2 . Although I love watching Olympic diving, I’ve never understood why athletes hurry off to the showers and then proceed to relax in a hot tub (热水浴池) after each dive. They’re already wet. They’re only in the pool for a handful of seconds, so it’s not like they need to get cleaned up. And doesn’t taking a shower serve the same purpose as sitting in a hot tub?

Actually, that’s what Olympic divers usually do between dives as they know very well about the importance of warm-ups and cool-downs. So, what’s the actual reason?

As it turns out, showers and hot tubs are used pretty interchangeably by the swimming pool. However, there is a need for both. First, let’s start with why divers need to take a shower between dives. It has to do with body temperature and keeping their muscles relaxed. As you can imagine, practicing dives in the pool, then having to keep your body warm in a shower, and then jumping off a 10-meter platform and into cold water couldn’t be comfortable for anyone. Going back and forth between these warm and cool temperatures can cause a diver’s muscles to tense or cramp up (痉挛), which can lead to injuries to the muscles. Showers allow an Olympic diver to recover and prevent that.

In that way, showers and hot tubs serve the same purpose. A hot tub is generally used if you have a bit more time between dives and have already stretched. The shower walls on the pool deck can typically provide enough space for more divers at the same time, and they’re especially helpful for athletes who need to stretch or who only have a few minutes between dives. Just like Olympic swimmers depend on thick clothes to keep their muscles warm, Olympic divers rely on these methods to stay loose. If you ask me, it’s not a bad way to pass the time!

1. What does the underlined word “proceed” in Paragraph 1 mean?

A．Prefer.

B．Continue.

C．Tend.

D．Stop.

2. Why do the athletes need showers after diving?

A．To fully clean their body.	B．To rest and wait for the results.
C．To avoid possible muscle injuries.	D．To stop themselves from catching a cold.

3. What does the last paragraph suggest?

A．Hot tubs are as important as showers for divers.

B．Olympic swimmers need to stay warm using hot tubs.

C．Hot tubs are often used by divers having little time between divers.

D．The shower walls are designed for divers who have already stretched.

4. What is the author’s purpose in writing this text?

A．To provide some diving advice for us.

B．To compare cold showers with the hot bath.

C．To explain the difference between warm-ups and cool-downs.

D．To tell us why divers take a shower and sit in a hot tub after diving.

3 . Every festival has its own meaning. Labor Day, for example, celebrates the value of hard work. Thanksgiving is about showing thanks to people around you. And Valentines’ Day is a time when you express love to your loved ones. But somehow it now seems that all festivals we just care about one thing — shopping. And that can be a big problem.

“In a way, over-consumption (过度消费) is the mother of all our environmental problems,” Kalle Lasn once told CNN. Lasn is the organizer of Buy Nothing Day, a day set up in Canada in 1992 to fight against unhealthy spending habits, and has now become an international event. It’s held on the day, which is known as Black Friday — a famous shopping day in the US and Canada.

You can see the irony (讽刺) here.

Even though the idea of Buy Nothing Day was brought up 26 years ago, we seem to need it now more than ever. It’s just as Lasn said, all the different kinds of pollution in our lives today — bad air quality, the reduction of forest area, endangered animal species, and plastic bags found in the ocean — seem to be the same cause: over-consumption.

The latest example is the Singles’ Day shopping craze of Nov 11, which saw a new sales record. But as Nie Li, a campaigner at Greenpeace, told Reuters, “Record-setting over-consumption means record-setting waste.” And it was reported that last year the Singles’ Day packages left more than 160,000 tons of waste, including plastic and cardboard. The Collins Dictionary has also just named “single-use” its Word of the Year, pointing out the problem that there’re too many things we tow out after only using them once.

So, Buy Nothing Day might only be here for one day a year, but it’s not just to remind us to the a break from shopping on that day, but to change our lifestyle completely, focusing on fun “with people we care about” rather than wasting money on useless things.

1. What’s the authors purpose of writing the first paragraph?

A．To express the people’s love for all festivals.

B．To talk about the meaning of the festivals.

C．To appreciate the value of the festivals.

D．To bring out the topic of the passage.

2. Why did Kalle Lasn organize Buy Nothing Day?

A．To help people save money.	B．To cut the cost for daily life.
C．To prevent over-consumption.	D．To set up a new sales record.

3. What’s Nie Li’s attitude towards the shopping craze?

A．Opposed (反对的).	B．Supportive.
C．Unknown.	D．Neutral (中立的).

