1 . A great skill to have is the ability to solve problems effectively, specifically interpersonal and behavioral problems. In order to achieve this, you need to follow a few key requirements.     1    

First, you should understand “why” the problem exists.     2     If you know something about why the problem exists, you’ll have a better time to resolve the problem. Let’s take the example of a child who doesn’t want to come to school. Before you can reach a solution, it is important to find out why the child doesn’t want to come to school.

Once you have clearly identified the problem, you need to understand what you have control over and what don’t.     3     You may not control whether a child comes to school, but you are able to deal with the barrier to the child not wanting to attend school.

Don’t jump to conclusions. Once you have all of your information, analyze it carefully and look at it from various viewpoints. Be as objective as possible and don’t be quick to judge.     4     This is a time for you to use your critical thinking skills.

    5     How many options do you have? Are you sure? Which options seem reasonable? Have you weighed the pros and cons (事物的利与弊) of your options? Are there any limitations of your options? Are there any options better than others and why? Are there advantages and disadvantages you need to take into consideration?

A．Now determine your options for solutions.

B．Remain judgment-free as much as possible.

C．Ask yourself questions about what options you have.

D．That means figuring out the actual root cause of the problem.

E．Read on to find how to become a more effective problem solver.

F．The strategies in problem-solving are good lifelong skills to have.

G．Your efforts must be within the areas where you are in the driver’s seat.

2 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
1. Where does the speaker work most of the time?

A．In libraries.

B．At a college.

C．At home.

2. What does the speaker do besides writing?

A．Teach courses at colleges.

B．Work part-time in a library.

C．Type letters for other people.

3. What will the speaker probably do if she feels lonely?

A．Keep up writing books.

B．Travel around the world.

C．Start a new job working with lots of people.

3 . “The Worthington Christian defeated the Westerville North by 2—1 in an Ohio boys’ soccer game on Saturday.” That’s according to a story that appeared last month in The Columbus Dispatch. That lead was written not by a sportswriter, but by an artificial intelligence (AI) tool.

Many news organizations are now examining how AI might be used in their work. But if they begin their “experimenting” with high school sports because they are less momentous than war, peace, climate change and politics, they may miss something crucial. Nothing may be more important to the students who play high school sports, and to their families, neighborhoods, and sometimes, the whole town. That next game is what the students train for, work toward, and dream about. Someday, almost all student athletes will go on to have jobs in front of screens, in office parks, at schools, in hospitals or on construction sites. They may suffer blows and setbacks. But the high school games they played and watched, as well as their hopes and cheers, will stay vivid in their memories.

I have a small idea. If newspapers will no longer send staff reporters to cover high school games, why not hire high school student journalists? News organizations can pay students an hourly wage to cover high school games. The young reporters might learn how to be fair to all sides, write vividly, and attract readers. That’s what some celebrities in sports did, and do.

And think of the great writers who were inspired by sports: Hemingway on fishing, Bernard Malamud and Marianne Moore on baseball, Chen Zhongshi on football, and CLR James on cricket, who said, “There can be raw pain and bleeding where so many thousands see the inevitable (不可避免的) ups and downs of only a game.” A good high school writer, unlike a robot, could tell readers not just the score, but the stories of the game.

1. Why is the lead mentioned in the first paragraph?

A．To introduce an original idea.	B．To show AI’s wide application.
C．To bring in the opinion about AI.	D．To stress AI’s importance to news.

2. What does the author think of high school games?

A．Hopeful.

B．Eye-catching.

C．Competitive.

D．Far-reaching.

3. What is good sports news like according to the author?

A．Rich in contents.	B．Fair in comments.
C．Centered on results.	D．Targeted on readers.

4. Which can be a suitable title for the text?

A．News Organizations Are Abusing AI	B．High Schoolers Can Do What AI Can’t
C．Great Writers Are Crazy About Sports	D．AI Ruins High School Students’ Memory

4 . If you’ve spent more time outside in the past couple of years, you might have noticed a lot more of what happens naturally in your neighborhood, from the songs of birds outside your window to the flowers in a nearby park.    1    That’s called “citizen (公民)” or “community” science. With our observations (观察), we can help scientists do research.

