1 . Transition. It’s a pleasant word and a calming concept. It means going surely and sweetly from somewhere present to somewhere future. Unless, that is, it is newspapers’ ‘transition’ to the _______ world, an uncertain and highly uncomfortable process.

Just look at the latest print circulation figures. The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian and many of the rest are down overall between 8% and 10% year-on-year, but their websites go ever higher.

All of that may well be true, depending on timing, geography and more. _______, everyone— from web academics to print analysis—says so. Yet pause for a while and count a few little things that don’t _______.

One is the magazine world, both in the UK and in the US. It ought to be _______, wrecked by the move to the tablets which fit existing magazine page sizes so perfectly. But, in fact, the rate of decline in magazine purchasing is relatively small, with subscriptions holding up strongly and advertising remarkable _______.

As for news and current affairs magazines — which you’d expect to find in the eye of the digital storm — they had a 8.4% increase to report. In short, on both sides of the Atlantic, although some magazine areas went down, many showed rapid growth.

You can discover a _______ phenomenon when it comes to books, Kindle and similar e-readers are booming, with sales up massively this year. The apparent first step of transition couldn’t be _______. Yet, when booksellers examined the value of the physical books they sold over the last six months, they found it just 0.4% down. Screen or paper, then? It wasn’t one or the other: it was _______.

So if sales in that area have fallen so little, perhaps the _______ mostly affects newspapers? Yet again, though, the messages are oddly ________. The latest survey of trends by the World Association of Newspapers shows that global circulation rose 1.1% last year (to 812 million copies a day). Sales in the West dropped back but Asia more than ________ the difference.

Already 360 US papers—including most of the biggest and best — have built paywalls around their products. However, the best way of attracting a paying readership appears to be a deal that offers the print copy and digital access as some kind of ________ package.

________, print is also a crucial tool in selling internet subscriptions. And its advertising rates raise between nine and ten times more money than online.

Of course this huge difference isn’t ________ news for newspaper companies, as maintaining both an active website and an active print edition is difficult, complex and expensive. But newspaper brands still have much of their high profile in print: a drift on the web, the job of just being ________ becomes far harder.

1.

A．publishing

B．online

C．ideal

D．unknown

2.

A．On the other hand

B．After all

C．To begin with

D．For instance

3.

A．stop

B．exist

C．emerge

D．fit

4.

A．regulated

B．advancing

C．collapsing

D．minimized

5.

A．solid

B．simple

C．creative

D．changeable

6.

A．cultural

B．common

C．scientific

D．similar

7.

A．later

B．harder

C．clearer

D．slower

8.

A．all

B．neither

C．both

D．either

9.

A．service

B．system

C．crisis

D．figure

10.

A．right

B．vague

C．designed

D．mixed

11.

A．made up

B．told apart

C．took over

D．held on

12.

A．joint

B．mysterious

C．modern

D．complex

13.

A．In other words

B．On the contrary

C．What’s more

D．Even so

14.

A．new

B．sad

C．big

D．good

15.

A．spared

B．updated

C．noticed

D．edited

2 . Which of the following sentences is COMPLETELY CORRECT?

A．Those writers who beg a chance to get published can't even make sure to use proper spelling and grammar in writing.

B．The night before the concert, the young pianist lay awake in the bed, staring at the ceiling and playing the tunes in his head.

C．Shooting the movie Leap was in honor of the Chinese women's volleyball team and its legendary leader Lang Ping nicknamed "The Iron Hammer".

D．It turned out for the painter's bold and imaginative uses of colors to result from her childhood experiences.

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 often go to a certain cafe when I wish to work away from home, where I face many of my self-created distractions.

Once when I stood in line at the cafe, I looked at a large number of pastries (油酥点心) that attracted me, and was thinking which pastry I was going to choose with my cup of tea. At that time, I realized the line wasn’t moving as smoothly as I had wished it would. I was in no particular rush, but noticed this thought surface. When I became aware of this, it promoted me to look at the two individuals before me.

