4 . Last month, Dongxiang County in Gansu Province was officially removed from the “List of Poorest Counties in China”.

Landlocked in China’s northwest, Dongxiang County is_______to 256,828 Dongxiang people, one of China’s 55 ethnic (民族的) minorities. In 2013, nearly a third of its _______ was still living under the absolute poverty line.

So, how did they do it?

Most of Dongxiang people are _______who grow wheat and potatoes. Then it is _______that anti-poverty projects the county often _______ food.

The potatoes here are_______. Dongxiang people have many ways of _______ potatoes for the table, including spicy potato slices, sour potato rolls, whole potatoes _______ under a bed of hot rocks, and even potato noodles. Now these potato _______are sold all over China.

Fan Chenyang, who works in the Dongxiang potato industry, said that one of the ________ways potatoes helped lift the area out of poverty was through education and ________.   It includes topics like latest planting methods and disease________. “These sessions have helped a lot in ________ both the quality and quantity of the potatoes being produced here,” he said.

Dongxiang County is also famous for its ________. Five years ago, Mada Wude, who left at the age of 17 in order to raise sheep in other areas of northwest China, was encouraged to ________ to his county to set up company, which is now taking care of around 1,800 sheep owned by 25 families in his village. Over the five years, he has helped the villagers raise more and better lambs. The profit is distributed to the participating families. The sheep there are given organic food and monitored continuously by AI systems. Therefore, consumers all over China can eat with peace of mind.

1.

A．witness

B．access

C．home

D．entry

2.

A．crew

B．population

C．police

D．children

3.

A．farmers

B．fishermen

C．singers

D．hunters

4.

A．unbelievable

B．acceptable

C．avoidable

D．understandable

5.

A．center on

B．apply for

C．give up

D．suffer from

6.

A．small

B．sweet

C．famous

D．expensive

7.

A．cleaning

B．cutting

C．planting

D．preparing

8.

A．rotten

B．baked

C．fried

D．hidden

9.

A．rocks

B．products

C．chips

D．tools

10.

A．wrong

B．different

C．main

D．tough

11.

A．training

B．exhibition

C．festival

D．export

12.

A．damage

B．development

C．spread

D．prevention

13.

A．reducing

B．meeting

C．improving

D．judging

14.

A．lamb

B．architecture

C．dancing

D．rice

15.

A．appeal

B．return

C．decline

D．stop

5 . 听下面一段较长对话,回答以下小题。
1. How does the man get the information about homeless population?

A．From an article.

B．From the radio.

C．From TⅤ.

2. How does the woman feel about the figures of homeless people?

A．Proper.

B．Amazed.

C．Puzzled.

3. Which country has the highest percentage of homeless people?

A．India.

B．The US.

C．Germany.

6 . A scientific approach to reducing poverty’s many harmful effects via field experiments in schools and other real-world settings has won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.

Economists Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo, both of MIT, and Michael Kremer of Harvard University will receive equal shares of the prize of 9 million Swedish kronor. Duflo is only the second woman ever to be awarded the economics Nobel. “Poverty has deep roots, and we use an experimental approach to examine particular aspects of this problem and determine what interventions (干预) work.” Duflo said.

More than 700 million people globally live in extreme poverty. Half of the world’s children leave school without basic language or math skills. Roughly 5 million children under age 5 annually die from diseases that could have been prevented with inexpensive treatments.

The three winners design and test interventions aimed at specific ways to alleviate poverty’s effects on education, health care and other areas. Such studies are especially important because policies intended to fight poverty can often cause opposite results.

In the mid-1990s, Kremer led a team that tested a range of interventions aimed at improving learning among students attending schools in western Kenya. Banerjee and Duflo, often with Kremer, then performed similar studies in other countries. One important line of research developed “Teaching at the Right Level” programs, which enable teachers in low-income, developing nations to target instruction to students’ learning levels. Teachers in these programs learn ways to keep students from falling behind rather than forcing them through a one-size-fits-all curriculum for each grade.

