1 . 阅读下面短文，根据短文内容填空。在未给提示词的空白处仅填写一个适当的单词，在给出提示词的空白处用括号内所给词的正确形式填空。

Anna Jones is a journalist,     1     first book, Divide-The Relationship Crisis Between Town and Country, was longlisted for the 2022 James Cropper Wainwright Prize.     2     (grow) up on a farm and working in the city have given Anna a rare insight into rural life. Anna started the non-profit communications project “Just Farmers” in 2018. She also runs a media education program to help farmers find confidence to share     3     they have experienced with the wider world.

2 . 阅读下面短文，根据短文内容填空。在未给提示词的空白处仅填写一个适当的单词，在给出提示词的空白处用括号内所给词的正确形式填空。

The turtle dove is the UK’s fastest-declining bird species, according to a recent study. The data,     1     (record) by almost 1, 000 volunteers, farmers and county bird clubs, shows there are now nearly 2, 100 pairs left, down from some 125, 000 pairs in 1970. Loss of habitats and shooting in southern Europe     2    (think)to be driving the decline. There is hope, however, as the government     3     (work) with landowners to allow more food supplies in the habitats now.

3 . Tu Youyou was noted for her bravery in being a scientist during a difficult time for science in China, her ability to use old wisdom and new methods to reach her goals and the fact that her work __________ the Eastern and Western worlds, saving millions of lives.（根据句意填空）

4 . I was lucky enough to test into the best high school in the city. But then came my _______: Am I good enough? It was a question that _______ me through my first month, even as began to settle in, even as I got used to the early morning wake-ups and moving between buildings for class.

I knew I had to work to ground myself. My earliest strategy involved keeping quiet and trying to _______ my new classmates. Who were these kids anyway? How did they learn in school? All I knew was that they were the smartest kids in the city, obviously. _______ wasn’t I as well? Hadn’t I landed here because I was smart like them? The truth is that I didn’t know. This _______ was like a deadly cell that threatened to divide and divide again, unless I could find some way to stop it.

Fortunately, my first round of grades turned out to be _______, and so did my second. Over the course of my first two years, I began to build the same kind of _______ I’d had at my previous school. With each little achievement, my doubt _______ took leave.

I loved any subject that involved writing and labored through math. I had classmates who were always a step or two ahead of me, whose achievements seemed effortless, but I tried not to let that get to me. I was beginning to understand that if I put in extra hours of studying, I could often _______ the gap. I wasn’t a straight-A student, but I was always __________ and I made progress.

1.

A．excitement

B．satisfaction

C．anger

D．worry

2.

A．freed

B．dogged

C．warmed

D．guided

3.

A．observe

B．admire

C．support

D．calm

4.

A．Or

B．So

C．But

D．For

5.

A．guess

B．doubt

C．interest

D．risk

6.

A．excellent

B．average

C．different

D．unique

7.

A．responsibility

B．friendship

C．confidence

D．teamwork

8.

A．suddenly

B．frequently

C．accidentally

D．slowly

9.

A．close

B．notice

C．locate

D．create

10.

A．expecting

B．trying

C．wondering

D．suffering

5 . 阅读短文，根据短文内容填空。在未给提示词的空白处仅填写1个恰当的单词，在给出提示词的空白处用括号内所给词的正确形式填空。

Storyboards are a set of drawings to tell a story and a powerful way to visually present information. The original storyboards,     1     were used in movie-making, showed stories broken up into pieces. Each piece of the story     2     (draw) out on a card and stuck to a board in order. People were then able to talk about and revise the story by checking one part at a time. That is     3     I know about storyboards.

6 . 阅读短文，根据短文内容填空。在未给提示词的空白处仅填写1个恰当的单词，在给出提示词的空白处用括号内所给词的正确形式填空。

Leaf-cutter ants are interesting.     1    (look) for leaves, the larger ants usually go out in groups. They bite of bits of leaves and carry them back. Watching these ants march in single file, carrying leaves, is quite a sight. These ants can carry a leaf that     2     (weigh) 20 times more than they do. The leaves     3     (collect) by the ants are not for eating. They are brought back so fungus(真菌) can grow on them. The fungus is the food for the ants.

7 . We rely on our memory not only for sharing stories with friends or learning from our past experiences, but we also use it for crucial things like creating a sense of personal identity. Yet evidence shows that our memory isn’t as consistent as we’d like to believe.

There are countless reasons why tiny mistakes might happen each time we recall past events, ranging from what we believe is true or wish were true, to what someone else told us about the past event, or what we want that person to think.

And whenever these mistakes happen, they can have long-term effects on how we’ll recall that memory in the future.

Take storytelling for example. When we describe our memories to other people, we might ask ourselves whether it’s vital to get the facts straight, or whether we only want to make the listener laugh. And we might change the story’s details depending on the listener’s attitudes. It isn’t only the message that changes, but sometimes it’s also the memory itself. This is known as the “audience-tuning effect”, showing us how our memories can change automatically over time, as a product of how, when, and why we access them.

In fact, sometimes simply the act of rehearsing(复述) a memory can be exactly what makes it susceptible(易受影响的)to change. This is known as “retrieval-enhanced suggestibility”. In a typical study of this effect, participants watched a short film, then took a memory test a few days later. But during the days between watching the film and taking the final test, two other things happened. First, half of the participants took a practice memory test. Second, all of the participants were given a description of the film to read, which contained some false details. Participants who took a practice memory test shortly before reading the false information were more likely to reproduce this false information in the final memory test.

Why might this be? One theory is that rehearsing our memories of past events can temporarily make those memories malleable. In other words, retrieving(找回)a memory might be a bit like taking ice-cream out of the freezer and leaving it in direct sunlight for a while. By the time our memory goes back into the freezer, it might have naturally become a little misshapen, especially if someone has influenced it purposely in the meantime.

These findings lead us to wonder how much our most treasured memories have changed since the very first time we remembered them. Remembering is an act of storytelling, after all. And our memories are only ever as reliable as the most recent story we told ourselves.

1. According to the “audience-tuning effect”, our memories can ________.

A．change our personal identity	B．correct mistakes on their own
C．determine our attitudes to others	D．be affected by how we handle them

2. What can we infer from the study of “retrieval-enhanced suggestibility”?

A．Practice can make imperfect.	B．Storytelling brings back memories.
C．Rehearsing contributes to better memories.	D．Memory abilities vary from person to person.

3. What does the underlined word “malleable” in Paragraph 5 probably mean?

A．Acceptable.

B．Valuable.

C．Changeable.

D．Controllable.