1 . In 1945，Sergeant (中士) John Gonsalves was sent to Germany soon after the Second World War ended, and he couldn’t wait to return home. In the meantime, he decided to send a letter to his _________, but the letter never arrived._________, it never arrived on time. Somehow, this lost letter from 1945 was_________in 2021._________workers did everything they could to deliver it to the _________of John’s family as soon as possible.

Although John_________in 2015 at the age of 92, he was_________by his wife, Angelina Gonsalves and their five sons.

“The mailman came and said, ‘Was your husband once in the_________?’ And I said, ‘Yes, he was,’ And he said, ‘Well, I think I have a letter for you,’” Angelina_________ . “I couldn’t believe it. And then I__________that it was his__________, you know? It was just so__________.”

In the two-page letter, John gave his mom a(n)__________on what life had been like at the station in Bad Orb, Germany. Most__________, though, John expressed his love for his__________, wishing them well and letting them know he was looking forward to returning home. He ended the letter with, “Love and__________, your son, John. I will be seeing you soon,I hope.”

Although the letter is 76 years late, it couldn’t have arrived at a__________time. It reached John’s family during the Christmas season, one of his favorite holidays.

“It was a joy to see her__________light up as she was reading his__________,” Brian Gonsalves, one of their sons, said. “He was a good man. He really was,” Angelina said, “Everybody loved him. That was__________. It seemed that he came back to me.”

1.

A．son

B．mom

C．wife

D．father

2.

A．Or rather

B．Or else

C．Above all

D．In all

3.

A．described

B．destroyed

C．demanded

D．discovered

4.

A．Medical

B．Technical

C．Postal

D．Physical

5.

A．hands

B．bags

C．drawers

D．cars

6.

A．watched out

B．set off

C．passed away

D．showed up

7.

A．inspected

B．instructed

C．scolded

D．survived

8.

A．team

B．army

C．committee

D．government

9.

A．insisted

B．reminded

C．interrupted

D．recalled

10.

A．forgot

B．wrote

C．recognized

D．reported

11.

A．handwriting

B．capacity

C．honour

D．opinion

12.

A．reasonable

B．predictable

C．amazing

D．disappointing

13.

A．rule

B．update

C．operation

D．theory

14.

A．likely

B．unnecessarily

C．reliably

D．importantly

15.

A．family

B．neighbors

C．colleagues

D．branch

16.

A．pity

B．sacrifices

C．kisses

D．honesty

17.

A．safer

B．busier

C．worse

D．better

18.

A．hair

B．face

C．hat

D．room

19.

A．poems

B．essays

C．phrases

D．words

20.

A．acceptable

B．suitable

C．unbelievable

D．imaginable

2 . In the last school year, nearly 1 in every 10 students in New York City public schools was homeless, according to new data released on Wednesday. A total of 104,383 children lacked permanent housing during the 2021-22 school year across districts, an increase of about 3.3 percent from the previous school year, according to an annual report released by Advocates for Children New York,a nonprofit organization that annually collects data on homeless students.

About 28 percent or more than 29,000 students were living in city shelters, while nearly 5 percent or about 5,500 students were considered “Unaltered”, living in cars, parks and abandoned buildings, according to the report. Nearly 360 children lived in hotels or motels. About 69,000 children were “doubled up”, meaning they stayed with extended family and friends after losing permanent housing or facing economic difficulties, the report found.

Meanwhile,the country’s largest school district has been losing students,with roughly 120,000 leaving over the last five years. Public school enrollment(入学) has dropped by nearly 9.5 percent since the pandemic started.

“While the city works to address the issue of homelessness, we also must ensure that students who are homeless get to class every day and receive the targeted support they need to succeed in school,” Kim Sweet, executive director of Advocates for Children, said.

During the last school year, almost 2 in 3 students living in shelters were considered “chronically (经常反复发生地) absent”, which means they missed at least 10 percent of school days. Chronic absence hurts students’ academic performance. In the 2020-21 school year, 70 percent of students who were homeless graduated, compared with 81 percent of all students. They were also more than three times more likely to drop out of high school than their classmates who do have housing.

