1 . Planning and cooking meals for your entire family is practically a tricky job. The following are four best meal delivery services that can help you not only plan healthy meals, but provide the freshest food for the entire family.

Sunbasket

If you are a person who never eats meat, or follows a specific diet like only eating gluten-free (无麸质的) food, you will find a lot of tasty options with this meal delivery service. The recipes are not time-consuming and its menu contains many organic foods and vegetables. You can pick your breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks here.

HelloFresh

If trying out a meal delivery service is something you are toying with, HelloFresh offers no-commitment plans that allow you to cancel any time. Each delivery includes the farm-sourced food materials and pre-packaged foods that can be easily stored in the refrigerator.

Martha Stewart & Marley Spoon

Leave it to Martha Stewart & Marley Spoon to provide the most delicious and well-thought-of meal delivery service. You can try to make tasty food at home with the help of it and each week there are different options to choose from. Its recipes each contain six easy-to-follow steps and you might even feel like you could start your own at-home cooking shows afterwards.

Purple Carrot

Purple Carrot specializes in meals made with plants and you can choose a two- or four-serving meal plan. Recipes include those for almond(杏仁) butter tofu bowls, fruit salads, etc. Each box comes to you also with the meal’s nutrition information and step-by-step directions. You can also customize meals by adding more protein or choosing gluten-free options.

1. Which is suitable for people with changeable minds?

A．HelloFresh.	B．Sunbasket.
C．Martha Stewart & Marley Spoon.	D．Purple Carrot.

2. What is the feature of Martha Stewart & Marley Spoon?

A．Its meals have a very pleasant smell.	B．It provides on-site cooking service.
C．It specializes in complicated meals.	D．Its recipes vary from week to week.

3. What do Sunbasket and Purple Carrot have in common?

A．They offer no-commitment plans.	B．They feature plant-based diets.
C．They have food that can be easily stored.	D．They contain detailed nutrition information.

2 . I didn’t quite know what I was looking for when I flew to Mongolia for a term abroad. I just needed something different, far from the late-night libraries of my college town. Most different, I hoped, would be my rural homestay: two weeks in central Mongolia with a family of nomadic(游牧的) herders.

I was studying Mongolian at the time, but still, there was so much I couldn’t say or understand. As we walked in the snow behind the goats, my host mom would ask me if I was cold, then giggle (咯咯地笑) and copy a big shiver to make sure I understood. In the evenings, she showed me how to make dumplings with her fingers. My host siblings would talk with me, speaking too fast for me to understand, as we explored the rocks around our tent; I’d listen and nod.

This verbal(言语的) barrier was strangely freeing. In the crowded dining hall at home, meeting new people made me anxious. I’d stay quiet, measuring out my words, struggling for something to say that wouldn’t expose me as unfunny or boring. In Mongolia, I couldn’t perfect my words. I could only smile, and try out one of the phrases I’d mastered: “May I help?” “Where is the dog?” “Are you tired?” My host family laughed at my pronunciation, at the way I threw up my hands and eyebrows in a frequent gesture of confusion. But in their laughter, I felt safe, unembarrassed.

With my Mongolian family on the grassland, I found a feeling of ease I’d never felt before. We were so different, they and I, and not just in language. Their skin was hardened and darkened by sun; I’d been hidden under hats and sunscreen since birth. My host siblings(兄弟姐妹) grew up drawing water from frozen streams and jogging behind herds of sheep; I spent summers at tennis camp.

For me, these gaps made all the difference. Without shared social measures, I wasted no time wondering how I was measuring up. Only real things—kindness, helpfulness—mattered.

1. Why did the author go to Mongolia for a term abroad?

A．She dreamed of living a nomadic life.	B．She was tired of studying late at night.
C．She had to study Mongolians’ normal life.	D．She was collecting information for libraries.

2. What does the underlined word “shiver” in paragraph 2 mean?

A．Hug.

B．Smile.

C．Attack.

D．Shake.

3. How did the author behave at the dining hall in her home country?

A．She felt at ease in the crowd.	B．She usually weighed her words.
C．She asked a lot of funny questions.	D．She often made others laugh with jokes.

4. What did the author learn from her life in Mongolia?

A．You are judged wherever you go.	B．Nature makes humans feel insignificant.
C．Appearance reflects one’s standard of life.	D．Being kind is the common social standard.

