1 . There has been a recent wave in Hollywood where studios take popular animated (动画的) films and “improve” upon them by changing them into live-action remakes. The thought that live-action movies are better because they follow the laws of the natural world degrades the style of animation.

The beauty of animation is that its use of caricatures (漫画) and exaggerations (夸张) reflects an amazing amount of creative depth in characters stories that reality cannot. Looking at the bigger picture, it becomes clear that the true purpose of Disney’s ever growing list of live-action remakes is not to comment on the value of animation, although it indirectly does, but a quick way to take advantage of nostalgic (怀旧的) fans.

For evidence, look no further than Disney’s 2019 The Lion King live-action remake, a retelling of the 1994 animated classic. It broke several box office records, raking in a whopping $543.6 million globally in box office sales alone. However, in comparison to the original, the audience satisfaction with the remake decreased greatly on Rotten Tomatoes. This is similar to the the remakes of Beauty and the Beast, Cinderella, Dumbo, Aladdin, and the countless other live-action remakes Disney has produced within the last 5 years. This means that Disney no longer needs to come up with new and original content because they can make a big profit just by taking beloved stories and remaking them.

In fact, Disney looks at itself as a business, and therefore considers making a profit as one of their main aims.

The problem with this mentality (心态) is that, while Disney makes a huge profit, audiences, artists, and art suffer. They may no longer create new stories or art styles, but rather serve as money-making machines that require directors to produce the same stories with a fresh coat of paint every 10 years or so. If this cycle continues, artists will be held back from creating new lovable characters and stories full of creativity. The feeling of nostalgia when we see old Disney films could possibly never happen-to newer generations if this cycle does not stop.

1. What does the author think of live-action remakes?

A．They slow down Hollywood development.

B．They’ve failed to become a popular art form.

C．They are poor at showing the beauty of nature.

D．They destroy the artistic expression of animation.

2. What makes animation attractive?

A．It bases its stories on reality.	B．It uses many special effects.
C．It explores characters fully.	D．It brings back fans’ memories.

3. Why does the author mention the live-action remakes in paragraph 3?

A．To tell us Disney has given up its originality.

B．To show Disney has focused more on making money.

C．To prove too many remakes have been produced.

D．To show audiences have high expectations of remakes.

4. What is wrong with Disney’s choice?

A．It reduces Disney’s incomes.	B．It demands more from directors.
C．It hurts new-generation audiences.	D．It causes artists to be less creative.

2 . Academic success is very important to us. To achieve your success, it’s important to develop good habits     1     If you’re unsure of where to start, read the following.

One of the most critical skills for academic success is effective management of your study time.     2     However, you should create a system to track your exams, and study sessions. As long as you carve out specific amounts of time to ensure you accomplish your goals, you will set yourself up for success.

    3     When you make proper study habits a part of your daily routine, it can increase your efficiency, confidence, and effectiveness. The reality is that your days are likely already packed with many things, so it’s important to create a consistent daily plan and carve out time to devote to studying.

You can’t expect to meet your goals if you experience tiredness. That’s why it’s so important that you take care of your physical and mental health. Some effective ways include eating a well-balanced and nutritious diet, and exercising regularly, which can relax your mind, reduce stress, and increase your ability to focus on your studies.     4    

Using mind maps (思维导图) can be an effective way of organizing and summarizing key concepts. Start by writing the central concept in the middle of your page and then draw curved lines branching out with related ideas.     5     You can also use different colours, pictures, and line lengths/widths to make your maps more highlight the most important concepts.

Academic success can really increase your overall quality of life.

A．Building good study habits is also critical.

B．Getting outdoors can also improve mental health.

C．Set small goals to help you accomplish large goals.

D．How you choose to manage your calendar is up to you.

E．Then add branches to the related ideas with further points.

F．These habits can guide your learning and keep you on track in studies.

G．It can also be helpful to share experiences with your teachers and classmates.

3 . My phone was an extension of myself. I couldn’t go anywhere _________ it. I scrolled through my friends’ _________ into late night and turned my phone on before my eyes were fully open. I enjoyed having it until that day when I realized that what had started as a useful tool had turned into a(n) _________. So, I made a _________ decision to turn off that smartphone and _________ my old dumb phone out of hiding.

When I was watching TV shows or movies and there was a boring part, I _________ picking up the phone and checking out “what everyone else was doing.” Now I had to pay attention or find a way to _________ myself with my thoughts instead. When I visited New York City, I had to write out _________ and ask people where an intersection (十字路口) was _________ pulling out my phone.

I have welcomed silence into my life with open arms and am enjoying the increased __________ from not constantly having to fight with the __________ to check my phone while I’m trying to get something done. I am allowing my thoughts to speak to me instead of my phone. I am connecting with others in a __________ way that isn’t all about me. Instead of always posting about what’s going on in my __________ perfect life, I am connecting with my friends one-on-one, talking about the reality of our lives and being there for them from a place of __________.

As much as having a smartphone was __________, not having one is freeing on a much bigger level.

1.

