabilities. Ebi notes the difficulty people with mobility issues or blindness may have with accessing services, such as cooling shelters. Ebi also comments on the importance of making those with learning disabilities or deaf people know the dangers of high temperatures. “Some studies suggest higher rates of suicide and other mental health issues during heatwaves, requiring targeted help for those with mental disabilities,” she added.

Ailsa Speak, a disability and lifestyle blogger, experiences uncontrollable movements in the heat due to her cerebral palsy (脑瘫). “As you can imagine, when my involuntary movements increase, I get even hotter. It’s just a painful circle really.”

In the absence of a concrete set of plans for people with disabilities during the climate crisis and extreme weather events, people with disabilities continue to be at increased risk of heat-related disease.

To prevent future death and destruction, the Climate Change Committee (CCC), an independent organization tackling climate change, advocates for adaptation planning, as the temperature is set to rise further due to the climate crisis and global warming. The CCC’s 2022 report on the health risks of overheating offers adaptation options to the government to ensure that buildings are fit for future climate change. Nevertheless, the publication does not offer specific advice about people with disabilities and overheating, which thus remains to be discussed promptly and thoroughly.

1. The underlined word “vulnerable” in Paragraph 1 possibly means         .

A．preventive

B．delicate

C．experienced

D．adaptable

2. Which of the following would Professor Ebi most probably agree with?

A．Heatwaves make people with chronic diseases suffer most.

B．The mentally disabled have no access to cooling shelters.

C．Some disabled people are ill-informed about the risks of heatwaves.

D．Mobility disability contributes to higher risk of suicide in the heatwaves.

3. Why does the author mention Ailsa Speak?

A．To share a disabled blogger’s painful life.

B．To show what a terrible disease cerebral palsy is

C．To illustrate the trouble the disabled have in the heat.

D．To prove the never-before-seen highs in temperature.

4. The author’s purpose of writing this passage is to         .

A．stress the urgent need to care for the disabled in the heat

B．suggest means of helping the disabled in heatwaves

C．tell readers how terrible the July 2022 heatwave was

D．introduce adaptation alternatives for future buildings

2 . A 23-year-old woman has achieved an unbelievable feat that many of us dream of -visiting every country on Earth.

Lexie Alford was born into a family of travel agents, which gave her the opportunity to ________ places such as Cambodia,Dubai and Egypt during her childhood, according to Forbes magazine. She began saving up at age 12 to ________ her goal of visiting all countries. By her 18th birthday, she had travelled to 72 nations. In October,2016 she realized she could see the ________ nations on her list in time to set an official record. Many people ________her travel on social media platform Instagram, so she decided to chase the world record partly to ________ others. “Honestly，in the beginning, I ________ wanted to push the ________ of what I thought I could do with my life and see as much of the world as possible in the ________,” she told Forbes. “It wasn’t until things started getting really________ that I realized I was inspiring people around me, especially the ________．”

I also loved visiting Northern Pakistan, for the natural beauty of the mountains and kindness of the locals were astonishing,” Lexie Alford said. “The most pleasant surprise about travelling to all these misunderstood areas of the world was that the countries that I had the________ expectation for ________ being the most incredible.”

“My ________ for young people is to believe that you can do anything you set your mind to do. If you want to travel, you have to ________ sacrifices to travel around the world. And it’s only a matter of ________ until you can make it a reality.”

1.

A．remark

B．settle

C．tour

D．love

2.

A．fund

B．quit

C．switch

D．register

3.

A．powerful

B．ideal

C．developed

D．remaining

4.

A．ranked

B．modified

C．followed

D．criticized

5.

A．inspire

B．grill

C．understand

D．accompany

6.

A．occasionally

B．simply

C．completely

D．temporarily

7.

A．dream

B．button

C．family

D．observation

8.

A．platform

B．agency

C．process

D．country

9.

A．dull

B．official

C．natural

D．challenging

10.

A．adult

B．youth

C．bosses

D．agents

11.

A．most

B．least

C．greatest

D．worst

12.

A．started with

B．showed off

C．ended up

D．searched for

13.

A．advice

B．compromise

C．belief

D．information

14.

A．save

B．appreciate

C．worsen

D．make

15.

A．honor

B．career

C．time

D．assessment

3 . When l6-year-old Grayden Brunet joined the Sackets Harbor, New York, volunteer fire department in 2017, he was the youngest on the team in 20 years. He was so thrilled to be following in his dad’s footsteps that he persuaded two classmates, Niklas Brazie and Dalton Hardison, to sign up too.

A few years later, the older firefighters quit over COVID-19 concerns. Suddenly, the three teens were not only helping the Sackets Harbor volunteer fire department, they were the Sackets Harbor volunteer fire department. They were the ones responding to heart attacks, car accidents, and suicides. They were the ones speeding COVID-19 patients to hospitals.

“We went from not even having our licenses to saving people’s lives,” Dalton told Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS).

As far as the teens were concerned, they couldn’t quit. If they did, Grayden told North County Public Radio (NCPR), “The community would lose the ambulance.”