    2    A single scientist can work for years trying to collect as many observations as a community project could collect in a month. There are thousands of community science projects out there. Here’s how to get started:

    3    Ask yourself: “What gets me excited about nature?” You might be really into birds or trees. Do you love observing the weather? Do you care about the water quality (质量) where you live? There’s going to be a project for you out there.

Get your tools ready.    4    From there, check out CitizenScience.gov or SciStarter to learn more and find projects in their databases (数据库). If you have a good idea of what you’re interested in, you can turn right to a specialized app. There are plenty of apps and websites to meet your interests.

Step outside and start recording what you see outside.    5     People often see nature, especially if you live in a city, as something that is far away or hard to get to. You can study nature in the cracks (裂缝) of the sidewalk ... There are birds everywhere. You don’t have to be out in the wilderness.

A．Why would scientists need common people’s observations of nature?

B．Turn your hobby into a service for scientists.

C．Think about what you enjoy or find interesting in nature.

D．Are you a fan of bird watching?

E．All you need is a smartphone or a computer for most community science projects.

F．You can be a citizen scientist no matter where you live.

G．We can share what we see with scientists through apps and websites.

5 . One of the most famous literary challenges in history was when Dr. Seuss received a challenge from his publisher that he could only use 50 words to write an entire book. That’s all well and good, but it’s a tough challenge, to be sure. However, Ernest Vincent Wright would no doubt turn up his nose, as he challenged himself to pen an entire 50,000-word novel without once using the letter “e”.

Wright managed to pull it off. The final product was Gadsby, which is about a man named, well, Gadsby, who tries to save his city with the help of a youth group. It took Wright nearly six months to complete the work, and in his introduction pages he mentioned the challenges along the way.

One of the biggest challenges was replacing pronouns, since it’s tough to write a sentence, let alone a novel, without words like “he” or “she” or “her” and so forth. Additionally, he was forced to find ways to work around using past tense words that typically end in “-ed”, which, as you might imagine, is more than a little tricky.

Still, Wright did manage to come up with 50,110 words and a full story without any cheats, making it one of the most successful lipograms (避讳某字之文) in the history of writing. Wright self-published the book in 1939 and it was read primarily by people who tried to find any cheats, so convinced were they that Wright simply must have used the letter.

The entire novel is available online to read for free, as it entered the public domain in 1968. It’s a good thing, too, as the storehouse that contained the majority of the copies burned down, destroying enough of the books that it has since become a rare book collector’s prize, with copies being valued at thousands of dollars.

At the end of the day, of course, it remains a truly great achievement. After all, “e” is the most commonly used letter in English, with more than 11 percent of all words in the Oxford dictionary containing at least one “e”.

1. What did Wright challenge himself to write?

A．An entire book with 50 words.

B．A 50,000-word book in six months.

C．A 50,000-word book without the letter “e”.

D．An entire book including “e” 50,000 times.

2. What does paragraph 3 mainly talk about?

A．The difficulties Wright faced.

B．The plot of Wright’s final product.

C．The popularity of Wright’s final product.

D．The smart ways Wright used to replace pronouns.

3. What can we infer about the readers of Gadsby?

A．They considered the book a great success.

B．They expected the book to be available online.

C．They wondered what lipograms mean.

D．They doubted if Wright really made it.

4. Why do Wright’s book copies become valuable?

A．Due to their rarity.

B．Because Wright won a big prize.

C．Because they had a really long history.

D．Due to book collectors’ recommendation.

