1 . Officials in New York City are using technology to cut down on noise on city streets. Some of the strongest rules have been released to limit noise on city streets. Cameras equipped with radar sound collectors identify loud vehicles in an effort to catch drivers violating noise rules.

The new devices record the vehicle numbers of offenders, who then receive a violation notice in the mail. Owners face fines of $800 for a first noise offense. Some could be required to pay up to $2,625 if they have three violations and ignore court hearings.

Evidence is clear that noise affects not only hearing but mood and mental health, not to mention possible links to heart disease and blood pressure. “You listen to the noise out there, it is nonstop — the horns, the trucks, the sirens,” New York City Mayor Eric Adams recently blamed an expressway for noise and illness. “Noise pollution makes it hard to sleep and increases the risk of chronic (慢性的) disease.”

However, some people in the city say the government efforts to quiet loud vehicles have gone too far. Phillip Franklin, a 30-year-old car lover from the Bronx area of New York, launched an online effort to protest noise rules. “The majority of us live here in New York City, where noise is a part of our daily lives. Quiet vehicles can also present dangers to inattentive individuals walking around New York City,” said Franklin. He also noted that fixing potholes (路面坑洼) is a lot more important than going after noisy cars.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said loud noise can cause immediate harm to one’s ears. Even with sound barriers, close-fitting windows and noise-reducing materials, there is only so much that can be done to reduce sound levels in the city. Many New York residents have simply learned to live with the noise. The local authority now has plans to expand the use of technology to strengthen noise rules. So far, at least 71 people have received fines for operating cars or trucks that make too much noise.

1. What can we learn about noise from paragraph 3?

A．Noise has no influence on mental health.

B．Noise is harmful to human beings.

C．Noise must lead to blood pressure.

D．Noise is difficult to be found.

2. What was Franklin’s attitude towards the noise rules?

A．Favorable.

B．Tolerant.

C．Indifferent.

D．Disapproving.

3. What does the local authority plan to do?

A．Fix potholes to improve road safety.

B．Apply the new technology on a larger scale.

C．Raise the allowable noise standard for vehicles.

D．Encourage residents to use noise-reducing equipment.

4. In which section of a newspaper may this text appear?

A．Entertainment.

B．Health.

C．Education.

D．Science.

2 . Last week my four-year-old son Basti and I went for a walk in a park. _________ a beautiful tree off the road, he _________ a lovely toy dugong (儒艮) on the ground. Basti was so excited by this _________ discovery that he held it all day, and even took it to the _________ with him that night.

That evening, I came across a community post from a (n) _________ mum trying to find a _________ dugong, her son’s favourite toy. Although _________ about my son’s sadness, I immediately _________ her and told her we had found it!

The next morning, I had to break the _________ to Basti, who was still __________ the lovely toy. I told him it was another little boy’s. Tears ran down his face. However, he gave me the dugong and cried, “I’m just so sad. I __________ the dugong, Mum. But it’s the right thing to __________ it”.

The lovely toy was returned. Feeling unhappy, yet I thought we had made a good __________ . A week later, on my door hung a card and a new dugong as a big thank-you from that mum. It’s __________ a wonderful surprise! It was the kindest of kind things, which not only __________ my son but also made our week!

1.

A．Climbing

B．Crashing

C．Noticing

D．Approaching

2.

A．found

B．bought

C．mentioned

D．recognized

3.

A．brief

B．shallow

C．amazing

D．familiar

4.

A．bed

B．dining-room

C．workshop

D．kitchen

5.

A．awkward

B．anxious

C．energetic

D．frightened

6.

A．damaged

B．lost

C．rented

D．stolen

7.

A．happy

B．angry

C．excited

D．concerned

8.

A．calmed

B．invited

C．contacted

D．comforted

9.

A．news

B．effect

C．cup

D．letter

10.

A．contributing

B．holding

C．painting

D．washing

11.

A．borrowed

B．hid

C．loved

D．needed

12.

A．accept

B．recover

C．return

D．keep

13.

A．plan

B．contribution

C．promise

D．decision

14.

A．quickly

B．slightly

C．fortunately

D．actually

15.

A．pulled up

B．cheered up

C．responded to

D．belonged to

3 . 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。

National Handwriting Day     1     (fall) on January 23rd. Its aim is to stress the significance of the skill of handwriting. Handwriting is of practical     2     (important) in today’s world where people use a computer keyboard more than a pen or pencil. Some people are worried that in the future, handwriting might become a     3     (lose) art.

The Writing Instrument Manufacturers Association (WIMA)     4     (start) National Handwriting Day in 1977. The day January 23rd was chosen because this is the birthday of John Hancock,     5     was the first person to sign the American Declaration of Independence — one of the most important documents in America’s history. WIMA says: “National Handwriting Day is     6     chance for all of us to re-explore the purity and power of handwriting.”

Handwriting is more like an art rather than     7     (simple) writing. We can use it to express     8     (we) and be creative. A higher art form is calligraphy (书法). People can study how to write a single letter for many years. Everyone’s handwriting is unique. We only need to see the front of a letter     9     (recognize) the handwriting of someone we know. Experts can even analyze our handwriting and explain     10     kind of personality we have. What does your handwriting say about you?

