1 . 阅读下面短文，根据所给情节进行续写，使之构成一个完整的故事。

When I was about six years old, my family and I went to Disneyland one weekend and had a wonderful day full of excitement. Little did I know that the real excitement wasn’t to begin until that night.

While we watched the fireworks, I began to get an urge to go to the restroom, but I didn’t want to miss the show. I overheard my sister Isabel talking to my mom, and I got closer to them to hear what they were talking about.

“Mom, I’m going to the bathroom with Lizette, okay?” said Isabel.

“Okay,” my mom replied, “but stay together. I don’t want any of you getting lost. ”

The second I saw my sisters leaving, I didn’t think twice before running after them—without telling my parents. As I followed them through the huge crowd of people, I started to lose sight of them. I began to panic as I scanned the crowd for them. Crazy thoughts ran through my head like “What if I never see my family again?”

I gave up trying to find my sisters and tried to get back to my family, but I was completely mixed up. After searching for what seemed like forever, I couldn’t hold back my tears, and I started crying like I had never cried before.

“Mommy!” I cried out. But everyone around me was too caught up by the fireworks to pay any attention to me.

I tried to stop the scary thoughts that were going through my head and started running as fast as I could...anywhere...everywhere. I was going crazy. I’m only six, and I’ve gotten lost. “What have I done? How could I have been so dumb to run off without telling anyone?” I thought.

With my face wet from tears, I kept running, pulling at people’s pants and crying, “Mommy!” I was hoping, wishing, that one of these adults would be one of my parents.

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。

Luckily, I felt a pat on my shoulder and a gentle voice came, “Are you lost?”

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Finally, through the crowd of people, I recognized a face.

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2 . Have you ever walked through a door and thought to yourself, “What was I going to do?” If you have, you are not alone. Psychologists believe that walking through a door and entering another room creates a “mental block” in the brain. This is generally referred to as the doorway effect.

In the early years of brain research, scientists thought that human memory was like a closet, with many sections in which we could store little boxes of experiences from our lives. Boxes would remain there forever, and whenever we had to look into them, we could just go to that particular section and find that box of memory.

Beautiful as this description of human memory formation sounds, it is not true. Our brain is much more complex than that. Psychological studies suggest that our memories are episodic(情节性的)in general. If you think back on anything, you’ll probably quickly realize our memories don’t function as clear narratives. Instead, they’re more episodic and divided into parts.

A new research led by psychologist Oliver Baumann from Bond University in Australia suggests that it’s not so much the doorways that cause a memory wipe, as moving from one location to a significantly different one—it’s the abrupt change of scene that prepares our minds for something new. “A good example is moving around in a department store,” says Baumann, “Taking the elevator between floors may have no effect on our memory, but moving from the store to the parking lot might cause us to forget something that we need to buy.”

Baumann also points out that a busy and perhaps overloaded brain does seem to play some part in this phenomenon. In other words, walking through open doors is thought to reset memory to make room for a new episode.

The good news is that experiencing such forgettable episodes after entering another room does not tell you anything about your memory and intelligence. So when you enter a room and suddenly forget why you are there, you should not think that Alzheimer’s disease is creeping up on you!

1. Which of the following would most probably be “doorway effect”?

A．You missed a call and forgot to ring back.

B．You read a book and forget what it is about.

C．You entered the office and forgot what to get.

D．You saw a man years ago and forget who he is now.

2. What can we learn from the passage?

A．All memories are linked in the brain.

B．Memories are clearly separated in the brain.

C．Not all the memories can be found in the brain.

D．Memories are stored in particular sections of the brain.

3. What can we infer from Baumann’s research?

A．Taking an elevator stimulates new memory.

B．Walking through open doors results in memory loss.

C．A sudden change of the scene boosts intelligence development.

D．An overloaded brain increases the possibility of doorway effect.

4. What does the author think of “doorway effect”?

A．Insignificant.	B．Beneficial.
C．Influential.	D．Damaging.

3 . How to stop glasses fogging up with a face mask

Wearing a mask keeps you safe during the pandemic, but it come with its own set of challenges. And, one of the biggest drawbacks of wearing a mask is how much your glasses fog up and affect your vision. Taking off your glasses to wipe them clean each time it fogs up is not only frustrating, but it can also increase the risk of infection.     1     Here are some tricks to stop it.

Twist your mask strings.

From the side, once you twist it, the strings will look like the figure eight. This is great for stopping fogging because it redirects your breath by putting slight downward pressure on the top part of the mask.     2     This may leave you infected by virus.

    3    

If you wash your glasses with soap, this creates a thin film on your lenses which limits fogging. Use a fragrance-free soap and mix it with warm water. Put your glasses in it and let it air dry. When you wear your glasses next, soap molecules on your lenses should block fogging.

