1 . Life is filled with numerous victories and downfalls; what matters is how you tackle each situation. Whether it is your schooling or a serious life struggle, we must learn to turn the page and change our life for the better.     1    

You might find yourself in a dead end.     2     This will help you mark your future decisions. Everything that you faced until now was just a part of the problem and everything that comes after the line will be part of the solution. Don’t take the whole thing as suffering; instead, it is a learning experience. Make sure that you won’t let anything hold you back and will try to be better each day.

When handling a tough situation, you may need some extra help. Connect with people that have gone through the same trials as you have. During the interactions, you will notice the different patterns which made them successful.     3     Their experiences are beneficial to uplifting your spirit and truly help you out.

Another amazing approach is to make sensible and favorable choices for yourself. Engaging in battles and struggles is going to be very hard.     4     Picture your goals in your mind and make sensible steps towards them with each passing day. Remember to do what actually works and make sure that nothing stands in your way.

The past is a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny. Life moves on and so should we.     5     The new chapter of your life is coming for you.

A．Now it’s your turn to think outside the box.

B．We must forgive ourselves to begin the next chapter.

C．Here’ s how you can create a new chapter in your life.

D．What you can do in this situation is draw a mental line.

E．However, giving up and being stuck in pain will be even harder.

F．Let your tears and sweat water the seeds of your future happiness.

G．Besides, you will obtain the motivation you can’t find in yourself.

2 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
1. What is used to make new bottles?

A．Plastic.

B．Paper.

C．Mixed materials.

2. Why did James Longcroft invent the bottles?

A．To protect the sea.

B．To save money.

C．To recycle paper.

3. What made Longcroft open the company?

A．Making more money.

B．Hoping to invent new bottles.

C．Offering clean water for the black.

4. What can we know about the new bottle?

A．It breaks down from inside to outside.

B．It can be eaten by animals without harm.

C．People can now get it easily at a low price.

3 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
1. What does the speaker say about waste sorting?

A．It protects the environment.

B．It promotes equity.

C．It reduces costs.

2. How many types of waste does the speaker mention?

A．4.

B．3.

C．2.

3. What can we know about the smart bin?

A．It was invented in Japan.

B．It can identify the type of waste.

C．It charges people for getting rid of waste.

4. Which country requires people to pay for food waste according to the speaker?

A．China.

B．England.

C．South Korea.

4 . Most airplanes are constructed with seats in rows of two or three Mathematically, someone in my family of five has to sit by a ________. I always ask to be that person and consider it the greatest ________ to meet someone remarkable.

From the time I could speak, I realized that overcoming communication ________ was an essential key to ________ the enormous potential in constructing meaningful relationships with others. My father is a successful scientist, but he has been ________ since birth. My childhood was spent understanding his intelligence while sometimes ________ to convey ideas because the words I chose were too ________ to lipread. But I learned how to employ my own approach to face the challenge. Gradually, I developed a ________ for communication skills.

Since kindergarten, I have loved Chinese culture. In my Junior year of high school, I ________ a competitive scholarship to study in China for the summer, learning Mandarin and the eastern culture. Dropped into Chengdu and ________ to speak the language fluently, I found myself a toddler (学步儿童). However, I didn’t quit. At the end of the program, I was voted to ________ the 500 scholarship recipients (被授予者) to deliver a speech in Chinese. My speech did win cheers. Finally, I returned home with a cultural awareness beyond expectation, possessing lifelong ________ with former strangers whom I now communicate with in Chinese.

Thanks to the strangers in my life, I learn that one must embrace (拥抱) certain new experience. I’m so ________ to confirm that stepping out of my comfort zone can, actually, ________ experiencing something from slightly interesting to life-changing. On the flight home from China I ________ chose to sit next to a stranger and it didn’t disappoint.

1.

A．kid

B．stranger

C．senior

D．pilot

2.

A．possibility

B．mistake

C．task

D．honor

3.

A．skills

B．relationships

C．barriers

D．ideas

4.

A．owning

B．unlocking

C．ensuring

D．maintaining

5.

A．depressed

B．weak

C．deaf

D．blind

6.

A．struggling

B．asking

C．wishing

D．helping

7.

A．virtual

B．abstract

C．risky

D．difficult

8.

A．talent

B．habit

C．passion

D．case

9.

A．found

B．valued

C．earned

D．donated

10.

A．inconvenient

B．unnecessary

C．unable

D．impatient

11.

A．invite

B．encourage

C．train

D．represent

12.

A．happiness

B．friendships

C．achievements

D．knowledge

13.

A．powerful

B．willing

C．comfortable

D．grateful

14.

A．put off

B．add up

C．cut down

D．lead to

15.

A．suddenly

B．definitely

C．gradually

D．accidentally

5 . 阅读下面材料，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

During the May Day holiday, many Chinese people went out for travel,     1    (show) the potential of the country’s holiday economy. Guangzhou and Chongqing were among the top domestic (国内的) cities in terms of consumer    2     (popular). In the meantime, Thailand, Japan and South Korea became some of the     3     (hot) overseas destinations during the five-day holiday.

