1 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
1. How long did the speaker stay in France?

A．About three months.

B．About four months.

C．About five months.

2. What does the speaker love about France most?

A．Longer holiday.

B．The delicious food.

C．The style of dining.

3. What does the speaker think of the life in France?

A．Relaxing

B．Busy

C．Boring.

4. Why did the speaker go to France?

A．She went to France to study.

B．She went to France to work.

C．She went to France to travel.

2 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. When will John leave for Boston?

A．On May 13th

B．On May 14th.

C．On May15th

2. Where will the party probably be held?

A．At John’s grandparents’.

B．At a restaurant.

C．At school.

3. How many people will be invited?

A．At least 28.

B．25.

C．At most 20.

4. What gift will the woman probably give John?

A．A book.

B．A dictionary.

C．A pen.

3 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. Why does Mike call Mary?

A．To get a lift from her

B．To invite her to see a film

C．To discuss homework with her.

2. What will Mary do next Monday?

A．Take a math test.

B．Hand in a report.

C．Have a chemistry class

4 . 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。

When I was four, my seven-year-old brother received a baseball mitt (手套) for his birth-day, which was also what I desperately wanted. But, back then, girls didn’t play sports; they played with dolls.

26 years later, I happened to see a notice in my local paper: “Women’s Slow-Pitch Soft-ball League opens soon. Anyone interested, sign up at the recreation center.” I cut it out and set it on the kitchen counter. Was it even possible to play baseball, a game I’d never actually played but had dreamed of playing in my entire life?

Looking at that notice on my counter, I thought of a thousand reasons I couldn’t play. But the idea of playing baseball stuck in my head and wouldn’t go away. Finally, I screwed up my courage and signed up. Days later, word came that I could begin practice in James Park on Monday night.

On Monday, heart pounding, I walked through the park filled with women of all high-school girls practicing at different diamonds. I waited a couple of minutes before approaching the coach, who seemed unhappy to see me. He had just put together top athletes for his team, and didn’t want some old lady messing things up. He looked me over, who had no mitt but wore an old T-shirt and gym shoes. However, I didn’t care.

That very first day was quite bitter. He had me run bases all night and never gave me a chance to bat or play the field, with the attempt to make me shrink from difficulty. But he had no idea how determined I was. I still showed up to play in the following Mondays, which clearly surprised him.

Finally, he gave in. During the last inning of the last game of the season, the coach told me to go to center field. I had to borrow a mitt from a member of our team and used it to catch an impossibly high ball, winning the game for us. Again, the coach looked surprised. It never hit him that I might be able to play.

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After the game, I received an unexpected invitation from another coach.

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It turned out I didn’t let my coach down.

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5 . 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。

Recently, the National Roller Skating Championships was held in Lishui, Zhejiang. Qin Yuqing, a member of the national freestyle roller skating team, gained an     1    (impress) triumph, which marked her debut in the adult division of competitive events.

Dressed in a stunning clothes inspired by the celestial (天上的) singers and dancers,     2    (refer) to as Flying Apsaras (飞天仙子), depicted in the murals of Dunhuang’s Mogao Grottoes located in Gansu province in Northwest China, Qin fascinated the audience with her dazzling skating performance.

Born in the year 2004, this young enthusiast of roller skating and traditional Chinese culture has already secured numerous     3    (victory) in competitions. Qin began her roller skating journey when she was just 6 years old. She felt     4     indescribable bond to roller skating, and recognizing her passion, her parents swiftly enrolled her in the sport. From that moment on, she applied herself     5     daily practice with considerable energy.

    6    (step) onto the competition stage initially brought about nervousness and mis-takes for Qin, resulting in setbacks. She recalled a moment when she fell in the middle of a competition, experiencing a pang of     7    (embarrass), but quickly adjusting her mindset. “Failure is okay.     8     matters isn’t whether you stumble, but whether you stand up again.”

