1 . Milo is a rescue dog, adopted by 20-year-old Makayla Swift. One morning in November 2021, Swift opened her front door in Silver Spring, Maryland, and Milo _______ running. Milo ran to the house across the street. He seemed unsatisfied with this house, so he ran to the one next door, Swift on his _______.

“He started _______ on the front door,” Swift says. “I’m thinking, ‘Why is he literally trying to _______ the house?’” She was _______. Not everyone wants a strange dog on their _______. But as she tried to drag Milo away, she could hear a sound coming through an open upstairs window. It was a voice yelling “Help!”

Hours earlier, around 4 a. m., Sherry Starr had _______ from her bed. “All of a sudden, standing there between the toilet and the bathtub, I _______,” she says. “I went down hard on the floor.” Starr is 85. “I could not move at all,” says Starr, who was stuck between the toilet and the bathtub. Starr was _______. “I’m thinking: I’m just going to die here,” she says. Her best ________, she decided, was to listen for the letter carrier in the afternoon and scream at the top of her lungs.

“Her voice was very ________,” says Swift. “You had to be right at the front door to hear Mrs. Starr yell for ________ unless you were Milo who ________ heard Starr when I opened my own front door.”

Swift called 911. The rescuers thought they’d have to remove the toilet, but they gave one last pull and out she popped. Though injured, Starr ________ a trip to the hospital. Swift has known her share of pain. Two years ago, her mother died. She says Milo has helped her with her grief. “That dog is a ________,” she says.

1.

A．woke up

B．took off

C．caught up

D．held back

2.

A．head

B．feet

C．tail

D．ear

3.

A．scratching

B．struggling

C．opening

D．pulling

4.

A．break down

B．settle down

C．sign up

D．break into

5.

A．disturbed

B．embarrassed

C．discouraged

D．disappointed

6.

A．own

B．way

C．property

D．business

7.

A．risen

B．sprang

C．raised

D．jumped

8.

A．skipped

B．crashed

C．slipped

D．wept

9.

A．amazed

B．hopeful

C．angry

D．scared

10.

A．aim

B．bet

C．opinion

D．point

11.

A．sweet

B．deep

C．faint

D．familiar

12.

A．fun

B．help

C．practice

D．sale

13.

A．instantly

B．confidently

C．slightly

D．merely

14.

A．considered

B．offered

C．declined

D．remembered

15.

A．lesson

B．treat

C．blessing

D．pet

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。

I bought Jude as a tiny puppy after my previous dog died in a horrible incident. My heart was just broken and it was only having Jude that brought me back round from that pain. He was a lovely and happy pet.

For the first time in years, our whole family had gone on holiday together. It was only for four days but it meant my dog Jude was going to be looked after by someone outside the family. I was a bit nervous about it. After struggling for several days, I eventually booked him into a home boarding place in Belfast. I was worried about him the moment he was dropped off, because he had never been in kennels before.

The emotions we have gone through in the last few days have been awful. Jude was used to the comforts of a home and he had never been on his own before. Thus, I was worried about him at the bottom of my heart. Then unfortunately, the accident happened.

We went away on Monday, July 11, and he was missing on the 12th after being left in an exercise area. But it was on Thursday that I was told he had gone though I messaged the kennels every day to see how he was.

The moment we got home, we went looking for him but we didn’t know the area. My daughters Karla and Leanne took a tent and camped out to keep looking for Jude and they con-firmed a number of sightings of him. There were leaflet drops, drones put up and ground searches and posters. Social media was flooded with his photo and we got news of lots of sightings which helped. On Sunday night, my grandson Caidon who is nine, his mum Ashleigh and their dog Bonnie, went with us to the location of a reported sighting by a kind man and there Jude was.

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。

As soon as Jude heard his friend Bonnie? he ran straight to him.

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Jude suffered an injury to his right paw (爪) and some weight loss.

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4 . 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。

The pileated woodpecker (红冠黑啄木鸟) is one of the     1     (large) woodpecker species in North America and its look is unmistakable-a large black bird with white on each side of its neck and a red crest on its head. When it flies, white flashes are visible under its     2     (wing).

The sound of the pileated woodpeckers’ hammering (捶打声)     3     (carry) a long distance   through the woods     4     they live. They hammer to attract mates and establish the boundaries of their territory to warn other males away.

They use their beaks to peck and dig under bark to find carpenter ants and other insects and will often dig large holes in trees     5     (find) their meals. Some holes are so big that they     6     (weak) small and young trees. The birds also strip (剥去) pieces of bark from trees to look for food. Generally, however, pileated woodpeckers help keep a forest healthy     7     eating wood-boring insects.

A nesting pair of pileated woodpeckers     8     (usual) makes a nesting hole in a large and older tree. During the day, both parents take turns incubating (孵化) or     9     (sit) on the eggs to keep them warm. At night, only the male incubates the eggs. The pileated woodpeckers generally lay four eggs at     10     time, which take about two weeks to hatch.

5 . It has been a hard year for the farmers in Michigan and more attention needs to be paid to their emotional well-being, according to a report written by Jim Zook, director of the Michigan Corn Growers Association.