The trio (三人组) worked hard alone for a year until help arrived in the form of five more teens, all motivated to serve their neighbors in the town of 1,300.“When they call 911, they’re expecting someone to help them,” says Sophia DeVito, who was 16 when she joined.

The job is demanding. One night last fall, the crew responded to two ambulance calls and a fire. They got home at 5:30 a.m. just two hours before school started. “It’s definitely hard coming back from the calls and having to take an algebra test,” Grayden told NCPR. But they don’t mind the exhausting work. And the looks on the faces of 91l callers when they meet their rescuers? Priceless, says Grayden Brunet.

1. According to Paragraph 1, we can tell that     

A．Grayden is not the first firefighter in his family

B．all the teens in the department are of the same age

C．Grayden’s father persuaded him to join the fire department

D．there has never been anyone on the team younger than 16

2. The older firefighters left their jobs because      

A．they didn’t have their licenses

B．the trio were not helping the fire department

C．speeding patients to hospitals was a huge burden

D．the virus made them feel alarmed and insecure

3. Which of the following words can best describe the teenage crew?

A．Hesitant.

B．Intelligent.

C．Determined.

D．Worthless.

4. What’s the main idea of the last paragraph?

A．The crew feel too exhausted to carry on.

B．The crew are considered to be untrustworthy.

C．The crew find their job challenging yet rewarding.

D．The crew sometimes miss their tests due to their work.

5 . About five weeks ago, I noticed the skin of our pet lizard was growing dusty. It worried me. I reported the strange surface on the skin of the lizard to my husband and children the next morning. Seconds later, our lizard emerged from its tank with its old skin flowing behind it.

I didn’t think about it much until a morning last week when I knocked my favorite teapot off the table. It burst into hundreds of pieces. As I swept up the mess, I wondered why we had been breaking so many things over the months.

The destruction started three months ago. It was my husband’s birthday. He had just lost his job. The uncertainty was starting to wear on us, so I wanted to do something special.

“Let’s make a cake for Dad!” I cried.

My kids screamed with joy. We baked, iced and sprinkled for most of the day. Candles on the cake! Balloons on the walls! Flowers on the table!

Two hours before my husband came back home from another job interview, my daughter climbed up to grab a glass vase from a high shelf. It fell and crashed beside the cake. Tiny pieces of glass were everywhere. She sobbed loudly as I threw the cake away. My husband had banana pudding for his birthday.

Three days ago, the light in our living room suddenly went out. After several frustrating hours of unsuccessful attempts to fix it, my husband suggested watching the Michael Jordan documentary series The Last Dance.

The poignancy of Jordan retiring from his beloved basketball to play baseball and what had pushed him to make such a tough decision took me by surprise. As I watched him take off his basketball uniform and replace it with a baseball uniform, I saw him leaving behind the layer that no longer served him, just as our lizard had.

Neither of them chose the moment that had transformed them. But they had to live with who they were after everything was different. Just like us. I realized that we have to learn to leave the past behind.

Humans do not shed skin as easily as other animals. The beginning of change is upsetting. The process is tiring. Damage changes us before we are ready. I see our lizard, raw and nearly new.

Jordan said that no matter how it ends, it starts with hope. With our tender, hopeful skin, that is where we begin.

1. Why did the author’s husband have banana pudding for his birthday?

A．Pudding was his favorite dessert.	B．The author made good puddings.
C．The birthday cake was ruined.	D．They couldn’t afford a birthday cake.

2. Why does the author mention The Last Dance in the passage?

A．To develop the theme.	B．To define a concept.
C．To prove a theory.	D．To provide the background.

3. The underlined part “leaving behind the layer” in Paragraph 8 can be understood as                .

A．giving up an opportunity	B．looking for a new job
C．getting rid of a bad habit	D．letting go of the past

4. What does the author most likely want to tell us?

A．Love of family helps us survive great hardships.

B．We should move on no matter what happens.

C．It’s not the end of the world if we break things.

D．Past experiences should be treasured.

7 . 假定你是李华，近日你校举办了主题为“热爱传统文化”的校园艺术节活动，请你给你的美国朋友Jerry写一封邮件。要点如下：
1. 举办时间;2. 活动内容;3.师生反响
注意：词数80左右，可适当增加情节以使行文连贯
Dear Jerry,
______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Yours,

Li Hua

8 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入一个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

The abacus(算盘) was a great invention in ancient China. It     1     (invent) on the basis of small rods (棒). Later,     2     the development of productivity, a    3    (big)amount of calculation was in need. And calculation with counting rods limited the calculation. Thus, people invented a more     4     (advance) counter — the abacus.

With the application of the abacus, people concluded several abacus rules, making a higher calculating    5    (accurate). By the time of the Ming Dynasty, people could use the abacus on a regular basis,     6     improved the calculating efficiency significantly.

It was easy to obtain     7     abacus. And it was also easy to remember abacus rules. The abacus was widely used in ancient China. Later, the abacus was     8     (wide) used in Japan, Korea and some countries and regions in Southeast Asia.

