1 . After planting in my garden, I found myself with an abundance of vegetable seedlings (幼苗) .
The day’s
As she was to drove off, a gentle guy in my heart
I felt a sense of satisfaction that day, turning a (n)
| A．Unwilling | B．Concerned | C．Awkward | D．Irregular |
| A．horizons | B．strategies | C．offerings | D．expectations |
| A．covered | B．calculated | C．reduced | D．evaluated |
| A．illegal | B．affordable | C．powerful | D．rare |
| A．grateful | B．responsible | C．famous | D．hopeful |
| A．routine | B．highlight | C．exploration | D．stress |
| A．whispered | B．argued | C．chatted | D．negotiated |
| A．deserted | B．divided | C．remote | D．fertile |
| A．live off | B．make out | C．take up | D．brighten up |
| A．monitor | B．promote | C．distinguish | D．witness |
| A．convinced | B．cheated | C．reminded | D．rid |
| A．accidentally | B．originally | C．mistakenly | D．occasionally |
| A．persuaded | B．forbid | C．challenged | D．attracted |
| A．in hand | B．by chance | C．on sale | D．in place |
| A．unique | B．imaginary | C．simple | D．immediate |
2 . Learn and Earn
Charlie and Jackie joined a wholesale company together just after graduation. They both worked very hard. After several years, the boss
The boss knew that Charlie had spared no
The boss told Charlie that he would ask Jackie the
Charlie was
My dear friends, you know, a more successful person is more observant, thinks more and understands in depth. For the same matter, he sees several years ahead, while you see only tomorrow. The difference between a year and a day is 365 times, so how could you win ?
Think: how far have you seen ahead in your life? How thoughtful are you?
1.| A．made | B．ordered | C．demanded | D．kept |
| A．turned in | B．turned out | C．handed in | D．handed out |
| A．enjoy | B．value | C．repay | D．meet |
| A．careless | B．selfless | C．unfair | D．unusual |
| A．rest | B．trouble | C．effect | D．effort |
| A．relationship | B．difference | C．competition | D．distance |
| A．pick out | B．carry out | C．look out | D．find out |
| A．only | B．still | C．even | D．again |
| A．offer | B．remind | C．answer | D．repeat |
| A．difficult | B．familiar | C．simple | D．same |
| A．number | B．lot | C．total | D．few |
| A．bought | B．come | C．taken | D．heard |
| A．value | B．condition | C．shape | D．quality |
| A．puzzled | B．encouraged | C．struck | D．moved |
| A．stay | B．leave | C．work | D．stop |
3 . When faced with a glass half full of water, some people perceive it to be half full, while others view it as half empty. Apparently, some people are just happier than others. You can change your set range to increase your level of happiness, though.
Go with the “flow”
Take a moment to do nice things for others throughout your day. Treating other people well brings on positive results. It makes you feel generous and capable and leads you to feel grateful for your own situation. It also gives joy to other people and leads them to like you more and repay in your times of need.
Counting your blessings is a great way to review the positive things in your life. One way to do this is by taking time during the week to consider three or five things for which you are currently grateful.
Sharing successes and accomplishments with others has been linked to elevated joy and well-being. When your cousin or best friend wins an honor, congratulate them and celebrate it.
| A．Practice random acts of kindness |
| B．Become absorbed in what you do |
| C．This can be done through thinking |
| D．They are challenging and absorbing |
| E．Try to enjoy the occasion to the fullest |
| F．That, in turn, helps develop your own self-worth |
| G．It gives you a sense of being disconnected with the world |
1. 红色在中国文化中的象征意义；
2. 红色在中国的使用场合和禁忌。
注意：
1. 写作词数应为80个左右；
2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
参考词汇：taboo禁忌
Dear Alex,
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Yours,
Li Hua
5 . Proudly reading my words, I glanced around the room, only to find my classmates bearing big smiles on their faces and tears in their eyes. Confused, I glanced toward my stone-faced teacher. Having no choice, I slowly raised the report I had slaved over, hoping to hide myself. “What could be causing everyone to act this way?”
Quickly, I flashed back to the day Miss Lancelot gave me the task. This was the first real talk I received in my new school. It seemed simple: go on the Internet and find information about a man named George Washington. Since my idea of history came from an ancient teacher in my home country, I had never heard of that name before. As I searched the name of this fellow, it became evident that there were two people bearing the same name who looked completely different! One invented hundreds of uses for peanuts, while the other led some sort of army across America. I stared at the screen, wondering which one my teacher meant. I called my grandfather for a golden piece of advice — flipping (掷) a coin. Heads-the commander, the tails-the peanuts guy. Ah! Tails, my report would be about the great man who invented peanut butter, George Washington Carver.