Aside from traditional popular destinations, county tourism has developed into a new fashion and brought in new vitality (活力) into the tourism market. The tourism growth rate of small counties and towns is higher. Data from Alipay showed that many young     4     (generation) chose to go to attractions in small towns. Yili in Xinjiang, Yanbian in Jilin, Diqing and Pu’er in Yunnan have seen the largest year-on-year increase in cross-regional payments.

Tourists’ continuous enthusiasm for domestic travel is also proved by other factors, such as the number of short videos     5     (publish). During the holiday,     6     total number of posts on WeChat video accounts increased. Among them, scenic spots like West Lake     7     (become) popular destinations for video account users recently. Concerts, art exhibitions and other cultural activities have also played a significant role     8     improving cultural and tourism consumption. Cities such as Changzhou, Hefei, Beijing, and Yantai received high attention during this time period,     9     drove growth in local hotel, transportation, and dining services.

Furthermore, the inbound (入境的) tourism market is further heating up as visa-free policies and easy payment services provide     10     (convenient) for foreigners traveling to China.

6 . Late last year, in the days before the Dosakian election, a video featuring a well-known journalist and a key candidate circulated on social networks. However, it was absolutely fake (虚假的). The International Press Institute has called this episode in Dosakia the first time that AI deepfakes — fake images, or videos generated by artificial intelligence — have influenced a national election greatly.

Security experts consider misinformation the biggest global risk recently — more dangerous than war, and extreme weather events. A constant stream of people is wrestling with this issue. Now even economists are joining in.

Economist Iyan Smith, and others conduct a real-world experiment to see whether simple, low-cost nudges, or interventions, can be effective. Instead of focusing on the supply side of misinformation like social media platforms, they pay attention to the demand side: increasing our capacity to identify the fake information.

The economists split participants randomly into four different groups. One group was shown a video demonstrating a convincing journey of two people from two different social groups who, before interacting, express negative stereotypes (刻板印象) about the other’s group, overcoming their differences and ultimately regretting unthinkingly using stereotypes to dehumanize one another. Another group completed a personality test that shows them their cognitive traits (认知特点) causing prejudice, hoping to increase their self-awareness, and decrease their demand for misinformation. A third group did both while a control group did neither.

The economists find the simple intervention of showing the video makes the participants over 30 percent less likely to “consider fake news reliable”. But the personality test has little effect. As for participants doing both, they were about 31 percent less likely to view true headlines as reliable. In other words, they became so skeptical that even the truth became suspect.

Smith and his colleagues are far from the first scholars to fight misinformation by helping people to think more critically. University of Weymouth psychologist Lisa Kindle also advocates similar ways to help reject misinformation in the wild.

1. What does the author intend to do in the first two paragraphs?

A．Highlight the risk of AI deepfakes.	B．Discuss the global threat landscape.
C．Describe Dosakia’s election outcome.	D．Introduce the concept of misinformation.

2. What is “an effective nudge” in Smith’s new study?

A．The cognitive trait.	B．The short video.
C．The personality test.	D．The negative stereotype.

3. What conclusion can be drawn from the study?

A．Videos reduce misinformation.	B．Deepfakes may discredit truth.
C．Misinformation causes dehumanization.	D．Personality tests sharpen thinking skills.

4. What might be the best title for the text?

A．Battling Fake News	B．Deepfakes in Elections
C．The Spread of Misinformation	D．Expanding Thinking Capacity

7 . 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。

I was never “that girl” — the one who had charming appearance, and who enjoyed a colorful social life. I was another girl entirely, one who was considered “nice girls”, and the top student in class. Not that I didn’t care about friends or fun, I just didn’t think it was worth putting lots of time and effort into changing how I looked, how I acted, even as I started high school.

Marissa was “that girl” — fun to be around, good to know. We are different, but our friendship began the first time we met at an exciting soccer match, on the second day of freshmen year. The excitement of the game and our shared interest in soccer connected us, I was deeply impressed with her enthusiasm, while she admired my calm. Our conversations went smoothly, and our relationship quickly turned into a close bond.

However, as the school year progressed, Marissa’s outgoing personality began to conflict with my reserved nature. She stood out in social situations, constantly asking me to attend parties and social events. While I appreciated her efforts to include me, I felt awkward and uncomfortable to be forced into unfamiliar surroundings. Our once harmonious friendship started to crack, I tried to turn down her invitations, but in vain.

One evening, Marissa persuaded me to attend a large party at a classmate’s house. Surrounded by loud music and strange faces, I felt uneasy and upset. Marissa was the queen of the party, leaving me feeling extremely lonely. Her personality attracted others to her, creating a barrier between us.

注意:
1.续写词数应为150个左右;
2.请按如下格式在答题纸的相应位置作答。
Paragraph 1:

At that moment, I realized the growing divide between us.

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Paragraph 2:

Since then, we worked together to find a balance of our personalities.

