2 . When their daughter Morey started kindergarten, the Belanger family were worried because their 6-year-old daughter was deaf. Rather than send her to a special school for deaf children, Morey's parents decided to give her a traditional school experience and send her to Dayton Consolidated School.

They worried if their daughter would be able to make friends. They also had concerns as to how her classmates would treat her and whether her teachers would be able to help her learn effectively(有效地). But then the school had a response they never expected — teaching all their students and staff sign language. That way, everyone could communicate with Morey on a personal level.

"I absolutely feel like it makes her feel welcomed," said Morey's mom. "I think all the kids feel excited that they know another language and I think they think it's fun. It makes me happy to see her supported, loved and accepted. Morey is excited to go to school every day. She's made really good friendships. "

Not only did they learn sign language，but they also put up sign language posters in the halls and equipped a special hearing system. Additionally, they provided extra training so that teachers could become more familiar with the language. “Morey, without even knowing it, has taught us so much," says headmaster Kimberly Sampietro. "She's brought a culture to our system that we didn't have before. Morey helped the whole class to learn the alphabet. The kids look up to her, they want her around, and they want to partner with her. ”

Morey's hearing loss is a result of a condition that's so rare that it's never been named. However, thanks to the hard work and goodwill of her classmates and teachers, she can communicate with them on her terms.

1. What concerned the Belangers when Morey started kindergarten?

A．That they would have to separate from her.

B．That they could hardly afford her education.

C．Whether she could lead a normal school life.

D．Whether she could receive special training.

2. Why did Dayton Consolidated School teach all their students and staff sign language?

A．To equip them with one more practical skill.

B．To develop closer student-teacher relationships.

C．Out of concern for their teaching effectiveness.

D．Out of concern for a student with special needs.

3. What does Morey's mom think of the kindergarten's response?

A．Inspiring and useful.	B．Dull but worthwhile.
C．Considerate but complex.	D．Shocking and controversial.

4. What do Kimberly Sampietro's words in paragraph 4 imply?

A．Morey is good at teaching others.

B．Morey isn't the only one who benefited.

C．Morey has become a symbol of the kindergarten.

D．Morey hasn't brought any changes to the kindergarten.

3 . 假如你是校学生会主席李华，学校将举办一场有关建党 100 周年的英语演讲比赛，请你按以下内容写一则通知，号召同学们积极参加。
内容包括：
1.比赛的目的, 时间和地点
2.报名截止时间 : 6 月 10 日
3.参赛者及参赛内容
注意:1. 词数: 100 词左右；
2. 作文应包含以上所有要点，可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
参考词汇：建党 100 周年--------100th anniversary of the founding of Communist Party of China

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Student Union

June 1,2021

4 . The widespread application of internet technology has made our lives easier but poses a big challenge to senior citizens, who are not always comfortable with smart phones and so many new apps.

In China, only a few senior citizens are able to enjoy the benefits that new technologies offer. According to the National Bureau of Statistics, the number of people aged 60 and above was 253.88 million in 2019, that is 18 percent of China's population. But only 23 percent of the senior citizens were able to access the internet. That means more than three-fourths of the elderly are deprived of the digital convenience.

Failure to access the internet or use smart phones has increased difficulties for them. They cannot even take a taxi easily in this era of app cabs. There have been reports of many shops turning away elders who don't know how to pay using smart phones, instead of letting them pay in cash. Many elders who can't use smart phones are facing difficulties during this pandemic, as they cannot access the internet-based health code required for entry into many public places as part of the epidemic prevention and control measures.

New technologies become popular because they are often of great use in our daily lives. But many senior citizens, especially those living in rural areas or those whose grownup children don't live with them, cannot access the internet or smart phones, either because of financial restrictions or because they cannot learn new things beyond a certain point. The digital gap between the elderly and the young is becoming more pronounced.

However, the senior citizens should not become a silent group deprived of digital benefits. It is society's responsibility to help them bridge the digital gap, and be patient with them when they face difficulties keeping pace with times.

1. What do we learn from the text?

A．Not all the elderly are able to enjoy the smart life services.

B．Internet technology has made everyone's life easier.

C．About one-fourth people have easy access to the internet.

D．Smart phones and apps are not designed for the elderly.

2. What fact do the examples in Paragraph 3 present?

A．Many elders don't know how to hire a taxi.

B．Many elders always go shopping without their smart phones.

C．Many elders have trouble in using the health code.

D．Many elders are not allowed to enter public places during the pandemic.

3. Which is the closest in meaning to the underlined word in Paragraph 4?

A．Predictable.

