1 . 阅读下面短文完成结构图，每空不超过5个词；并根据结构图完成一篇80词左右的内容概要。

Art is everywhere. No matter how hard you try you could never not find art.

Art can combine culture with commercial (商业的) products in a way that not many other things can; art makes money and holds important emotional and cultural value within communities. When people attend a concert, they are paying for music, but they also gain a unique experience and a memory that will go through the rest of their lives. People don’t just want things anymore; they want to experience life — the arts are a perfect crossover (交叠) between culture and commerce.

The arts clearly have a pretty positive impact on physical and psychological (心理的) health. It is found that people who take part in artistic events often are more likely to gain good health compared to those who do not. The Royal Society of Public Health discovered that music and art, when used in hospitals, help to better the conditions of patients by reducing stress, anxiety and blood pressure.

Children who are involved with the arts make greater achievements in their education. Those taking part in drama have greater literary ability while others taking part in musical practice show greater skills in math and languages. Participating in the arts is important for child development. Encouraging children to express themselves in positive ways could help to form healthy emotional responses in later life.

Furthermore, the arts can bring communities together, making people feel less lonely and safer. Social bonds (社会纽带) are created among individuals when they share their art experiences through reflection and discussion.

Important to human life, art is celebrated and used by nations across the world for various purposes. Life without art would be boring and dead still, for art is a part of what makes us human.

1. 完成结构图
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2. 根据结构图完成一篇80词左右的内容概要。
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4 . 阅读下面短文，根据其内容写一篇 60 词左右的内容概要。

Onions are known for flavoring those delicious dishes, but did you know that they were also nutritious? It's true! These flavorful onions contain a ton of nutrients that are important for our overall well-being. Let’s see more about onion nutrition and why they're so good for you.

Here are the nutrition facts for onions, according to the USDA. Onions are very low in calories and do have a little bit of carbohydrates and natural sugars — that's why they get sweet when you cook them. Here's what you get in one medium onion.

Calories	44	Cholesterol	0mg	Sugars	5g
Total Fat	0g	Sodium	4mg	Protein	1g
Saturated Fat	0g	Total Carbohydrates	10g	Calcium	25mg
Trans Fat	0g	Dietary Fiber	2g	Potassium	160mg

Onions contain several vitamins and minerals and they have been shown to promote health in many ways. In ancient times, onions were used for food when food sources got low, and for medicinal purposes to treat illness such as headaches, colds, and heart disease.

Onions contain anti-inflammatory properties that may help reduce the attack of high blood pressure. One of powerful antioxidants that is responsible for this health benefit is quercetin. Quercetin is a flavonoid antioxidant that has been associated with decreasing the risk of heart disease.

For centuries, onions have been used to fight off dangerous bacteria(细菌). Quercetin, is also responsible for this bacteria-fighting benefit. According to recent studies, the growth of bacteria, like H. pylori and MRSA were controlled when they were paired with quercetin taken from yellow onions.

Research indicates that onions may help people with diabetes(糖尿病) lower their blood sugar. This is due to the sulfur compounds found in onions, specifically S-methylcysteine and quercetin. These compounds have been associated with regulating one’s blood sugar.

Eat an onion. Well, maybe not a whole onion at one sitting, but definitely try adding them to your next recipe.

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，续写的词数应为150左右。

Desiree, a 4-year-old girl, was sobbing quietly over her father, Ken, who had died nine months earlier. She was hugging a photograph of her father with her fingers running around his face. “Daddy”, she said softly, “Why won't you come back?”

Instead of gradually adjusting to her father's death, Desiree refused to accept it “Daddy will be home soon,” she'd tell her mother. “He's at work.” When she played with her toy telephone, she pretended she was chatting with her father “I miss you, Daddy,” she'd say. “When will you come back?” Desiree's situation made her mother worried.

Days later, it was Ken's birthday. “How will I send him a card?” Desiree asked her mother “How about if we tie a litter to a balloon.” her mother said, “and send it up to heaven?” Desiree's eyes immediately lit up.

Her mother took her to a store and Desiree picked out a balloon with HAPPY BIRTHDAY above a drawing of The Little Mermaid (美人鱼). Desire and her father had often watched it.

The child's eyes shone as they were on the way to Ken's grave. Then Desiree dictated (口述) a letter to her Dad. “Daddy, Happy birthday, I love you and miss you,” she rattled off (快速说). “I hope you get this and can write to me on my birthday in January.”

Her mother wrote the message and their address on a small piece of paper, which was then wrapped in plastic and tied to the end of the string on the balloon. Finally, Desiree let fly the balloon. For almost an hour, they watched the shining spot of silver grow smaller and smaller till disappear. “Now Dad's going to write back to me,” Desiree said confidently.

Every day since they'd flew the balloon, Desiree had asked her mother, “Do you think Daddy has my balloon yet?” Several weeks passed, and she stopped asking.

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One day, 3,000 miles away, Wade was on a duck hunt when suddenly something in the bush caught his eyes. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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Desire's fifth birthday came and later on the afternoon, a package arrived.

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6 . The way Jason Momoa describes Hawaii’s beloved inactive volcano, Mauna Kea, makes you understand why it’s considered sacred(神圣的).