A．through

B．without

C．despite

D．upon

2.

A．updates

B．instructions

C．assessments

D．decisions

3.

A．symbol

B．responsibility

C．reality

D．addiction

4.

A．conscious

B．shameful

C．foolish

D．random

5.

A．sell

B．pull

C．throw

D．mind

6.

A．avoided

B．denied

C．missed

D．allowed

7.

A．assist

B．improve

C．associate

D．occupy

8.

A．requests

B．thoughts

C．directions

D．comments

9.

A．instead of

B．regardless of

C．but for

D．apart from

10.

A．creativity

B．productivity

C．knowledge

D．independence

11.

A．routine

B．necessity

C．loneliness

D．temptation

12.

A．genuine

B．grateful

C．direct

D．desperate

13.

A．naturally

B．certainly

C．seemingly

D．gradually

14.

A．wonder

B．imagination

C．interest

D．authenticity

15.

A．depressive

B．comfortable

C．stressful

D．boring

4 . The simple wooden home has changed remarkably little as if in the 1950s.

A．being stuck

B．having stuck

C．to be stuck

D．stuck

5 . 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。

Everyone’s first job is special, because you gain useful experience that you can use in other positions in future. It also teaches you about the value of money.

When I was about sixteen years old, I wanted to buy albums of my favourite band, but I did not have any money. This was because the money my parents gave me was just enough to get by. I had to find a part-time job in order to purchase the music I wanted.

Luckily, I found that there were many old people who needed help in my neighbourhood. And I chose the oldest person I knew, Mrs. Hudson, who was over eighty years old, and could not tend her garden anymore. She had flowers, a grass lawn, and some tomato plants. I knocked on her door, trying to build up enough courage to ask her for work. She answered that indeed she needed help in her garden.

My first job was to pull out weeds. I got down on my knees and began to pull them out   one by one in her front yard and backyard. Finishing this tiring and boring task, I mowed her lawn front and back. That was the first day of my job, and it took me about two hours. After that, I was paid ten dollars for my work. It was less than I thought, but at least I had earned my first money.

After getting that ten dollars, I intended to go to the supermarket to buy my favourite album. I chose a nice morning to do it because I knew it would be a memorable moment when I was able to buy what I liked through my efforts. But on the way to supermarket, I happened to see my mom “working” on the opposite side of the road. Actually, I had never seen how she worked before, I just knew she was a saleswoman.

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2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

Under the burning sun, my mom was distributing leaflets (分发传单) to passers-by, sweating all over.

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Then I continued making my way to the supermarket, and suddenly a good idea occurred to me.

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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。

Qingcheng Mountain,     1     (locate) in Dujiangyan, Chengdu city of Sichuan province, is one of the cradles of Taoism(道教).

With over 20 temples and religious sites for Taoism, it has a strong flavor of Taoist culture and the     2     (building) demonstrate the Sichuan style of architecture. It is famous as the place    3    in 142 the philosopher Zhang Ling founded the doctrine(学说)of Chinese Taoism. Built    4    the mountain during the Jin and Tang dynasties     5     (be) many temples     6    (express)Taoism culture.

It also has    7    (nature)landscape with peaks rise and fall, dense forests and quiet trails(小径), which     8     (great)attracts many tourists all over    9    world.

The Qingcheng Mountain, together with Dujiangyan irrigation system,     10    (list) as a UNESCO World Cultural Heritage site in 2000.

7 . It was a good day to fly a kite with the warm sun and the right wind. However, one lonely kite looking worried and _________ preferred to stay in the back of a closet. He didn’t like flying. You see, the higher the flight, the _________ the fall. It was that which _________ the kite most of all.

At 2:00 pm, his boy opened the closet door. “Come on,” said the boy, “It’s the _________ kite day.” As they came to the park there were happy kids everywhere flying kites that sailed _________ high in the air.

The boy started _________ to get the kite going. He ran all through the _________ while other kids stared at his kite that dragged and _________.He heard a boy _________, “That kite must either be stupid or __________.” Kneeling, the boy thoughtfully asked the kite, “Why don’t you fly? Are you afraid?” With all of his pride, the kite tried to __________ it, but the look in his eyes told the boy he had guessed it.

Then with a kind smile, the boy said, “Everyone gets __________, but Dad says that’s okay. And by facing __________ boldly we can scare some away. That’s how it was with me and my bike. Maybe biking and flying are a little __________.” The light of hope that shone in the boy’s eye made the kite decide to give flying a try.

The boy started running to give the kite __________. Instead of fighting the wind the kite gave himself to it. At first he was careful not to __________ down. Then he __________ and saw the whole town! Gathering courage, he made a great loop-the-loop in the __________. Every child was squinting to watch that kite sail.

In the sky, the kite learned facing fears boldly can scare some away. To __________ at new things, you must be willing to grow. That means not holding back but __________.

1.

A．attractive

B．superb

C．cool

D．upset

2.

A．further

B．nearer

C．lighter

D．shorter

3.

A．delighted

B．scared

C．interested

D．surprised

4.

