1 . 假如你是李华，今年你开始了新的高中生活。请以“Hi, Senior High”为题写一篇文章， 回顾过去， 展望未来。内容如下：
1．回顾初中生活(收获、遗憾)；
2．高中生活及展望(现状，计划，期望)。
注意：词数不少于80词，可适当增加细节使行文连贯。
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2 . 假定你是李华，你校英语俱乐部举办论坛，探讨机器人在未来生活中的应用。请你写一篇发言稿，内容包括：
1. 选择一个领域进行陈述（如日常生活、医疗、汽车制造等）；
2. 描述机器人在该领域的应用（可举例说明）；
3. 介绍机器人的优势所在。
注意：写作词数应为80左右。
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3 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. When did the man build the first computer?

A．In junior high school.

B．In senior high school.

C．At the university.

2. Where does the man work?

A．In a school.

B．In a company.

C．In a store.

3. How do some people find technology?

A．Interesting.

B．Dangerous.

C．Wonderful.

4. What are the speakers talking about?

A．The making of computers.

B．The past of computers.

C．The future of computers.

4 . As a child, I had spent my holidays travelling our village in Bangladesh — running across the rice fields or farms and fishing in lakes. But, this had started to wear off as a teen. One thing I remember about that trip was when we were only about half an hour from our village, we had to get out of our car. The road in front of us was completely under water. We all got on a bamboo boat for another two or three hours.

That was 15 years ago — the last time I visited our village. One by one, many other villagers left there. But my father has been working hard to build it up. He doesn’t want it to be lost.

Yes, we should protect our home. But there is something else to think about: climate crisis (气候危机). Bangladesh is at the centre of the climate crisis — it is hit by floods, droughts, storms and other natural disasters. “I jokingly say, Bangladesh is God’s laboratory for natural disasters,” says Prof Ainun Nishat, an expert on climate change from Bangladesh.

The period from June to October sees heavy rains. But the rainfall time is becoming more erratic (无常的). In 2020, Sylhet, my hometown, was hit by huge floods that affected thousands of families, whose homes were swept away. In fact, over a quarter of the country was flooded. Nearly 1.3 million homes were damaged, and hundreds of people died.

The weather is getting more extreme (极端的). It is getting too hot. And the supply of water can’t be relied upon, leaving the land getting drier.

Although people have worries about droughts and floods, unlike in the past, the country is well-prepared to deal with them. Prof Nishat says, “Maybe 20, 30 years back we depended on external (外部的) support to return to normal from any natural disaster, but now it’s different. The country has developed, and we suffered these disasters many times, so the people are one of the most prepared.”

1. What do the underlined words “wear off” in Paragraph 1 probably mean?

A．Advance.	B．Make sense.
C．Disappear.	D．Lose control.

2. What do we know about Bangladesh?

A．It is affected by many disasters.

B．It needs more people to build it up.

C．People living there lead an unhappy life.

D．Experts are studying why the climate changes there.

3. Why does the author mention the flood happening in 2020?

A．To prove floods are difficult to avoid.

B．To show the effects of climate change.

C．To prove floods are frequent in Bangladesh.

D．To show the great damage caused by floods.

4. What do Prof Nishat’s words in the last paragraph show?

A．People in Bangladesh think the external support is unnecessary.

B．People in Bangladesh try to rebuild their homes on their own.

C．Bangladesh needs more support to aid its development.

D．Bangladesh is trying hard to deal with climate change.

5 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. What has made working at home possible?

A．Living far from workplaces.

B．Communication industry.

C．More job opportunities.

2. What is the advantage of working at home according to the woman?

A．Saving more time.

B．Having a lot of freedom.

C．Taking care of the family easily.

3. What might happen in the future in the woman’s opinion?

A．British company will move overseas.

B．All companies will employ homeworkers.

C．People will work at home for a foreign company.

6 . Now that nobody knows for sure what the world will look like in the near future, it can be fun to picture some jobs we might be able to apply for in the coming decade!

