1 . 阅读下面短文，根据所给情节进行续写，使之构成一个完整的故事。

As a teaching student, I was sent on my first practicum(实习) at a local high school. During my practicum. I found that the awful aspects of high school haven’t changed since I was there. It can still be a place where judgements are made on different kids.

Jess was a Year 10 student who always respected her classmates, though she failed to be treated equally in return. Kids constantly made fun of her. As a teacher, I felt it natural to protect students like Jess, but I soon realized that there was so little I could actually do.

Tyson, a Year 12 student known for his music al talents, turned out to be opposite. He was always surrounded by admirers and was willing to help others. Obviously, he was a confident, helpful and popular young man.

When the school talent show came around, Jess asked to perform a solo act. I was hesitant to allow her to take the stage, fearing she might make herself the target of laughter. However, I knew that it would be unfair to say no on these grounds, so her name made it onto the list of performers.

When the day of the show arrived, the whole school gathered in the concert hall. The show began and I was pleasantly surprised that each performance was greeted with cheers and applause, creating an encouraging atmosphere. Then, on the stage stood Jess, smiling broadly. The music started and, to my horror, she missed the first line of the song. She became so nervous that she sang in the wrong key and forgot her lyrics(歌词). As Jess struggled on the stage, some kids in the audience whispered and giggled, but most remained silent.

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Jess looked embarrassed and was about to give up when something amazing happened.

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2 . Unplugging (拔插头) is often impossible. A recent survey found that most Americans say they spend too much time on their phones.     1     Fortunately, the answer is yes.

Start with one simple question.

Know that urge (冲动) you get to reach for your phone without realizing it? And then, before you know it, you have been absorbed in the social media for hours?     2     Asking yourself if you really need to do this right now may help you pause, reflect on and resist the temptation (诱惑) to check your device.

Take the “mobile” out of your mobile devices.

    3     Head out for a walk? Turn off your notifications. If you’re feeling brave, try powering down your phone. Making sure it won’t buzz (嗡嗡响) can help you focus on the world around you.

Schedule tiny tech breaks.

Extended vacations from your devices may not be possible. But if you’re trying to spend less time staring at your screens, 10-or 15-minute breaks might be a more practical option.     4     Another trick: Put tech breaks in your calendar. It may feel strange to schedule something like “take a phone-free walk,” but it shouldn’t if it’s a priority.

    5     .

To build a health y relationship with technology, you need to be in control of it and not the other way around. Think about your devices as tools that you decide how to use. Make it work for you, not against you. Whether it’s an email program or your dishwasher, it’s the intention behind how you’re using it that really makes the big difference.

A．Use your phone to do housework.

B．Make the technology work for you.

C．Is it possible for them to stop using phones in their daily life?

D．You might take a quick walk, close your eyes, work on a puzzle or read a book.

E．Is it possible to have a health y relationship with technology while still using it daily?

F．If you want to peacefully coexist with technology, you need to get a handle on that urge.

G．One way to create harmony with your technology is to limit your phone use when you’re on the move.

3 . Paris is one of the most important and influential cities in the world. In terms of tourism, Paris is the second most visited city in Europe after London. Everyone knows all about the iconic sights in Paris, such as the Eiffel Tower and Louvre Museum. But what about other facts that your average guide book doesn’t tell you?

•Every year the French celebrate the storming of the Bastille prison in Paris on July 14th 1789. Usually the jail held political prisoners but on the day the Bastille was stormed there were only 7 prisoners in the jail, none of political significance, and four of them had been jailed for check-forging(伪造支票).

• Paris is called the City of Lights. But it has nothing to do with the power used to illuminate the Eiffel Tower or the streetlights of the city. Lights in this case, means intellectuals, referring to the high-concentration of writers, artists and academics that have always been drawn to the city.

•Shakespeare And Company is the most famous English-language bookshop in Paris and it is named after the original store, owned by Sylvia Beach, which published James Joyce’s classic novel Ulysses in 1922. Now it has been a salon for writers and readers in Paris for more than seventy years.

• Paris is a city with a long, interesting but sadly a blood-stained history. Paris’ Latin motto is “Fluctuat nec mergitur” meaning “It is tossed by the waves, but does not sink.”

MoreinformationcanbegainedfromOnlinetravelguide@whatparis.com .

1. What facts about Paris can we learn from the passage?

A．Paris is the second most popular tourist city in the world.

B．Prisoners in the Bastille were all of political significance.

