1 . For decades, I was a hard drinker who could drink anyone under the table. This lasted from the age of 27 until after 50, a golden time during which I felt very sorry for ex-drinkers and people who couldn’t or wouldn’t drink. How did they make it through social situations, especially parties? What did they do at the end of a workday to celebrate and relax?     1    

When I first tried to quit drinking myself in my early 50s, I wasn’t sure at first how it would work for me. But I did it anyway.    2     I was getting older. I had to concede that I wasn’t as tough as I used to be. Nights of drinking too much showed in my face, and I could feel it in my bones. I wanted to take care of myself. So for the next few years, I bounced between not drinking at all for months at a time, then slowly starting again until I had to quit again.

During these years, I didn’t love not drinking. But I had to admit that when I was off booze, I looked and felt better physically: I slept more deeply, had more energy, exercised more. My mind was clearer. My moods were brighter. Parties were hard, and so was cooking at the end of a day of writing without a glass of wine at my elbow.    3    

I finally quit drinking for real almost four years ago, on 12 July 2019, when a writer friend stayed with my husband and me after his wife kicked him out. After my husband had gone upstairs to bed, my friend sat on our sofa drinking an entire bottle of gin, complaining about his fate, until he passed out next to our dog, whose bed that sofa was.    4     I didn’t have a drink the next night, or ever again since.

I’m not going to lie: being sober is not a hot-air balloon ride.    5     Having to feel my damn feelings without filters compels me to face and change the things in my life that keep me stuck. Hard work all around, but as my reward, I connect more deeply with the people I care about. I think of not drinking as a kindness I’ve given myself. And to my surprise, it’s rewarded me with true, hard-won happiness.

A．My body demanded it.

B．My health started improving rapidly.

C．It’s more like a hike in the mountains.

D．How did they quit drinking?

E．It was a wake-up call.

F．But the pluses seemed to outweigh the minuses.

G．How did they get through life?

2 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个恰当的单词或者括号内单词的正确形式。

Zibo, the origin of Shandong cuisine and the hometown of Qi culture, keeps its taste of thousands of years ago intact (完整的). If Shandong cuisine is the profound foundation of Zibo culture, the barbecue is an    1    (extend) of cooking cultures, more back to nature of the soul. In the past few decades and on China’s vast barbecue landscape, Zibo    2    (establish) its own kingdom of eating. She integrates culture with her food,     3    is unique and outstanding. Simple to complex, the soul of Zibo Barbecue is half in the pie andhalf in the meat itself.

Once the mutton skewers begin to sizzle on the barbecue, people gather around, eyeing the fat, juicy,     4    (slight) burnt mutton to be slid onto their plates. Zibo barbecue is    5    essential aspect of the city’s cuisine with its unique flavoring techniques and the benefit of broadening people’s social circles. Chinese barbecue    6    (serve) inindividual portions, which we think is more healthy, compared with a majority of others placed on plates at the center of a table for people to share.    7    (afford), easy to prepare, safe to eat, and good for social interaction, the barbecue has emerged     8    a topchoice for dining during holidays ‘or any time. It’s fun when several friends and families gather around and chat while    9    (put) meat on the barbecue skewers. A recent report showed that in the whole country, the barbecue is    10    (two) only to hot pot amonglate-night dining options.

3 . Recycling is a great way of doing your bit for the environment and helping to protect the earth’s precious resources. However, a new study has revealed that our desire to be sustainable maybe doing more harm than good. According to waste company Biffa, this is because of “wish-cycling” — assuming that items such as disposable coffee cup sand pizza boxes will be recycled if put in the recycling bin. In fact, pollution from those items or other non-recyclables can result in recyclable items that have been put in the correct bin going to landfill. David Heaton, a business director at Biffa, said: “Pollution happens when items are disposed of in the wrong bins or haven’t been cleaned before being recycled.”

Experts at Biffa analyzed the amounts of non-target and non-recyclable materials that entered UK material recycling facilities between 2016 and 2020. It was found that, in 2016, the average pollution rate of recycling waste was 13.4 percent, rising over four years to 17 percent by the end of 2020. This shows that, even as people are becoming more eco-conscious, wish-cycling is increasing both in households and businesses.

