1 . Looking back, the memory of doctors, nurses and the conclusion of appendicitis (阑尾炎) was still clear. ______, nothing hurt more than three days with appendicitis. After a series of emergencies, I could merely lie ______ and beg my body to stop hurting.

All the ______ acquired from years of swimming was eaten away. Previously, I could swim miles daily. Now it was a(n) ______ to sit up and I couldn’t swim for almost three months.

When I finally returned to the pool, I struggled with my ______ ability. Race after race, I ______ my goals. Every time I ______ to enter the national competitions, I failed by a tiny amount.

Finally, I came to the last event that could ______ me for nationals. This was my last ______ : now or never. After so many failures, I couldn’t help being furious about recent events.

The race started, and I dived in, throwing the pain, ______ and anger I had experienced recently into the pool. My mind focused, self-limitation was ______ and I devoted all my attention and strength to my moves.

When I saw my time, a wave of ______ swept over me. I eventually ______ self-doubt and won what almost ______ from me. Nationals were waiting for me, and by no means would I let anything ______ my advancement.

1.

A．Normally

B．Frankly

C．Fortunately

D．Hopefully

2.

A．motionless

B．disappointed

C．unconscious

D．senseless

3.

A．experience

B．knowledge

C．muscle

D．honor

4.

A．option

B．effort

C．fantasy

D．embarrassment

5.

A．regained

B．fundamental

C．reliable

D．limited

6.

A．took notice of

B．fell short of

C．was aware of

D．ran away from

7.

A．attempted

B．applied

C．declared

D．determined

8.

A．train

B．sponsor

C．qualify

D．instruct

9.

A．enemy

B．performance

C．failure

D．shot

10.

A．strength

B．uncertainty

C．depression

D．criticism

11.

A．taken over

B．knocked down

C．given away

D．cut off

12.

A．sorrow

B．gratitude

C．confusion

D．relief

13.

A．overcame

B．understood

C．ignored

D．recognised

14.

A．benefited

B．resulted

C．originated

D．escaped

15.

A．see through

B．look over

C．hold back

D．account for

2 . The American Psychological Association(APA) has issued its first advisory on social media use in adolescence (青春期). What’s most striking in its data based on recommendations is how little we really know about how these apps affect our kids.

The relative newness of platforms like Snapchat and Tik Tok means little research is available about their long-term effects on teen and tween brains. Getting better data will require significant funding—and much more openness from tech companies.

“What little evidence we do have unsurprisingly suggests that social media trades on motivators that aren’t great for young brains. Many kids’ first exposure to social media occurs at the worst possible time when it comes to brain development,” says Mitch Prinstein, a psychologist and neuroscientist at the University of North Carolina(UNC).

“Things like ‘button and artificial intelligence(in general)’ are going to affect young people’s brains in a way that’s very different from adult brains when it comes to the desire to stay online and to say or do almost anything to get followers.” When it comes to social interactions, he compares kids’ brains to a car with a huge gas pedal and weak brakes (刹车).

Earlier this year, Prinstein and his UNC colleagues published the results of one of the first studies of how the adolescent brain reacts to social media. The team surveyed a group of middle schoolers to understand their social media habits, and then stuck them in an MRI machine to watch their brains as they reacted to social rewards or punishments. They found that 12-year-olds who habitually checked social media had distinct neural patterns, with more activities over time in parts of the brain associated with motivation, salience(or where attention is focused) and cognitive control.

The team didn’t weigh in on whether those differences were good or bad, or whether the relationship was causal or correlational. But their work points to the need for more research. It should also remind parents of the need to be keenly aware of social media’s hidden influence on still-developing brains.

1. What issue regarding social media apps does the APA report highlight?

A．Their addictive nature.	B．The lack of data on their influence.
C．The dishonesty of their developers.	D．The ineffectiveness of their incentives.

2. Which word can best describe young brains in relation to social interactions?

A．Uncontrolled.

B．Sensitive.

C．Unpredictable.

D．Productive.

3. What did Prinstein’s team discover about adolescents who regularly use social media?

A．They are usually highly motivated.	B．They find it difficult to concentrate.
C．They have greater cognitive control.	D．Their brains show unique features.

