1 . Are you happy with your life now? If not, don’t despair (绝望) — instead, consider making changes to improve your life. It’s totally possible to learn how to change your life and live your dreams. This is the guide for you.

    1     Answer this question: “What makes this so important to me?” Understanding why you want to make a change can help you take action.

Pinpoint (确定) the issue. Consider an area of your life where you feel unsettled or unsatisfied. Is it your study? Friendship? Your health? Take a few minutes to write about it in a journal.     2    

Identify things that may hold you back.     3     But again, don’t think a lot about the bad things — just write them down and move onto the next step.

Choose your “one thing”. When you learn how to change your life completely, it’s important to remember that this process takes time.     4     If you try to change too much in one go, you’ll likely become overwhelmed (不知所措的), burn out, and then return to your usual way of operating.

Set your goals and make a plan. If you want to succeed, it is necessary to set a specific goal. After doing all of the above, it’s time to make a plan.     5    

A．Consider your “Why”.

B．Set a goal for yourself.

C．It won’t all happen at once.

D．You have to be aware of potential barriers before they arise.

E．It is necessary to take some time to review all of what you enjoyed.

F．Then you can explore how you would want things to be different in this area.

G．Despite the best of intentions, the lack of planning tends to limit our success.

2 . I grew up with my identical twin. One thing about being a ________ is that it makes you an expert in spotting favoritism (偏爱). If his cookie was slightly bigger than mine, I was ________ although I wasn’t hungry.

When I became a psychologist, I began to ________ how much more we ________ the body than we do the mind. I spent nine years earning my doctorate (博士学位) in psychology, and I can’t tell you how many people look at my business card and say, “Oh — a psychologist. So, not a ________ doctor.” This favoritism we show the body over the mind can be seen everywhere.

I was at my friends’ house, and their five-year-old was standing on a stool (凳子), brushing his teeth. His skin on his leg was ________ when he fell from the stool. He immediately ________ for a box of Band-Aids to put one on his cut. This kid could ________ tie his shoelaces, but he knew he had to ________ a cut. We all know how to look after our physical health. But what about our psychological health? Well, nothing.

We ________ psychological injuries even more often than we do physical ones, injuries like failure or loneliness. However, we often ________ them. Even though there are scientific techniques to ________psychological injuries, we don’t. “Oh, you’re feeling depressed? Just ________; it’s all in your head.” Can you imagine saying that to somebody with a broken ________: “Oh, just walk it off.”

It’s time we made our physical and our psychological ________ more equal, more like twins.

1.

A．hero

B．twin

C．winner

D．artist

2.

A．weak

B．tired

C．upset

D．embarrassed

3.

A．notice

B．doubt

C．worry

D．deny

4.

A．fuel

B．value

C．defend

D．affect

5.

A．private

B．real

C．potential

D．responsible

6.

A．burned

B．twisted

C．damaged

D．dirtied

7.

A．made up

B．went in

C．watched out

D．reached out

8.

A．readily

B．voluntarily

C．hardly

D．carefully

9.

A．avoid

B．cover

C．expose

D．hide

10.

A．dislike

B．escape

C．suffer

D．overcome

11.

A．fear

B．hug

C．ignore

D．mistake

12.

A．treat

B．discover

C．predict

D．replace

13.

A．keep it up

B．check it out

C．work it out

D．shake it off

14.

A．leg

B．head

C．back

D．arm

15.

A．benefit

B．health

C．wealth

D．fame

3 . 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。

With the shift from     1     (tradition) farming to modern farming progressing, the use of technology such as drones, robots and machinery has also begun. A farmer from the Philippines, Rey Kent Dejesica, is trying to help and contribute to the agriculture.

Farming is a boring process, especially for young people,     2     love everything instant. “I want to contribute to the agriculture industry     3     (reduce) growers’ expenses and make tasks easier.” Rey Kent said. “Using drones as a sprayer can lessen human labour.” Moreover, farmers agree that the use of drones also     4     (minimize) the Panama disease.

Agriculture is the main source of income for some Asian     5     (region). Parts of Asia are now going through a     6     (rapid) aging farmer population and a fear of food     7     (short). That is     8     the youth must be part of agriculture to ensure food security in the future. Advancements in agriculture technology such as drones can attract the youth     9     farming.     10     (arm) with his knowledge of drone technology and having a positive attitude, Rey Kent sets an example for the next generation of farmers.

