1 . 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。

I begged my mom to let me make cookies by myself. Even though I had never attempted baking before, I was nine years old and my friend Emmie had been baking cupcakes by herself for a year. I was determined to prove that I could make it.

My brother, Caleb, laughed at the idea of me cooking alone, calling it a disaster. Having a big brother can be annoying. Despite his laughing, my mom agreed to let me try. She reminded me to take my time and be careful because I’d had some messy spills before I was nine.

I raced to the kitchen and went to work. I cracked eggs and put a cold stick of butter into the bowl. I turned on the mixer at medium speed—and whoa. Whoa. Whoa! What a disaster! I had to wipe butter off my face, then off the table and floor.

Caleb made fun of me again, calling me a mess. I chased him away with a spoon and turned back to the mixing bowl. I started again with softer butter. Referring to the recipe, I poured everything needed into the bowl and mixed it. After that, I put round batter (面糊) onto the cookie sheet and put it into the oven (烤箱). Within a minute, a fantastic smell filled the kitchen—the smell of cookie success!

I was going to prove that I was responsible. No more eye-rolling from my brother. No more “You’re too young” from my parents. I was grown up and in control.

I stared into the oven, and my heart sank. The neat, little balls had melted (融化) and overflowed to the edges of the cookie sheet. I pulled the pan out just as Caleb wandered back into the kitchen.

“What in the world?” He started to laugh. “Cookie soup?”

“You just be quiet,” I whispered, trying not to cry. “Just leave me alone.”

“How’s it going in there?” Dad called from the living room.

Caleb raised his eyebrows and bit his lip. I responded that everything was fine, pouring the melted batter into the bowl quickly.

注意：
1．续写词数应为150左右；
2．请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
Paragraph 1: I picked up the directions, wondering what had gone wrong．
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Paragraph 2: I brought a plate of cookies into the living room for my parents．
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2 . 短语填空

in return          dream of        stand for        take apart        in charge of to be honest       watch over     in peace        break up          in danger of

1. Don’t lose heart. We will _________ the whole engine to discover the cause of the trouble.
2. The little girl gave the lawyer a big hug _________ for his help.
3. An experienced worker is _________ the project.
4. As is known to us, the letters PLA _________ the People’s Liberation Army.
5. _________, I’m a little surprised he accepted the offer.
6. The guards were originally hired to _________ the houses as they were being built.
7. She lives _________ with her neighbours.
8. Did you know that Kate _________ with her boy friend?
9. The little boy was once _________ losing his sight.
10. I_________ running away to a deserted island last night.

3 . I like joking. I was always the joker, the one who could make people laugh by some jokes. I was _______very popular but people liked having me around.

However, it all changed when I changed schools. I used to make fun of everybody with my _______friends. We _______whispered others’ names when they walked past us to make it look _______we were talking about them. _______, my new “friends” always kept_______and would never say the things as we did before. So if you _______any of them to _______me in one word, it would probably be: MEAN.

I was never your normal high school mean girl. I never understood why what I said could hurt others. I _______them. It wasn’t much better at ________. Being disrespectful and rude, I’d do all sorts of things to hurt my parents.________ a lot, I wanted someone to help me but I didn’t want to ask for help. So, I became even ________.

One day, while looking for my earphone in my room, I found a long lost video________. After connecting it to the TV, I found there were hundreds of videos of me, as a baby crying, dancing as a toddler（刚学走的小孩）, my first day of school etc. I didn’t ________when my mom and Dad came and sat beside me, holding my hand. We enjoyed the ________together, smiling and laughing as we ________the good days.

At night in my room I started crying, tears of ________. So what if school was bad and life seemed hard? Right now, there were people standing beside me who would be there ________me forever and that was all that________. I wiped the ________and thought silently to myself—“What’s a little pain when you have so much to love?”

1.

A．never

B．really

C．always

D．often

2.

A．old

B．real

C．bad

D．young

3.

A．loudly

B．purposely

C．happily

D．slowly

4.

A．even if

B．as if

C．only if

D．what if

5.

A．However

B．Therefore

C．Otherwise

D．Furthermore

6.