4. What can be a suitable title for the passage?

A．Creating a New Lifestyle	B．Buy Nothing Day
C．Festivals Around the World	D．A Change in People’s Life

4 . 假如你是南充高中学生李华，你从中央新闻网获悉“2022年北京冬残奥会赛会志愿者全球招募”活动，你对此很感兴趣，请你用英语给奥委会负责此项工作的Steven写一封申请信。
内容要点：
1) 说明写信意图；
2) 陈述自己的优势。
参考词汇：冬残奥会     the Beijing 2022 Paralymplic
中央新闻网 the China Central News Service website
注意：
词数100左右；
邮件的开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数；
可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Dear Steven,
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Yours sincerely,

Li Hua

5 . Walking and running are great ways to improve your health. Special walking and running events are held every year in the United States, providing the perfect opportunity to volunteer some time, set exercise goals and make new friends.

Breath Deep 5K Walk for LUNGevity
April 23, 2022 in Columbia, Maryland

In memory of Dr. Clement B. Knight, the walking event is organized to raise money for the LUNGevity Foundation to fund lung cancer research. Dr. Knight, who died on August 9, 2012, at the age of 62, has been recognized in the Guide to Top Physicians for many years. Lung cancer is the top cancer killer in the United States, killing about 160,000 people every year.

Bright Beginnings 5K Race
April 30, 2022 in Washington

Bright Begimnings 5K Race raises funds that help provide education, heath, and family services free of charge for homeless babies, preschoolers and their families in Washington. Participants will receive T-shirts, running bags, food and water.

Red Shoe 5K Run&Walk
May 1, 2022 in Herndon,Virginia

Ronald McDonald House Charities aims to raise money to improve the physical and behavioral health of children. The family-friendly Red Shoe 5K Run &Walk organized by Ronald McDonald House Charities is for racers, leisure walkers and runners. Kids can get community service hours.

Race for Hope
May 3, 2022 in Washington

This is a 5K walk/run with the goal of raising $1.5 million to fund brain tumor (脑瘤) research and families affected by the disease. Money raised by the event will benefit two non-profit organizations — the Brain Tumor Society and Accelerate Brain Cancer Cure. The race includes Kids’ Fun Run and the Wall of Hope, in honor of brain tumor survivors.

1. What is the purpose of Breath Deep 5K Walk for LUNGevity?

A．To help Clement B. Knight with his study.

B．To offer help to those suffering from a brain tumor.

C．To improve people’s health in Maryland.

D．To raise money for lung cancer research.

2. Who can participate in Red Shoe 5K Run &Walk?

A．Anyone wanting to stay in shape.	B．All runners and walkers.
C．Members from Race for Hope.	D．Children with health problems.

3. What do the four events have in common?

A．They all take place in Washington.	B．They are all intended for children.
C．They are all for charity.	D．They all contribute to cancer research.

6 . From the dawn of civilization, paper records have been a method of keeping track of important and necessary documentation. A common experience throughout the world’s record keeping has been the necessity to ensure that all documents are kept together, and none are lost.

    1     These included tying ribbons through the paper, and melting wax to secure the papers in place. For nearly 600 years, these were the methods used to secure papers.

    2     In 1835, a machine that could mass-produce straight pins was invented by Howe J.I, an American inventor. Although straight pins (大头针) were originally designed for sewing and tailoring, people began using them as a quick and easy way to secure papers.     3     In 1899 he patented the device, which consisted of a wire bent into a particularly shaped hoop for the purpose of securing papers.

During this time, however, the paperclip (回形针) was not a widely distributed device. Therefore, the Gem Manufacturing Company of England developed a machine to manufacture and standardize the paperclip design.     4    

Today the paperclip is a famous invention used throughout offices, schoolrooms, and business throughout the world.     5    

A．The next paper invention was that of the straight pin.

B．Before the paper clip, people had to be creative to keep paper together.

C．The humble item only came into popular usage around the mid-19th century.

D．This manufacturing development allowed for the expansion of the modern paperclip worldwide.

E．Later, inspired by the straight pin, Norwegian Vaaler J. came up with the idea of the first paperclip.

F．Therefore, from the early 13th century people had created various methods to ensure documents were kept together.

G．Being a wonder of simplicity and function, the paperclip remains a standard office supply throughout the world.

7 . You’ve most likely heard the news by now: A car-commuting, desk-bound, TV-watching lifestyle can be harmful to our health. All the time that we spend rooted in the chair is linked to increased risks of so many deadly diseases that experts have named this modern-day health epidemic the “sitting disease”.