Weeks later, standing before this unfriendly mass, I was totally lost. Oh well, I lowered the paper and sat down at my desk, burning to find out what I had done wrong. As a classmate began his report, it all became clear, “My report is on George Washington, the man who started the American Revolution.” The whole world became quiet! How could I know that she meant that George Washington?
Obviously, my grade was awful. Disheartened but fearless, I decided to turn this around. I talked to Miss Lancelot, but she insisted: No new grades. I felt that the punishment was not justified, and I believed I deserved a second chance. Consequently, I devoted myself to my work for the rest of the school year. Ten months, that chance unfolded as I found myself sitting in the headmaster’s office with my grandfather, now having an entirely different conversation. I smiled and flashed back to the embarrassing moment at the beginning of the year as the headmaster informed me of my option to skip the six grade. Justice is sweet!
1. What did the author’s classmates think about his report?| A．Controversial. | B．Challenging. | C．Ridiculous. | D．Boring. |
| A．He was new at the school. | B．He forgot his teacher’s instruction. |
| C．He was unfamiliar with American history. | D．He followed the advice and flipped a coin. |
| A．by redoing his task | B．through his own efforts |
| C．with the help of his grandfather | D．under the guidance of his headmaster |
It was early spring in Fairbanks, and puppies were blossoming like flowers among melting snow in Susie’s dog yard. “How can I ever turn you into a winning team?” Susie said, laughing. She’d dreamed of winning the yearly Dog Sled Championships Race.
“Which pups will you choose?” Susie’s mother asked. “I think I’ll just choose three of four Aurora’s pups,” Susie said, but she knew that only three of these little puppies would make it to the big race. Although Aurora’s pups were only four weeks old, Susie already saw differences among them. Pluto was naughty, while Sunshine was shy, and Foxy was a tease. Fudge was the most responsive to her. Actually. Fudge was the smallest one.
“Will you be my lead dog someday when your mother Aurora is old?” Susie said, holding Fudge’s tiny face to hers. “He’s awfully small,” Susie’s mother said. His brothers and sisters were already twice his size. “He’ll grow fast,” Susie said. “I’ll train him right along with the others.”
Training puppies was a family affair. Susie’s mother and father raised thirteen strong dogs. Susie planned to make her best team this time. Susie trained each of them for their roles. Aurora was surely the leader of her four-dog team. As for Fudge, Susie would also give Fudge a small branch when she often let team dogs pull branches as a kind of training. He kept pulling it even when the other pups knocked him over. He kept working at tasks that Susie gave him, no matter how tired he got. Susie loved him for trying so hard.
When spring snow melted into summer, Susie ran her pups through flowered fields and wooded hills to keep them in shape. She felt delighted when Aurora proved to be a good leader and the team did well. Unexpectedly, Fudge got the summer growth that she hadn’t counted on. Though not officially belonging to the team, every practice, Fudge did his best beyond Susie had imagined.
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2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
Unfortunately, when the race day arrived, Aurora got sick.
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____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Several new finds have recently been made at the Jicha site,
After researching the relics and comparing the Jicha site
Known as the
Besides bronze-making techniques, ancient humans at the Jicha site were also talented architects,
8 . Forests have been embraced as a natural climate solution, due to their ability to soak up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere as they grow, locking it up in their trunks, branches, leaves, and roots. But a new study confirms widespread doubts about the potential for most forests in the Western US to help control climate change.
Published in Earth’s Future, the paper analyzed trends in carbon storage across the American West from 2005 to 2019. Led by Jazlynn Hall, a forest and landscape ecologist at Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, the team found that throughout most of the region, climate change and fires may be causing forests to store less carbon, not more.
“There’s a growing trend to use forests as natural climate solutions,” said Hall. “Many climate mitigation (减轻) pathways rely in part on additional forest carbon storage to keep warming below 1.5℃ this century. We wanted to provide a baseline for how much carbon is currently stored in Western forests, how it’s changing, and how disturbances like fire and drought pose a threat to climate mitigation targets.”
The authors warn that many Western forests could see a rapid acceleration of carbon loss in the coming years or decades. “These challenges have the potential to compromise carbon storage capacity and weaken our ability to mitigate climate change, Hah cautions.
By providing a fire-new view of threats at landscape and regional levels, Hall and colleagues provide a framework (框架) that could help forest managers adapt site-specific strategies to strengthen forest resilience (复原力). They also identify the remaining areas with the lowest risk and highest potential to store carbon, such as the Pacific Northwest.
“Our study develops new methods to carefully estimate forest-carbon storage at a regional level, track it over time, and find out the causes of changes over time,” said Hall. He expects the methods will be useful in monitoring carbon storage levels going forward, as well as assessing the carbon impacts of management efforts such as forest thinning and planned burning.