Since 2015, Qin     9    (commit) herself to the preservation and promotion of Chinese culture. To ensure that the elegance of Chinese culture was perfectly displayed in roller skating competitions, Qin has invested a lot of time and energy. She said, “I desire to be more than just a roller skater; I aim to be an ambassador of Chinese culture, upholding and advancing     10    (China) magnificent heritage through the integration of roller skating and traditional aesthetics (美学).”

6 . Wang Jibing, a food delivery rider living and working in Kunshan, East China’s Jiangsu province. Recently, he had an _______ experience due to the wrong address left by a customer. Wang _______ three buildings and climbed 18 floors before he finally managed to deliver the food to the customer, who _______ scolded Wang for arriving late. Wang was sad and _______. As a husband and father of three children, who shoulders the majority of the financial responsibility in his family, he had to swallow the _______.

On his way home that day, Wang wrote a _______, Man in a Hurry, expressing his feelings. “Wind is born from air in a hurry. A knife is forged from the wind in hurry...” he wrote. Since then, Wang has been writing poems _______ by his daily life. Wang’s poems, simple yet real, are seen as a tool to process his _______, especially the personal experiences serving as inspirations during his work. His heart is _______ by writing the poems, and he has ________ them with his friends. In 2022, one of his friends posted Man in a Hurry online. It quickly ________ and was viewed for over 20 million times both from home and abroad. His poems and stories deeply touched many people, who shared similar ________ and negative emotion in their lives.

“Poetry is like a ________ from stress to escape from chaos and an opportunity to record my life. Whether it’s coping with pain, dealing with stressful situations, or ________ life’s struggles, poetry makes me confident and happy,” says Wang.

“The feedback from the readers is like the moon up against the six pence on the ground. I never planned to make writing my career, even though I have published two books,” says Wang. “Those poems came to me naturally and I enjoyed writing them very much. ________, the priority is to look after my family, so I will keep my regular job delivering food.”

1.

A．immoral

B．impossible

C．unpleasant

D．unsympathetic

2.

A．searched

B．constructed

C．inspected

D．furnished

3.

A．joyfully

B．truly

C．gently

D．rudely

4.

A．pessimistic

B．energetic

C．frustrated

D．enthusiastic

5.

A．awkwardness

B．blame

C．compliment

D．tolerance

6.

A．poem

B．comment

C．agenda

D．blog

7.

A．excerpted

B．adapted

C．inspired

D．composed

8.

A．routines

B．belongings

C．characteristics

D．emotions

9.

A．healed

B．guaranteed

C．assigned

D．panicked

10.

A．drafted

B．shared

C．negotiated

D．recreated

11.

A．went blank

B．went abroad

C．went viral

D．went wrong

12.

A．resolutions

B．suggestions

C．highlights

D．difficulties

13.

A．stamp

B．credit

C．company

D．escape

14.

A．submit to

B．apply to

C．turn to

D．lead to

15.

A．Otherwise

B．However

C．Moreover

D．Therefore

7 . Have you ever wondered what your pets want you to know?     1    . So let’s hear some inner voice coming from your beloved cats.

I don’t like to share

Sharing food or water bowls or a litter box can make cats anxious, according to veterinarian Katrina Warren.     2    . Does your cat still seem anxious? Provide your kitty with a place to have a rest, since cats appreciate high places and autonomy.

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For a study in Animal Cognition in 2015, researchers set up an unfamiliar and slightly scary scene—an electric fan with ribbons attached.     4    . 79 percent of the cats looked back and forth between their person and the fan, indicating that they were trying to see whether the human was afraid. Half the owners were told to act confident and approach the fan, and the other half were told to act nervous and move away from it. The cats whose people seemed scared were significantly more likely to direct their gaze to the room’s exit.

I hate being ignored

“Cats will more frequently approach and play with a person who is attentive to them com-pared to a person who is ignoring them,” says Kristyn Vitale, PhD, a researcher in the Human-Animal Interaction Lab at Oregon State University.     5    . Vitale says if a cat is showing signs of aggression (widened pupils, a fast-twitching tail, fur standing on end, his-sing, or growling), just walk away. It’s better to end the interaction before an incident occurs that may lead to a strain in the relationship.

