1 . 假如你是班长石坤，英国学生Alex新学期即将来你班交流学习，请你写一封电子邮件告知他相关信息，大概90词左右。内容包括：
1. 表示欢迎；
2. 报道须知，如携带核酸检测报告（一周之内），身份证，￥99000学费，一本语文书，进入校园要使用汉语进行交流，要和中国学生一样参加各种考试，每天必须完成各科作业等；
3. 注意事项：穿我校的校服，留短发，保持卫生，不许说脏话等等。
4. 提示词：nucleic acid test report 核酸检测报告
Dear Alex,
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Yours,

Shi Kun

2 . “Can you say mama? Or dada?” If you’ve spent any time around a baby, chances are you’ve heard or said things like these.     1     For instance, baby talk, “parentese” (父母语), or, according to development specialists, child-directed speech. Although this kind of small talk might seem meaningless, the conversations are important.

Baby talk is an important piece of speech and language development. Studies show that when babies are exposed to such talk every day throughout their first year of life, they develop stronger vocabularies than other kids. And the little ones are eager for it.     2     So when parents apply it, they help their babies learn more words and promote social interaction.

Child-directed speech wasn’t always valued. Before the middle of the 20th century, researchers largely ignored it as a subject of study. Until the early 1990s, many developmental psychologists and linguists believed that without any help, we would learn how to speak and form complete sentences by ourselves.     3    

But over the past few decades, numerous studies have found that throughout their first year of life, when babies are regularly exposed to such talk in addition to normal speech, they process, learn, and remember words presented to them in singsong tones (语调) better. One reason may have to do with how babies interact with the world.     4     However, but their ears perk up (竖起来) when a caregiver makes that singsong tone.

    5     In a 2020 study, researchers found that bat parents also used a different tone to communicate with their babies. Baby talk has also been observed in a few other species like squirrel monkeys.

A．Baby talk tends to be spoken at a slower rate.

B．Humans aren’t the only ones that use baby talk.

C．They tend to ignore adult conversations and other background noises.

D．Luckily, parents can be taught methods to improve their parentese skills.

E．Some doctors even advised parents to avoid using baby talk, thinking it too silly.

F．The distinct tone of parentese catches their attention, allowing them to benefit from it.

G．The singsong tone we switch to when interacting with young children can have many names.

3 . 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。

A brave dog fought off a coyote (丛林狼) twice her size to protect her 10-year-old owner after it attacked them. Owner Lily Kwan, 10, said she had just heard her neighbors in her Toronto, Canada community on Tuesday warning people of a coyote going after children in the area when the animal started biting at her heels while she was walking dog Macy.

In the video captured by a neighbor’s security camera, Lily can be seen running down the sidewalk with her six-year-old rescue dog while the coyote followed them so closely.

“I thought, ‘Am I next, what is going to happen to me?’” Lily told the local newspaper. “I was screaming for help but no one heard me,” said Lily. “I saw this coyote trying to attack my dog and I tried to ring people’s doorbells and knock on people’s doors. Luckily, this one neighbor let me in.”

But while Lucy made it to safety, Macy wouldn’t follow her inside. Instead the little dog turned around toward the coyote. After briefly screaming Macy’s name, Lily ran onto the neighbor’s second floor. Macy could be seen fighting with the coyote, before it caught her and bit her in its mouth and shook her violently. She cried in pain, but kept barking and bit the coyote back until it gave up and ran away finally.

“She’s a super brave dog,” Lily said “I love her so much, and I just thought this tiny dog could protect this huge human being, trying to fight off this huge coyote.”

Lily’s mother, Dorothy Kwan, said she was not surprised when hearing Macy’s action. “My dog would do anything for our family, so I’m actually not surprised that she did that,” Dorothy Kwan said.

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。

Dorothy said she was shocked by the coyote’s scaring behavior.

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Macy was taken to the ICU on Tuesday, and returned home on Thursday.

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4 . 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。续写的词数应为 150 左右。

Anxiously and hurriedly, two young firemen，Adam and Ben arrived at the apartment of a single mother with two children after they answered a 911 call. To their surprise, they discovered that there was no emergency at all, only to find that the younger child, about three years old, was playing with the phone. Adam told the mother that she should let the kids play their own toys instead of the telephone. The mother said sorry to them, promising that she would make the kid far away from the telephone. The similar things would happen many times a year. All the firemen were not angry about it, especially with a three-year old kid. Adam and Ben looked around their house again and made sure there was really not any danger before they left their house. After they go on their fire engine (消防 车), Adam asked curiously, “Have you noticed something strange in their house?” Ben thought for a while and answered, “All of them weren't smiling. It seemed like they weren’t happy at all.” “Yes, you are right! But anything else? I still felt there was something wrong in their house." The two young men looked at each other, and cried almost at the same time, “There was no Christmas tree!”