“If we want to break this bad cycle of poverty and homelessness, we have to make sure we’re prioritizing education of students in temporary housing,”Jennifer Pringle, director of Project Learning in Temporary Housing for Advocates for Children, told The New York Times.“The consequences are just awful and without a coordinated(协调一致的), targeted response, we’re not going to see a change.”

1. How many students took city shelters as their living places in the 2021-2022 school year in NYC?

A．Nearly 360.	B．About 5,500.
C．Over 29,000.	D．About 69,000.

2. What is the main idea of paragraph 5?

A．The causes of so many homeless children.

B．The ways the homeless children lived their life.

C．The measures to solve the problem of homeless children.

D．The influences of homelessness on the children’s education.

3. What is the meaning of the underlined word “prioritizing” in the last paragraph?

A．Treating something as being more important than other things.

B．Stopping something from being done especially by law.

C．Getting something,especially by making an effort.

D．Trying to discover facts about something.

4. What is a suitable title for the news report?

A．Homeless students in NYC face challenges in life

B．NYC works to address issue of homelessness

C．Nation’s largest school district—NYC loses students

D．1 in 10 NYC students homeless during last school year

3 . After just one sniff of a catnip plant, many cats start acting in truly strange ways. Entertainment value aside, this herb has proven benefits for cats—but that still leaves us wondering what exactly the effect is on our furry friends.

Cats like catnip for two reasons: smelling it stimulates their senses, and eating it calms them down. Many cats react to catnip by rolling around, rubbing against everything, and eventually becoming unconscious. This is due to an active substance in a kind of volatile(易挥发的)oil found in the leaves of the catnip herb. It attaches to receptors(受体)inside the cat’s nose and drives its sensory neurons(感觉神经元)crazy, according to Daniel Rotman, CEO of Pretty Litter.

When a cat eats the herb, however, it has a calming effect.” If the catnip is swallowed, it causes tiredness and works as a drug that makes cats calm or sleepy. For cats that sniff catnip and rub against the plants, they’ll get more of the stimulating effects,” Rotman said. “Both smelling and swallowing catnip is safe for your cat.”

Catnip’s effects on your cat will only last a short time—about 5 to 30 minutes, says Rotman. This is all dependent on your individual kitty, because studies show that only two-thirds of adult cats are affected by the herb. “About 50 percent of cats seem to be affected by catnip, and the behavior that results from eating or smelling it varies widely between individuals,” Rotman says.

If you have a house cat, you probably worry about its not getting enough stimulation. After all, you can’t be around to play with them every moment they’re awake. Studies show that cats, like the other animals, need mental and physical exercise to be happy, and an interesting experience like sniffing or eating catnip could be part of that enrichment. Kitties that don’t receive enough stimulation could develop aggressive, depressed, or anxious behavior. Just make sure you don’t give your cat too much catnip, as it can lead to dizziness or other symptoms.

1. What’s the theme of the text?

A．Influences of catnip plants on cats.	B．How to make cats happy and healthy?
C．Catnip—the best food for cats.	D．What is the herb—catnip?

2. How can cats be if they have a bite of the herb catnip?

A．They may be more depressed.	B．They may be unconscious.
C．They may be more sensitive.	D．They may be aggressive.

3. What do we know about the effects of catnip on cats from paragraph 4?

A．They only appear in baby cats.	B．They can differ much between cats.
C．They are likely to be found in few cats.	D．They usually last for about fifty minutes.

4. What can we learn from the last paragraph?

A．Cats should avoid eating catnip.

B．Cats are in need of enough stimulation.

C．Cats don’t like people to play with them often.

D．Cats prefer mental exercise to physical exercise.

4 . Ahlam Sarai,a 54-year-old Syrian woman,finally realized her dream of opening the first vegetarian(素食的)restaurant in her hometown of Sweida.

Sarai’s dream began more than 1l years ago, when she was inspired by her two children, who had decided to become vegetarians, and tried to cook appealing food without meat or other animal products. After becoming a master cook of vegetarian dishes, an idea came to her mind, which was “Why don’t I open a restaurant to cook vegetarian dishes for people?”

However, Sarai tried running the business from home at first due to a lack of money and resources needed to open a restaurant. She promoted her home-made vegetarian dishes on social media and delivered the food by bus. When Sarai’s business grew, she met her current partner and opened a restaurant which has grown larger in the past year and attracted more customers. She also brought in a young dessert chef, a vegetarian who makes desserts with natural sweeteners(甜味剂)such as grapes and molasses(糖浆). Now every morning,Sarai comes to the kitchen, puts on a head covering and gloves,and cooks various vegetarian dishes for her customers.

