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。

Early last year, as international lockdowns upset daily life, they took with them, one by one, many of the major     1    (culture) and sporting events that dot the calendar each year. The N.B.A. suspended     2     (it) season, the French Open was postponed for several months and the Tokyo Olympics     3    (delay) a year. The future of the Glastonbury Festival and the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival were     4     doubt. It was a bad time.

Recently, as conditions in many places around the world have slowly begun to improve, and as countries have begun mass vaccination     5    (campaign), some events have made plans     6    (return). The Tokyo Olympics will begin on July 23 with an opening ceremony. The     7    (major) of the athletic events will begin the next day. The 105th Indianapolis 500 will go on     8     planned on May 30. Officials will allow about 135,000 spectators in. The Edinburgh International Festival,     9     showcase for world theater, dance and music in the Scottish city since 1947, will run Aug. 7-29. Performances will take place in temporary outdoor pavilions with covered stages and socially     10    (distance) seating.

2 . Sora observed in amazement as Weilun picked up two large metal cans. She followed Weilun with a pail (桶) of clothes, watching him carry the two cans effortlessly. They were large and were covering Weilun’s small frame.

Sora’s father had sent her to the village to learn about rural life. Sora had never once done any household chores back home. She did not understand why her father would always chant “Where is your willingness to learn?” whenever she asked him if she could stay home for the holidays. Her father had given her a checklist on the life skills that she needed to learn, one of which was to wash clothes. She recalled washing a table cloth after an art lesson in school. That was a piece of cake, she thought. So Sora refused Weilun’s offer to help. Weilun then went to fill the large cans with water at the far end of the river.

Suddenly, a big bird dived from the sky when Sora placed the last piece of clothing back in the pail. Sora released her grasp of the pail in shock. Then she was relaxed to find it was aiming for a worm near her. But the clothes were drifting in the river. Weilun immediately came to help and Sora shifted the blame to the bird.

He pointed at the detergent foam (洗涤剂泡沫) on the surface of the river. “Don’t tell me you rinsed (漂洗) the detergent from the clothes in the river. Don’t you know that it may kill the river creatures? You caused the problem, not the bird!” Sora looked down in shame. “You think that you know everything, but you actually don’t.”

Sora closed her eyes to let Weilun’s words sink in for a moment. She finally understood the meaning behind her father’s chants. She walked towards Weilun and whispered, “Could you teach me all the life skills that my father had planned for me to learn?”

1. Why was Sora amazed?

A．Weilun was too small in size for the two large cans.

B．Weilun was willing to help his parents do some chores.

C．Weilun managed to carry the two large cans easily.

D．Weilun was willing to accompany her to the riverside.

2. Why did Sora refuse Weilun’s offer to help wash the clothes?

A．She thought it was an easy task.

B．She had learned how to do it.

C．She wanted her father to be proud of her.

D．She wanted to learn new things by herself.

3. What happened when Sora found the bird flew towards her?

A．The bird was diving for food.

B．The bird was attacking her.

C．Sora was rinsing the detergent in the pail.

D．Sora was shocked to find a worm in the pail.

4. What do you think Sora “finally understood”?

A．She wasn’t capable of living on her own.

B．She really lacked the willingness to learn.

C．Life skills could be learned in the country.

D．Her father wanted her to learn from Weilun.

3 . After beating bone cancer, Hayley Arceneaux thinks rocketing into orbit on SpaceX’s first private flight should be no problem at all. St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital announced the 29-year-old doctor’s assistant will rocket into space later this year.

Arceneaux, a former patient at St. Jude, will become the youngest American in space, beating NASA record-holder Sally Ride by over two years. She will travel with businessman Jared Isaacman, who is using the spaceflight he bought to raise money for charity. Two other yet-to-be-chosen space flyers will join them. Arceneaux will be the first person to launch with a prosthesis an artificial device that replaces a missing or injured part of the body. When she was 10, Arceneaux had an operation at St. Jude to replace her knee and a piece of metal was put in her left leg. She still limps and has occasional leg pain.