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。

A businessman stops to cut a rose at a garden for his daughter, Bella. But a     1     (horror) Beast (野兽) stops him and asks his daughter     2     (come) and live with him in his castle (城堡).

Bella has to go to his castle     3     she is treated like a queen (王后). She becomes friends     4     the Beast. After some time, Bella wants to go home. She makes     5     promise to return to him in seven days and then goes home, but once home, she     6     (forget) the promise. One night she dreams the Beast is dying. She rushes to the castle. The Beast is lying in the garden. Fearing his     7     (die), she cries out and says she loves him. The Beast     8     (immediate) turns into a good-looking prince (王子). The prince says a witch (女巫) turns     9     (he) into a Beast and that only true love can get him back. Then Bella and the prince get married. They     10     (live) together happily ever since.

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。

Ruthie Tompson liked telling people that she and Mickey Mouse “grew up together.” And that wasn’t an exaggeration: The legendary animator spent nearly 40 years with the Walt Disney Company, working on virtually every film from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs     1     The Rescuers until her   retirement in 1975．

Tompson’s     2     (connect) with the company dated back to her childhood in the 1920s,     3     she appeared as a live-action reference model for Disney’s early Alice Comedies, She     4     (begin) her career in the “ink and paint” department as a teenager and eventually worked her way up to animation and scene checking,     5     (become) one of the first three women to be admitted into the Hollywood camera union in the process．

“The best way     6     (describe) Ruthie is simply ‘remarkable,’” said author and Disney historian Mindy Johnson．“Ruthie was our computer before computers     7     (invent). Whatever the technical problem, Ruthie could usually solve it．She was also     8     living witness and vital contributor to the progress and growth of the animation industry as we know it today.”

    9     (remember) as a legend among animators, Tompson died Sunday at the age of 111．She passed away     10     (peaceful) in her sleep in her home．

6 . 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。

A wise and wealthy man bought a beautiful house with a huge garden. However, not all people     1     (feel) happy for him. A man who disliked him lived in one of     2     old houses next to him. He constantly tried     3     (make) his fellow neighbour’s stay in the beautiful house as terrible as possible. And he     4     (regular) threw garbage under his gate and did other bad     5     (thing).

One fine day, the wise man woke up in a good mood (情绪). He opened the gate and a big bag full of garbage     6     (see) right in the doorway. He emptied the bag of garbage and cleaned the bag. Then he filled the bag     7     many freshly-picked apples and went to his neighbour’s door.

    8     (hear) a knock on his door, the neighbor excitedly thought, “I finally got him! ” He answered the door, ready to quarrel with     9     (he) wealthy neighbour. However, the wise man gave him the bag of apples, saying, “The person     10     is rich in something shares it with others.” The neighbour felt ashamed and said sorry to the wise man.

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。

Britain has jumped up in maths in the Programme for International Student Assessment(PISA) tests, thanks     1     government efforts to import Chinese-style teaching into the classroom. Seventy-nine countries     2     (take) the tests last year, with the UK ranking 18th, up from 27th in 2015. Within the UK, the average score for maths among English pupils was     3     (significant) higher than scores for Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Experts believe that the     4     (introduce) of Chinese teaching methods is likely to have driven up the UK’s test results. Countries in the Far East,     5     (include) China and Singapore, have long come at the top of the PISA tests for maths. In 2014, the British Department for Education set up     6     exchange programme between English and Shanghai schools so that maths teachers could learn about Chinese teaching methods. The programme was followed two years     7     (late) by a 41-million-pound project to train thousands of primary schools to adopt the Shanghai-style teaching method.

“It’s encouraging     8     (see) the students’ great improvement in maths,” said Professor Valsa Koshy, an expert in maths education at Brunel University, “Importing maths teaching from Far Eastern countries     9     (mean) there is a need for children to master the basic facts and traditional skills,     10     used to be laughed at as too old fashioned.”

8 . Cyberbullying (网络欺凌) is the use of electronic communication to threaten or insult someone. A child can be involved in cyberbullying in different ways. They can bully, be bullied, or witness the bullying of others. The more digital forms of communication a child uses, the more exposure he or she may get to cyberbullying. Parents, teachers and other adults need to be aware of children’s online usage. Some warning signs that a child may be involved in cyberbullying are:

●Spending much more or less time on electronic devices, including texting

●Hiding their screen when others are near, and avoiding discussion about what they are doing on their device

●Closing social media accounts and opening new ones

●Avoiding social situations, even ones that were enjoyed in the past

●Becoming depressed, or losing interest in people and activities

Cyberbullying is like other forms of bullying and should be handled in a similar way. If a child is being cyberbullied, adults should support the child being bullied and tell the child doing the bullying that cyberbullying is something serious that should be stopped.

If a child sees hateful content online, there are a few easy ways they can deal with it. The child could report the content anonymously (化名地), as hateful speech goes against most websites’ principles of service. They can also block the person from posting abusive content. While ignoring posts might seem easier than blocking someone, it will not make the problem go away.