The Biffa experts say that one of the best ways to prevent pollution of recycling is to clean recyclable waste before putting it in the bin. They suggest cutting off the top of old pizza boxes and only recycling that part to avoid pollution from the grease (油脂). Check the on-packaging recycling label to check it can actually be recycled When it comes to plastics, Biffa recommends checking the resin code, the number in the plastic triangle, to know whether it should go in the recycling bin. In general, resin codes 1, 2, 4 and 5 are recyclable, while 3, 6 and 7 are not. Larger items, like electronics, furniture and batteries, can also be recycled but often can not go in household recycling bins as they need specialist separating. These will need to be taken to recycling centers or sustainable waste management companies.

“It’s vital as a nation that we get better at effective ‘pre-cycling’— sorting waste correctly before collection to reduce pollution rates,” added Mr. Heaton.

1. What’s the truth of “wish-cycling” according to the first paragraph?

A．The desire to lead a sustainable life.

B．The good intention to help recycling.

C．The habit of throwing items that end up in landfills.

D．The practice of recycling items that can not be recycled.

2. What has experts at Biffa concluded after their analysis?

A．People are becoming more eco-conscious.

B．Wish-cycling is on the rise in recent years.

C．Pollution happens less frequently in recycling facilities.

D．People are used to cleaning recyclable waste before putting it in the bin.

3. Which of the following is a proper way of recycling?

A．Dispose of electronics together with household waste.

B．Skip the step of checking the on-packaging recycling label.

C．Check the resin code of plastics to see whether it is recyclable or not.

D．Cutoff the top of old pizza box and throw the rest to the recycling bin.

4. Which is the most suitable title for the text?

A．Recycling: a Big Project	B．Wish-cycling: a New Trend
C．Wish-cycling: a Growing Concern	D．Pre-cycling: an Effective Method

4 . It’s unlikely that we’ll see a dodo, a flightless bird, walking this earth anytime again, according to Beth Shapiro, a evolutionary molecular biologist.

“When most people think about de-extinction, they’re imagining cloning,” Shapiro said. Cloning, the approach that created Dolly, the sheep in 1996 and Elizabeth Ann, the black-footed ferret in 2020, creates an identical genetic copy of an individual by putting DNA from a living adult cell into an egg cell from which the nucleus (细胞核) has been removed. Adult cells contain all the DNA needed to develop into a living animal. Egg cells then use that DNA as a blueprint to turn themselves into many kinds of cells——skin, organs, blood and bones——the animal needs.

“But no living cells from dodos exist. Instead,” Shapiro said, “you’d have to start with a closely related animal’s genome (基因组) and then change it into one similar to dodos.” For example， mammoths (猛犸) are also extinct，but they were very closely related to modern Asian elephants, so researchers are attempting to bring mammoths back from extinction by creating a hybrid mammoth with some mammoth genes replacing part of the elephant genome in an elephant egg cell. However, there are likely millions of genetic differences between the genome of an Asian elephant and that of a mammoth according to Shapiro.

As for the dodo, its closest living relative is the Nicobar pigeon. Mammoths and Asian elephants are pretty closely related, whereas it had been more than 20 million years since the dodo and the Nicobar pigeon had any common ancestors. Genetic differences between the two bird species are therefore much greater, making it a formidable task to create a successful hybrid in the lab, Shapiro said.

Even if scientists manage to bring dodos back, the island where they once lived is a very different place nowadays, which make it impossible to reintroduce dodos without major intervention.

1. What is Paragraph 2 mainly about?

A．The special role of DNA.

B．The process of cloning.

C．The development of cloning.

D．The complexity of cloning.

2. What does Shapiro want to show by the example of mammoths?

A．Dodos are harder to bring back to life.

B．Their living cells are hard to preserve.

C．Cloning can be used to recreate extinct animals.

D．They share a similar genome with Asian elephants.

3. What does the underlined word “formidable” mean in Paragraph 4?

A．Urgent.

B．Possible.

C．Tough.

D．Different.

4. What is Shapiro’s attitude towards the rebirth of dodos?

A．Favorable.

B．Intolerant.

C．Objective.