Sitting for too long slows down the body’s metabolism (新陈代谢) and the way enzymes (酶) break down our fat reserves, raising both blood sugar levels and blood pressure. Small amounts of regular activity, even just standing and moving around, throughout the day is enough to bring the increased levels back down. And those small amounts of activity add up—30 minutes of light activity in two or three-minute bursts can be just as effective as a half-hour block of exercise. But without that activity, blood sugar levels and blood pressure keep creeping up, steadily damaging the inside of the arteries (动脉) and increasing the risk of diabetes, heart disease, stroke, and other serious diseases. In essence, fundamental changes in biology occur if you sit for too long.

But wait, you’re a runner. You needn’t worry about the harm of a sedentary lifestyle because you exercise regularly, right? Well, not so fast. Recent studies show that people spend an average of 64 hours a week sitting, whether or not they exercise 150 minutes a week as recommended by World Health Organization (WHO). Regular exercisers, furthermore, are found to be about 30 percent less active on days when they exercise. Overall, most people simply aren’t exercising or moving around enough to counteract all the harm that can result from sitting nine hours or more a day.

Scared straight out of your chair? Good. The remedy is as simple as standing up and taking activity breaks.

1. What is the best way to bring down high blood sugar level and blood pressure?

A．Interrupting sitting time with light activity as often as possible.

B．Exercising for 150 minutes or more every week.

C．Getting rid of the habit of car commuting and TV watching.

D．Standing or moving around for at least two or three minutes every day.

2. What does the word “sedentary” in the third paragraph most likely meant?

A．Modern.

B．Risky.

C．Epidemic.

D．Inactive.

3. Which of the following may be inferred about those who do serious exercise?

A．They usually do not meet the standard of exercise recommended by WHO.

B．They generally spend less time sitting than those who are inactive.

C．They tend to stand or move around less on their work-out days.

D．They often live longer than those who don’t exercise.

4. What is the passage mainly about?

A．The threat to our health from long hours of sitting.

B．The challenges of the modern lifestyle.

C．The reasons for the spread of a modern epidemic.

D．The effect of regular exercise on our body.

8 . If you suddenly find yourself working from home or another remote location, you’re going to miss those interactions with other people. Video conferencing can help by allowing you to talk face-to-face, even if it is via a screen. Jitsi is one of those free video conferencing apps you can use to connect.

Jitsi is a set of open-source projects that allows you to easily build and deploy secure videoconferencing solutions. At the heart of Jitsi are Jitsi Videobridge and Jitsi Meet, which let you have conferences on the internet, while other projects in the community enable other features such as audio, dial-in, recording, and simulcasting.

Jitsi started life as a way to talk to people over the internet using audio and video. Over the course of a decade, though, it’s become so much more. Today, Jisi is:

A vibrant developer community.

First and foremost, Jitsi is a community of developers that are pushing the envelope of video conferencing quality on the web.

The foundation of some really amazing products.

The community members have developed countless projects and products that started with Jitsi code.

A crazy good, completely free video conferencing solution that anyone can use.

Jitsi is a favorite videoconferencing solution for anyone with privacy concerns, journalists, for example. There’s a reason so many people use Jitsi Meet as a Skype alternative for video conferencing.

Unlike other videoconferencing technologies, Jitsi Videobridge, the heart of Jitsi, passes everyone’s video and audio to all participants, rather than mixing them first. Currently, Jitsi supports a maximum of up to 75 participants per call, although performance may suffer with more than 35. The project is working on “going beyond 100” participants at once. The service supports phone in audio participants in both the hosted and self-hosted versions. The service supports screen sharing and has mobile apps for iPhone and Android.

Now Jitsi has surpassed 10 million monthly average users. There are no extra payments to Jitsi, and the project remains free thanks to 8x8 (a company), which uses the technology in its own products.

1. The central services of Jitsi lie in ________.

A．a set of open-source projects	B．Jitsi Videobridge and Jitsi Meet
C．free features like audio and dial-in	D．world’s best video conferences

2. From the passage, we know ________.

A．Jitsi supports screen sharing in the hosted version

B．Jitsi works on 100 participants at most right now

C．Jitsi helps with the privacy problem in videoconferencing

D．Jitsi mixes everyone’s video and audio to all participants

3. Jitsi is a completely free app because ________.

A．users have limited access to Jitsi

B．only paid apps can ensure users’ privacy

C．it has surpassed 10 million monthly average users

D．8x8 uses the technology in its own products

9 . Online jobs have opened the door for many people to earn a living (谋生) or make some extra money from the comfort of their homes. This includes teens as well. If you’re looking for such a job, here are some choices you can consider.

