1 . 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。

Where the Sidewalk Ends is a book full of fascinating poems written     1     Shel Silverstein. It contains more than 100 of all kinds of poems-some are happy, some are funny and some are     2     (excite). Each poem comes with a nice drawing by the author     3     (he). Some of the pictures are very silly.

My favourite poem     4     (call) Snowman. It is about     5     happy snowman, which always wants to see July. Other animals say that he will melt (融化) by then. But the snowman wants to see July so     6     (bad) that no matter what other people say, it does not bother the snowman one bit. This poem never says if he actually sees July. So you can only guess.

Another poem I really like is Santa and the reindeer. This poem is about Christmas. Santa has to give     7     (variety) presents to the children while one of his reindeer is always asking what’s for him. I guess Santa gets really annoyed because he puts a flea (虱子) in the reindeer’s ear. And the next thing you know, they fly away and are ready     8     (continue) their journey through the world handing out presents to all the children     9     have behaved well.

This book is fun to read because of all those unique poems. The     10     (character) of this book do many unusual things such as selling sisters, talking to fish and a lot more.

2 . In ancient Greece, festivals were an essential part of their culture. These festivals were celebrated in honor of various gods and goddesses and were a way for people to come together and celebrate their beliefs.

One of the most important festivals in ancient Greece was the Eleusinian Mysteries. This festival was held in honor of Demeter, the goddess of agriculture and fertility (丰产). The Eleusinian Mysteries were a series of rituals (仪式) that celebrated the cycle of life and death. Participants would go through a process that involved fasting (斋戒), purification, and secret rituals.

The Dionysia was another significant festival in ancient Greece. This festival was intended for Dionysus, the god of wine, fertility, and theater. The Dionysia consisted of several days of dinning, drinking wine, and watching plays performed by playwrights such as Sophocles and Euripides.

Festivals were not just about honoring gods; they also served as a way for people to come together as a community. During festivals, people would gather in public spaces to socialize, watch performances or sporting events, or participate in religious ceremonies.

In addition to these major festivals, there were many other smaller festivals throughout ancient Greece that celebrated local traditions or honored specific gods or goddesses. These festivals varied from region to region but all shared the common purpose of bringing people together to celebrate their beliefs.

In conclusion, festivals played an important role in ancient Greek culture as they provided opportunities for people to come together and celebrate their shared culture. These festivals were not just about honoring the gods; they were also a way for people to socialize and participate in community events. The use of festivals as a means of cultural expression is still popular in modern times, and serves as a proof to the enduring treasure of ancient Greece.

1. What’s the function of festivals in Greece?

A．Chances for people to know other cultures.

B．Honor to people’s glorious process of life.

C．Rewards for people’s devotion to the society.

D．Religious themes and occasions for gatherings.

2. Why were the Eleusinian Mysteries and the Dionysia held?

A．To hold a music party.	B．To have a big dinner party.
C．To honor the rich gift from nature.	D．To put on plays written by famous people.

3. Whether big festivals or small ones, they serve as an occasion for ______.

A．social contacts	B．people’s show of talents.
C．volunteer activities	D．choices of the good tradition

4. What’s a suitable title for the text?

A．The Major Festivals in Greece.	B．Reasons Behind Festivals in Greece.
C．Activities in Greek Festivals.	D．Changes about Festivals in Greece.

3 . If you’re looking for meaningful yet easy ways to volunteer from home, then you’ll love this list of opportunities for remote volunteers.     1    , there are also ways to make a difference without leaving home. Below is a list of virtual volunteer opportunities that allow you to have a positive impact while sitting on your couch.

    2    . NRDC is on a mission to protect the earth, and you can help them through virtual volunteering by joining their Activist Network, which is linked on this page along with current online opportunities. Some sample actions might be contacting congress, opposing bills that are harmful to the environment, and sharing important messages on social media.

Use your voice to protect the earth. Friends of the Earth is committed to changing economic and political policies and systems that lead to injustice and that harm nature.     3    , you can tell congress to save the bees and contact food companies to demand natural ingredients. Friends of the Earth makes it easy to add your voice to a cause, too, as each campaign features a form with a built-in message that you can edit if you’d like and send with one click.

Virtually mentor high school kids. iCloudBe’s mission is -to empower at-risk middle and high school students to stay in school and reach their goals with the help of an online community of mentors.     4    , which entails mentoring a student and helping them prepare for their dream career for one hour per week during the school year.

Scan & proofread books to make reading accessible to all. Bookshare, an e-book library devoted to making reading easier for all, is always on the lookout for remote volunteers to scan and proofread books for their collection.     5    .

A．Send a care package to a solider

B．You’ll be able to see the wish list before signing up.

C．Add your voice to the meaningful volunteer work of climate change fighters

D．When you check this page for easy ways to volunteer by taking simple actions

E．You can take part in meaningful volunteer work online by becoming an eMentor

F．While offering time to in-person and volunteer abroad projects can be worthwhile.