3 . 他们把我的发明品当作玩具而不予考虑。
They ________ my invention ________ a toy.

4 . 福利改革是政府的当务之急。
Welfare reform is ________ ________ ________ ________ ________ ________for the government.

5 . 最近研究使人们进一步了解这一物种的起源。
Recently research has ________ ________ ________ ________ the origin of the species.

6 . 我们的假期计划开始成形。
Plans for our vacation are beginning to ________ ________.

7 . 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。

When night falls, the hustle and bustle of the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou turns to the banks of the Pearl River in Liwan district. Hundreds of people and cars     1     (decorate) with colorful lights and eye-catching shop signs swarm (挤满) a local car boot sale bazaar (集市).

Liang Jinsheng, a local youth, sells lemon tea at the bazaar,     2     was opened to the public on July 15 last year. The almost one-square-meter car trunk is his space for tea making.

“I used     3     (work) in the catering industry. I saw on the Internet many people doing business at car boot sale bazaars. So I decided to give it     4     try, as doing business is low-cost and low-risk,” Liang says.

“Although my ‘shop’ is small, I have obtained the necessary business licenses     5     will stick with hygienic (卫生的) standards to ensure food     6     (safe),” Liang adds.

While     7     (make) the lemon tea, Liang also livestreams on short-video platforms to drive traffic.

“Recently, a lot of residents     8     (come) to my tea booth after watching my livestream. I make around 1,000 yuan ($148) at the bazaar every night,” he says.

    9     most cases, Guangzhou will support these new types of business activities, says the city’s commerce department, noting that many commercial plazas (露天广场) have offered     10     (much) space for car boot sales and introduced night-themed activities to stimulate consumption.

8 . 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。

After a long drive and precious little sleep, Todd left his Wisconsin motel around 5:30 a.m. to make it to a funeral near Green Bay. Not long after, he started to hear a grinding sound coming from his front tire, and it kept getting louder. He finally pulled into Lauritzens BP & Sports shop in Wild Rose,Wisconsin, hoping to find help. It was only 7 a.m., and he still had 75 miles to go.

As luck would have it, Todd found Glenn Geib putting oil on the shelves. The mechanic checked out the car and gave Todd some bad news: The wheel bearing was failing and needed to be repaired right away. Fixing it would take a few hours. Geib then looked Todd up and down and asked why he was so dressed up. Todd explained that he was going to the funeral of his boss’s wife.

Geib checked the only one rental car agency in town, but it was sold out. The next closest rental agency was 40 miles away. “I must have looked pretty stressed out at this time,” Todd wrote later on Facebook. Geib noticed, and he was determined to help.

With a population of 699, close-knit Wild Rose has a reputation in central Wisconsin for kindness. Seniors gather at the Wild Rose Community Center for free midday meals. The local Lions Club chapter collects used eyeglasses for folks who can’t afford them, part of the Lions Recycle for Sight program.

But kindness in Wild Rose doesn’t come just from organizations. Kent Barnard, the town library director, remembers a high school kid who walked into Patterson Memorial Library needing gas money. Barnard happily gave it to him, and the guy went on his way. A couple years later, that man came back. “You gave me $10 for gas when I was in high school,” he said, and Barnard was repaid.

“People are not well-off, but they’re taking care of each other,” says Jerry Apps, a local author who lets the library sell his books and DVDs and keep some of the proceeds to fund its programs.

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。

So, faced with a stranger in need at the service station, Glenn Geib did what came naturally.

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Todd jumped into the car and made it to the funeral.

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9 . On a fresh May morning, with my guitar in tow, I ventured down the road to a busy restaurant. I was about to _______ the fear that had held me hostage for 35 years.

As I reflect upon my childhood, I’m _______ of a kind, sensitive kid with long-term struggles. But there was one bright spot in my life: I loved singing and playing the guitar. It was my grandmother, Peg, who _______ a flame within me, kindling an unyielding love for _______ in me. But then, in the blink of an eye that joy was _______.

I was 10 years old and our entire fourth grade was in _______ for our annual choir concert. The substitute choir teacher had _______ me with a solo in the concert’s finale (终曲): “76 Trombones” from The Music Man. But each time my solo _______ , terror kept a firm hold of my voice. The teacher rushed to me, “You’re wasting all of our time. Let someone else sing.” Since then I hadn’t sung in _______ again for 35 years.