A．quiet

B．noisy

C．sad

D．excited

7.

A．discouraged

B．made

C．asked

D．gave

8.

A．please

B．describe

C．interest

D．attract

9.

A．hated

B．missed

C．encouraged

D．understood

10.

A．home

B．school

C．church

D．farm

11.

A．Confused

B．Surprised

C．Interested

D．Frightened

12.

A．stricter

B．meaner

C．better

D．happier

13.

A．box

B．earphone

C．TV

D．camera

14.

A．realize

B．think

C．doubt

D．imagine

15.

A．books

B．videos

C．photos

D．films

16.

A．saw

B．recalled

C．dreamed

D．thought

17.

A．loneliness

B．sadness

C．kindness

D．happiness

18.

A．to

B．on

C．off

D．with

19.

A．mattered

B．puzzled

C．happened

D．took

20.

A．floor

B．sweat

C．tears

D．dust

4 . Want to help fight global warming? Take off your tie, says the Italian health ministry. It has urged employers to let their staff dress casually at work in the summer so that the air conditioning can be turned down.

“Taking your tie off immediately lowers the body temperature by 2 or 3 degrees centigrade,” the ministry said in a statement. “Allowing a more sensible use of air conditioning brings about electricity savings and protects the environment.”

It called on all public and private offices to let employees wear no tie during heatwaves like the one that has brought Africa-like temperatures to many parts of Italy this week.

The move reacts to a similar action from Italy’s biggest oil group, ENI, which told its staff earlier this month they need not wear a tie at work. The tie makers, however, were left hot under the collar.

“Italy confirms (证实) that it is a strange country,” Flavio Cima said angrily in a letter to financial daily IL Sole~24ORE under the headline: “I, tie maker, am responsible for global warming.”

“We can now happily continue with our lifestyle, using cars, consuming fuel, heating and cooling our homes at leisure. On one condition: we should not wear a tie while we do so,” he wrote.

“I should have listened to my friends and become an oil producer instead.”

Italy is one of the European Union’s worst performers on the pollution front and is among the EU countries expected to exceed (超出) their greenhouse gas emission (排放) targets.

1. What’s the purpose of the move of taking off ties?

A．To dress casually.	B．To fight global warming.
C．To keep the body temperature.	D．To improve working conditions.

2. Who first encouraged employees to take off ties?

A．ENI.	B．Flavio Cima.
C．A financial daily.	D．The Italian health ministry.

3. What does the underlined part “hot under the collar” in paragraph 4 probably mean?

A．Angry.	B．Speechless.
C．Delighted.	D．Puzzled.

4. What can we know about Flavio Cima?

A．He stands by the oil group.	B．He agrees with the ministry.
C．He admits his responsibility.	D．He argues against taking off ties.

5 . 单句改错
增加：在缺词处加一个漏词符号 (∧)，并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线 / 划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
1. They decorated the room in flowers and paintings.
2. There are two new hotels near here under construct.
3. Not only the students but also their teacher are enjoying the beautiful scenery of West Lake.
4. He closed the window so as keep warm.
5. The reason why he was late was because he missed the train this morning.
6. To be honestly, I love the picture very much.
7. I saw the little boy cry there.
8. We don’t permit smoke in the office.
9. I would stay at home rather than to go outside.
10. It is typically of him to keep others waiting.

6 . “Teenager Therapy”, hosted by five rising seniors at Loara High School in Anaheim, Calif., has become a breakout hit. The podcast show features five teens having loose, sincere conversations about mental health, school and family, friendships, and more. Sometimes they interview big names, including Loren Gray. But typically, the show is more of a free-form discussion.

“There are episodes where we offer advice about teenage life, and there are episodes where we simply talk about our experiences,” said Gael Aitor, 17.

He got the idea for “Teenager Therapy” in 2018 after hearing “Couples Therapy”, a podcast by the YouTuber Casey Neistat and his wife. The then 15-year-old rounded up four friends to record the first episode of “Teenager Therapy”. “The first two tries were terrible,” Mr. Aitor said. “The third time we were happy with it, so we posted it online.”

