1 . 阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或所给单词的正确形式。

The Silk Road is neither an actual road nor a single route. It instead refers to a trade network     1    (date) from the Han dynasty of China. German geographer and traveler Ferdinand first used the term “silk road” in1877 C.E.    2    (describe) the well-traveled pathway of goods between Europe and East Asia. Although the trade network is commonly referred     3     as the Silk Road, some historians favor the term Silk Routes because it better reflects the many paths     4     (take) by traders.

One of the most    5    (influence) travelers of the Silk Road was Marco Polo. He traveled with his father to China when he was just 17. Upon his return, he wrote about his adventures, which    6     (make) him and the routes he traveled famous.

From China, merchants carried silk to Europe,     7     it was well received by the nobility and wealthy people.     8    traveled together with silk from Asia were jade, porcelain, tea and spices. In exchange, horses, glassware, textiles and manufactured goods traveled eastward.

The significance of the Silk Road to human history has received widespread    9     (recognize). Towns along    10    routes grew into multicultural cities. The exchange of information gave rise to new technologies and innovations that would change the world. Today, parts of the Silk Road are listed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List.

2 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
1. What is Akria Miyawaki?

A．An officer.

B．A professor.

C．A scientist.

2. What is the benefit of the diversity of tree species according to the recent study?

A．Producing more oxygen.

B．Attracting different kinds of animals.

C．Dealing with climate change.

3. What did the organization in Paris do?

A．It taught people to grow their own mini forests.

B．It helped communities build 100 forests.

C．It educated kids about tiny forests.

4. What is the passage mainly about?

A．Mini forests have emerged all over the world.

B．The advantages of mini forests.

C．The reason why mini forests are popular worldwide.

3 . They don’t call Vusi Sindane “the crazy cyclist” for nothing. The software engineer _________ a 3, 000 km bicycle journey in June, all to _________ money for 10, 000 pairs of school shoes for children in need.

When he worked in Limpopo, he saw _________ the poverty faced by _________ kids. “My biggest cause is education, and when I saw barefoot children walking to school in Limpopo, I knew something had to be done,” he says. He _________ with a non-profit organization which supplies school shoes to children in _________ areas.

However, the pandemic _________ his plans to do his cross-country cycle in 2020 and 2021, and a(n)_________ injury last year meant he could only get going in April this year. Prior to his 13 April departure, he _________ his training with six weeks of __________ cycling with his mentor and training partner. But Vusi quickly discovered that nothing could’ve __________ him for what he would encounter and have to __________. “The first day was like a reality __________. Although I’d been planning and considering this for nearly six years, the reality is that there’s __________ on the road, there’s climbing, you must use your body physically, and it’s hot-especially in Limpopo. I was almost __________ by many high mountains. I tried to __________, but the bike isn’t moving. My hands were hurting, and my injured knee was constantly in pain. My muscles __________, and my mind was like, ‘This isn’t worth it’,” he said.

To __________ himself, he began thinking about the people who inspire him. He shared his __________ on social media, many people __________ to him and more encouragement came.

1.

A．completed

B．assigned

C．connected

D．admitted

2.

A．invest

B．borrow

C．raise

D．leave

3.

A．nowhere

B．overnight

C．firsthand

D．overhead

4.

A．disciplined

B．disadvantaged

C．appointed

D．abandoned

5.

A．kept up

B．raced up

C．put up

D．teamed up

6.

A．public

B．rural

C．wide

D．urban

7.

A．ceased

B．followed

C．assisted

D．designed

8.

A．hand

B．head

C．knee

D．arm

9.

A．quitted

B．left

C．drove

D．increased

10.

A．intense

B．subjective

C．responsible

D．logical

11.

A．asked

B．prepared

C．apologized

D．begged

12.

A．generate

B．acknowledge

C．operate

D．tolerate

13.

A．friend

B．gain

C．check

D．luck

14.

A．traffic

B．police

C．attack

D．hope

15.