Use tissues.

You can put a tissue under the top part of the mask.     4     To do this DIY trick properly, you should fold a tissue in half and place the straight edge along the bridge of your nose.

Change the position of your masks and glasses.

    5     But if you do this there are a few things to keep in mind. Firstly, you need to make sure that your mask still covers your chin(下巴)after you pull it up. And, if your prescription is stronger, this trick could impact your vision and cause increased blurriness.

A．Put glasses in the water.

B．Wash your glasses with soap.

C．It will help catch air and damp, keeping your glasses free of fog.

D．So the key is to prevent or minimize fogging due to face masks.

E．Cover your chin with masks to prevent need for repositioning when talking.

F．Though, it’s worth noting that it does create a slight gap between the mask and your face.

G．Pull up your mask and draw your glasses down, blocking your breath from rising upwards.

4 . 阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。

What makes something a sport? Traditional definitions usually included some physical activity     1     shows athletic ability or strength. But some sports can take the form of mental competitions. For instance, chess     2     (recognize)as a sport by the International Olympic Committee in 1999. Now, some people wonder     3     eSports should also be considered sports.

The word eSports is short for electronic sports. It is     4     form of competition in which professional players or gamers play video games either in teams or individually.     5     (typical), the winners receive prize money at the end of the competition.

The first eSports event was the one     6     (hold)by Stanford University in the 1970s, for the game Spacewar! Over the next 30 years, video games exploded in     7     (popular). More and more countries, such as South Korea, China and the United States, started to develop eSports into an industry. In the 2000s, television broadcasts of the competitions,       8     (feature) games like Street Fighter III, StarCraft, and Counter-strike, became popular. In the 2010s, thanks     9     online streaming services, eSports grew rapidly with more worldwide tournaments, more viewers, and larger     10     (prize). In 2020, the industry made more than US$1 billion for the first time ever.

5 . Scientists have solved a puzzle about modern humans, after research showed that a famous skull of a human ancestor found in South Africa is a million years older than experts thought. This discovery has changed what we know of human history.

The skull, which scientists have named “Mrs Ples”, is from an ape-like human relative from a species called Australopithecus africanus (南方古猿). It was found near Johannesburg in 1947 and, based on evidence from its surroundings, was thought to be between 2. 1 and 2. 6 million years old. This puzzled scientists, because although Mrs Ples looks like a possible early ancestor of early humans, the first true humans had already evolved by the time she apparently lived. For this reason, scientists had decided that Australopithecus afarensis, a similar species from East Africa that lived about 3.5 million years ago, was our most likely ancestor instead.

To get a more accurate age for Mrs Ples, a team led by Professor Darryl Granger of Purdue University in Indiana, US, used a new method to date the sandy rocks where the skull lay. They measured the amount of certain chemicals in rocks, which form at a steady rate when they are exposed to cosmic rays (宇宙射线) on Earth’s surface. Once rocks are buried, these chemicals stop forming and slowly disappear;the surviving amount reveals how much time has passed since the rock (or bones) were on the surface.

The new study shows that Mrs Ples and other australopithecine bones nearby are between 3.4 and 3.7 million years old. This means they lived at the same time as their East African relatives, so that either group could have given rise to modern humans. However, team member Dr Laurent Bruxelles pointed out that over millions of years, at only 2,500 miles away, these groups had plenty of time to travel and to breed with each other. In other words, the groups could quite easily have met, had children together and both been part of the history of modern humans.

1. What can we learn about Mrs Ples from the first two paragraphs?

A．It is a skull found in East Africa.

B．It is the most possible ancestor of humans.

C．It is a million years older than scientists expected.

D．It is proved to live between 2.1 and 2.6 million years ago.

2. How did scientists get the accurate age of “Mrs Ples”?

A．By studying the effect of cosmic rays.

B．By calculating the forming rate of chemicals.

C．By locating the sandy rocks where the skull lay.

D．By measuring the surviving amount of chemicals.

3. What can we infer from the new study?

A．Modern humans came into being in East Africa.

B．Mrs Ples travelled and had children with East African relatives.

C．The history of modern humans might begin 3.5 million years ago.

D．Ape-like species from Africa could have interacted with each other.

4. Which of the following can be the best title of the passage?

A．Historical Puzzle Unsolved	B．Ancestor Mystery Solved
C．Mrs Ples: The Earliest Human Being	D．Mrs Ples: A Famous Skull

6 . Born on her family’s farm in Ray, North Dakota, Mary Sherman Morgan had been helping her father with farm work before she could attend the small-town schoolhouse. Being a few years behind didn’t hold her back and she graduated from high school with honors. Aware of her intelligence, she ran away from Ray to attend Minot State University as a chemistry major, where her skill was evident.