C．Paris is called the City of Lights because of the power of the road lights.

D．Shakespeare And Company is a meeting place for writers and readers in Paris.

2. What can be inferred from the underlined sentence?

A．Paris has a long and interesting history.	B．Paris will never sink into the ocean.
C．Parisians are tough in face of challenges.	D．Parisians are drowned by huge waves.

3. The passage is most likely taken from _______.

A．A news report.	B．A travel guide.
C．An advertisement.	D．An announcement.

4 . Tucker’s adventure began in early November, when McCall, a retired electrician, spent the night in a hotel in the town of Cleveland, Tennessee. McCall’s budget was tight, and her head was full of questions. In the _______ two years, McCall had lost her husband to cancer, and their grandchildren to _______. And an accident had left McCall partially disabled and _______ to work.

“Honestly, after all the _______, I was ready to give up,” says McCall. “If it hadn’t been for Tucker, the cat, I don’t think I would’ve made it.”

McCall planned to spend the night in Cleveland and _______ on. But when she returned from breakfast the next morning, ready to _______ and hit the road again, the cat was gone. Panicked (惊慌的), she _______ along the busy road for hours, but he was _______ to be found.

As _______ fell, McCall realized she had to go. She couldn’t ________ to stay another night. ________, she got in her car and got back on the way.

The next day, Lillard, 27, was jogging just down the road from the hotel where McCall had stayed when she spotted Tucker. She took him home, certain he was someone’s missing friend, and ________ his story on Facebook. McCall, too, had been posting about Tucker. Within hours, someone made the ________, and soon McCall was on the phone with Lillard, hearing Tucker’s meows and sobbing with ________. One month and a half later, Tucker was ________ to McCall, just in time for Christmans.

1.

A．present

B．precious

C．previous

D．preferable

2.

A．violence

B．cancer

C．joy

D．revival

3.

A．unwilling

B．unnecessary

C．unable

D．inconvenient

4.

A．diseases

B．accidents

C．injuries

D．deaths

5.

A．ride

B．drive

C．walk

D． run

6.

A．clean up

B．take up

C．pick up

D． pack up

7.

A．looked

B．researched

C．searched

D．surveyed

8.

A．somewhere

B．nowhere

C．elsewhere

D．anywhere

9.

A．dawn

B．noon

C．dusk

D．night

10.

A．afford

B．offer

C．remain

D．ensure

11.

A．Bad-tempered

B．Heartbroken

C．Helpless

D．Homeless

12.

A．posted

B．wrote

C．blogged

D．told

13.

A．touch

B．apology

C．connection

D．announcement

14.

A．sorrow

B．panic

C．satisfaction

D．relief

15.

A．awarded

B．delivered

C．offered

D．donated

5 . Playing Minecraft, a video game, could be key to creating adaptable (可调试的) artificial intelligence models that can pick up a variety of tasks the way humans do.

Steven James at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa and his colleagues developed a test within Minecraft to measure the general intelligence of AI models. This MinePlanner test rates an AI’s ability to ignore unimportant details while solving a complex multi-step problem.

Lots of AI training “cheats” by giving a model all the data it needs to learn how to do a job and nothing related to it, says James. Future AI models will need to deal with confusing problems, and he hopes that MinePlanner will guide that research. AI working to solve a problem in the game will see everything involved, including objects and other details that aren’t necessarily needed to solve a problem and must be ignored. It will have to survey its surroundings and work out by itself what is and isn’t needed.

The virtual test consists of 15 construction problems, and each one can be easy, medium and hard. To finish each task, the AI may need to take some steps in between, like building stairs to reach a certain height. This means the AI has to think about the whole picture and plan what to do next.

State-of-the-art planning AI models were unable to complete any of the tough problems and they only do a little better on the easier ones, suggesting there is room for improvement.

“We can’t require a human designer to come in and tell the AI exactly what it should and shouldn’t care about for each and every task it might have to solve,” says James. “That’s the problem we’re trying to address.”

1. Why is playing Minecraft important for creating adaptable AI models?

A．Because it offers tasks that require human-like ability.

B．Because it provides different situations for AI training.

C．Because it is an easy game for AI to learn and master.

D．Because it is a video game popular among AI scientists.

2. What does James mean by saying that “AI training cheats”?

A．AI models are trained in a dishonest way.

B．AI models are only taught to perform simple tasks.

C．AI models are offered all the necessary data for a task.

