1. 保护野生动物的重要性；
2. 应该采取的措施。
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Dear fellow students,
I’m glad to be here to give you a speech about wildlife protection.
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2 . Being in nature is really good for you. Even just seeing nature on your way to school will brighten your day. This is the experience that is being recreated in Birmingham, England.
Once the area around Birmingham was filled with orchards (果园), resulting in its being called “a city surrounded by blossoms (花朵)”. However, by the 1900s, industrialization (工业化) had begun to take hold, and the orchards were destroyed to make room for buildings and factories. And according to the National Trust, Birmingham has lost 85% of its trees since the beginning of the 20th century.
But on January 17, 2023 that began to change. According to the website Secret Birmingham, a number 11 bus left its stations filled with trees instead of people. All along its 27-mile path, the bus dropped off those trees to citizens, schools, and community groups, who then planted them. All in all, about 600 trees have been handed out.
“Blossom is not only beautiful, but it’s also important for the wellbeing of the environment,” says Lucy Reid, who’s leading the Birmingham project. “It’s also great for pollinators (传粉者), such as bees, which help trees produce fruit, and the trees also help to clean the air.”
This isn’t the first time the National Trust has helped Birmingham blossom. The Trust created “blossoms pop-ups” as part of the Birmingham 2022 Festival. According to the project, blossoming tree installations (装置) were set up in various well-known Birmingham locations such as St. Philip’s Cathedral Square.
The National trust has also started blossoming tree projects in other UK cities. In 2021, it created the London Blossom Garden, and now the Trust is planting fruit trees in Plymouth, Newcastle, and Nottingham. Its work is important for the protection of the country’s wildlands and climate. However, their Blossoming Birmingham project shows that protecting a country’s nature not only helps the environment but brings joy and beauty to people as well.
1. What led to the loss of orchards in Birmingham?| A．Extreme climate. | B．Poor management. |
| C．City development. | D．Decreasing production. |
| A．By filling the buses with blossoms. | B．By sending its people to plant trees. |
| C．By providing trees for people to plant. | D．By surrounding bus stations with trees. |
| A．The importance of farming. | B．The purposes of their project. |
| C．The ways to protect the planet. | D．The benefits of flowering trees. |
| A．Beautifying the Earth naturally. |
| B．Bringing nature back to England. |
| C．Improving the living conditions for people. |
| D．Taking the lead in protecting the environment. |
3 . Lucy Flores’ father, Luciano Flores, grew up in Mexico and moved his family to the United States when Lucy was only three years old. Her father, who speaks Spanish, shared that his family had few resources, just like the school he attended. He stopped going to school after the first grade and started working to provide for his family.
In spite of this, Lucy did well in school and became the first person in her family to graduate from college. After that, she took up a job of teaching preschool students how to read letters and write their names. “I was thinking to myself, since I’m able to teach these children how to read and write, why am I not doing the same for my own father?” Then she started teaching her father to read and write.
After four months of working together, Lucy’s father can now write a lot of words and is reading some books on his own. As she taught her dad, Lucy shared their journey by posting videos on TikTok. “I don’t know if he understands how many people are watching him and following him,” said Lucy. “But I took it as a chance to encourage him.” Followers on TikTok share lesson plan ideas and have sent school supplies and books to the family.
Apart from watching her dad’s progress and inspiring others to never give up on their dreams, the most satisfying part for Lucy of teaching her dad has been the change in the family atmosphere (气氛). “In the past, we did not get along as my dad was quiet and not someone who liked to share his feelings or sit down and play with me when I was a kid,” said Lucy. Luciano said because of his daughter, he’s excited to continue to focus on learning letters and numbers and to spend time with his family.
1. What can we learn about Lucy’s father from paragraph 1?| A．He began making a living when small. | B．He preferred working than studying. |
| C．He had difficulty living in Mexico. | D．He wanted Lucy to attend a school in the US. |
| A．Her father’s eagerness to learn. | B．Her students’ suggestions. |
| C．Her teaching experiences. | D．Her family background. |
| A．People’s surprise at her teaching skills. | B．Her father’s being greatly encouraged. |
| C．An increase in the number of her students. | D．People’s warm support for her father’s studies. |
| A．She has helped her father get a degree. | B．She can share her experiences on TikTok. |
| C．Her father is able to adapt to life in America. | D．She manages to improve her family relationship. |
4 . Music is not just a set of sounds and rhythms. Its influence on the brain is much deeper than any other human experience. Keep on reading to know all those amazing powers of music.
