2 . To everyone’s surprise, Huawei launched the newest handset, the Mate 60 Pro, equipped with a 5G application processor and satellite phone function, without any prior announcement. This left many Chinese feeling amazed.

With the international situation becoming increasingly challenging, Huawei was encountering significant financial issues. For instance, its revenue (收入) in 2021 declined nearly 30 percent, according to its annual report. For a company like Huawei, this was a major shock and could pose a persistent problem that needed immediate attention. Therefore, it was crucial for Huawei to have its own core technology, especially when it came to chips. Developing chips is a lengthy, demanding, and labor-intensive (劳动密集型的) process, but this didn’t stop Huawei. Instead of purchasing or leasing products from other countries, Huawei decided to invest heavily in research and development.

Huawei’s difficulties are similar to those faced by modern China in its early days. During that time, China lacked advanced technology. Despite this, China managed to develop its own atomic bombs, aircraft carriers, satellites, and fighter jets starting from zero. These advancements guided the country to prosperity and power.

With a determined attitude and united team, Huawei has been successful in breaking free from the chains of past difficulties. In this context, Huawei is “a light canoe that has passed the mountains”. 

As a storm of trouble approached, Huawei chose to confront it rather than give up. Huawei’s attitude of struggling and pushing ahead is the best presentation of the Chinese national spirit and serves as an example for others to follow. In the face of life’s unknown challenges, the key is to look ahead and not give in.

1. What’s the most important thing for Huawei to solve problems?

A．Independently developing chips.

B．Purchasing products from other countries.

C．Investing in other industries.

D．Raising a large amount of funds.

2. Why did the author mention the four advancements in the third paragraph?

A．Thanks to advanced technology, China has developed its own atomic bombs.

B．Even in the face of various difficulties, Huawei is bound to succeed.

C．Advancements of atomic bombs guided the country to prosperity and power.

D．Huawei has passed the mountains to solve the significant financial issues.

3. According to the passage, what does the underlined word mean?

A．escape from

B．understand.

C．separate

D．challenge

4. What’s the best title of the passage?

A．Huawei have the same difficulties as others.

B．Huawei encounters financial issue

C．Huawei overcomes challenges

D．Huawei launched the Mate 60 Pro.

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。

Three million years may seem like a long time. But when you consider that planet Earth is more than 4.5 billion years old, it is a pretty short period of time.

The blue whale,     1     (weigh) more than even the biggest dinosaurs, is the largest animal that has ever lived. They can grow     2     30 meters long and be as heavy as 130,000 kilograms.     3     for millions of years, they were not nearly that large, scientists say. “All of a sudden — ‘boom’— we see them get very big, ” scientist Nick Pyenson said. He and other     4     (researcher) recently published an article on whale size. “It’s like going from whales     5     size of minivans (面包车) to longer than two school buses, ” Pyenson added.

The scientists believe that a change in the Earth’s climate caused whales     6     (get) so large only about 3 million years ago. This change led to food becoming more     7     (easy) available. An oncoming ice age made the ocean water cold and brought more nutrients, resulting in more food for large whales. Whales     8     were able to quickly eat a lot of food survived, and got     9     (large). Over the next three or four million years, the blue whales grew 10 times bigger than they     10     (be), the scientists say.

4 . In 1991, Davenport played in her first professional tennis match when she was 15. She was ranked (排名) the Number 1 woman _________ player in the world eight different times.

I had the chance to _________ Davenport at the 2012 US Open. _________ that night, she answered some questions from our group and I asked her, “Ms Davenport, _________ can teach people a lot of lessons. What lessons did you _________ during your time as a professional tennis player that you didn’t learn _________ an amateur (业余运动员)?” To be honest, I had a personal reason for asking this question. I played baseball in college, but not _________. So I wanted to know what I missed.

Davenport’s first _________ was to talk about how she had to grow up _________. She mentioned the power of the media and learning to live her life in front of a(n) __________. But then she changed the __________ and talked about improving her skill and the lessons of competition, hard work, and perseverance. Those things, she said, were learned long __________ she became a professional. In other words, to learn about what it’s like to __________ as a professional athlete, you need to be a professional athlete. But to learn the lessons of playing sports, you just need to __________ your sport.

Take note: you don’t need to be the best in order to be __________ or satisfied, but all that matters is that you play the game.

1.

A．tennis

B．golf

C．basketball

D．baseball

2.

A．consider

B．describe

C．asked

D．meet

3.

A．Later

B．Again

C．Maybe

D．Once

4.

A．books

B．sports

C．jobs

D．music

5.

A．teach

B．prepare

C．offer

D．learn

6.

A．as

B．like

C．with

D．for

7.

A．specially

B．wonderfully

C．happily

D．professionally

8.

A．answer

B．task

C．result

D．question

9.

A．slow

B．fast

C．soon

D．together

10.

A．crowd

B．leader

C．athlete

D．family

11.

A．aim

B．time

C．way

D．subject

12.

A．after

B．since

C．before

D．when

13.

A．live

B．appear

C．depend

D．suffer

14.

A．compare

B．control

C．play

D．develop

15.

