1 . 听下面一段较长独白，回答以下小题。
1. What was the speaker usually warned to do in the park?

A．Run before work.

B．Watch out for thieves.

C．Keep away from young men.

2. Why did the speaker seize the young man?

A．To get his money back.

B．To help him stand up.

C．To demand an apology.

3. How did the young man feel at last?

A．Angry.

B．Sorry.

C．Frightened.

4. What is the speaker mainly talking about?

A．His brave behavior.

B．His funny experience.

C．His fitness plan.

2 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. What did the man forget to bring?

A．His driver’s license.

B．His registration ticket.

C．His credit card.

2. How much should the man give the woman?

A．$250.

B．$215.

C．$205.

3. How will the man pay finally?

A．In cash.

B．By credit card.

C．By check.

4. What made the woman change her attitude?

A．The man’s rudeness.

B．The man’s promise.

C．The man’s threat.

3 . Despite the public ________ (argue) over this technology, its possibilities have been creating much excitement throughout the entire medical community and beyond. (用所给词的适当形式填空)

4 . Role of Mass Media in Education

In today’s advanced world, where everything is changing at lightning speed, mass media plays an important role.     1     It isn’t limited to the four walls of a classroom anymore. Mass media is responsible for this development to a great extent. The major roles mass media plays in the education field are:

Universal reach

Mass media has connected people like never before. Education is something which aims to have a universal reach. Mass media has helped to bridge that gap enormously.     2    

Storage of information

Mass media allows storing information which can be accessed from anywhere at any time. It is literally accessible, at our fingertips, which saves a lot of time and energy.     3    

No physical restrictions

    4     But it is not the case now. Mass media has reduced distances and made the world smaller for good. For instance, it is not necessary to be present at a place physically to gain knowledge now.

Fruitful results

Another huge advantage of current technological innovations in mass media is the increased memory capability of students. Many scientific pieces of research have proven that delivering lectures via an audio-visual format (视听格式) is quite effective.     5     All this has only been made possible because of mass media.

A．This results in the reduction of false information.

B．That being said, education is also advancing day by day.

C．Therefore, it serves as a rather useful resource in the field of education.

D．One of the major disadvantages before mass media was a physical restriction.

E．Mass media consists of the tools used for communicating information and ideas.

F．In other words, it is now within everyone’s reach and making the world a better place.

G．It has a more positive impact on the memory power of the brain than an audio lecture.

5 . When I was a teen of 16 years old, I used to make more friends because of my outgoing nature. But unfortunately, I also had the most misunderstandings with them. However, I have not lost any of my friends over these disagreements.

Once I bought a few books to read in my free time during the summer vacation at high school. One evening during the vacation, two of my friends visited my home. After having some small talk, one of them started looking at my library that I had built since my childhood. He picked up one of the books that I had just started reading in the morning. It was Thomas, one of my best friends in high school. I helped him a lot with his mathematics for the exam before the summer vacation.

The disagreement with him began when he wanted to take the book home. The book named An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser was his first choice. I tried to make him realize that I had just started reading it before they arrived at my home and had just finished one-fourth of the book. But it seemed that he was also crazy about the book. He was determined to take it. Samuel, the other friend of mine sat quietly and saw us argue with each other.

The argument continued for about 15 minutes, and I tried to ask him to take some other books. He looked sad, saying that after he started reading the story, he really didn’t want to miss the chance to complete the book. Finally, I gave up and let him take the book on one condition: he should return the book just after he finished reading it and also would not lend it to someone else (he had lost most of his books lending them to others) as he did earlier with my books.

1. What happened to Thomas soon after he arrived at the author’s home?

A．He thought of a children’s book.

B．He argued with Samuel over a book.

C．He was attracted to one of the author’s books.

D．He remembered leaving his book in the library.

2. Why did the author want to continue reading An American Tragedy?

A．He enjoyed it very much.

B．He was a fan of the writer.

C．He read it for the final exam.

D．He planned to research into it.

3. How did the author solve the disagreement with Thomas?

A．He told him the story of the book.

B．He decided to lend him the book.

C．He gave him another book by the same writer.

D．He let him look through the book before leaving.

4. What can we say about Thomas?

A．He doesn’t have any friends.	B．He is good at mathematics.
C．He always keeps his word.	D．He doesn’t give up easily.

6 . SOLO Show

Red Bluff Art Gallery, California, calls on artists to attend an online solo show (个人作品秀) that will run for one full year. Open to all forms of art (i.e., painting, photography, sculpture, etc.) from people all over the world.

Contact: email director@redbluffartgallery.com or call 530-529-1332

Entry deadline (报名截止日期): November 10, 2022

Requirements:

Entry: Minimum: 1; Maximum: 20

Entry fee (参赛费用): $40.00 per entry

Imagine seeing your work in a 3D, walk-through virtual exhibit (虚拟展览)! We create this amazing and beautiful tool for the promotion (宣传) of your work. Use the Exhibit on social media, your website, newsletters, or in your emails. Your Solo Exhibit will also have its own page with the Red Bluff Art Gallery.

The Solo Exhibit gives total focus to your work and gives you a way to both promote and sell your own work yourself. You keep 100% of sales.

During the year of your Exhibit, when a work sells, you can use a new one to take its place. You can also make changes to descriptions and prices. There are no extra fees for doing this.

When signing up, you’d better enter between 10 and 20 pictures to make a good show. If any of your work is not used, all fees will be given back to you.

The solo show will run for one full year. A notice will be given to the email address you provide if your entries are chosen for the show. Please also make sure you enter your name so it can appear with your artwork titling.

For more information, please visit artist.callforentry.org.

1. What do we know about the solo show?

A．It mainly exhibits paintings.	B．It ends early in the year 2023.
C．It is actually an online exhibition.	D．It is held for artists from California.