G．Their library features books that are customizable for people with reading disabilities.

4 . 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。

Open AI officially announced the launch of its     1     (late) text-to-video AI model, Sora, in February. The model outperforms (优于) others of its kind by creating diverse videos at suitable aspect ratios (屏幕高宽比) for different devices and social media. It can make smooth and realistic videos with     2     (detail) multi-character scenes and realistic movements. Imagine typing a     3     (describe) of a scene, like a snowy street in Tokyo with people and flying sakura (樱花) petals, and Sora turns it     4     a real video just from your words! How amazing!

Before Sora, making videos from text was tough and the results weren’t that great. But recently Sora     5     (improve) a lot. It understands your words really well and knows how things move and look in the real world. Sora works by “learning” from     6     large number of videos. It first breaks them down into pieces     7     then generates (生成) a new, better video from the pieces.     8     (current), Sora is still being tested and not for everyone to use. When     9     (create) videos, the model may mess up a character’s movement or show scenes     10     don’t follow the rules of physics. For example, one of its videos shows a whole cookie even after someone has taken a bite out of it.

5 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下题。
1. How did the speaker help the old lady?

A．He took her to the hospital.

B．He drove her to the shopping mall.

C．He carried her bags and walked her home.

2. Why did the speaker tell the old lady a white lie?

A．To make her accept his help.

B．To get paid from her.

C．To cheer her up.

3. Who is Ray Robert?

A．A passerby.

B．The old lady’s husband.

C．The speaker’s father.

4. What does the speaker say about the old lady?

A．She was very sick 30 years ago.

B．She helped his father a lot.

C．She looked after him once.

6 . 听下面一段对话，回答以下题。
1. What is Tim going to do this evening?

A．Do some reading.

B．Entertain his friends.

C．Wash clothes.

2. What does Tim advise Betty to do on the weekend?

A．Have fun.

B．Study English.

C．Take physical exercise.

3. When does Betty usually get up on Saturdays?

A．At 11:00.

B．At 10:00.

C．At 9:00.

4. How does Betty sound at the end of the conversation?

A．Upset.

B．Excited.

C．Humorous.

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。

Do you know? At present you can not only watch the giant panda from a distance,     1     you can join in the panda volunteer program. And among the 3 panda bases       2     (provide) this volunteer program, namely Dujiangyan Panda Base, Bifengxia Panda Base and Shenshuping Panda Base, Duijiangyan Panda Base is very     3     (convenience) for it is near Chengdu City. Bifengxia Panda Base provides more chance to see little panda babies and its     4     (locate)—Ya’an city is     5     the world first giant panda was found. However, if you want to experience the more natural and primitive living environment of pandas, you       6     (recommend) to go to Shenshuping Panda Base at Wolong National Nature Reserve     7     (get) close lo giant pandas and enjoy the real living treasure place of pandas.

Join     8     the panda volunteer program at Wolong Panda Base! You can be a panda cleaner, learn to prepare cakes for     9     (panda), visit them by yourself…and know about the daily duty of staff around pandas in Wolong Panda Base. Apart from that, you can learn a lot of facts and knowledge of pandas to know why they are so cute to be the national treasure of Chinese people and even favored by people worldwide, and have a clear understanding about what we could       10     (possible) do to protect the giant pandas to save this precious species on our planet.

8 . The classical gardens of Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, China date back to the 6th century BCE when the city was founded as the capital of the Wu Kingdom. Inspired by these royal hunting gardens built by the King of the Slate of Wu, private gardens began emerging around the 4th century and finally reached the top in the 18^th century.

Today , more than 50 of these gardens are still in existence, nine of which are regarded as the finest models of Chinese “Mountain and Water” gardens. The earliest of these, the Canglang Pavilion was built in the early 11th century on the site of an earlier, destroyed garden. Designed and built under the influence of the unconstrained (不受约束的) poetic freehand style originally seen in traditional Chinese landscape paintings, they are noted for their excellent connection of skillful techniques, artistic elegance and rich cultural implications. These gardens lend insight into how ancient Chinese constructors harmonized conceptions of aestheticism (唯美主义) in a culture of reclusion (隐居) within an urban living environment.

Garden masters from each dynasty adapted various techniques to artfully model nature by skillfully adapting and using only the physical space available to them. Limited to the space within a single residence, classical Suzhou gardens are intended to be a microcosm of the natural world, incorporating basic elements such as water, stones, plants, and various types of buildings of literary and poetic significance.

These excellent gardens are a proof to the superior craftsmanship of the garden masters of the time. These unique designs that have been inspired but are not limited by concepts of nature have had great influence on the development of both Eastern and Western garden art. These garden groups of buildings, rock formations, calligraphy, furniture, and decorative artistic pieces serve us showcases of the artistic achievements of the East Yangtze Delta region; they are basically the personification of the traditional Chinese culture.

1. What aspect about the classical gardens of Suzhou does paragraph 1 tell?

A．Its history.

