1 . New research into a little-known text written in ancient Greek shows that “stressed poetry”, the ancestor of all modern poetry and song, was already in use in the 2nd century CE, 300 years earlier than previously thought. It has been found sculpted on twenty precious stones and as a graffito (雕画) in Cartagena, Spain.

In its shortest version, the nameless four-line poem reads “They say what they like; let them say it; I dont care.” Other versions extend with “Go on, love me; it does you good.” The poem, unparalleled (绝无仅有的) so far in the classical world, consists of lines of 4 syllables (音节), with a strong accent on the first and a weaker on the third. This allows it to come into the rhythms of numerous pop and rock songs. So it became popular across the eastern Roman Empire and survives.

By comparing all of the known examples for the first time, Cambridges Professor Tim Whitmarsh noticed that the poem used a different form of rhythm to that usually found in ancient Greek poetry. As well as showing signs of the long and short syllables characteristic of traditional “quantitative” poem, this text employed stressed and unstressed syllables. The new study, published in The Cambridge Classical Journal, also suggests that this poem could represent a “missing link” between the lost world of ancient Mediterranean oral poetry and song, and the more modern forms that we know today. A lot of popular poetry in ancient Greek takes a similar form to traditional high poetics. This poem, on the other hand, points to a distinct and rich culture, primarily oral.

1. Where was the “stressed poetry” discovered?

A．In Greece.	B．In Spain.
C．In Britain.	D．In Mediterranean.

2. What does “it” in paragraph 2 refer to?

A．A syllable.	B．A strong accent.
C．The four-line poem.	D．The content of the poem.

3. What can be learned from the last paragraph?

A．A missing link between poems was found finally.

B．A lot of popular poetry in ancient Greek was then popular in the world.

C．The stressed and unstressed syllables distinguished the poem from others.

D．The ancient Mediterranean oral poetry and song was older than the poem.

4. Whats the best title for the text?

A．Ancient Greek “pop culture” discovery rewrites the history of poetry and song

B．The unparalleled poem made ancient Greek culture more attractive

C．Ancient Greek poetry lay the foundation of modern culture

D．Four syllables are still popular in modern poetry and song

2 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
1. How often is the quiz show for children broadcast?

A．Daily.

B．Weekly.

C．Monthly.

2. What are the questions about?

A．Science.

B．Sports.

C．Entertainment.

3. What will the winners get next week?

A．A camera.

B．A computer.

C．A mobile phone.

4. What should children do to join the show?

A．Provide their personal information.

B．Send a photo to the TV station.

C．Fill in an application form.

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。

I was a shy 13-year-old boy that year, afraid to speak before people and poor at communicating with others. My parents were worried so they introduced a part-time job in a restaurant tome during the summer vacation, hoping it would make a difference to me. Although I hated it and didn’t believe it would bring any change to me, I had to accept it. The part-time job fell on Monday of each week.

On the first Monday, I simply dared not look at people in the restaurant. And when I was speaking with them, my face turned red and my voice was low. On my way back home, I felt so bad. But when I reached home, my bad feelings disappeared. I found my parents had brought home a pet cat, which I had expected to get for a long period of time. The cat was so lovely.

However, one Thursday, he secretly ran out and disappeared. We looked for him everywhere the whole day but found nothing. We lived in the city, close to a high-traffic road, and this cat didn’t have “street smarts”. I guessed he would probably die and wouldn’t be home again. And after three days of looking for the cat with no sign of him, I quite believed he wouldn’t be home again. My parents told me “A miracle (奇迹) may happen as long as you don’t give up.”   However, I quite doubted it.

On the morning of the following Monday, I left for work 45 minutes earlier and started walking to the bus stop a block away. While waiting for the bus there, I thought about the work and felt upset. It wouldn’t be helpful to me and it was tiring! How much I wanted to quit the job! And thinking of the cat, I felt even worse.

Since it was still early, I suddenly wanted to spare some time to look for the cat again though I had little hope. I told myself, “If I still fail to find him this time, I won’t look for him again.” Then, I decided to walk to the next bus stop to look for him around. Minutes later, suddenly, a dirty and weak cat sitting by a tree caught my eye.

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。

My eyes widened, and I was surprised to find it was just our cat.

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Encouraged, I rushed to the bus stop and decided not to give up the part-time job.

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4 . 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。

The founder of the Nv Shu(女书), the world’s only known written language for women that dates back more than a thousand years in Jiangyong county, Hunan province, probably never expected that the script would see a North China artist trying to popularize     1     worldwide.

Zhou Na, an artist living and working in Tianjin,     2     (complete) her writings with her counterparts on traditional household classic works in the form of the Nv Shu recently and will publish them publicly, for the first time in the history of the special script. Previously, the contents were limited to     3     (marry), family, love and even puzzles.

The language, different from the traditional Chinese     4     (write) system of ideograph(表意文字), is a kind of phonograph, based on local dialects, and was only written in the shapes of long diamonds and in the styles of poems. They are mostly published on beautiful papers, books, fans and silk scarves and were believed to carry secrets     5     (hide) by women.