One was an elderly woman perhaps in her 70s. She seemed to fumble (摸索) in her change purse and inquired in detail about the prices. It was then evident that she ordered iced tea as well as a pastry, but did not have enough money for both. She decided on the pastry and left the iced tea behind. Seeing this made my heart sink. I watched her walk away and sit down at a table nearby.

At that time I found myself deeply involved in the scene. I found myself confused as I had originally thought the woman behind the elderly woman was her friend. I kept observing.

The woman behind the elderly lady, then placed her order. And my eyes did not follow her to where she sat.

I smiled at the person at the counter and then proceeded to buy my cup of tea, along with the pastry. But then I gazed over the person’s shoulder to where the iced tea was standing. So, I asked if it could be added to my order. My request was met with slight confusion, but I did not feel inspired to share at the time what my next move would be.

As I walked over to the table where the elderly woman had sat down, I noticed she was no longer there, but the pastry was uneaten on her plate. I took a quick look around and saw her coming back. I very quickly placed the iced tea on the table and then made my way to the rest room.

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。

Upon my return, to my surprise I noticed both the women were sitting together.

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However, the other thought that surfaced in my mind was that of judgment.

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4 . The Hardest Novel I’ve Ever Read

For the last three months, I have glared at its fat heavy form on my floor with a vague sense of personal failure. I have opened Ulysses twice, determined to finish it, and managed to get all the way to page 46. I have read so little both times that I have never bothered using a bookmark.

    1     I like the community this book has created, its inherent sense of freedom and celebration of all things rude and true. I like that the style and language allow for readers to choose how they read it — some recommend skipping chapter three, others suggest reading it only after reading ABOUT it but I still get stuck.

Why do I get stuck?     2     On the “Most Difficult Novels” list on the Goodreads website, Joyce takes the top two spots, with Ulysses ranking first and Finnegans Wake following it. I think what is restricting me to page 46 is the language: the big fat burst of Chaucerian English with slang and jaunty dialogue that, while entertaining me, is also leaving me a little lost.

There are a few other “worthy” works of literature I have yet to read, including Infinite Jest and War and Peace.     3     I really want to love Ulysses. I feel deeply frustrated that I can’t finish it, all the while appreciating its uniqueness, weightiness and special “Joyceness.”

The English writer Virginia Woolf thought Ulysses was nonsense as she complained in her diaries about the pressure to finish reading it. By contrast, Vladimir Nabokov, the author who wrote Lolita expressed deep love for it.     4     I have read it similar to a long marriage(something unpleasant, big reward at the end), modern Jazz-fusion (an innovative genre) and boxing match with oneself (wanting to punch yourself in the face), which is how I felt by page 46.

Some people love Ulysses, so where am I getting wrong? My ultimate hope is that the struggle will be worth the effort and I can proceed victorious onto page 800 or so, on my third fourth, eighteenth try. Something tells me I will get there in the end.

A．I’m not entirely sure myself

B．A lot of them are weighty tomes (巨著), but I like big books

C．It seems that reading Ulysses is a big different experience for everyone.

D．Even when staring at pages without absorbing a word, I thought nice thoughts about it

E．They, however, only cause me a slight sense of shame that I have not read or enjoyed them

F．I have been amused and charmed by the first two or three chapters, and then puzzled and bored.

5 . 手机支付（mobile payment）在人们的日常生活中非常流行，请你谈谈对这一现象的看法。内容包括：
1.分析手机支付的利与弊；
2.提出你的观点或建议。
注意：
1.词数100左右。
2.可以适当增加情节，以使行文连贯。（参考词汇：扫二维码 scan QR codes）
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6 . 阅读下面短文,根据所给情节进行续写,使之构成一个完整的故事.

My mouth felt dry as I followed my mother into the doctor’s office and sank into a chair next to hers. This doctor had a room full of gadgets (小装置) and gizmos (小物件) to analyze the learning abilities of failing students. That day he had analyzed (分析) me. “I’m sorry to tell you this, Mrs. Dow, but Peter has dyslexia (阅读障碍). A fairly serious case.”