D．Negative.

5 . 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。

Confucius was born into a middle class family in Lu State, an area with the modern city of Qufu, in China’s Shandong Province. Now, he     1     (remember) for his teachings, which, along with the works of his students，formed the rule of Confucianism (儒学) many     2     (year) after his passing away.

Confucius also lived     3     active political life. From his job as Minister of Crime, he took part in a campaign (运动) to distance Lu from the rule of the state instead of     4     (work) for the central government. However, the plan failed. After a short period of being sent to live in another country, Confucius could finally return to Lu state     5     (spend) the rest of his life as a teacher of philosophy.

Even up to the time of Confucius’s     6     (die), his teachings were not     7     (wide) accepted in China, and most of     8     (they) were lost when the emperor Qin ordered the burning of Confucius’s books.

Yet, his philosophical (哲学的) ideas survived during the later Han Dynasty. Emperor Han Wudi,    9     was inspired by the social and political wisdom of Confucius, accepted Confucianism and applied his systems of morality everywhere from classrooms     10     law courts. The teachings of Confucius still spread far across China and the Far East.

6 . 你校英语俱乐部进行征文活动，主题为“校年度最美人物”，请用英语写一篇文章参与征文活动。
1. 最美人物简介。
2. 推荐理由。
题目：Person of the Year
字数：100字左右。

7 . 阅读下面语言材料，在空格处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号中词语的正确形式。

So far mobile phones     1     (become) more and more popular among the middle school students, about which parents and teachers express great concern. It has been a hot issue so this February the Ministry of Education of China made a rule     2     primary and secondary school students shall not     3     (allow) to bring mobile phones to schools.

Many parents think this can protect students’ eyesight and make sure they focus     4     (they) on study. Besides, this can prevent them from     5    (play) online games for too long. If students do need to bring mobile phones to school, they should ask for their teachers’     6    (permit) with a written application (申请). However, some students are     7     the rule and still take their phones into school.

Personally, the whole     8     (social) should pay more attention to the physical and mental health of adolescents. Only by guiding them to use mobile phones     9     (proper) can they manage     10    (fix) their eyes on study!

8 . Why Don’t We Listen

While being a good listener is certainly important for the quality of our relationships with others and for our own development, it likely doesn’t come naturally for us. A study shows that the average person keeps only about 25% of what he or she hears,     1     Here are some common reasons people don’t listen well.

The attitude of knowing it all. Listening is one of the most effective ways to learn and grow. However, sometimes we like to think that we’ve already got it all figured out. So we don’t allow the knowledge, ideas, opinions, etc. of others to enter into our minds and hearts. Sadly, we’re wrong. There are different opinions and experiences.    2    

The concern for yourself. Frankly, it’s easy to get absorbed in our own worlds populated by our own thoughts, values, ideas, opinions, etc.     3    

It can be easy to forget that each individual has his own universe (宇宙), and that one of the ways each universe expands is by allowing another to share part of theirs with you.

    4     Sometimes we simply can’t concentrate our attention. There is no shortage of things that attract our attention today, particularly with the number of smartphones, apps text messages, short videos and so on drawing our attention away from people in the flesh to the screen. We may also simply get lost in thought when someone is speaking to us.

Too much confidence in our listening skill. If you think you’re already great at something, why work to improve it? The truth is, no matter how well we may listen now, listening is a skill that can be developed.    5     Listening well is something we have to work for.

A．Performance increases with practice.

B．It proves our attitude towards listening.

C．The state of being absent-minded.

D．It means we are missing out information.

E．The lack of the ability to catch others’ attention.

F．In a sense, we’re the center of our own universe.

G．So we always have something new to learn from others.

9 . A young Mexican-born girl _________ for what was right and achieved the unexpected. Her name is Erica Fernandez. Erica was born and _________ in Michoacan. Mexico until the age of 12. At that time, her family _________ to an American agriculture city. Oxnand, California to make a fortune. One of the biggest _________ at the time was that neither her parents nor herself could speak English. Therefore, she worked hard at English for several years and _________ from Chicago University with good grades._________, a light life and racial prejudice (歧视) forced them to _________ Mexico, where she started her new career.