The outbreak of World War II resulted in a national shortage of chemists and scientists. In spite of the fact that she was still a student and a woman, she was offered a job as a chemical analyst due to her talents, producing explosives(爆炸物)for the wartime effort. She put her degree on hold and moved to Ohio, taking on the dangerous job of analyzing unstable chemicals to produce weapons.

After the war ended there was a fall in demand for explosives, so she made a move to the field of aeronautics, moving to California to work for NAA(North American Aviation). The only woman out of 900 engineers, she was soon promoted to a role which involved calculating the performance of rocket propellants(推进剂)and designing speciality fuels to work with different engines. However, never having returned to complete her degree, she was not afforded the rank or higher pay of an engineer, even though she had all the skills and knowledge of one.

Her experience with propellants meant that when NAA was tasked to find a fuel capable of lifting the redesigned Redstone missiles into space, Mogan was appointed technical lead on the project. National pride was on the line, so Morgan set about investigating fuels. After countless trails, she finally designed her own mixture, which was named Hydyne.

Hydyne tested well with the Redstone missiles and subsequently other aircraft(飞行器), such as Jupiter-C rockets, proving to be a quick solution to getting to space without a total rocket redesign. The fuel made the first successful US satellite launch possible, even if Morgan silently slipped away from her success, retiring to focus on her family and leaving her chemistry career behind.

1. What do we know about Mary?

A．She attended school while helping with farm work.

B．She was offered a job as a chemistry analyst after graduation.

C．She shifted her working focus as the domestic demand changed.

D．She launched the first US satellite before retiring from her career.

2. What does the underlined word “aeronautics” probably mean?

A．Analyzing chemicals.	B．Producing explosives.
C．Mixing and saving fuels.	D．Designing and building aircraft.

3. What made Mary the technical lead on the project of NAA?

A．Her discovery of Hydyne.	B．Her rank as an engineer.
C．Her special knowledge in fuels.	D．Her sense of national pride.

4. Which of the following words can best describe Mary Sherman Morgan?

A．Caring and determined.	B．Courageous and creative.
C．Intelligent but sensitive.	D．Accomplished but proud.

7 . In a highly-connected world where your phone is always with you, information is being collected and shared every second.“So what?” you say. “I have nothing to hide.”     1     According to some experts, people may not understand the scope (范围) of the problem.

The problem is that while companies and data brokers are hovering up all the information they can, there are no laws governing what they can do with that information.     2     Someone knowing that you ordered three extra-large pizzas for dinner last Friday night may seem harm-less enough, but there's a deeper principle at play.     3     As cyber expert Bruce Schneier says, “Privacy is a basic human right, and a requirement for maintaining the human condition with dignity and respect.”

    4     We click “I Agree” without reading the user agreements. We say we will do one of those privacy checkups one day. but we never quite get around to it. And that means your personal information could be used against you in the future in ways you can't imagine today.

So what can you do to protect yourself?     5     If you' re worried about your personal information getting lifted, don't hand over your name, address, or phone number easily. Besides, choose a paper receipt or no receipt rather than getting one via text or e-mail. To stop your phone acting as a tracker, also turn off Location Services for all apps except maps andothers that expressly need to know where you are. You can do this in settings, under Privacy and Location.

A．Don’t be so sure.

B．Yet we do little to block the spies.

C．Care about who owns and controls the data.

D．We don't want to prevent all Internet spying.

E．Privacy is not just about freedom from embarrassment.

F．You can minimize some unwanted spying by taking these measures.

G．That includes things you thought were private, such as your health data, beliefs and daily habits.

8 . Sports are important in our family. Both of our sons were high-school ______ . So I shouldn’t have been ______ when Lauren announced she was going out for the girls’ basketball team. But I was because she has Down syndrome (唐氏综合征).

My wife and I never told Lauren that she was ______ . We treated her like our other children. We didn’t want her to feel disabled.

I discussed Lauren’s ______ with my wife that evening. She thought Lauren would make the team and she was right. Lauren did make it ______ not all the girls wanted to play.

The season’s first basketball game ______ . It got off to a good start, but soon Verden, Lauren’s team, was behind. Lauren ______ followed the movement on the court and reacted to every ______ . Even though Lauren wasn’t playing, she looked as if she were having the time of her life. I felt ______ for my daughter.

Just less than two minutes were left, and Verden was down by seventeen points when Lauren was called in for the game. Lauren ______ the others fairly well. Then they passed Lauren the ball. She ______ it. She shot. She scored! A few minutes later, Lauren ______   us in the stands. “Did you see? I scored! I made a ______ !”

For sixteen years, I’d tried hard to ______ Lauren from feeling like she was different. But watching Lauren in the game, I saw that she really was different—not physically or emotionally, but ______ .

1.