4. What might be the best title for the text?

A．Empowering Teens in the Digital Age

B．How to Guide Teens’ Social Media Engagement

C．The Hidden Influence of Social Media on Young Minds

D．The Importance of Healthy Social Media Habits

3 . Griffith was driving alone to the Bay Area on a work call Saturday morning, thinking he was having a heart attack. He was in ________. He was in the fast lane (车道) and he started to work his way over to the ________ lane. He drove his car at such a high speed that his car crashed off the exit ramp (匝道) and hit a big tree. All the while everything became ________ before his eyes.

A young man and woman ________. They left their car and ________ to Griffith’s car. They knew ________ what to do. They didn’t ________ Griffith from the car but instead left him where he was and got right to work, doing what they could.

“They kept_________ to keep me awake because I was not doing well,” recalled Griffith.

________ under pressure, they called the ambulance and took care of everything until professional _______ got there.

They found Griffith’s wallet and ID in the car and _______ them to the rescuers. They even _______ to find Griffith’s telephone list and _______ his family of what was happening in no time.

Griffith now knows a rare nerve impingement (神经压迫症) in his neck is what _______ him to black out. He left the hospital a week later. He said he was lucky to be alive, owing _______ to the helpful couple and other rescuers.

1.

A．action

B．peace

C．trouble

D．practice

2.

A．wide

B．slow

C．large

D．new

3.

A．black

B．strange

C．different

D．light

4.

A．sped up

B．broke down

C．went out

D．pulled over

5.

A．looked

B．returned

C．rushed

D．waved

6.

A．hardly

B．suddenly

C．exactly

D．pitifully

7.

A．remove

B．comfort

C．support

D．deliver

8.

A．singing

B．talking

C．driving

D．warning

9.

A．Curious

B．Grateful

C．Relieved

D．Calm

10.

A．rescuers

B．volunteers

C．advisers

D．researchers

11.

A．awarded

B．lent

C．recommended

D．provided

12.

A．promised

B．managed

C．intended

D．declined

13.

A．informed

B．accused

C．suspected

D．reminded

14.

A．allowed

B．caused

C．forbade

D．required

15.

A．achievements

B．money

C．energy

D．thanks

4 . The relationship between Jeffrey Pang and his son, Kevin Pang, was like hot-and-sour soup. It boiled over easily. The Pangs, who moved to the United States in 1988, wanted their son and daughter to know Chinese culture. As a video game-playing American teen, Kevin wasn’t interested.

But when Kevin became a food writer for the Chicago Tribune, he realized he had a valuable resource: his cook-laving dad. “My father and I shared, for the first time, a common interest. I would call to ask about recipes and cooking techniques. He would school me on the world of Chinese food,” Kevin writes in the introduction to the cookbook he has just published.

When it comes to cooking Chinese food, he points out that there is no one definition of Chinese food. “Chinese cooking is not hidebound. For example, consider baked pork chop rice, popularized in Hong Kong. It is a pork chop with egg-fried rice. And then you top it with this thick tomato sauce,” explains Kevin. “And then you top that with some cheese. It’s a very interesting combined dish that has some Western British influences, and it’s altogether very Chinese as well.”

By the time Kevin joined America’s Test Kitchen (ATK) staff in 2020 as its editorial director for digital content, his dad had become an Internet celebrity demonstrating the family’s recipes. Kevin recognized an opportunity not only to share his own family’s food stories but also to apply the ATK method of breaking down recipes into simple steps for the home cook.

“I think this cookbook can teach fathers and sons how to connect, how to find a common interest and improve their relationship, ” Kevin says. That feeling has found an enthusiastic fan base, generating nearly 3 million views, for their online cooking series “Hunger Pangs”, where viewers speak highly of their father-son bond as much as they do of their attractive dishes. Today the Pangs’ relationship is rarely sour or hot.

1. Why would Kevin phone his father after becoming a food writer?

A．To publish his Chinese cookbook.	B．To inquire about hot-and-sour soup.
C．To seek permission for video games.	D．To ask about cooking Chinese food.

2. What does the underlined word “hidebound” in paragraph 3 mean?

A．Inflexible.

B．Inclusive.

C．Unpleasant.

D．Uncertain.

3. What can we infer about Kevin and his father from the passage?

A．Their relationship has improved.	B．They run America’s. Test Kitchen.
C．They do dishes to attract followers.	D．Their cookbook is about low-fat food.