The Syrian woman hopes to spread the idea of vegetarianism in her country, where meat is the main ingredient in the majority of the local cuisines, by creating a special place for vegetarians who may feel uncomfortable when dining out with friends.

Zeir Atrash, a 22-year-old regular customer of Sarai’s restaurant, said that she felt a sense of belonging after the vegetarian restaurant was opened in Sweida, as she used to feel embarrassed when going to normal restaurants with her friends.

Nowadays, even restaurants in the capital Damascus have started to order food from Sarai’s restaurant in Sweida to cater to(迎合)the vegetarians and other customers curious about this kind of food. It is worth noting that non-vegetarian eaters are attracted partly by the much lower prices Sarai’s restaurant offers, since many are struggling with their livelihoods in the tough economic situation.

1. Why does the author write the second paragraph?

A．To explain what food a vegetarian tends to consume.

B．To emphasize how Sarai would open a vegetarian restaurant.

C．To reveal the inspiration for Sarai to open a vegetarian restaurant.

D．To praise Ahlam Sarai for her determination to realize her childhood dream.

2. How is the third paragraph mainly developed?

A．By following the time order.	B．By making comparisons.
C．By analyzing causes and effects.	D．By giving examples.

3. What is Ahlam Sarai’s purpose of opening the vegetarian restaurant?

A．To increase her children’s appetite.

B．To expand her business in a short time.

C．To improve the health of the local population.

D．To raise awareness of vegetarianism in Syria.

4. What is the appeal of Sarai’s restaurant to non-vegetarians?

A．It charges much less money.	B．It offers online reservations.
C．It provides a home delivery service.	D．It serves desserts with natural sweeteners.

5 . Follow these tips to start a book drive in your neighbourhood or school. Before your book drive. Identify your volunteers. Recruit a committee of volunteers to assist you with planning and pick-ups on collection days.

Decide on the logistics(组织工作).

* Determine where to hold the book drive.

Good locations include:small retail businesses or local schools. You don’t have to choose just one. You can ask businesses all over your area to collect books for the drive.

* Choose an appropriate time to hold the book drive. Join forces with an already-scheduled community event,or take advantage of a national celebration.

* At each collection location，ask for approval from management(管理层),and place boxes in a highly visible area.

* Determine what type of books you want to collect and what age group you are targeting. Your range can be as wide or narrow as you like.

* Determine the length of your book drive. A typical one lasts 2～3 weeks.

* Select who is going to receive the books.

Organize your materials. You will need boxes to distribute to business storage space for the collected books and flyer(传单)to advertise your drive.

Plan a kick-off event. Host a party,and ask each attendee to bring a book.

During your book drive

Motivate people. Organize a competition to inspire friends,neighbors,other parents,club members to donate books. Keep track of which location or which individual contributes the most books. Recognize the donors with certificates or awards.

Spread the word. The most successful way to gather books is to ask your personal networks to contribute. Make these requests in person or by phone. To reach a large audience:Hang flyer in grocery stores and schools (with permission).

After your book drive

Sort your books. Count the number of books you collected, and sort them by age range or where they will be donated.

Review. Get your committee together to consider what worked and what didn’t. Document changes to make your next book drive even better.

1. When can you hold a book drive best in your neighbourhood?

A．On weekday evenings.	B．When stores are closed.
C．At the beginning of a new term.	D．During the National Day holiday.

2. How can you encourage people to donate more books according to the text?

A．By holding reading activities.	B．By rewarding donors with prizes.
C．By putting on shows during the event.	D．By placing collection boxes here and there.

3. What should you do after the book drive?

A．Promote the drive online.	B．Choose donors of the books.
C．Sum up the experience and lessons.	D．Make a detailed plan for the next book drive.

6 . 英语课上，你们班准备就“分数与能力”进行一次讨论。请发表你的看法，内容包括：
1.简要评论现状； 2.你的观点及建议。
注意:1.词数100左右；             
2.题目已为你写好。       

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7 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填人1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

Last week, I took a small boat and rowed miles along a little river in the middle of New York’s Adirondack Mountains     1    (escape) the maddening noise in the city.

