1 . I get up and walk around every half hour just to s__________ my legs. (to straighten your leg to full length) (根据首字母单词拼写)

2 . 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 occasionally would think of my dad. I flashed to Dad holding the handlebar and jogging alongside my bike until I felt ready to ride on my own. I saw him pulling up to my broken-down car at night and doing a quick fix. I thought of the hug we shared at my wedding. But what impressed me most was the grass cutting days. Dad was always full of advice，and he taught me one of the big lessons one summer was about having a strong work ethic.

Memories came flooding back. When my brother and I were growing up, we mowed yards during the summer to earn pocket change. Dad was our salesman. He told our neighbors about our service and offered a price they could not refuse. My brother and I got﹩10 per yard. However, I later found out that our friends were charging $20 or more for the same amount of work.

Every time we headed out to mow lawns, Dad was there to watch. I used to wonder why he came with us. He stood supervising our work in the heat when he could have been inside relaxing with air conditioning and an icy drinking. My dad always watched over us and instructed strictly, until we finished our job as he satisfied. Sometimes his tough and cruel attitude really made my brother and me annoyed.

One day we were cutting our next-door neighbor’s yard. She always waited until the grass was knee-high to call us over. To make maters worse, we had an old lawn mower. This particular afternoon, I was finishing up and was tired and sweaty.

I was just about to cut off the lawn mower when I saw Dad pointing to one piece of grass. I ignored him and kept walking. Dad called me again and yelled, “Hey, son. You missed a piece.” I frowned, hoping he would let it slide and let me go home. But he kept pointing and shouting.

Paragraph 1：

Tired and disappointed, I went back to cut that piece of grass.

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Paragraph 2：

The lesson my dad taught me stayed with me:

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3 . 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。

It’s a wildlife expedition (远征) that has captivated (使着迷) the globe: a herd of 16 elephants trekking (跋涉) more than 300 miles from their home in Xishuangbanna National Nature Reserve. The herd’s trek began in March last year when 16 elephants     1     (see) moving from the reserve. Nobody is clear why the herd set out on this unprecedented (前所未有的) trek. Some suggest environmental degradation may have pushed them;    2     believe they are simply lost. An expert in elephant psychology believes that they likely left because of habitat loss and increasing human disturbance,    3     may have led to decreasing availability of food and water.

“We can’t ignore the effect of rapid development of the local economy on the loss of wildlife habitat,”    4     well-known expert on Asian elephant migration wrote on his Weibo page. “Clear waters and green mountains are as     5     (value) as mountains of gold and silver. A healthy and complete ecosystem is the cornerstone of sustainable economic development.

China’s wild elephants     6     (double) in number to more than 300 since the 1990s, but their habitat has shrunk     7     nearly two-thirds over the same period. Though China has extremely harsh penalties for those     8     (catch) killing elephants, the combination of these factors     9     (mean) that the potential for human-elephant conflict will only rise. It’s     10     (extreme) challenging for them to coexist.

The big fear is that the intensity of conflict between humans and elephants can start as just a nuisance and quickly grow to the point where people or elephants get killed.

4 . I was with my father at a clinic near his home for a routine blood test. An elderly woman came in and sat on a ________ room chair. She settled into the seat opposite my dad and smiled at him and he smiled back ________. He was 77 years old and had been living with Alzheimer disease for several years. It’s a disease that ________ your loved ones, slowly, day by day and the memory loss is painful and ________.

After a while, she started singing the tune My Heart Will Go On. Since Alzheimer disease also has a(n) ________ to damage a person’s patience, I couldn’t help thinking that this little woman was playing with fire. Her singing began gently. I glanced at Dad to see his ________. His smile was gone, and he was ________ right at her. I couldn’t read his expression initially, but it seemed to be something like ________. I wondered if he was lost somewhere in his memory, or maybe he was trying to figure out whether this was someone he should ________. Slowly, the woman’s singing got louder and her eyes closed with ________. Now Dad looked a little shocked. Still, I watched nervously, noticing the ________ of an angry outburst and was considering my options on how best to ________ in. Instead, his face changed, and the tension ________ in his eyes. He no longer looked confused.

When her song ended and the waiting room became ________, the woman opened her eyes. My dad was still looking directly at her. “That was beautiful,” he said. ________, she smiled and said, “Thank you.”

1.

A．living

B．waiting

C．fitting

D．consulting

2.

A．secretly

B．gratefully

C．slightly

D．coldly

3.

A．steals

B．destroys

C．cheats

D．panics

4.

