1 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
1. What is the purpose of the annual school carnival?

A．To introduce new students.

B．To raise funds for the school library.

C．To celebrate the end of the school year.

2. When are the auditions (试演）for the winter play taking place?

A．Every day after school next week.

B．Next Monday and Saturday.

C．Next Tuesday and Wednesday.

3. How can students support the School’s Debate Team in the regional finals?

A．By voting for the team.

B．By offering their opinions.

C．By signing up to attend the event.

4. What is the speech mainly about?

A．Updates on school events.

B．School rules and discipline.

C．Upcoming school vacations.

2 . 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。

Staying up late may work well for business professionals or     1    (lawyer), but a new study suggests it can be harmful for students. High school students     2     stay up late see their test scores fall behind their more well-rested classmates.

The study,     3    (perform) by researchers at University of California, Berkeley, examined survey data from over 2,700 volunteers, whose ages ranged from thirteen       4     seventeen in the United States. Thirty percent of them admitted to bedtimes past 11:30 pm during the school year. Following the data, these night owls(夜猫子)     5    (see) their grades slip when compared to other students. Additionally, these teens who didn’t get enough sleep also reported a     6    (high)rate of emotional problems.

The silver lining is that the study shows     7     easy solution to some teens’ problems: get more sleep. Teens facing emotional problems or depression could attempt       8    (adjust) their sleep cycles before turning to stronger measure for     9    (relieve). Compared to doctors’ bills and medication, going to bed earlier can be simple r and more cost- effective.

Doctors recommend 9 hours of sleep every night for teens. Parents should make     10     a rule to turn off their children’s smart phones and laptops when the sun goes down. Now more than ever, a good night’s sleep can make the difference.

3 . One of the keys to doing well in school is staying positive. Positivity will make you feel better and give you some good attitudes to be more productive with your schoolwork. By staying positive, you can do well in your classes and earn the grades you want.

Be optimistic about school

    1     Instead, try to be positive about what you feel good about and are looking forward to in the future. You can create a list of things you are grateful for or write down one thing every day that you are looking forward to. These can help you appreciate the future and what it has to offer.

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Sometimes taking the focus off yourself can help you to be more optimistic. Help make others feel better and often you’ll feel better as well. Try to share any encouraging thoughts if you have them. Then, you can give small, thoughtful gifts to your friends. People appreciate it when others are thinking of them. Even you can buy a coffee for your friend.     3    

Take feedback(反馈) positively

Though it may sometimes be difficult, it’s important to not get down when teachers offer you feedback. Take what they say and learn how to apply it to be better in the future. When you get any potentially negative feedback, you can take a deep breath. Take a minute to calm down your first response before you react. Be thankful for feedback.     4     Consider it as an opportunity to improve yourself.

Be around positive people when you’re at school

Positive friends can make you feel better about yourself.     5     Negative people can often waste your energy, especially in difficult environments like school. Pay attention to how you feel around people. Positive people should make you feel energetic and excited about the future.

A．Encourage other students.

B．Take advantage of extra help.

C．Don’t get tense by being too impatient.

D．Thank your teacher for giving you feedback.

E．It can encourage them to stay positive at school.

F．Make sure not to focus on the negative in every situation.

G．Seek out friends that are optimistic and positive about their lives.

4 . Passenger ships, trade ships, and fishing boats are a normal part of life on the open sea. However, all their activity creates a great deal of noise underwater. Scientists who have studied the recordings of sound recorded with equipment placed underwater recently reported their observations that the ocean is getting noisier.

Another report on the effect of noise from ships on the behavior of whales shows it is likely that whales must call out more loudly to be heard over this noise. The whales find fish by producing clicking sounds and other noises, loud engine noise could be interfering with (妨碍) their efforts.

Michael Jasny, a policy expert for the Natural Resources Defense Council, says the rise of underwriter noise is influencing the ability of whales to communicate. “Shipping noise falls across the sea frequencies (频率) that these animals use for their important behaviors.”

Mr. Jasny says sound travels very effectively underwater. And it is not just whales that he is worried about. “The entire web of life in the ocean depends on sound. And as more and more research has been done, it’s been very clear that what we have on our hands is really a significant serious and global problem.