“My battle with cancer really prepared me for space travel,” she recently told The Associated Press. “It made me tough, and then also I think it really taught me to expect the unexpected and go along for the ride.” Arceneaux wants to show her young patients and other cancer survivors that “the sky is not even the limit anymore.” “It’s going to mean so much to these kids to see a survivor in space.” she said.

Isaacman announced his space flight on February 1, promising to raise $200 million for St. Jude. As the flight’s self-appointed commander, he offered one of the four seats aboard SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft to St. Jude. The hospital chose Arceneaux from among its many workers who had once been patients. The idea was that one of them could represent the new generation, noted Rick Shadyac, president of St. Jude’s financing organization.

Arceneaux was at home in Memphis, Tennessee, when she got a surprising call in January. She was asked if she would represent St. Jude in space. As a lifelong space fan who loves adventures, Arceneaux has traveled widely and loves roller coasters. Isaacman, who flies fighter airplanes for fun, considers her a perfect fit. The launch is planned for this fall at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, with the spacecraft orbiting Earth for two to four days.

1. Which statement is true about Hayley Arceneaux?

A．She works where she used to be a patient.

B．She is an adventure hater.

C．She is the youngest American in space.

D．She is the first woman space flyer.

2. What’s the correct order for what happened to Hayley Arceneaux?
a. She received a surprising call. b. She was diagnosed with a serious disease.
c. She was chosen to rocket into space. d. She was operated on at St.Jude.

A．a c d b

B．b c d a

C．b d a c

D．c a b d

3. What’s the purpose of the space flight?

A．To carry out medical research.

B．To explore space.

C．To expect the unexpected.

D．To collect money.

4. How can we describle Hayley Arceneaux?

A．Generous and strong.

B．Caring and optimistic.

C．Brave and honest.

D．Patient and representative.

4 . A new product from Google may help people solve their sleep problems, but some privacy rights groups are concerned.

Google showed off its newest Nest Hub home assistant device on Tuesday. In addition to recognizing your voice, showing pictures, videos, news and weather, it can also track your sleep. The basic model costs about $100 and the sleep-tracking technology will be available for free for the rest of 2021. The sleep tracker makes Google’s product different from a similar home assistant from Amazon. If you put the Nest Hub beside your bed, it can follow how you sleep. That is because of a new computer chip called Soli, which can sense motion. Some people may like the new technology because they would not have to wear another device to bed. Some companies make products people can wear on their wrist to track their sleep.

Google says the new Nest Hub will create reports each week that show how long and how well a person sleeps. It will also show if they snore, cough or wake up often. The company said it studied 15,000 people over the course of 110,000 nights to develop the technology.

For people who want to know more about their sleep, the device sounds like a good idea. But, people who pay attention to privacy are worried what Google might do with the information it is gathering. Jeff Chester is one of those people. He is the director of the Center for Digital Democracy. “Google’s goal is to monetize every cell of your body,” he said.

Google recently bought FitBit, a company that makes a health tracker people can wear on their wrist. Some technology experts think Google may find a way for the Nest Hub to work with the FitBit.

Google says the sleep tracker has a lot of privacy protections. For example, it will only work if the user turns it on. The company said it will not use a person’s sleep information to try to sell advertising. But Chester said he is not so sure that promise will be kept.

1. Which is true about the Google’s new Nest Hub?

A．It’s the first device to track people’s sleep.

B．It has some functions as a home assistant.

C．It can be available for free for the rest of 2021.

D．It is the same as a health tracker produced by FitBit.

2. Why are some people concerned about the Google’s new product?

A．Because private information may be let out.

B．Because the sleeping problems can’t be solved.

C．Because sleep may be interrupted.

D．Because sleeping reports may be created each week.

3. What does the underlined word mean?

A．Make money on.

B．Keep track of.

C．Take care of.

D．Give away.

