1 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
1. Which is a benefit of music-related activities for children?

A．Building their confidence.

B．Keeping them healthy.

C．Improving their grades.

2. How does playing an instrument benefit adults?

A．It enriches their social life.

B．It creates job opportunities.

C．It improves their hearing.

3. What does the speaker suggest doing at the end?

A．Joining a band.

B．Learning music as early as possible.

C．Picking up an instrument.

2 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. What happened to the man’s chemistry book?

A．It was left in the lab.

B．It was burned.

C．It was lost.

2. When will the mid-term exam take place?

A．In two days.

B．In five days.

C．In three days.

3. Where will the man get a new chemistry book?

A．From Mary.

B．From an online store.

C．From Professor Lee.

3 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. Why does the man feel troubled about the invitation?

A．He doesn’t like the hosts.

B．He has no time.

C．He dislikes the activity.

2. Who is the man’s dentist?

A．Josh.

B．Emily.

C．The woman.

3. What is the man’s first plan for responding to the invitation?

A．Going there with the women.

B．Not replying to the letter.

C．Telling the hosts the truth.

4. What will be the man’s excuse?

A．He doesn’t feel well.

B．He needs to see his family.

C．He has to look after his dog.

4 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. How will the woman go to San Francisco?

A．By plane.

B．By car.

C．By train.

2. What about Fisherman’s Wharf interests the man?

A．The Golden Gate Bridge nearby.

B．The seafood restaurants.

C．The neighboring Chinatown.

3. What is the woman going to do after leaving San Francisco?

A．Go back home.

B．Visit a friend.

C．Go to Chinatown.

5 . We’ve all been there — staring at a pile of books, desperately hoping that what we study will stick in our mind. Many of us have probably asked if there’s any way that we can get better at remembering things.     1    

Every student who has made flashcards knows that it can be helpful to go back over what they’ve studied before. The Learning Scientists, a group of cognitive scientists, have made a new discovery.    2     They say that trying to retrieve (找回) something from your memory after you have had some time to forget it will make it easier to remember in future.

    3     The Learning Scientists say this can help you build links between different ideas. Now, linking ideas and relating them to each other or to images are often suggested as good ways to memorise something. Former world memory champion Jonathan Hancock highlights how picturing pieces of information in different physical locations or linking them to memorable images makes them easier to remember. Linking new information to things that are easier to remember is a technique that many people use.    4    

There are also more general things that we can do to improve our memory. Hancock says that being generally organised makes things easier for your brain, while many other experts also recommend avoiding stress, alcohol and smoking, and that we should get a lot of rest and exercise.    5    

A．We don’t know exactly why this happens.

B．It’s important to the long-term memory.

C．So, why don’t we look at what memory experts say about this?

D．Another study tip is to change between different topics as you study.

E．It could be making letter patterns into words, or by sorting things into categories.

F．According to them, we can learn things better if we wait for some time before trying to study them again.

G．So, while it may be hard, improving our memory is something we can control.

6 . On Inaccessible Island, you hear the sound of the Inaccessible Island rails (秧鸡) everywhere. The small flightless birds move around, feeding on worms and berries. During a trip in 2011, it took days for Stervander, then a doctoral student, to spot one. “Even then, you see something little and dark, running for a second, and that’s about it,” he says. Catching one, though, proved easy. When scientists played a recording of the bird’s call, a male and female ran into the net a few minutes later.

Inaccessible Island rails live only on Inaccessible Island. “No one knew the history,” says Stervander, now a research fellow at the University of Oregon. He aimed to answer the question about these birds: How did they get to Inaccessible Island to begin with?

The first scientist to describe the rail was Percy Lowe. He thought the bird was from Africa and had always been flightless. In his view, it had arrived at the island by walking over land bridges. But now the science of plate tectonics (板块构造论) suggests that’s not the case. In a recent paper, Stervander and his colleagues give evidence for a different version.

After studying the genome (基因组) of the rails, scientists found the Inaccessible Island rail’s closest relative — the crake in Uruguay. Both birds are related to the black rail in America. The finding suggests the ancestors of these birds could fly. That means Inaccessible Island rails flew to their present home, and like many birds living on islands with no predators (捕食者), they gradually lost the ability to fly. Flying takes energy, so if there’s no reason to fly, it’s more practical not to.

On this island, there’s a growing population of rails, but they’re fragile. Should a predator reach the island, it could make quick work of the birds. People on nearby islands are careful to avoid introducing any predators to Inaccessible Island, and the risk is low, given how hard it is to get there. For now, the rails live peacefully in a place where few humans are eager to go.

1. What can we learn about the Inaccessible Island rails?

A．They are hard to trap.	B．They can be seen everywhere.
C．They move around quickly.	D．They are not afraid of humans.

2. What caused the Inaccessible Island rails to become flightless?

A．Their lack of energy.	B．Their living environment.
C．Their way to search for food.	D．Their connection with their ancestors.

3. Which best describes the present situation of the Inaccessible Island rails?

A．Safe.

B．Tough.

C．Unexpected.

D．Dangerous.

4. What’s the best title for the text?

A．The Development of Rails on Inaccessible Island

B．The Need to Protect Flightless Inaccessible Island Rails

C．How Did the Flightless Bird Get to Inaccessible Island?

D．Why are Inaccessible Island Rails Limited on the Island?

