1 . On September 22nd, 1955, Dave Hickman was hunting with his grandpa in the woods when he heard a strange noise. Clearly the noise wasn’t from a(n) _______ they were hoping to find. It was very _______ to hear while alone in the woods.

Heading towards the noise, he neared a fence and looked down _______ shocked. Down on the _______ was a little baby girl. Her lips were blue from the _______ with only a small towel wrapped around her.

Hickman and his grandpa brought the little girl to the nearest _______ where she was treated. Soon, she _______ and Hickman got a call that she was going to be adopted (收养) the following week. For one last time, he got to hold the little girl whose life he had saved before she went on to be with her new _______.

Although he was able to say goodbye. Hickman was _______ to see her again. even if it took 58 years. In December of 2013, he reached out to a local police officer named John Catey and asked if there was a way to find the girl. Only two weeks later. Catey gave Hickman a ________ and told him that he had contacted the girl he had ________ all those years ago.

The girl was renamed Mary Ellen Suey and had lived a ________ life. Still, she had always wondered about her ________ and knew that a man had saved her when she was a child. She ________ him as her “hero here on earth” since she didn’t know his name!

At a wonderfully beautiful ________, the two were able to meet. The moment was tear-filled and emotional.

1.

A．animal

B．villager

C．hunter

D．baby

2.

A．exciting

B．unusual

C．awkward

D．ashamed

3.

A．generously

B．formally

C．possibly

D．totally

4.

A．tree

B．ground

C．river

D．bed

5.

A．cold

B．water

C．moon

D．darkness

6.

A．school

B．church

C．hospital

D．market

7.

A．disappeared

B．left

C．adapted

D．recovered

8.

A．classmate

B．friend

C．family

D．colleague

9.

A．encouraged

B．determined

C．reported

D．forced

10.

A．discount

B．smile

C．ring

D．position

11.

A．comforted

B．injured

C．trapped

D．rescued

12.

A．controllable

B．personal

C．wonderful

D．legal

13.

A．future

B．achievement

C．dream

D．past

14.

A．depended on

B．referred to

C．turned to

D．came across

15.

A．moment

B．stage

C．condition

D．situation

2 . THE WORLD’S UNUSUAL AIRLINES

Pet Airways

Founded in 2009 in Delray Beach, Florida, Pet Airways was an airline specially designed for pets such as cats and dogs. Each plane could carry about 50 pets, with “Pet Attendants” checking on them every 15 minutes. The airline operated for about two years, serving a dozen US cities. In 2012, the airline ran into financial trouble and started canceling flights. It shut down completely the following year, after having ferried about 9,000 pets.

JPATS

Justice Prisoner and Alien Transportation System (JPATS) is the largest prison (监狱) transport network in the world. It is an airline of the US government that transports prisoners to and from detention centers, courts and prisons. It is sometimes also called “Con Air”. Although the airline is mainly used for a prison, it also takes part in military and state law operations.

Skytraders

Skytraders is an Australian airline that provides special air services for the Australian Federal Government. It was founded in 1979 and is headquartered at 180 Jersey Road, Woollahra, New South Wales, Australia. This airline offers flights to Antarctica. The airline was chosen because of its great safety systems. An ACJ (Airbus Corporate Jet) is operated between Hobart and a hard glacier (冰川) runway near Casey Station.

Janet Airlines

Janet Airlines, commonly known as Janet, is an unofficial name given to top-secret aircraft that carry high-ranking officials to Special Access Facilities. The airline can be seen serving the mysterious Area 51 and Tonopah Test Range. The passengers in Janet Airlines board through the west side of the airport, from a special part of Harry Reid International Airport. This area isn’t open to other civilians and there is also a small terminal (航站楼) building for Janet’s passengers.

1. When did Pet Airways close down?

A．In 1979.

B．In 2009.

C．In 2012.

D．In 2013.

2. What do we know about JPATS?

A．It is used for a prison.	B．It transported officials only.
C．It offers flights to Antarctica.	D．It stopped because of fund shortage.

3. What is unique about Janet Airlines?

A．It is specially designed for pets.

B．It offers special service to government officials.

C．Its plane needs to operate on a hard ice runway.

D．It has a special private terminal for its own passengers.

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。

16-year-old Tim looked up to his father Roger, who worked as a firefighter. While the teenager always talked about his dream of joining the fire department, the man didn’t believe the boy was cut out to be a firefighter because Tim left the usual stereotype (刻板形象) of a bookworm: a straight-A student who wore large glasses, and was physically weak.

