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。

Dark dining is the act of eating a meal without seeing the food that is being eaten. The basic concept is that the    1    (remove) of vision enhances the other senses and increases gastronomic (美食的) pleasure. Since 1999,    2    (specialize) dark restaurants have opened in many parts of the world.

The    3    (one) experience of dark restaurant took place in Paris and    4    (call) “Le gout du noir”. This program became in 2003 “Dans Le Noir?”. It became the first international chain of restaurant in the dark. The first permanent restaurant was Blindekuh, in Zurich, Switzerland. It was opened in September 1999 by a blind man, Jorge, who wished    5    (convey) the experience of blindness to sighted customers. Jorge says    6    idea came after guests who had dined blindfolded at his own home reported greater enjoyment of their meal through the senses of taste and smell.

The notion that a meal can be more    7    (enjoy) without sight is typically described     8    “the theory that flavors are intensified when people can’t see     9    they’re eating”.

However, some dark restaurants devote part of their money to charities or causes concerned with visual impairment. In Zurich, the original dark restaurant is part of this project, aimed at     10    (create) jobs for blind people.

2 . In 1665, Johannes Vermeer, one of the greatest painters in Netherlands, completed his masterpiece “Girl With a Pearl Earring.” On an April day 357 years later, Janine Strong slowed her bike to stop, paused her fitness app, and watched as the snaking line of her cycling route drew the shape of Vermeer’s masterpiece over the streets of Brooklyn.

Ms. Strong creates what has come to be known as “GPS art” — a practice that uses the Global Positioning System mapping capabilities of modern phone apps to create digital drawings with an athlete’s route. It has grown with the widespread availability of satellite tracking for use by ordinary people. In fact, the idea has been around since before the popularity of smartphones for fitness like Strava released in 2009.

In 2003, The New York Times Magazine told of how Jeremy Wood got the idea for GPS art. Mr. Wood said while he was using a GPS tracker on a flight and the plane flew in a holding pattern above Heath-row Airport, he was attracted by the pattern appearing on his Garmin GPS device. In recent years, technology has advanced enough to create visual maps in real time using a phone or smart watch.

“I get bored cycling on the same path in the same streets,” Ms. Strong said. “Creating GPS art gives me more reasons to hit the pavement, which makes cycling a lot easier. I always have a big smile on my face when it works out and I upload it and it’s done,” she added. “It’s a very satisfying feeling.”

To complete her digital vision of “Girl With a Pearl Earring,” she biked almost 50 miles around southern Brooklyn, carefully checking Strava to make sure each turn, circle, and straight line was achieving the shape of earring and head covering of Vermeer’s original.

1. What can we infer about Janine Strong in paragraph 1?

A．She tests a fitness app.	B．She is an innovative cyclist.
C．She likes pearl earrings.	D．She is a painter of some note.

2. What information can we get about GPS art?

A．It is rarely used by common people.	B．It arose after the popularity of fitness apps.
C．It is based on apps’ GPS mapping functions.	D．It is a practice of creating realistic drawings.

3. What does paragraph 3 mainly talk about?

A．The origin of GPS art.	B．The prospect of GPS art.
C．The function of a GPS tracker.	D．The advancement of a GPS device.

4. Who will be most likely to create GPS art?

A．Painting lovers.	B．Mobile game players.
C．Software developers.	D．Running enthusiasts.

3 . 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。

When I was a child, my mother told my sister, who had a 10-inch very obvious scar (伤疤) on her arm, “Nancy, if you ignore the scar, other people will ignore it. It does not mean they will not notice it, but it means it will not matter to them if it doesn’t matter to you.”

It never occurred to me that something like this would happen to my son years later. Sending a child off to college can certainly be stressful for concerned parents. It was in 2018 that my son went off to college. He rarely contacted us. I couldn’t help asking about other aspects, which sometimes made him complain that I didn’t treat him as an adult.

To be honest, my son is excellent. Some of my friends always tell me that they admire my son’s characters and they hope their sons could have some of them.

Unexpectedly, it was 4 o’clock in the morning in 2020, when I received the phone call. “This is the emergency room calling and your son was just brought in with severe burns on his face, neck and arms. We have called for an aircraft and are going to fly him to the burn unit in Seattle.” Seattle was 350 miles from his college, so we knew immediately this was serious.

The doctor described the reason, which caused the burns. At 6 am, my son and his friends decided to barbecue hamburgers in the courtyard of their apartment. When they lit the charcoal, it burst into flames because they had sprayed too much gasoline. The flames caught my son’s shirt tail and shot from his waist to well over his head.

Fortunately, one of the boys who was quick-minded grasped my son and rolled him on the grass. While it saved his life, it was not in shape to save him from severe burns and terrible scars.

After he recovered from the treatments, the doctors told him they would not do plastic surgery for 6 months because it takes that long for the skin to stop shrinking and wrinkling.

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。

The doctors suggested he return to college with scars of severe burns temporarily.

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So I told him about Nancy’s childhood.

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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。

China is developing a new-generation launch vehicle     1    (send) astronauts to the moon, which will be completed by 2030.

The new rocket will be 90 meters tall, and able to lift 27 tonnes of payload(有效载荷) to the lunar orbit, CGTN learned from the Airshow China     2    (hold) in south China’s Zhuhai City earlier this month, during which a model of the rocket     3    (display). The diameter(直径) of     4    (it) core will be similar to that of the Long March-5 heavy-lift rocket, which is five meters. The Long March-5 is China’s most     5    (power) launch vehicle currently in operational service,     6     a maximum payload capacity of 25 tonnes to low Earth orbit(LEO). It has been used to send China’s three space station modules,     7    (weigh) about 66 tonnes, into LEO.

In addition to     8     new rocket for manned mission, China is also developing a new crewed capsule and a lunar lander,     9     will be able to send three astronauts to the lunar orbit and allow two of them to land on the moon.

Meanwhile, China is also working on a series of reusable space launch and transport systems that will     10    (significant) boost its space shuttle capability, lowering costs and empowering future development in this area.

9 . How to Be Creative When You’re Not Naturally Creative

Creativity isn’t something people are born with. It’s a skill that can be learned. And you can only get better at it with practice. The brain needs to be developed using cognitive exercises.     1    

Take a creative course.

    2     Creative courses could be anything. Regardless which course you take, you’ll be exposed to different ways of thinking. It may help you uncover some of your strengths and work on your weaknesses. It’ll also surround you with people who share the goal.

Brainstorm while you exercise.

If you feel like you’re working your brain hard and still coming out empty-handed, try pushing yourself physically for thirty minutes.     3     One study found that exercising regularly may train your cognitive thinking and creativity in a healthy way. Take 30 minutes out of your day to go for a run or do an energizing yoga flow.

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Since your creativity is related to how your brain is wired, it’s important to keep your mind stimulated by new sights, sounds, tastes, smells, and experiences. Expose yourself to an entirely different point of view by traveling. It is also important to put yourself into the new cultures. This way, you will learn new ways of thinking.

Connect with creative people.

When you’ve hit a wall with your own ideas, it may be time to tap into the creativity of others. Surrounding yourself with people with whom you can share and get feedback on your ideas is good for your creativity. These different points of view can act as fresh perspective on a project you’ve been staring at for too long.     5    

A．Travel to other places.

B．Join a co-working space.

C．If you prefer guided instruction, take a creative course.

D．Here are some ways to increase your creative thinking.

E．Research shows that exercise can be linked to more creative thinking.

F．Creative people will give you feedback on your projects and keep you motivated.

G．A study found two key ways co-working spaces create unique opportunities for creativity.