1 . Bert Katz, my father-in-law, celebrated his 90th birthday in November 2020. Bert loved sports and was an enthusiastic Yankees(an American professional baseball team based in the New York City) fan, so it was no wonder that over the years, he was an avid(热切的) listener to WEAN radio and, in particular, the afternoon show hosted by Mike Francesa.

Bert had health issues in his later years that limited his mobility, and when he lost his eyesight three years ago, his attachment to his radio and Francesa became more pronounced. He just loved listening to Mike talk about sports and his Yankees each afternoon. Those hours brought him so much pleasure.

Of course, Mike will be leaving on Dec. 15, 2021 after 30 years at the station. Mike lives in the same community where I work on Long Island, and I have gotten to know him over the past 20 years. So when my father-in-law was approaching his special birthday last year, I asked Mike for a favor: to call Bert and wish him a happy birthday.

Mike agreed without hesitation. Two days before the special day, Mike stopped at my workplace. I called Bert at his nursing home and put Mike on the phone. It was a complete surprise to Bert. Mike spent more than 10 minutes wishing Bert a happy birthday and, of course, talking about the Yankees.

When my family celebrated Bert's birthday two days later, he couldn't stop talking about the phone call. Over his lifetime. he said it was one of the nicest things anyone had ever done for him. Unfortunately，Bert' s health declined(衰退) and he passed away on July 13, 2021. But even in his final months in the hospital and nursing home, he always had a radio set to WEAN to listen each afternoon to Mike Francesa. And he also had the memory of that special phone call for his 90th birthday.

1. What habit did Bert keep for years?

A．Playing baseball.	B．Listening to a sports program.
C．Checking his eyesight regularly.	D．Leading organized cheering for the Yankees.

2. What does the underlined word “pronounced” in Paragraph 2 mean?

A．Obvious.

B．Unusual.

C．Important.

D．Understandable.

3. What word can describe the author?

A．Honest.

B．Caring.

C．Patient.

D．Independent.

4. What's the best title for the text?

A．A special gift	B．The call finally arrived
C．The big dream came true	D．An unforgettable birthday party

2 . With the average American going through more than 700 pounds of paper per year, many firms are looking for ways to discourage their employees from over-using the office printer.

Toshiba America Business Solutions has come up with an alternative idea. It has introduced the e-STUDI04508LP, a printer that gives users the option to print with erasable toner (墨粉) — allowing a single piece of paper to be reused several times.

To reuse a piece of paper, the printer basically uses the same process as a normal printer, but in reverse (反过来), said Bill Melo, chief marketing executive for Toshiba America Business Solutions. Paper printed with the erasable toner is fed back into the printer, superheated, and the toner gets removed and put in a discard tank.

There are a couple of catches. All of the printouts using the erasable toner have to be in blue ink, which is the only color in which erasable toner is now available. And the company said that people may want to stop reusing the printouts after five times through the eraser because small traces of erased text will build up over time.

The $15,420 printer is aimed at offices and   schools, where there are often large numbers of printouts that outlive their usefulness quickly. With the erasable toner, it' s possible to load any short-lived handouts back onto the printer to be erased and then reused.

Still, convincing customers to commit to erasable toner isn't always easy. Melo said not all its customers were happy about only having the erasable option.

The model, Melo said, should better serve the needs of those who want to be environmentally conscious but also may need something more permanent on occasion.

1. What' s special about Toshiba' s printer?

A．It' s low-priced.	B．It' s fashionable.
C．It' s lightweight.	D．It' s eco-friendly.

2. What' s the key to making the printer work?

A．A discard tank.	B．Light colored ink.
C．Special writing paper.	D．A high enough temperature.

3. What does the underlined word "catches" in Paragraph 4 mean?

A．Theories.	B．Differences.
C．Problems.	D．Characteristics.

4. How did the public respond to the printer?

A．They asked for more patterns.

B．Some expressed dissatisfaction.

C．They considered it hard to operate.

D．Some worried about its recycling.