The main source of noise pollution is the propeller (螺旋桨). Better shaped propellers and ship designs can help cut down on noise pollution. Michael Bahtiarian, who works for Noise Control Engineering — a company which helped design the boats — said, “The technology to make quieter ships does exist and has been used in the military for some time. NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) has four new ships that have such costly engines, which produce less noise. These NOAA ships show that you can get quiet — I think they’re quiet enough — because they are able to go up quietly and count a fish and not startle the fish so that they can actually count them.”

The shipping industry in the United States wants to be part of the solution to the noise problem, Kathy Metcalf, who works for the Chamber of Shipping of America, says it will be much less costly for the industry if it chooses to build quieter ships instead of being forced to do so.

1. What kind of effect do you think the noise made by ships has according to the passage?

A．It is sure to get stronger in the future.

B．It influences the normal life of whales.

C．It makes underwater equipment unable to work normally.

D．It makes it hard for scientists to track the activities of deep sea creatures.

2. What does Mr. Jasny want to express?

A．Whales’ skill in finding food gets hurt most.

B．There is no better way of solving the problem.

C．The problem is far more serious than we thought.

D．The frequencies of shipping noise should be increased.

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

A．Frighten.

B．Catch.

C．Dive.

D．Feed.

4. What can we infer from the passage?

A．Quieter ships have been designed to save money.

B．The shipping industry should make quieter ships actively.

C．The shipping designers are ordered to build quieter ships.

D．The four new ships are the most advanced ships in the ocean.

5 . In 1240, the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II built Castel del Monte on a lonely hill in central Puglia, where he had a perfect view of approaching enemies. He probably never imagined the enemies might be tourists one day. But these days, the old castle has been polished clean, and hundreds of multicolored Pullman buses snake up the winding roads to its grounds, now filled with T-shirt stands, Coca-Cola signs and a 200-car parking lot. All this thanks to the fact that UNESCO has designated (认定) it a World Heritage Site in 1996.

Officially, UNESCO honors places that exemplify an area’s ancestry, with the purpose of ensuring they are preserved. Unofficially, this designation is a kind of fairy dust that often turns little-known cultural sites into overnight tourist sensations. This is both a gift and a cuss. Lisa Mastny, senior adviser to the World Watch Institute, says tourism is double-edged for places considered of “outstanding value to humanity. It offers many poor communities the chance to obtain financial rewards, but also threatens the very resources —human and natural—upon which the industry is ultimately built”.

There is growing awareness that assigning UNESCO designation is worthless — or worse, harmful — without some kind of follow-up preservation program. “In the early days there wasn’t much attention given to what would happen once these site s became World Heritage. But that’s changing slowly,” says Joseph King, director of the sites unit at the International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM). In Africa, a 12-year training program is currently underway to teach locals not only how to preserve their immovable cultural heritage, but how to use it for economic development. In Eastern Europe, where tourism is a relatively new thing, cities are looking for help in figuring out where to draw the line between preserving historical centers and promoting urban development.

1. What can we learn about Castel del Monte?

A．It was built to enjoy the view.	B．It has become a hot tourist spot.
C．It has to make way for a shopping mall.	D．It failed to win UNESCO designation in 1996.

2. Which word is closest in meaning to the underlined word “cuss” in paragraph 2?

A．Solution.

B．Promise.

C．Drawback.

D．Chance.

3. How does the author support King’s words in the last paragraph?

A．By quoting experts.	B．By analyzing cause and effect.
C．By giving examples.	D．By making comparisons.

4. What is the best title for the text?

A．Is UNESCO Helpful in Driving Global Tourism?

B．How Can a Place Be Included in the UNESCO List?

C．Why Is It Important to Market World Heritage Site Tours?

D．Does Identifying World Heritage Sites Do More Harm Than Good?

6 . The Wild Atlantic Way has a certain romantic attraction, bringing to mind images of violent storms, terrible winds and driving rain. The Irish Republic inaugurated (为……举行仪式) this, “the longest defined coastal touring route in the world”, in 2014, an excellent marketing idea. The Wild Atlantic Way follows the west coast of Ireland, from the Inishowen Peninsula in the north down to the picturesque town of Kinsale, County Cork, in the south.

Having recently retired, and also having a very supportive wife, I decided to cycle the 2,600 kilometres of this highway, and to seek some sponsorship while doing so for the benefit of a small, but hugely effective charity supporting Children of the Dump in Manila in the Philippines.