"It’s kind of the umbilical cord(脐带) to earth," the actor tells CNN. "You know, if you think about the Hawaiian islands, that’s the biggest mountain in the world, right? All the way up. So Mauna Kea is the most sacred. We call it the belly button, too. That’s like our birthplace. That’s how our islands were formed. So how can that not be sacred?"

He would know. Jason, a native of Hawaii, has had a near-constant presence there when he’s not working, fighting with local protestors to stop the construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope, or TMT, which would drill directly into the mountain and invade its precious water supply. So far, protestors have successfully blocked the only road crews seeking to go up the mountain in order to build the billion-dollar observatory.

"It started in 2015. What’s happening over there was just not right," Jason says. "And I went over there to meet with everyone to bring the point to the world." Jason joins the protests when he can. He cared so deeply about the preservation of the land that when he had spare time to lend his support, he was there. "You also have to remember, that’s our water source. So having an 18-story building built on top of the tallest mountain from the sea level on our water level is terrible."

The Game of Thrones star says he feels the movement is working and describing his part in it as a calling to do what he feels right in his soul. "There’s massive progress that’s bringing our people together," he says, adding, "I think there are a lot of problems in Hawaii. There are a lot of things that have happened in our history, a lot of injustice, and so we’re shining a light on it. People like myself or Dwayne Johnson, Bruno Mars are trying to spread the concern all around the world. For my soul I need to be there."

1. Why is Mauna Kea sacred according to Jason?

A．It’s still growing upwards.	B．It looks like the belly button.
C．It’s the birthplace of Humans.	D．It brings the islands into being.

2. What does “It” refer to in Paragraph 4?

A．The project of building TMT.	B．The event of blocking the road crews.
C．The shooting of Game of Thrones.	D．The movement of preserving the land.

3. According to Jason,what’s the significance of their movement?

A．Bringing Hawaiian people together.	B．Witnessing the history of Hawaii.
C．Bringing Hawaii problems into focus.	D．Making Mauna Kea better-known.

4. In which section might the text be read?

A．Travel.	B．Celebrity.
C．Culture.	D．Technology.

7 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
1. What does the speaker tell us about his mother's early childhood?

A．Her parents set up an ice-cream store.

B．Her parents immigrated(移民) to America.

C．Her parents left Chicago to work on a farm.

2. What do we learn about the speaker's father?

A．He left Italy at 16.

B．He taught English in Chicago.

C．He was made limp(瘸) in an accident.

3. What does the speaker say about his mother?

A．She was a school secretary.

B．She was helpful to neighbors.

C．She was highly devoted to her family.

8 . 假如你是李华。你刚刚参加了学校组织的桑基鱼塘(mulberry dyke fish pond)研学体验活动，感受到农业文化遗产的魅力。兴奋之余，你写了 e-mail 与美国笔友Alan 交流本次研学情况和感受。
要求:
1. 依据下图简介桑基鱼塘原理。
2. 词数 100 左右。

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9 . Regrets are often painful. A study suggests that some people can overcome them, said Jia Wei Zhang, a psychology graduate at the University of California. But this isn’t the case for everyone, he said.

The researchers wondered why some people report feeling improvement from regrets but others don’t. Does it lie in how people approach their regrets?

In the study, the researchers focused on self-compassion (自我同情) as a potential factor in why some people have an easier lime leaving their regrets behind them.

400 people attended an experiment. First, they were asked to write about their biggest regret. Half wrote something they did but wish they hadn’t done; the other half wrote something they didn’t do but wish they had. Then, the participants were randomly assigned to one of three groups: self compassion, self-esteem and a control group. The self-esteem group was asked to respond by “talking to yourself about this regret from the aspect of confirming your positive qualities”.

The control group was asked to write about their favorite hobby rather than their regret. Then, they were asked about their feelings of forgiveness, acceptance and personal improvement following the exercise.

They found that the self-compassion group reported greater feelings of acceptance, forgiveness and personal improvement, compared with the control group and the self esteem group. In other words, focusing on your best qualities is not what helps you feel better about a regret. Rather, being compassionate toward yourself is what may make a difference, the researchers found.

It’s possible that people who practice self-compassion are able to confront their regrets and see what went wrong, so they can make a better choice in the future, Zhang told Live Science. Self-compassion pushes people to accept their regret instead of running away from it.

The researchers used an example of this from a previous study on breast cancer patients who were asked to try thinking about their treatment in a positive light before it began. The women who did so reported greater feelings of personal growth later on.

1. What does the underlined word “confront” in Paragraph 7 mean?

A．Handle	B．Forget.
C．Ignore	D．Show.

2. What were the students in the self-esteem group asked to do?

A．Think of a way out.	B．Write about their regrets.
C．Record their favorite hobbies.	D．Treat their regrets in positive ways.

3. Why were the participants asked about their good qualities?

A．To cover up their regrets.

B．To see if they have weaknesses.

C．To see if they have self compassion.

D．To help them feel better about their regrets.

4. What was the aim of mentioning the researchers’ study on breast cancer patients?

A．To show the method of the research.

B．To show the value of the acceptance.

C．To show the truth of people’s feeling.

D．To show the difficulty of the research.