1 . 听下面一段对话，回答以下小题。
1. What is the man doing on his computer？

A．Watching a movie.

B．Listening to a book.

C．Enjoying some music.

2. How often is the reading posted on the website？

A．Monthly.

B．Weekly.

C．Daily.

3. What is Daniel Radcliffe？

A．A director.

B．A writer.

C．An actor.

2 . 听下面一段对话，回答以下小题。
1. Why does Nancy come to the store？

A．To learn to make a cake.

B．To get some tools for baking.

C．To buy a few things for a cake.

2. What kind of birthday cake does Nancy prepare for her grandmother？

A．A fruit one.

B．A chocolate one.

C．A cheese one.

3. What does Nancy think of making a cake all by hand？

A．Very easy.

B．Quite boring.

C．A little difficult.

4. What will Nancy do next?

A．Return home.

B．Go to a bakery.

C．Chat with the man.

3 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
1. What is the speaker doing now?

A．Giving a lesson.

B．Making a speech.

C．Reporting news.

2. What temperature can the sand battery store heat around?

A．About 500 °C.

B．About 400 °C.

C．About 100 °C.

3. What does the speaker say about the sand battery?

A．Complicated.

B．Cheap.

C．Space-consuming.

4 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. When did the horse-face skirt first appear?

A．In the Han Dynasty.

B．In the Song Dynasty.

C．In the Ming Dynasty.

2. Why does the man want to know more about the skirt?

A．To make a traditional skirt.

B．To buy one for his sister.

C．To get a good presentation topic.

3. What color waist does the Ming horse-face skirt usually have?

A．White.

B．Red.

C．Blue.

5 . What did the woman do to get rid of the discomfort?

A．She kept her mouth open.

B．She drank some wine.

C．She had some sleep.

6 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
1. Who is the speaker talking to？

A．Teachers.

B．Students.

C．Parents.

2. What is important to a good class according to the speaker？

A．Interesting teaching methods.

B．Students' class performance.

C．Teachers' attitude toward it.

3. What can the listeners do if they are dissatisfied with the material？

A．Pay 25 dollars for the service.

B．Contact the speaker to change new ones.

C．Keep the material and take their money back.

7 . With kids going back to school, many parents are concerned about how their children will manage their behavior for eight hours a day. They may keep a watchful eye on their phone in case they receive a phone call from the school regarding their children’s behavior. If a child has difficulty controlling his words and behavior, a daily behavior report card may be a helpful option.

A daily behavior report card can be as simple as a chart on the child’s desk where his teacher provides ratings based on his behavior. The chart might be broken down into each class in a day. At the end of each class, the teacher will rate the students based on how well they did in meeting their behavioral goals. For example, a child might get scored on a 1—10 scale. Students will have a goal score to earn after each class. If they earn their goal score, they will get an instant experience-based reward.

Some advantages of the daily behavior report card are that it makes classroom expectations clear and gives kids frequent feedback on how they did and what they need to do to improve next time. While many teachers often promise a reward for good behavior at the end of the school day, this possibility of a reward is often too far for many kids to care. Instead, by offering a more prompt reward after each class that a child’s behavioral goal is met, their motivation level can stay high to control their attention and behavior.

Teachers are busy during the school days. They often have to manage difficult behavior in class and they lose lots of the classroom instruction time. However, using a daily behavior report card may be able to prevent difficult behavior from occurring in the first place. Meanwhile it will also improve the teacher-parent communication, which helps parents track and solve their children’s problems.

1. What does Paragraph 2 mainly tell us about the daily behavior report card?

A．Its basis.

B．Its result.

C．Its rating.

D．Its use.

2. Why can the daily behavior report card help children behave well in class?

A．It includes all the study rules in class.

B．It meets the demands of children in class.

C．It offers them expectations and feedback in class.

D．It provides a great reward for those with high scores.

3. What does the underlined word “prompt” in Paragraph 3 probably mean?

A．Immediate.

B．Reasonable.

C．Necessary.

D．Minimum.

4. What does the author think of the daily behavior report card?

A．Multi-beneficial.

B．Universally true.

