1 . What is the purpose of the woman’s call?

A．To ask about a bill.

B．To pay the gas bill.

C．To open a new account.

2 . 听下面一段长对话，回答小题。
1. Where did the man most probably lose his phone?

A．In a restaurant.

B．At the workplace.

C．On the underground.

2. What will the man do before five o’clock?

A．Meet the woman.

B．Buy a new phone.

C．Make a call to the bank.

3. How does the man feel in the end?

A．Surprised.

B．Grateful.

C．Doubtful.

3 . 听下面一段长对话，回答小题。
1. What does Miyako want to do?

A．Make a call.

B．Send a card.

C．Hold a party.

2. What is the man doing?

A．Making an apology.

B．Giving an explanation.

C．Sharing an experience.

4 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. Why did Rebecca go to France?

A．To learn with some artists.

B．To earn money.

C．To open a restaurant.

2. Why did Rebecca return so soon?

A．Because no one would teach her there.

B．Because she couldn’t find a job there.

C．Because she wanted to learn some French.

3. What is the man’s offer?

A．He can lend Rebecca some money.

B．He can teach Rebecca some French.

C．He can give Rebecca a job.

5 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. What does the man find hard?

A．Doing the course in English.

B．Finding his accommodation.

C．Understanding other students’ jokes.

2. What is the woman busy doing?

A．Writing an essay.

B．Looking for a job.

C．Preparing for an exam.

3. Why won’t the woman visit the man’s university?

A．She has no interest in it.

B．She doesn’t have time.

C．She can’t afford a trip.

6 . What is beneficial to the man’s first job?

A．His study.

B．His ability.

C．His social practice.

7 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. Why was Jim unable to find Susan’s home?

A．He hadn’t been told how to get there.

B．He forgot to bring the map Susan gave him.

C．He just spent thirteen minutes searching for her house.

2. What does Jim want Susan to do now?

A．Come and get him.

B．Give him a new map.

C．Tell him the direction again.

3. How will Jim go to Susan’s home?

A．On foot.

B．By bike.

C．By bus.

8 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
1. What will the headmaster do tomorrow morning?

A．Meet the listeners in the library.

B．Introduce the school to the listeners.

C．Take photos in the lab building.

2. Where will the listeners visit on Tuesday morning?

A．Central Park.

B．Brooklyn Bridge.

C．The Statue of Liberty.

3. What will be held on Tuesday evening?

A．A talk show.

B．A party.

C．A lecture.

4. When will the listeners go to Washington?

A．On Wednesday afternoon.

B．On Wednesday morning.

C．On Tuesday afternoon.

9 . In 2019, a white-haired senior was awarded the Friendship Medal, the highest order of honor of China for foreigners. It was Isabel Crook. In her more than a century of life, she spent more than 90 years in China and cultivated (培养) a large number of foreign language talents for China.

In 1915, Isabel was born in Chengdu, Sichuan Province. After graduating from the University of Toronto in 1938, Isabel couldn’t wait to return to China. With hard work, she and her colleague completed the survey of over 1,500 families in some villages in Bishan County. She recorded the daily life of the villagers in Xinglongchang with detailed field notes, which give the young people today some idea of the state of affairs in villages at that time.             

In 1947, Isabel and her husband David Crook came to China to observe and study the ongoing land reform. A year later, they completed the study and accepted the invitation to stay in China for language teaching.

One could hardly imagine the teaching conditions in the midst of a war. They asked their students to take small stools (凳子) with them so that they could give class everywhere. They tailored (定制) teaching approaches to suit students’ different language proficiency levels. Without handy teaching materials, they collected articles from English newspapers and magazines. In oral English teaching, Isabel asked students to watch their teachers in a given conversation first. Since there were no tape recorders at school, she had to perform the conversation again and again.

Isabel retired in 1981, but she returned to Southwest China many times to set up scholarship for children from poor families. She also went to Inner Mongolia, Ningxia and other places to help with foreign language teaching. Isabel died in 2023 in Beijing.

1. What do we know about Isabel according to the text?

A．She got China’s highest honor for foreigners.

B．She received her college education in China.

C．She returned to China as a teacher at age 23.

D．She helped children in need all over China.

2. When did Isabel start the journey of education in China?

A．In 1915.

B．In 1938.

C．In 1948.

D．In 1981.

3. Which of the following best describes the couple’s teaching?

A．Boring but helpful.	B．Simple and modern.
C．Traditional but attractive.	D．Flexible and personalized.

4. What does the author want to illustrate by mentioning Isabel’s experiences?

A．Her working experiences were rich.

B．Her life in China was quite colorful.

C．She devoted herself to teaching in China.

D．She showed great interest in Chinese history.

10 . As a child, Liu Wenwen disliked the suona, a “loud, high-pitched” traditional Chinese musical instrument, an ancestral heritage of her family that was to become her career.

Her peers at primary school laughed at her, saying her whole family was engaged only in “weddings and funerals.” Indeed, these are the two major occasions where the horn-like wind instrument is played in China’s rural areas. Liu felt ashamed. People admired things that were modern and international. “Suona, in comparison, was considered an art of the hillbilly.” Her father’s family has performed suona for seven generations.

The music is rooted in Liu’s DNA, but it takes time and hard work to become a skilled musician. The instrument was so loud that it annoyed the neighbors when she practiced at home. “So my parents would wake me up at 4 a.m. every day and take me to practice outside in a park.”

While she followed her parents to play the suona as a child, she only fell in love with the instrument at university. She found suona music beautiful for the first time in 2008, when she entered Shanghai Conservatory of Music to learn the instrument more systematically.

On China’s social media platforms, her name is often followed by a video of her live performance at a concert in Sydney, Australia, alongside award-winning composer Tan Dun in 2017. For her debut on the international stage, she was playing Hundreds of Birds Paying Homage to Phoenix, a masterpiece that often represents excellence in suona performance.

Liu promoted the “hillbilly” music to an international audience, thanks to Tan and his team, who recomposed the traditional music and arranged the piece into an orchestra. “It was a smooth dialogue between a Chinese instrument and a Western orchestra, loved by the musicians and audience alike,” she said. “I felt my hard work had paid off. I trained for over 20 years, probably just to win cheers and applause for traditional Chinese music on the international stage.”

1. What can we learn about Liu from the first two paragraphs?

A．She was born into a musical family.

B．She enjoyed playing the suona as a child.

C．She showed a talent for suona when she was young.

D．She felt ashamed of admiring modern and international things.

2. Why did Liu get up early to practice playing the suona?

A．To get more time for her practice.	B．To avoid disturbing the neighbors.
C．To spend more time with her parents.	D．To make practising the suona a habit.

3. What can we infer from the last two paragraphs?

A．Audience like Chinese instruments better than Western orchestra.

B．Liu’s performance at a Sydney concert got her recognized by the public.

C．Liu promoted traditional Chinese music to the whole world with her parents.

D．Social media is a major platform to carry forward traditional Chinese music.

4. In which part of the newspaper can we read the passage?

A．Technology.	B．Education.
C．People.	D．Entertainment.