A recent study suggests that preterm (早产的) babies appear to experience less pain and feed more when listening to music. Experts led by Dr Manoj Kumar of the University of Alberta, Canada, found that music had a beneficial effect on reducing pain for preterm babies experiencing painful medical tests. It also appeared to benefit full-term babies during operations.
Many people experiencing brain damage have speech and movement-related problems. Music can help recover from brain injuries. As a different and effective treatment, doctors often advise such patients to listen to good music to improve the parts of the brain responsible for these two functions. When people with neurological (神经的) disorders hear a musical beat, it helps them to regain a balanced walk.
Though music cannot make deafness disappear, it really can stave off the loss of hearing. There was an experiment involving 163 people where 74 were musicians. Participants were asked to pass some listening tests. Musicians heard the sounds better than non﹣musicians, and this difference gets clearer with age. This means that a 70﹣year﹣old musician hears better than a 50﹣year﹣old non﹣musician, even in a noisy environment.
Besides, music mends a broken heart. It is not about a thrown﹣away love, but about a heart attack. The matter is that music can help people recover from a heart attack or heart operation by reducing blood pressure, slowing down the heartbeat rate, and reducing anxiety. Listening to the quality music produces positive emotions, improves the movement of blood, and expands blood vessels, thus, promoting quick recovery of the whole cardiovascular (心血管的) system.
1. How does music affect preterm babies？| A．It helps reduce their pain. | B．It helps develop their potential in music. |
| C．It helps improve their hearing systems. | D．It helps repair their neurological systems. |
| A．Lead to. | B．Increase. | C．Prevent. | D．Break into. |
| A．It has a positive effect on human body systems’ work. |
| B．It can help people prevent diseases caused by anxiety. |
| C．It helps make a person feel optimistic about life. |
| D．It can help patients recover in a slow way. |
| A．Who Can Benefit from Music | B．The Best Time to Listen to Music |
| C．The Way to Choose Quality Music | D．How Music Affects Our Mind and Body |
5 . When people talk about American popular music, they don’t just mean country music or rock music. There are two other types of popular music with national and international appeal that are basically American. One is jazz. The other is a musical form associated with New York City theaters.
Jazz dates from African religious and folk music. The themes and songs of jazz music have historical origins. They come from songs sung by black Americans in church or at work. There have been different kinds of jazz music: bebop, ragtime, swing, boogie-woogie and others.
In playing jazz music, the performers combine rhythms and songs with their skills of improvisation (即兴创作). Modern jazz music has developed into a complex musical style enjoyed more by musicians and older jazz lovers than by the general public.
American theater has developed another American musical style. It is associated with a street in New York City, Broadway. Broadway musicals are dramatic productions in which the story is told partly by dialogue and partly through songs. The lyrics of these songs give background information about the story and express the feelings of the characters in the story. Many Broadway musicals have been made into movies that have been shown all over the world. Oklahoma, Sound of Music, My Fair Lady and West Side Story are some good examples.
Songs from these musicals and others have translations in various languages that are sung around the world. Many of them have become popular with people who have not even seen the musicals for which they were written.
1. What does jazz belong to?| A．Rock music. | B．Country music. |
| C．Traditional music. | D．American popular music. |
| A．Its playing method. | B．Its popularity. | C．Its origin. | D．Its historical position. |
| A．It needs special skills to perform. | B．It is not well received by ordinary people. |
| C．It is welcomed only among musicians. | D．It is popular with the general public. |
1．京剧及其历史；
2．京剧的人物角色等；
3．你的祝福与希望。
参考词汇：京剧 Beijing Opera
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Dear John ,
I’m Li Hua.
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Li Hua
7 . Antarctica (南极洲) is a great, icy land mass, surrounded by the huge Southern Ocean. The ice in Antarctica doesn’t just cover the land. There’s also a huge area of sea ice which floats (漂浮) on the ocean’s surface.
However, scientists have reported that Antarctica’s sea ice is at a record low level. That’s worrying because the sea ice is an important part of the Earth’s cooling system. When it’s frozen, sea ice throws sunlight back out into space. But when the sea ice melts (融化), the water left behind is darker, and takes in and keeps more heat.
Every year, the sea ice at the South Pole goes through a cycle of melting and freezing. In summer, the huge masses of sea ice melt to their smallest point. Over the colder winter months, the sea ice grows and grows until it covers an extremely wide area. For most of this time, Antarctica has seemed to be almost unaffected by the changing weather conditions. In fact, until recent years, Antarctica’s sea ice area mainly set records for growing. That began to shrink.