D．AI models are given wrong information during training.

3. How did the state-of-the-art planning AI model perform in the test?

A．It solved all the 15 construction problems.

B．It performed poorly in handling hard tasks.

C．It was completely unable to deal with any task.

D．It performed excellently in solving easy problems.

4. What does James think AI models need improving?

A．Adaptable ability.	B．Computing speed.
C．Communicative skills.	D．Data-processing power.

6 . Landfills are places where a large amount of waste and other refuse is buried in the ground. They are responsible for releasing a large amount of planet-warming methane gas into the atmosphere, a new study suggests.

The study, which was published in Science Advances on Wednesday, is aimed at helping local governments carry out targeted efforts to limit global warming by identifying areas of major concern. For this purpose, the scientists used satellite data from four major cities around the world — Delhi and Mumbai in India, Lahore in Pakistan and Buenos Aires in Argentina.

Based on the collected data, the scientists have drawn the conclusion that landfills are the third-largest source of methane emissions (排放) worldwide, after oil and gas systems and agriculture. And further investigation shows that the methane released from the landfills is generated from the decomposition (分解) of natural waste in them, like food, wood or paper.

Methane, though only accounting for about 11 percent of greenhouse gas emissions, traps 80 times more heat in the atmosphere than CO₂. Scientists estimate that at least 25 percent of today’s warming is driven by methane from human actions. That’s why landfills are partly to blame for the global warming.

Joannes Maasakkers, a leader of the study, said, “We found that these landfills, which are relatively small compared to city sizes, are responsible for a large part of total emissions from a given area.” Another scientist, Euan Nisbet, who was not part of the study, said, “This new work shows just how important it is to manage landfills better, especially in countries like India where landfills are often on fire, resulting in a wide range of damaging pollutants (污染物).” He also added that the newer satellite technology and on-the-ground research make it easier for researchers to identify “who is polluting the world”.

1. Why did the scientists carry out the study?

A．To reduce the emission of the methane.	B．To help the authorities control the global warming.
C．To test out the new satellite technology.	D．To clarify which places people are concerned about.

2. What do we know about methane gas according to the passage?

A．There exists methane in food, wood and paper.

B．Methane makes up most of the greenhouse gases.

C．More methane is released from landfills than from agriculture.

D．Methane prevents more heat in the air from escaping than CO₂ does.

3. What’s Euan Nisbet’s attitude towards the study?

A．Favourable

B．Concerned

C．Unclear

D．Doubtful

4. What’s the main idea of the passage?

A．Methane causes the temperature of the earth to go up.

B．Satellite data help identify the source of the pollutants.

C．Landfills are to blame for the release of much methane.

D．Waste and other refuse should be forbidden for their impact.

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。

Have you ever been so depressed that you can’t sleep? You also can’t eat. You can’t read. You have no friends to call up and nothing is good on TV. So you sigh, press your face down harder into your pillow, and shed a few tears.

This was my life two years ago. I had just turned 14 but already found life a struggle. As I lay in my bed one Saturday, Mom peeked (瞄) into my room to make her regular “Is Emily still alive” check. I knew that if I spent more time like this, she would begin dusting me. After suggesting a few things for me to do that I immediately rejected, Mom made her move, “Emily! Get dressed! I’m taking the dog out for a walk, and you’re coming with me!” “Why?” I protested. “Because it’ll make you feel better.”     

The thought of moving was unbearable. I felt as if all of my body parts were weighed down by tons of bricks I couldn’t remember the last time I had gone outside. Somehow I found the strength to slip on a pair of jeans and a black sweatshirt. Mom was waiting at the door, leash (狗绳) in hand and dog at her side.

Then, we stepped outside. It was a warm March day and it had been a long time since the warmth of the sun had touched my cheeks. Mom led the dog and me down some dirt paths, through a big field and reached Halsey Pond. But the signs of spring had yet to appear and the scene was rather colorless throughout the entire journey.

“I’m tired! It’s boring, Mom! When can we go home?” “Not yet,” she’d say. Mom stopped to say hi to every jogger, dog walker, runner, and bicyclist who passed us. Sometimes she would get into a conversation. They would talk about weather, dogs, and all small talk topics. She seemed happy, and was literally glowing (容光焕发). After walking for what seemed an age, Mom finally said it was time to go back.

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2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

Paragraph 1: When I got home, a new feeling seemed to be awakened.

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Paragraph 2: A new Saturday found me asking Mom if I could take the dog out.