3 . 根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。

Everyone knows that fish is good for health.    1    But it seems that many people don’t cook fish at home. Americans eat only about fifteen pounds of fish per person per year, but we eat twice as much fish in restaurants as at home. Buying, storing, and cooking fish isn’t difficult.    2    This text is about how to buy and cook fish in an easy way.    3    Fresh fish should smell sweet: you should feel that you’re standing at the ocean’s edge. Any fishy or strong smell means the fish isn’t fresh.    4    When you have bought a fish and arrive home, you’d better store the fish in the refrigerator if you don’t cook it immediately, but fresh fish should be stored in your fridge for only a day or two. Frozen fish isn’t as tasty as the fresh one.There are many common methods used to cook fish.    5    First, lean it and season it with your choice of spices(调料). Put the whole fish on a plate and steam it in a steam pot for 8 to 10 minutes if it weighs about one pound. (A larger one will take more time.) Then, it’s ready to serve.

A．Do not buy it.

B．The easiest is to steam it.

C．This is how you can do it.

D．It just requires a little knowledge.

E．The fish will go bad within hours.

F．When buying fish, you should first smell it.

G．The fats in fish are thought to help prevent heart disease.

4 . 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：在错的词下画一横线，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。

Whenever there is an exam around the comer, it⁵s normal to feel anxiously. Naturally, you are likely to be in your room study as hard as you can before the big day. As the matter of fact, the color of your room could have an influence on the result of your exam. It has found that pale colors like blue or light green make people relaxing and calm. As a result, our brain gets lazy and inactive but becomes less open to taking in a large amount of information. On the contrary, bright color can help us concentrate on a task easily and solve problems efficiently. That’s because they may relieve our stress by cheering them up. So next time you had to deal with a difficult task, make sure of you choose a room with a bright color.

5 . It was one of the hottest days of the dry season. We had not seen rain in almost a month. The crops were_______. If we didn't see some rain soon, we would_______everything. It was on this day that I learned the true lesson of   _______and witnessed the only miracle I have seen with my own eyes.

I was in the kitchen making lunch   _______ I saw my six-year-old son, Billy, walking toward the _______ Minutes after he_______into the woods, he came running out again, toward the house. Moments later, however, he was once again _______ in that slow purposeful step toward the woods. This activity went on for an hour: walk_______to the woods, run back to the house.

Finally I couldn’t take it any longer and I crept (悄悄地走）out of the house and _______   him on his journey. As I leaned in to spy on him, I saw the most__________ sight. A tiny deer was lying on the ground,__________ suffering from dehydration (脱水）and heat exhaustion,__________ its head with great effort to lap up (舔食）the water   __________ in my beautiful boy’s hand. When the water was __________ , Billy jumped up to run back to the house. I followed him back to a tap that we had__________the water to. Billy opened it all the way up and a little water began to flow slowly. He __________there, letting the water slowly __________ his hand—the temporary cup.

When he stood up and began to go back, I was there in front of him. His little eyes just filled with__________   “ I’m not wasting” was all he said. As the tears that rolled down my face began to hit the __________ , they were suddenly joined by other drops ... more drops ... and more.

All I can say is that the __________ that came that day saved our farm, just like the actions of one little boy saved another.

1.

A．flying

B．dying

C．growing

D．blowing

2.

A．win

B．catch

C．lose

D．leave

3.

A．sharing

B．accepting

C．receiving

D．sending

4.

A．as

B．since

C．while

D．when

5.

A．house

B．woods

C．garden

D．field

6.

A．disappeared

B．appeared

C．lost

D．ran

7.

A．swimming

B．jumping

C．walking

D．leaping

8.

A．anxiously

B．curiously

C．seriously

D．carefully

9.

A．followed

B．caught

C．stopped

D．shouted

10.

A．exciting

B．amazing

C．frightening

D．puzzling

11.

A．lightly

B．surely

C．cleanly

D．obviously

12.

A．lowering

B．dragging

C．lifting

D．pulling

13.

A．cupped

B．put

C．given

D．sent

14.

A．disappeared

B．gone

C．lost

D．used

15.

A．put off

B．turned up

C．shut off

D．take up

16.

A．lay

B．stood

C．slept

D．knelt

17.