Distant drone (无人驾驶飞机)drivers and pilots

How cool would it be to deliver packages from the comfortable office? That’s the way of the future with delivery drones and self-driving trucks. Zach Howard says, “Many delivery companies will soon need lots of drones and a large number of skilled pilots who can run the drones.”

Rewilders

To save Mother Nature, someone will need to remove the damage humans have done to the environment. Through the Jobs of 2030 project, an organization guesses we will need rewilders to remove the damage to the countryside caused by people, factories, cars and farming. These workers will be responsible for removing walls to give flight paths back to birds and replacing roads with forests.

Gamification (游戏化)marketing experts

This future expert will need to make online shopping feel like a game; that is, gamification is about keeping customers more delighted during shopping. The gamification marketing expert will help keep online buyers’ attention by making their experiences more playful and exciting.

1. According to Zach Howard, distant drone drivers and pilots ________

A．can earn lots of money.

B．are required to work outdoors.

C．need update drones regularly.

D．will be in great need.

2. To remove the damage caused by humans, a rewilder’s job will be ________

A．keeping track of birds’ health.

B．returning the roads to forests.

C．constructing more roads for villagers.

D．preserving the cultural heritage.

3. How will the gamification marketing expert most likely influence customers?

A．By creating fun online shopping experiences.

B．By reducing the competition between stores.

C．By decreasing their daily cost of playing games.

D．By making them more likely to communicate.

7 . By 2050 we’ll be able to send memories, emotions and feelings across the Internet.     1     Teenagers will love it. Instead of putting an emoticon (表情符号) at the end of every sentence, they will use an emotion: anger, happiness, or excitement.

I’m talking about telepathy (心灵感应), really. We’ll still communicate the traditional way.     2     Our children will wonder, What is a keyboard? We will enter the age of the “brain net”.

Medicine will develop fast, too. We will have cured certain forms of cancer, and we will have begun to treat the disease like the common cold. We’ll live with it. It will no longer be deadly.     3     Technology will help in this respect.     4     Smart toilets will perform liquid biopsies (液体活检) to discover cancer cells. Smart objects like phones will check us over automatically.

    5     By 2050 I think we’ll be able to grow many of the important organs (器官) of the body and, rather than allow the organs we’re born with to become old and weak, we’ll replace them. That’s all coming. And it doesn’t take much imagination to realise it.

A．We will do a few tests.

B．People will live an easy life.

C．We won’t fear it like we used to.

D．Brain science will have changed communication.

E．We can already use human cells to grow skin, noses, ears, etc.

F．But communicating telepathically will avoid misunderstandings between people.

G．Our clothes will discover the beginnings of a heart disease, and advise us to get treatment.

8 . THE TIME MACHINE

It was at ten o'clock today that the first of all Time Machines began its career. I gave it a last check, and sat myself in the leather seat. I pushed the starting lever (操纵杆) on the main panel forwards an inch then immediately backwards again. Looking around, I saw my laboratory exactly as before. Had anything happened? I thought my mind had tricked me. Then I saw the clock. A moment before, it was a minute or so past ten; now it nearly half past three!

I drew a breath, gripped(紧握) the lever and pushed it forwards. The laboratory went hazy around me. My niece came in to fetch something, maybe her handkerchief, apparently without seeing me. It probably took her a minute, but to me she moved like a rocket! I pushed the lever further. Night came as if a lamp was being turned out, and in another moment came the day. Tomorrow night came, then skipped to day, again and again, faster and faster still.

It is hard to explain the strange and unpleasant feeling of time travelling. It felt like I was being driven fast on a winding road. As my pace grew faster, the walls of the laboratory fell away, and I was left in the open air. The sun and moon looked as if they were being thrown across the sky, but soon there was division between night and day. Around me I saw trees growing like puffs of smoke; they grew, spread, and died in moments. I saw huge buildings rise up, then disappear like in a dream. The whole surface of the earth was being changed, melting and flowing before my eyes. I calculated that I was being pushed through time at hundreds of years a minute.