One of the rewards for this remote trip was the total peace in the mountains. Here, I was completely alone. There was not another soul     2     sight. No cars, no signals to draw me toward my phone.

I rowed through little ponds     3     (surround) by grass and red berries on the shores. To go deeper into the wild, I made my way through a chain of rocky rapids (急流). As I rowed along I saw a yellow maple leaf pressed against a rock by the current.

When it was impossible for     4    (I) to row my boat, I tied it to my waist and pulled it behind me, w with my pants rolled to my     5    (knee). To my delight, I found that the water still held some of the warmth summer.

Soon after I reached a stretch of rapids    6     were too violent to get through, I was forced to carry my little boat on my shoulders.    7    (walk) along a trail in the shadowy forest, I saw    8    (variety) plants that have started to turn reddish. When the river slowed down again, I put down my boat and rowed on. On     9     (arrive) at the end of the little river, I was extremely tired     10     I felt really happy and complete relaxed.

8 . Climate science has been rapidly advancing in recent years, but the foundations were laid hundreds of years ago.

In the 1820s, French scientist Joseph Fourier theorized that Earth must have some way of keeping heat and that the atmosphere may play some role. In 1850, American scientist Eunice Newton Foote put thermometers(温度计)in glass bottles and experimented with placing them in sunlight. Inside the bottles, Foote compared dry air, wet air, N₂, O₂ and CO, and found that the bottle containing humid air warmed up more and stayed hotter longer than the bottle containing dry air,and that it was followed by the bottle containing CO₂. In 1859, Irish scientist John Tyndall began measuring how much heat different gases in the atmosphere absorb. And in 1896, Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius concluded that more CO₂ in the atmosphere would cause the planet to heat up: These findings planted some of the earliest seeds of climate science.

The first critical breakthrough happened in 1967 when Syukuro Manabe and Richard Wetherald connected energy absorbed by the atmosphere to the air movement vertically over Earth.They built a model which first included all the main physical processes related to climate changes. The predictions and the explanations based on their model still hold true in the real world almost half a century later.

The model was improved in the 1980s by Klaus Hasselmann who connected short-term weather patterns with long-term climate changes. Hasselmann found that even random weather data could yield insight into broader patterns.

“ The greatest uncertainty in the model remains what human beings will do. Figuring it out is 1,000 times harder than understanding the physics behind climate changes,” Manabe said.“ There are many things we can do to prevent climate change. The whole question is whether people will realize that something which will happen in20 or 30 years is something you have to respond to now.”

So, it’s up to us to solve the problem that these pioneers helped the world understand.

1. What does the word “humid” underlined in paragraph 2 mean?

A．Cool.

B．Cold.

C．Dry.

D．Wet.

2. What is Klaus Hasselmann’s contribution to climate science?

A．He found that CO2 causes global warming.

B．He invented a unique measuring instrument.

C．He improved Manabe and Wetherald’s model.

D．He built a reliable model on climate change.

3. What is paragraph 5 mainly about?

A．The biggest problem with the climate model.

B．The necessity for human beings to take action now.

C．The challenge of understanding climate change.

D．Measures to be taken to prevent climate change.

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

A．Negative Effects of the Global Warming

B．Historic Breakthroughs in Climate Science

C．Main Causes Leading to Climate Change

D．Difficulties of Preventing Climate Change

9 . On October 12,2021,China officially announced its first five national parks, which are homes to endangered species ranging from the Siberian tigers on the Russian border to the world’s last 30 Hainan black crested gibbons(黑冠长臂猿)in southern China’s tropical rainforest.

By uniting hundreds of protected areas managed by various provinces, the new national park system’s goal is to strengthen conservation under the central authority of the new National Forestry and Grassland Administration(NFGA)

These five parks cover an area two-third the size of the US national park system. The largest, Sanjiangyuan National Park in Qinghai Province, is almost the size of Mississippi.

With such an ambitious plan, there are bound to be challenges. For one the government has to balance the need for the livelihoods of the locals with wildlife conservation. It has not announced a plan to create a permitting system that would regulate how people enjoy nature. What’s more,ecotourism-which is defined as tourism that benefits both locals and their environment-only exists in a fifth of China’s nature reserves.