A．I guide your action

B．I tell what you think

C．Many scientific researchers continue to reveal their secrets

D．And then cats were permitted to enter the room with their owners

E．So, you’d better prepare as many water bowls as you can for your cats

F．If you have multiple cats, maintain separate dishes and litter boxes for each

G．However, sometimes your cats want you to know they’re eager to be left alone

8 . You are what you eat — and what you eat may be encoded in your DNA. Studies have indicated that your genetics play a role in determining the foods you find delicious or disgusting. “Everything has a genetic component, even if it’s small,” says Joanne Cole, a geneticist and a professor at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. “We know there is some genetic contribution to why we eat the foods we eat. Can we take the next step and actually show the exact position of the regions in the genome (染色体)?”

A new research led by Cole has gotten a step closer. Through a large-scale genomics analysis, her team has identified 481 genome regions that were directly linked to dietary patterns and food preferences. The findings were presented at the American Society for Nutrition’s annual flagship conference.

They were based on a 2020 Nature Communications study by Cole and her colleagues that used data from the U. K. Biobank, a public database of the genetic and health information of 500,000 participants. By scanning genomes, the new analysis was able to home in on 194 regions associated with dietary patterns and 287 linked to specific foods such as fruit, cheese, fish, tea and alcohol.

“This study had a huge number of subjects, so that’s really powerful,” says Monica Dus, an associate professor at the University of Michigan, who wasn’t a part of the new research but studies the relationship between genes and nutrition. “The other thing that I thought was really great is that they have so many different characteristics that they’re measuring in respect to diet. They had cholesterol, the body, socioeconomic backgrounds.”

As the research advances, Dus says such genome analyses could possibly help health care providers — and even policymakers — address larger issues that affect food access and health. “Instead of trying to obsess over telling people to eat this or that, a more powerful intervention is to link it to making sure there aren’t ‘food deserts’ or to make sure that there’s a higher minimum wage — things that have a broader impact,” she says.

1. What is the purpose of Cole’s new research?

A．To encode the role of DNA in determining food choices.

B．To select genetic components tightly related to food consumption.

C．To figure out the relationship between genetics and food preferences.

D．To identify specific regions in the genome related to food preferences.

2. What’s paragraph 3 mainly about?

A．The process of the study.	B．The findings of the study.
C．The data-source of the study.	D．The significance of the study.

3. What does Monica Dus mean in the text?

A．The subjects of the study are powerful.

B．The research team studied many aspects linking to diet.

C．The genome analyses have no prospect in the future.

D．People’s wage should be raised because of “food deserts”.

4. Which of the following can be the best title of the text?

A．What You Eat Impacts Your Health

B．What You Eat Forms Your Dietary Pattern

C．Your Genes May Determine Your Nutritional Need

D．Your Genes May Influence What You Like to Eat

9 . Happiness, as I see it, comprises five elements: spiritual well-being (meaning and purpose), physical well-being (nutrition, exercise), intellectual well-being (curiosity, deep learning), relational well-being (kindness and generosity), and emotional well-being (cultivating positive emotions). As an interdependent aggregate of these five elements of SPIRE, happiness is about much more than experiencing pleasure.

As Aristotle put it, happiness is the ultimate purpose of life, meaning how we spend our everyday lives is ultimately guided by what we think would make us happier. This is not a good or a bad thing. It simply is, like the law of nature. Even people who are tirelessly working for an important cause, for example, to get rid of world hunger, are doing it because they find their work meaningful. Meaning is an element of happiness.

One barrier to happiness has to do with the expectation that happiness is an unbroken chain of positive emotions. This expectation, however, prevents people from experiencing happiness because painful emotions don’t go away but grow stronger when we reject them.

The second barrier has to do with equating happiness with success. It’s a commonly held belief that happiness can be attained by achieving certain goals, like money or fame. People tend to think if they finally find success, they will automatically become happy.