One day Erica was invited to attend a meeting as a translator. She _________ got news that the richest mining company in the world would build a chemical factory in her hometown. The reason why they chose Michoacan was that this _________ was refused in those developed areas. It would cause 280 tens of air __________ each year, not only affecting the __________ of Oxnard settlers, but also their harvests. Some local people were __________ to celebrate for more chances of making money because they didn’t know the truth. Seeing that her hometown was going to be __________, Erica decided to do something about it. Erica joined forces with __________ environmental protection organizations, and reached out to the media to report this unfairness to __________ this programme from going through. She also __________ more than 250 high school students marching on the street. All her efforts became __________ after her exciting speech. The project didn’t go through. It was Erica’s courage and determination that __________ their success.

Erica saved her hometown from a bad __________ at her young age, but most __________ she is teaching us how to live life in the right way: Care about our homeland and we can make a difference!

1.

A．put up

B．came up

C．got up

D．stood up

2.

A．raised

B．taken

C．buried

D．brought

3.

A．reached

B．turned

C．moved

D．staved

4.

A．adventures

B．sufferings

C．dreams

D．problems

5.

A．came

B．left

C．graduated

D．kept

6.

A．Besides

B．However

C．Therefore

D．Moreover

7.

A．lead

B．return

C．live

D．want

8.

A．widely

B．formally

C．accidentally

D．uniquely

9.

A．activity

B．campaign

C．programme

D．statement

10.

A．Pollution

B．harm

C．damage

D．hurt

11.

A．disease

B．emotion

C．health

D．freedom

12.

A．astonished

B．excited

C．depressed

D．satisfied

13.

A．taken advantage of

B．taken care of

C．taken charge of

D．taken hold of

14.

A．foreign

B．downtown

C．religious

D．local

15.

A．protect

B．break

C．fight

D．prevent

16.

A．gathered

B．commanded

C．forced

D．collected

17.

A．successful

B．worthwhile

C．hopeful

D．true

18.

A．came to

B．referred to

C．added to

D．contributed to

19.

A．association

B．situation

C．occasion

D．emergency

20.

A．importantly

B．curiously

C．fortunately

D．simply

10 . School closures due to the corona-virus mean that children across the United States have to go without formed lessons. But many are missing more than that; they’re lacking meals that were formerly provided for them by schools. Two-thirds of the 31 million American kids who regularly eat school lunches depend heavily on those meals to nourish (滋养) their bodies.

Some programs do exist for feeding children when schools are unable, such as the Summer Food Service Program and the Seamless Summer Option, which can serve as a model for times like these. Such programs use other locations as meal service sites, such as libraries and community corners, but the issue is the closure of many of these public sites which is happening at a rapid rate.

Then there is the additional difficulty of feeding groups of people at a time when groups of people are not supposed to gather, which is not safe during a viral outbreak and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have stated that administrators should ‘‘design new strategies (策略) to avoid providing meals in settings where people might gather in a group or crowd... such as ‘grab-and-go’ bagged lunches or meal delivery”.

These are strange and threatening times, with the corona-virus situation worse by the day. Low-income families suffer the most in times like these. They have less cash on hand to buy supplies; they may not have a vehicle in which to transport large quantities of food; their jobs tend to be more uncertain. It’s important to remember this and to continue donating, supporting, and showing mercy to less fortunate individuals in limes of difficulty. It shouldn’t be left entirely to school administrators to figure out how to feed hungry children, every community has a duty to ensure this happens

1. What issue does the passage chiefly focus on?

A．Making up for missing lessons.	B．Providing meals for needy kids.
C．The great needs of poor families.	D．The strict measures for virus prevention.

2. What is the challenge faced by programs like Seamless Summer Option?

A．What food to supply.	B．When to close the public sites.
C．How to get the permit.	D．Where to give out the food.

3. What is the purpose of strategies like “grab-and-go”?

A．To avoid crowd gatherings.	B．To save people’s time.
C．To give away more food.	D．To change people’s mind.

4. What does the author intend to do in the last paragraph?

A．Show the seriousness of the problem.	B．Improve the general situations.
C．Call for more help or donations.	D．Advertise their programs.