1 . Natural disasters may claim thousands of lives or destroy millions of homes. What can we learn from disasters?

Sometimes, there are no real answers. Everyone has lost something and someone, and they keep on asking what they have done to deserve this cruel fate. It’s okay to hold on to these questions, but no matter how hard and painful it is, you should keep moving, breathing and living.     1    

Even strangers can teach you kindness. There may be millions of selfish people in the world.     2     There is still kindness out there, waiting to be discovered. You will find it everywhere, at the most unexpected places—even among the wastelands left by the disaster.

Family is everything. Sometimes we forget to love our family, just because we’re too busy with our own lives.     3     We will not realize their value until we arrive at an empty house, an abandoned and forgotten place that you once called “home”.

    4     Sure, reality can be harsh and unforgiving but it doesn’t mean that we should blame ourselves and feel like a victim forever. We have to strive and thrive; we have to fight and do whatever it takes to resist and rise up. Not everyone will have a happy ending or an interesting plot, but we can always decide how to write the ending.

Every day of your life should be spent loving and living. Don’t be angry at the world for letting you live an unbearable life of heartbreaks and frustrations.     5     So just love deep and love hard. Live as if it’s your only chance to find the happiness that you deserve.

A．You’ll find your way someday.

B．Your money won’t matter in the end.

C．Life is too short to live in its imperfections.

D．However, it’s not a reason to lose hope in humanity.

E．You shouldn’t be a victim forever——be a survivor.

F．You have to help yourself first before you can help others.

G．At times, we take them for granted because we think they’ll always be there.

3 . 贾玲导演的处女作《你好，李焕英》（Hi, Mom）在2021年春节一炮走红。该影片基于贾玲年轻时不幸丧母的亲身经历，介绍她穿越至1981年助母圆梦的故事。请为该影片写一个影评，内容应包括：

1. 影片内容（基于丧母经历，描述其穿越至1981年助母圆梦却事与愿违，屡屡受挫）；
2. 影片带来的影响（催人泪下，不少观众甚至反复观看）；
3. 对你的启发（至少两点）；
4.词数150左右。
注：1. 文章及各段的开头已经给出，不计入总词数；
2. 参考词汇：穿越 transport back 回报 reward…with…

Hi, Mom, Jia Ling’s maiden film, became an immediate hit after it was released during the Spring Festival of 2021.

The film is based on

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The film is so touching that

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Though Jia considers it as a tribute to her mother, many more are inspired to think twice about our attitude to our parents.

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5 . 语法填空

Will you eat everything in your lunch box today? If not, will you save it for another time or just throw it away?

A recent study     1     (find) that 17% of all the food     2     (produce) around the world gets wasted each year,     3     reaches about 931 million tons. Believe it     4     not, 61% of the waste happens in our houses!

Food waste in homes     5     (happen) in rich countries like the US and the UK as well as in poor countries for different reasons.

Cultural habits could also lead to waste at home,       6     (include) massive packaging and “buy one, get one free” deals. ‘Use by’ or ‘best by’ dates       7     products could also cause people to throw away food. People could throw out food because they think it is     8     (safe) to eat, when in fact the date only shows when quality might go down.

Food was     9     (much) valued even in richer countries just a few generations ago, because people often couldn’t afford to waste it.     10     (throw) away food is for sure a great waste and we should try to make people know the importance of saving food.

6 . Some people, regardless of what they lack—money, looks, or social connections—always show with energy and confidence. Even the most doubting individuals find themselves attracted with these lovely personalities. These people are the ones you turn to for help, advice, and companionship. You just can’t get enough of them, and they leave you asking yourself, “What do they have that I don’t? What makes them so attractive?”

The difference? Their sense of self-worth comes from within. Attractive people aren’t constantly searching for value, because they’re confident enough to find it in themselves. There are certain habits they pursue every day to keep this healthy view. Since being attractive isn’t the result of dumb luck, it’s time to study the habits of attractive people so that you can use them to your benefit.

Get ready to say “hello” to a new, more attractive you. Attractive people treat everyone with respect. Whether interacting with their biggest shoppers or a server taking their drink order, attractive people are unfailingly polite and respectful. They treat every one with respect because they believe they’re no belief than anyone else.

They follow the golden rule. One person loves public recognition, while another hates being the center of attention. The golden rule is to treat others as they want to be treated. Attractive people are great at reading other people, and they adjust their behaviors and styles to make others fell comfortable.

Bringing it all together, attractive people have simply perfected certain appealing qualities and habits that anyone can adopt as their own. They think about other people more than they think about themselves, and they make other people feel liked, respected, understood and seen. Just remember: the more you focus on others, the more attractive you’ll be.

1. Why are the people with lovely personalities different from you?

A．Because they show confidence and energy.

B．Because they maintain their healthy view.

C．Because they get along well with doubting individuals.

D．Bemuse they don’t lack money, looks, or social connections.

2. What does the underlined phrase “dumb luck” in Paragraph 2 probably mean?

A．Bad luck.	B．Study habit.
C．Valuable belief.	D．Good fortune.

3. What will an attractive person probably do when having dinner with his leader?

A．He will comfort his leader and the waitress during the dinner lime.

B．He will treat his leader properly and help the waitress when necessary.

C．He will make the leader focused when the leader prefers to stay alone.

D．He will just care about his leader rather than the waitress when ordering.