It was a typical school day. Tim’s math teacher announced their weekly test results, and the boy was delighted to learn that he had scored the highest mark. His friend Christine however, was upset because she got a bad grade.

Seeing her sit in a corner with her head resting on the table, he approached her and said, “Hey, Christine I know you got a bad grade, but I can teach you these topics. You’ll grasp it in no time, I’m sure. And you can improve your grade next week. What do you say?” “That’s so sweet of you, Tim! Let’s meet at my house after school today,” Christine saidwith a smile. “Sure!” Tim replied.

Christine lived on the outskirts (郊区) of town. It took Tim, who passed his driving test recently, half an hour to drive there. Once his car neared Christine’s estate, he was shocked to see a blazing (熊熊燃烧的) fire. Upon driving closer, he realized her house was on fire. Frightened, he quickly picked up his phone and called 911.

Then, Tim took off bis shir, grabbed a bottle of water from his car, and poured it on the shirt. He wrapped the wet shirt around his face, as he had seen in movies, and entered the house. He started climbing towards the hallway window of Christine’s bedroom.

Tim found a baseball bat in the hall. It took him five whole minutes to swing it hard enough to break the window. Once the glass was broken, he rushed towards Christine’s room. He couldn’t see much because of the thick black smoke floating in the air, but he managed to locale her. She was lying unconscious (昏迷的) on her bed after breathing in the smoke.

注意：
1.续写词数应为150 左右；
2.请按如下格式在相应位置作答

He knew he had to act fast before it was too late.

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Roger received an unexpected call from the hospital telling him of Tim’s heroic act.

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4 . 假如你是李华，在世界地球日到来之际，你校举办了一场主题为“Fashion from Trash”的时装设计大赛，你的澳大利亚笔友Steve发来邮件咨询相关情况。请你给他回一封邮件，内容包括：
1.活动的目的；
2.活动的内容；
3.你的感想。trash 垃圾
注意：写作词数应为80左右。
Dear Stove,
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Yours

Li Hua

5 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入一个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

Recently, China set up The Seniors University of China (SUC), a national university for older people. SUC,    1    provides students with skill training, cultural inheritance education, social services,    2    (science) research and international exchanges, offers both online and offline teaching activities for older people nationwide.

Elderly people in China will have the opportunity    3    (continue) their education at a national-level university from the 2023 spring semester and onwards.

The    4    (establish) of SUC is a concrete measure to address the issue of the aging population in China and an important milestone in the development of education for    5    elderly, said China’s Minister of Education Huaijinpeng at the inauguration (成立) ceremony.

The ageing of China s population is becoming increasing evident, with the number of people aged 60 or above    6    (expect) to reach 300 million by 2025.

Back in 2000, China’s aging population reached 7% of its total population, making it    7    (official) an aging society. Ever since then, China    8    (introduce) a series of measures to broaden senior citizens’ access    9    education.

According to    10    was released by China’s State Council in August last year, the country aims to establish at least one university for elderly people in every county-level region by 2025.

6 . Sadness hit me when I realized that 4 p. m. had gone unnoticed. Every day, a few minutes before the________, my cute dog, Jake, used to stare at me, pushing me to get his dinner. Now Jake is gone, and the disappearance of the comforting pace he brought to my days is like a minute-by-minute________of my loss. Friends comfort me by telling me I________ him. But a rescue organization did that. By the time I met him at an________ event, he had already been saved, just not settled.

The real story is that Jake saved me. Before Jake, I was________ from the world by a sheet of dirty glass. Me on one side, everything and everyone else on the other. I avoided socializing. I________reached out I assumed the worst in people and figured they saw the________ in me.

Then I started________this little creature around my neighborhood. Jake never rushed. He ________everything. So I started to notice the rhythm of the neighborhood. I’d________hellos with those in my block and start making small talk with my________. who I’d lived across the hall from for seven years without a word.________ , we developed a real friendship.

Jake was 2 when I adopted him, I was told. In ________ he was between 4 and 6. Whatever had happened in his________ life left him anxious and little trust in humans. But he came to trust me and his trust developed into something else — that this________ little dog learned to be loved, same as me.

1.

A．minute

B．hour

C．walk

D．sunset

2.

A．reminder

B．relief

C．creation

D．preparation

3.

A．loved

B．adopted

C．cured

D．saved

4.

A．adoption

B．recreation

C．reception

D．donation

5.

A．rejected

B．protected

C．separated

D．banned

6.

A．usually

B．typically

C．rarely

D．frequently

7.

A．best

B．kindest

C．coldest

D．worst

8.