4. What is the best title of the passage?

A．Cooking at home helps you cook well for less.	B．Father and son jointly teach Chinese cooking.
C．Chinese culture is becoming popular in the us.	D．Recipes and cooking techniques are really easy.

5 . Parenting roles evolve from the full control and safekeeping of a young baby to the delicate dance between independence and guidance in adolescence (青春期). Eventually, our children become adults, and if we are lucky, we will have lifelong friendships with them.

Play is a key element of friendship with children. With babies and very young children, we play with them, engaging in back-and-forth activities. They often start the game, and we join in. They pull us into play, and we love it. In the language of experts who research children from birth to 3 years old, we express delight in these interactions. But delight often hits a snag when our children learn how to say “no”. From this point onward — into adolescence — we focus on getting children to behave. We tend to be the parent, not the friend, often saying “because I said so”. Highlighting our role as taskmasters limits our parenting tools. If we can leave time and space for child-driven play and activities — without adult demands or expectations — we can return to delight. These friendly interactions expand our relationship with our children. It’s not the same as peer friendship, but we are being friends.

Beyond play, the other foundational component of parent friendship is the child-directed conversation. Maintaining a friendly, non-judgmental standpoint in conversation with your kids can provide you with a world of trust and engagement. Being quiet and not saying anything are undervalued parenting tools. Instead, we can keep our ears open for informal chatter and then listen with intention and presence. And it’s usually best if we don’t offer ad vice unless asked for it. Being curious and compassionate and listening deeply to their stories and worries build emotional bonds, maintain communication, and produce trust, which sounds like friendship.

In my experience as a child, a parent, and a child psychiatrist, I think we can be more than command-and-control. And I firmly believe that we can treat children with affection and respect, as companions.

1. What does the underlined word “snag” in paragraph 2 mean?

A．Misjudgement.

B．Demand.

C．Challenge.

D．Response.

2. What is a parent advised to do in a child-directed conversation?

A．Be a deep listener.	B．Start the topic of a talk.
C．Never make any comments.	D．Avoid any informal chatter.

3. What is the author’s attitude towards developing companionship with children?

A．Doubtful.

B．Approving.

C．Unclear.

D．Negative.

4. What is the suitable title for the text?

A．Parent-child Friendship Bonds	B．Lifelong Parent-child Relationship
C．Fundamental Elements of Friendship	D．Parenting Roles in Children’s Growth

6 . 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。

In a groundbreaking move, China Media Group (CMG) aired the nation’s first-ever cartoon series     1     (produce) entirely with the generative AI model. The 26-episode series, titled Poems of Timeless Acclaim, vividly reimagines traditional Chinese poems and verses, offering     2     (engage) storytelling enhanced by lively visuals.

CMG Media GPT,     3     powerful machine-learning model developed jointly by CMG and the Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (SAIL) , is behind the show’s production. This model,     4     is trained with traditional Chinese poetry and large amounts of video and sound material, can create images and scenes in a traditional Chinese ink wash painting style     5     (feature) accurate architectural designs and clothing details. SAIL stressed the CMG Media GPT’s     6     (efficient), noting that it provided designers with a low-cost and efficient tool for character and scene design. So far, this AI-powered approach     7     (use) in every stage of the development and production process, and it has dramatically reduced production time and cost for CMG. “ AI will not replace humans     8     increase humans’ working efficiency.” Shen Haixiong, head of the China Media Group, expressed the broadcaster’s commitment     9     AI in a WeChat post, “We will explore deeper into technological innovation and embrace the Internet and AI     10     (build) a ‘powerful engine’ and ‘driving force’ for a new type of international mainstream media.”

7 . If you feel discouraged because of your plain looking, here are some practical ways that you can rethink about your own appearance self-esteem(自尊).

Throw away conventional, media-defined ideas of beauty.     1    , but you can change your own. Don’t focus on the beauty you see in ads but, instead, on the beauty you see in the real-life people you admire.

Define yourself in ways other than how you look. Make your self-esteem based on your inner, not outer qualities. Focus on what you like about your abilities, personality and perspective on the world. These almost always show improvement over time.     2    .

    3    . Be concerned about your body’s shape; be concerned about how your body functions are. Engage in enough exercise and sensible eating to get in shape, but not to the point of trying to force yourself to follow the image of a fashion model.

