2 . 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。

My sixth-grade students were seated in a large circle on the floor of our classroom. Each student held a different tool in his or her hand, such as a hammer, a flashlight, and even an awl. The lesson had gone perfectly. The students discussed how words are like tools—they have the ability to build or to destroy, and they discovered how the right tool used at the right time for the right job can cause great results. The sixth graders freely shared personal stories of how they had experienced someone’s words used as a tool, , to wound or to heal. I watched and listened with a sense of satisfaction—they got it!

A few days later, one of my students, Laura, had an unexpected and uncharacteristic outburst of destructive behaviors in class. She refused to work with her group. I was aware from reading Laura’s file that she had struggled with disobedient (叛逆的) behavior in previous years, but we had developed a good relationship and she was always a respectful, thoughtful, and positive contributor to our class. Her behavior caught me off guard. I asked her to excuse herself and told her I would visit with her in our next door team center in just a minute, She refused to leave and sat silently glaring at me from the back of the room. I rather firmly told her she needed to excuse herself—this was NOT optional. She knew I meant it. She marched from the back of the room to our classroom door, shooting me an angry look, and slammed the door as she left for the team meeting room.

I continued our lesson and when the students were working together in their groups, I gently closed our classroom door behind me, then marched the five steps next door to cur meeting room where Laura was seated. In an unexpected and uncharacteristic gesture of frustration, I slammed the meeting room door behind me. As I stood over her, I began to express how disrespectful her behavior had been to our class. Her behavior angered me and I was sharp in my tone and my words. Without looking at me, she absorbed my anger.

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When I paused for her response, she slowly turned and proudly stated, “You’re using your tool against me!”

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For the rest of the day and the rest of the year; Laura never had another outburst.

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4 . 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 brief outline takes us to the beginning of the twentieth century,     1     now we’ll have a closer look at Beijing’s housing conditions during that time.

At the beginning of the century, living conditions for the majority of working people in the East Beijing were very basic indeed. Houses were crowded closely together and usually very badly     2     (build), because there were no regulations. But the poor and       3     (need) were attracted by the possibility of work, and they had to       4     (house). It was the       5     (available) rather than the conditions of the housing that was the major concern.

Few houses had electricity at this time. So other sources of power were used, like coal for the fires       6     heated perhaps just one room. Of course, the smoke from these contributed a great deal       7     the air pollution for which Beijing used to be famous.     8     (luck), Beijing is not like what it used to be. It’s     9     cleaner than before and we can breathe safely.

A tiny, damp, unhealthy house like this might well be occupied by two full families, possibly including several children, grandparents, aunts and uncles. Can you imagine a big family     10     (live) in so little room like that?

6 . Health officials on Tuesday authorized the first electronic cigarettes in the U.S., saying the R.J. Reynolds vaping (电子烟) products can benefit adult smokers.

The Food and Drug Administration said data submitted by the company showed its Vuse e-cigarettes helped smokers either quit or significantly reduce their use of cigarettes, the leading preventable cause of death in the U.S.

Tuesday’s first-of-a-kind decision is part of a sweeping effort by the FDA to bring scientific scrutiny (审查) to the multibillion-dollar vaping industry after years of delays.

In September, the agency said it had rejected applications for more than a million e-cigarettes and related products, mainly due to their potential appeal to young children. But supervisors delayed making decisions on most of the major vaping companies. The FDA said it rejected 10 other requests from the company for other flavored products. The agency is still inspecting the company’s request to sell a menthol-flavored (薄荷味) nicotine formula (配方). “Today’s authorizations are an important step toward ensuring all new tobacco products healthy and legal after the FDA’s premarket evaluation,” said Mitch Zeller, director of the FDA’s tobacco center, in a statement, “The manufacturer’s data demonstrates its tobacco-flavored products could benefit addicted adult smokers who switch to these products — either completely or with a significant reduction in cigarette consumption.”