The third barrier has to do with the way people pursue happiness. We want to be happy for many reasons. After all, we are constantly told that happiness is good for our health, relationships, and work outcomes. Yet, if I wake up in the morning and decide to pursue happiness straight, I will become less happy.

But how? Indirectly. As is known, if you look up at the sun directly, you’ll hurt yourself. But if you take the same sun rays and break them down, you’ll enjoy the colors of a rainbow. Similarly, pursuing happiness directly can hurt us; pursuing it indirectly—by breaking it down into something like the SPIRE elements—can contribute to our well-being. Starting a meditation practice, exercising, performing acts of kindness, learning something new, or expressing gratitude for what we have are all indirect ways of pursuing happiness.

1. What does the underlined word “aggregate” probably mean in the first paragraph?

A．Combination.

B．Conclusion.

C．Accumulation.

D．Association.

2. What’s the author’s attitude towards how we spend our daily lives?

A．Favorable.

B．Suspicious.

C．Objective.

D．Indifferent.

3. What can we know from the text?

A．Being a success leads one to happiness.

B．Refusing negative feelings helps us obtain happiness.

C．Going after happiness directly makes one feel happy.

D．Pursuing one aspect of SPIRE can boost our well-being.

4. Why is the sun mentioned in the last paragraph?

A．To make a contrast.	B．To make an analogy.
C．To conclude the argumentation.	D．To answer the previous question.

10 . Just about 50 years ago, needing money to support my family—my novels weren’t bestsellers—I had the idea of taking the longest train trip imaginable and writing a travel book about it. The trip was improvisational (即兴的). I didn’t have a credit card. I had no idea where I’d be staying nor how long this trip would take. And I’d never written a travel book before. I hoped my trip wouldn’t suffer a lot, though it was obviously a leap in the dark.

I set off with one small bag containing clothes, a map of Asia, a travel guidebook and some travelers’ cheques. I was often inconvenienced, sometimes threatened, now and then disturbed for bribes, occasionally laid up with food poisoning—all this vivid detail for my narrative.

What I repeated in the more than four-month trip was the pleasure of the sleeping car. Writing on board the Khyber Mail to Lahore in Pakistan, “The romance associated with the sleeping car comes from the fact that it is extremely private, combining the best features of a cupboard with forward movement. Whatever drama is being shown in this moving bedroom is heightened by the landscape passing the window...” A train is a carrier that allows residence.

I wrote The Great Railway Bazaar on my return in 1974, and it appeared to good reviews and quick sales. That’s the past. Nothing is the same. All travel is time-related. All such trips are singular and unrepeatable. It’s not just that the steam trains of Asia are gone, but much of the peace and order is gone. Who’d risk an Iranian train now or take a bus through Afghanistan?

But I’ve been surprised by some of the more recent developments in travel. I rode on Chinese trains for a year and wrote Riding the Iron Rooster, but now China has much cleaner and swifter trains and modernized destinations. A traveler today could take the same trip I took in 1986—1987 and produce a completely different book.

All travel books are dated. That’s their fault that they’re outdated, and it’s their virtue that they preserve something of the past that would otherwise be lost.

1. What happened at the beginning of the author’s trip to Asia?

A．He made full preparations for the trip.

B．He had expected the journey to be rough.

C．He organized the trip with his family’s support.

D．He started the trip out of his passion for traveling.

2. Why did the author repeatedly recall the sleeping car?

A．For its romantic scenery.	B．For its reassuring privacy.
C．For its full equipment.	D．For its long distance.

3. What did the author try to convey by saying “Nothing is the same”?

A．The landscape in Asia was gone.	B．Train trip was no longer popular.
C．He couldn’t write another bestseller.	D．Transportation and travel had changed a lot.

4. Which of the following statements would the author most likely agree with?

A．Practice makes perfect.	B．Sharp tools make good work.
C．Travel, truth is not the arrival card.	D．The journey, not the arrival matters.