Another reason to start this cycle tour was the polite refusal of my youngest son to my request to accompany him, and his friend, on their journey in 2016 from Lima in Peru to Ushuaiain Patagonia by bike. He was probably quite right to have done so. The Donegal hills were enough to tire me out in the first week of my own adventure; the Andes might have finished me off a longtime before I had the opportunity to wheel my bike from the Holyhead to Dublin ferry (渡口) at the beginning of May this year.

Having begun the journey in suitably cold and wet conditions in Donegal, my luck and that of the rest of Ireland changed quite suddenly, and to the amazement of the whole country, they and I enjoyed some of the finest May and June weather on record. The “Wild Atlantic Way” became the “Kind Atlantic Way”, and I got sunburnt! It was a remarkable and unforgettable journey for me. Generous friends have helped me raise £2,600, one pound for each kilometer I rode.

Try it yourselves, but do it the green way and leave the car at home. Pump up (给……打气) your bike tyres and give it, or at least some of the route, a go. You won’t regret it.

1. What do we know about the Wild Atlantic Way from paragraph 1?

A．It starts at Kinsale in County Cork.	B．It is a famous cross-Europe touring route.
C．It used to be extremely popular with sea divers.	D．It was promoted by the Irish Republic government.

2. Why did the author go cycling?

A．To join his wife.	B．To raise money for a charity.
C．To work out for his health.	D．To find sponsorship for his company.

3. How might the author feel about his son’s refusal later?

A．Lucky.

B．Angry.

C．Excited.

D．Disappointed.

4. What happened during the author’s journey?

A．He stopped halfway.	B．He was badly injured.
C．He got many flat tyres.	D．He had quite a few sunny days.

7 . Family quest brings joy and tears

Li Yong reunites with his family in Liyang, Jiangsu, on Dec 31, 2023.

When Li Yong took the train to the Inner Mongolia autonomous region, more than 1,500 kilometers away from his hometown — Liyang, Jiangsu province, he was just 2 years old. He was among about 3,000 children from the southern China, who were adopted by herdsmen in the late 1950s, when the country was _________ by natural disasters and the government of Inner Mongolia took the initiative to take care of these children.

Over the past six _________, these adoptees learned to adjust to their new environment and families, but they haven’t stopped digging into their past and exploring their _________. Li _________ learned that he was adopted when chatting with villagers. After his foster parents (养父母) passed away, Li _________ the idea of looking for his biological mother. _________, it was not easy for him as he didn’t know his biological family or even his birthplace.

Although _________, the journey for some has been realized _________ the application of the DNA technology. The _________ point came in 2021, when Li’s daughter told him that the Ministry of Public Security was helping people find their parents through DNA comparison with the __________ of a national DNA database. After having a blood sample taken at the local police station, Li waited for two years. Late last year, he got __________ that his mother had been found.

On Dec 31, Li finally reunited with his mother, 97-year-old Shi Bamei, in a village in Liyang. Bursting into tears of __________, Li hugged his mother, who kept __________ for the long separation. At Shi’s home, Li served his mother a spoonful of tangyuan, a sweet dumpling symbolizing reunion, on Dec 31.

“With the support and cooperation between the police and __________ groups, I believe there will be more good news for people with long-lost relatives. There will be new reunions and new __________,” he says.

1.

A．hit

B．covered

C．reserved

D．damaged

2.

A．weeks

B．years

C．decades

D．months

3.

A．roots

B．possibilities

C．relatives

D．stories

4.

A．quickly

B．frequently

C．hardly

D．gradually

5.

A．put up with

B．came up with

C．kept up with

D．caught up with

6.

A．Instead

B．Therefore

C．However

D．Otherwise

7.

A．inspiring

B．appealing

C．alarming

D．challenging

8.

A．with regard to

B．due to

C．according to

D．as to

9.

A．turning

B．ending

C．following

D．coming

10.

A．patience

B．assistance

C．appliance

D．guidance

11.

A．identified

B．informed

C．warned

D．noticed

12.

A．depression

B．fear

C．joy

D．surprise

13.

A．criticizing

B．forgiving

C．apologizing

D．complaining

14.

A．volunteer

B．villager

C．attendant

D．worker

15.

