1 . —Tom, have you ever read the book A Tale of Two Cities ______ by Charles Dickens?
—Yes, I finished reading it last winter vacation.

A．wrote

B．to write

C．writing

D．written

2 . Listen! There must be someone ______ through the jungle.

A．walk

B．walking

C．to walk

D．is walking

3 . 阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容(不多于3个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。

End Poverty’s Kishori Shiksha Program (KSP) for adolescent girls     1    (aim) at making literate in a sustainable way the adolescent girls    2     will soon be married and forever lose     3    chance of becoming literate. KSP provides literacy, numeracy(计算能力), reading, and expressive skills along with vocational, health, environment and awareness training     4    girls. The aim of KSP is to make each girl confident, and be able to express    5    (her) by having the ability to read & write. KSP is being implemented in Tijara block of Alwar district of Rajasthan in India.

There is a success story of Muskan, KSP student. Muskan is 13 years old. She was a member of the program in Bibipur and    6     (teach) by Manshira. In January 2016 her cumulative(累积的) score for all final tests on the KSP program was 81.6%. She stood 51st out of 148 students. She will now receive a formal certificate of    7     (recognize) signed by the Director of the Alwar District Education Office. Before she joined the program she was     8    (complete) illiterate. Her teacher has reported that when Muskan completed the course she was so    9     (inspire)that she was keen to enroll in the formal school system. Manshira is very keen for this to happen and has said she will do all she can    10    (help) Muskan to register in school.

4 . Adam Harvison grew up in a poor family and his parents worked hard to support the family. _______, his dad lost his job, which added to their _______. Learning about this, community members did not look on. They brought them groceries and school supplies. Adam says, “I could see the_______of that even as a kid.” And he decided to pay it forward.

For Adam, it all started with an electric wheelchair. After _______ from the army in 2013, he got a job helping needy veterans (老兵). Then came a phone call about the wheelchair. Someone wanted to _______ it to a veteran who was in need only. Adam_______   to make that happen. Then word was spread and more and more people began to call in, _______to make a donation.

Therefore, in 2017 Adam_______a nonprofit organization Harvison House to provide _______ for low-income veterans for their homes, which are vital for a home, such as beds and kitchen tables. Adam and his team collect, clean and ________the donated items, for some may not function well, and then send them to veterans. Once it is ________, a photo of the donated object in its new home is sent to the donor. And the photo is usually along with a letter that ________the help.

Adam always believes that the personal________makes a difference. “We don’t advertise, but within 20minutes, I could get three phone calls with________ of household supplies.”

Adam, like all his staff, isn’t paid for his work. “For some things in life, you just have to put love before the ________,”he says.

1.

A．Awkwardly

B．Actually

C．Unfortunately

D．Unbelievably

2.

A．hardship

B．tension

C．sorrow

D．determination

3.

A．achievement

B．influence

C．necessity

D．intention

4.

A．separating

B．resigning

C．retiring

D．benefiting

5.

A．attach

B．link

C．transport

D．present

6.

A．volunteered

B．managed

C．expected

D．attempted

7.

A．eager

B．amazed

C．grateful

D．satisfied

8.

A．served

B．connected

C．supported

D．founded

9.

A．decorations

B．groceries

C．furniture

D．equipment

10.

A．classify

B．assess

C．repair

D．recycle

11.

A．collected

B．delivered

C．recovered

D．distributed

12.

A．appreciate

B．provides

C．seeks

D．receives

13.

A．view

B．experience

C．effect

D．touch

14.

A．orders

B．offers

C．applications

D．packs

15.

A．request

B．occupation

C．salary

D．discrimination

5 . In Shark Bay, Australia, bottlenose dolphins that aren’t related have been observed teaching each other a new way to use a tool, a behavior that until now scientists have found only in humans and other great apes. It’s also the first known example of dolphins passing on such knowledge within the same generation, rather than between generations. That’s significant, the authors say, because such social learning between peers is rare in nature.

In a practice called shelling, dolphins will chase fish into abandoned giant snail shells on the seafloor, then bring the shells to the surface and shake them with their noses, draining the water and catching the fish that fall out. In 2007, Krutzen launched a study of Shark Bay’s dolphins, identifying more than a thousand individual dolphins over 11 years. During this time, scientists observed shelling 42 times among 19 dolphins. Half of these events occurred after a marine heatwave in 2011, which may have caused a die-off among giant sea snails, leading to more abandoned shells on the seafloor.