A．returned

B．presented

C．recognized

D．defeated

16.

A．win

B．cycle

C．stand

D．bend

17.

A．ached

B．interrupted

C．reacted

D．stretched

18.

A．respect

B．test

C．cure

D．motivate

19.

A．exchange

B．struggle

C．confusion

D．benefit

20.

A．set off

B．lived up

C．reached out

D．gave way

4 . Neerja wakes up at 7 o’clock. She finds that she has a birthday cap over her head. She’s both ________ and confused. “Is it my birthday today? But it is in August …” She ________ her phone. It shows August 27, her birthday.

Things are getting more and more ________ for her. In a few seconds, her family ________ the room with a huge cake box. She is almost ________ about it.

She comes forward to ________ the cake, and as she opens the box, everything becomes ________ at once. The box has a joker mask with “April Fool!” written on it. With loud laughter, they make her ________ that she’s been tricked (欺骗). Now Neerja owns the title of “FOOL OF THE YEAR”. And if she doesn’t want the ________, she has to pass it to someone else.

On her way to school, she continuously ________ about how to add a member to the “fool’s chain (链)” till she sees Hari. A(n)________ comes to her mind. She says, “Hello, Hari! The class teacher called you to her office. She wants you to be the new class monitor (班长).” After some time, she sees him coming back ________. She realizes that she has made a huge mistake.

She goes to him and says, “I’m really sorry. I just ________ to pass the title ‘FOOL OF THE YEAR’ to someone else”. “‘FOOL OF THE YEAR’... what’s that?” he asks curiously. Neerja can’t help ________ his innocent (天真的) question. Hari laughs too. Though they are both now members of the “chain of fools”, they are happy that this chain is the beginning of their ________ too.

1.

A．angry

B．surprised

C．calm

D．relaxed

2.

A．checks

B．sells

C．repairs

D．answers

3.

A．difficult

B．important

C．discouraging

D．unclear

4.

A．clean

B．find

C．enter

D．book

5.

A．worried

B．certain

C．honest

D．careful

6.

A．cut

B．buy

C．make

D．store

7.

A．boring

B．special

C．possible

D．understandable

8.

A．realize

B．remember

C．imagine

D．regret

9.

A．cake

B．gift

C．phone

D．title

10.

A．forgets

B．hears

C．lies

D．thinks

11.

A．dream

B．idea

C．question

D．message

12.

A．patiently

B．sadly

C．nervously

D．hopefully

13.

A．failed

B．refused

C．managed

D．wanted

14.

A．looking into

B．talking about

C．laughing at

D．dealing with

15.

A．training

B．studies

C．friendship

D．problems

5 . If an artist normally gets $200,000 for a public show, then they would probably ________ (收费) $300,000 for a private event, although there is no set price. (根据汉语提示单词拼写)

6 . 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。

Chinese achievements in pollution control, ecological recovery and protection, and green development China     1     (make) in the past decade were highlighted at a Friday press briefing,     2     a senior official pointed out China’s     3     (participate) and leadership in global climate governance.

According to the press briefing, China has been the fastest in improving air quality and the PM 2.5 level in cities at the prefecture level and above dropped by 34.8 percent from that of 2015. Days with good air quality reached 87.5 percent. Pollution of water bodies and the soil is also     4     (effective) tackled. Ecological systems     5     (protect) and restored. National parks are set and more than 300 endangered animal and plant species saw their wild populations recover, marking achievements in protecting ecological diversity.

The country has taken     6     active part in cooperation on climate change. It has done its     7     (good) to help other developing countries to improve their climate response capacity     8     (reduce) the harmful impacts of climate change. It also has distributed over 1.2 billion yuan on climate change and trained about 2,000 officials and experts in the field of climate change     9     more than 120 developing countries.

    10     (head) forward, China will work with all parties to actively participate in the global governance of climate change.