4. What’s the best title of the text?

A．Google’s New Soli

B．Google’s sleep problem solver

C．Google’s Newest Nest Hub

D．A Sleep Tracker

5 . 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。

A few months ago, an online video exhibition     1     (call) Impression of Jiangnan, was organized by the China Cultural Center in Sydney and the Chinese Tourism Office in Sydney, together     2     the culture and tourism bureaus of Shanghai and Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui provinces.

Jiangnan, the region south of the Yangtze River, is the home of many Chinese cultural treasures. It represents     3     (beautiful) and poetics. Bai Juyi, a great literatus of the Tang Dynasty (618-907), once     4     (write) the poem Memories of Jiangnan, which is     5     (extreme) famous now.

Today, the Yangtze River Delta (长江三角洲),     6     Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui are located, is packed with cultural and tourism destinations.     7     (know) for both beautiful     8     (nature) scenery and rich culture, the elegant Jiangnan gardens, ancient temples, lakes and mountains attract more and more visitors from all over the country.

Zhouzhuang, Tongli, Xitang, Wuzhen and other water towns south of the Yangtze River    9     (be) popular choices for travelers over the years.

The exhibition is one of the Visiting China Online     10     (activity) hosted by the China Cultural Center in Sydney and the Chinese tourism office in Sydney, which will also be seen on social media such as WeChat, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.

6 . Father was an adventurer and lover of trees. So I was not ______ when he decided one day to climb the big fir tree behind our house. Standing on the top rung (横档 ) of a ladder, Father could not reach even the ______ branches. He said as he climbed down, “Maybe one day you can ______ out a way to get to the top. You will see the ______ from a broader perspective.” The big tree rose ______ into the sky. I was ______ as it seemed like an impossible idea. But I said I could.

I began by climbing up smaller trees ______ by bigger ones. At twelve, I succeeded in ______ a 100-metre-tall cedar tree successfully and was fascinated by the ______ over the rooftops.

Father went abroad for work ______ I was fourteen. I climbed even more because it ______ me of him. I could feel his strong, gentle ______ in the branches. ______, I still had not gathered the courage to climb The Big One. This made me feel ashamed. I had not fulfilled my ______ made to Father.

Then I went mountain climbing with friends and ______ the skill of using ropes. With my new-found ______, I decided to climb the big fir tree. I carefully hauled myself up one branch after another. I would have fallen thirty meters to certain death had it not been ______ the rope.

When I ______ the top of the tree at last, the sight caught my breath. “The higher the tree, the more you’ll see,” Father’s voice ______ in my mind. The majestic peaks of Mount Rainier rose in the glow of the evening sky. High up there I felt like Father was there too, beside me. I could see his smile of ______ because I had made it to the top for both of us.

1.

A．ashamed

B．frightened

C．surprised

D．concerned

2.

A．freshest

B．highest

C．biggest

D．lowest

3.

A．figure

B．take

C．make

D．turn

4.

A．sky

B．tree

C．world

D．house

5.

A．quickly

B．gradually

C．wildly

D．grandly

6.

A．hopeful

B．doubtful

C．thankful

D．faithful

7.

A．grown

B．surrounded

C．followed

D．covered

8.

A．climbing

B．planting

C．finding

D．cutting

9.

A．sight

B．scene

C．scenery

D．view

10.

A．though

B．unless

C．when

D．until

11.

A．remembered

B．reminded

C．informed

D．convinced

12.

A．voice

B．prediction

C．determination

D．presence

13.

A．Besides

B．Therefore

C．However

D．Otherwise

14.

A．dream

B．decision

C．responsibility

D．promise

15.

A．showed off

B．picked up

C．took over

D．got through

16.

A．confidence

B．suggestions

C．inspiration

D．certificates

17.

A．on

B．for

C．with

D．by

18.

A．overlooked

B．examined

C．seized

D．reached

19.

A．kept

B．rang

C．raised

D．warned

20.

A．approval

B．embarrassment

C．sympathy

D．permission

7 . Working in and eating from a home garden can do a lot to improve your health. Not only can you get much needed daily exercise, you can also enjoy healthy meals thanks to your daily labor.       1     If so, focus on getting out into your garden.