Because of the length of their study, scientists had thorough knowledge of the individual dolphins, family histories, ages sexes, and behavior, making it easier for them to study the 19 dolphins that practiced shelling. For instance, they observed that the dolphins that practice shelling hang out with other shelling hunters, so it’s likely that they copy the action from those they spend time with, says study lead author Sonja Wild, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Konstanz in Germany. Although 42 observations are a small data set, the scientists add it’s likely the behavior is actually common; it only lasts a few seconds, making it harder for people to spot it from a boat.

The team had assumed that environmental factors — specifically, whether shelling dolphins did so simply because they lived in a shell-rich area — could explain this peer-to-peer transmission (传递). A genetic trait (遗传特性) among a family group was another possible reason.

So the researchers combined their data on the dolphin sightings, as well as genetic and environmental data, into a computer model that proposed various ways shelling could be passed on between dolphins. The model that supported this kind of transmission was the strongest outcome, according to the study.

1. What do we know about dolphins?

A．They are becoming rare in nature.

B．They are as intelligent as humans.

C．They cause more sea snails to die.

D．They can carry out social learning.

2. What do the scientists think of the dolphins’ behavior?

A．It could probably happen often.

B．It may be hard to understand.

C．It is actually meaningless.

D．It differs between dolphins.

3. What does the author intend to do in Paragraph 4?

A．Analyze the causes of the dolphins’ behavior.

B．Explain the genetic traits of shelling dolphins.

C．Summarize the previous paragraphs.

D．Get the readers to reflect on the topic.

4. What is the best title for the text?

A．Shelling Dolphins Face More Dangers

B．Dolphins Learn Tricks from Each Other

C．Dolphins Communicate with Sea Snails

D．Dolphins Abandon Their Natural Habitats

6 . Rolling electric power blackouts afflicted(困扰) roughly 2 million California residents in August, 2020 as a heat wave gripped(影响) the Golden State. At the center of the problem is a state policy requiring that33 percent of California’s electricity come from renewable sources such as solar and wind power, rising to a goal of 60 percent by 2030. Yet data showed that power demand peaks just before the sun begins to go down, when overheated people turn up their air conditioning in the late afternoon. Meanwhile, the power output from California’s wind farms in August was erratic.

California electricity grid operators warned that power shortages might become increasingly common when heat waves hit in the coming years. California still has some natural gas power plants that can be ramped up to(提高) supply energy when renewable supplies fail. “But some folks in the environmental community want to shut down all the gas plants,” Jan Smutny-Jones, CEO of the Independent Energy Producers Association, a trade association representing solar, wind, geothermal, and gas power plants, said in August, 2020. “That would be a disaster. 60 percent of the power in the California Independent System Operator electricity network was being produced by those gas plants in this summer. They are your insurance policy to get through heat waves.”

Union of Concerned Scientists analyst Mark Specht, by contrast, said that “The solution is definitely not more natural gas plants. Really, if anything, this is an indication that California should speed up its investments in clean energy and energy storage.”

1. What can we learn from Paragraph 1?

A．The population in California is growing rapidly.

B．California is short of wind and solar power.

C．People turn up their air conditioning all the day.

D．The government required people to use more renewable energy

2. What is the meaning of the underlined word “erratic”?

A．Unstable.

B．Abundant.

C．Changed.

D．Increased.

3. What’s Jan Smutny-Jones’ attitude to shutting all the gas plants?

A．Favorable.

B．Disapproving.

C．Objective.

D．Doubtful.

4. What might Mark Specht agree according to the passage?

A．More natural gas plants ought to be built in the future.

B．Money should be invested in clean energy early.

C．More energy should be produced in the summer.

D．California government should carry out insurance policy.

7 . I had this girl in my class and I always considered her to be really foolish. She’d ask a ton of questions in class, which I would _________ to be “stupid” and “silly” and sometimes her question caused a storm of _________ but she’d never stop asking.

However, the fact was that she’d almost always top the class examinations and everyone was confused. Some students said she was _________ because she wasn’t so _________ in class. Although nobody could prove that she was actually cheating, they totally _________ that she did.

I’m pretty socially awkward so I never really talked to her. She was leaving school this year and I was truly _________ about how she was so good during exams and how she didn’t let other’s remarks(言论) affect her. So I _________ decided to find out what was up. She told me that her friend was severely(严重地)socially anxious and she’d fallen behind in studies because she couldn’t dare to ask doubts in class or ask for _________ from others. So they had this system where during lectures her friend would _________ any questions she had, and then the girl would __________ them for her. With her help, her friend made __________, though this girl suffered prejudice(偏见) for being stupid when she was actually really smart.