7 . 穿脏了的白色袜子怎样才能洗干净？某网站就网络流行的三种方法进行了调查。请你根据图表调查结果，写一篇英语短文，内容包括：
1.介绍调查结果；
2.简单评论；
3.发表你的看法。

注意：1.词数100左右；
2.短文的首句已为你写好。
3.参考词汇：baking soda小苏打，soak浸泡，scrub搓洗

Recently, a website has conducted an online survey on three popular methods for cleaning white dirty socks.

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8 . The winning artworks from the first Young Botanical Artist Competition are appearing in an exhibition at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew, London. The competition was open to young people aged 16 to 25 and received more than 1, 000 entries from people in 77 countries.

Botanical art is a special type of drawing or painting that helps botanists describe plants and fungi. It brings to life the tiniest details of grasses, flowers and trees, including their colour and shape, and has been an important scientific tradition for hundreds of years. In fact, Kew Gardens, which is 264 years old and home to 50, 000 plants, has always had a botanical artist in its team.

The theme of the competition was trees, and the winner of the 16 to 18 age group was Marianna Zych (aged 17) from Poland. Her entry, Prunus Serrula, shows the delicately peeling bark of the Tibetan cherry tree, which Zych created with watercolours after just one month of painting classes. The winner of the 19 to 25 category was Khanh Ly Nguyen from Vietnam, whose watercolour, Bauhinia Variegata Leaf, reveals the clear details of an orchid tree leaf.

Both will appear in an exhibition of 50 artworks at the Shirley Sherwood Gallery at Kew Gardens. All of the featured artworks were picked for their creativity and accuracy by a panel of judges that included botanical artists from around the world. The exhibition runs until April 2024 and visitors are also being asked to vote for the People’s Choice award, which will be announced in April.

Maria Devaney, who manages galleries and exhibitions at Kew Gardens, said botanical art is about inspiring curiosity and discovering the natural world. “It’s been wonderful to see such an enthusiastic response to the competition as a whole,” she said. Dr Shirley Sherwood, a writer and botanist who collects plant pictures, said she was delighted to see first-hand the next generation of talented botanical artists.

1. What can be inferred about Marianna from the third paragraph?

A．She has formally studied painting since childhood.

B．She is from Poland which is full of Tibetan trees.

C．She has limited experience in watercolor painting.

D．She is famous for revealing the details of tree leaves.

2. What is Shirley’s attitude to the new generation of botanical artists?

A．Skeptical.

B．Indifferent.

C．Disappointed.

D．Optimistic.

3. What would be an appropriate title for this article?

A．The Historical Significance of Botanical Illustration

B．Young Talents Blossom at the Royal Botanic Gardens

C．The Evolution of Botanical Art in Modern Times

D．Gardening Tips from the Experts at Kew Gardens

4. Where could this article most likely have been published?

A．On a fashion website.	B．In a gardening magazine.
C．In an academic textbook.	D．In a cooking review journal.

9 . Mutual cooperation in which humans cooperate with wild animals is extremely rare. One such system involves the greater honeyguide, a small African bird that leads humans to sources of honey. Once a nest is found, the human honey hunters break into it to obtain honey and bee worms, and the birds benefit from consuming beeswax in the now-exposed honey comb. Both the birds and the humans use specialized sounds to communicate their availability to participate in this cooperative interaction.

The two areas studied by Spottiswoode and Wood are northern Mozambique, where the honey hunters are from the Yao cultural group, and northern Tanzania, where the honey hunters are from the Hadza culture. The Yao communicate with honeyguides using a short and high-pitched sound followed by a low sound ”brrrrhm“, whereas the Hadza use a melodic whistle. Thus, signal and response both vary geographically.

Spotiswoode and Wood propose that the geographic variation they have identified in this mutualism is the product of cultural codevelopment. To qualify as cultural, the cooperative behaviors would have to be acquired through social learning from individuals of the same species. Social learning, however, is less of a given on the honeyguide side. Instead, what is required of honeyguides is another form of vocal learning - comprehension learning — in which the meaning of a signal is learned. Comprehension learning is common in birds. Whether social learning is involved, however, is not so, obvious.