This year, Antarctica’s sea ice was at a new record low — not just by a little bit, but by a lot. The last time Antarctica’s low sea ice set a record at the end of winter was in 1986. And this year, there’s about 398,000 square miles less sea ice than in 1986.
Scientists are working hard to better understand Antarctica. It’s not yet clear if the low sea ice level is a short-term problem, or part of climate change. The concern is that the melting sea ice could start a cycle that might cause even more ice to melt.
The ice loss problems in Antarctica are fairly recent, but the same is not true at the North Pole. where the low level of sea ice has been a concern for years. But the present situation is now similar in both places.
1. What makes the sea ice important for humans？| A．It helps cool the planet. |
| B．It increases the area of land. |
| C．It affects the height of the sea level. |
| D．It has the cycle of melting and freezing. |
| A．Cooling off. | B．Moving. | C．Breaking up. | D．Reducing. |
| A．It will become a long-term problem. |
| B．It will take time to discover its cause. |
| C．It will lead to rapid changes in climate. |
| D．It will affect its melting-and-freezing cycle. |
| A．the influence of Antarctica’s low sea ice level |
| B．the seriousness of Antarctica’s low sea ice level |
| C．the importance of dealing with climate change |
| D．the differences between Antarctica and the North Pole |
8 . One day, a poor boy was begging for a meal at a house. However, he lost his
“You don’t owe me anything,” she replied. “Mother has taught me never to accept
Many years later the young girl was
After a long struggle, the battle against the illness was
| A．hope | B．temper | C．patience | D．courage |
| A．water | B．milk | C．coffee | D．juice |
| A．teach | B．owe | C．lend | D．give |
| A．payment | B．energy | C．advice | D．pressure |
| A．worse | B．cleverer | C．easier | D．warmer |
| A．hardly | B．slightly | C．seriously | D．mentally |
| A．travel | B．business | C．retirement | D．treatment |
| A．gave away | B．made up | C．called in | D．referred to |
| A．selected | B．recognized | C．rewarded | D．replaced |
| A．decided | B．failed | C．pretended | D．attempted |
| A．attention | B．information | C．luck | D．creation |
| A．lost | B．found | C．won | D．begun |
| A．wrote | B．cut | C．hid | D．copied |
| A．eager | B．confused | C．curious | D．afraid |
| A．picture | B．note | C．dirt | D．number |
9 . Adding to the achievements of a remarkable year, Taylor Swift has been named Time magazine's Person of the Year for 2023.
Already a superstar before 2023, Swift's career has reached new heights thanks to the beginning of her Eras Tour that brought her 3. 5-hour performance to 66 shows in 23 cities across North America, Argentina and Brazil. Promoted by her tour, Swift has been named the most-streamed female artist in the history of Spotify and Apple Music. According to Billboard, the tour made about$900 million (about 6. 4 billion yuan) in 2023. In addition, the tour's movie Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour became the biggest concert movie of all time, taking more than $250 million globally.
As she was declared (宣布) a billionaire by Bloomberg in November, a hidden “Taylor Swift economy” also promoted sales for business owners across the U. S. From soaps to a cruise inspired by her different “eras”, interest in Swift-related products went way up.
Apart from her financial contributions, Swift made a significant cultural impact by taking back control of her music. In 2019, her old record label, Big Machine, sold the master tapes of her first six albums (专辑) to Scooter Braun. The sale meant that she didn't have the rights to the albums. In response to this, Swift began re-recording her first six albums, tagging (加标签于) them “Taylor's Version”. This move stressed her belief that artists deserve to own their work. “It's all in how you deal with loss,” she told Time. “I respond to extreme pain by resisting.”
Heading into 2024, Swift will start the Eras Tour again in Japan and Australia. As USA Today noted, “Her current top has been a long time coming, but it may also be just beginning.”
1. What do we know about Taylor Swift?| A．She broke a new record on her tour. | B．She toured South America before 2023. |
| C．Her achievements received great recognition. | D．Her performance began with the Apple Music. |
| A．She proved herself to be an artist. | B．She learned to make some products. |
| C．She got rich and regained album rights. | D．She sold her master tapes to a company. |
| A．She will end her music career. | B．She will continue her Eras Tour. |
| C．She will reach her top in Japan. | D．She will make a record in Australia. |
| A．Admirable. | B．Uncaring. | C．Doubtful. | D．Critical. |
Not only did Michelle Yeoh claim her first Oscar win for the hit film Everything Everywhere All At Once, but she did it while making history as the first Asian woman
Yeoh took the stage to deliver a