A．students

B．teachers

C．athletes

D．clerks

2.

A．disappointed

B．surprised

C．depressed

D．embarrassed

3.

A．normal

B．ordinary

C．different

D．typical

4.

A．announcement

B．preference

C．arrangement

D．proposal

5.

A．if

B．though

C．because

D．so

6.

A．appeared

B．remained

C．changed

D．arrived

7.

A．attentively

B．carelessly

C．frequently

D．repeatedly

8.

A．team

B．shot

C．game

D．shout

9.

A．regret

B．anxiety

C．admiration

D．sympathy

10.

A．kept pace with

B．gave way to

C．put up with

D．broke away from

11.

A．threw

B．missed

C．cast

D．caught

12.

A．challenged

B．joined

C．left

D．greeted

13.

A．mistake

B．record

C．mess

D．basket

14.

A．excuse

B．prohibit

C．discourage

D．shelter

15.

A．spiritually

B．consciously

C．literally

D．socially

9 . Sitting in the classroom, I felt confused.

Our teacher pointed at the blackboard and gave us instructions. Looking around, I watched as my classmates _______ their heads and started writing. A wave of _______ washed over me-I couldn’t read the board, for I couldn’t see clearly. It didn’t _______ at primary school because my teachers always read aloud what they were writing. But now, I was expected to read by myself.

Mum took me to a(n) _______. I was diagnosed with a terrible sight problem. I was _______ blind.

However, despite all the difficulties, I’d amazingly _______ to reach the age of 13! As a kid living on a farm, I was always falling over objects. I could only _______ the outlines of things and contrasts between different shades. I was given reading _______ but they didn’t help much.

_______ to let my diagnosis hold me back, I continued doing everything I loved, including milking the cows. Over the years, I’ve ________ lovely family holidays, but sometimes felt like my families were being too ________ to me. So I was thrilled when I heard about a travel company that takes those who are blind or have poor ________   Aussie adventures without families’ company. ________, I booked myself onto a trip to the ________. It was amazing to appreciate places, such as the beach and seaside theme parks, with ________ who were just like me. And the incredible guides were great at ________ us through all the way while making sure we had a fun and ________ time. Since then, I’ve travelled with them a lot. While we can’t see the sights like others, our ________ take us to awesome places. I don’t want people to feel sorry for me. I’m so lucky to have a wonderful family and lots of ________.

Life is ________-you don’t need vision to “see” that.

1.

A．raised

B．lowered

C．turned

D．shook

2.

A．regret

B．passion

C．panic

D．courage

3.

A．relate

B．change

C．happen

D．matter

4.

A．doctor

B．teacher

C．engineer

D．architect

5.

A．entirely

B．frequently

C．hopefully

D．nearly

6.

A．managed

B．decided

C．expected

D．preferred

7.

A．bring out

B．turn out

C．make out

D．work out

8.

A．classes

B．glasses

C．apps

D．skills

9.

A．Anxious

B．Delighted

C．Sorry

D．Unwilling

10.

A．launched

B．enjoyed

C．organized

D．avoided

11.

A．generous

B．tolerant

C．protective

D．trustworthy

12.

A．vision

B．intelligence

C．confidence

D．pay

13.

A．Puzzled

B．Confused

C．Touched

D．Excited

14.

A．downtown

B．coast

C．village

D．countryside

15.

A．classmates

B．colleagues

C．tourists

D．families

16.

A．supporting

B．lecturing

C．pushing

D．persuading

17.

A．easy

B．short

C．simple

D．safe

18.

A．education

B．wisdom

C．imagination

D．confidence

19.

A．adventures

B．lessons

C．actions

D．experiments

20.

A．peaceful

B．precious

C．plain

D．permanent

10 . 阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。

Shen Kuo (沈括) was a scientist of the Northern Song Dynasty. He was     1     all-round scholar of astronomy, physics, chemistry, geology and medical science.     2     , Shen Kuo's reputation has been mostly in the field of scientific writing: he was the first     3     (build) graphic maps.

Thanks     4     his mother, Shen Kuo received a formal education in his childhood. He was diligent and he read so much that he suffered eye pain later in life. While in his     5     (thirty), Shen Kuo frequently dreamed of a place. In the dream, he climbed a hill, the top of     6     was covered with brightly colored flowers and trees. Clear waters     7     (flow) at the base of the hill, with trees on either side. Later on, when     8     (travel) around, he was shocked to find a piece of land that was     9     (exact)the one in his dream. There he settled and wrote of the discoveries he had made in his lifetime.

This extraordinary story is the origin of Shen's the Dream Rivulet Diary (《梦溪笔谈》). The Dream Rivulet Diary was a milestone in the history of Chinese science. So far, this amazing scientific work     10     (put) into a number of different languages, including English, French, German and Japanese.