B．Obvious.

C．Avoidable.

D．Narrow.

4. What can we infer from the last paragraph?

A．Digital gap makes everything harder.

B．Grownup children should live with the elderly with digital problems.

C．The society should be responsible for the elderly's digital problems.

D．The internet technology provides easy lives for seniors in all respects.

5 . 假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加:在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧)，并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除:把多余的词用斜线(\)划掉。
修改:在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意:1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2. 只允许修改10处，多者(从第11处起)不计分。

Thank you for your letter, what really made me happy. I’m glad to know that you’ve come China to learn kung fu in a school in my hometown. I’m surely you’ll have a good time. Actually, I start to learn kung fu when I was seven years old, for I have long been out of practice. Luckily, I will go home in two weeks for summer vacations. Then I can spare some time to learn it again, such that we can practice together on every day. Best of luck with yours learning kung fu in China. See you sooner.

6 . Fantastic Magazines for Learning English

Digital Photogra pher

Perfect if you like: taking pictures with your camera or phone.

What you’ll find inside: This magazine is full of colorful photos and very pleasing to look at. There are many tips and guides on how to take great pictures, and they are written in simple and easy-to-understand English though there are some technical camera terms. You feel like the writers are tolking to you! You can impress your friends with your irnproved English and your new photography skills!

Fast Company

Perfect if you like: business and learning how successful companies work.

What you’ll find inside: Fast Company is one of the most approachable magazines about business and companies. It has many interviews of successful people, as well as general news about interesting new companics. It does use a higher level of writing than what is usual for magazines, so give it a try first to make sure you can understand the articles.

Cricket and Cicada

Perfect if you like: excellent literature and short stories.

What you’ll find inside: Cricket and Cicada are literary magazines aimed at teenagers. Each issue is full of wonderful short stories and poems, and beautiful illustrations. Even though these are technically children’s magazines, they are perfect for learning English because they have high quality writing.

Mental Floss

Perfect if you like: interesting trivia and facts.

What you’ll find inside: What does outer space smell like？ Why isn’t cat food mouse-flavored？ If you’re the kind of person who asks yourself these questions, you’ll love Meriful Floss, Each issue is full of bite-sized trivia and mostly short articles with really interesting facts that you’ll want to share with others.

While the print edition of the magazine stopped publishing in 2016, you can still read Mental Floss online. Click here to get more information.

1. Which magazine tells something about business and companies？

A．Digital Photographer.	B．Fast Company
C．Cricket.	D．Menial Floss.

2. What is special about Cricket and Cicada？

A．They focus on drawing skills	B．They can only be bought online.
C．They are intended for teenagers.	D．They are full of colorful pictures.

3. Where is the text most probably taken？

A．On a website.	B．In a newspaper.
C．In an English textbook.	D．From a science magazine.

7 . Many of us think, wrongly, that the moon doesn’t change. For example, the Tang Dynasty poet Zhang Ruoxu once wrote that “Generations have come and passed away; From year to year the moons took alike, old and new.”

However, a new study published in the journal Nature Geoscience shows that the moon is in fact slowly shrinking over time. For the study, a group of US scientists examined and analyzed thousands of photographs taken by the NASA orbiter Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (月球勘测轨道飞行器照相机) . They found that there were lots of faults (断层) on the surface of the moon. These faults were formed by recent movement on the moon.

According to NASA, the moon is made up of pieces of rocks with a hot core (核) .The moon continued to expand as it was born. But in this process, it released energy and cooled down. Then it began to shrink, in a way comparable to the shrinking of a grape into a raisin (葡萄干) . Over the past several hundred million years, it has become 46 meters “skinnier”. But due to its hard and rocky crust (外壳) . the moon’s surface continues to push up, “Some of these quakes can be fairly strong around five on the Richter scale (里氏震级 ) ,” said Thomas Watters, a senior scientist at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum in the US.

But does that mean the moon is a dangerous place that human shouldn’t try to explore and live on in the future? Maybe not, reported the Telegraph, “This isn’t anything to worry about. The moon may be shrinking, but not by much. It’s not going anywhere,” Watters comforted us.

The new discovery proves that the idea that the moon is a dead, boring place is wrong. “We have been to the moon and we’ve done some great science, but there is still a lot we don’t know. The moon is shrinking — we didn’t really realize that until recently. It’s a much more active and interesting place than we thought and we should explore that,” NASA scientist Nathan Williams said.

1. Which point of view about the moon may the writer agree to?

A．It stays the same as before.	B．It is becoming lightly smaller.
C．It is getting older and older.	D．It has passed away.