I had a strong urge to look at the random things that were being flashed before my eyes! I had thought about the risk of stopping the Time Machine many times. So long as I travelled at maximum speed, it didn't matter. But if I stopped and the same space was being occupied by something else, we would be forced together and explode like a bomb! Like an impatient fool, I pulled the lever backwards hard. With a sudden jolt, the Time Machine was flipped on its side, and I was thrown through the air.

I was stunned for a moment, and then heard the sound of thunder. I was sitting in the rain in some mud next to the machine. “A fine welcome,” I said, “for a man who has travelled thousands of years to be here!”

(Adapted from the novel The Time Machine written by H.G.Wells, a novelist famous for the science fiction)

1. How does the Time Traveller first know he has travelled through time?

A．He saw the clock move forward.

B．He noticed the tomorrow night came.

C．He spotted his niece moving like a rocket.

D．He was being driven fast on a winding road.

2. How does the Time Traveller feel when travelling through time?

A．Doubtful and depressed.	B．Safe and happy.
C．Strange and unpleasant.	D．Excited and joyful.

3. Why is the Time Traveller worried about stopping the machine?

A．Because he would be forced together with something else and explode like a bomb.

B．Because he was being pushed through time at hundreds of years a minute.

C．Because some random things would be flashed before his eyes.

D．Because the same space would be destroyed by something else.

4. Where does the Time Machine arrive when the man finally stops it?

A．On a winding road.	B．In some mud in the rain.
C．In the muddy leather seat.	D．Along the walls of the laboratory.

9 . Do flying cars only exist in dreams of a far-off future? Well, the future may be closer than you think. Let’s take a look at some modes of transport that we could be using in the future.

Flying taxi

Slovakian engineering company AeroMobil has designed the world’s first 4-seater flying taxi. AeroMobil’s AM Next is a hybrid(混合物) —half supercar, half lightweight aircraft. It’s able to transform between the two modes of transport in fewer than 3 minutes as its wings move into the appropriate positions. It is expected to be released in 2027 and will be able to fly a distance of up to 500 miles (about 800 kilometers) between major cities.

Gyroscopic transport

Gyroscopic transport is a revolutionary new mode of transport that is being planned. It is the use of large pods supported by flexible legs that transport passengers over existing roads. These legs can adjust their length according to traffic demands and to allow passengers to board. One of the best elements of this mode of transport is that it can operate over existing infrastructure(基础设施) .

Hyperloop

Hyperloop has created a lot of excitement recently and received backing from many influential people in the tech world. Elon Musk, CEO of Space X, is one of the main advocates of the hyperloop. He has argued it could ease traffic in Los Angeles, US. The hyperloop is a high-speed public transportation system in which passengers travel in autonomous electric pods at about 965 kilometers per hour. Virgin Hyperloop, a US transport technology company, conducted its first human trials of a hyperloop system in November 2020.

1. What do we know about AeroMobil’s AM Next?

A．It will be the world’s first flying car.

B．It could be in use in just 2 years’ time.

C．It can fly a maximum of 800 miles each trip.

D．It can switch between modes within 3 minutes.

2. What is an advantage of gyroscopic transport?

A．It can travel either above or below ground.

B．It can travel independent of traffic flow on the roads.

C．It’s quicker and cheaper to build than other vehicles.

D．It can hold more passengers than other forms of transport.

3. What is Elon Musk’s attitude toward the hyperloop?

A．Doubtful.

B．Worried.

C．Critical.

D．Positive.

10 . 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。

People love adventures. However, not many people have the chance of being a pioneer and     1     (experience) a real-life adventure. But those     2    will go to live in this new undersea city will be able to do just that! There will be no suffering here. In fact it is so comfortable that it has been     3     (describe) as “a silk adventure”. Among its many     4     (advantage) we include: easy contact with the land surface, more personal space, complete personal security and no housework worries.

There has been a problem in the past when companies     5     (try) to design undersea cities. The sea bottom is deep and this makes     6     difficult to contact the surface. This     7     (difficult) has been solved by shuttle-submarines, which will always be ready     8     (take) people to the surface. They will be equipped     9     a special small, computerized machine. All the family will be transported quickly and     10     (safe) to their destination.