A．seeing

B．walking

C．feeding

D．training

9.

A．refused

B．ate

C．valued

D．smelled

10.

A．exchange

B．send

C．accept

D．express

11.

A．cleaner

B．neighbor

C．friend

D．doctor

12.

A．Clearly

B．Occasionally

C．Eventually

D．Generally

13.

A．truth

B．time

C．disguise

D．shock

14.

A．future

B．previous

C．later

D．present

15.

A．shocked

B．stressed

C．refreshed

D．scared

7 . How to be more patient every day

These days, patience is practically on the endangered species list as far as virtues go.    1    What’s more, patience enables you to work collaboratively (协作) have good relationships with others, and move toward goals. Here are some strategies to help you develop patience.

Set up cues

Choose an activity you perform frequently throughout the day and think of the word “patience” every time you do it. If you find yourself forgetting about this as the day wears on, simply resume(重新开始) the practice as soon as you remember.    2    You’ll start to notice that you’re handling situations differently from how you would have before.

Visualize success

Visualize a situation that would normally challenge you. See yourself smiling and breathing as you wait for the line to move, and add some positive statements.     3    Your mind will start to process the pretend scenario as a real experience in which you did the right thing, helping to set you up for future successes.

Meditate (冥想)

    4    Here is an easy technique you can try anywhere: Close your eyes and imagine filling your mind with your favorite color, and then let the color drown out the voice that is thinking about yesterday or tomorrow.

Slow down

When racing around seems like the only way to get where you need to be on time, it becomes your default setting. But most adults do not feel happy when they’re rushing, and children are even less capable of doing it with a good attitude.    5    

A．Continue every day for a week.

B．For example “I will enjoy this magazine while I wait.”

C．Our tolerance for waiting isn’t much better in other areas of our lives.

D．People who meditate say that they feel more peaceful, open-minded, and content.

E．However, mastering patience makes you a more engaged and confident member of society.

F．In fact, with a little know- how and effort, everyone can learn to wait out delays, big and small.

G．Instead of sweating through your routine, turn on some background music and move at a normal pace.

8 . Plato (柏拉图) was upset about the invention of the alphabet (字母表) because, with this “technology”, learners would not use their memories and thus appear to be a know-it-all but actually know nothing. If Plato were alive today, what would he say about ChatGPT? ChatGPT, a conversational artificial intelligence program released recently by OpenAI, is a significant advancement that can produce articles comparable to good high school essays.

When I asked ChatGPT a range of simple questions, the answers were well-reasoned and clear. It’s also interactive: I could ask for more details or request changes. But then, on trickier topics or more complicated concepts, ChatGPT gave completely wrong answers.

However, that doesn’t mean ChatGPT can’t be a useful tool in education. Schools have already been dealing with the Internet’s wealth of knowledge, along with its misleading essay mills (制造厂). One way has been to change how they teach. Rather than listen to a lectures in class and then go home to research and write an essay, students listen to recorded lectures and do research ai home, then write essays in class, with supervision, even cooperation with peers (同龄人) and teachers. This is called flipped classrooms, in which students wouldn’t use ChatGPT to create a whole essay. Instead, they’d use it as a tool to generate critically examined building blocks of essays.

Plato was wrong to think that memory itself is a goal rather than a means for people to have facts so they can make better analyses and arguments. As Plato was wrong to fear the written word as the enemy, we would be wrong to think we should resist a process that allows us to gather information more easily.

The way forward is not just to feel regret for replaced skills, as Plato did, but also to recognize that as more complex skills become essential, our society must fairly educate people to develop them. And then it always goes back to the basics. Value people as people, not just as packs of skills. And that isn’t something ChatGPT can tell us how to do.

1. What would probably be Plato’s attitude toward ChatGPT?

A．Supportive.

B．Objective.

C．Critical.

D．Tolerant.

2. How do students use ChalGPT according to the text?

A．They use it for error correction.

B．They rely on it to conduct peer reviews.

C．They rely on It to create a whole essay.

D．They use it as part of their research.

3. What mistake did Plato make according to the text?

A．He confused facts with opinions.

B．He used written words to attack his enemy.

C．He put too much emphasis on memory.

D．He doubted easily accessible information.

4. What is suggested to our society in the last paragraph?

A．Improving ChatGPT

B．Equipping all people with necessary skills.

C．Bringing people with different skills together.

D．Bringing new life to replaced skills.

9 . When the French and Indian War concluded in 1763, the result was a complete British victory over the French. Then Britain enacted several new tax laws, intending to raise revenue (收入) from Britain’s American colonies(殖民地) to pay for the war.