2. If one’s work sells at the show, they can ________.

A．get the entry fee back	B．keep part of the money
C．exhibit another work	D．attend the next show for free

3. What is suggested to artists who want to attend the show?

A．Enter 10 to 20 entries.

B．Enter entries that won prizes.

C．Include their ideas on the promotion of entries.

D．Include others’ recommendations for their entries.

7 . 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。

On a dark snowy night, Arthur Stick was returning home after a difficult shift. He worked as a truck driver in Texas, taking several shift s a week because he had a sick daughter, Kate, who needed urgent surgery, but he wasn’t sure if he’d be able to raise enough money for it.

Kate was diagnosed with a cyst(囊肿) shortly after birth. The doctors told Arthur and his wife Maria that she needed an operation as soon as possible; otherwise, it could pose a threat to the little girl’s life. The parents decided they would do whatever it took to save their daughter and began saving money right away.

It was too black outside with no visibility. Arthur was driving slowly, thinking of solutions to his problem when he noticed a shadow in the middle of the road. He hit the brakes and came to a complete stop, rubbing his eyes and looking more closely. A human figure—a woman lying unconscious in the middle of the road!

Arthur picked up the woman, carried her to his truck, quickly changed his route and drove straight to the hospital. About 10 minutes later, they finally arrived. “It’s an emergency! Please call the doctor!” he screamed at the top of his lungs.

The woman was admitted right away.

The next day, Arthur went to the hospital to see the woman.

The woman was Alice, who was a rich businesswoman. Alice expressed her gratitude to him and told him the whole story about how she ended up on the road. “Thank you so much, Arthur. You’re a really generous soul. I heard you drove me to the hospital last night and that you come here frequently with your daughter.”

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。

“Is everything alright?” Alice went on to ask.

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A week later, good news came that Arthur had received funding for Kate’s surgery.

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8 . 课本原文填空。

Besides such ethical concerns, the legal situations the autonomous vehicle industry is likely to be confronted with have     1     heated debates. In this emerging industry, manufacturing and programming standards are not yet     2    . Moreover, the quality and safety of the technology used in self-driving cars is still being challenged. This could lead to extraordinary cases like who should be held     3     when self-driving cars are involved in accidents — should it be the driver, the software programmer or the manufacturer? Manufacturing and programming standards first have to be agreed upon to make it possible for law courts to decide who is at fault when things go wrong. As     4     in autonomous vehicle design and technology are in progress, the final agreement on laws and regulations     5     this industry remains to be seen.

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。

The Yungang Grottoes in Datong, Shanxi Province,     1     UNESCO World Heritage Site, have 45 major caves and more than 59,000 Buddha statues, with a grotto complex about 1 km long from east to west.

    2     (current), a giant 3D printing reproduction of Cave No. 3 at the Yungang Grottoes is on display at the Yungang Grottoes Art Museum in Qingdao, east China’s Shandong Province. This is the first time in the world that 3D printing technology     3     (use) to reproduce such a large-scale cultural relic.

The identical reproduction strictly matches the appearance and scale of the original. The copy of the cave     4     (measure) 17.9 meters tall by 13.6 meters wide, while the main Buddha stands at 9.93 meters tall.

During the replication process, 3D technicians first collected some 10,000 images of the cave and the Buddha to build up a digital model,     5     was then divided into 842 parts to be printed with multiple 3D     6     (printer). The final installation(安装) and coloring stages took the team three months     7     (complete).

The reproduction not only allows people to get much     8     (close) to the precious heritage items     9     damaging the original objects, but also helps to enhance the research, documentation, digitalization and preservation of the relics     10     (they).

10 . It was early winter several years ago. I had pulled out my old winter coat for another year’s _________. It was still in pretty good shape. I didn’t really _________ a new one but I wanted one and mentioned it to my daughter one day. A few weeks later she gave me a _________ of a bright red winter’s coat.

I put the old one in my closet and started to wear the new coat. Each day, though, when I opened my closet, something _________ me. It seemed a (n) _________ that my still good, old coat should just sit there keeping no one warm. I took it out and drove to a local charity shop. Someone who couldn’t _________ a coat otherwise could get my old one. I dropped it off, chatted _________ with the staff for a bit, and walked out of the door. I saw a shaking man in a very _________ jacket walking in. I wondered if he would _________ my old coat. Then I smiled with a warm heart.

My new coat is my old coat now. It too is getting a little worn. It has black __________ on the sleeves from where I repaired the roof last winter. It is in too bad of __________ to even donate to charity. I wonder if I should buy a new one soon. Maybe I can find a few more things to give to the charity shop __________.

Perhaps the best way to deal with our __________ then is to give of ourselves. Love, after all, brings us the most __________. And the more of it you __________, the more of it you have.

1.

A．store

B．choice

C．use

D．goal

2.

A．need

B．design

C．sew

D．collect

3.

A．gift

B．hope

C．reward

D．selection

4.

A．surprised

B．encouraged

C．bothered

D．discouraged

5.

A．relief

B．shame

C．chance

D．honour

6.

A．wash

B．tailor

C．donate

D．afford

7.

A．guiltily

B．confidently

C．fearfully

D．happily

8.

A．new

B．thin

C．warm

D．dirty

9.

A．get used to

B．put up with

C．keep away from

D．end up in

10.

A．buttons

B．labels

C．spots

D．fabrics

11.

A．shape

B．size

C．colour

D．material

12.

A．likewise

B．otherwise

C．instead

D．indeed

13.

A．wants

B．dreams

C．promises

D．principles

14.

A．joy

B．courage

C．anxiety

D．challenge

15.

A．rely on

B．give away

C．talk about

D．put aside