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。

Ai Jing’s exhibition All The World Is Green opened on Tuesday, at the Helen J Gallery in Los Angeles. This     1     (mark) the debut solo (首次个人) exhibition in Los Angeles for the     2     (high) recognized multitalented artist, musician, writer, and actress.

The exhibition showcased     3     diverse range of artworks, including paintings, videos, and installations (现代雕塑装置),     4     (demonstrate) Ai’s artistic skills on and unique approaches to life, nature, and emotions.

At the heart of the exhibition, Girl on a Swing     5     (surround) by block-color paintings and a recreated grassy area, reflecting the artist’s inner world with colors of golden cornfields, shining sun, and expansive greenery spreading out.

In her younger years, Ai longed to leave home,     6     now she finds herself seeking a sense     7     belonging. This emotion pushed Ai’s exploration into painting, video, and installation art.

During the early stages of her career, she sang: “At 17, I left my hometown of Shenyang / For it seemed my dreams lay elsewhere.” It wasn’t until she gained international     8     (recognize) and spent years abroad that Ai began to feel a longing for home. “Childhood     9     (memory) leave deep impressions on one’s growth,” reflected Ai.

Running until April 16, the exhibition offered enough time for audiences     10     (explore) and appreciate Ai’s artistic vision.

5 . 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。

Jameson Lobb, a 24-year-old investment banker from Toronto, was just one week into his new job on Wall Street. Over the past month, he’d been settling in to the New York City apartment he was sharing with his friend, an artificial intelligence engineer named Raphael Jafri.

Now, on Oct.4, the two were taking a quick lunchtime workout on Pier (码头) 15, overlooking the East River, when Lobb froze. “Somebody’s in the water,” he said. Before Jafri could respond, Lobb climbed over the rail at the edge of the pier and jumped into the cold, polluted water without taking the time to remove his shoes. What Lobb had heard was an alarming shout from Pier 16, nearly 50 yards away, “Help! He’s in the water!” And what he’d seen was a person floating (漂浮), motionless.

Approaching the victim, Lobb saw that it was a middle-aged man. He was big, around 200 pounds, respectably dressed and sinking fast. He was 3 feet below the surface by the time Lobb reached him. The rescuer dived, felt around, grasped the man and kicked upward until they both resurfaced.

Jafri was in water now. The two friends used all their strength to float the man on his back, even as the water threatened to overtake them. As Jafri put his arms around the man’s shoulders and Lobb supported him, the pair struggled back to Pier 15. Their lungs cried out for air and their muscles burned as they pushed and pulled the immobile figure through the freezing and fast-moving water.

The man was breathing shallowly, his face pale. When at last they reached Pier 15, they faced a new uncertainty. How to get out? The pier’s decking (甲板) stood an unreachable 10 feet above their heads. It is unlikely for them to climb onto the pier.

Suddenly the man made a slight move, struggling confusedly.

注意：1.续写词数应为150个左右；
2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

On the pier, a crowd had gathered.

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As Lobb and Jafri climbed onto the pier, they were met with cheers and applause.

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6 . Have more fun. Learn new things. These aren’t bad New Year’s resolutions. But where do you start?

    1    

Ask yourself how you want to feel

Hobbies present an escape — they can help you get out of your head and calm down, says Matthew J. Zawadzke, an associate professor of health psychology at the University of California.     2     Mentally engaged? Distracted? Relaxed? Socially connected? It’s also helpful to consider what your life is missing, like creativity or physical activity.

Start small

    3     Ease in to figure out if it’s right for you, advises Rebecca Weiler, a mental health advisor. “You can always do more later,” she says. If you’re wondering if paintballing might be a good fit, join an outing or two with a local Meetup group. Or sign up for a one-time pottery class rather than a set of eight.

    4    

When you were a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up? The answer could point you toward an appealing hobby, Weiler says. “If you wanted to be a major league player, what can you do now that fulfills that urge for you?” she asks. Joining a softball team or coaching some neighborhood kids could awaken a passion.

Go back to school

Consider signing up for a lesson to learn more about a potential hobby, Weiler advises. Always dreamed of producing a novel?     5     Interested in family history? Take a genealogy (宗谱) class. Plenty of e-courses are available free or at a low price.

A．Take a trip back in time.

B．Join a fiction writers group.

C．There’s no such thing as one perfect enthusiasm.

D．Don’t invest a ton of time and money in a new hobby immediately.

E．He suggests asking yourself how you want an activity to make you feel.

F．His research indicates that people feel guilty about spending time on leisure.

G．Experts can help you to discover the hobbies you don’t yet know you’ll love.