It was December 23rd. It was a day when all families were preparing their Christmas buying gifts, making the delicious food, decorating their Christmas trees and so on, busy but happy. But the family they just met didn't have a Christmas tree in their house! It was pretty obvious that the family was having a poor life and they couldn't afford to buy a single Christmas tree! “Maybe they weren't going to have a Christmas this year. It was terrible!” Ben murmured (低声说) to himself.

注意：续写部分分为两段，每段的开头语已为你写好。

Paragraph 1:

Two young firemen left the house with a plan.

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“We are not firemen this time!" Adam said.

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5 . 阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1 个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。

Toby Mott was just an ordinary person working as an artist. But then, at the age of 36, he had an idea that made him famous. It started when he wanted     1     (earn) some money for the holidays one year. His product was simple­­­ a short message of five words     2     a T­shirt.

He took the T­shirts   to a clothing store and they sold 40 in a week.     3     (immediate), he decided to start     4     (he) own business. The product was good. In the past 12 months, he has sold 60,000 T­shirts worldwide.

The     5     (phrase) for the T­shirts come from things he thinks of during the day and from conversations with friends at dinner. His customers,     6     (include) the rich and the famous, enjoy his imaginative phrases. They include things like I will spend your money, and I do things I shouldn’t.Mott says, “I’m successful,     7     it hasn’t changed my     8     (person) life. I still     work at home on the same small desk. My friends, whom I     9     (know) for more than 20 years, are still my friends. In fact, they’re as     10     (surprise) about my success as I am.”

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。

Zhang Guimei, devoted to education in China’s southwestern borders for 40 years, is     1       “mother” for more than 170 children, motivating young girls from poor families in mountainous areas. She has lit up hopes of many for education.

Zhang was born in Mudanjiang, Heilongjiang province in 1957. She came to Yunnan province at 17,     2     (respond) to the call of the country to support the development of border areas. Teaching at a middle school there, she saw the low     3     (admit) of girls to high school. It saddened her so much to find out that these girls     4     (abandon) their school work long before due to poverty.     5     , Zhang decided to build a free all-girl high school in 2002, in hope of changing the destiny of the girls in the mountain.

In 2007, Zhang went to Beijing as a deputy for the 17th CPC National Congress. Her speech “I Have a Dream”     6     (address) at the meeting made her dream of building a free all-girl high school known     7     all. A year later, the school was completed as the first free all-girl high school in China.

On June 29, Zhang     8     (award) July 1st Medal at a ceremony in Beijing,     9     she said she did this out of her gratitude and love for the country, as well as her identity     10     (origin) as a CPC member. As long as she was still capable, she would stand in the classroom to give her all without regret.

7 . 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。

Tai Chi, a centuries—old Chinese martial art and     1     internationally popular form of exercise, has been added     2     the UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage(非物质文化遗产) list. For more than 10 years, China has been trying to have Tai Chi     3     (recognize)officially by the UNESCO on the List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity(人类).

“Tai Chi is not just a sport to make people fit,     4     it contains Chinese culture and life attitude,” said researcher Yan Shuangjun. “The application     5     (start)from 2008 and now we gain a victory     6     will help this sport reach more places.”

Tai Chi has a massive and devoted following. Millions of elderly Chinese people practise it every day in parks, and famous people and other public figures regularly make public     7     (refer)to their practice of it for the health benefits it is said to provide. According to the Mayo Clinic in the United States, doing Tai Chi can result in     8     (reduce)stress, anxiety and joint(关节)pain.

The traditional Chinese martial art was born in the village of Chenjiagou, in central China’s Henan Province, in the 17th century. It now has more than 100 million practitioners     9     (globe). In China, it is common that Tai Chi     10     (show)in film and on TV.

8 . According to the US economist Robert Gordon, all the “impressive stuff” has been created; we have run out of the big, life-changing ideas needed to encourage rapid economic growth and engineers are now only just making slight changes. Inventions such as mobile phones, Gordon says, have had less impact than, for example, the invention of indoor plumbing (管道系统).