A 2011 study led by Duflo, for instance, found that grade 1 test scores in a Kenyan school increased when teachers divided students into smaller classes based on their initial learning levels.

A string of studies in the. same vein led by the 2019 winners took randomized controlled trials and field experiments from ignored status to standard practice in developing nations.

These studies showed that the virtually unanswerable question “How can we fight global poverty?” could be broken into smaller, testable questions such as “Why do children not attend school?” and “Why do small-scale farmers not use technologies such as modern seeds and fertilizer (肥料) that are known to be profitable?”

1. What does the underlined word “alleviate” in Paragraph 4 most probably mean?

A．relieve

B．remove

C．control

D．transform

2. It can be inferred that the method the 2019 winners applied to education     .

A．is more suitable for high-level students

B．is an intervention initially created by Duflo

C．will surely get rid of the deep roots of poverty

D．takes into consideration students learning levels

3. What can we learn from the experimenting approach the three economists adopt?

A．The authorities concerned should make policies based on scientific findings.

B．Field experimenting is the most scientific way to find whether interventions work.

C．Education should be paid more attention to due to its important part in fighting poverty.

D．It may be helpful to narrow down the scale of a problem by focusing on specific aspects.

7 . Poverty is about not having enough money to meet basic needs including food, clothing and shelter.     1    The World Bank Organization describes poverty in this way:

"Poverty is hunger. Poverty is lack of shelter. Poverty is being sick and not being able to see doctor.     2    Poverty is not having a job, is fear for the future, living one day at a time.

Poverty has many faces, changing from place to place and across time, and has been described in many ways. Most often, poverty is a situation people want to escape.     3    -for the poor and the wealth alike- a call to change the world so that many more may have enough to eat, adequate shelter, access to education and health, protection from violence, and a voice to focus on what happens in their communities.

In addition to a lack of money, poverty is about not being able to participate in recreational activities; not being able to send children on a day trip with their schoolmates or to a birthday party not being able to pay for medications for an illness.     4     Those people who are barely able to pay for food and shelter simply can't consider these other expenses. When people are excluded within a society, when they are not well educated and when they have negative consequences for society. We all pay the price for poverty The increased cost on the health system, the justice supports to those living in poverty has an impact on our economy.

Despite the many definitions, one thing is certain: Poverty is a complex social issue. No matter how poverty is defined, it can be agreed that it is an issue that requires everyone's attention. It is important that all members of our society work together to provide the opportunities for all our members to reach their full potential.     5    

A．These are all costs of being poor

B．It helps all of us to help each other

C．Poverty considerably depends on the situation

D．So poverty is call to action

E．Poverty is not having access to school and not knowing how to read

F．Therefore, the characteristics of this type of poverty are the same from place to place

G．However, poverty is more, much more than just not having enough money

8 . One of the most outspoken supporters that I know of women and girls is actually a man. As co-founder of the ONE Campaign, my friend Bono spends a lot of time speaking out against global poverty (贫困). Together, we’re working to get out a simple, powerful message: poverty is sexist.

Women and girls are more likely to be in poverty, less likely to get an education and more likely to suffer bad health. And when they are born into poverty, it is much more difficult for them to lift themselves and their families out of it.

Why? One reason is that breaking out of poverty takes time-and that is a resource women around the world are short on. On average, women spend about twice as much time as men in doing the unpaid work that makes life possible for everyone, like cooking, washing, cleaning, shopping and caring. In developing countries, the gap is even much bigger. As a result, women have no time to finish their education, learn new skills, open a business, develop personal relationships or even go to the doctor. They dream of creating a better future for their children, but they can not spare the hours to put those dreams that they have into action.

The fact that the potential of so many women and girls is going unrealized is a sad thing-but it is also an opportunity for us. We need to recognize, reduce and redistribute the burden of work that is holding them back. Because if women have time to invest (投资) in themselves and their ideas, they could transform the world.