A．perfect

B．same

C．different

D．complex

5.

A．unsteadily

B．mildly

C．gracefully

D．roughly

6.

A．walking

B．dancing

C．jumping

D．dashing

7.

A．park

B．schoolyard

C．campus

D．wild

8.

A．flied

B．fell

C．pulled

D．spread

9.

A．celebrate

B．praise

C．laugh

D．smile

10.

A．broken

B．cozy

C．clever

D．inconvenient

11.

A．interpret

B．admit

C．reject

D．deny

12.

A．amazed

B．frightened

C．confused

D．appealed

13.

A．panics

B．pleasures

C．changes

D．opportunities

14.

A．likely

B．alike

C．alive

D．lively

15.

A．pull

B．push

C．lift

D．drag

16.

A．set

B．settle

C．look

D．put

17.

A．got up his nose

B．pulled up his sleeves

C．pulled his weight

D．got up his nerve

18.

A．park

B．air

C．hand

D．thread

19.

A．aim

B．point

C．succeed

D．look

20.

A．leaving out

B．leaving behind

C．letting alone

D．letting go

8 . 阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一个完整的短文。

Agatha was in the library, reading the Girl Detective series, when she noticed something strange. Her best friends, Timmy and Florence, were talking to each other in whispers while keeping a good, safe distance from her! When she waved at them, they looked away.

Things only got stranger in art class. Timmy and Florence went to sit at a different table from Agatha busy painting and glanced at her when they thought she wasn’t looking.

Now, Agatha considered herself to be something of a detective. After all, she had read many detective stories for children and even had an old broken magnifying glass(放大镜)abandoned by her father. When the rest of the class went out for lunch, she slipped to Timmy and Florence’s table and examined it carefully with the magnifying glass.

There was paint, and red and pink construction paper. What could they be doing? This was definitely a mystery that needed solving!

After lunch Timmy and Florence chatted to her as if nothing was going on, but they kept smiling at her in a slightly strange way. Of course, Agatha could have asked them what they were up to, and they might have told her -but she wouldn’t have a chance to become a detective!

On the way home from school, Florence and her mum happened to walk ahead of Agatha and her mum. Agatha saw them go into the bookshop. Strange, again. Florence didn’t read much—no matter how many detective stories Agatha recommended to her!

The next day at school, Agatha kept an eye on her friends and tried to work out their mystery, but they seemed determined to keep things secret. She asked them if they would like to play with her after school, but they said they couldn’t because they were busy. Even more mysterious…

When Agatha’s mum came to pick her up after school, she was so lost in the unsolved mystery that she hardly noticed her busy father was coming along, which was unusual. When they arrived home, her father said she could go into the living room.

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Opening the door of the living room, Agatha heard voices shout from darkness, “SURPRISE!”
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After eating the cake, Agatha got down to the business of opening her birthday presents.
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9 . 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。

With hospitals filled up with COVID-19 patients, NASA has announced it will be delaying an upcoming satellite launch. The liquid oxygen     1     (need) to fuel the flight is also needed in hospitals,     2     doctors use the important resource to keep     3     (dangerous) sick COVID-19 patients alive.

“Medical oxygen is     4     priority (优先) of our members,” says Richard Craig, vice president of technical and regulatory affairs for the Compressed Gas Association.

A shortage of truck drivers     5     the certifications needed to transport the oxygen is only adding to the problem, and there are     6     (concern) about other rocket launches being pushed back as well.

At the recently held Space Symposium in Colorado, SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell     7     (invite) anyone with access to liquid oxygen to reach out. “We certainly are going to make sure the hospitals are going to have the oxygen that they need but for anybody who has liquid oxygen     8     (spare), send me an email,” she said.

SpaceX founder Elon Musk tweeted that the shortage was “a risk,     9     not yet a limiting factor”. So far, 26 rocket launches     10     (plan) by the company.

10 . 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。

Detecting strong X-ray flares (耀斑) beaming from the center of a blackhole is nothing new. But detecting light signals from behind one is a different story. That’s     1     the force of gravity in a blackhole is so severe that nothing that goes in can come out. No scientist has managed     2     (find) light from beyond— until now.

In contrast     3     what their name implies, supermassive (特大质量的) blackholes can be one of the brightest sources of continuous light in the universe. Their     4     (extremely) gravity brings in all kinds of material around them. Little is known about supermassive black hole coronas, so scientists turned to blackhole I Zwicky 1,     5     lies 100 million light years from Earth, to investigate the beams shooting out.

Scientists     6     (detect) smaller X-ray “echoes” around the supermassive blackhole, in addition to the expected flares. The obvious light characteristics of these pulsing beams (脉冲光束) indicated that they were the same X-ray flares, but reflected from the backside,     7     (mean) the supermassive black hole’s gravity must have actually abnormal space-time, thus bending the beams around in a detectable direction by specialized telescopes. The     8     (finding), published in Nature, support a key     9     (predict) from Einstein’s theory of general relativity.

This is the     10     (one) research to confirm what the famous physicist predicted more than half a century ago.