7 . Delivery driver Alan Moncayo had his 5-year-old daughter Sabrina along with him when he took lunch to an animal shelter in Lorton, Va., on a recent Saturday.

As Moncayo approached the shelter, he ________ a sweet-looking dog staring at him through the window. The sight of the dog ________ him of his previous one, Rusty. “They’re ________,” said Moncayo. “Rusty was exactly the same build.” Although his daughter had been ________ him to get a dog, Moncayo said, “being a delivery driver, it’s not in my ________ to pay for a dog.” But this dog really drew him in.

Shelter staff introduced Moncayo and Sabrina to Jihoo, a 6-year-old 65-pound pit bull mix (比特犬混种). “Since big dogs were ________ more difficult to adopt out,” said Rebecca Cavedon, the manager, “Jihoo remained at the ________ for longer than usual. He’s just an amazingly gentle, sweet, kind boy.” It only took a few minutes for Moncayo and his ________ to feel the same way about Jihoo. Moncayo decided that the dog was ________ to be theirs. “It was like an ________ space in my heart that just needed to be made full,” Moncayo said. “Now it’s ________ so much love for our beautiful new dog.”

After ________ paperwork and completing consultation with shelter staff, Moncayo ________ the dog that day.

So far, Jihoo has been adjusting well to his new home and family. “He brought joy and ________ into our lives,” said Moncayo. “We feel like a(n) ________ family now,” he added.

1.

A．cured

B．spotted

C．bathed

D．bought

2.

A．warned

B．informed

C．reminded

D．convinced

3.

A．messy

B．striking

C．threatening

D．identical

4.

A．begging

B．ordering

C．helping

D．instructing

5.

A．memory

B．budget

C．duty

D．pocket

6.

A．randomly

B．immediately

C．luckily

D．generally

7.

A．firm

B．station

C．shelter

D．habitat

8.

A．daughter

B．manager

C．staff

D．driver

9.

A．rescued

B．delivered

C．introduced

D．meant

10.

A．optional

B．empty

C．abnormal

D．artificial

11.

A．dug out

B．filled with

C．checked out

D．covered with

12.

A．going through

B．turning down

C．sorting out

D．giving away

13.

A．stole

B．protected

C．adopted

D．ignored

14.

A．laughter

B．liberation

C．moral

D．wisdom

15.

A．immediate

B．complex

C．complete

D．temporary

8 . I started to imagine how I’d lead my own tour. Working as a guard at the Guggenheim, I first liked reading the wall text—the paragraph-long explanation on the wall beside many of the artworks. Occasionally it’s helpful, and for years I thought it was downright rude when museums and galleries didn’t label each work. But now, more often than not, I wanted to tear all the labels down. The wall text stays just to the side of art, like the answer key at the bottom of a word search, its definitive tone sending the message that there’s only one right answer to the art.

I realized that art historians could be unreliable narrators (叙述者). The Richard Serra sculpture “Tearing Lead,” consisting of wrinkled lead (铅), took on a different look every time it was exhibited. Guards were given a board with the original photo of the sculpture and instructions “Please indicate where the piece was touched,” so an assistant could reposition the sculpture to match the picture. But an assistant I talked with told me that the sculpture was meant to have the metal pieces arranged haphazardly (杂乱地). The work looks different every time it’s shown —not that you’d know it from the wall text.

Therefore, I insist that you don’t look at the little label beside each artwork. When I guarded a Brancusi sculpture, I tried to stand in front of the wall label so people couldn’t see it, and I heard their interpretations go wild. They saw a finger, a woman giving birth, a graph, a Kurosawa character, a dolphin, a nose, a fish.

If I learned one thing as a guard, it’s that sometimes being forced to look at an artwork, even when you don’t want to, is life-changing. Fight the urge to see what you expect to be there; focus instead on what is there. I’m not concerned with whether you think it’s good. Just watch the thing in front of you.

1. What can we learn about the author from paragraph l?

A．He is forming his own judgement.	B．He likes traveling with his friends.
C．He wants to make his voice heard.	D．He writes explanations for artworks.

2. What is the author’s purpose in mentioning “Tearing Lead”?

A．To introduce a special assistant.	B．To prove that wall texts can be wrong.
C．To call for protection of artworks on show.	D．To show how art historians describe works.

3. Why did the author stand in front of the label on the wall?

A．To prevent the visitors getting closer to the sculpture.

B．To make visitors have a better view of the sculpture.

C．To push the visitors to appreciate on their own.

D．To interact with the visitors in a fun way.