A．struggle

B．campaign

C．hope

D．determination

8 . Mother’s Day is the perfect opportunity to express our gratitude and affection for the incredible women who have shaped our lives, whether that’s your mum, your grandma, your friend or whoever else you’d like to celebrate.     1     But figuring out what to say can be tough! Wondering what to write in your Mother’s Day card that could possibly capture your love for your mum?     2    

Expressing gratitude and appreciation

Start with a classic expression of gratitude. Thank your mother for her unwavering love, support, and the countless sacrifices she’s made.     3     Highlight specific memories or actions that showcase your mother’s love and care. Whether it’s her comforting words during challenging times or the delicious meals she prepares, acknowledging these small but significant gestures adds a personal touch.

Affectionate closing

    4     Common phrases like “With all my love,” or “Forever grateful” reinforce the depth of your feelings. After you’ve finished crafting your masterpiece of a Mother’s Day card message, sign it with a flourish! A personal touch, such as a heart or a smiley face, adds an extra layer of authenticity to your message.

A Mother’s Day card is a chance to convey the love and appreciation you feel for the remarkable women in your life.     5     Whether your style is poetic, humorous, or emotional, the key is to be sincere and genuine. As you put down your feelings into words, remember that the most meaningful messages come from the heart, creating a lasting keepsake (纪念品) that your mother will treasure for years to come.

A．Here are a few ideas to get your creative juices flowing!

B．There are countless ways to create a heartfelt message.

C．Express your excitement about creating more memories together.

D．End your message with warm and affectionate closing expressions.

E．If you have plans for the day or future adventures, mention them in your card.

F．A simple “Thank you for everything you do” sets a warm and appreciative tone.

G．While selecting the perfect Mother’s Day card is important, the affections written inside hold even greater significance.

9 . When you have negative (消极的) emotions and physical symptoms (症状) like stress and anxiety over a long period of time, to the point that it affects your everyday life, you may be experiencing sadness.     1    , like losing a job or having to plan a big event. The good news is that there are ways to prevent feelings of discomfort from changing into sadness.

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If you’re feeling anxious or you’re having trouble focusing — find a way to remove it. Go outside, go to the bathroom, call a friend, or take a few deep breath. Your nervous system is being flooded with stress hormones (荷尔蒙), making it hard to calm down and see things clearly. So you need to change your environment.

Relate what happened

Go over your situation again.     3    . Do this with a friend, a family member or even yourself, by writing a diary or talking out loud while walking your dog. By doing this, you can remind yourself of details you may have paid no attention to.

Name your emotions

As you describe what happened, name your emotions.     4    . For example, instead of saying you simply feel annoyed, maybe you actually feel disappointed. You can use the feelings wheel, a tool that can help you express your emotions more accurately.

Examine what gives you discomfort

If you have terrible road rage (狂怒), have a conversation with yourself about it. You might ask yourself: Why am I so angry on the road? Is it because I am in a rush? Or is it because I hate sitting in traffic? Then, find ways to lessen the situation.     5    . To avoid traffic, ask your boss if you can work from home a couple times a week.

A．Learn new words

B．Change the situation

C．It may result from a major life challenge

D．Anger can influence your daily life greatly

E．This can help find what is giving you discomfort

F．To avoid being rushed, you can leave the house a half hour early

G．The key is that you should express your emotions more specifically

10 . 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。

One day a friend invited me to join gymnastics class that she had belonged to for many years. My mom got the needed information and within a few days I was ready to start!

When I got there, I was extremely nervous. The group wasn’t very welcoming so I was regretting signing up. It seemed they were comfortable with the team they had, and they didn’t want anyone to be added to it. But after working together for a few days, we all soon became friends. A month passed and I learned to do many things. I was excited and ready to learn back handsprings(手翻). Back handsprings are one of the main things you need to know for gymnastics because they are done so often. In my opinion, they are the hardest to do, but I was ready to try.

My friend was the queen of back handsprings, so she helped me understand each and every step. Our coach pulled out a handspring machine to help the kids who were learning how to do them for the first time. This machine is a block that has cushion(垫子) all around it. You basically sit in the mouth of the machine and push off with your feet and go backwards until you land on your hands, then feet.

Even with the handspring machine, I couldn’t get my feet right, so I had to try again and again. Impatient, some of the girls seemed to get angry. I was feeling like the new kid in the group again. The new kid that didn’t know what she was doing but everyone else knew it!

注意：1. 续写词数应为150个左右；
2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

Luckily, my friend, the queen of back handsprings, kept encouraging me.

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One day, I finally got it right.

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