1 . If I had found a good job, I ______ more money.

A．save

B．should save

C．saved

D．would have saved

2 . – When shall we leave for the airport?
– ________. We have plenty of time.

A．Get a move on	B．That’s not the point
C．It’s up to you	D．Let’s go for it

3 . SHARK CONSERVATION IN SOUTH AFRICA

Take a two-week trip that you will never forget as a volunteer with sharks on a beautiful stretch of South Africa’s coastline. Head out to sea to witness one of the world’s most powerful (and most misunderstood) creatures on this inspiring project, enjoying watching them from both above and below water.

The DAY-BY-DAY schedule

Day 1: Arrive in Cape Town on a Sunday. You will be collected from the airport and spend your first night in a guest house in the city centre.

Day 2: You will be collected bright and early from the guest house and taken down to the project. The drive takes about 90 minutes. You will receive a welcome and head out to sea to witness your first sharks!

Day 3+: Most days you will be out on the boat with the sharks, depending on weather. Help out with the full range of tasks on the boats, and in conservation initiatives on land too.

Last day: On the final day of your project you will be taken back to Cape Town for your onward travel.

The price is £829,including the voluntary work programme with accommodations,   airport transfers, one night in a guest house in Cape Town, breakfasts daily and lunches when on the boats. Your trip can be extended at a cost of £ 375 per week.

It is an amazing experience! Some volunteers planned to stay for 4 weeks, extended to 6 weeks and still didn’t want to come home. If you’d like to chat about this holiday or need help, we’re very happy to help.

Call us at 01273 823 700.

Email us at rosy@responsibletravel.com.

1. When will you really begin your shark watching trip?

A．On a Friday.	B．On a Saturday.
C．On a Sunday.	D．On a Monday.

2. What will you probably do on the third day if weather permits?

A．Sail on the ocean.

B．Return to Cape Town.

C．Buy some souvenirs.

D．Dive with sharks.

3. How much will you spend on a three-week shark conservation trip?

A．£ 375.

B．£ 750.

C．£ 829.

D．£ 1,204.

4 . Although e-commerce has grown on the back of technological innovation, increasing smartphone usage and rising demand from consumers with bigger disposable(可支配的) incomes, it is far from posing any major threat to physical retail stores.

Indeed, growth of both the bricks-and-mortar(实体店) and e-commerce sectors are held up by a variety of systemic and structural issues that prevent the retail market from flourishing further. The first is fear of fraud(欺骗)from African consumers. Online trade is not an area that most Africans consider to be trustworthy, and many consumers still believe that any demand for payment from an online source represents a trick.

This fear is worsened by a logistics network affected by problems—poor transport infrastructure and intermittent(间歇的) supply of electricity. To make matters worse, address records in many African nations are sub-standard, meaning that instances of undelivered packages, mislaid items or delays are frequent.

Even if c-commerce manages to solve these physical infrastructure troubles, and mobile operators manage to plough ever greater levels of capital expenditure to ensure that network coverage is strong, a potentially bigger problem remains. Levels of basic literacy in Africa are perhaps the lowest of any continent in the world. Around 153 million adults in Africa (around 38% of the population) are considered illiterate(不识字的).These structural issues are therefore likely to hold e-commerce back.

However, the irrefutable point is that access to technology is on the rise in continental Africa, bringing a larger range of goods to a wider range of consumers, and that signals a positive future for e-commerce companies that are prepared to play a long-term game in shaping a rapid-growing sector.

1. Which of the following is NOT the reason why e-commerce develops fast?

A．Sound infrastructure.	B．Fear of being cheated.
C．Innovation of technology.	D．Customers' rising demand.

2. What is the biggest problem to e-commerce in Africa?

A．High rate of illiteracy.

B．Lack of access to the Internet.

C．The development of retail market.

D．High level of capital expenditure.

3. What does the author think of the future of e-commerce in Africa?

A．Promising.	B．Pessimistic.
C．Worried.	D．Uncertain.

4. What is the passage mainly about?

A．The problems Africa faces.

B．Commercial development of Africa.

C．The severe financial situation in Africa.

D．The problems of e-commerce in Africa.

5 . When I was six, on my first day in an American classroom, my classmates and the teacher suddenly stood up, put their hands over their hearts, and started reading the Pledge of Allegiance(效忠誓言). It marked the beginning of a fascination with what I eventually learned to call culture.

That fascination deepened in college, where I majored in Russian and learned everything I could about the country. Then I won a chance to study community theater in Irkutsk. When you’re involved in a different culture, you start wondering everything about it. So I developed a habit of exploring them whenever in an unfamiliar situation. Culture offered the chance to see the world. Culture also, at least partially, led me to WWF.