E-cigarettes first appeared in the U.S. more than a decade ago with the promise of providing smokers with a less harmful alternative to smoking traditional tobacco cigarettes. But there has been little tight study of whether the e-cigarettes truly help smokers quit. And efforts by the FDA to begin checking vaping products and their claims were repeatedly slowed by competing political interests.

In recent years, the vaping market grew to include hundreds of companies selling a good supply of devices and nicotine solutions in various flavors and strengths. But the vast majority of the market is controlled by a few companies including Juul Labs, which is partially owned by Altria, and Vuse. To stay on the market, companies must show that their products benefit public health. In practice, that means proving that adult smokers who use the products are likely to quit or reduce their smoking, while teens are unlikely to get hooked on them.

1. Why did U.S. health officials authorize R.J. Reynolds’ e-cigarette products?

A．E-cigarette products are not harmful to humans, especially adult smokers.

B．E-cigarette products could help control the death rates in the United States.

C．E-cigarette products are effective in reducing cigarette use in America.

D．E-cigarette products can ensure that adult smokers keep away from smoking.

2. What does Paragraph 4 mainly talk about?

A．Process of e-cigarette product assessment.	B．Significance of e-cigarette products’ data.
C．Advantages of using e-cigarettes among smokers.	D．Reasons for declining e-cigarettes applications.

3. From the author’s perspective, which factor will keep the company’s e-cigarette products in the market for a long time?

A．Interests of the consumers.	B．Quality the products.
C．Evaluation of the public.	D．Marketing strategy.

4. What does the underlined phrase “get hooked on” mean in the last paragraph?

A．Be addicted to.	B．Be reliable on.
C．Be satisfied with.	D．Be anxious about.

8 . 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。

When I was seven years old, my family moved from Mexico to America. In Mexico, I was a cheerful girl who loved making people laugh with my jokes and inventing fun games to play with my friends. However, when I arrived in America, I found it hard to fit in, and I became quieter.

We lived in a small house with a modest yard where we grew vegetables—my responsibility. While I took pride in watching them grow, there were times when I dreamed of having a beautiful garden like my schoolmate Luella’s, with its delicate tulips (郁金香). Although Luella lived in the same neighborhood as me, we barely knew each other.

It was after a tornado that Luella and I finally became close friends.

The tornado struck on a Sunday afternoon.The gentle breeze transformed into a strong wind, and thick gray clouds filled the sky. Gradually, the tornado took shape, starting as a thin rope and growing into a large black funnel (漏斗). My entire family gathered in the bathroom, seeking shelter from the storm. Terrified, I sat close to my mom, knees in my chest. After the storm had passed, our worries and fears were replaced by relief that we were unharmed and that our house had remained undamaged.

As I stepped outside, I witnessed the extent of the damage the tornado had caused to our neighborhood. Across the street, a tall tree had fallen, crushing Luella’s garden in front of her yellow house. We hurried over to check on it. Fortunately, her family seemed to be away at the time, and no one was injured. However, her once-beautiful garden was in ruins, with the fallen tree destroying the tulips and debris (碎片) spread everywhere. I could only imagine how heartbroken they must feel seeing this.

Then my mom’s usual words rang in my ear, “It is more blessed to give than to receive,” and my family started to think about how we could help.

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Just at that moment, Luella’s family returned in their car.

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Even after the debris was cleared, I could still sense Luella’s sorrow for her lost garden.

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9 . It all started when I learned to read, or rather, before I learned to read.

When I was two years old, my grandma decided it was time to ___________ me to poetry. I didn’t understand the words, but my parents said my first complete sentence was the recitation of a poem because my grandma had read it to me so many times that I could ___________ it.

Throughout my childhood, I always had a bunch of ___________ about who I would become when I was older, like an inventor, a doctor, or a dancer. But these ideas ___________ in middle school. I spent a few years wandering ___________ through life, having no clue what I was ___________ about.

