2 . Flying across the Atlantic for the first time is a great ________ (成就). （根据汉语提示单词拼写）

3 . Coloring books are no longer just for children! In fact adult coloring books are topping bestseller lists. Why have adults decided to start coloring again?     1    

It is to relieve stress and anxiety.

    2     They take on full-time jobs that often demand more than 40 hours a week, equally as part-time jobs, family responsibilities. For many, there just aren’t enough hours in the day, which explains why practising mindfulness becomes so popular. It’s important to set aside some time to calm the thoughts. Coloring can be an escape from everyday stress.

It is to go back to their childhood.

A trend among adults is to seek out childhood experiences. That’s why summer camps for adults are cropping up (大量出现) across the country.     3     A brand new coloring book with bright markers, crayons, and colored pencils provide endless possibilities. Adult coloring books are much more detailed than coloring books for children, but the emotions are similar and allow adults to feel as if they are “a kid again”.

    4    

Adults are constantly staring at screens: Desktops, laptops, tablets, phones, TVS, etc. Whether for business or personal use, it has become very difficult to “put down”. Even some readers have e-readers and tablets to consume books, magazines, and newspapers.     5     Of course, to truly realize the benefit of stepping away from the devices for a period of time, you can’t constantly be checking them while you color! Turn them off and leave them in another room.

A．Adults lead busy, tiring lives.

B．Coloring books are expensive.

C．It is to put down the technology.

D．Here are 3 reasons to let you deeply understand it.

E．Perhaps nothing is more equal to childhood than a coloring book.

F．It is to practise the patience and improve their relation with children.

G．An adult coloring book provides a great outlet to escape from all of the screens.

4 . 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。

I dream to be     1    popular teacher in the future because I hope I can bring knowledge and     2    (happy) to children. With time passing by，my wonderful middle school life is coming to the end. Just   when I entered Sunshine School，I was a childish boy     3    liked playing computer games. I still remembered my first midterm exam. I failed many subjects. I even thought about     4    (give) up. It was Ms Zhang who encouraged me     5    (face)the difficulties bravely.     6     the help of my teacher，I redoubled my efforts. Nowadays，I     7    (overcome) difficulties and always do well in the school subjects.Thanks to Ms Zhang，I have gained a lot both in my study       8     in my life. I hope I can be as     9     (excellently) as my teacher.

All in all，I will learn harder to get more knowledge so as to lay a good foundation for my future. I will make full use of my every second and make my dream come true. I believe I can     10    (success)!

5 . 阅读下面材料,在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。

It was a sunny day. A little boy’s father was sitting on the couch, drinking a beer while watching     1     basketball match. Seeing this, the boy rushed to his father and shouted. “Daddy, show we how to play catch.” The father, staring     2     the television screen, replies, “Let me finish watching the match. Play outside and come back in five minutes.”

“Okay, Daddy,” said the boy, running out of the room. Five minutes later, the boy returned,     3    (scream), “Daddy, let’s play catch now!”

By this time, the father had opened another cold beer and another match was beginning. Impatient    4     the boy’s interruption, the dad brought a magazine to his son. On the cover of the magazine was a large picture of the world. The father, who was angry and     5    (bother), began tearing the magazine cover into small     6    . Then, the father turned to his boy and said, “Son, once you put this picture back together, we can play catch, but do not interrupt me again     7     you finish.”

A few minutes later, the boy     8     (return) and said, “Daddy! Can we play catch now?”     9    (surprise), the father glanced towards his child, and there lay the magazine with the world pieced perfectly together in his small hands. The dad asked his child how he put the world together so quickly.

“    10     was simple,” said the boy. “On the back of the world was the picture of a person, and once I put the person together, that’s when the world came together.”

6 . Do you want to live another 100 years or more? Some experts say that scientific advances will one day enable humans to last tens of years beyond what is now seen as the natural limit of the human life span.

“I think we are knocking at the door of immortality(永生),” said Michael Zey, a Montclair State University business professor and author of two books on the future. “I think by 2075 we will see it and that’s a conservative estimate(保守的估计).”

At the conference in San Francisco, Donald Louria, a professor at New Jersey Medical School in Newark said advances in using genes as well as nanotechnology(纳米技术) make it likely that humans will live in the future beyond what was possible in the past. “There is a great effort so that people can live from 120 to 180 years,” he said. “Some have suggested that there is no limit and that people could live to 200 or 300 or 500 years.”