Building a podcast audience is no easy job, especially since the group of high schoolers had no marketing budget. To attract listeners, Mr. Aitor repurposed an old Instagram account, which had 20, 000 followers.

Within a few months of posting their first episode, “Teenager Therapy” had over 100, 000 downloads — a number it can take years for self-governing podcasts to hit. From there, the show kept growing. But part of the great popularity of the show is that it’s produced for teenagers by several hosts from the same age group. “People often say, ‘I don’t know who to tell but you guys,’” said Mr. Aitor. “We never really scripted (写脚本) anything or planned it out.”

Maya Gabay, 16, a rising high school junior, said the podcast was now her favorite show. “The podcast never holds back on anything,” said Ms. Gabay, who, like many other young listeners, considers it as their lifeline. The podcast has helped her process things going on in her life, including problems with friendships. “It’s really great to see kids my age doing something like this,” she said.

1. What does “Teenager Therapy” usually do for its listeners?

A．It connects teenage patients with doctors.

B．It holds discussions about teenage topics.

C．It helps develop teens’ communication skills.

D．It allows teens to make friends with big names.

2. What is Paragraph 3 mainly about?

A．Why Gael brought together his four friends.	B．Why Gael continued his podcast.
C．How the listeners were attracted.	D．How the podcast show started.

3. What is a reason for the quick success of “Teenager Therapy”?

A．It is made for teens by teens.	B．Its hosts are good at marketing.
C．Its programs are all carefully planned.	D．It won support from “Couples Therapy”.

4. What did Gabay think of “Teenager Therapy”?

A．It needed to make improvements.	B．It would train more kids like her.
C．It was an important part of her life.	D．It should pay more attention to friendships.

7 . The first thing you notice at Nate Otto’s house is a 1967 Oldsmobile 98, an old car. Inside is a small, 100-year-old reed organ ( 簧风琴). It’s just a small taste of what’s in Otto’s house: self-playing, old-style musical robots called player pianos. Some sound and look as good as they did a century ago. Some are awaiting repair. Otto, a 29-year-old, has decided that it’s his job to bring player pianos back to life.

As the owner of Rum River Restoration, Otto believes he’s the only full-time player piano restorer ( 修复师) in the state of Minnesota. He specializes in Jazz Age objects that once were ubiquitous in America but now are largely forgotten except by collectors.

Otto believes in doing things the old-fashioned way and tries his best to make player piano restorations as real as possible.

Otto views the player pianos that he fixes as kinetic art ( 动态艺术) pieces. The classic player piano, or pianola, was first developed at the end of the 19th century. It was seen as a thing that helped to change American musical tastes, spreading new styles of music such as jazz to middle-class people. In their successful days, most of the pianos made in the U.S. were player pianos.

By the 1920s, however, the rise of radios and record players provided an even easier way to listen to music, hurting the sales of player pianos. The market for the instruments finally disappeared with the 1929 stock market crash ( 股票市场暴跌) and the Great Depression.

Keeping a player piano going today is a little like restoring an old car: It takes time, love, money and so on. A full rebuild of a player piano mechanism might take 100 to 150 hours of work and cost $5,000 to $8,000 on average, Otto said. But it’s worth it for some people to once again hear an instrument that brought generations of family members together to listen, sing and dance.

1. What does the underlined word “ubiquitous” in Paragraph 2 mean?

A．Natural.	B．Difficult.
C．Common.	D．Interesting.

2. What do we know about the classic player piano?

A．It was created in the 20th century.	B．It was invented by Otto’s family.
C．It helped the spread of jazz.	D．It can be easily found today.

3. How was the player piano in the 1920s?

A．It fell out of popularity.	B．It was not known to the public.
C．It was first brought outside the U.S.	D．It caused the sales of record players to fall.

4. What did Otto think of restoring player pianos?

A．It was a waste of time.	B．It was worth continuing.
C．It was easier than restoring cars.	D．It was not helpful in supporting his life.

8 . What do you do with a book once you’ve read it? Maybe you keep it for someone else in your family to read, or leave it on a bookshelf to read again another day. As you grow older, though, you often outgrow (年纪过大而不适于) your books.