Currently, Nv Shu only has a few thousand inheritors in China,     6     which is Zhou. She learned Nv Shu from her grandfather’s sister throughout her childhood. She was concerned about the risks of the language     7     (appearance) and began to try to carry forward the women’s script.

“The audience is limited, so I really expect the government to strongly promote it and help inherit it, advocating that it is     8     intangible cultural asset     9     (pass) down from generation to generation,” she says. “I expect the script to be inherited much     10     (wide). Nv Shu has witnessed major innovations in these years, expanding its content. I expect more youth to focus their attention on the cultural assets.”

5 . Mindfulness—a focus on the here and now through awareness of the present moment—can be both practiced and, importantly, measured by simply counting your breath, according to new studies led by University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers.

The practice of mindfulness has recently gained popularity in the US. Studies show it can reduce stress, improve student academic performance, and more. But researchers have lacked a scientifically rigorous(严谨的)way to measure it, sometimes influencing its credibility, says study leader Richard Davidson.

To measure mindfulness precisely, participants in the study were asked to keep track of nine breaths in sequence by striking one computer key at each breath and a different key on the ninth breath in each sequence. To do so accurately, a person must be aware of each breath as it happens.

While others—including new hands and long-term meditators(冥想者)—were trained in a distraction task where they were paid to correctly identify a colored object on a screen, followed by a test where they were asked to identify different colored objects. During the test, the subjects were no longer paid, but they were “distracted” with the presence of the original colored object.

The findings show that mindfulness as measured through breath counting is associated with more self-awareness, less mind wandering and distraction caused by financial temptation. Long-term meditators were better breath counters than new hands, and performed better in distraction tasks and participants trained in breath counting completed test tasks more accurately than those not trained in breath counting.

Davidson says that when people are off-count, they’re unaware of it roughly two-thirds of the time. “The cool thing is we are always breathing, so we can do this anytime, anywhere,” Davidson says. The researchers hope their findings will help push mindfulness into the mainstream. He wants to see more people using it as a tool to promote well-being and to engage in common conversation around mindfulness. He is hopeful this measure can help.

1. What can we infer about mindfulness from Paragraph 1-2?

A．It has become a hit all over the world.	B．It can be measured by counting breath.
C．Its credibility needs to be established.	D．It lies in the concentration on yourself.

2. Which of the following is NOT true about Davidson’s study?

A．Participants were required to strike nine different keys in total.

B．Each breath of participants would be recorded by a instrument.

C．Absent-minded participants in the distraction task got no paid.

D．Trained participants showed obvious advantage in identify test.

3. What’s Davidson’s attitude towards their findings?

A．Confident.

B．Optimistic.

C．Cautious.

D．Amazed.

4. What’s the purpose of the passage?

A．To clarify the concept of mindfulness and its outlook.

B．To teach people how to achieve mindfulness correctly.

C．To show mindfulness’s impact and potential benefits.

D．To appeal to people to adopt the trend of mindfulness.

6 . Understanding The Metaverse

The metaverse is rapidly being described as the next frontier in the tech, business, and finance world. The idea gained popularity in July 2021, after Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg renamed the company to Meta to reflect its growing focus on the metaverse. Today, everyone, from major corporations like Microsoft and Disney to creative startups, is struggling to enter the market that is predicted to reach over $780 billion by 2024.     1     How will it affect the way we live and work?

In simplest terms, the metaverse is a fully immersive (沉浸式) virtual world that is like our real life.     2     Instead, a functioning metaverse requires a combination of cutting-edge technologies like augmented reality (增强现实), virtual reality, 3D avatars, and artificial intelligence.

Zuckerberg may have drawn the world’s attention to the metaverse, but the idea of a virtual world is not new.     3     For instance, Fortnite: Battle Royal, where 100 players battle it out on a small island until only one survivor is left, is a typical example of a virtual universe.

    4     They imagine using the virtual platform to attend meetings, conferences, concerts, and even tour the world with friends.

However, experts believe the technologies need to improve greatly before that happens. The still heavy virtual reality headsets often cause motion sickness and are not ready for long time use. The amount of computing power required to house billions of people worldwide in a virtual universe also presents an issue.

The various Metaverse companies will also have different virtual worlds. They will have to standardize the technology so users can move seamlessly (无缝) between them.     5    

A．But what exactly is the metaverse?

B．The development of the metaverse still has a long way to go.

C．However, a metaverse is not a specific type of technology.

D．The metaverse industry will create jobs for hundreds and thousands of people.

E．Most importantly, the virtual experience has to be very attractive and affordable for consumers.

F．Fans believe that the metaverse will enable people to conduct their daily lives in an online world.

G．The gaming industry has been building the fundamental elements of the metaverse for many years.

7 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. What’s the weather like?

A．Sunny.

B．Cold.

C．Rainy.

2. What’s a relaxing way to learn about local culture?

A．Going to the movie.

B．Going to the library.

C．Riding a double-decker bus.

3. What will the speakers do now？

A．Go to the pub.

B．Stay home reading.

C．Do some adventures.