However, many scientists who specialize in aging are doubtful about it and say the human body is just not designed to last past about 120 years. Even with healthier lifestyles and less disease, they say failure of the brain and organs will finally lead all humans to death.

Scientists also differ on what kind of life the super aged might live. “It remains to be seen if you pass 120, you know; could you be healthy enough to have good quality of life?” said Leonard Poon, director of the University of Georgia Gerontology Centre. “At present people who could get to that point are not in good health at all.”

1. By saying“we are knocking at the door of immortality”,Michael Zey means_________.

A．they have got some ideas about living forever

B．they believe that there is no limit of living

C．they are able to make people live past the present life span

D．they are sure to find the truth about long living

2. Donald Louria’s attitude towards long living is that________.

A．the human body is designed to last past about 120 years

B．it is possible for humans to live longer in the future

C．it is still doubtful how long humans can live

D．people can live from 120 to 180

3. The underlined word“it”(in Paragraph 4)refers to________.

A．a great effort

B．the conservative estimate

C．the idea of living from 200 to 300 years

D．the idea of living beyond the present life span

4. What would be the best title for this text?

A．No Limit for Human Life

B．Living Longer or not

C．Science,Technology and Long Living

D．Healthy Lifestyle and Long Living

7 . Everybody is afraid of something. That’s what more than 1,700 kids told us when we asked them about fears and scary stuff. We gave kids a list of 14 scary things and asked which one frightened them most. Here are the top 5 answers from our survey (调查)：① Scary movies and TV shows；②Scary dreams；③Thunderstorms，hurricanes(飓风)；and other horrible weather；④War and terrorism (恐怖行动)；⑤Sounds heard at night.

But not everyone is afraid of the same thing. And what makes one person scared can be of no big deal for someone else. Plenty of kids said their biggest fear wasn’t on our list.

What is fear?

Fear is a feeling that everyone has—it’s programmed into all of us—and that’s a good thing because fear is there to protect us. We’re born with a sense of fear so we can react to something that could be dangerous. The baby cries，and their mom comes over to comfort him or her，helping the baby feel safe and OK again.

Real vs. Pretend

The best way to get over a fear is to get more information about it. As kids get older，they understand more and start seeing the difference between what is real and unreal. So when William’s imagination leads him to think of witches，he can tell himself，“Wait a minute. They’re only pretend things. I don’t need to worry about them.”

The same goes for the dark. A kid’s imagination can start playing tricks when the lights go out. What’s under my bed？Is that a thief I hear？With the help of a parent，kids can get more comfortable in the dark. Using a nightlight or shining a flashlight under the bed to see that there’s nothing there can help kids fight that fear.

1. What did the writer find out from the survey?

A．Some people have never experienced fear.

B．Kids don’t like watching scary movies.

C．All people are afraid of something.

D．People often cry loudly when they are scared.

2. What is Paragraph 2 mainly about?

A．The list of fears is not complete.

B．The things people fear are of no big deal.

C．Kids have more fears than people think.

D．People are afraid of different things.

3. In the writer’s opinion，________.

A．having a sense of fear is not a bad thing

B．babies have a weak sense of fear

C．fear is not something that we are born with

D．not all people can react to dangerous things

8 . 阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。

When HarmonyOS, the Chinese self-developed operating system for Huawei mobile devices,    1    (release) on Aug 9, it quickly became a hot topic on social media. Many believe it not only represents the rise of the country    2    a tech power, but also shows respect for classical Chinese culture by    3    (name) the system “Hongmeng” in Chinese.

Besides “Hongmeng”, Huawei has also registered many of its    4    (product) under the names of legendary creatures from Chinese mythology. For example, the company’s server chip is called “Kunpeng”, a mythical creature    5    changed from a fish into a giant bird.

In fact, Huawei is not alone in using    6    (tradition) culture for modern enterprises.    7    (base) on the well-known work of classical Chinese mythology The Investiture of the Gods, Ne Zha is shown as a rebellious underdog, who has to overcome hardship and his dark fate to become a hero,    8    (like) his attractive heroic character in previous cinematic works.

As Global Times put    9    , “ancient mythology has the power to stimulate contemporary imagination in young people”. After all, imagination is    10    beginning of creation.

9 . —It looks heavy. Can I give you a hand?
—_______.

A．No, thanks

B．Yes, my pleasure

C．No, never mind

D．Yes, I do

10 . "We can't go out in this weather, "said Bob, _____ out of the window.

A．looking	B．to look
C．looked	D．having looked