2. What can we learn about the moon from the third paragraph?

A．It has become 46 meters fatter due to expanding.

B．It has changed from a grape into a raisin in recent years.

C．It quakes even at seven on the Richter scale.

D．It has a hot core and releases energy during expanding.

3. Who thinks that we needn’t worry about the moon?

A．Zhang Ruoxu.	B．Thomas Watters.
C．Nathan Williams.	D．The journalist.

4. What does Nathan Williams think of the moon?

A．It is a dead and boring place.	B．It has lots of faults on the surface.
C．It is valuable to do more science.	D．It isn’t a place where we can live.

8 . There are numerous benefits of reading good books.    1    Whatever your field might be, it's very important to create a good habit to read beyond your horizons. Here are tips to help you cultivate a better and consistent reading habit:

●Determine your reading goal.    2    This goal should be clear and backed up with a purpose. Start by thinking about how a consistent reading pattern can help you grow indifferent areas of your life-spirit, academics, career, relationships and more.

●    3     Once you' re done setting your reading goal for the year, you'll need a list to back it up. Write out a list of the amazing books you want to read. Ask for recommendations from friends and instructors. It s important to keep a journal listing the books you'll like to read for each month.

●Get a responsible reading partner to promote your reading. Goals need to be backed up in order to help put a check and encourage you during times you don't feel motivated.    4    

To develop a reading culture, you must first analyze your current reading habits. Do you read at all?    5     In order to truly achieve your reading goals and build a consistent reading habit, you'll need to set up simple systems， find responsible partners， and generally be hungry to grow beyond your comfort zone.

A．Do you study hard at school?

B．Make a list of books for each month.

C．Do you start off and stop at some point?

D．Get up early and go to bed late to back up your goal.

E．It's important to start off by setting a goal to create a reading habit.

F．Get a friend willing to read, and create a plan to help you achieve your reading goals.

G．It can make you think deeper, sharpen your skills and teach you more about your field.

9 . At my heaviest I weighed 370 pounds. I had a very poor relationship with food: I used it to ________ bad feelings, to make myself feel better, and to celebrate. Worried about my health, I tried many different kinds of   ________ but nothing worked. I came to believe that I could do nothing about my __________

When I was 50, my weight problem began to affect me ________ . I didn’t want to live the rest of my life with this ________ weight any more.

That year, I________ a seminar where we were asked to create a project that would touch the world. A seminar leader shared her ________ story —she had not only lost 125 pounds, but also raised $25,000 for homeless children._____ by her story, I created the As We Heal(痊愈), the World Heals _________. My goal was to lose 150 pounds in one year and raise $50,000________ a movement founded 30 years ago to end hunger. This combination of healing myself and healing the world   ________ me as the perfect solution.______I began my own personal weight program, I was filled with the fear that I would ______ the same difficulties that beat me before. While the ________ hung over my head, there were also signs that I was headed down the right _________. I sent letters to everyone I knew, telling them about my project. It worked perfectly. Donations began __________in from hundreds of people.

Of course, I also took some practical steps to lose weight. I consulted with a physician(内科医生), I hired a fitness coach, and I began to eat small and __________ meals. My fund-raising focus also gave me new motivation to exercise _________.

A year later, I________ my goal: I lost 150 pounds and raised $50,000! I feel that I’ve been given a second life to devote to something that is __________ and enormous.

1.

A．add

B．mix

C．kill

D．share

2.

A．diets

B．drinks

C．fruits

D．dishes

3.

A．height

B．ability

C．wisdom

D．weight

4.

A．temporarily

B．recently

C．seriously

D．secretly

5.

A．ideal

B．extra

C．normal

D．low

6.

A．attended

B．organized

C．recommended

D．mentioned

7.

A．folk

B．success

C．adventure

D．science

8.

A．Surprised

B．Amused

C．Influenced

D．Disturbed

9.

A．project

B．business

C．system

D．custom

10.

A．in search of

B．in need of

C．in place of

D．in support of

11.

A．scared

B．considered

C．confused

D．struck

12.

A．As

B．Until

C．If

D．Unless

13.

A．get over

B．run into

C．look for

D．put aside

14.

A．excitement

B．joy

C．anger

D．fear

15.

A．row

B．hall

C．path

D．street

16.

A．breaking

B．flooding

C．jumping

D．stepping

17.

A．heavy

B．full

C．expense

D．healthy

18.

A．regularly

B．limitlessly

C．suddenly

D．randomly

19.

A．set

B．reached

C．missed

D．dropped

20.

A．stressful

B．painful

C．meaningful

D．peaceful