People find that using abacuses can improve thinking and practical abilities in addition to     9    (provide) convenient calculation. Since it     10     (need) cooperation of mind, eye and hand, it is a good way to improve the comprehensive reaction ability.

9 . On a steamy July day in Bayonet Point, Florida, Gene Work and his brother-in-law, Mark Rouco, were re-sodding(重铺草坪) Gene’s yard. It had grown brown and uneven in the heat, and the Homeowners’ Association had threatened to ______ him if the situation wasn’t improved. But the job was slow-going.

Gene, then 40, wasn’t feeling right. He went inside to take a(an) ______ and collapsed on the couch, holding his chest. His wife, Melissa Work, called 911 quickly. ______ he was face to face with death, Gene had one thing on his mind: that lawn. If the lawn wasn’t put down that day, it would die. “While he was having his heart attack, in and out of ______, he kept ______ me to have it put down because he didn’t want it to go to waste,” Melissa wrote in a Facebook post. Soon EMTs (急诊医士) arrived and took them to the hospital, ______ Rouco to deal with the yard.

Within an hour, Rouco had managed to ______ the old grass. He was about to lay the new lawn, when two emergency vehicles appeared. Seven men—the same ones who had ______ his brother—got out. Gene had told them how bad he’d wanted to get the lawn laid, so they had returned to ______. The job was done within two hours. ______, Gene had surgery to insert stents(支架)in his heart.

He’s home now, fully ______—and enjoying his beautiful lawn. The Works are still ______ that those EMTs went above and ______ their job description. “These men,” Melissa told tampabay.com, “saved Gene’s life, and then came back to save his ______. That’s just so ______.” These EMTs returned from the hospital to make sure their patient’s lawn didn’t die.

1.

A．reward

B．find

C．confirm

D．punish

2.

A．breath

B．break

C．order

D．interest

3.

A．As though

B．Ever since

C．Even though

D．Now that

4.

A．consciousness

B．control

C．balance

D．curiosity

5.

A．ordering

B．helping

C．advising

D．begging

6.

A．leaving behind

B．bringing in

C．calling on

D．keeping up

7.

A．restore

B．refund

C．replace

D．remove

8.

A．threatened

B．treated

C．accompanied

D．sent

9.

A．help

B．assess

C．bother

D．devote

10.

A．Otherwise

B．Instead

C．However

D．Meanwhile

11.

A．awakened

B．understood

C．recovered

D．boomed

12.

A．amazed

B．terrified

C．scared

D．disappointed

13.

A．below

B．within

C．beyond

D．against

14.

A．grass

B．marriage

C．money

D．time

15.

A．awful

B．fantastic

C．typical

D．correct

10 . As the former great employee of NASA, Katherine Johnson, whose life was described in the movie Hidden Figures, died on February 24, 2020, aged 101.

“NASA is deeply saddened by the loss of a leader from our pioneering days,” said NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine on the webpage of NASA. “Ms. Johnson helped our nation push the boundaries of space and she also played an important role in opening doors for women and people of color to explore space. At NASA we will never forget her courage and leadership and the achievements we could not have reached without her.”

Johnson was born in West Virginia in 1918. She graduated from West Virginia State University with a major in mathematics and became a teacher at a public school. She was also the first African-American woman to attend graduate school in mathematics at West Virginia University until she left school to focus on raising children.

Her life changed in 1952 after a long career break. A relative told her about open positions at the all-black West Area Computing section at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics’s Langley laboratory, and she began to work for the aerospace (航空航天) industry at Langley the next year. NASA depended on humans for complicated aerospace calculation as there was no high-functioning electronic computer. Female mathematicians usually took the job as their salary was lower. Johnson was one of those African-American human computers.

Johnson was initially in charge of aerospace analysis and then a space development mission when NASA was launched in 1958. Then she worked for the 1961 suborbital (亚轨道的) flight of astronaut Alan Shepard.   Johnson continued to sit for missions after she retired in 1986. Her hidden achievements were finally publicized when Barack Obama awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2015 and her dramatic life was made into a movie.

1. What did Bridenstine’s words in the second paragraph mainly want to tell us?

A．To show NASA’s appreciation for Johnson’s leadership.

B．To show Johnson’s contributions to space exploration.

C．To express all Americans’ regret over Johnson’s death.

D．To emphasize NASA’s achievements in space exploration.

2. Why did NASA depend on humans for complex aerospace calculation?

A．It was cheaper to hire humans.

B．NASA couldn’t afford electronic computers then.

C．The computers at that time weren’t advanced enough.

D．Humans were more accurate than computers in calculation.

3. What can be inferred from the passage?

A．Johnson used to work in a private school.

B．Johnson worked for the aerospace industry for at least thirty-three years.

C．Johnson starred in the movie Hidden Figures.

D．Johnson was the first woman to attend graduate school in the United States.

4. What is the possible meaning of the underlined words?

A．connect with.	B．involve in
C．part with	D．turn in