8 . At the United Nations COP27 climate conference in Egypt, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres claimed that the world is on a “highway to climate hell with our foot still on the accelerator (油门)”. To keep temperature from rising 1. 5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels by 2100, we need to pull a stop on greenhouse gas emissions. In fact, we’d basically have to bring the runaway truck to a complete and immediate stop. Now is the time for us to pull back before it is too late.

The climate pledges (承诺) made by nations at last year’s COP26 conference felt like a positive step in the right direction, but there’s very little doubt that the average temperature rise on Earth will pass the 1. 5-degree mark in the coming decades. Can we limit this overshoot? And how might we do that?

A study, released Thursday in the scientific journal Nature Climate Change, tried to answer those questions by modeling 27 different emissions reduction pathways of varying ambition. It came to an unsurprising conclusion:Countries need to act by increasing the ambition of their climate pledges. And they need to act now.

The 1. 5-degree rise has long been seen as a critical mark in the fight against climate change. Since the signing of the Paris Agreement at COP21 seven years ago, scientists have studied how this level of warming above preindustrial temperatures would affect the Earth. The models they’ve built show we are likely to see more extreme weather events, in addition to glacial melt, sea level rise that threatens many low-lying Pacific nations and significant loss of biodiversity once temperatures push past an increase of 1.5 degrees.

Though the 1. 5-degree target is practically dead, the situation isn’t hopeless. Now more than ever, there’s reason to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by setting more ambitious goals. However, ambition alone is not enough.We also need action -— investing in renewables and technologies like carbon capture and rapidly transforming our energy systems.

1. What did Antonio Guterres try to do in the first paragraph?

A．Make a request.	B．Issue a warning.
C．Provide a solution.	D．Offer a suggestion.

2. What was the conclusion of the study released in Nature Climate Change?

A．What’s done cannot be undone.

B．Setting a goal is what matters.

C．Action speaks louder than words.

D．Failing to plan is planning to fail.

3. What’s the purpose of the models the scientists have built?

A．To show the consequences of rising temperatures.

B．To predict the problems with extreme weather events.

C．To find the solutions to controlling global warning.

D．To tell the importance of protecting the environment.

4. How does the author end the passage?

A．By sharing confidence and inspiring.

B．By expressing concern and criticizing.

C．By voicing doubts and making complaints.

D．By spreading hope and appealing for action.

9 . 根据一项对大学生的调查可知，认为自己缺乏创新能力的占36.9%，缺乏交际能力的占24.6%，可见学生交际能力和创新能力培养较少。请你以此项调查的数据为基础向英语校报写一篇文章呼吁学校开设一些相关课程以培养学生交际能力和创新能力。内容必须包括以下要点：
1.大学生目前调查情况；
2.高中生课程情况；
3.呼吁重视交际能力与创新能力培养。
注意：
1.词数100左右；
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
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10 . Habitat loss, hunting, logging and climate change have put many large species on the planet at risk. A new study has found that not only are larger plants and animals at higher risk of extinction, but their loss would fundamentally affect life on earth.

Results showed that the continued loss of large animals alone would lead to a 44% reduction in the total amount of wild animal biomass on the planet. It would also lead to a 92% reduction in soil fertility (肥沃), which supports the ability of the earth to grow plants and sustain life.

“This research shows there are fundamental scientific principles that explain why large animals and trees matter for the health and integrity of all life on Earth,” said lead author Brian Enquist. “Protecting large species does have an umbrella effect to protect the wider ecosystem.”

A key reason for these results lies with the transport of nutrients(养分). When large animals eat in one location and defecate(排便)in another, they transport nutrients, often moving them from nutrient-rich areas to other, less fertile parts of the land and oceans. Similarly, the largest trees are the most productive, and contain more nutrients and carbon.

“Ecosystems with larger trees and animals are also more productive and provide more vital ecological services,” Enquist said. “The largest banks and corporations in the economy are the most productive and have the most impact on the economy. If they failed, they would have a big negative impact on economy. It’s a similar principle with large species across ecosystems.”

Unfortunately, these large organisms are more likely to be harmed by human pressures and climate change and take longer to recover from shocks, making them endangered species.

The findings help to answer an ongoing debate about where to channel limited conservation resources. While some species such as the tiger or redwood tree have historically been most appealing and therefore effective at pulling in donations, some scientists worry that the focus on a certain species could be coming at the cost of protecting other, less well-loved species.

“Our findings instead point to the importance of policies that emphasize the promotion of all large trees and animals, as such policies will have a great impact on biodiversity and ecosystem processes,” Enquist said.

1. Which of the following is the result of “umbrella effect” talked about in the text?

A．Large species are protected.

B．Other species are protected as well.

C．Large plants become more productive.

D．More large animals transport nutrients.

2. In what way are large species similar to large banks?

A．In their large sizes.

B．In the economic impact.

C．In their vital roles in their systems.

D．In their ways to deal with problems.

3. What do the last two paragraphs focus on?

A．Conservation concerns for all large species.

B．Donations to conservation of large species.

C．Conservation resources for endangered species.

D．Debate about how to use conservation resources.

4. What can be concluded from the new study?

A．More large species are needed on the planet.

B．Saving large species is saving all life on Earth.

C．Urgent action is needed to protect endangered species.

D．Protecting large species’ habitat is key to saving them.