The broad road in front of the busy restaurant was filled with people. I pulled out my guitar. As I ________ the first chord, I heard a voice in my head: “You are going to ________ yourself like never before.” But I gathered the courage, and ________ a cascade (瀑布) of songs that had built up inside of me for 35 years. ________ my voice wasn’t beautiful, my passion and excitement won over the crowd. Afterward, I felt a wave of pride, ________, and happiness coursing through my veins (静脉). Eventually, I ________ myself from the clutches of fear and reclaimed the stolen joy.

1.

A．gather up

B．deal with

C．bring about

D．keep off

2.

A．accused

B．comprised

C．informed

D．reminded

3.

A．lighted

B．ignored

C．sustained

D．held

4.

A．life

B．music

C．reading

D．sport

5.

A．discovered

B．adjusted

C．stolen

D．expressed

6.

A．preparation

B．support

C．store

D．exchange

7.

A．provided

B．identified

C．equipped

D．entrusted

8.

A．developed

B．paused

C．approached

D．evolved

9.

A．vain

B．total

C．turn

D．public

10.

A．composed

B．struck

C．heard

D．transferred

11.

A．embarrass

B．enjoy

C．improve

D．enlighten

12.

A．spread

B．released

C．followed

D．recalled

13.

A．If

B．As

C．Because

D．Although

14.

A．gratitude

B．honour

C．fulfillment

D．depression

15.

A．liberated

B．prevented

C．protected

D．discouraged

10 . Established earthquake warning systems provide at best just a minute or two of notice, leaving little time for preparedness. Decades of searching for a better warning sign-changes in the geochemistry of groundwater, electromagnetic effects in the upper atmosphere, and even changes in animal behavior-have failed. Many question whether such a precursor (先兆) even exists. This situation may change soon, as recent research is providing a glimmer of hope for improved earthquake prediction.

Researchers Quentin Bletery and Jean-Mathieu Nocquet from Cote d’Azur University in France collected data from over 90 earthquakes with magnitudes larger than 7 that had occurred in the past two decades.They focused on GPS station records near these quakes, which accurately captured land movement every 5 minutes with millimeter precision. They analyzed more than 3,000 time series of motion in the 48 hours leading up to the main ruptures (断裂).

They noticed that, in the first 46 hours, the records showed no significant features. However, during the 2 hours before the earthquake, they noticed signs of increasing movement along the fault zones (断层带). Essentially, there’s a slip between plates causing the land above them to move in a measurable, horizontal direction.

Could this be just a coincidence? The probability of this increase happening just before the quake and being unrelated is extremely low, and the researchers confirmed this by analyzing 100,000 random time windows in non-earthquake GPS data. The pattern occurred only 0.03% of the time in non-earthquake data.

While this precursor signal won’t be used for warnings anytime soon, officials from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) admit that this new study provides valuable insights into how to improve their warning systems-GPS data can grease the wheels of early earthquake warnings.

The researchers admit they're still a number of steps away from putting this precursor signal into use, particularly since detecting subtle signals at individual faults requires more GPS stations. But the biggest problem is that many of the world’s earthquake regions have no instrumentation. “We can’t realize the detection at the scale of one earthquake, so we cannot make predictions,” Bletery said.

1. What remains a tough problem for scientists?

A．Determining the magnitude of an earthquake.

B．Finding a way to detect earthquakes in early stages.

C．Measuring atmospheric changes during earthquakes.

D．Identifying animals’ possible responses to earthquakes.

2. What did the researchers find through their data analysis?

A．The chance of main ruptures occurring in fault zones.

B．The accuracy of GPS in recording land movement.

C．The existence of a two-hour precursory phase.

D．The horizontal slip within the first 46 hours.

3. What does the underlined part “grease the wheels of” in paragraph 5 mean?

A．Distinguish

B．Contradict

C．Overmatch

D．Facilitate

4. What holds back the practical application of the new findings?

A．The inaccessibility of precursor signals.

B．The complexity of updating GPS equipment.

C．The challenge of identifying earthquake regions.

D．The inconsistent slip patterns of different earthquakes.