Warm up before gardening. Just as you do other types of exercise, its important to warm up before starting working in the garden.       2     Stretch your legs, arms, and hands before you start so that they will be prepared for the work ahead.

    3     If you have a variety of tasks to do in the garden, set a specific amount of time you will do each and then rotate (轮流) between them. This variation in tasks can be especially helpful if you have one that is hard on the body, such as kneeling to weed garden beds. Weeding for 15 to 20 minutes at a time and then taking a break to do another activity will help to avoid pain.

Work in the garden regularly. In order to improve your health by getting exercise in the garden, you should do it on a regular basis. Getting 30 minutes of moderate exercise every day can lower your blood pressure.       4    

Put in some effort. In order for gardening to count as exercise, you need to raise your heart rate and put out some physical effort while doing it.       5     If you want to increase your effort while mowing (割草), try using a push mower instead of a gas or electric one.

A．Vary your movements.

B．Do controlled exercise.

C．It can also help prevent heart disease.

D．Are you interested in improving your health?

E．Do you want to enjoy the benefits of healthy meals?

F．You should spend at least 5 to 10 minutes doing it.

G．This means that jut standing around watering is not exercise.

8 . In previous recessions (经济衰退), billionaires were hit along with the rest of us; it took almost three years for Forbes’s 400 richest people to recover from losses caused in 2008’s Great Recession. But in the coronavirus recession of 2020, most billionaires have gotten richer than ever before.

Billionaires increased their new billions just as millions of other Americans ran into terrible financial problems. More than 20 million people lost their jobs at the start of the pandemic. Food banks across the country are preparing for another great increase in demand. Why are American billionaires doing so well while so many other Americans suffer? People may find part of the reasons from the following fact. Stocks (股票) are overwhelmingly owned by the wealthy, and the stock market has recovered from its early-pandemic depths much more quickly than other parts of the economy.

But some billionaires are also benefiting from economic and technological trends that were accelerated by the pandemic. Among these are the owners and investors of retail giants like Amazon, Walmart, Target, Dollar Tree and Dollar General, which have reported huge profits this year while many of their smaller competitors were defeated completely as the coronavirus spread.

Then there are companies that have bet on the rapid digitization of everything Eric Yuan, the chief executive of Zoom, became a billionaire in 2019. Now he is worth almost $20 billion. Dan Gilbert, the chairman of Quicken Loans, was worth less than $7 billion in March, now he commands more than $43 billion. But there is a great deal of stratification (层化) even among billionaires—richer billionaires got even richer in 2020 than the poorer ones did. Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s funder, was worth about $113 billion at the start of the pandemic. Now he is worth $182 billion. Two years ago, Bezos was the only “centibillionaire” on earth—the trendy neologism (a new word) for people whose wealth exceeds (超过) ￥100 billion.

1. What does the author mainly tell us in the passage?

A．Food banks are not enough in the United States.

B．The richest kept getting richer even in the pandemic.

C．The stock market recovered before the pandemic started.

D．400 richest people recovered from losses in the pandemic.

2. What is “part of the reasons” that is implied in Paragraph 2?

A．The American inequality.

B．The recovery of stock market.

C．The effect of the pandemic.

D．The food shortage across the country.

3. What is one of the changes during the pandemic?

A．The decline of digital games.

B．More money lent to people by banks.

C．The trend of technology acceleration.

D．High profit earned by smaller companies.

4. Why does the author refer to “centibillionaire” as a “neologism”?

A．It is a new title in the stock market after the recession.

B．It is a new way of solution to poverty through the world.

C．It is a newly established company during the pandemic.

D．It is a new term for people whose wealth exceeds $100 billion.

9 . Morgan’s Wonderland, located in San Antonio, Texas, is a theme park mainly intended for mentally or physically disabled children. The park was built by Gordon Hartman, a former real estate (房地产) developer. The creation of the park was inspired by his daughter, Morgan, who suffers from severe cognitive delay and physical challenges.