Recycling your old books means you give them to another person, family or group, instead of leaving them to take up space and get dusty. This means that the books you love can be enjoyed by others too. Recycling and giving away your books can be helpful in lots of ways. People will discover new reads and authors they didn’t know about. Books can sometimes be expensive, so it also helps people and families who can’t afford to buy them. When a person gets to read a variety of authors, styles and subjects, it can help them to develop a love of books, boost their confidence in reading and writing and improve their health and happiness. If you take part in a book-recycling scheme, you can pick up new reads too. Having your imagination taken away by the power of a fascinating book is a great way to relax, have fun, visit different worlds and forget about things that may be worrying you. Reading introduces you to new words, inspiring ideas and fascinating facts.

The Children’s Book Project is a charity that recycles books (in good condition) and passes them on to places like schools and children’s centres. When you donate books, they are cleaned and sorted into age groups and reading levels. Liberty Venn from the Children’s Book Project says, “It’s an amazing feeling to pass on your books and know that someone will enjoy them as much as you did. At the Children’s Book Project we help to extend the life of over 250,000 books each year.”

1. What does “Recycling your old books” mean according to the passage?

A．It means you sell your books at a lower price.

B．It means you put your old books into another use

C．It means your old books can be read and appreciated by others

D．It means your old books will accompany you in another form.

2. What’s the benefit of the book-recycling scheme?

A．Getting the opportunity to read new books.

B．Having some creative ideas and thoughts.

C．Getting acquainted with some famous writers

D．Making new friends and having fun with them

3. What do we know about books in the Children’s Book Project?

A．They needn’t be tidy when donated.

B．They come from all books you want to recycle.

C．They are classified according to age and difficulty.

D．They are passed on to bookstores and children centres.

4. How does Liberty Venn feel about the job in the Children’s Book Project?

A．Indifferent.	B．Significant.
C．Unimaginative.	D．Depressing.

9 . 我们可以现在走，也可以晚点再走，由你做主。
We could go now or later, it’s_________ ________ ________.

10 . In 2019, I went on a winter break trip with my family. One of our _________ was London. The first thing that I _________ when I landed in London was the weather. It was too _________ for my liking as it required me to wear a thick jacket.

After some _________ using a map of London, we decided to go to Buckingham Palace first.

Buckingham Palace was one of the _________ of a “hop-on, hop-off (随上随下)” bus that we took. The palace itself didn’t look very big or impressive from the entrance _________ it got much more impressive when you entered the gates.

While continuing on the “hop-on, hop-off” bus, we _________ the London Bridge, which I didn’t notice until the driver pointed it out to me. While it felt kind of special to be driving on such an iconic (符号的) bridge, the _________ was not as cool as one would imagine it to be.

Besides its history, this bridge was just another bridge that _________ two masses of land, something that pretty much all __________ do.

When we __________ Big Ben, we decided to hop off the bus and take some __________. Big Ben was a pretty __________ experience for me. In many pictures of London, Big Ben is a very visible (看得见的) building in the skyline, and it was very nice for me to see the clock tower __________. I am a big fan of skyscrapers (摩天大楼) and skyscraper-like buildings so this clock tower certainly caught my __________.

1.

A．stops

B．topics

C．places

D．changes

2.

A．forgot

B．told

C．noticed

D．liked

3.

A．foggy

B．cold

C．dry

D．clear

4.

A．testing

B．planning

C．touring

D．calling

5.

A．ways

B．dreams

C．starts

D．destinations

6.

A．so

B．if

C．but

D．until

7.

A．greeted

B．passed

C．checked

D．found

8.

A．history

B．example

C．position

D．experience

9.

A．mixes

B．spreads

C．ends

D．connects

10.

A．bridges

B．buses

C．drivers

D．towers

11.

A．reached

B．built

C．visited

D．left

12.

A．notes

B．steps

C．pictures

D．lessons

13.

A．similar

B．cool

C．bad

D．common

14.

A．in return

B．in public

C．in advance

D．in person

15.

A．ear

B．mind

C．eye

D．hand