But there’s hope that the existing ecotourism projects in such nature reserves as Sanjiangyuan National Park and Wolong Nature Reserve will inspire efforts elsewhere in the new park system. Since 2018, Sanjiangyuan National Park has run a community-led tourism program that benefits both locals and snow leopards(豹), the park’s main tourist draw. For $43 a day, visitors can stay with local families, who act as guides to spot these rare “cats” in the wild.

“The community has made all the major decisions, and 100 percent of the income stays in the community. It’s been incredibly successful,” says Marc Brody, who has worked in China since 1994.

NFGA agrees that well-designed ecotourism can improve local ecosystems. It says that a core mission(核心使命)of China’s national parks is to promote eco-civilizationa mission that can be advanced by involving visitors Written into China’s constitution(宪法)in 2012, eco-civilization means scientifically balancing the economic development and the environmental protection.

1. Which park is home to the thirty endangered gibbons?

A．Hainan National Park.	B．Wolong Nature Reserve.
C．Northeast National Park.	D．Sanjiangyuan National Park.

2. What can be learned about Sanjiangyuan National Park?

A．It is bigger than Mississippi.	B．It sits on the Russian border.
C．It is a pioneer in ecotourism.	D．It has a mature permitting system.

3. Which word best describes Marc Brody’s attitude to ecotourism?

A．Skeptical.

B．Unconcerned

C．Disapproving

D．Positive

4. What is the main purpose of China’s national parks?

A．To protect the endangered animals.

B．To help the local people out of poverty.

C．To balance the economy and the environment.

D．To set a better development example for the world.

10 . Anne Lacaton and Jean-Phippe Vassal, this year’s Pritzker Prize winners, were as surprised as anyone else when the most famous award in architecture was made public yesterday.

“Of course it’s very pleasant, and we are very pleased,”Lacaton said at a conference with her partner, both smiling broadly from their black eyeglasses.

Putting aside their eyeglasses, Lacaton and Vassal could not be more different from an earlier generation of Pritzker winners, known for their easily recognizable styles and grand work. Instead, the two apply their simple guideline to their work on old urban buildings for low-income families: Never destroy, never remove or replace, always add, transform, and reuse!

When Lacaton and Vassal were asked to redesign a particularly large and over-crowded public housing block in Bordeaux in 2017, the residents (居民) told them they could not afford to move, even temporarily, but they wanted bigger units. Their solution was to replace the folding wooden front door with sliding glass door to each unit and painted the ugly walls with something bright. Suddenly, everyone had roomy outdoor space, some of which could be used during the winter as “winter gardens.”

“So, people can not only get sun and light and spend time with family, but it’s also open to neighbors,” Columbia University architecture professor Mabel Wilson.“I would love to live in one of the apartments t they’ve redesigned.”

Their approach of cheap and creative re-adaption could be a model for urban planning in the US, Wilson adds, where destruction has been seen as a solution to old public housing in such cities as Chicago and St. Louis.

There’s a lot of violence in architecture and urbanism. We try to be precise. We try to work with kindness,” Lacaton once explained.“Buildings are beautiful when people feel well in them, when the light inside is beautiful and the air is pleasant, when the exchange with the outside seems easy and gentle, and when uses and sensations are unexpected,”

Lacaton and Vassal started their firm in Paris in 1987. Together, they worked primarily in France.

1. Why are Lacaton’s and Vassal’s eyeglasses mentioned in paragraph 3?

A．To draw readers attention to their unusual color.

B．To show that Pritzker Prize winners need eyeglasses.

C．To tell us how surprised and happy they are for the prize

D．To stress their only possible similarity with other Pritzker winners.

2. What did Lacaton and Vassal do in the Bordeaux public housing project?

A．They built winter gardens in the outdoor space.

B．They destroyed the walls to provide more space.

C．They just changed the doors and repainted the walls.

D．They provided bigger temporary rooms for the residents.

3. What have Lacaton and Vassal most probably done to win the Pritzker Prize?

A．They have built many public houses with unique styles.

B．They have designed various famous buildings in the world.

C．They have provided free services for poor families in the US.

D．They have tried to transform old urban buildings with kindness.

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

A．Architecture.

B．Environment.

C．Lifestyle.

D．Politics.