Four years later, I moved to Alaska. WWF’s Alaska office was looking for someone who could speak Russian. They hired me. I’ve been with WWF ever since. As WWF’s Arctic and Bering Sea program officer, I connect the dots between polar bears, climate change and communities. I lead WWF’s efforts to help polar bears and other Arctic marine mammals coexist alongside people.

While I picked up some environmental knowledge when volunteering with a conservation group in Siberia, I learned loads about Arctic ecosystems and species, especially through translating. My ability to move between cultures has proved just as critical to my work at WWF as my technical expertise. The people who live and work in the Arctic represent many backgrounds and opinions—Alaska native communities, government agencies, activists, people with different nationalities. You can’t do conservation work here without recognizing the cultural barriers those differences can create.

I work with Alaska native communities in the remotest parts of the state to help them find solutions to human-polar bear conflict. But when I first go into a community, I never start by talking about “human-polar bear conflict”. Instead, I ask them what’s happening with polar bears in their village. And I listen. We can work together to find solutions. I also rely on Alaska native people to help me share those solutions with other Alaska native communities.

1. Why did the author go to Irkutsk?

A．To learn Russian.	B．To learn community theater.
C．To help polar bears.	D．To join WWF.

2. What is one of the author’s duties as a WWF’s officer?

A．To study Arctic ecosystems.

B．To set up wildlife reserves.

C．To collect money for Arctic animals.

D．To help people live in harmony with animals.

3. What does paragraph 4 intend to show?

A．The benefits of volunteering.

B．How to get along with different people.

C．How to study environmental problems.

D．The importance of learning other cultures.

4. Which is the author’s measure to help communities solve human-polar bear conflict?

A．Asking locals for situations first.

B．Living in the local communities.

C．Stressing the need to protect polar bears.

D．Talking about human-polar bear conflict directly.

6 . Wakeful Rest

When many students finish studying, they often go straight to another activity.     1     Some might even play a video game or watch television. But research suggests that resting after your study may be a both no-cost and effective way to help you remember what you have studied and improve your learning.

    2     Resting is difficult when you have too much stimulation(刺激) from electronic devices, lights and so on. While this might sound unusual to you, many studies have explored benefits of resting after learning-what is called "wakeful rest". A study examined how well old people in good health could remember certain words, from which researchers found old adults who rested for 10 minutes after learning had better memory. "A period of wakeful rest immediately after new learning improves free recall, "the researchers wrote.     3    

Another study found that both young and old adults were able to better remember, or recollect, information from given passages after doing wakeful rest. The findings appeared in Neuroscience Letters.     4     “Wakeful rest led to higher overall recollection in both age groups," there searchers noted. 'They thought wakeful rest allows for superior memory consolidation(巩固), resulting in stronger representations of experienced events which can be discovered by tests of free recall and recognition.

    5     Rest quietly for five to ten minutes. Do not look at your phone, read stories or play games. Just limit the amount of stimulation you get. It is really that easy!

A．Such an activity promotes good health.

B．Perhaps they look at their phone or go online.

C．The results were strong even after seven days, they added.

D．This study involved 45 young people and 40 elderly adults.

E．If you want to give “wakeful rest” a try, here are a few simple things to do.

F．Working long hours can greatly increase the risk of suffering injury or illness, a study says.

G．The basic idea is that your brain gets a chance to rest by reducing your activity after the study.

7 . Arthur has made a recommendation, ________ he wants her to put before the board at a special meeting ________ for tomorrow afternoon.

A．what; to be scheduled	B．that; will be scheduled
C．which; scheduled	D．where; scheduling

8 . 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。

Jenny was a nice girl, but she had one shortcoming. She was often late for school because she had to look after her sick mother, who lay in bed all through the year. The family's cooking and washing went to the young girl. Of course this brought a little inconvenience to Jenny's schooling.

One morning when Jenny came in late again, Mr. Black, her class teacher, got very angry. “I will ask your father to my office if you aren’t here on time tomorrow,” he shouted at her. Jenny didn’t want him to do so. On the one hand her parents were very strict with her; on the other hand his father was working on the farm these days, for it was autumn, when all the crops had to be harvested. She didn’t want to waste her father's precious time to listen to her teacher's roar in front of all the other teachers.

The next day, Jenny got up early. To save time, she wolfed her breakfast. When the bell rang, she was waiting in her seat quietly, especially waiting for Mr. Black. The door opened, but an unfamiliar face appeared. “I’m Miss Green. Mr. Black is ill, so I will take his class instead today.” How disappointed Jenny was!

The next morning Jenny got up even earlier. To avoid unhappy things, she went to school without breakfast. Just before she got to the school gate, she stopped: a wallet was lying on the ground!