6 . 假如你是李华，你的外籍教师Peter想了解有关中国古典文化方面的书籍，向你征询建议，请你用英语给Peter老师写一封推荐信。内容包括：
1. 说明写信目的
2. 介绍推荐书籍并说明推荐理由
3. 表达期待被采纳
注意：
字数100-120词之间。
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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

Adisorn Sangkrajang     1    (arrive) early at Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi Airport on Thursday evening for his flight bound for Shanghai. He has been long looking forward to his first trip to China, and when the plane touched down early Friday morning, he became one of the first     2    (benefit) from the “visa-free era” between Thailand and China that takes effect on March 1.

“I’m thrilled about my first trip to China, and the visa exemption (豁免) is     3     (incredible) convenient,” said the 42-year-old company employee    4    (travel) with 11 other    5    (colleague). “We had planned to visit China and the visa exemption made the decision easy.”

“China is a country with a rich culture,    6    I’ve always longed to experience. This is my first visit,    7    I might return for a second or third time,” he told Xinhua .

In late January, China and Thailand signed     8    agreement on mutual visa exemption and to be effective on March1. Since then, the booking of tours to China    9    (increase) significantly，said Thai tour operator Kavisara Charoenporn, who organized a chartered flight that departed Friday to Zhangjiajie, a picturesque tourist spot in Central China. The chartered flights     10    Bangkok to Zhangjiajie have increased from two to three times a week beginning in March, said Kavisara.

8 . It was a warm March evening, and I’d just taken a seat on the bus. A woman took a seat opposite me. Not speaking to anyone________, she tearfully________her story.

A thief had________one of her bags. It had contained half of the money she’d brought. The other half was rolled in a hankie and hidden under her blouse, so she________still had some money.

After a few minutes, an old man in ragged clothes got on the bus. The bus conductor started to collected ________. When he came to the old man’s seat, he became _______ and asked whether he had any money. The old man ________ that he had spent all his money this morning when he’d accidentally got on the wrong bus.

Upon hearing this, the bus conductor and the driver ________ the old man to get off the bus. The old man ________ them to let him take that bus.

The woman was observing the ________. When the bus driver and conductor raised their voices at the old man, she ________.

”Can’t you see he’s only trying to get home?“

”He doesn’t have any money!“ the driver shouted.

”Well, that’s no reason to throw him off the bus, she ________.

She reached inside her blouse, took out her ________ money. “Here’s his fare and mine.”

On the road of life, the ________ and smiles of strangers can lighten our loads and ________ our spirits. How much sweeter the journey when we make it a little smoother and richer for others!

1.

A．in particular

B．in doubt

C．in advance

D．in secret

2.

A．announced

B．narrated

C．complained

D．expressed

3.

A．stretched

B．seized

C．sought

D．stolen

4.

A．fortunately

B．frankly

C．kindly

D．grateful

5.

A．tickets

B．luggage

C．bags

D．currency

6.

A．awkward

B．disappointed

C．honored

D．suspicious

7.

A．excused

B．explained

C．urged

D．released

8.

A．removed

B．contributed

C．ordered

D．permitted

9.

A．begged

B．allowed

C．quested

D．advised

10.

A．matter

B．accident

C．incident

D．story

11.

A．indicated

B．expected

C．reminded

D．interrupted

12.

A．demanded

B．insisted

C．promised

D．agreed

13.

A．extra

B．available

C．remaining

D．original

14.

A．sincerity

B．honesty

C．responsibility

D．generosity

15.

A．improve

B．recover

C．lift

D．inspire

9 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
1. Why did the speaker go to the small park?

A．To organize an activity.

B．To do some cleaning.

C．To take a walk.

2. Where does the speaker’s mother work?

A．At a hospital.

B．At a school.

C．At a park.

3. What did the speaker think of her volunteer experience?

A．Challenging.

B．Tiring.

C．Enjoyable.

10 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. What will students mainly do at the camp?

A．Exchange food culture.

B．Learn to cook.

C．Do outdoor activities.

2. Who can take part in the camp?

A．Elementary school students.

B．High school students.

C．College students.

3. When will the camp end?

A．On Jan.22nd.

B．On Jan.25th.

C．On Jan.26th.

4. How will the speakers go to the camp?

A．By car.

B．By bus.

C．By bike.