C．Widely available.

D．Quite complicated.

8 . As the summer approaches, the difficulty of booking tickets to visit public museums has skyrocketed. As a result, there is scalping (黄牛倒票) and high-cost third-party reservation service providers.

When official channels for reservation fail, people have no choice but to pay sky-high prices to businesses to make reservations on their behalf or pay even higher prices for organized tour services in order to enter the museums. This clearly contradicts the original intention of the nation’s requirement for free access to museums, and there have been widespread complaints from the public. Therefore, it is necessary to simplify the ticketing mechanisms of museums now.

In 2021, the total number of registered museums nationwide reached 6,183, with 5,605 museums offering free admission. The imbalance between supply and demand has resulted in museums being extremely difficult to access, with tickets booked up in seconds after reservations open.

The fact that people are willing to visit museums demonstrates the strong cohesion and centripetal force of traditional culture. As the guardians of these treasures, museums should provide better ticketing services.

The relationship between individual reservations and group tickets for tour groups needs to be handled properly. Currently, many individuals are unable to secure reservations on their own and are forced to join expensive tour groups for visits. There is significant profit potential in the transition from free reservations to costly tour group sign-ups.

This has even become a source of revenue for some travel agencies and is linked to the museum’s own interests, as many group tickets include paid services within the museum.

Should tour groups be allowed to continue? If so, to what extent? This consideration should not merely be based on the museum’s operational purposes but also on benefiting society more broadly. Especially with the explosive growth of student trips during the summer, museums should provide more chances for free admission.

1. What has led to scalping and high-cost third-party reservation service providers?

A．The fact that people are willing to visit museums.

B．The rapid growth of student trips during the summer.

C．The difficulty of booking tickets to visit public museums.

D．The imbalance between supply and demand for group tickets.

2. What does the author think of the current ticketing mechanisms of museums?

A．They are efficient and effective.	B．They encourage individual tickets.
C．They go against the original purpose.	D．They should be maintained as they are.

3. What percentage of registered museums offered free admission in 2021?

A．Over 90 percent.	B．Around 50 percent.
C．Less than 10 percent.	D．It is not mentioned.

4. What does the underlined word “revenue” in paragraph 6 mean?

A．Entertainment.

B．Information.

C．Worry.

D．Income.

9 . My findings once showed that students perform better when they take notes by hand than when they use laptops. Before I knew it, those findings were used as good reasons for laptop bans in classrooms in the US.     1     The fact is that I don’t actually advocate laptop bans, and never have. In fact, I don’t even ban laptops in my own classes.

In the research, we asked students to watch TED Talks and had them take notes either on laptops or with a pen and paper. Students using laptops recorded the talks nearly verbatim (一字不差), while students who took handwritten notes could not; they just took notes in their own words.     2     And deeper processing of the information led to improved learning. As a result, students in this case scored higher on tests.

I published the findings.     3     But they didn’t know what actually interfered (妨碍) with learning was the mindless recording of a lecture. Laptops merely allowed students to take notes more quickly.

    4     Whether they are helpful or harmful depends on specific purposes. The value of a laptop in the classroom depends on the goal of a lesson plan, the nature of the material, the type of students being taught, etc.

So can laptops be used in the classroom? If a lesson requires exact quotes, then laptops are ideal. But if the goal is conceptual understanding, they will produce the exactly opposite results. Don’t ignore the context when deciding whether or not to allow laptops in your class.     5    

A．Now I regret conducting the research.

B．The value of a laptop has been discussed.

C．I received a lot of emails blaming me for such policies.

D．All in all, the answer to the question is that it depends.

E．Teachers around the country soon started banning laptops in their classes.

F．Like most technology, laptops are not universally helpful or harmful in class.

G．Writing by hand required students to understand and summarize the content.

10 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
1. Which of the following is the speaker’s favorite?

A．The library.

B．The lecture hall.

C．The football field.

2. Where is the dining hall?

A．Opposite the gate.

B．Behind the teaching buildings.

C．At the end of the campus.

3. How is the speaker’s campus?

A．It is large in size.

B．It is old and quiet.

C．It looks beautiful.