___________ , in my first year of high school, I met Miss King, who ___________ my life. She was enthusiastic and encouraging. I loved her and I wanted to make her proud of me. So I worked hard and put my ___________ into every essay she assigned. I even practiced ________________ in my spare time and brought what I wrote to her for feedback. One day, she said to me encouragingly, “I recommended you to the school newspaper, and you can write for it.”

Her words ________________ something in me. Suddenly, I wasn’t ________________ anymore. I had a destination. I’d become a ________________ . Doing well at the school newspaper was the first step to get there.

Thanks to the first poem my grandma read to me and Miss King’s ________________ , now I’m writing for newspapers all round the world. It’s still the bottom of the ladder, and I’ve got miles left to ________________, but at least I’ve made somewhere.

1.

A．adapt

B．reduce

C．devote

D．expose

2.

A．summarize

B．memorize

C．recognize

D．realize

3.

A．ideas

B．suggestions

C．articles

D．inventions

4.

A．came along

B．gave back

C．ran out

D．took up

5.

A．aimlessly

B．excitedly

C．joyfully

D．nervously

6.

A．concerned

B．curious

C．passionate

D．particular

7.

A．Basically

B．Immediately

C．Luckily

D．Surprisingly

8.

A．bothered

B．changed

C．controlled

D．recorded

9.

A．ears

B．nose

C．eyes

D．heart

10.

A．listening

B．reading

C．speaking

D．writing

11.

A．fired

B．stopped

C．spread

D．lost

12.

A．annoyed

B．confused

C．frightened

D．shocked

13.

A．teacher

B．dancer

C．poet

D．journalist

14.

A．admiration

B．inspiration

C．determination

D．imagination

15.

A．climb

B．cross

C．jump

D．skip

10 . We’ve all heard the phrase “use your time wisely” in our lives. How can we use our time “wisely”? In an increasingly urbanizing world, we are busier, required to do more to get into college or other higher academic institutions, or to get a job and do well at it. Because of that, things we do to relax, like reading a book, going out with friends or napping, are becoming rarer.

Doing something that doesn’t quite directly help you reach your goal (like the things for relaxation) is often viewed as “wasting your time” because we only have limited time. But even if relaxing or having fun takes time away from being “productive”, they shouldn’t be considered “a waste of time”. If we don’t do things for fun, what is there to enjoy in life?

There have been numerous studies indicating how relaxation and going out with friends can improve your mental and physical health. Being able to take part in an enjoyable hobby or spend time with someone you enjoy being around can help release “feel good” hormones (荷尔蒙) that can reduce some stress in your daily life, thus improving physical health in the long run.

But of course, as a part-time hypocrite (伪善者) on this topic, sometimes when I find myself enjoying a book, playing a video game, or scrolling on TikTok, I get this awful feeling instantly after that I could have used that time to do something productive like taking textbook notes or finishing an assignment. Or maybe I would go out with my friends during the day and come back to my dorm just to think about how I could have used that time to study for an upcoming exam. We’ve all been there.

However, even if it isn’t evident, doing those little things prevents us from burning out too fast. It creates some positive memories hanging in your mind that will hopefully get you through a tough patch. You need to relax in order to be productive later on. The popular concept of a work-life balance also tells us you should do things that you enjoy to keep the balance, and therefore, would not be considered “a waste of time”.

1. What is often thought as “a waste of time” according to paragraph 2?

A．Hanging out with friends.	B．Preparing for a business trip.
C．Training for school basketball matches.	D．Reading for an essay assigned last week.

2. How does relaxation benefit us?

A．It improves our health shortly.

B．It develops our hobbies greatly.

C．It releases hormones to develop our stress.

D．It strengthens us physically and mentally.

3. What does the underlined sentence “We’ve all been there.” mean?

A．We’ve taken the exam.	B．We’ve been somewhere already.
C．We all have had the same experience.	D．We all have come back to the dormitory.

4. What’s the author’s attitude toward “wasting time”?

A．Doubtful.	B．Supportive.
C．Disapproving.	D．Conservative.