Adults can try to make their kids put themselves in the others’ shoes and consider how other people feel. They should see whether more help is needed for those involved, like speaking to a guidance counselor or mental health professional.

Cyberbullying may be impossible to stop completely, but parents could watch their child’s behavior and Internet time.

1. In which situation is cyberbullying most likely to happen?

A．A lady is doing online shopping.

B．A child is chatting on the Internet.

C．A student is attending a lesson online.

D．A teenager is watching a film on the Internet.

2. In what way might a child being bullied react?

A．Get away from his or her cellphone.

B．Share his or her social media accounts online.

C．Start bullying other kids on the Internet.

D．Avoid taking part in activities and meeting people.

3. What can parents do to help children suffering cyberbullying?

A．Post the content of cyberbullying online.

B．Ignore the person doing the cyberbullying.

C．Show mercy and close their social media accounts.

D．Pay attention to their behavior and online time.

4. What’s the main purpose of the text?

A．To explain what cyberbullying actually is.

B．To warn some children to stop cyberbullying.

C．To give some advice on how to handle cyberbullying.

D．To persuade parents to care more for their children.

9 . The West Philadelphia Tool Library

Who are we?

The West Philadelphia Tool Library (WPTL) lends tools to community members so they can perform simple home repairing tasks, tend their yards and gardens, build furniture, start projects, and learn new skills in a safe and affordable manner.

Where are we?

We are on the west side of S. 47th Street about 200 feet south of Woodland Avenue.

WPTL open hours

Monday through Thursday: 5:30 pm-8:30 pm

Friday: Closed

Saturday: 9:00 am-3:00 pm

Sunday: 12:00 pm-3:00 pm

Become a member

To join the Tool Library, stop by during hours of operation to complete the application, or join today by completing the on-line application.

After joining, but before you borrow your first tools, we will ask you to show us two forms of identification, including one that is a government-issued ID photo (like a driver’s license) and one that includes your current address. We also ask you for the names and phone numbers of two references (担保人), who know you well and who could guarantee your reliability in returning tools timely.

Your membership application is not complete until you pay your membership fees. We ask that you pay between $20 and $50 per year based on your income. Consider becoming a Lifetime Member for $400 if you can afford it. The money you pay will help the Tool Library buy more tools that you can borrow.

1. What can we know about the West Philadelphia Tool Library?

A．It collects tools from the locals.	B．It helps the locals repair their tools.
C．It provides the locals with a tool lending service.	D．It sells garden tools to local community members.

2. When are the WPTL tools available to local community members?

A．At 10:00 am on Tuesday.	B．At 6:00 pm on Wednesday.
C．At 9:00 pm on Friday.	D．At 8:30 am over the weekend.

3. What do you have to do if you want to join the West Philadelphia Tool Library?

A．Complete the application.	B．Visit it during hours of operation.
C．Hand in the application in person.	D．Supply WPTL with some tools.

10 . David and Candace recently welcomed their new baby, Luna. Before their daughter was born, the couple, who now _______ in California, had been preparing for the baby shower (迎婴派对) and sent out invitations via text messages.

_______ , a message was sent to Angela’s phone, who lives in Indiana. “I was _______ at first, but then I thought there was a reason why I got that _______ and invitation. I could and should do something lovely about it, ” said Angela, who runs a small business making and selling _______ .

“What better way to _______ the arrival of a new little one than with a baby blanket? So I _______ a super-soft blanket made from my own business with hopes that it would reach them, ” Angela said. Inside the special delivery, she included a note _______ the error and why she felt it necessary to do so.

David and Candace said they were blown away by Angela’s _______ and how someone they never ________ could be so generous to them from thousands of miles away. “ ________ indeed. People often get wrong number calls and texts, but most times, they’re ________ . Luna is just so blessed that a stranger sent her a(n) ________ . This is so crazy,” said Candace.

Being a mother of 4 children, Angela has ________ from acts of kindness throughout the years. She said being on the ________ end of that same kindness, shown to her family, is great.

1.

A．tours

B．studies

C．lives

D．performs

2.

A．In error

B．As usual

C．For fun

D．On purpose

3.

A．amused

B．annoyed

C．surprised

D．embarrassed

4.

A．opinion

B．email

C．chance

D．text

5.

A．blankets

B．phones

C．invitations

D．medicine

6.

A．confirm

B．organize

C．contact

D．celebrate

7.

A．replaced

B．established

C．delivered

D．returned

8.

A．explaining

B．correcting

C．avoiding

D．discovering

9.

A．curiosity

B．kindness

C．intelligence

D．honesty

10.

A．met

B．admired

C．greeted

D．noticed

11.

A．Attractive

B．Sensible

C．Heartwarming

D．Mysterious

12.

A．assumed

B．ignored

C．reflected

D．followed

13.

A．toy

B．gift

C．invitation

D．offer

14.

A．escaped

B．learned

C．recovered

D．benefited

15.

A．giving

B．refusing

C．receiving

D．agreeing