I swallowed and tried to breathe. The doctor went on. “He’ll never read above the fourth-grade level. Since he won’t be able to complete high school requirements,I suggest you enroll (使登记) him in a trade school where he can learn to work with his hands.” I didn’t want to go to trade school (职校). I wanted to apply at Bible College in our town to be a preacher (牧师), like my dad. I forced my tears back. A twelve-year-old was too big to cry. “Thank you, Doctor.” We drove home.

Dyslexia? I’d never heard it before. Sure, I was always the slowest kid in my class. I had a special hiding place where I would cry because I couldn’t do my lessons however hard I tried. Of course, I never told my mom about that. I was too ashamed. I didn’t want to worry her, either. She had enough on her mind with teaching school full-time and taking care of Dad and me.

On reaching home, my mom looked into my eyes with tears running down her cheeks. Seeing her cry was too much for me. Before I knew what was happening, I was in her arms crying. A few minutes later she said, “Honey. I want to talk to you.”I waited,sniffling (抽泣).“You heard what the doctor said about your not finishing school. I don’t believe him.”

注意：
1.所续写短文的词数应为150左右：
2.至少使用5个短文中划有下划线的关键词语：
3.续写部分分为两段,每段的开头语已为你写好；
4.续写完成后,请用下划线标出你所使用的关键词语。
Paragraph 1:

I stopped sniffling and looked at her.

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Paragraph 2:

A ray (线) of hope shone through the uncertain future.

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7 . Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.

Human memory is notoriously (众所周知地) unreliable. Even people with the sharpest facial recognition skills can only remember so much.

It’s tough to quantify how good a person is     1     remembering. No one really knows how many different faces someone can recall, for example, but various estimates tend to hover in the thousands – based on the number of acquaintances a person     2     have.

Machines aren’t limited this way. Give the right computer a massive database of faces, and it can process what it sees – then recognize a face it     3     (tell) to find – with remarkable speed and precision. This skill is     4     supports the enormous promise of facial-recognition software in the 21^st century. It is also what makes contemporary surveillance (监控) systems so scary.

The thing is, machines still have limitations when it comes to facial recognition. And scientists are only just beginning to understand what those constraints are.     5     (figure) out how computers are struggling, researchers at the University of Washington created a massive database of faces – they call it MegaFace – and     6     (test) a variety of facial-recognition algorithms(算法) as they scales up in complexity. The idea was to test the machines on a database that included up to 1 million different images of nearly 7,000 different people – and not just a large database     7     (feature) a relatively small number of different faces, more consistent with what’s been used in other research.

As the databases grew, machine accuracy dipped across the board. Algorithms     8     were right 95% of the time when they were dealing with a 13,000-image database, for example, were accurate about 70% of the time when     9     (face) with 1 million images. That’s still pretty good, says one of the researchers, Ira Kemelmacher-Shlizerman. “Much better than we expected,” she said,

Machines also had difficulty adjusting for people who look a lot alike –either doppelgangers (长相极相似的人), whom the machine would have trouble       10     (identify) as two separate people, or the same person who appeared in different photos at different ages or in different lighting, whom the machine would incorrectly view as separate people.

8 . 假定你是李华，来自英国的朋友Peter想知道中国的新冠疫情(coronavirus epidemic)控制情况，写邮件想要询问你当地学校的疫情管控措施，请你给他回信说明。
回信中需要包含如下内容：
1. 感谢他的关心
2. 介绍学校的管控措施（可能需要的单词：口罩（mask），消毒（sterilize）核酸检测（nucleic acid test）,隔离quarantine 疑似病例suspected case）
3. 对战胜疫情的信心
注意：1. 字迹必须清晰，卷面整洁
2. 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯
3. 字数不少于100字
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9 . 假如你是李华，请你给成都大运会组委会写一封申请函，申请当一名志愿者，内容包含以下：
1. 个人信息；
2. 希望担当的志愿者工作及理由；
3. 联系方式。
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10 . 必修一第一单元的题目是A new start，我们人生中有许多new starts，现在的你面对什么样的new start？你将如何面对？请以A new start为题写一篇80词左右的英语短文参加你校英语俱乐部举办的征文比赛。
注意：不得透露学校、姓名等任何个人信息。
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