But this is a misunderstanding of how engineers work. There is no “Wow!” moment. The development of new technology happens little by little. You build upon the work of those before you, thinking about what could be done better and what could be improved. It’s an unending task. Michael Faraday invented the first electric motor. But Faraday’s breakthrough followed William Sturgeon’s invention of the electromagnet (电磁铁), and Alessandro Volta’s invention of the battery before that. Faraday would have expected future engineers to pick up the baton (接力棒) later down the line.

Reduced energy supplies, increasing populations and mass urbanization keep clever young engineers awake at night. Those, for example, who enter the yearly James Dyson Award invent things that solve these problems and more. The 2012 winner Dan Watson designed a clever system of escape rings for fishing boat nets that deals with the issue of overfishing — not an exciting topic, but his invention is exceptional. Human inventiveness remains unreduced in the face of new global challenges.

Our problem is patience. We expect new technology at a rate like never before. I can’t tell you the world’s next big invention. Last week brought news that we’ve invented a new way to deal with antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Next week may bring a major development in another field. The biggest thing holding invention back is our impatience. With enough time and support, bright young engineers will develop exciting new technology to solve the world’s trickiest problems. Many have already begun.

1. Why does the author mention what Robert Gordon says?

A．To introduce the topic.	B．To illustrate a new invention.
C．To provide background information.	D．To express his opinion about the topic.

2. What can we infer from Michael Faraday’s example?

A．New technology has been developing step by step.

B．New inventions fail to deal with new global challenges.

C．Michael Faraday set a good model for William Sturgeon.

D．Technology helps future engineers achieve success smoothly.

3. What makes Dan Watson’s invention excellent?

A．His young age.	B．His patience with technology.
C．His effort to solve real world problems.	D．His wish to win the James Dyson Award.

4. Which word best describes the author’s attitude to technological development nowadays?

A．Doubtful.

B．Uncaring.

C．Disapproving.

D．Optimistic.

9 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. Who are the speakers?

A．A host and a hostess.

B．Fellow travelers.

C．A host and a guest.

2. What is the most popular free-time activity?

A．Singing.

B．Watching videos.

C．Eating out.

3. What’s the man’s attitude towards the second-place activity?

A．He supports it.

B．It astonishes him.

C．He dislikes it.

10 . Suppose nearly every student passed the tests. What would the respond be from politicians, business people and the media? Would these people shake their heads in admiration and say, "Damn, those teachers must be good!"?. But in the real world, it would be mentioned as evidence that the tests were too easy. For example, when results on New York's math exam rose in 2009, the minister of the state's Board of Regents said, "What today's scores tell me is not that we should be celebrating, but that New York State needs to raise its standards."

The unavoidable and deeply disturbing effect is that "high standards"really mean "standards that all students will never be able to meet". If everyone did meet them, the standards would just be ratcheted up again---as high as necessary to ensure that some students failed.

The standards-and-responsibility movement is not about leaving no child behind. On the contrary, it is a detailed sorting device, intended to separate wheat from chaff(谷壳). The fact that students from low-income- families and students whose first language isn't English are disproportionately(不成比例地) defined as chaff makes the whole enterprise even have more gradual and accumulated effects.

But my little thought experiment uncovers a truth that extends well beyond what has been done to our schools in the name of "raising the bar", We have been taught to respond with suspicion whenever all members of any group are successful. In America, excellence is regarded as a rare product. Success doesn't count unless it is obtained by only a few. The goal, in other words, isn't to do well but to defeat other people who are also trying to do well. Grades in this view should be used to announce who's beating whom. Comparative success just gives the winner rights to talk"We're No.1!" proudly. And again, it creates the misleading impression of unavoidable, permanent failure for some.

1. Which can replace the underlined words"ratcheted up"?

A．Ended up with bad result.	B．Increased by a fixed amount
C．Obtained within a certain time.	D．Presented in an unexpected way.

2. What is the author s attitude towards "high standards"?

A．Critical.	B．Approval.
C．Unconcerned	D．Neutral.

3. What is the text mainly about?

A．What are the ideal test standards?

B．Why do students fail in their studies?

C．Why can't every student meet test standards?

D．When do students' backgrounds make effect?

4. What can we infer from the last paragraph?

A．People are encouraged to accept failure bravely.

B．People are used to taking the failure for granted

C．Some people lack the abilities to reach their goals.

D．One's success completely depends on oneself.