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8 . 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 painting Prosperous Suzhou, ink and color on paper, 1,241cm in length and 36.5cm in width, is     1     (current) housed in the Liaoning Provincial Museum.The painting     2    (complete) in 1759 during the Qing Dynasty.     3    (paint) in hand scroll format (手卷) with cavalier perspective painting methods, the entire piece vividly illustrates     4    urban life of Suzhou during the High Qing era, with lively trades, countless businessmen and various goods. The whole scroll describes the local conditions and customs in the southern     5    (region) of the Yangtze River, including the landscape of lakes and hills, city wall and     6    (it) gates, ancient ferries and rowing boats, towns along the river, folk customs, and shops of all trades, all of     7    reflect the prosperity (繁华) of Suzhou in the mid-18th century. Therefore, it     8    (hold) extremely high historical and artistic value.       

China Post issued a set of six special stamps based on this painting     9    May 18, 2022. This set of stamps, designed by Xing Wenwei, fully reproduces the artistic conception of the original painting,     10     (create) a unique visual effect.

9 . My mother has always been one of those rare people that sees the good in everyone and does good things. She’s had her ups and downs but has always_______a positive, sunny outlook on life and been very_______to people.

One day, my little sister fell and hurt her ankle, desperately needing a_______to the hospital emergency room. My mother immediately_______into crisis mode, packed my sister into the car, and drove to our local hospital. In such a_______, my mother didn’t call to tell my father. When she got to the hospital, she realized she needed to_______with my father immediately.

While waiting for my sister to be examined, my mother_______her way to the pay phone to place her call. She put her coin in, called my father and told him everything. After she hung up, the phone_______several additional coins that Mom wasn’t owed.

Realizing that the phone was_______, my mother decided to leave the________coins by the phone. She told us that in a crisis, people might not remember to bring________with them to make that emergency call.

I’ve often thought about her________from an adult’s perspective. I realize that someone seeing the money by he phone may have________taken it because not everyone was as________as my mother. But I like to believe that my mother’s faith was ________and that someone who needed them found the coins waiting there.

1.

A．tolerated

B．anticipated

C．maintained

D．expressed

2.

A．patient

B．helpful

C．honest

D．polite

3.

A．rest

B．stay

C．lift

D．visit

4.

A．cut

B．shifted

C．looked

D．stuck

5.

A．rush

B．way

C．relief

D．process

6.

A．come along

B．keep in line

C．make up

D．get in touch

7.

A．made

B．felt

C．picked

D．gave

8.

A．found

B．returned

C．collected

D．charged

9.

A．smart

B．ready

C．convenient

D．broken

10.

A．different

B．ancient

C．extra

D．rare

11.

A．luck

B．phones

C．change

D．chances

12.

A．opportunity

B．decision

C．appointment

D．encounter

13.

A．simply

B．suddenly

C．obviously

D．gradually

14.

A．thoughtful

B．grateful

C．hopeful

D．successful

15.

A．hard-won

B．newly-built

C．well-placed

D．deeply-rooted

10 . Is a moviegoer different than a movie-lover? I’d say so. You can love a movie by watching it at home.     1    . I’ve spent a lot of time talking to people about movies. By listening to what they say, I can report they only share one thing in common: they go out.

I’ve thought about two views of the moviegoer lately.

The first view comes from Roland Barthes. Most often, his moviegoers don’t go to the movies for a distinct purpose.     2    . They are bored. Once they get inside, they can’t help but sink into a relaxed state. When they leave the movie theater, these moviegoers don’t want to talk to anyone about the movie.     3    . Barthes sees them as a lonely being, one who is introspective (自省的). I think some of us use movie theaters to retreat inside ourselves.     

The second view comes from the Clark Theater manager, Bruce Trinz. When people go to the movies they go for a certain personal motive. They may want to forget something, or escape from the lives they are leading. Or they may want to see a film they liked years ago.     4    , they are the hopeless addicts who, quite simply, like movies. The only thing I would challenge in this definition is the word hopeless.     5    , but they come to the movies filled with hope. They may not be able to define what they hope to experience, but they will know it when they feel it.

A．Whatever motive they have

B．To be a moviegoer, you have to go out

C．The movie also puts them somewhere else

D．They are instead wrapped up in themselves

E．Because moviegoers go in search of beauty

F．Moviegoers may be hopelessly addicted to the movies

G．It’s something to do with a response to leisure, free time