1. What does the underlined phrase “soak up” in paragraph 1 mean?| A．Put down. | B．Take in. | C．Bring up. | D．Give out. |
| A．To find the best forests for carbon storage. | B．To promote forests’ carbon storage capacity. |
| C．To assess the current situation of forests. | D．To measure the carbon released into forests. |
| A．Carbon loss will speed up. | B．They will become more resilient. |
| C．They will store more carbon. | D．They will have no impact on climate. |
| A．Predicting future forest growth rates. | B．Identifying high- risk areas for protection. |
| C．Mapping all the forests in the Western US. | D．Helping managers adapt strategies to forests. |
9 . An artificial intelligence (AI) tool of street view could be used to predict the risk of coronary heart disease — a condition where the heart’s arteries (动脉) are blocked, limiting blood flow to the heart by analysing neighbourhood environments, according to research.
A study, published in the European Heart Journal, monitored everyday surroundings, including the quality of roads, buildings, and green spaces, and the role they play in determining heart health. Researchers were able to track the link between these environmental elements, including the presence or absence of pollution, and the risk of coronary heart disease. They found that these neighbourhood characteristics could account for 63% of the differences in heart disease risk from one community to another.
The discovery stems from analysing more than half a million AI street view images across US cities, using computer vision to identify and interpret details that might go unnoticed by the human eye. The data provides urban planners and public health officials with information to design healthier living spaces and neighbourhoods.
“Undoubtedly, there is a vast amount of social, economic and environmental data set,” said one of the study's authors, Prof Sanjay Rajagopalan. “However, there still remain significant gap s in our knowledge regarding unique environmental aspects of data that are currently beyond human comprehension. This is where the use of computer vision approaches may enable unique understanding of the physical and built environment.”
By employing AI, researchers have been able to examine the details of neighbourhoods’ environment. The study employed computer vision technology, including applications used in medical imaging and autonomous driving, to identify details and then interpret them to make predictions or decisions.
“We are getting to a place in human civilization where traditional approaches that have been used are rather limited and the use of AI to enhance human understanding is going to be critically important at solving complex problems,” Prof Rajagopalan said.
1. What is the finding of the study?| A．How people can prevent heart diseases. | B．How environments affect heart health. |
| C．How AI can reduce heart disease risks. | D．How the heart's arteries are blocked. |
| A．Promote computer technology. | B．Reduce air and water pollution. |
| C．Design green neighbourhoods. | D．Advertise for an AI company. |
| A．The researchers had no environmental data. | B．It had solved some environmental problems. |
| C．People ignored the environment they live in. | D．It helped people understand the environment. |
| A．The development of AI for hospitals | B．The medical use of a street view tool |
| C．The insight into healthy neighbourhoods | D．The link between the heart and environment |
10 . Ali, an ordinary office worker, was troubled by the shortage of parking spaces in his residential area. One day, he discovered that Mr. Liu was renting out his parking space for one yuan for two months, so he joined the draw and unexpectedly won the spot. However, the next day, his parking space was occupied by a white car. Ali tried to contact the owner Chang, but was met with indifference. In anger, Ali took a series of measures, but Chang remained unmoved.
The situation eventually escalated (不断恶化) into the point where the police got involved, and both Ali and Chang had to pay two thousand yuan each for car repairs. Although Ali was dissatisfied, he decided to avoid further losses by installing a parking lock. However, he found that Chang had also added a lock. After two months of conflict, both sides were exhausted, and Ali finally chose to give up the fight and parked his car elsewhere.
After the summer vacation ended, Ali returned the parking space to Mr. Liu. By chance, he learned the real reason why Mr. Liu rented out the parking space. Ali and Chang had often occupied Mr. Liu’s parking space. By renting out the parking space for one yuan, Mr. Liu made both of them give up due to exhaustion, thus solving the long-standing problem of people occupying others’ parking spaces in the community. Embarrassed, Ali realized that his previous behavior of occupying others’ parking spaces was wrong. He told what he had known to Chang and they both felt ashamed and reflective.
In daily life, wisdom and strategy can solve seemingly unsolvable conflicts. Besides, individual behavior has an effect on community harmony and staying calm and self-reflective when facing conflicts is important.
1. What was Ali’s initial problem in his residential area?| A．The shortage of parking spaces. | B．High rent of parking spaces. |
| C．A lack of security in his community. | D．Noise pollution around his apartment. |
| A．They reported the issue to the police. | B．They moved to a different community. |
| C．They negotiated an accessible solution. | D．They fixed parking locks on the parking space. |
| A．He wanted to make extra money. |
| B．He didn’t care about the community. |
| C．He used a strategy to resolve the parking conflicts. |
| D．He was exhausted to see conflicts in the community. |
| A．Parking conflicts made Ali and Chang cost much. |
| B．Two customers had conflicts because of the parking fee. |
| C．The police played an important role in community harmony. |
| D．Wisdom and strategy can resolve some unsolvable problems. |