The world’s first ultra-accessible family fun park, Morgan’s Wonderland opened in the spring of 2010. Admission for guests with special needs is free, and fees for the general public are set at a much discounted price so that people of all ages and abilities can come together and play in a fun and safe environment.

Completely wheelchair-accessible, the park features 25 acres of attractions including rides, playgrounds, a catch-and-release fishing lake, and picnic areas throughout the park. The rides are custom-designed to accommodate wheelchair riders so that every family member can enjoy the fun. The adapted rides include the Off-Road Adventure, where guests can test their driving skills in sporty vehicles. Moreover, each visitor is offered the option to wear a GPS Adventure Band, which allows them to keep track of each other while in the park. The band also enables them to take part in electronic activities. For example, when the riders scan the band at the Off-Road Adventure, a photo will be taken and sent to their email.

In June 2017, Morgan’s Wonderland celebrated the opening of Morgan’s Inspiration Island. The new expansion is composed of five themed splash pads and a River Boat Adventure Ride. The wheelchair guests can be moved out of their chairs into unique, waterproof chairs and enjoy the splash park without risking damage to their personal wheelchairs.

“Morgan taught me that there’s more to life in many ways than what I saw before,” said Hartman. “The blessing that Morgan has brought is beyond anything that I ever could have imagined and could explain.”

1. What is the passage mainly about?

A．The new addition to Morgan’s Wonderland.

B．The establishment and features of a special theme park.

C．The advanced technological devices in Morgan’s Wonderland

D．The needs of people who suffer from physical and mental disabilities.

2. What does “ultra-accessible” in the second paragraph imply?

A．It’s easy for all visitors to use the facilities.

B．Admission is free for people young and old.

C．Wheelchairs are provided for every featured attraction.

D．Morgan’s Wonderland is situated in a convenient location.

3. What does the park provide to prevent personal wheelchairs from being damaged?

A．Safe Boats.

B．Water-resistant cloth.

C．GPS bands.

D．Special chairs.

4. Which of the following statements is true about Morgan’s Wonderland?

A．Waterproof chairs enable visitors to wonder all over the park.

B．Morgan’s Inspiration Island includes 25 acres of attractions.

C．The success of the park is exactly what Morgan intended to achieve.

D．GPS bands allow visitors to enjoy the convenience of the electronic devices.

10 . If winning the lottery may not make us happy, what will? Here are four key lessons from happiness research. It is indeed possible to boost our happiness.     1    

    2    

If you are rich, you can probably strengthen your happiness by regularly checking your bank account. Meanwhile, if you are less well off, avoid situations where you feel poor—and seek out those where comparisons are in your favor. When you think about your net worth, forget your wealthy sister and focus on your brother who can hardly make ends meet.

We Like to Feel Secure

Midlife is a period of relative unhappiness. This dissatisfaction may arise from the lack of control felt by those in their 40s. By contrast, employees in senior positions,retirees and those with good job security often report being happy. “There’s a profound link between insecurities of all kinds and human well-being,” Prof. Oswald notes, “Supervisors are happier than those who are supervised.     3    ”

We Adapt to Setbacks

While adaptation can work against us when good things happen, it saves us from misery when bad times strike.     4     But adaptation rides to the rescue. Oddly enough, it seems we adjust more quickly if a setback is large or unavoidable. If we become disabled, we will likely adapt with surprising speed.

We Enjoy Behaving Kindly

    5     We can go for a visit to a nursing home and do something voluntarily; we can donate something to help people in need; or we are just kind and polite to others. All these are good behaviours which are likely to make us happier.

A．We Like to Compare

B．It, however, will take more than a fat wallet.

C．What Matters Is What We Focus on

D．It, however, will take more from our wallet.

E．If a close friend dies, we imagine we will never laugh again.

F．Job loss is negative to mental health while job security is positive.

G．If we volunteer, give to charity or behave politely, we usually feel pretty good.