A．fill up

B．ran through

C．went through

D．made up

18.

A．dirt

B．tears

C．earth

D．water

19.

A．hand

B．clothes

C．ground

D．feet

20.

A．boy

B．deer

C．water

D．rain

6 . A simple wooden box attached to 8-year-old Alex Benitez-Alvarez’s walker made it easier for the boy to carry school supplies and allowed him to do more things on his own.

“Now if he wants to go to the library and get a book out, he can.” said Tommy Johnson, one of three high school students who helped Benitez-Alvarez.

Their idea came from an engineering project that pairs young engineers with people from local special education programs. Engineering teams from Shakopee East and West junior high schools designed models of several devices to make their disabled partners^’ lives easier. Some of the simplest ideas were the most useful, such as an adjustable chair to help a child put his or her shoes on. They also came up with special building blocks that can help blind babies learn by touch.

In an education system driven by exams, engineering teacher TJ Hendrickson said the project gave students the chance to create something they could actually see for themselves. “Students stopped worrying about their grades and started worrying about failing their clients,said Hendrickson, a teacher at Shakopee West Junior High.

Group projects encourage teamwork and motivate students differently from independent projects. In this case, the project also taught a much-needed lesson in developing people skills. The meetings also helped engineers add special touches to their finished products. Benitez-Alvarez, who loves soccer, got the Minnesota United logo and a soccer ball printed on his wooden storage box.

The project encouraged students with special needs to describe their physical disabilities while also teaching engineers about the struggles of living with a disability.

“Everyone in the world should do this.” said Stephanie Betley, a teacher at Shakopee who hopes to see the project spread to other schools. “It’s for someone else rather than yourself.”

1. What was the purpose of the engineering project?

A．To show how special education helps disabled kids

B．To try out engineering knowledge learned in class.

C．To improve the life of disabled kids.

D．To provide jobs to a group of young engineers.

2. How did the project influence the engineers in Hendrickson's opinion?

A．It helped them pass their exams more easily.

B．It caused them more stress than their exams.

C．It helped them put their knowledge into use.

D．It improved their communication skills.

3. What did Betley think of the engineering project?

A．It did a lot of good to people in need of help.

B．It reminded people not to look down on the disabled.

C．It made more students interested in engineering.

D．It reminded people to care more about themselves.

4. What is the best title of the passage?

A．Practice makes perfect	B．Helping others out
C．Living with a disability	D．Challenging oneself

7 . I moved from the busy downtown to the countryside around Shanghai when I started elementary school. At first, I thought I was going to hate it, but to my surprise, I found that I preferred the quiet country life over the noisy city life.

The next move was more of a surprise for me. I was having a good time with my friends at school. But all of a sudden, my mom told me that we were going to move to the United States. Can you imagine how I must have felt ?My English wasn’t that good, though I did know the basics.

The day I arrived in the US was a snowy day. For a girl who grew up in Shanghai and hadn’t seen real thick snow on the ground, it was a big thing. Compared with my school in China, there were a lot more creative thinking questions, which I was better at anyway.

Time flew by and it had been almost four years since I moved. Then again, I was told we were going to move to Singapore.

As I’m writing this article, I am still new here and have been going to school for about two and a half months. I found out that the education here is quite special. Different from AP system in the US, the Singapore CIS uses the IB system.

This switch drowned me in constant stress. I was confused about the new curriculum, and I knew it would take me a long time to adapt. But what I’ve gotten out of my experience over three countries is that no matter where you are studying, you are always learning. And a piece of advice to people who are going to move around the globe: It’s always best to just roll with it.

1. What did the writer think of life in the countryside?

A．It wasn’t as interesting as she expected.

B．It was no better than city life.

C．She wished she had moved to the countryside earlier.

D．She loved to live in the countryside.

2. What did the writer worry about most about before moving to the US?

A．It would be difficult to make new friends.

B．Language would be a big problem for her.

C．She wouldn’t get used to the weather there.

D．She wouldn’t like the schools there.

3. What does she say about her school life in Singapore?

A．Creative thinking is more common.

B．Students are asked to do many projects together.