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8 . Ariel Procaccia has thought a lot about how to cut a cake over the last 15 years. As the father of three children, he knows how hard it is to divide a birthday cake to everyone’s satisfaction. But it’s also because Procaccia’s work focuses on exploring the mathematical rules for dividing stuff up fairly. One way to do that is to think abstractly about dessert.

For decades, researchers have been asking the seemingly simple question of how to cut a cake fairly. The answer reaches far beyond birthday parties. A mathematical problem at its heart, cake cutting connects strict reasoning to real-world issues of fairness, and so attracts not only mathematicians, but also social scientists, economists and more. “It’s a very elegant model in which you can distill what fairness really is, and reason about it,” Procaccia says.

The simplest approach is called the “divider-chooser” method, where one person cuts the cake into two equal pieces in his view, and the other person picks first. Each receives a piece that they feel is as valuable as the other’s. But when personal preferences are taken into account, even the easiest rule becomes complicated. Suppose Alice and Bob are to divide a cake, and Alice knows Bob prefers chocolate, she may knowingly divide the cake unequally so the smaller piece contains more chocolate. Then Bob will choose according to his preference, and Alice will get the larger piece. Both of them are satisfied with what they get, but the meaning of fairness changes in this situation.

The cake is a symbol for any divisible good. When cake-cutting principles are employed to settle disagreements, they are potentially helping the world find solutions. Procaccia has used fair division algorithms (算法) to model food distribution. Social scientist Haris Aziz is exploring situations ranging from how to divide up daily tasks to how to best schedule doctors’ shifts in hospitals.

Even after decades of investigation, cake cutting isn’t like a simple jigsaw puzzle (拼图) with a well-defined solution. Instead, over time, it has evolved into a kind of mathematical sandbox, a constructive playground that brings together abstract proofs and easy applications. The more researchers explore it, the more there is to explore.

1. What does the underlined word “distill” in paragraph 2 mean?

A．Get the essence of.	B．Find the opposite of.
C．Keep the focus on.	D．Reduce the impact on.

2. What can we learn about fairness from the example given in paragraph 3?

A．Its standard is stable.	B．It prevents unequal division.
C．Its concept is complex.	D．It dominates personal preferences.

3. What is paragraph 4 mainly about concerning cake cutting?

A．The application of its rules.	B．The details of its process.
C．The problems it produces.	D．The harmony it symbolizes.

4. What is the best title for the text?

A．Who Benefits Most from Fairness?

B．How Has Fairness Changed over Time?

C．What Method Works Best in Cake-cutting?

D．Why are Researchers so Interested in Cake-cutting?

9 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
1. Why are the restaurant owners advised to stop using wooden chopsticks?

A．Because they cause a lot of pollution.

B．Because too many trees are cut.

C．Because the environment is not green.

2. How many pairs of wooden chopsticks are thrown away every year?

A．25 billion.

B．45 billion.

C．50 billion.

3. When did the government put a 5% tax on the wooden protection?

A．In April.

B．In May.

C．In June.

4. How long has the use of disposable chopsticks been discussed?

A．For days.

B．For months.

C．For years.

10 . 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。

In a small town, there lived a young elementary school student named Timmy, whose lateness had become his worst trait (特点) in his school.

Every school morning, he struggled to get out of bed, often finding himself rushing through breakfast and forgetting important things like his homework or lunchbox. Meanwhile, his classmates would glance at the empty seat beside them, exchanging knowing looks as the clock ticked pa st the start of the class. When Timmy finally arrived, he would often find himself the center of attention, and his cheeks red with embarrassment as he apologised. Deep down, Timmy felt a growing sense of discomfort and shame about his habitual lateness. His teachers and classmates were concerned about the effect of his constant lateness on his studies.

One day, Timmy’s class teacher, Mrs. Johnson, decided to solve the issue. She approached Timmy with a gentle smile, “Timmy, can we talk about something important?”

Timmy looked up and replied, a bit nervous, “Sure, Mrs. Johnson.”

She crouched (蹲下) down to his level, speaking softly but seriously and sincerely, “I’ve noticed you’ve been late for class quite often. Do you know being on time is very important?”

Timmy lowered his head and said, “Yes, but...”

Mrs. Johnson continued, “Being on time helps you not miss out on your lessons. It’s also about respect for your classmates and me. When you’re late, it can disrupt (打乱) the whole class. We all miss you when you’re not here on time.”

Timmy nodded and said, a look of understanding on his face, “I didn’t realize it was affecting everyone. I’ll try to be better, Mrs. Johnson. But I have difficulty waking up and getting out of bed. Every morning when my alarm clock sounded, I hit the snooze (小睡) button, just 10 more minutes. Then 10 minutes later, another 10 minutes. That’s why I am always late for school.”

“Don’t worry. We’re all here to help you,” Mrs. Johnson said, offering a comforting smile.

注意：
1.续写词数应为 150 左右；
2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
After the talk, Mrs. Johnson, along with Timmy’s classmates, came up with a plan to help him.
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Soon Timmy’s change was obvious.
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