“Nobody has seen a year that has dealt with so many challenges that we have seen with the weather, the markets, the trade and the politics. All of them together have become a storm,” said Zook.

The farmers have been struggling this year because of volatile (易变的) weather and markets. According to Zook, some corn growers will not be able to go on for another year. He said the Michigan Corn Growers Association was putting together programs to provide emotional support for the farmers. “The biggest thing is that we just want to make sure that the farmers in Michigan will work together through this difficult time,” said Zook.

Zook said planting was delayed in the spring because of the cold and wet weather. “We didn’t get as many acres (英亩) planted as what we had hoped,” said Zook. “And so there were a number of acres that kept idle this year.” Zook said he was hopeful that the snow would melt. If it did, he said the farmers would still be able to harvest the corn. But he said if the snow melted, they then would need low temperatures to freeze the ground so the ground could support the weight of heavy harvesting equipment for the corn.

“The challenge will appear in soybean (大豆) harvest because they are lower to the ground,” said Zook. “And if that snow is up on the bean, they won’t be able to get them.”

1. Which can best describe the situation of the farmers in Michigan?

A．Optimistic.

B．Familiar.

C．Embarrassing.

D．Challenging.

2. What should the farmers in Michigan do according to Zook?

A．Help each other.	B．Buy more equipment.
C．Save their expenses.	D．Focus on the weather.

3. What does the underlined word “idle” in paragraph 4 mean?

A．Hopeful.

B．Developing.

C．Free of charge.

D．Not in use.

4. How did Zook feel about the situation?

A．Interested.

B．Curious.

C．Worried.

D．Angry.

6 . Chinese astronauts have successfully grown rice seedlings(幼苗)aboard the Tiangong space station and this experiment may offer key insights into how astronauts can grow food to support long—term space missions, experts said on Monday. This experiment is the first to produce the complete life cycle of the plant, which begins with a seed and ends with a mature plant producing new seeds.

The breakthrough was conducted in the Wentian space laboratory, which was launched into orbit on July 24, 2022. Three astronauts were conducting the experiment smoothly and testing the plants according to the plan.

“The rice seedlings are growing very well,” said Zheng Huiqiong, a researcher of the task, adding that the experiment also contained seedlings of a small flowering plant often used by scientists to study mutations(变异). “The astronauts will keep monitoring the plants, and if it is successful, they will collect the newly produced seeds and bring them back to Earth for further studies,” she noted

The flowering stage is crucial for plant reproductive development. “We want to investigate how microgravity can affect the plant flowering time and whether it is possible to use the microgravity environment to control the related process,” she said.

Since the 1980s, China has been taking seeds of rice and other crops to space to help them mutate and produce higher yields once they were planted on Earth. But growing rice in orbit is a different challenge due to the tough conditions of space such as microgravity and lack of air.   

Rice has been a main food for astronauts since the early days of space exploration. Freeze—dried chicken and rice was the menu for the Apollo 11 mission, which carried the first humans to land on the moon in July 1969.

“But if we want to land on and explore Mars, bringing food from Earth is not enough to provide for the astronauts’ long journey and mission in space. We have to find a food source for long term space explorations,” Zheng added.

1. What’s the significance of Chinese recent space rice experiment?

A．It enables human beings to move to another planet.

B．It helps people get a better idea of the human life cycle.

C．It inspires more other countries to do space explorations

D．It makes it possible to carry out long—term space missions

2. What does the underlined word “it” in paragraph 3 refer to?

A．The mutation.

B．The experiment.

C．The exploration.

D．The space mission.

3. Why have crop seeds been brought to space since the last century?

A．To promote genetic changes and increase crop harvest.

B．To figure out how to create an earth—like environment.

C．To study the impact of microgravity on crop growth.

D．To develop new crop species with strong ability to adapt.

4. Where is the text most probably from?

A．A medical report.	B．A fashion magazine.
C．A science newspaper.	D．A history book.

9 . 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。

Beekeepers in China’s high-tech powerhouse of Zhejiang Province have developed a smart way of using intelligent beehives (蜂窝) to change bee farming. Over 300     1     (insider) and experts came to Chun’an County on Saturday     2     (witness) the pilot. More than 2, 600 artificial beehives have been arranged in mountains in western Hangzhou.

Chen Pinghua, chair of Qiandao Lake Mozhidao Biotechnology Co. Ltd., which operates the bee farm, said the smart hives were equipped with sensors,    3     can monitor and control the temperature and humidity (湿度) and send the data on the number of times the bees enter and leave as well     4     the weight of the hive. Then technicians can determine whether the honey can be harvested.

Each hive has a unique QR code that     5     (trace) the source of the honey to ensure food safety, Chen said. He said staff could open an app on their mobile phones to monitor the real-time data of each hive, which     6     (great) improves efficiency.

Saturday happened at the same time with World Honey Bee Day     7     (appoint) by the United Nations in 2017 to spread awareness on the     8     (important) of bees，which pollinate (传授花粉) one-third of the world’s grain-producing plants.

“Beekeeping has a long history in China, but it has remained as     9     very low-end business without standards for hives and on how bees are raised and how honey     10     (harvest),” Chen said.