Honeyguides put in considerable effort helping their human partners find food and are faithfully rewarded by being given food in return. In some human cultures, honey hunters purposefully leave out honeycomb to reward honeyeaters, but in others the hunters go, to great length to deny the birds any reward, by collecting, burying, or burning any honeycomb exposed when they destroy a nest. The reason given for these acts is that keeping the birds hungry causes them to continue guiding.

A promising question for future research is whether geographic differences in human cultural preferences for rewarding or not rewarding honeyguides affect the preferences of individual birds for guiding versus taking advantage of the guiding of others.

1. What is the purpose of mentioning the two areas in Paragraph 2?

A．To show that honey hunting is very popular in their culture.

B．To explain that communication methods differ in geography.

C．To illustrate the differences between the Yao and the Hadza.

D．To show that birds can understand various human cultures.

2. Why do some hunters refuse to give honeyguides any prizes?

A．To let them realize human’s power.

B．To make them keep providing help.

C．To cause them to burn honeycomb.

D．To use the honeycomb themselves.

3. What can be inferred about the relationship between humans and honeyguides?

A．Honeyguides have already had strong skills to learn from society.

B．Honeyguides have a genetic tendency to guide humans for honey.

C．Humans and honeyguides have a mutually beneficial relationship.

D．Human honey hunters will lose their jobs without honeyguides.

4. What is likely to be discussed in the following paragraph?

A．The impact of human cultural preferences on honeyguide behavior.

B．The further study on the cultural differences in human preferences.

C．The ecologically rewarding consequences of honeyguide behavior.

D．The influence of honeyguide behavior on human cultural practices.

10 . Despite the freezing weather outside, ice cream never loses its charm. Do you want one? Here are some famous ice cream brands, there must be one that suits your taste.

Baskin Robbins

Baskin Robbins has been around for over 70 years. And with their many locations of ice-cream shops and the ability to purchase pints in grocery stores, these ice cream products are highly accessible. Baskin Robbins is known for their’ wide array of ice cream flavors, ranging from classics like Pralines n’ Cream to unique offerings such as Secret Admirer, Cherries Jubilee, and Skillet Cookie Crumble. They even make delightful ice cream cakes that are perfect for your junior’s birthday parties.

So Delicious

So Delicious is unique in that it is a dairy-free brand. They make non-dairy coffee creamers, cheese, and ice cream products. If you are on a dairy-free diet, this brand is for you. They make so many types of non-dairy ice cream with bases including almond milk, cashew milk, coconut milk, soy milk, oat milk, and their new concoction “wonder milk. ”Their flavors range from buttery pecan, to oat milk coffee chip, and dark chocolate truffle.

Magnum

Magnum ice cream carries many frozen ice cream products sold in grocery stores as well as a non-dairy line of ice creams. They are most known for their signature hard chocolate shell that appears in ice cream pints as well as on many of their ice cream frozen bars. They also carry a variety of ice cream pints in flavors such as Double Cookie Crumble, Milk Chocolate Vanilla, and Double Red Velvet.

Adirondack Creamery

Adirondack Creamery was launched in New York and sources local cream for their wide line of ice cream flavors. Some of these flavors include Kulfi Pistachio Cardamom, Syrian Date and Walnut, and Black Raspberry. They pride themselves on avoiding the use of additives and sell their products in some grocery stores- although they also have overnight nationwide delivery if you are not a local resident.

1. What is Baskin Robbins famous for?

A．A limited selection of flavors.

B．Being highly accessible to people.

C．A variety of ice cream flavors.

D．Being perfect for birthday parties.

2. What is special about So Delicious?

A．It is a brand providing free dairy.

B．It is a brand making various milk.

C．It is a brand favored by milkman.

D．It is a brand free of dairy products.

3. Where is Adirondack Creamery ice cream mainly sourced?

A．In New York.

B．From Syria.

C．All over the US.

D．Internationally.