Four main taxes created tension in the colonies: the Sugar Act of 1764, the Stamp Act of 1765, the Townshend Acts of 1767, and the Tea Act of 1773. The first, the Sugar Act, was enacted to prevent the smuggling (走私) of molasses. Under the Molasses Act of 1733, colonists had to pay a duty of six pence per gallon on the importation of molasses. Yet customs officials routinely accepted bribes (贿赂) of around one and a half pence per gallon and permitted the molasses to be shipped untaxed. The Sugar Act actually reduced the duty to three pence, but the colonists still refused to pay it. Only when it was lowered to one penny in 1766 did it become cheaper to pay the duty than the bribes.

The Sugar Act was not widely opposed because it primarily affected those involved in trade and shipping. The same cannot be said of the Stamp Act, which had a wide-ranging effect on every colony. It required that many documents the colonists used, especially those related to legal affairs and publishing, could only be written on paper with a crown revenue stamp on it. Essentially, the colonists had to buy special paper from the British government at a higher price than normal paper. Regarding this as a direct form of taxation, the colonists resisted the act so strongly that it was ended in 1766.

The Townshend Acts were designed to tax a wide variety of imported items to raise money to pay the salaries of government officials in the colonies. Once again, however, the colonists objected as they believed that British control of American colonial government officials’ salaries would result in more widespread British influence in North America. The acts were ended in 1770 except for a tax on tea. This led to the Tea Act, which was to allow the East India Company to gain a monopoly (垄断) on the sale of tea in the colonies. On December 16, 1773, American colonists stormed aboard British ships in Boston Harbor and cast their tea into the water in what came to be known as the Boston Tea Party. This eventually led to the American Revolution.

1. How much tax were American colonists required to pay on molasses m 1765?

A．1 penny per gallon.	B．1.5 pence per gallon.
C．3 pence per gallon	D．6 pence per gallon.

2. What was the main reason for the colonists’ opposition to the Stamp Act of 1765?

A．Its influence on trade and shipping.

B．Its official position as a direct form of taxation.

C．The complex documents required by the British.

D．The high cost of paper from the British government.

3. What harm might the Townshend Acts cause in the eyes of the colonists?

A．Britain might gain more control over the colonies.

B．There might be much fewer imported items.

C．The colonial officials’ salaries might be lowered.

D．The East India Company might have a monopoly on tea.

4. Which of the following can be the best title for the text?

A．American colonists and British lawmakers

B．British taxation and the American Revolution

C．Cause and effect of the French and Indian War

D．The introduction to Britain’s American colonies

10 . Wells Traditions

Traditions are a part of life at Wells College. They connect us with each other, providing a sense of timelessness and continuity. The experiences and memories that make up these traditions make us all a part of a special community-and they’re really fun! Some of the most long-standing traditions include the following:

MOVING UP DAY

Each spring the senior class promotes students to the next class year. This all-student occasion is organized by the senior class. This tradition has recently been split in two with a Senior Roast happening on the Thursday before the last day of classes. At this event, seniors sing songs and tell jokes. On the last day of classes, seniors gather students around the Sycamore where juniors are given college pins and seniors are given roses.

CONVOCATION

Opening Convocation celebrates the beginning of the academic year and the formal introduction of the new incoming class. A traditional part of this convocation is the candlelight ceremony. Symbolized by a candle flame, the sprit of the Wells connection is passed from alumni (校友) to students, signifying that Wells students give one another throughout their lives.

TEA TIME

Tea and coffee are served every Wednesday afternoon. Though the long dresses and china cups are gone, this break from afternoon classes is still a great time to get together with friends and professors.

MINERVA

Outside of Main, the College’s first building, sits the lovely statue of the Roman goddess Minerva, symbolizing wisdom and invention. The senor class decorates Minerva at the beginning of the school year, and Minerva remains decorated throughout the year. During the morning of the last day of classes, after singing around the Sycamore tree, the senior class takes turns kissing the feet of Minerva, believing she will bring success and prosperity to all graduating seniors.

1. What do we know about Moving Up Day?

A．It is organized annually by juniors.	B．It is held to reward excellent seniors.
C．It is celebrated on two separate days.	D．It is celebrated in two different colleges.

2. Which tradition connects all generations of Wells College students?

A．MOVING UP DAY.

B．CONVOCATION.

C．TEA TIME.

D．MINERVA.

3. Which of the following is believed to bring good luck?

A．Minerva.

B．Senior Roast.

C．Tea and coffee.

D．The candlelight.