A．angry

B．happy

C．different

D．direct

6 . At a young age, Patti Wilson was an epileptic (癫痫病患者). Her father, Jim Wilson, is a morning jogger. One day Patti said, “Daddy, what I’d really love to do is ________ with you every day, but I’m ________ I’ll have a seizure (癫痫发作).” Her father told her, “If you do, I know how to ________ it so let’s start running!”

That’s just what they did every day. It was a ________ experience for them to share and there were no seizures at all. After a few weeks, she told her father, “Daddy, what I’d really love to do is ________ the world’s long distance running record for women.” Her father ________ the Guiness Book of World Records and found that the ________ any woman had run was 80 miles. As a freshman in high school, Patti ________, “I’m going to run from Orange County up to San Francisco.” (A distance of 400 milcs.)

________ her handicap, Patti was as ambitious as she was enthusiastic, but she said she ________ the handicap of being an epileptic as simply an inconvenience. She focused not on what she had lost, but on what she had ________.

In her sophomore year (二年级) Patti’s classmates got ________ her. They built a giant poster that ________, “Run, Patti, Run!” She finished her second marathon Portland, ________ her last mile with the governor of Oregon. After four months of almost ________ running from the West Coast to the East Coast, Patti arrived in Washington. She told the media, “I wanted people to know that epileptics are ________ human beings.”

I told this story at one of my seminars not long ago, and afterward a big teary-eyed man came up to me, ________ his big hand and said, “Mark, my name is Jim Wilson. You were talking about my daughter, Patti.” Because of her constant ________, he told me, enough money had been ________ to open up 19 multi-million-dollar epileptic centers around the country.

If Patti Wilson can do so much with so little, what can you do to outperform (超出) yourself in a state of total ________?

1.

A．work

B．run

C．stay

D．play

2.

A．afraid

B．sure

C．curious

D．careful

3.

A．help

B．handle

C．fix

D．ignore

4.

A．private

B．different

C．wonderful

D．essential

5.

A．keep

B．destroy

C．seize

D．break

6.

A．checked

B．reviewed

C．afforded

D．examined

7.

A．latest

B．farthest

C．slowest

D．newest

8.

A．responded

B．invented

C．announced

D．argued

9.

A．In view of

B．In contrast with

C．On behalf of

D．In memory of

10.

A．stuck to

B．took on

C．made up

D．looked at

11.

A．earned

B．deserved

C．left

D．desired

12.

A．around

B．over

C．about

D．behind

13.

A．read

B．sounded

C．engaged

D．felt

14.

A．leaving

B．completing

C．attempting

D．fighting

15.

A．free

B．frequent

C．continuous

D．regular

16.

A．tough

B．cautious

C．typical

D．normal

17.

A．extended

B．took

C．felt

D．withdrew

18.

A．pressure

B．failure

C．efforts

D．challenge

19.

A．spent

B．drawn

C．lost

D．collected

20.

A．wealth

B．wellness

C．honour

D．action

7 . Drunk driving, causing great damage ________ a high rate in traffic accident, is a major concern, ________ we each should pay special attention to.

A．in; that

B．in; which

C．at; one

D．at; that

9 . Two thirds of the ice in the glaciers (冰川) of the Alps is doomed! These glaciers will melt by the end of the century as global temperatures rise, according to a recent study.

Scientists claim that half the ice held in some 4,000 Alpine glaciers will disappear by 2050 due to global warming through the effect of past emissions. After that, even if carbon emissions drop to zero, two-thirds of the ice will still have melted by 2100. If emissions continue to rise at the current rate, the ice tongues will have all but disappeared from Alpine valleys by the end of the century. The most pessimistic prediction tells us that the Alps will be mostly ice-free by 2100. Only isolated ice patches would remain at high altitudes, representing five per cent, at most, of the ice volume seen today.

The researchers warn that the loss of these glaciers will mean much less water is available for farming and hydroelectricity, especially during droughts. It would also affect nature and tourism.

In February, a study found that a third of the huge ice fields in Asia’s towering mountain chains were also under threat for the same reasons. This will lead to serious consequences for almost two billion people who live downstream. Glaciers along the Hindu Kush and Himalayan range are at higher, colder altitudes. If global carbon emissions are not cut, however, two-thirds of their ice could be gone by 2100.

The latest research combined computer models with real-world data to forecast the fate of the glaciers. It used 2017 as its starting point. Unlike previous work, these models included how the glaciers move down the mountains. Applying this approach to other glaciated mountain chains could improve ice loss forecasts there.

Cutting the emissions from fossil-fuel burning, deforestation and other polluting activities is the biggest factor in minimizing the melting of the ice. The future of these glaciers is indeed at risk, but there is still a possibility of limiting their disappearance.

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

A．Polluted.

B．Discovered.

C．Endangered.

D．Abandoned.

2. What can we infer from paragraph 2?

A．Emissions have much to do with the ice melting.

B．The Alps is expected to lose all its ice by 2100.

C．Ice loss will be avoided with emissions prevented.

D．Large ice pieces will just exist at the mountain top.

3. Why are the Asia’s ice fields mentioned in paragraph 4?

A．To explain how glacier melting came about.

B．To imply pollution is a worldwide problem.

C．To show what consequences ice melting will cause.

D．To indicate the Alps is not alone to face ice melting.

4. What is the writer’s attitude towards the future of glaciers?

A．Objective.

B．Optimistic.

C．Critical.

D．Doubtful.