4. Which of the following is a suitable title for the text?

A．The Intelligent People	B．The Golden Rule
C．The Attractive Personalities	D．The Different Qualities

7 . As a reading specialist at an elementary school(小学), I work with many children who experience difficulty in reading. While there are obvious _______ during the year when students make great progress, there are also many _______ periods as well, when we, as teachers, want to find out why our students aren’t _______. Recently, I had an experience which allowed me a _______ chance to understand what goes on in the mind of a struggling reader.

Earlier this summer I _______ a bad concussion(脑震荡)while riding my bike. One _______result of my concussion was that I lost all short-term and some long-term _______ for a period of days. The days before and after the _______ seemed a blur(模糊)as the world went on around me.

People seemed to be _______ extremely quickly, and I struggled to __________conversations. Jokes were not __________ at all. Once I began trying to read the newspaper, but much to my disappointment, I realized that I couldn’t __________ any of what I read. I could know the words, but couldn’t understand the meaning. As I read, the words didn’t __________ pictures in my mind. I was reading each sentence slowly, then carefully setting it aside. The words had no __________, produce no images, and were simply words. By the time I finished the __________, I had built nothing in my mind. They were simply words __________ past my eyes, and I suddenly realized that this is how my student read!

I am just so __________ that this is a temporary condition. I have a much clearer __________of what struggling readers are __________. I remember that there are so many students out there, for whom reading is __________ so puzzling. We must reach them before they give up.

1.

A．events

B．celebrations

C．chances

D．accidents

2.

A．rewarding

B．exciting

C．interesting

D．disappointing

3.

A．reading

B．listening

C．speaking

D．writing

4.

A．private

B．easy

C．quick

D．unique

5.

A．treated

B．affected

C．received

D．recovered

6.

A．possible

B．dramatic

C．lucky

D．excellent

7.

A．memory

B．job

C．intention

D．aim

8.

A．holiday

B．school

C．trip

D．accident

9.

A．talking

B．walking

C．riding

D．repeating

10.

A．get rid of

B．break away from

C．keep up with

D．take part in

11.

A．serious

B．difficult

C．long

D．funny

12.

A．understand

B．remember

C．copy

D．translate

13.

A．improve

B．create

C．use

D．change

14.

A．sound

B．fact

C．meaning

D．power

15.

A．novel

B．letter

C．text

D．article

16.

A．hiking

B．going

C．running

D．jumping

17.

A．painful

B．fearful

C．grateful

D．helpful

18.

A．lesson

B．advice

C．direction

D．picture

19.

A．looking for

B．thinking of

C．going through

D．learning about

20.

A．partly

B．exactly

C．unlikely

D．freshly

8 . 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。

Researchers in China     1     (show) an ancient skull to the world recently. The skull belongs to a     2     (complete) new species of humans that lived in China over 146, 000 years ago. The species could be our closest     3     (relative). The researchers nicknamed the person the skull came from “Dragon Man”. It was originally found in the city of Harbin in 1933 but was kept     4     (hide). The Japanese army occupied the city at the time.     5     Chinese worker who found the skull decided to keep it safe. He hid it at the bottom of his family's well,     6     it stayed for nearly 90 years. The man recently told his family about the skull     7     he died. His family located it and gave it to scientists.

Dragon Man could change our understanding of human     8     (evolve). He was “a large- brained male in his 50s with deep-set eyes”. He looked more like today's humans than other extinct members of the human family tree. Scientists say Dragon Man is     9     (close) to modern-day humans than Neanderthals were. Researcher Chris Stringer described Dragon Man's group. He said: “This population would have been hunter-gatherers,     10     (live) off the land. From the winter temperatures in Harbin today, it looks like they were coping with even harsher cold than the Neanderthals.”

9 . You’ve got mail…and it’s a postcard

Paulo Magalhaes, a 34-year-old Portuguese computer engineer, loves to open his mailbox and find a brightly colored picture of Rome’s Colosseum. Or Africa’s Victoria Falls. Or China’s Great Wall.     1    

“I often send postcards to family and friends.” he says to China Daily, “but you can imagine that after a while, you never receive as many as you send, and you realize that not everyone is into it.     2    ” Seeking other like-minded souls, however, Paulo started looking in a somewhat unlikely place: online. Many would say the Internet is a place for people who have given up on the traditional postal service, but Paulo’s hunch(直觉)paid off.

Today his hobby has developed into the website postcrossing.com, a social network that has grown to 575,217 registered users in 214 countries and regions since he started it 10 years ago.     3    Running the website has almost turned into a full-time job.

Language is certainly a barrier for many people. For postcrossing to work worldwide, a common communication language is needed so that everyone can understand each other. As cool as it may be to receive a postcard written in Chinese, the concept doesn’t work if one doesn’t understand it.     4     So a common language is required and in postcrossing that’s English since it’s widely spoken.

“Many people in China have limited exposure to English.     5     That said, we know of many postcrossing members, including Chinese, who have actually improved their English skills through their use of postcrossing,” Paulo says.

A．And that’s totally fine.

B．That makes it extra hard to learn and practice it.

C．He likes to think of sending postcards as a family-friendly hobby.

D．Many love to make a connection with someone from across the world.

E．On August 5, the number of postcards exchanged by members topped 31 million.

F．Similarly, if you speak only Chinese, receiving a card in Swedish takes part of the fun away.

G．In short, he loves postcards, and the excitement of getting a hand-written note from someone far away.