B．Its styles.

C．Its size.

D．Its owners.

2. The classical gardens of Suzhou were built ______.

A．in the limited space	B．with the direction of poets
C．near the mountain and water	D．with natural and cultural factors

3. What does the underlined word “microcosm” in paragraph 3 mean?

A．Decoration.

B．Reflection.

C．Limitation.

D．Improvement.

4. What is the author’s opinion about the gardens of Suzhou?

A．Beautiful but unavailable.	B．Decorative but impractical.
C．Skillful and influential.	D．Laborious and space-occupying.

9 . A recent study from Penn State has indicated that interactive screen time such as texting’ and gaming is harmful to adolescents’ sleep. The research casts light on how different types of screen usage can variably impact sleep patterns in teens.

The study was focused on the sleep habits of 15-year-olds. For the analysis, the team conducted daily surveys with 475 adolescents, inquiring about their screen-based activities; including communication methods and entertainment preferences. Besides, the researchers employed special instruments to accurately track the teens' sleep duration (持续期) over a week. These devices, typically worn on the wrist, provided insight into the participants’ activity levels to infer sleep patterns.

The study showed that teens spent an average of two hours per day communicating digitally and around 1 hour playing video games. The experts found that those engaging in interactive screen time before bed spent approximately 30 minutes longer falling asleep compared to those who avoided such activities. And that is what makes the researchers most concerned.

And it was not just interactive screen time before bed that affected kids’ sleep, said the researchers. For each hour that kids spent playing video games beyond their usual routine during the day, their sleep was delayed for about 10 minutes.

“For a child, losing 30 minutes of sleep at night is significant. It makes it especially arduous for them to get up in the morning for school,” said lead author of the study and postdoctoral scholar David Reichenberger. “Without enough sleep, kids are at increased risk of obesity, as well as poor cognition (认知), emotion regulation and mental health.”

“Addressing the problem of what parents can do to help protect their teens’ sleep, its a tricky situation. These tools are really important to everyone nowadays, so it’s hard to put a limit on them, but if you’re really looking out for an adolescent’s health and well-being, then you might consider limiting the more interactive activities, especially in the hour before bed,” said David.

1. What is paragraph 2 mainly about?

A．What the participants did in the study.

B．How the participants were selected.

C．What the purpose of the research was.

D．How the research was conducted.

2. Which of the following has the greatest impact on kids’ sleep?

A．Playing video games for 1 hour during the day.

B．Engaging in interactive screen time before bed.

C．Communicating digitally for 20 minutes in the morning.

D．Delaying the regular sleeping time for half an hour.

3. What does the underlined word “arduous” in paragraph 5 mean?

A．Common.

B．Important.

C．Difficult.

D．Practical.

4. Why does David regard the situation as “tricky”?

A．Digital devices bring both convenience and harm.

B．Interactive activities play an important part in modern life.

C．Being involved in screen time is harmful to children’s health.

D．Increasing kids’ sleeping time may affect their academic performance.

10 . These days students are busy with "activities" that require only the movement of a hand, like surfing the net, playing video games, and chatting in social networks—and that's definitely not good. Here we'll try to help you make a choice.

Traditional Team Sports

Team sports like basketball, volleyball, football, and softball are probably the most popular sports activities among students. First of all, they don't need perfect skills and are easily accessible. You will likely be able to choose from several options along with your location. Besides keeping fit and healthy, team sports can help you become more responsible, focused, active and learn how to be a team player.

Dancing & Yoga

Want to have fun doing sports while listening to cool music and relaxing？What can be a better idea than a dancing class？Tango, salsa, hip-hop, swing… You can find the one you really enjoy. The greatest part is that you can perform in concerts, festivals and competitions.

Outdoor Exploration Sports

If you're into sports activities which let you explore the world and learn new skills at the same time, here are several ideas for you: hiking, rowing, cross-country skiing, rock climbing, cycling… These challenging activities can be done with your best friend, or even alone. You'll see fantastic scenery, have the time of your life, and forget about your daily routine.

Unusual Sports

Are there any better unusual and fun sports games for students? The following three are rather experimental and challenging and worth a try.

Quidditch is adapted from the pages of Harry Potter books. Certainly, the players don't ride brooms in real-life circumstances, but the game is still very entertaining.

Roller Derby is a full-contact sport played on wheels by both men and women. It's nothing like any other sports experience.

Kickball is another not-so-widely-spread kind of high-energy, fun sports activity for students.

1. What feature do traditional team sports share?

A．They need some special equipment.

B．They require determination and patience.

C．They promote team spirit and responsibility.

D．They bring along opportunities of winning medals.

2. Which should a student choose if he is a Harry Potter fan?

A．Hiking.

B．Quidditch.

C．Roller Derby.

D．Kickball.

3. Where can we most probably read the text?

A．In a travel brochure.	B．In a literature magazine.
C．In a sports meet review.	D．In a student pocket guide.