She picked it up with hesitation. “Whose is this?” she wondered.

As she stood there thinking, she heard the first bell. “What shall I do?” she asked herself. “I will turn it in first,” she decided quickly and so she did.

When she hurried to the classroom, Mr. Black had already begun his class.

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。

“Jenny, you really make me disappointed!” Mr Black shouted as soon as he saw her.

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At this moment the headmaster came in hurriedly. “Your wallet, Mr Black.” he said.

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9 . 阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使其构成一篇完整的短文。续写的词数应为150左右。

An Amazing Dollar

It was spring in 2018. The whole school was bathed in beautiful sunshine. A boy, Belscher, was anxiously walking up and down the campus, his right hand in his pocket.

Belscher was an average student, but not an average person. From a young age, he had started working part-time to help support his family. He had struggled to grow up, and he was also positive and generous. He was always willing to help and was popular among his classmates. Recently, however, he had changed. He now worked longer hours, trying to earn more money. It seemed every dollar, even every cent, meant a lot to him.

That morning Belscher noticed a dollar on the floor. After putting the dollar in his pocket, Belscher began to feel uneasy. As the day progressed, he began to feel worse and he couldn't even concentrate during class. The one dollar bill felt like a fire burning in his pocket. He kept thinking about Mrs Mattison, office dean o£ the school, who always taped （粘贴）lost items on the whiteboard and asked the students to do the same.

He was so lost in thought that he didn^’t even hear his deskmate call his name, “Are you OK, Belscher?” His deskmate, Megan Rose asked. "Sure, " Belscher paused, unable to complete the sentence. His heart began to race and his mind went blank. "Why, why are you asking?" Your face is so red!” Rose whispered.

Belscher felt as if the whole world was watching him and could see inside his pocket. Belscher was so overwhelmed with embarrassment and guilt that he rushed out o£ the classroom. Even the bright spring sunshine wasn't strong enough to wash away his shame.

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10 . Have you ever done something for someone else—knowing that your actions would solely benefit THEM and not YOU? Maybe you opened a door or donated blood or volunteered in a hospital’s ER during the pandemic. This is called a prosocial behavior. Humans engage in these types of behaviors all the time.

But a question remains in science: Are we the only species who do this? As one of out closest relatives, chimpanzees have long been studied for signs of this. So far, research has provided mixed results on the question.

Some studies show that chimps cooperatively hunt, share food and comfort each other. But one study came to a very different conclusion. The study used a controlled lab experiment where chimpanzees in enclosures were given two options: push a button to give food to themselves or push the button to give food to themselves AND a partner chimp. If they chose the latter, it was seen as a prosocial behavior. But the result is that chimps showed no special preferences for feeding themselves and a friend over feeding just themselves. Another study conducted by DeTroy, however, discovered a totally different result.

Compared to previous controlled lab-based experiments, the setup for DeTroy’s research was very naturalistic. “We installed a button and a fountain into the chimpanzees’ outer enclosures. When an individual pushes the button, it releases juice from the fountain. However, since the button and fountain are approximately five meters apart, the individual pushing cannot directly drink from the fountain. And if any other chimpanzees are at the fountain when the button is pushed, they, and not the pusher, will be able to drink the juice.

In this experiment, chimpanzees showed a willingness to act in the interest of others, with individual chimpanzees prepared to push the button without benefiting themselves.

“It is really fascinating to see that many of the chimpanzees were willing to prosocially provide valuable resources to the group members even if they couldn’t benefit themselves from their behavior.” said DeTroy.

Further research may reveal what lies behind their prosocial motivation. But for now, it’s safe to assume that chimpanzees are not simply aping human behavior.

1. Which of the following belongs to prosocial behaviors?

A．Jack participated in voluntary work in the library just to earn credits.

B．Mark turned to his classmate for help when feeling stressful in study.

C．Tim guided a lost child back home on his way to an important job interview.

D．Rose often interrupted the teacher to ask questions actively in the math’s class.

2. What is the task of the chimpanzees in the lab-based study?

A．Sharing food.	B．Making a choice.
C．Comforting others.	D．Showing sympathy.

3. How is DeTroy’s study different from the previous ones?

A．It was based on controlled lab experiment.

B．It gave juice to the chimpanzees as a reward.

C．It offered the tested chimpanzees a natural surrounding.

D．It provided a chance for chimpanzees to help their partners.

4. What can we learn from DeTroy’s quotes?

A．Chimpanzees can develop abilities to help others.

B．Chimpanzees have acquired many human behaviors.

C．Chimpanzees in the wild is cleverer than those in the lab.

D．Chimpanzees displayed prosocial behaviors for certain rewards.