It was such a __________ story that it really changed the way I __________ people. I wouldn’t be quick to jump to conclusions. It also taught me a __________: standing beside our friends when they __________ us isn’t always an easy choice. But when you care about them, it’s the only choice.

1.

A．agree

B．consider

C．remember

D．doubt

2.

A．noise

B．sigh

C．cry

D．laughter

3.

A．cheating

B．pretending

C．playing

D．studying

4.

A．active

B．intelligent

C．hard-working

D．easy-going

5.

A．heard

B．expected

C．believed

D．agreed

6.

A．curious

B．worried

C．crazy

D．excited

7.

A．extremely

B．finally

C．naturally

D．obviously

8.

A．leave

B．advice

C．help

D．permission

9.

A．give up

B．debate about

C．turn down

D．write down

10.

A．explain

B．repeat

C．ask

D．solve

11.

A．mistakes

B．sense

C．progress

D．friends

12.

A．annoying

B．interesting

C．surprising

D．touching

13.

A．judged

B．described

C．taught

D．introduced

14.

A．way

B．lesson

C．strategy

D．result

15.

A．change

B．need

C．refuse

D．encourage

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。

Nowadays, our classrooms, neighborhoods and communities become     1     (much) diverse (多样化的) than ever before. People from different     2     (country) and cultures continue to spread out around the world. Different skin colors, languages, physical abilities and clothing     3     (be) some of the types of diversity that we experience every day.

How we respond to this diversity will decide not only our future as a person but also our future as a society. As Maya Angelou said, “In diversity there is beauty and     4     (strong)”. Tolerance (宽容) means openness to the differences that exist among us all. It means respecting and learning from others,     5     (value) our differences and discovering what we have     6     common.

The opposite of tolerance is closed-mindedness. Arguments, fights and wars     7     (cause) by closed- mindedness from time to time. In contrast, humans     8     are open to differences will create a more peaceful world and have better opportunities in life whether through education, work or friendships. So having tolerance will change our life for the better, and make the world     9     better place. Difference is of the spirit of humans and we should learn     10     (respect) it.

9 . 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。

Asian Pop-Up Cinema, a film festival     1     (present) diverse Asian cultures in the

United States, kicked off     2     (it) 15th season with a Chinese film on Sept 10 in packed Claudia Cassidy Theater at Chicago Cultural Center in downtown Chicago.

Screened at the opening ceremony     3     (be) Sun Haipeng’s I Am What I Am , a lively, animated action comedy telling the story of three teenagers     4     are bullied and find their drive, joy and passion in lion dance.

“The film is     5     major breakthrough from most animated films produced in China that often narrate fantasy stories or revolve around themes     6     (relate) to mythological characters, says Sophia Wong Boccio, founder and executive     7     (direct) of the film festival. This film focuses     8     the ancient cultural tradition of the lion dance,     9     sets in a contemporary and realistic context.”

A total of 31 films     10     (show) at the festival, which runs until Nov 6.

10 . 4 Things to Expect from Your Peer Tutoring Session

Peer tutoring is one of the most helpful tools to use during your college years. Sometimes you will not have all the answers and that you may need help from time to time. There is probably no better way to get some academic assistance than that from your fellow students.     1    

●     2    

This will probably be the most uncomfortable part of the session. However, we simply want you to be the best of the best to your best ability. Accept that you are not perfect and that you will make mistakes. Feel fortunate that your peer tutor is recognizing your defects frankly and giving you a chance to repair them.

● Expect change

    3    . Every tutor has a different learning style that is unique to them, but it’s up to you to employ what they teach you to your best ability. Use any different methods that work for you. Change is good. It is by no means something to be afraid of. Embrace it!

●Expect discipline (sometimes)

Sometimes we all try to get by with a little less. We are human, after all. It’s nothing to be ashamed of.

    4    . They want you to use your potential to do the great things that they know you are capable of.

●Expect improvement

Last but not least, expect to improve. Peer tutoring can be difficult and intimidating (令人胆怯的), but ultimately the goal is for you to improve as a student in a variety of areas.

    5    . If you ask me, I think that is completely worthy of an A+.

A．Expect constructive criticism

B．Expect reconstruction of self-cognition

C．A tutor is strict with you not because he wants to be mean and ruin your existence

D．Peer tutors are understanding, helpful and honest enough to help you out through any obstacles

E．However, if tutors notice that you have been loosening up, do not be surprised if they call you out on it

F．You will leave the appointment with a changed perspective on your work and your method of completing it

G．Once practicing what you have learned in the session, you will notice a great change in your grades and your learning ability