Use others as a sounding board. You may think your nose is huge, but those who care about you may find the very features that bother you the most lovely. If you’re feeling that you “look funny” or “fat”, ask your nearest and dearest.     4    , saying that you don’t need all that makeup or shapewear to be the person they love.

To sum up, changing our society’s views of attractiveness won’t be easy.     5    , and you will eventually define your identity in terms that allow you to gain fulfillment that lasts.

A．Focus on keeping healthy

B．Be concerned about how you feel inside

C．They may, surprisingly, give supporting ideas

D．Shifts in our viewpoint can make no difference

E．So work your way through the tips listed above

F．You’re not going to change society’s definition of beauty

G．And they are often more changeable than facial or bodily features

8 . 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。

David’s parents left him forever in a car accident. He was brought up by his dear grandma, who was now in her eighties and in poor health. David was so excellent at his studies that he was admitted into his ideal college. He developed friendship with Christ when they were seated next to each other on the first college day. They were like brothers.

Whenever Christ was challenged with those difficult courses, David was always there to help Christ. Christ showed his thanks to David from the bottom of his heart, saying, “Without your help, I couldn’t get on well with my studies. I really don’t know how to repay your help.” David responded, “We are good friends. It’s natural for us to help each other.”

It was the early morning of Saturday. David had a fever and couldn’t get out of bed. Christ took good care of him. He cooked David some soup and then gave him some medicine. He thought a sound sleep would help David get better. David felt comforted with the care of his friend. Then he fell asleep.

David didn’t know how long it had been before he woke up. He saw some food which was newly cooked on the table and there was also a note, which read, “Take the food and you will get better. I need to be away for several days. Take good care of yourself. Christ.” He didn’t detail David about what he was going to do. Later someone told David that Christ bought a bus ticket to David’s hometown. David felt confused. But he thought that maybe Christ had something personal to attend to and it was not suitable to tell him.

On Monday, David got better and went to classes. Obviously, Christ was not there. He missed the classes.

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

In the evening, Christ came back and meanwhile David received a call from his grandma, requesting whether Christ had returned to the college safely.

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On learning about this, David suddenly realized the truth.

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9 . Recently Chinese scientists have solved a food challenge of the ages! They cultivated (培育) the world’s first crucian carp (鲫鱼) without intermuscular (肌间的) fish bones.

The new fish ends a world-wide debate which has lasted for more than 50 years on whether intermuscular fish bones can be reproduced.

Crucian carp is a popular freshwater fish with tender meat and a fresh flavor, but its many tiny bones can easily get stuck in people’s throats when the fish is eaten. A research team from Heilongjiang Province started a project to solve the problem in 2009 and chose the key gene from about 1,600 fishes, in order to control the growth of the fish’s intermuscular bones. Researchers knocked out the bmp6 gene without influencing the fish’s growth.

“In 2020, we successfully cultivated the first generation of crucian carp without intermuscular fish bones with a success rate of 12.96 percent and the second generation at the rate of 19 percent in 2021,” said a researcher from the team. “At the beginning of 2022, we set free around 20,000 fish of the third generation at the test base in Harbin. The fish grew well and is quite different from normal crucian carp. The results of an examination in August showed that we succeeded completely.”

Experts said, “People will no longer have to pick out tiny fish bones. It could greatly change the fish diet of the world in the future.” In addition, the research can help promote industrial processing of the fish, marking a great breakthrough in the field of aquaculture (水产养殖) breeding in China.

1. What challenge have Chinese scientists solved?

A．They’ve found a wild fish.

B．They’ve created a fish with a fresh flavor.

C．They’ve cultivated a fish with tender meat.

D．They’ve produced a fish with no small bones.

2. What problem did the research team want to solve in 2009?

A．The fish can’t live in the sea.

B．The fish grow very slowly in freshwater.

C．The fish’s intermuscular bones are long and thin.

D．The fish’s tiny bones are stuck in people’s throats easily.

3. The results of an examination in August showed the success rate reached __________.

A．100%

B．50%

C．19%

D．12.96%

4. What is the last paragraph mainly about?

A．The fish diet in the future.

B．The problem of tiny fish bones.

C．The importance of the research.

D．The aquaculture breeding in China.

10 . 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.