4. What is the best title for the text?

A．How I Rose from a Museum Guard to an Art Expert

B．What Categories of Artworks Museums Like Showing

C．How Working in a Museum Makes Me Have a Life Purpose

D．What Being a Museum Guard Taught Me about Looking at Art

9 . We have all experienced that feeling of mental exhaustion (疲惫) after focusing on a tricky problem. Detailed thinking certainly feels like hard work, but is it? The answer is a touch less obvious than you might suspect.

The brain is certainly a hungry organ. “It is the most energy-consuming part of the body,” says Nilli Lavie at University College London. Although it accounts for around 2 percent of our body weight, it uses some 20 percent of the energy we burn at rest.

Interestingly, when it comes to energy use, the brain doesn’t distinguish between tasks that we traditionally regard as “hard” and those that come more naturally. This was first demonstrated in the 1950s in a study showing that the brain’s level of metabolic (代谢的) activity is remarkably constant, regardless of whether we are concentrating or letting our mind wander.

Your brain distributes resources to its different parts depending on the mental activity being carried out. But there is a trade-off. For instance, in a study published in November, Lavie and her teammates measured energy use in the brain region responsible for daydreaming and found that it decreased when volunteers carried out a problem-solving task that required focused attention.

So thinking hard does burn more energy in the brain region involved, but this is offset by energy savings in other parts of the brain. The amounts of energy involved are very small. Actually, a self-control task, such as keeping your hand in icy water for as long as you can, “burns up 1 calorie of glucose”, says Ewan McNay, at the University at Albany in New York. However, although this is a tiny amount of fuel, your brain doesn’t see it that way. “It worries about an imbalance of supply over demand,” he says. If the brain detects local drainage (排泄) of glucose—the sugar that fuels the brain—it perceives it as something bad, says McNay. This is what gives rise to the feeling of being exhausted after prolonged (长时间的) focus.

1. How does the author look at detailed thinking?

A．It can develop the less-used brain areas.	B．It can make the brain become tired quickly.
C．It is beyond the assumption of most people.	D．It is both mentally and physically demanding.

2. What does the study in the 1950s tell us about our brain?

A．It is always in a hungry state.	B．It treats mental tasks equally.
C．It burns less calories when at rest.	D．It has a natural tendency to wander.

3. When the brain settles a problem, the brain region for daydreaming ______.

A．connects with other regions	B．solves a difficult task
C．receives more resources	D．becomes less active

4. Why do we feel tired after prolonged focus?

A．Our brain has anxiety over the proper distribution of energy.

B．Our brain burns much more energy than it is supplied.

C．Our brain distributes energy to the wrong brain areas.

D．Our brain sometimes miscalculates the energy used.

10 . This year’s hiking events have kicked off and we are introducing some walking festivals in the following.

Crickhowell Walking Festival (9-17 March)

One of the earliest of the year’s festivals, the walking festival offers 81 different walks this year, ranging from 2 to 17 miles. All are graded in terms of effort and difficulty, from an easy walk along the Monmouthshire & Brecon Canal, to a—new for 2024—hike through the western Fans.

Isle of Wight Walking Festival (11-19 May and 5-13 October)

The Isle of Wight Walking Festival laces (系) up its boots in spring and autumn, on the 500 miles of footpaths on the island. There are walks focusing on every aspect of the island’s history. Walks are graded according to pace and difficulty.

Moray Walking and Outdoor Festival (14-24 June)

A great choice for those looking for other activities to enjoy besides walking, this 10-day celebration includes everything from boating to bird-watching. The walks range from gentle seaside wanders to endurance(耐力) hikes through the Cairngorms, with five different grades of difficulty.

Saltmarsh Coast Walking Festival (27 September-6 October)

Choose from self-guided or expert-led walks along a 75-mile stretch of the Saltmarsh coast, picking up the region’s maritime (海洋的) history, or learning about the rich variety of bird species. The festival features guided walks taking in vineyards (葡萄园), nature reserves and vast skies along the shoreline.

1. Which walking festival is held in two seasons this year?

A．Crickhowell Walking Festival.	B．Isle of Wight Walking Festival.
C．Moray Walking and Outdoor Festival.	D．Saltmarsh Coast Walking Festival.

2. What can festival goers do during Moray Walking and Outdoor Festival?

A．Make samples of rare species.	B．Volunteer in nature reserves.
C．Observe birds and go boating.	D．Attend a class on marine science.

3. What is special about Saltmarsh Coast Walking Festival?

A．It has the longest path.	B．It provides graded walks.
C．It offers guide choices.	D．It serves as history tour.