C．Students have more freedom to choose classes than in the US.

D．It is different from the US school system.

4. What is the writer’s attitude towards her worldwide schooling?

A．Positive.	B．Negative.
C．Critical.	D．Doubtful.

8 . Blowing our nose, burping (打饱嗝）after dinner and pooping       (排便）…Unpleasant as they are, these things, according to Live Science, make up “the impolite science of the human body”.

Snot (鼻涕）

Snot's job is to protect our body from harmful viruses. Quite often, dirt, ash, or sand fill the air we breathe. But thankfully, snot stops these unhealthy things, which are taken out of our nose when we blow it.

Apart from protecting our nose, snot can tell us whether we’re healthy or not according to its appearance. When it’s clear and colorless, that’s a sign of good health. If it turns green or yellow, however, it could be a sign that our body is being attacked by a virus.

Gas

From drinking fizzy (起泡的）drinks to eating food, we often breathe in gases like carbon dioxide, which end up in our stomach. Naturally, if we take in too much gas, our stomach will be filled with pressure and we may suffer from pain and cramps(痉挛).To stop this from happening, burping is an effective way to get these gases out of our stomach.

Occasional burping benefits our body. However, burping too much isn’t a good sign. That’s because it may suggest that we’re suffering from a digestive disorder.

Poop

Pooping is an extremely important function of the body. Every time we eat. the food is passed through our digestive system. Once our body has taken everything it needs from the food, it leaves our body as poop.

And though it’s gross, checking our poop after we go to the bathroom could tell us more about our health.

1. What does it suggest if snot is green?

A．There might be dirt in it.	B．It is protecting our nose.
C．You are very healthy.	D．Your body might be fighting a virus.

2. What do we know about burping from the article?

A．Fizzy drinks make people burp more than food does.

B．People may suffer from pain or cramps when burping.

C．It makes gases like carbon dioxide leave our stomach.

D．Burping a lot can make digestive disorders go away.

3. What does the underlined word "gross’’ in the paragraph probably mean?

A．Unpleasant.	B．Unnecessary.
C．Unimportant.	D．Unhealthy.

9 . 假如你是学生会主席李华，在网上看到英国某校的孔子课堂（the Confucius Classroom)发布将在中国招聘教学助理的广告，特别欢迎中国学生参加。请用英语给该校负责人Mr. Smith发一封电子邮件申请参加。
内容主要包括：1.自我介绍；2.申请理由；3.希望获准。
注意：1.词数100左右；开头与结尾已给出，不计入总词数。

2.可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。/

Dear Mr. Smith, -

Pm Li Hua, President of the Student Union.

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10 . When watching a soccer game or basketball match, you might hear people encouraging their favorite team by shouting things like “come on” or “go for it”. Could the Chinese phrase “add oil” also become a frequent cheer at sporting events?

Last month, “add oil”，a direct translation of “jiayou”，was added to the online Oxford English Dictionary (OED).     1    It is believed to have originated as a cheer at the Macao Grand Prix(汽车大奖赛）during the 1960s.

    2    “OED is recognizing the legitimacy (合法性）of our English and its potential to be relevant to the anglophone(英语为母语者）world” Wee Lian-hee，professor of language studies at Baptist University's English Department, told the South China Morning Post. We can certainly reach out and communicate with the world without having to give up on being ourselves.”

So how does a word get into the OED?     3     New words are also required to have been used over a "reasonable amount of before being added. The process of adding words can be long and painstaking.

    4    Let’s take a look.
Hongbao: A traditional gift of money presented in a red envelope.
Jiaozi: A crescent-shaped (新月形的）dumpling made of thin pastry.
Wuxia:    5    

A．Chinese people are excited that Chinglish phrases like these are gaining recognition.

B．According to Oxford University Press, words can be added as long as they are understood by readers without the need for   an explanation of its meaning.

C．Below are some other Chinese words that nave been added to the OED.

D．OED is becoming more and more popular in the world.

E．The phrase refers to adding fuel into a vehicle.

F．Chinese slang is causing jokes in our life.

G．A type of fiction or cinema featuring ancient Chinese warriors (勇士).