7 . For the 70 percent of the world’s population without any chance of using electric washing machines, keeping up with laundry takes up a lot of time. And it is often a painful physical task. The task falls unreasonably to women and girls, who can spend 20 hours a week washing clothes, often without electricity or running water. London engineer Navjot Sawhney, however, has come up with an idea: a portable and lightweight washing machine that is similar to a plastic drum. It also does double duty as a dryer, and costs around $60.

31-year-old Sawhney calls it the Divya, after the woman who inspired the project — his former next-door neighbour in South India, where he spent a year volunteering after leaving his job as an engineer at high-end vacuum (真空吸尘器) maker Dyson. “When I got to know Divya, I was so sad about all the unpaid work she needed to do — cleaning clothes,” says Sawhney. In 2018, he returned to the United Kingdom to found “The Washing Machine Project”, which is developing a washing solution that will be affordable, portable and accessible for everyone, everywhere. After a few months of developing a model, he received some money from Oxfam’s Iraq Response Innovation Lab.

Since March 2019, more than 150 Divyas have been given out to refugees (难民) in Iraq through non-profit partners. “The response was great,” Sawhney says. His goal is to deliver 8,000 machines in 10 countries over the next three years. By saving 75 percent of the time and 50 percent of the water required to wash clothes, he says, women and girls will be freer to accept education.

Aside from the Divya, Sawhney has also worked on making fuel-efficient cookstoves, and plans to develop refrigerators, conditioners, and lighting. Sawhney sees the world’s growing refugee crisis as a call for innovation: “There is a huge need for appliances that make life better for people.”

1. What did Navjot Sawhney do to help the women in India?

A．He provided them with free access to education.

B．He volunteered to wash clothes for them.

C．He worked out a solution by inventing a washing machine.

D．He called on people in his community to donate clothes.

2. What inspired Navjot Sawhney to found the project?

A．His previous work in Dyson.	B．His neighbour’s experience.
C．The request of refugees in Iraq.	D．The support of a science lab.

3. What can we infer about the project in Paragraph 3?

A．It focuses on education.	B．It is highly praised.
C．It has earned a lot of money.	D．It has created many jobs.

4. Which of the following can best describe Navjot Sawhney?

A．Helpful and serious.	B．Selfless and honest.
C．Thoughtful and strict.	D．Caring and creative.

8 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
1. What is the speaker?

A．A chef.

B．A doctor.

C．A teacher.

2. Where was Tom during lunch?

A．In the library.

B．In the classroom.

C．In the speaker’s office.

3. Why didn’t Tom have lunch?

A．He was too busy to eat.

B．He was unable to afford food.

C．He was embarrassed to buy it.

4. Which of the following can best describe the speaker?

A．Thankful.

B．Respectful.

C．Helpful.

9 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. What lesson did Mike have this morning?

A．Chinese.

B．Art.

C．Maths.

2. How did Mike feel about Picasso’s painting?

A．It was boring.

B．It was strange.

C．It was pleasing.

3. What did Mike draw?

A．The woman.

B．Picasso.

C．Ms. Green.

10 . Erinna’s son, Jackson, was an autistic (患自闭症的) child. One of the most _________ things for him was getting a _________. He would get so anxious that he would start _________ and crying. It was really hard for Erinna to _________, so she decided to _________ taking him to the barber.

Jackson went almost two years with no haircuts. _________, Erinna found a barber named Ree. For the past few years, Ree had been able to _________ things slowly with Jackson. But one day in early 2022, things _________.

“We got caught in traffic. He _________ his headphones behind. We hadn’t had lunch. It was just like a series of __________ events for him,” Erinna remembered. Ree was just trying to put the cape (斗篷) on Jackson when he was greatly __________ and started running __________ around the shop.

Erinna was about to __________ it a day. But Ree encouraged her to give it a few more minutes. The barber then made the haircut into a __________. She would shave a little hair off Jackson’s head; he would __________ it off and then run to a new __________ in the shop. “He doesn’t like the hair to get on him... so the game was a good distraction (分散注意力的事) for him. And she was able to cut his hair,” Erinna said. When the haircut was complete, Jackson was __________ and happy.

It meant a lot to Erinna that Ree took the time to __________ a way to give Jackson a haircut that day. “The patience and __________ that Ree took with my son seems like a __________ in the darkness,” Erinna said.

1.

A．simple

B．normal

C．free

D．difficult

2.

A．doctor

B．headphone

C．haircut

D．babysitter

3.

A．kicking

B．falling

C．dropping

D．throwing

4.

A．notice

B．ignore

C．review

D．watch

5.

A．try

B．stop

C．keep

D．begin

6.

A．Suddenly

B．Finally

C．Generally

D．Constantly

7.

A．find

B．send

C．take

D．finish

8.

A．came true

B．faded away

C．broke down

D．went wrong

9.

A．lost

B．stayed

C．left

D．missed

10.

A．bad

B．nice

C．hard

D．funny

11.

A．relieved

B．alarmed

C．inspired

D．embarrassed

12.

A．quickly

B．eagerly

C．noisily

D．crazily

13.

A．end

B．call

C．quit

D．change

14.

A．trick

B．task

C．game

D．pleasure

15.

A．wipe

B．wash

C．brush

D．bathe

16.

A．spot

B．exit

C．path

D．block

17.

A．crying

B．leaving

C．whispering

D．smiling

18.

A．turn out

B．carry out

C．work out

D．give out

19.

A．care

B．duty

C．hope

D．effort

20.

A．trust

B．light

C．warmth

D．comfort