Customer Service

If you are 16 years old and over, you have a chance to work with Uhaul as a customer service person. You just need to have a good pair of head-phones and high-speed Internet in order to do this job. Basic pay starts at $7.50an hour.

Sell Items Online

Selling items online is one of the easiest ways to make quick cash. Teens can turn it into a good business by selling things on Bonanza. You need to start sorting through (分类) items at your home that are no longer being used and list them for sale.

Take Surveys

Another easy task teens can do to earn money is to take surveys online. You don’t need any work experience to do this and can be as young as 13 years old to get started. Survey sites like VIP Voices, Swagbucks, Harris Poll, E-Poll, and Paid Viewpoint allow teens to start taking surveys for cash and gift cards. And your opinions should be expressed clearly in English.

Etsy

Do you love to make new things? You can open up an Etsy shop to share your works. Etsy is great for DIYers who can create new products. If you are under 18, you just need a parent who is willing to help manage your shop.

1. What does Bonanza allow teens to do?

A．Learn about computer science.	B．Make money out of their old items.
C．Test new products for customers.	D．Receive training in customer service.

2. What is required to take surveys online for teens?

A．Having a good knowledge of English.	B．Having a good pair of headphones.
C．Having some related work experience.	D．Having a wide range of interests.

3. What is special about those who own an Etsy shop?

A．They enjoy buying things online.	B．They are interested in history.
C．They have a creative mind.	D．They are good at collecting used things.

10 . The plan for the annual Christmas Dinner for Those Alone and Homeless started between two church members who happened to share a plane ride back to Springfield.

Springfield physician H’Doubler Jr. told Gary Ellison he was_______about those who he knew were_______during the upcoming holidays. He wanted to help them. He said, “If you don’t have_______with you, the fact that everything, at Christmas is ‘family this and family that’ can be_______. Wouldn’t it be great_______our church could have a big Christmas dinner-free of_______?”

If they wanted the big dinner held in the church, admission of the preacher (牧师) was very necessary. Therefore, H’Doubler asked Ellison if he could_______the preacher to allow the dinner. H’Doubler would put up a sizable_______. “He imagined a nice event with no strings (附加条件) attached,” said Ellison.

With the physician_______the main course, other church members offered side dishes and desserts.

After a few years, the church picked up the expenses. “The first________may have drawn 200 people,” Ellison said, “but some years it may draw close to 700.”

In order that the church can________for the right size crowd, people who want to________are asked to call an answering service and select the time they will come in advance. Ellison said church members would do their best to make everyone feel________. Over the years he’s enjoyed seeing strangers socialize.

H’Doubler always smiled when he read or heard reports of the event’s________, his daughter Sarah Muegge said. “He was very________with the way it developed,” said Ellison. “It’s________the way H’Doubler expected it: no strings attached. Just fun and good________,” said Ellison.

H’Doubler preferred to keep secret his role in________he event, but he________recently at the age of 85. Ellison asked H’Doubler’s daughter if it was OK to tell people that it was H’Doubler’s________and money that started the tradition. And she said yes.

1.

A．confused

B．concerned

C．curious

D．doubtful

2.

A．alone

B．abroad

C．abnormal

D．asleep

3.

A．neighbors

B．friends

C．family

D．children

4.

A．painful

B．obvious

C．interesting

D．exciting

5.

A．unless

B．until

C．if

D．though

6.

A．cost

B．time

C．game

D．charge

7.

A．force

B．convince

C．warn

D．order

8.

A．donation

B．building

C．table

D．service

9.

A．showing up

B．lending to

C．deposit

D．paying for

10.

A．tour

B．contest

C．dinner

D．show

11.

A．possess

B．plan

C．remind

D．refuse

12.

A．buy

B．watch

C．help

D．attend

13.

A．welcome

B．confident

C．ignored

D．proud

14.

A．problem

B．challenge

C．chance

D．success

15.

A．busy

B．pleased

C．patient

D．familiar

16.

A．just

B．only

C．even

D．still

17.

A．story

B．scene

C．food

D．report

18.

A．celebrating

B．recording

C．starting

D．ending

19.

A．left

B．appeared

C．returned

D．died

20.

A．turn

B．idea

C．excuse

D．visit