1. According to the author, what makes it more difficult for women to climb out of poverty?

A．Sexist prejudice.	B．Heavy burden of housework.
C．Impossible dreams.	D．Bad health.

2. What seems to be the author’s attitude toward reducing female poverty?

A．Casual.	B．Doubtful.
C．Optimistic.	D．Unconcerned.

3. Which of the following might be the best title for the text?

A．Why poverty is sexist.

B．What global poverty is.

C．How to reduce female poverty.

D．How to break down sexist prejudice.

9 . 假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文,请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误,每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏词符号(∧),并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线(\)画掉。
修改：在错的词下面画一横线,并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词;

2.只允许修改10处,多者(从第11处起)不计分。

Though great progress has made in science these years, there are still many people lived in poor conditions. They make their living by collecting and selling used thing. Their children cannot go to school because they have no enough money to send their children to there. Why you think so many people still suffer from poverty now? The answer lies on the population explosion. A president of a developing country once said: “It is us who are to blame for the poverty because we used to produce child without limit.” Although these few words sound simple enough, but they have clear pointed out one of the causes of the population explosion.

10 . After Aida’s parents fled war-torn Bosnia for Sweden in the early 1990s, they put their five-year-old daughter in a school full of native Swedes and made sure she studied hard to get ahead. It ______. Today she is Sweden’s minister for upper secondary education. Like her fellow across Europe, she faces a new ______ -making sure that a fresh wave of refugee children can integrate (融入) as successfully as she did.

In the countries accepting the most refugees-Sweden and Germany-lack of ______ is not a problem. Before the migrant poured, both countries faced ______ numbers of pupils because of low birth rates.

The biggest problem for the education ______ is that refugee children tend to be concentrated together. Many ______ schools near refugee centers or in immigrant neighborhoods. This means they are partially separated and less ______ to learn the local language.

Moreover, immigrants ______ find housing in poor areas with lower education standard. Schools where more than a quarter of students are immigrants usually ______ worse than those with no immigrants. From 2002 to 2012 Sweden’s ______ in the OECD’s Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) fell more than ______ country’s.

The German system has its ______. In some German states, school days are being ______, and the ______ has made a big investment in preschool education. In Sweden, meanwhile older refugees are being trained as teaching ______ to speed integration. But far more could be done.

Most importantly, European governments need to treat refugee children as an ______ rather than a problem.______ by a desperate desire for a better life, they and their parents tend to be hard-working and ______. Europeans who worried about migrants studying together ______ their children should lake ______ because about half of the refugees (难民) reaching Europe from Syria have university degrees, according to UNHCR.

1.

A．studied

B．worked

C．failed

D．embarrassed

2.

A．program

B．choice

C．challenge

D．success

3.

A．space

B．purpose

C．knowledge

D．money

4.

A．declining

B．increasing

C．spreading

D．raising

5.

A．content

B．process

C．principle

D．system

6.

A．join

B．join in

C．attend

D．take part in

7.

A．possibly

B．likely

C．entirely

D．generally

8.

A．intend to

B．trend

C．devote to

D．tend to

9.

A．apply

B．equip

C．perform

D．make

10.

A．rank

B．range

C．view

D．goal

11.

A．one another

B．the other

C．each other

D．any other

12.

A．right

B．strength

C．weakness

D．pride

13.

A．shortened

B．loosened

C．enlarged

D．extended

14.

A．government

B．school

C．committee

D．university

15.

A．managers

B．operators

C．assistants

D．secretaries

16.

A．opportunity

B．wonder

C．news

D．complaint

17.

A．Stricken

B．Guided

C．Driven

D．Confused

18.

A．curious

B．ambitious

C．anxious

D．eager

19.

A．against

B．with

C．or

D．in

20.

A．hope

B．convenience

C．respect

D．comfort