A．limited

B．regular

C．temporary

D．merciless

5.

A．expectation

B．standard

C．tendency

D．symbol

6.

A．performance

B．response

C．gesture

D．message

7.

A．rushing

B．laughing

C．pointing

D．staring

8.

A．confusion

B．desperation

C．blankness

D．caution

9.

A．worry about

B．hear of

C．date with

D．call on

10.

A．purpose

B．strength

C．emotion

D．respect

11.

A．instruction

B．outcome

C．effect

D．possibility

12.

A．step

B．check

C．give

D．join

13.

A．increased

B．filled

C．eased

D．divided

14.

A．delightful

B．silent

C．bright

D．harmonious

15.

A．In public

B．In turn

C．In relief

D．In return

5 . A few years ago I wrote about Veebot, a start-up in Mountain View, Calif, when I was collecting stories about the most exciting tasks robots could do in hospitals. Veebot created a robot that could draw blood in difficult cases faster and even more effectively than an experienced human phlebotomist (抽血医师). Veebot’s video was hugely popular because they wanted to robotise a process known to and disliked by everyone. It turned out that everyone wanted the result this robot could achieve — but without the robot itself.

The pandemic has been good to robots. They are effectively used in many fields. The fact that they could take part in stopping the spread of COVID-19 in hospitals and help prevent hospital-acquired infections gave these devices a much-needed extra boost. They thereby could finally move out of the “sometimes cute but often useless” category and find a suitable field where they could really be helpful for people actually working in hospitals, like in the case of blood samples taken by robots.

Blood draws are one of the most common clinical procedures. Despite this fact, it’s fairly difficult for nurses and medical professionals to get enough experience. I clearly remember when I first had to take blood as a doctor: the patient, an old lady was as scared as I was; I was trying to comfort her as much as myself. But this will come as no surprise: people don’t like needles or giving blood. Many people have straightforward fears related to these. Healthcare professionals themselves often struggle with finding veins in patients or can’t find a vein at all. But robots can.

However, the more human-like robots become, the more we tend to hate them. And this is even the case if they can do a better job than humans. This is an attitude we must overcome as a cultural shift on our way towards digital healthcare. In fact, as patients, we already interact with plenty of technologies in modern medicine that we don’t understand. We lie still for MRI scans, and allow CT tests or X-rays to be done. So why don’t we trust robots?

1. What is Veebot’s video about?

A．Veebot’s effort to create a robot.

B．A human phlebotomist’s daily routine.

C．Veebot’s robot working as a phlebotomist.

D．A human phlebotomist dealing with COVID-19 patients.

2. What might be a popular belief about robots according to the author?

A．They are not flexible.	B．They are not very useful.
C．They need to be cute.	D．They need to be tested in hospitals.

3. What is paragraph 3 mainly about?

A．Why people are afraid of blood draws.

B．How medical professionals take blood from patients.

C．How people get rid of their fear of medical treatment.

D．Why nurses and medical professionals tend to lack experience.

4. What is the author’s purpose in writing this text?

A．To show major advances in robots.

B．To persuade people to give blood.

C．To advise people to pursue a career in medicine.

D．To make robots acceptable in clinical procedures.

6 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. How did the man start the idea of traveling to North America?

A．Through a friend's call.

B．Through a travel brochure.

C．Through a club activity.

2. What happened when the man was about to depart?

A．The flight was delayed.

B．The taxi driver arrived late.

C．The original taxi ride was canceled.

3. What did the man do on Day Two?

A．He watched the sunrise.

B．He visited Queen Victoria Park.

C．He went to see a waterfall.

4. What does the man say about his landlady?

A．She's noisy.

B．She's friendly.

C．She's humorous.

7 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. Which program is the most popular nowadays?

A．Animal Shelters.

B．Working with Children.

C．Senior Citizen Schools.

2. What can the elderly do for children through the center?

A．Manage the toys.

B．Read to them.

C．Walk them to school.

3. What is required for the program related to children?

A．A medical report.

B．A flexible timetable.

C．Rich nursing experience.

8 . Jobs in the space industry go far beyond the astronauts that receive widespread media c________. (根据首字母单词拼写)

9 . Such wonders as a space shuttle launch or astronauts walking on the Moon are i_________ exciting and inspiring to witness. (根据首字母单词拼写)

10 . It’s a l___________ to eat fresh food, because fresh produce such as fruit and vegetables can only be delivered to the space station from the Earth every couple of months. (根据首字母单词拼写)